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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9004 Registered: 05-2005 |
L.A. Salami - I Wear This Because Life Is War! This song really reminds me of something else, I think a 70s country song. Can anyone help me identity what tune Mr Salami is borrowing from? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4209 Registered: 03-2005 |
No idea Padraig, but since it's Salami figure his influence is Dylan. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1590 Registered: 10-2006 |
Silver Jews - New Orleans Actually, turned out there's nothing wrong with my copy of Starlite Walker, which also turns out to be the first SJ album, when Malkmus & Nastanovich were still on the scene. This is a sweet and creepy little song, "There's trouble in the hall & trouble up the stairs & trouble in the trouble that's troubling the air. Please don't say that my soul has died away." I suppose that while the VU were obviously a big influence on both this band and the GBs, while the latter took Lou's classic structures and melody as a model, the Jews tended instead to build on the weird, discordant guitar solos that either Reed or Morrison would slip in somewhere in the middle. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1175 Registered: 03-2007 |
Comet Gain - Mid 8Ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtHhO7UN SOk Track from their forthcoming album ( Fireraisers Forever ) which will be released by Tapete Records on 11th October, 2019. Padraig, Unable to help. Sorry. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1594 Registered: 10-2006 |
Silver Jews - Wild kindness Continuing my belated catch-up with Berman inquiry, as good a song, I think, as anyone might ever require. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1595 Registered: 10-2006 |
Silver Jews - My pillow is the threshold Lookout Mountain sounds like Berman's Lee Hazlewood album and I prefer him when his music is more "aslant" but it's certainly very listenable. This song has a fine lyric, you could imagine Robert penning some of its lines. Robert could also, I think, should he be in homaging mood on his next tour, do a fine version of the Wild Kindness song posted above. The guitar solo turns in on itself towards the end, Malkmus I suppose, and then runs robustly up the lower frets in a highly enjoyable way. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1596 Registered: 10-2006 |
Van Morrison – Dark night of the soul Well, he may not be producing the music of his life these days - what the hell, he's already been to the mountain and back - but he's certainly not in bathrobe and slippers yet, punching out albums at an extraordinary rate, his voice still gliding to places other, younger singers can only dream about. Here is a plush, understated band with that roseate, burnished yodel strolling effortlessly across, perhaps a little too chipper considering the subject matter, abandoning his off the cuff lyric for some easy, melodic scatting at the end. Too effortless, too easy, perhaps, but beautiful all the same. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9019 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sean O’Hagan & Cathal Coughlan - Candy Clock https://therecoup.com/2019/09/20/song-of -the-day-sean-ohagan-candy-clock/ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1298 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jackie Leven - "A Little Voice in Space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyjizaV WlQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4218 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you Andrew! An education for me. I next fished this out of youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMcwfZj QGY With David Thomas (formerly of Pere Ubu) no less. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 448 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jackie Leven is one of my all time heroes Wonderful music, wonderful entertaining records For a Start I can recommend: jackie leven - Deep in the Heart of Nowhere (better buy it on the german amazon site - is much cheaper) ...and fromhis former band Doll by Doll: - Remember - Gypsy Blood Saw him endless times | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 449 Registered: 11-2007 |
...wanted to say woderful entertaining concerts!a | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1597 Registered: 10-2006 |
I was always delighted how chunky the Jackie L sections were in German record shops! Favourite song, probably Classic Northern Diversionc. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4219 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for the input Andreas. In poking through youtube samples I find that I definitely prefer his ballads to his uptempo numbers (which tend to remind me too much of U.S. pop country, which I am really not keen on). And then in the middle of these two poles, there's something lovely like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naGQ70z2 Ahc I supposed I'll just have to dive in and be willing to cull the things that don't appeal but trust that right around the corner there's be another gem waiting for me. I am fascinated by this man's obviously lengthy and honored career and I'd never heard his name. Not ever. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1299 Registered: 04-2005 |
I actually know very little about the man's music. At the end of the 70s I remember a friend that raved about Doll by Doll, but I can't have been convinced at that period. I saw him once on stage, as part of a David Thomas show in Edinburgh. But I went mainly as Linda Thompson was appearing too. It was one of my strangest evenings of music ever ! Jackie Leven and Thompson were sitting on plastic chairs and when directed by Thomas got up to sing their parts. Thompson was visibly very uncomfortable about being there (not sure that she had been on a stage for years) and Thomas was not exactly tender with her. Andy Diagram played trumpet and someone else made lots of noises... I’ve been recently going through some CDs that belonged to my late father. Mainly jazz, but there are 2 Jackie Leven ones, one is with Iain Rankin which is perhaps why he bought them (my dad was a big Rebus fan). There is an interesting Scottish Television programme here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYvbxEO f0c The story about losing his voice as a result of a mugging is horrific. He seems to have been so prolific. A friend gave me “The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than The Mystery of Death” which I like a lot. Sometimes his music can be a little “bombastic” for me (or maybe it is just the production ?), but his voice is a beautiful thing. In the documentary he speaks about “cadence” and “Single Father” is a wonderful example of that. Every word seems perfectly formed and there is a natural rhythm to his singing that is simply lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj82D4mr mIg | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 450 Registered: 11-2007 |
Doll by Doll - Stripshow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqjS_wv byA How he could sing.... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1598 Registered: 10-2006 |
Courtney Barnett - Dawned on me | ||
| david Unregistered guest |
hi re Jackie Leven. One of my all time heros - Like Andreas saw him many times - most entertaining artist ive ever seen. Beautiful percussive guitar playing, lovely singing, very droll and entertaining stories. I prefer his slower numbers too Desolation Blues sad polish song Poortoun the sexual loneliness of Jesus christ of top of my head. Such a loss | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9020 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan - Im Long Mé Measaim. From 1989, his first ever solo release, only available on flexidisc. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9021 Registered: 05-2005 |
The New Pornographers - Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1601 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nashville Ramblers - the Trains | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1603 Registered: 10-2006 |
Is that just one of those stone cold classic songs that everyone already knows about and it took me all this time to discover?? Well, better late than never. Absolutely breathtaking. If that was their one golden moment, then the Holy Spirit really did descend to touch their forelocks. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1604 Registered: 10-2006 |
A little bit of info: http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2015 /07/the-nashville-ramblers-trains-7-rec. html The kind of song that deserves a film to itself. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9024 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m fairly sure I’ve mentioned that song here before, Stuart. It is a classic, but a very obscure one. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9025 Registered: 05-2005 |
The song is here, for those who haven’t heard it and are cur. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNvPLwl9e w | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9026 Registered: 05-2005 |
Curious, not cur. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1606 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm sure folk here know it. But I didn't, and I'm glad I do! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4227 Registered: 03-2005 |
A link always helps Padraig, thanks. Some of us are too slothful to investigate a reference without first getting a listen. Interesting stuff about The Nashville Ramblers. I never heard of them either but with only three recorded songs to their name that's not too surprising. I do recognize Bomp Records though. That was a label created by Greg Shaw, an American 60s revivalist who published a fanzine in the 70s called "Who Put the Bomp." I followed him in the early 70s. While it's too many years to remember now, I'm sure Greg Shaw drew my attention to a few 60s things I might not have otherwise heard but really it was overwhelmingly the results of my Woolworths cut-out record-buying best friend who uncovered most of the great obscure music that I was listening to in the pre-punk 1970s. "The Train" is a very nice piece of work, though I'll bet I would have rejected it in 1986 for being too slavishly 60s-modeled. Thirty years on that objection can't possibly survive, but that was my issue with some of Greg Shaw's championed artists: they pretended as if nothing of merit had happened since about 1968 or even 1966. All I wanted was for people to ignore what the 60s people pretending to be 70s people (Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band and seemingly everyone else on the radio 1971-1975) were doing. Bomp Records also released the post-Roy Loney Flamin' Groovies single "You Tore Me Down" before Sire took up the option on their album "Shake Some Action." That was 10 or 11 years before "The Train." Today, an anthology of Bomp Records releases would almost certainly be a nice thing indeed. A little sad that the b-side was just a cover, even if it was a cover of a Golliwogs song. What you hope for, of course, is another original gem. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4228 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sorry, "The Trains" plural. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1301 Registered: 04-2005 |
Eddie and the Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do RIP Barrie Masters | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1302 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Who - Baba O'Reilly Did Boris Johnson really come on stage at the Tory party conference to that song ? How I despise these people. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1303 Registered: 04-2005 |
Richard Thompson - Beeswing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKEMZW8 VmE The great man is 70 apparently https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/s ep/30/richard-thompson-at-70-on-love-los s-and-being-a-muslim-in-trump-us I can remember hearing this song for the first time at a solo performance in the Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Fringe. A beautiful song and I think that I wiped tears away at the end. Thompson apologised that he couldn't play longer as there was a Peruvian mime troupe due to come on in the hall after him. Christine Collister had sung with him that evening and Thompson invited the audience to her (and Clive Gregson's) gig later that night. Most of the audience turned up the Hoochie Coochie club and shouted out requests. Think we were there until about 3 in the morning ! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4229 Registered: 03-2005 |
Does this mean you're in Scotland right now Andrew? Thanks for the song link. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1304 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi Randy ! No, that Thompson gig was at the end of the 80s perhaps ? Haven't been back to the auld homeland since the Robert Forster gig in May. Off to Australia next month for 3 weeks ! Maybe a pilgrimage to the Go-Between Bridge in Brisbane ? Song of the Day Another Richard Thompson composition... Fairport Convention - Genesis Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=751BQN8A Smk I'm sure that I read somewhere that this one was of his first ever compositions. If so it shows an amazing maturity. It is incredible to think that in the space of just one year (1969), the band put out 3 great albums...and especially with their awful accident and the loss of Martin Lamble. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1608 Registered: 10-2006 |
I saw RT in the exact same place, Andrew, though on another occasion. I'd never seen a great musician up close before and it was just mesmerising. And even back then he had such a rich hoard of songs to draw on, I only knew a few of them. And yet I'm pretty sure he finished with the same joke about the Peruvian mime troupe! The biggest laugh of the evening came halfway through, though, when a young American guy called out, "Hey, you're great, man! Have you recorded anything?" Richard bowed his head modestly and said, "Well, if you pop down to Woolworth's, I think you'll find some examples of my oeuvre in the record bins there..." Devonside is probably my all-time favourite of his songs, though I have the impression that he rarely plays it live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp_YIR- ipA | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1609 Registered: 10-2006 |
Anyway, have a great trip! I hope to do the same thing myself over the next couple of years, all being well. Are you concentrating on one area or doing the whole thing or what? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1610 Registered: 10-2006 |
Tracyanne & Danny - Home & Dry This is rather lovely. Recorded in the new Edwyn Collins studio up north (Clashnarrow in Helmsdale! Just the name is a poem!) Tracyanne is the voice from Camera Obscura, a Scots band I don’t know, while Danny, the Guardian tells me, is “Danny Coughlan, the Bristol-based singer-songwriter known as Crybaby”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8ukGIq Twc&fbclid=IwAR2x8WxBf3qRsdIK8hWt549se4k ttIxmbjyTJ62sjAApi5SS1G1Fb7W-ScY Youtube was then algorithmically astute enough to segue this into Sun Kil Moon’s gorgeous Carry Me, Ohio, which worked perfectly. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1305 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes that is indeed lovely ! Cheers Stuart. To answer your question about the trip, it is more to see friends than to do visiting and touristy things. I'm sure that we'll see a fair bit of Melbourne and Brisbane and there are couple of overnights stays in national parks already organised for us. |