| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8849 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Claim - Not So Simple Sharon Says. This is the kind of music that got me into indie pop in the first place, though I'm pretty sure I never hear of The Claim until reading about them on this board last week. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 426 Registered: 11-2007 |
A Certain Ratio - Houses In Motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc_7s3G_ IIc This is how cover versions should be! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8851 Registered: 05-2005 |
That’s brilliant. What a wonderful version. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1560 Registered: 10-2006 |
Edwyn Collins - It all makes sense to me This little ballad moved me the most on the first few listens of this often punchy album. He's been through the mill but he sounds great. From the Moray Firth to an old man's heart! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8852 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Light Years. They're back, with an affecting and brilliant single. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay [Alternative Take 2]. It's not as good as the originally released version, but it's still genius. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8860 Registered: 05-2005 |
Giuda - You've Got The Power | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8862 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - Hotel Womb | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8863 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joy Division - Atmosphere | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4124 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kenny Lynch -- Movin' Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IweVcgEE xKY Kenny Lynch put far too much energy into being a cheery entertainer type. But he was a good songwriter with an excellent meaty voice. He spent some time in the NYC Brill Building. I recently picked up an anthology of his 1960s recordings. Most of it falls short of what his talents could have achieved. "Movin' Away" is the class item in the bunch and I already had it on a various artists compilation but it rewards revival. It's a fine example of the usually-overlooked British soul sound of the 60s. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4125 Registered: 03-2005 |
And inspired by Padraig's tip of the hat to Otis Redding above, here's something on a DJ single that fell through the mail slot yesterday from the young man I propose as the true voice of England today. (Sorry, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTX1Hn7 Wxw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8866 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. - Roy’s Tune. This one could almost be a Go-Betweens song, if Grant and Robert were from working class Dublin rather than middle class Queensland. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4126 Registered: 03-2005 |
I agree Padraig. I'm watching Andreas' video link right now. Up until this number I was thinking "is Padraig on drugs? Maybe Fall from working class Dublin, but I sure don't hear any Go-Betweens!" And then this song arrived. Back to the video . . . . | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8869 Registered: 05-2005 |
Only cold and flu tablets, Randy. I watched some of Andreas's Rockpalast link and will watch the rest too. Fontaines D.C. - Boys In The Better Land ("a face like sin and heart like a James Joyce novel"). This isn't faux intelligence, it's for real. A friend of mine lectured one the Fontaines' guitarists in college. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8875 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Death Of A Party (12'' Death), from the Bustin' + Dronin' remix compilation. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1276 Registered: 08-2004 |
Randy, Kenny Lynch was a regular on TV in my youth. Turned up on variety and panel shows in the 70's & 80's. Always thought of him as a comedian rather than an all-rounder until I saw him as songwriter on some early Small Faces songs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4131 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jerry, I realize that Kenny Lynch built a pretty solidly uncool reputation in the U.K. doing crap which paid his bills. But besides the Small Faces songs--"Sorry, She's Mine" is a longtime favorite--he also co-wrote a batch of often very good songs with the Hollies' lead guitarist Tony Hicks in the early 70s. Here's one of them from 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUpes0he XJA Padraig, it's impossible to knock musicians who read books. Ireland seems like the most obvious country to spawn them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8877 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Blue Monday, on a sunny Sydney autumn Wednesday. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 430 Registered: 11-2007 |
nice video idea Jeremy Tuplin - Bad Lover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q3l2grb Y0g | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 431 Registered: 11-2007 |
This one is even better: L.A. Salami - Another Shade of Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d17b7ti yjA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8880 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Of These, Hope. I could have picked any track from the magnificent Passion, but this is the one playing right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8882 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julia Jacklin - Body, the incredibly moving opening track from her incredibly moving new album Crushing. I thought she was a major talent from the moment I first saw her live in Sydney in October 2016 (I also saw her three weeks later in London). With her second solo album she has lived up to that promise. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8887 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donny McCaslin - Club Kidd | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1287 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cate Le Bon - Home to You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xsu1q3 cAw | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 587 Registered: 08-2005 |
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express (off for a week in Marrakesh starting today!!) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1562 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pega Monstro - 'Estrada' Hmmm, some crunchy Portuguese girl pop-rock - goes a bit early Pink Floyd a little too soon for my liking, but still fairly cheap & cheerful stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJGzw44 -u4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8888 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, that sounds wonderful. Have a great trip. Let us know how it goes. (This is post number 8888 for me, by the way. I expect balloons shall descend as soon as I click 'Post this message.') | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8889 Registered: 05-2005 |
No balloons. Sad. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8892 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Taboo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8893 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Where The Action Is. As good a rock/soul crossover as I've heard in years. |