| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7269 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jane Weaver - Argent. Happy Easter, everyone. I hope the bunny brings you some nice eggs on Sunday. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 969 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Apartments - Swap Places The lyrics follow the same theme as '21'. Maybe we should debate as to whether artists should be this direct, in using their personal experiences ? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1133 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think artists have to do what they have to do, Andrew. I guess if he has the guts to sing about this stuff we have to find the guts to listen to it. I know I couldn't get through the acoustic version of 21 I watched on Youtube, it was just too painful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3481 Registered: 03-2005 |
Being the old-fashioned sort, I'm still waiting for my CD of the new Apartments album to arrive. Hence I have not availed myself of the download. But on the subject of whether artists should be direct in using their personal experiences, I remember the amazement I felt when I read the biography of Gene Clark and learned that what I had thought was abstract imagery in his 1967 classic "Echoes" (possibly my personal favorite song ever) was actually a pretty direct accounting of the contemporary Sunset Strip scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofnxCTy 8Ms I look forward to hearing PMW's new work. If the entire set is about the loss of his son so be it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7273 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daisy - It Gives Me The Creeps, Baby (Oh Yeah). The greatest garage rock 7" ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7278 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen with Michael Stipe - Because The Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOmaBbq YBk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7279 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob Bonfiglio - Golden State | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7284 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fall - Lost In Music | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7286 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bee Gees - Night Fever | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1134 Registered: 10-2006 |
Duran duran - Lay lady lay Struth, who knew that the DDs did a version of this? Not me, obviously. Came on in the bar this morning, hooked me in with that nice scrapey guitar intro and, to the bar girls' amusement, I was soon singing along lustily. What a great song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7290 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7292 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dwight Yoakam - Liar | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7297 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allo Darlin' - Wu Tang Clan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7299 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jam - English Rose | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 254 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kaleidoscope World - the Chills. Love the 'Space capsule/perhaps you'll' rhyme! Not as bad as the Bangles' yen/krem-a-lin/Egyptian! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 973 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cat Power - Willie Deadwilder 18 minutes of rambling beauty... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1137 Registered: 10-2006 |
Antonello Venditti - Cosa avevi in mente Another one for Padraig to safely ignore! But, ubiquitous on Italian radio at the moment, impossible to ignore here: not one of my favourite native singer/songwriters, AV, with his trembling Roman warble, but here he clamps some decent lyrics to an unshakeably shouty chorus and low-key electronics & piano in a highly attractive fashion. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7302 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Mirrorball | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1138 Registered: 10-2006 |
Goran Kafjes Subtropic Arkestra - Yet again After a bit of a dustup with the Uncut subscription team, who assured me it was impossible to send the CD to me along with the mag, a second copy of the mag arrived "under plain cover" as they used to say, with CD attached, including this marvellous brass-heavy instrumental version of the Grizzly Bear track, which really blew the cobwebs off the day for me. Glorious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7304 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Thought I Was A Spaceman. The acoustic guitar by Graham Coxon is superb. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7305 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, in the years I had an Uncut subscription I got the CD sent to Australia, so I don't understand how they they're being difficult about sending it to Italy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1139 Registered: 10-2006 |
Copywrite problems, they tell me. Odd thing is, when I used to get it at my local newsagent's (where arrival was erratic and pricey, hence the subsrciption) the CD was always attached. And this month's is excellent too, with good stuff not just from GKSA but Torres, Villagers, Dean McPhee & This is the kit. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 275 Registered: 06-2005 |
Let it flow - Spiritualized | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7308 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joan Of Arse - A Spell Cast With Fingers. A maudlin sea shanty for a cold and wet Sydney autumn day. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 979 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hindi Zahra - Any Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0cWImj9 Tyo | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 980 Registered: 04-2005 |
Dom La Nena - Llegaré https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao2H-C9C IkA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7312 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Autumn Defense - Bein' Green https://theautumndefense.bandcamp.com/tr ack/bein-green | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7313 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Golden Horde - Friends In Time | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1141 Registered: 10-2006 |
Goran Kafjes Subtropic Arkestra - Yet again Living up to its title... this has to get played at least three times a day at the moment, with its nifty Smiths-style intro that suddenly bursts brassily into the perfect theme for an unmade cop series: grooves along perfectly, and then some unknown bass wind instrument growls in beautifully around 2.12. It all dashes forward, skirting prog & jazz while never losing sight of its melodic heart, and simply lifts the heart in the most marvellous way. 2 CDs en route. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1142 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pah, idiotic repetition of heart... Lifts the spirit,then, shall we say. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 814 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, Check out her work with Rosemary Standley ( Birds On A Wire ) if you have not already done so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76ViLxf y2E |