| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9074 Registered: 05-2005 |
The last SOTD of the 2010s - so I'm going to pick something from 1996. Pavement - Gangsters & Pranksters, the second song on side A of the Pacific Trim 7" EP. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1637 Registered: 10-2006 |
Opening up a bottle of Rioja, tucking into lasagne and tuning into BBC 6 Radio I have to say I really enjoyed… Liz Lawrence – USP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBiTAGQ3 P4M | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1221 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randolph's Leap - Christmas, Burn It All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3vv1Ep N_M&feature=youtu.be | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1222 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, Copy of 'Pity Party' ordered. There is one used copy of her debut album ( Bedroom Hero ) on sale on Amazon but I decided to pass as it is going for £154.47!!! Ordered a promo copy at a more reasonable price of €4.50 plus shipping from Discogs. It seems that she may have had some involvement with the Bombay Bicycle Club prior to going out on her own. The band are new to me but well worth checking out in my opinion. I particularly like the drummer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIsovBFB NYE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KIm-I9k pi4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cew-nhOS p14 ( pre Liz ) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1638 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, I often get a bit over-enthusiastic about stuff when I'm knocking back Rioja, Hugh, so I hope the whole album is good too! I also liked the determinedly unglamorous video. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1639 Registered: 10-2006 |
That drummer is indeed great! Excellent song, too. Nice to see that the guitarist is Ewan MacColl's grandson. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9077 Registered: 05-2005 |
Apex Manor - Asked & Answered | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1224 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, No need to worry as I checked out a few of her other YouTube videos before purchasing the two albums. I also ordered the entire Bombay Bicycle Club back catalogue even although I don't think she features on any of it. I did not pick up on the Ewan McColl connection so thank you for pointing it out. Lavandera - Submarinista https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQI5paZP tpM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4275 Registered: 03-2005 |
From DK 18. I finally heard from my seller, who only has a 13 transaction history on discogs. Whew! I look forward to getting my copy. Bombay Bicycle Club sound like a better version of the Wild Beasts. It's interesting that they got so much media support here in the States. The vocalist sounds Scottish. Am I right? Agreed about the drummer. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1225 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The band hail from Crouch End, London. Steadman, McColl and de Saram met aged 15 at University College School, Hampstead, with Nash joining the group sometime thereafter. McColl obviously has Scottish connections but I don't know if any of them are Scottish born. I have the entire Lavandera back catalogue on digital download and a CD copy of 'Hacia El Mar' on route from Discogs De Kirlian. I have burned the first three releases ( Lavandera I; Lavandera II and Lavandera III ) to CDR and it seems to work as a album. Eighteen tracks but the running time is still only 43 minutes 58 seconds. I love them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4276 Registered: 03-2005 |
Interesting Hugh. I would swear Steadman sounds Scottish, or conceivably Irish. Maybe his parents relocated once his accent was established? As you know I keep trying to get physical copies. For Lavandera I found a single "near mint" copy of DK 18. Postage from Spain unfortunately doubles the price of the disc but that's just the price of unobtainium. Jigsaw had a copy of "Hacia El Mar" so I'm good there. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1642 Registered: 10-2006 |
Martin Stephenson and the Daintees - Running Water Wow, a real Maxell LN90 flashback moment when this intro scampered out of the radio. I was sure it was the Stars of Heaven till the vocal kicked in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcxaL1a6 ptw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1643 Registered: 10-2006 |
Can't find much about Steadman's roots, but he does sound like a bloke after my own heart: “I don’t know why or when it happened but I just started to really like travelling as slow as possible, not being in a rush. Flying, you’re just going from A to B as quickly as possible; I just find it really boring… I just like to look out the window, listen to music, read a book… I prefer travelling alone. I can’t handle the diplomacy of travelling in a large group: Where’re we gonna eat tonight? What we’re gonna do today? It’s like, I’ve got my list of things I want to do today so I’d rather do that than have the company. (He should try going around with a big party of Italians one day…) If I have an afternoon free, I’ll go sit in a pub and read a book. I don’t see many bitters in the US. A bitter is flat, not cold. It sounds horrible but it’s delicious. It’s quite nutty and dark brown. Every pub in the UK will have a bitter. In the middle of winter there, there’s nothing more satisfying than a pint of bitter.” He talks about bitter rather than heavy, anyway. Reminded me of my first trip to Newcastle and the first night in the pub there when I absent-mindedly tried to order a pint of heavy. "Oh, we don't sell none of that stuff here, laddie." Took me a loooooooong time to get my pint. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1226 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, He recorded an album ( God First ) as Mr. Jukes back in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3ZapbP o-M | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4280 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, I don't hear any obvious accent on that song. Perhaps a hallucination on my part all along. Not really my musical thing but it's quite well done and I very much appreciate the move to real (non-digital) instruments that seems to be spreading around. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9082 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sufjan Stevens - Lonely Man Of Winter (Doveman Mix feat. Melissa Mary Ahern). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4283 Registered: 03-2005 |
Mighty Mighty -- Weather Girl Possibly (for me) the best song on Mighty Mighty's new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgzeahYu n7o And they even played it at the 100 Club gig I attended last June. It was essentially lost on me then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6ImhQo Z4Y | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 109 Registered: 03-2015 |
Stump - Buffalo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9085 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stunning - Heads (Are Gonna Roll) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5b6Q8lQ VZ0 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1645 Registered: 10-2006 |
Chris Staples - Walking With A Stranger Wow, that worked its way in faster than a splinter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wSu4n2j Eo4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bedbugs And Ballyhoo. A great, psychedelic pop song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1646 Registered: 10-2006 |
Patrick Watson - Adventures in Your Own Backyard A bit of a kitchen-sink thing musically, and his voice is almost too creamy for me, but this still sounded pretty great on Radio Fip this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD7Z0cmx QRc The wife preferred: The Leisure Society - The Sober Scent of Paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XoxcW7K kEA and she might just be right. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9091 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Christmas Time (It Sure Doesn't Feel Like It). One of my favourite ever Christmas songs. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1228 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, As someone who owns copies of all five album releases by The Leisure Society, I think your wife has impeccable taste. :-) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1647 Registered: 10-2006 |
Back to British radio for festive music and carol concerts and chirpy DJ backchat and so forth and those occasional, embarrassingly intense moments of seasonal nostalgia that burn up the back of the eye-sockets. Another Leisure Society song just played, Hugh, so something for me to investigate when the hols are over. Meanwhile: The Bees – Winter rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAImG6OP q0I | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1314 Registered: 04-2005 |
Big Thief - Not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIcVwH47 uxQ Another French radio discovery on a wet Sunday drive back. Love her voice and the song's focus, insistency and intensity. Not convinced by the guitar thrashout...seems to work better on this live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKmD6-pi K2A | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9096 Registered: 05-2005 |
Todd Snider - Talking Reality Television Blues. Thank you, Rob, for inspiring me to check this out. (I have a few Snider albums, but overlooked this one for whatever reason.) Downloads/streaming makes so much instantly accessible now. Although, not everything. Amazon music did not have The Feelies Time For A Witness when I had a hankering to hear it earlier without having to bother walking to the CD racks and hoping I'd find there in the Fs between Only Life and Here Before. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 454 Registered: 02-2007 |
Hugh and Stuart, The Sleeper from 2009 is one of my favourite albums. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9102 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fall – (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1230 Registered: 03-2007 |
David, It is an excellent album. Delighted to learn that there is another fan of the band on the board. The Popguns - Still A World Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMM_gP_i lys | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1972 Registered: 08-2006 |
Kim Gordon - "Air BnB" I've liked and loved various solo projects by former Sonic Youths Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo. But what I didn't know I missed was the anarchic spirit of Kim Gordon. On this track - and on pretty much all of her recent record - she gets closer to the Sonic Youth essence than any of them. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1648 Registered: 10-2006 |
Alain Bashung - Madame Reve Well, really nice to have this come on the radio over breakfast. Though it also raised the slightly gloomy thought that, growing older, I guess it will get less and less likely that there will be that thrilling moment when you realise that you have a previously unknown great artist’s whole oeuvre suddenly there before you to explore. Fingers crossed, though. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1649 Registered: 10-2006 |
Three other interest-sparking songs today: Minnie Riperton - Les fleur I don’t think I’ve heard much by her except the inevitable and exceptional Loving you, but this is a stunner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yB QZ4 Trolle & Siebenhaar – These streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfqKmZPt x_k Would I have guessed this was a Danish couple? Absolutely not. Ran Nir – Obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hK1kgv OIo Another new name to me with a work-pausing tune. Johnny Dee certainly got it right: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvan dradioblog/2009/may/18/fip-radio | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9104 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Moles - Moon In The Daytime | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1651 Registered: 10-2006 |
Alvvays - Party police |