| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8594 Registered: 05-2005 |
Microdisney - Town To Town. More than three decades old and still a rarely bettered summer pop song. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1213 Registered: 04-2005 |
Judy Collins - Someday Soon This version (from The Smothers Brothers Show) has a live vocal, which is far superior to the version on her album "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". Her phrasing is almost jazz-like, skipping around the rhythm. And her voice is so pure, but with much emotion than Joan Baez's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-1b9S Cj0 PS And as for the the length of her skirt....?! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8596 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - The Mayor Of Simpleton. And yes, Andrew, aunt Judy favoured the mice-mini back in the day. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1456 Registered: 10-2006 |
Watertown – Frank Sinatra Ok, I’m no expert on the Big S, but an album I’d never heard of, with a very unSinatraesque cover, seemed to be a little strange… and then the work itself, once briefly explored, even stranger… a 1970s concept album about a simple suburban guy ("All those years I've worked for Santa Fe/never ever missed a single day") who’s lost his wife? Really? The lyrics, however, turn out to be excellent, kicking off: “Old Watertown… Nothing much happening Down on Main… Except a little rain. Old Watertown… Everyone knows The perfect crime: Killing time.. And no one's going anywhere Living's much too easy there…” Various reports call it a lost masterpiece and one of Frank’s biggest flops. I’ll have to get a copy to make my mind up. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8597 Registered: 05-2005 |
You've got me intrigued, Stuart. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 79 Registered: 03-2015 |
The Chills - Complex (Their new album will be released on the 14th of September). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8600 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Sleepy Jackson - This Day | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1905 Registered: 08-2006 |
No way - there's a new Chills record??? This fills me with joy. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3920 Registered: 03-2005 |
Whoa! I'm sure Martin has some things to tell us, Rob. One of the unexpected pleasures to the late period Chills is Martin's very useful reports on how things look from where he is standing. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1457 Registered: 10-2006 |
The ghost of Tom Joad – Jim James & Tom Morello Epic live version of one of his best songs at the Saint Bruce homage night and I have to say, Morello, who I've never seen before, looking like a skinny snappy young Telly Savalas, is a supremely exhilarating stage presence, ripping at his guitar without ever losing sight of melody, a mix of real showmanship and passionate musicality. Thrilling. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8607 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mary Lou Williams - The Devil. I love discovering great music by someone I've never heard of before, and lately that has often happened through TV shows playing great music over the end credits. I heard this over the end of the TV adaptation of Get Shorty (much better than the film). It's from 1965 and I doubt if anyone here bar Randy or Hugh has previously heard of her. https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/prod uct/mary-lou-williams-black-christ-of-th e-andes-1964 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3930 Registered: 03-2005 |
Never heard of her Padraig, probably because this is SO non-rock or r&b. My jazz knowledge is spotty. In my youth the religious aspect would have sent me out of the room. It's certainly an extraordinary arrangement. I have a friend who loves this sort of stuff. I'm going to run it by him. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1081 Registered: 03-2007 |
Nor me Padraig. Jazz and Gospel is not really my thing. Her biography on Wikipedia makes for interesting reading. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 545 Registered: 08-2005 |
Hell of a Summer - The Triffids (we're having one hell of a summer in the UK, worryingly so...) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1460 Registered: 10-2006 |
What can I do for you - Bob Dylan Like many people, some of them contributing excellent notes to the album, I simply ignored the Christian Bob period for some reason. The singles sounded dry and dull and tuneless and it was hard to get excited by a message I’d already turned my back on at Sunday school, secondary and youth club. Then the film turned up on TV a few days ago and I gave it a glance and I was hooked big about two songs in. The live versions are just thrilling. Ok, BD himself is a bit alarming. Never, ironically, has he looked quite so Satanic, peering hoodedly out at the audience as if to say, “You buyin this stuff yet?” He tries a few skipping dance steps and claps his hands in a very uncomfortable way. He almost smiles at one point. But the testifying backup singers, sublime musicians and songs as good as this one make the whole thing a meatily wonderful offering. And the harmonica solo is, suitably, out of this world. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8608 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, you're making me interested in a Bob period I thought I'd no interest in. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1461 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, I was surprised too. But, in the end, some artists should never be underestimated, and BD is certainly one of them. There always was a bit of the hellfire preacher to him and the gospel thing was just a variation in the end. The Trouble no more film would have been better as just a concert or perhaps a documentary investigating this odd period in Dylan's life, rather than interspersing bits of live material with an actor delivering sermons. But the live stuff is great. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3932 Registered: 03-2005 |
Owl John finally arrived yesterday. Two listens so far. Considering its major label provenance it's a pretty pleasing album with only a couple songs that sound big label rock band-ish. "Los Angeles Be Kind" is the standout for me and not only because of the topic. It is striking how often Hutchison references suicide. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1463 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody – Bob Dylan One of the Gospel Bob songs with a chorus that has now wormed its way irrevocably into my skull. It begins with just the girl singers building up on the title – they are such a powerful bunch, they really make the album – and then Dylan cuts brutally in. Great, “confessional” lyric… I can manipulate people as well as anybody – Force them and burn them, twist them and turn them; I can make believe I'm in love with almost anybody – Hold them and control them, squeeze them and tease them: All that satisfies the fleshy needs, I've been down that road, I know what it needs. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1238 Registered: 08-2004 |
Inspiral Carpets - Commercial Rain Willing the rain gods to drop some watery stuff on the parched land and it worked in the short term. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 546 Registered: 08-2005 |
From Inspiral Carpets to The Charlatans, only it's the US 60s psychedelic Charlatans with 'Easy When I'm Dead' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gej1gQFY 4xw (We had a decent amount of rain today with more promised tomorrow. Now if somebody could just reverse Brexit. We presently have the government of the world's fifth-biggest economy saying they're trying to ensure we won't run out of food next year. Sheeesh!!!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8615 Registered: 05-2005 |
And yet, Simon, we can't get you to say what food you are stockpiling, in the relevant thread. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1239 Registered: 08-2004 |
Apparently the food supply will only last 3 days in the event of a 'No deal' scenario. Bearing in mind this will likely happen at the end of March. Which is the traditional hungry gap in the farming calendar. I'm going to be stockpiling shotguns and running shoes. |