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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8923 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Ocean Party - Off And On | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1567 Registered: 10-2006 |
Van Morrison – Give me my rapture A VM song you’d hardly notice in the general run of things, but skipping out of the speaker in the bar this morning as the wettest spring since around 1845 finally turns airy and warm and balmy, it sounded perfect. Fiachra Trench making that organ dance. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4159 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeez Stuart maybe you should have visited Spain where it was a blast furnace until I boarded the plane to London. It was 99 in Seville on Monday. London doesn’t disappoint; overcast and even some drizzle yesterday. Paradise. I realize most of the folks on here can’t relate but we in LA get weary of sunny weather day after day after day after day . . . . (In fairness, this was one of our mildest springs ever, but Spain!) Aside from the heat, Madrid was a great city. Beautiful and friendly and pretty people. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1568 Registered: 10-2006 |
I've only been in Madrid once, Randy, and the heat flayed me alive. I'd never felt so far from the sea before. My most vivid memory, apart from Guernica, is of a rather elegant waiter thrashing a guy repeatedly over the head with a barstool. Blood flew everywhere. Also being offered heroin as soon as I stepped out of my friend's flat. "He's Scottish," she explained, and they all shrugged and loped away; so Trainspotting can't have been out yet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8925 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don McLean - Mounains O’Mourne, which I heard through Qantas’s entertainment system on a flight from Sydney to Auckland today. It made me very nostalgic for my homeland. It’s a beautiful, minimal version, even if he does slightly tweak the lyrics, and the title. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZIKSm78k 8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8928 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees - The Door Into Summer. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4161 Registered: 03-2005 |
Good choice Padraig. My song for the day is "Dispatches from Lula" by Animals That Swim. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8929 Registered: 05-2005 |
They played it last night, Randy. I just couldn’t remember the title when I was listing some of what they played in the gigs thread. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8934 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Nile - Heatwave (Rhythm Mix) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1569 Registered: 10-2006 |
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra – Sandy My favourite brassy Swedish astral-jazz collective (well, my only brassy Swedish etc etc) going to town on Canadian songwriter Daniel Snaith’s 2007 sunny original. Dripping stalactites, tripped over bones, small squeaking things and other weird cavernous noises are gradually swamped in fierce drumming and massive tuneful rays of light. Perfect windows-wide-open summer listening. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8936 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sufjan Stevens - Lonely Man Of Winter (Doveman Mix feat. Melissa Mary Ahern). A glorious orch pop song from late last year. Sounding even better in the southern winter. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 594 Registered: 08-2005 |
David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer Hadn't heard this for years and came across it again recently. Lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VDS8uAr R0A | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4168 Registered: 03-2005 |
Simon! I had never heard the David McWilliams original but blundered onto a cover version by Italian singer Caterina Caselli. And I knew that somewhere I'd heard the song before. It drove me crazy. Finally I traced it to Marc Almond whose version I have on his Tenement Symphony album. Not really being a Marc Almond fan I hadn't heard it in more than a quarter century. Ms. Caselli's version, which I consider quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCoajBY kRo The song lends itself well to Italo-melodrama. But of course the McWilliams original is the brilliant one, yet another great record that simply never happened in at least my part of the States. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4169 Registered: 03-2005 |
Youtube pitched up Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" following "Days of Pearly Spencer" which reminded me of what will be MY song of the day: the cover version of "In the Year 2525" done by Visage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlZmO3S cvg If there's ANY song that cried out for a synthpop cover . . . . | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1165 Registered: 03-2007 |
I have just added The Best Of The EMI Years by David McWilliams to an SD Card for use in my car. It is disappointing that the vast majority of his early albums have never been made available on CD. He wrote a lot of goods songs in addition to The Days Of Pearly Spencer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWeGtwd II8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXoOG7Ud SMI | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4170 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, is there a reason you opted against the two RPM anthologies? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1166 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I loved his early material and always hoped that it would be released on CD but I cannot see it happening now. I purchased The Best Of The EMI Years on or about its release date ( 1992 ) which is well before the RPM releases ( 2001 and 2003.) I like the fact that it covers a particular period in time rather than being a career overview. He released three albums on Dawn Records between 1972 and 1974 but only one ( Lord Offaly ) is available on CD. I would love to see the albums he released on the Major Minor label in 1967 released individually or as a box set. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4173 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, I was wondering if it was a decision based on sound quality. At least EMI should know where to look for its own masters! For me of course David McWilliams is a new thing so I am starting from scratch. I decided to get the two RPM collections and the "Day of Dawn" collection which seems to pull together everything he did with Dawn records. I listened to "The Gypsy" from the "Lord Offaly" album and it sounded like I should just mop up all that stuff too. Castle Records, who put together the Dawn Records anthology, did a lot of Pye Records anthologies and the sound was always decent. The EMI collection appears to be a little pricey at the moment. Irritatingly it has a few songs that are not on any of the collections I've ordered. I have had disappointing results with France's Magic Records reissues--really bad sound--so I am steering clear of their album reissues. It's frustrating because they sometimes put their hands on things nobody else has. But they just don't have the quality of, say, New Rose. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1572 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bruce Springsteen – There goes my miracle. “One of the very worst songs he’s ever written,” snapped one review, but I can’t get the damn thing out of my head, especially with the wife trilling heartily along with it from the kitchen. It’s particularly moving if it really was written for Obama and you picture that cool languid swagger into the distance to, with Punch-like suddenness, be replaced by… | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8941 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men (Swedish garage rock supergroup, not the US post punkers) - Out On The Floor. Possibly the greatest song ever written about getting your lad out on the dance floor. I can't find a link for it, you'll just have to take my word. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint. Awesome 1980s hip hop I discovered through the Beastie Boys book and have just downloaded from iTunes. Just 20 years ago if you read a recommendation in a book for a fairly obscure song from 1980, you would have had almost no chance of ever hearing it. Going back a little further, I was aware of Lee Remick for a very long time before I heard it. In fact, the first time I heard it was the cover by The Wannadies. Funky 4 + 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVxk9PW6 2Vk The Go-Betweens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p9lNUHM _pc The Wannadies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvjh5IAf Zbs | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4177 Registered: 03-2005 |
L.A. Salami -- Generation L(ost). In a fair world this song would be this or last year's international youth anthem. Lookman Salami's own peculiar circumstances equip him better than just about anyone to speak for his entire age cohort. While born in immigrant-heavy Peckham in south London he was raised primarily by foster parents in the 98% white Tory territory of Broadstairs in a county (Kent) where UKIP had more supporters than did Labour! He is a native-born Englishman with Nigerian bloodlines and elocution blending Tory plummy tones with urban hipster. He might be as L(ost) as anybody could possibly be were it not for his extraordinary self-possession. He and his backing band rely upon an anti-arrangement of strummy guitar turned up loud with no pedal effects with the one whimsical indulgence of a triangle in the choruses. And the song just rips. Andrew, I really owe you for turning over the stone named "Jean is Gone" to uncover this grossly underrated man's work. His lyric writing is more insightful than anybody else's, his apparent personality and influences are fascinating and after all of that he can still craft a tune! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTew8gDS 4BA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8945 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1294 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi Randy, It's all down to France Inter ! I think my partner had the radio playing downstairs and I could vaguely hear the song. I was intrigued enough to go down the stairs to listen...I need to check out some more. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1167 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Pooches - Heart Attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v74Zujfc Hpc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4179 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, is this the same station Stuart mentions now and then? I have to get off my deeply ingrained aversion to radio--internet or otherwise. I have long associated radio with right wing pundits and narrow playlists that seemingly never change, all created by people with incompatible musical tastes. When I bought my car back in 2011 it came with satellite radio. I promptly attached my iPod and never listened to any of the satellite channels even once. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1574 Registered: 10-2006 |
Mine was Radio Fip, which is apparently a sister station of France Inter; unfortunately, since my wife changed all the bedroom furniture, there is no surface left for my nifty little internet radio set and I haven't been able to listen in for a while. But it was very varied and always threw up something interesting. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1296 Registered: 04-2005 |
https://www.franceinter.fr/ Sunday evening I listened to half of the Dominique A programme (https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le- grand-atelier/le-grand-atelier-01-juille t-2019) followed by the first part of their summer series on Bashung (https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/bas hung-de-l-aube-a-l-aube/bashung-de-l-aub e-a-l-aube-29-juin-2019) Lots on replay to listen to, but obviously no subtitles available  |