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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2016 - 05:13 pm:   

The Beatles - The Inner Light. So long since I last heard this I had to check what song it was.
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Simon Withers
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Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2016 - 11:44 pm:   

A Night Like This - The Cure. Because of a million reasons I'm not going to go into now. But, just, because. Etc.

"Your trust
The most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world"
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8002
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Posted on Friday, November 04, 2016 - 12:14 pm:   

The Blades - The Great Wall Of America. I bought single this in Tower yesterday on a quick trip to Dublin. Horn-driven power pop packing a political punch.
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Fred Tadrowski
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Post Number: 33
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Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2016 - 08:09 pm:   

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed. Listening to a little bit of Bobby's paranoia three days from the US election. Robert is also a fan of the song.
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Fred Tadrowski
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Post Number: 34
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Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2016 - 04:18 pm:   

The Mekons- Hard To Be Human Again. There is such a profound sense of dread this morning. A song written about Thatcherism still has meaning in the different time.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2016 - 05:30 pm:   

Prince - Purple Rain. The sadness of this song mirrors my vthe American abomination I woke up to.
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 385
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Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:51 pm:   

Jake Thackray - Molly Metcalfe (discovered on the only other forum I post on, or should that be on which I post? The Fortean Times)
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 386
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Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:55 pm:   

Fred (great name by the way, the F in my user name is Frederick), I don't know the Mekons' music, but in my former life as a sub-ed on a science fiction magazine I used to work with Dave Langford, SF writer/journalist of huge acclaim and brother of the Mekons' Jon Langford.
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Stuart Wilson
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Posted on Friday, November 11, 2016 - 07:47 am:   

Leonard Cohen - Democracy

The first one that leapt rather automatically to mind. Sigh.
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Fred Tadrowski
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Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 04:43 pm:   

Thanks, Simon. Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows. Another dark song for this terrible week. I can't find my copy of the Leonard Cohen cover CD with versions by Robert Forster, David McComb, Lloyd Cole, and others. I really need to organize my CD collection sometime.
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peter ward
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Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 04:47 pm:   

Fred,
PM me your email address and Ill dropbox it to you.

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 388
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Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 10:52 pm:   

Regina Spektor - Eet. Saw her in concert yesterdat but she didn't play it. Awww
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8010
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Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 05:03 am:   

David Bowie - Killing A Little Time
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8011
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Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 05:10 am:   

High Tide 15:47 - When I'm With You. I heard this late at night on Radio X in London last week while driving back from a gig. I thought it was great and emailed the band and song name to myself (I wasn't driving, I hasten to add). And now I've bought it from iTunes. Sometimes technology is just wonderful. As is this song.

Hugh, I reckon they'd be up your street. Randy too, maybe.
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1118
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 08:39 pm:   

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye6JssTd nvw

I remember seeing this when it was first shown and thinking how it was possible to be both old and cool as fuck.

I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but surely that smile on Perla Batalla's face at 3:45 has something to do with what Leonard's left hand is up to ?
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1317
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Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 07:52 am:   

Nice find, Andrew. Just before he sings "Touch me with your naked hand..."
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8016
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Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 05:27 am:   

Alejandro Escovedo – Redemption Blues. I wish he would play some gigs in Australia. I saw him in Austin, Texas in March 2001 at SXSW and he was superb.
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1318
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Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:14 am:   

AMC Trio & Philip Catherine - Chakanka (Or She Who Waits)

Catherine is basically a jazz guitarist, but he plays a lot of stuff which isn’t very jazzy at all, which is the kind of jazz I like. This is like that – a clean, straightforward tune with melodic piano and a gorgeous guitar solo.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8017
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Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 10:01 pm:   

James McMurtry - Sixty Acres. It's been a very long time since I last played this song. Still brilliant, and hilarious.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Monday, November 21, 2016 - 02:05 pm:   

Padraig, James McMurtry is a superb singer / songwriter. He is performing at the Oran Mor, Glasgow, in February, 2017, as part of the Celtic Connections and I may well pop along to see him.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8019
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Posted on Monday, November 21, 2016 - 07:13 pm:   

Yes, he's got his father Larry's way with words, and a gift for melody too.
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Simon Withers
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Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 08:48 pm:   

Mose Allison - the Seventh Son (the great Mose died last week - saw him live many times at various Pizza Express restaurants in London over the years...
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1319
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Posted on Friday, November 25, 2016 - 12:47 pm:   

Bob Dylan - Sign on the window
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8024
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 09:33 am:   

John Spillane – An Poc Ar Buile
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1321
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 07:34 am:   

Damien Rice - Delicate
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8028
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 07:51 am:   

Blur – Best Days. An unheralded and mostly forgotten (by me, anyway) gem of a song on The Great Escape. (And I'm only hearing it because I had a desire to hear Country House and it's the next song.)
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8031
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Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 04:40 am:   

The Moles - Bury Me Happy. Just heard it on the Radio National interview with Richard Davies and it sounded better than I'd ever thought it sounded before.

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