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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8782 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Music Machine - Talk Talk, from their album (Turn On) The Music Machine. I'd never even heard of this album, or group, before seeing it today in a vinyl bin in JB Hi-fi. At first I thought it was some weird Talk Talk album, but when I googled it on my phone All Music said it's a garage rock classic. It was released in 1966, so it's older than me. I'm listening to the album now, and garage rock classic is a good description. I must have seen them mentioned somewhere in almost four decades of reading music magazines, but I don't recall it if I did. A great discovery 52 years and one day after it was released - the album came out on December 31, 1966. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4034 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, Talk Talk were a magnificent phenomenon. Sean Bonniwell was an ambitious and interesting musician. Music Machine were picked up by Warner Brothers after your "(Turn On)" album and, if anything, they became even better because Bonniwell had more freedom thanks to the recording budget. Here are a couple of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4GEKnU 5As https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piCH_iqT po8 And as a bonus, the swooning "I've Loved You": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbuiGWMs 3uQ When "Talk Talk" came out, we radio listeners simply thought Music Machine were a cheap rip-off of Love. They weren't. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4035 Registered: 03-2005 |
But don't forget the garage classics that spewed forth from nearer to where you are now. I'm not sure very many Yanks realize that Australia participated in the U.S.'s misguided war in Vietnam. Here is Adelaide's great Masters Apprentices' "Wars or Hands of Time": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4I9nt5 89I The group would eventually morph from their original funky garage sound into an Album-Oriented-Rock band in the 1970s. Along the way through this transition they cut a string of world-class recordings. I'm not nearly as keen on their later AOR work but even then they tucked this little gem on a single b-side (and nowhere else): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJumWfPp HF8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8784 Registered: 05-2005 |
I knew you'd know them, Randy! I posted that with the specific intent of drawing on your knowledge, all but certain it would be forthcoming. I will check out those links, but right now my washing is almost done, and today's a good day for drying sheets and towels. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8785 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 354 Registered: 06-2005 |
Grant doing an acoustic "Easy Come Easy Go" from a TV Show in 1991: https://youtu.be/7uk-vOMA7Ng | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1513 Registered: 10-2006 |
Friends Again - State Of Art Another 1980s Scottish beauty, this time from a Maxell LN90. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1515 Registered: 10-2006 |
Miossec - On vient ŕ peine de commencer It took Mr Adams of this parish to point out to me how good the particular album is that this track kicks off, a suitable song for the start of the year perhaps: “Life’s passed by/And it’s as if we haven’t lived/Or maybe not enough/Not like we should have…/Can we still imagine/New horizons/Rivers to cross/Even rivers in flood/It's not over/We’ve just started out/It's not over/We can still turn things around…” There’s a slight possibility held out by Wordreference translations that the last phrase (“On peut encore se retourner”)can also be translated as “We can still look back…” which would give it a nicely ironic double meaning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8790 Registered: 05-2005 |
Juliana Hatfield - Trying Not To Think About It. A beautiful song from her Please Do Not Disturb EP from 1997. It's very Go-Betweensy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6PtIPc HB4 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1517 Registered: 10-2006 |
Even As We Speak - Bizarre Love Triangle | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8793 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dan Wilson - When It Pleases You. How I love horn-driven power pop songs. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1518 Registered: 10-2006 |
Miossec - Les chiens de paille I seem to be stuck in a groove between this guy and John Le Carre at the moment, I hope it doesn’t indicate a hardening of the arteries. But it was a shock, browsing my shelves and the net, to discover I’d somehow never got round to buying Finistériens, M’s collaboration with fellow Brestian Yann Tiersen. So I put that right and I’m glad I did because a lot of it is very fine indeed, especially this limpid piano ballad about work. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1265 Registered: 08-2004 |
The House Of Love - Love In A Car | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8798 Registered: 05-2005 |
Permanent Clear Light - Weary Moon. I should have said in the Last 20 records... thread where I also mentioned them, that there is also a strong psychedelic factor to their sound. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8803 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yello - Bostich. I've been searching for this song for 38 years without knowing what I was looking for. I heard it on the radio in 1980 when I was a kid without any means of owning it. And I remembered the chorus ever since. And this evening I heard it again on a BBC podcast and immediately thought, oh, my God, that's it, that's the song. Thankfully the podcast named it. Now if only I could find the other europop song I recall loving from the time. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1264 Registered: 04-2005 |
Daniel Darc et Bill Pritchard - Seras-tu encore lŕ ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8CifKb5 EfM | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 85 Registered: 03-2015 |
Shayne P. Carter -I Know Not Where I Stand. A perfect song for middle-aged male angst. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4053 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, great song. A little youtube listening tells me that Bill Pritchard is a definite avenue to explore! Daniel Darc not so much. "The Death of Bill Posters" on order. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1265 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Half A Million" was the one record of his I used to listen to a lot Randy. A sadly departed dear friend was on the same label as Bill Pritchard and went to play in Paris with him..1985 ? She said that he was a lovely man...and that he went on to become a French school teacher in Stoke-on-Trent. Still seems to making music...this is quite nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYG0Jw3v nh0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8804 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm finally playing the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever album. An Air Conditioned Man is the greatest Go-Betweens-like song not by The Go-Betweens I've heard in a very long time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4056 Registered: 03-2005 |
Because I mentioned it in my post on the last 20 records bought: Tony Colton -- I Stand Accused From 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFnq-d8D Igw |