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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8749 Registered: 05-2005 |
A belated start to the December thread. The Specials - Friday Night Saturday Morning, surely one of the greatest ever b-sides? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8751 Registered: 05-2005 |
Motörhead & Girlschool - Please Don't Touch. What a joy it was to see them perform this on Top of the Pops in February 1981. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8755 Registered: 05-2005 |
Weezer - El Scorcho. It just cropped up when I asked Alexa to play songs by Weezer. I haven't heard El Schorcho for at least 20 years. It's so much better than I remembered. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 567 Registered: 08-2005 |
Squeeze - Cool for Cats (about the only reference to The Sweeney I can think of in pop music!) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1255 Registered: 08-2004 |
Lil' Kim - Custom Made Quality filth | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 568 Registered: 08-2005 |
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio I wish I was in Tijuana/ Eating barbecued iguana/ I'm on a Mexican radio... | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 448 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cucumber Concubine - Wingdisk, Ian Masters (of Pale Saints fame) is alive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Qr0H3D n3w | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1106 Registered: 03-2007 |
It's Immaterial - Is It Alright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJJA3o5 -n0 Track from their as yet unreleased third album ( House For Sale.) I signed up with PledgeMusic for a copy back in January, 2017. Latest word is it will be released early next year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4024 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's not very often I am going to be in the mood to hear this sort of fist-pumping '70s rawk. But the pedigree here is hard to argue with: Stevie Wright--the voice of "Friday on My Mind"--and former bandmates Harry Vanda and George Young writing, producing, playing and supplying BV's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2KhDu_ _1Y Then my iPod went from there to a reminder of what a great shambolic pop band the relatively early Fall were: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdzmaTO lJU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1107 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Sand Pebbles - Because I Could https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVubC-q YKE From their 2011 album 'Dark Magic' The more I listen to this Aussie band, the more I like them. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1253 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jeanne Added - Radiate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMzk6rJ Fwk | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4025 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, do you rate the Moffs? Years after Geoff Holmes sent me their "Another Day in the Sun" I still find their music a pleasure and can almost grab their songs at random and pull up a plum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0d9aJI cqU And since it's what Geoff used to hook me in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cY1nkLW kbY The Aussies have a many-decades-long noble tradition of psychedelicky garage rock. I love it all. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1108 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I do. I own a copy of Compilation ( Two Disc Set ) which was issued by Feel Presents back in 2008. I think it contains the vast majority of the band's recordings. The Sand Pebbles are on heavy rotation in this house at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hztxwv- sQs The sound is a little bit iffy right at the beginning but they soon settle into the swing of things. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1504 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah, the Moffs take me back to my time in Sweden, when work threw me together with a paisley-shirted Coventry lad who luckily had spent most of his youth in record shops buying obscure (to me) indie and reggae stuff on weird labels, which he then taped into brilliant compilations to copy for his friends. Probably the first time I’d heard a lot of music from Oz and NZ, except for the stuff Peel played. Must have a rummage upstairs and see if I can find some. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1505 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well I managed to dig one tape up, though only a single contribution from Australia. The biro-scrawled titles have just about faded. Good stuff, though, to get a young lad through those long Swedish nights. Highlights: Dead can dance: Frontier Sonic youth: Star power The House of Love: Shine on Blue Aeroplanes: Tolerance Sally Tims & Marc Almond: This house is a house of trouble Stars of Heaven: Never saw you McCarthy: Red sleeping beauty Smiths: Work is a 4-letter word Eerily, it does sound like Kim Gordon is singing "Starbucks" at certain points. And who knew then that the Smiths Cilla cover was the tune that would break the band's back and send Johnny running for the LA hills? The HOL, meanwhile, just swoop mightily in there. What a perfect song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1506 Registered: 10-2006 |
(All our yesterdays continues…) Side 2 of the cassette is almost all Bhundu Boys, stuff I haven’t heard for ages. I’ve just googled them to see where they ended up, and wish I hadn’t, since things did not go well, to say the least. I had one of the most joyous evenings of my life at a concert of theirs in the very strange surroundings of Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall, an austere ex-chapel that used to mainly feature string quartets. I never dance, and that night I danced like a maniac. The music was simply irresistible. It still is. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1109 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, See if this one appeals to you. The band are based in Leith, Edinburgh, and this is the opening song from their second album Memory Fractures which is one of my favourite releases of 2018. It needs a bit of welly. Errant Boy - Means https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0_EdXu TbE | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1254 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, I saw the Bhundu Boys in Edinburgh's Venue, behind the station. I think that it was the evening that a passer-by rang the fire brigade...he thought that the building was on fire, but it was actually just the condensation escaping ! When it warmed up in that place (and it certainly did with the Bhundu Boys) the steam from the crowd used to gather on the ceiling and drip back onto your head. Ah nostalgia ! As an wee anecdote the manager of the Queen's Hall these days is Evan Henderson, who was the guitarist in Edinburgh's "Pop Wallpaper", a very wonderful band. This is not their best, a cover of "Strawberry Letter 23", but he is the one bouncing the basketball around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7K-qyP sdc Doesn't seem to be much of their stuff on YouTube..."Over Your Shoulder", but is not great quality...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2yH7Aze PLU Their best was a song called "The Great Adventure" that came on a flexi with the "Deadbeat" fanzine. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1255 Registered: 04-2005 |
Song of the Day ! Some more nostalgia... The Trash Can Sinatras - Only Tongue Can Tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkxoYyr baU Never understood why they were not hugely famous. The band that I was in supported the Trash Cans in Inverness, around the time that their first album came out. They had a reputation for being sub-Aztec-Camera-twee-merchants, but that night they were nearer to the Jesus and Mary Chain. Everything smothered in feedback and goodness knows what substance(s) Frank Reader had taken, but he was a man possessed. Almost scary in his intensity. They finished with their cover of the "White Horses" theme. And then Frank passed out as I remember... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqGtzCI QoQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8758 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Stones For You (trumpet version). One of the greatest b-sides ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Bublé - Grown-Up Christmas List, written by David Foster and Linda Thompson. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 572 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam (in honour of our cat who I thought had gone missing, but just turned up. Phew!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8767 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping. The second greatest Christmas song ever. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1111 Registered: 03-2007 |
bZARK - I Don't Know How It Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sUWZNFl s6A Track from their second album 'The Welcome Storm.' | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 573 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Lemonheads - A Different Drum | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1509 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gregory Isaacs - Loving pauper Such a smooth, easy vocal, deft lyrics and beautiful tune. One of the first things they played me when I shyly admitted I knew nothing about reggae. Immediately smitten. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8769 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Temptations - My Girl. Pretty much the perfect soul pop song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8773 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thea Gilmore - The St Stephen's Day Murders | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 575 Registered: 08-2005 |
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4028 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just scanned up this thread. Padraig, did you know that "Please Don't Touch" is a pre-Beatles U.K. rock obscurity? It was written by Frederick Heath aka Johnny Kidd. The original by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates was released in 1959. Kidd's gigantic classic hit "Shakin' All Over" was still a year away. Kidd made some seriously great records in the pre-Merseybeat era, though not very many were self-penned songs. His 1962 version of "I Can Tell" is the definitive white-boy R&B take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO06WU1E HoU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8774 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I knew it was written by Frederick Heath, but did not know that he was Johnny Kidd. I will check out the video later. Right now I'm heading out for my Christmas morning swim. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8775 Registered: 05-2005 |
Soul Saints Orchestra - Santa's Got A Bag Of Soul. Almost certainly the finest German R&B/Soul Christmas song, ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8779 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ought - Desire. Thanks to Peter Ward for the tip. This site proves its worth again in introducing me to new (to me) acts. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8780 Registered: 05-2005 |
Last song of the day of the month and the year, for me. Adele Pickvance - Looking For Something | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1512 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dusty Springfield - Wishin and hopin Two songs were buggin the hell out of me today, just the tunes as I was singing them around the house: the first turned out to be Beefheart's Bluejeans & Moonbeams, the title track of which gets roughly treated even on the Vinyl District's otherwise excellent assessment of his "commercial" period. But it's such a lovely tune, decorated, as is Further than we've gone, with Dean Smith's singing, lyrical guitar lines: I've never been able to track down anything else by this guy, but, on the day, he was really inspired. Meanwhile, my random chanting of gerunds ("Singin and dancin and whistlin and fishin...") finally goaded my wife into hunting down the Bacharach/David song I was vainly attempting to get a grip on. Dusty or Dionne? On this one, I prefer Dusty. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1259 Registered: 04-2005 |
Feu Chatterton - Souvenir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qunnzffF Tj0 Got tickets to see them live in February ! |