| Author | Message | ||
     Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1206 Registered: 04-2005 |
RVG - A Quality of Mercy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtxJWTQA TKQ "Allez les Filles" is a Bordeaux association that puts on an eclectic mix of music over the summer in the city, much of it free. Was checking out the program for this summer and saw this Australian band listed on the same bill as The Limińanas. Great song. And 2 left-handed musicians ? And they get the Lindy Morrison stamp of approval too ! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3902 Registered: 03-2005 |
That was fabulous Andrew! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1207 Registered: 04-2005 |
Eddy de Pretto – Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfbM3LD0 D9Q I asked my daughter who she was looking forward to seeing on stage at the GaroRock festival at the end of this month and this was her first reply. Not quite sure how you categorise it as he can obviously sing, which immediately marks it out from most rap for me. His first album has making quite a lot of news in France...extremely articulate (this song questions the accepted roles that the man is supposed to adopt) and often quite explicit about his homosexuality, it strikes me how far we have come since I was a teenager in terms of acceptance of difference. In some ways...and in some countries. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 78 Registered: 03-2015 |
The Goon Sax - She Knows (a new song). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8562 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 531 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, I feel that you're making some sort of super-obscure sport-cum-music-related link, though I can't for the life of me think what it might be... Still, none shall sleep while I try to ponder the connection, if any. On the bright side, he says ironically, I drew the mighty Peru in the office World Cup sweepstake. That's a couple of quid I'll never see again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8563 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I was. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8564 Registered: 05-2005 |
Italia 90, as I'm sure you know. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nuLdeNqd Y | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 532 Registered: 08-2005 |
Hence my 'none shall sleep' comment! Italia 90, when England were good and could have gone all the way, since when it's been tournament after tournament of dross, an inability to hold on to the ball or look like a cohesive unit. We seem to have improved at the moment, so I have a moderate amount of optimism that we'll play like a 21st century team and pass the ball to players in the same-coloured shirts. Is that too much to ask? Usually, in the case of England... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8565 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think England will do well, if only because I can't remember a time when there was less expectation that they would do well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8566 Registered: 05-2005 |
And sorry for not getting your reference. I'm blaming the jet lag, though I should be well over it by now. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 533 Registered: 08-2005 |
You and your world travelling! That said, I'm flying to Geneva for work on Tuesday, then spending a day and a half cycling around Morzine in France. This is for work - and while it's enjoyable, it's slightly embarrassing. I'm going to a bike launch, and most of the other journos are 30 years younger than me and 10 kilos lighter! I can ride up the mountains, but I have to do it at my own pace - slowly! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3903 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link, Andrew. It's always a good idea to know what "the kids" are listening to nowadays. What attracts my attention is that except maybe for the little percussive refrain bits, the vocal is NOT computer-aided. I really hate computerized vocals and they're almost impossible to escape in modern major-label pop music now. I find them entirely unlistenable. Not sure I need to look at the dude's sweat-shiny torso at close range though. And I'm gay! But I think that's because at my super-advanced age (61) it just feels creepy at an instinctive level to look at a young person in that fashion. I'm perfectly contented with faces. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 435 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, My nephew is cycling trainer in Rwanda. https://brf.be/sport/989794/ I must go there to meet him on holiday but first I have also to train on the Ličge-Bastogne-Ličge roads...To give me courage, I've bought the Peter Sagan world champion clothes. Good luck if you climb La Colombičre! My song of the day is Ian Brown F.E.A.R | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1208 Registered: 04-2005 |
RVG - Vincent Van Gogh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-oMMbgz f-o The voice doesn't sound like the G-Bs, but the lyrics and delivery certainly do. Gosh, wonder if their debut album will all be up to the quality of the first 2 songs ? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1449 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lucy Dacus - I Don't Wanna be Funny Anymore Recommended by one of my three free New Yorker articles this month, though I think they should make exceptions for going back to the same article rather than counting it as the second. Sometimes the bus gets to the stop before I'm all the way through. This one was on wry young girl singer-songwriters and I like Lucy's dry, laconic voice. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3912 Registered: 03-2005 |
Another great one Andrew! I'm ordering the album. I actually think that the singer's voice DOES sound like Grant in one of his more agitated modes, such as on "In the Core of the Flame." | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 536 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star There are a few songs that take me back in time with just the first note, and this is one of them. My first year at university, away from home for the first time, hair halfway down my back, drinking decent Fleurie (no cheap wines for me), playing loads of football, too much pinball in the uni halls of residence. Oh yes, happy days. Did a bit of studying in between, as well... And I didn't have my neck in a collar thanks to a pulled scalene muscle, wasn't taking codeine for the pain and valium to relax the muscles (I'm allergic to most anti-inflammatories). Not feeling so chirpy today! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3913 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ouch. Just for Simon . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-u8O-5Z xno | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1450 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Doors - Touch me Still as ridiculously fresh as a dew-speckled daisy, though it did show up my seriously muzzy knowledge of music history: who's this, I thought, as it bounced on to the radio, Divine Comedy? Scott Walker? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1226 Registered: 08-2004 |
Half Man Half Biscuit - Bob Wilson Anchorman | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8578 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm having two today - Weezer's covers of Africa and Rosanna by Toto. They are both brilliant. And no, I'm not being ironic in saying so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4c7EE8_ IX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jr-p0l QZo The recordings came about due to the Twitter campaign of a 14-year-old from Cleveland to get Weezer to cover Africa. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Rollercoaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-rVMDUl gqU | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 538 Registered: 08-2005 |
Joy Division - Day of the Lords Just used by the BBC in its build-up to England v Panama. Unusual choice by somebody! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1451 Registered: 10-2006 |
Anna Calvi - Don't Beat the Girl out of My Boy Excellent title & a bit of thrilling melodrama in the production. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8583 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stroppies - Go Ahead. An Australian band that sound like a New Zealand band. Right up your street Randy and Hugh, I think. (I bet Hugh knows them already though.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvJ4mCo EqY | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1078 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, You know me too well. I purchased a digital download of their mini album late last year. The following is the track that introduced me to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B46PqVI dg0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3916 Registered: 03-2005 |
I can vouch for Hugh. He sent me a copy of the Stroppies a few months back. And yes, they are very Flying Nun. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8584 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm blushing here because I got people's tastes so right! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1452 Registered: 10-2006 |
Catherine Ribeiro - Jusqu'ŕ ce que la force de t'aimer me manque Hell of a voice! And an interesting Guardian article on her, too:https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb log/2015/jun/30/catherine-ribeiro-cult-h eroes | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 540 Registered: 08-2005 |
Laura Veirs - Galaxies Saw her a few weeks ago and she was in fine form. I had to miss the next two gigs I'd bought tickets for - the Psychedelic Furs as I had to work in France for a few days (I'll claim the cost of the ticket from my employer) and I was in too much pain from a pulled/spasming shoulder muscle to see Kristin Hersh, which was a great shame. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3917 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok Stuart. I am not a prog guy, but I see she had a decade of singles in the 60s (some of them probably unnecessary covers) which are swept together on a 4 CD retrospective. The youtube clips include quite a few fabulous recordings, including the solidly nutty "Ame Debout" with its cool "whazzat?" instrument in the left channel punctuating the drone and Ms. Ribeiro's primal howl. "Liberte" scoops a lot of these together along with the early singles and even a few of the frightening 15 or 18 or 24(!) minute numbers ("Un Jour . . . La Mort" indeed). But she and Alpes actually recorded a good number of tracks of reasonable duration so this looks promising. This has all the hallmarks of true and glorious crazy. And beyond argument the bird can sing. I have a really bad feeling I'm going to end up buying a LOT more than "Liberte" but one thing at a time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3918 Registered: 03-2005 |
By the way Stuart in case you don't know. There's a new Barbara Carlotti album out. I've just made my order. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1453 Registered: 10-2006 |
What’s that phrase you use, Randy, when you simply order everything you can find by an artist you’ve only just discovered? Hit the switch, pulled the lever, something like that? What I’ve done with la Ribeiro, anyway. Possibly I may live to regret it, but hers sounds like a craziness worth exploring, and I have a particular weakness for that kind of robust, dark-toned voice; and prog was my first love (when I hear chortling from the living room, I always know which part of my CD horde the guests have got to). Meanwhile, I’ll check out Barbara C as well. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1211 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers Stuart ! Catherine Ribeiro certainly seems a fascinating character...and as you say "hell of a voice" Indeed. Prog is most definitely not my thing...what did we fight the punk wars for and all that ? But what I've listened to so far doesn't seem to have that much to do with the dreadful twiddly bits and ridiculous time changes (just because we can). Not sure I'm ready to go for the 9 CD box set quite yet, but "Paix" seems to be available at a reasonable price on vinyl. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1454 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, I tried to stay clear of the punk wars, while appreciating some of the music from a wary distance – being a sensitive flower already weary of returning home with a blazer back saturated in gochle, to find the act elevated into a cultural gesture was highly dispiriting. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 437 Registered: 05-2005 |
Already got the tickets for Barbara Carlotti in january 2019... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1212 Registered: 04-2005 |
And cheers again Stuart. I've learnt a new word...gochle ! For the benefit of others http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/snds3371 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 542 Registered: 08-2005 |
Stuart, back in the day, and we're talking early 1980s, I had long hair (ah yes, to have hair...) which I often wore in pigtails, Willie Nelson style (before I'd heard of Willie Nelson) and I used to get a fair number of comments and a fair bit of low-level abuse (it was anathema to a lot of football/soccer opponents I came up against). The only time I ever snapped was when a teenage scrote saw fit to spit at me when we passed on a pavement, so I simply kicked him in the groin. Okay, I should have turned the other cheek, but in British culture at least - and I think in others but I'm not going to comment - being spat at has a level of offensiveness beyond being insulted or even hit. The outcome of the incident? He skulked off, looking somewhat surprised. Yep, I'm not keen on spitting either, and I'd also never heard of 'gochle'. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8591 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, I think I know where you learnt that new word - from the Q feature on Scott Hutchison? A beautiful, moving tribute to a great talent. I read it yesterday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8592 Registered: 05-2005 |
And song of the day is: Sloan - The Day Will Be Mine | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3919 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig scroll up. Stuart used it. I love that it's also a family name! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1455 Registered: 10-2006 |
Andrew's post suggests the term was confined to the Dundee area, but that wouldn't be the case if Scott Hutchison used it... and I'm now curious to know in what context! Ah, Simon, would that you had been at school with me... you could have earned a fortune in soor plooms as my bodyguard... |