| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luke Haines - Regeneration | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 279 Registered: 06-2005 |
Patti Smith - Free Money Off to see Patti Smith perform "Horses" in the rain this evening with support from Spiritualized & Ariel Pink. If Horses had a single it would be this song. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 258 Registered: 08-2005 |
Into You Like a Train - the Psychedelic Furs ("No kind of love...") | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1155 Registered: 10-2006 |
Villagers - Dawning on me Dippy hippy love music with soppy words, but nice guitar picking... that irresistable chugga-chugga rhythm that kicks in, what tempo is that? Always a winner. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 260 Registered: 08-2005 |
I Scare Myself - Thomas Dolby (not the original Dan Hicks' version). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3508 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hawkwind -- Mirror of Illusion I couldn't believe its fabulous cheesiness when I first heard it over 40 years ago. And it made me smile this evening. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 262 Registered: 08-2005 |
Car Headlights - Ed Kuepper | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7359 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Trumpets (Headstrong Remix 2011) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1156 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Box Tops - the Letter Did I ever know before today that Alex Chilton was the lead singer on this one? Probably not. That its writer was the main composer of "Always on my mind", certainly not. Wayne Carson Thompson, we salute you. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3509 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh yeah Stuart, that's the weird thing about Alex Chilton. He was something like 17 years old when he recorded "The Letter." He had to adopt a bogus "soul dude" vocal sound that was as artificial as Jim McGuinn's original sniveling Dylanesque vocal style with the Byrds. It made it very hard for him to be taken seriously afterwards. He needed foreigners to recognize him because his credibility was shot by the Box Tops records. If you haven't done so, tour through them. They also had good-sized Stateside hits with "Choo Choo Train" and "Sweet Cream Ladies" and "Cry Like a Baby." Good stuff, in the bubblegum soul category. They did a handful of Chilton originals but nothing to get excited about. Big Star was a true transformation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sonic Youth - I Know There's An Answer | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7365 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Orange Humble Band - Conversations With Myself. Godlike. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 281 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hallogallo - Neu! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7367 Registered: 05-2005 |
Warm Soda - Symbolic Dream | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7369 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Hell Of A Summer. And I'm wondering how in all the scores of times I've previously heard this song, I failed to notice the late 70s disco/soul beat underpinning it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1160 Registered: 10-2006 |
Biff bang pow - She paints | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3511 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, the Triffids were whizzes at pulling together disparate musical sources pretty much from the beginning. Remember their more overt employment of flying cymbal disco in the bridges of "I Can't Wait to See Your Gun?" And Martyn Casey was a brilliant bassist, easily in the very top rank. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7371 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was waiting for your reply, Randy! You're right, of course, Casey was very important to the sound. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3512 Registered: 03-2005 |
In case anyone who didn't pick up the big Triffids reissue of their early cassette music is curious, here's a link to their later version of "I Can't Wait to See Your Gun." This dates from 1981. This is a great era for them whatever you might think of them later on. They were kids with no money (but upper middle class families to fall back on) and a lot of ideas and naive determination. The music was often flawed but always imaginative. Imagine going to a crappy little corner club and seeing a band of suburban nobodies doing originals like this. This video has had a view score of 1 since December 2014!! And that's not counting me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3513 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops, left out the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNzyyEAZ lI0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3514 Registered: 03-2005 |
They had a seemingly bottomless well of ideas. Here's one of their 1980 offerings called "Pileup." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad3xZA4B -rE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3515 Registered: 03-2005 |
Also from 1980 (McComb was 18) here's "No Desire." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEJlJKD Pik | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3516 Registered: 03-2005 |
Same year, same cassette, this charming teen ballad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-QlYL9 TtQ This is pre-Jill Birt btw. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3517 Registered: 03-2005 |
I will torture you with one last offering. The 1980 numbers were all recorded in very nonprofessional circumstances. Here's another proper (cheap) studio offering from 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNGXYmJ fFc For my money, the Triffids cassette collection is probably the very best of the anorak obscurity reissues of the CD era to date. There are a lot of good songs and none of the phony record company junk. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kathryn Williams - Tango With Marco. It sounds like a Joni Mitchell title, and so does the song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7376 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rush - Tom Sawyer (live version) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1161 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sun kil moon - Grey ice water Having nothing much else to do in between turning out 3 albums a year and endlessly touring Scandanavia, Mr K here whips out 11 covers of Modest Mouse, apparently, of whom I know naught; but this is a mellifluously sung and played little ballad from an album of immense tenderness. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 264 Registered: 08-2005 |
Under the Milky Way Tonight, the Church. Take your pick from album version, unplugged or Hobart flash mob version. Listened to them all yesterday... Ah... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 542 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Old Man - Finbar Furey, on this first Father's day since my dad passed away two weeks ago. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 265 Registered: 08-2005 |
Treason, Teardrop Explodes | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 281 Registered: 06-2005 |
Sorry to hear of your loss Catherine, don't know that song of Finbar's but will look it up. Music can be a great comfort. Dawes - All Your Favourite Bands | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 266 Registered: 08-2005 |
Catherine, I echo Peter's sentiments and wish you all the best. I'm dreading this - my 80-year-old father has just come out of hospital after a fall (and a triple bypass op last year), and my 90-year-old father-in-law is terminally ill. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 284 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deepest sympathies Catherine. I guess bereavement is something lots of us on this board are/have been experiencing. The words sound hollow at the time but time helps as does the support of friends and family. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7378 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm sorry to hear about your dad, Catherine. Pádraig | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3521 Registered: 03-2005 |
Condolences to you Catherine, and best wishes Simon. I went through the loss of my father in 2008. It took me months to shake off the recurring thought "eh, why bother?" that cropped up in response to almost anything happening in my life at the time. Today's song for me: Francoise Hardy -- Ici ou la? (Missing all the little French accents that I don't know how to get on my keyboard). From "Le Danger". Unfortunately, youtube doesn't have it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1167 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's a good later-on FH album, that one. Nice to hear her voice pitched against a rougher sort of guitar work. Nora Dean - ay ay ay Slightly strange, off-kilter, sexy reggae, with a creamily lovely vocal from Nora. I wish more women had been involved in Jamaican music, their voices can fit the genre so perfectly. |