| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6919 Registered: 05-2005 |
Poor Things - A Drunk Man Considers The Royal Wedding At Kelvingrove Park | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1057 Registered: 10-2006 |
Excellent title, whatever the song may be like! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 766 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Ordered the CD and downloaded the digital only Hurricane EP a few minutes ago. Stuart, Here you go. http://poorthings.bandcamp.com/album/poo r-things | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 253 Registered: 05-2005 |
Smile- The Fall | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 218 Registered: 08-2005 |
She Said She Said - the Beatles (who may or may not be better than the Fall) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, it's a great song, as Hugh will attest. Have you listened to it? Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 768 Registered: 03-2007 |
Optic Nerve - Here To Stay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svW_WUZC Tc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1058 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ta, Hugh! Not had time to listen properly... maybe at the weekend! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6923 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good. A truly great, dumb rock song. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 254 Registered: 05-2005 |
almost prayed - The Weather Prophets | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6927 Registered: 05-2005 |
Livingstone Daisies - Safety In Numbness | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6931 Registered: 05-2005 |
Livingstone Daisies - Down To Earth. If Big Star had emerged in Australia in the early 2010s rather than the US in the early 1970s, they may well have sounded like this. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1060 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hubert-Felix Thiefaine - Alligators 427 Excellent gothically doomy fear of death, fear of cancer, fear of nuclear power melodrama (I think), which it wouldn't surprise me to find that Nick Cave had heard just before writing Mercy Seat... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6936 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sloan - What's Inside | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 258 Registered: 05-2005 |
girl afraid - the smiths | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3407 Registered: 03-2005 |
Missiles -- The Sound This is one of my very favorite tracks by this band and I particularly like the punchier and more direct version on "Propaganda" which is what the iPod pitched up for my enjoyment today. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1065 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards - Sheets oh, yeah, this is magnificent. Straight to the heart. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1066 Registered: 10-2006 |
H.F.Thiéfaine - Petit Matin 4.10 heure d'été Still song of the day, meanwhile, after at least a month of contant listening, this majestic crescendo - drums 1.14, brass 2.09, strings 2.50 - does about everything I require of music: as good as the very best Leonard Cohen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRSfxa7 0AU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3410 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I've been silent on the subject of Thiefaine so far. I hear some things I like and I will probably start picking things up but I do not think he rates in Bashung territory. He has fewer layers and dimensions. He's too crowd-pleasing. Bashung was constantly challenging his audience, careening from cheesy, to angular and off-putting, to elegiac, to singular vision-driven idiosyncrasy. He did whatever he felt like doing. He was David Bowie for the folks at the far right end of the bell curve, cooler and certainly more authentic than Bowie. As I've slowly absorbed his wildly variable oeuvre I've found merit in all its phases. Yes, even in "Pizza" and "Passe le Rio Grande"; they help me understand elements within records like "Figure Imposee." He was brilliant, to a degree I am confident I still cannot sufficiently measure, partly because of language of course but also because of the music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3411 Registered: 03-2005 |
My suggestion for today: Dub Noir -- Beneath the Wheel All credit to Hugh for this. Every time this comes on I think "finally Knievel escaped its blandness and made a great record!" (thinking of Knievel's newest album which is indeed its best). But nope, it's Dub Noir . . . from Columbus, Ohio. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1067 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, I think Bashing’s particular brand of cool swaggery genius remains relatively unassailable, but that’s not to say that Hubert F doesn’t seem a figure worthy of investigation in his own right. I’ve tried to google translate my way through an interesting article that draws parallels between their careers, breaking their work up into similar categories, pointing out affinities etc – both borderland lads growing up with the same influences who retained a certain “outsider” status in the French music business, building up an audience through touring and albums without much media exposure until the later years of their lives; both depending on the support of suitably chosen collaborators and suffering if they didn’t get it right. I’ve only scratched the surface of HF’s career so far, finding it hard to drag myself away from the rich strengths of his last 2011 studio album, Supplement des mensonges & the live album from its tour; but I’ve heard his 2001 disc, Defloration 13, and that’s really stunning – less conventional in style musically, full of ideas, lyrically dense & a fiery dynamic ride from start to finish. Anyway, a number of other albums & a biography are on the way, so we shall see what we shall see. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1068 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bashing??? BashUUUng!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 526 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anthem - Leonard Cohen. Pretty much my anthem over the past two years, with the line "There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in" becoming something of a mantra. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 220 Registered: 08-2005 |
Randy, thanks for that - I saw the Sound in my first year at university (UEA, University of East Anglia, aka the University of Easy Access) back in 1981-82 - playing a free/cheap gig in my Halls of Residence. Happy days, or maybe not in the case of the tragic Adrian Borland. (The gig was 31 October 81 according to Songkick. I was 18. Sheesh!) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 221 Registered: 08-2005 |
Running up that Hill - Kate Bush. Genius. Then I might listen to her cover of Rocket Man... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1071 Registered: 10-2006 |
Rent cast - Light my candle Smart little number from the musical, neatly combining dialogue and song in the best traditon of the genre. I only realised when I googled the show that creator Jonathon Larsen died before the premiere and never saw the huge success it would become. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 935 Registered: 05-2005 |
shaking things up a bit, how about this new track from M F Doom's new hip hop project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWMpDdLe 6s | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3413 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'll never be a fan of hip hop Cosmo. The backing is too monotonous and the vocal just sounds like some guy yammering at me who won't shut up. But at least his messages are constructive and positive. And the two tracks I checked out ("Darkness" as well as "OM") benefitted from being less than four minutes long. For me, and I do emphasize for ME, hip hop is like punk: it actively works to irritate and at the same time is musically boring. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 528 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with you on hip hop, Randy. I just could never get it, in spite of being dragged along by friends to an Ice "Mother expletive deleted" T gig in Nottingham. The expletive was my friend's I hasten to add! I've got to disagree on punk though. There's nothing like a good pogo around the kitchen of an evening to clear the cobwebs! But hey, difference of taste is a good thing. Otherwise what would we all talk about?  | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 529 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Subterraneans - Maxi Joy (side A), Slum (side B). Found this recently in my local record shop. I loved both these songs when they came out in 1987, but up to now only had them on an ever deteriorating cassette tape recorded from the radio. I'm not even sure if they released anything else after this. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 936 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love good hip hop and always have Randy and you sound like my 73 year old father with your description! on a completely different tip - The Grass Roots - You and Love are the Same http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufD3SO3V8 do gorgeous slice of 60s loveliness | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1073 Registered: 10-2006 |
HF Thiefaine - Sentiments numeriques revisites Je n'ai plus de mots assez durs Pour te dire que je t'aime... Ah, can't resist this stuff - starts off sounding like it's going to be Deep Purple but shifts smoothly into another ridiculously addictive mid-tempo ballad, logorrheic stream of conciousness lyrics and everything, with what could very well be a gentle variation on the melody later used for Petits matins. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3414 Registered: 03-2005 |
I am a little over a month short of my 58th birthday so I'm not so far away from 73 Cosmo. For you hip hop is a nice exotic thing. I live in the culture that spawned it. From my vantage point it's the sound of an entire demographic failing, surrendering to the stereotypes imposed on it for decades. It's the modern Stepin Fetchit. It also doesn't seem to have moved musically in over 20 years. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3415 Registered: 03-2005 |
On a different note, Stuart I am going to have to carefully explore Mr. Thiefaine when I return from vacation. You have been raving about him like no other. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1074 Registered: 10-2006 |
You have to take into account that many years' exposure to Italian Euro balladry has perhaps rusted my critical faculties, and my own tastes in general do tend towards the fairly conventional: however, his fans seem to be an intelligent and discerning bunch, so there may be something in his work you might find to like. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 771 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rumer - P.F. Sloan Love it. Almost an exact copy of the version Jimmy Webb released in 1970 on his album Words & Music. Two fantastic songwriters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc6pqjQFr dM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3416 Registered: 03-2005 |
I wouldn't worry about that Stuart. After all, I have a big stack of 60s/early 70s Mina CDs, a level of Italo-schlockery I don't think you embrace if I have interpreted some of your earlier comments correctly. I'm regretting letting myself fall for Cosmo's age-baiting this morning. I meant what I wrote but, really, who cares and who appointed me arbiter. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 937 Registered: 05-2005 |
No age baiting intended Randy, as you may have surmised from the fact that my father is 73 and from my musical history I am no spring chicken myself. No arbiters here either just a 'bunch of nerds' as my wife would say sharing their enjoyment of music framed by a common currency of love for the GBs.I have picked up sopme great music, books and films from the board but also alot of the stuff just passes me by. I won't be pressing for your admittance to a geriatric home or message board anytime soon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Augie March - Father Jack And Mr. T |