| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1359 Registered: 10-2006 |
The String Quartet - Like a rolling stone Love string quartets, love Dylan, never thought putting the two together might necessarily be a wise idea, but on this song it works like a dream, full of slightly odd beauty. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 419 Registered: 08-2005 |
Velvet Underground & Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties (and thanks to Youtube I discover another, haunting version and one by Nick Cave. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8226 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Nail It Down. Years since I've last played this. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 420 Registered: 08-2005 |
Laura Veirs - Don't Lose Yourself. Bliss (I start my new job on Tuesday, the position I was made redundant from in October 2011; my life disappears up its own fundament...) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1361 Registered: 10-2006 |
This mortal coil - I come and stand at every door A Turkish poet born in what is now Greece writes of a young Japanese girl destroyed by an American bomb, to a tune originally from Orkney sung by a Scottish woman of Polish descent. I wish you all a peaceful Easter. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3745 Registered: 03-2005 |
Great, but funny news Simon. Stuart, how I wish people "out there" could take your point. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8229 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, great news. Stuart, great description. And you've reminded me that I recently borrowed the band's name for a headline on a story I worked on. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ gallery/2017/apr/10/this-mortal-coral-ne w-bleaching-at-the-great-barrier-reef-in -pictures | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 421 Registered: 08-2005 |
Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker - Bernie's Tune Started my new job on Tuesday. Spent Thursday and Friday cycling - which is a big part of my new role - on bikes that cost £2000. It's great at this time of year, less so in winter... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3749 Registered: 03-2005 |
Simon I hope you're in an area where people are used to cyclists on the road. LA being such a car-dependent city, the transition to more biking has been really slow and sometimes scary. It will get you in great shape though! I just spent the weekend visiting family, including my 91 year old mother. She is gifted with the best health imaginable, her only medication a nightly dose of Zoloft her doctor conned her into taking (and I would not have her take). The cliche about the second childhood is true. She is so impatient, will pout when she doesn't get her way and indulges in so much dotty magical thinking that it really seems like I am with a particularly wrinkly, white haired five year old. She drives my sister-in-law crazy and I'm sure it would get on my nerves too if I were there all the time. But for the limited time I find it charming. She won't be around forever and I'm really conscious of that now. So my song for the day is . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5jBkai gYQ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1147 Registered: 04-2005 |
I like the description of your mother Randy. I cycled around Bordeaux for the first time at the weekend and was very pleasantly surprised at motorists' politeness. Most places where I was supposed to give way, it was drivers that insisted that I should go ahead. It's been at least 15 years since I cycled in a city...cycle tracks everywhere. My song of the day is the return of Camille ("dotty magical thinking" applies to her quite nicely !) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOy8PXr XQs We've got tickets to see her in a few weeks...she is always fascinating on stage. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3750 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, I remember riding the Velibe bikes around Paris during one visit about 2 years after they were introduced, even on one day during the evening rush hour. I was knocked out at how courteous and aware the drivers were. Since Paris didn't really have a big tradition of bikes on the streets I assumed there'd be some friction but I didn't see it during that stay. I felt that said something about the French, or at least about Parisians. The chief problem I had with the system then was finding places to park the bike when going to a popular part of town in the evening like, say, la Republique. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 422 Registered: 08-2005 |
Tír na nÓg - Time Is Like a Promise, live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2jg9fSI Bqc&list=RDp2jg9fSIBqc God bless Youtube (in this case, at least) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere, which I'm listening to on vinyl right now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1363 Registered: 10-2006 |
Diagrams - It's only light Bit of a wishy-washy hungover afternoon, so good to have this lovely song coming along just now. Radio FIP never fails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pt4V7Zh 8-w | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3753 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, after showing me your video Stuart, youtube gave me a cover of Les Cactus by Last Shadow Puppets! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1006 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, Diagrams will release a new album ( Dorothy ) in the U.K. on 12 May, 2017. It is a collaboration between Sam Genders and Dorothy Trogdon. She is a 90 year old poet who lives on a small island off the coast of Seattle. Link to a song from the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzu-Qio5 OyY You might want to check out Cheek Mountain Thief if you are not already familiar with them. Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders were founding members of Tunng and both Diagrams and Cheek Mountain Thief share a similar sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC0OHFsj -J0 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1364 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Hugh. I see Sam G also played with the Accidental, something of whose I liked and have somewhere. (My filing system has crashed under influx.) It was a lot easier when folk just stuck with the same damn band, you didn't have to ask, who's Jagger working with nowadays etc. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1008 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, Probably their sole album ( There Were Wolves ) which was released back in 2008. Stephen Cracknell who was also a member of the band went on to form The Memory Band. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 330 Registered: 06-2005 |
@ andrew kerr - we found Bordeaux a very friendly Velo city last Summer, lots of paths & places to park and even take your bikes home on the tram if you've had too many Leffe Ruby's. A very friendly bicycle city if looking for one. |