| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9084 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stroppies - The Stroppies. Seven song mini-album from a couple of years ago. They're from Melbourne, and boy do they sound it. As Flying Nun-sounding as only Melbourne bands do much anymore. I'm sure they've been mentioned here before, maybe by me, or Hugh or Randy. https://thestroppies.bandcamp.com/album/ the-stroppies | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 452 Registered: 02-2007 |
Peter Yorn - musicforthemorningafter | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9086 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great album, David. I saw him live a couple of times. First in Austin at SXSW 2001, just before musicforthemorningafter came out, then later that year in Dublin. Both great shows. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1227 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I have the mini album and their full album. Saw them perform live at the Hug & Pint, Glasgow, earlier this year and they were excellent. Currently listening to :- Toothless - Palm's Backside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAg1SAF jTY or the live acoustic version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66VecyX FzI Toothless is Ed Nash of the Bombay Bicycle Club. Liz Lawrence features on one of the tracks. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 453 Registered: 02-2007 |
Im interested to hear more from him Padraig. Only just discovered this album in a discount bin and was curious, the album cover caught my eye ha. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9087 Registered: 05-2005 |
You got the best one, David. Nothing by him since has been as good (well, nothing I’ve heard anyway, but I’ve bought some of it and heard most of it). Arranging Time from 2016 is the best of the rest that I’ve heard. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9088 Registered: 05-2005 |
Young Guv - GUV I. On this, and the follow up GUV II, both of which came out this year, I can name the Teenage Fanclub/Big Star/Byrds/Stone Roses/Matthew Sweet song he (Ben Cook is Young Guv) is ripping off on almost every track. And yet, it's great. He tweaks everything just enough that it transcends pastiche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUlrwhE Xho | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4286 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kaveh Kanes -- Loanwords Dream pop from Indonesia. Gorgeous, listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOoJTb6w 3JI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAdaanje DHQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9092 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Echo & The Bunnymen. I played this for the first time in probably a quarter century or more earlier today. It doesn’t get much love in their canon, but I really like it as it was the first Bunnymen album I bought. I got it when it came out, or shortly after. Having not heard it in decades, I’m happy to hear it sounds even better than I remembered. I can now hear sounds I didn’t notice at the time, like how 1960s-psychedelic sounding it is. Not quite a lost classic, but very, very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9093 Registered: 05-2005 |
I buy a lot of albums from bargain bins and sometimes by the time I play them I can't even remember getting them. So it is with Tara Simmons's It's Not Like We're Trying To Move Mountains. I'm listening now and it's mostly synth-based pop songs. Not generally a genre I listen to much, but these songs are great. Only the thanks to a Brisbane radio station give away that she's Australian. So I googled her to see who exactly I'm listening to. And I discovered she died from breast Cancer, aged 34, last January. https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/beloved-b risbane-indie-pop-artist-tara-simmons-ha s-passed-away/ Sometimes a 99c (or whatever it was) bargain bin find turns out to be a gem. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9098 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to 75 Dollar Bill's I Was Real. Again, I'm tipping my hat to Rob for introducing me to another band I'd never heard of. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9099 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just listened to a brilliant power pop compilation called Come On Let’s Go, which I bought yesterday in Red Eye. I had just read the review in either Mojo or Uncut a couple of days before that. That’s the value of both the magazine letting me know the album exists and the record shop stocking it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9100 Registered: 05-2005 |
The dB’s & Friends - Christmas Time Again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Christmas Rules, a superb compilation from 2012. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1229 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Perfect English Weather - Don't You Wanna Feel The Rain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDueUmlS s-k Based in Brighton ( or Hove ) in the U.K., the members of the band are / were also in The Popguns | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4287 Registered: 03-2005 |
Drug Train -- same title Apparently from Montreal. Definitely not for everybody. A cold wave, post punk sort of thing. I love the unusual liberal use of saxophone. What would have been Side One of the album is pretty strong, Side Two much less so though it ends well. They have two newer albums but Beko releases are very low volume and I haven't sourced them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Aa0sR0 LrE Hugh, I was just looking into the Popguns yesterday, trying to decide whether to go down that road. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4288 Registered: 03-2005 |
Gorgeous song by the way. I see Jigsaw has it. That'll give me a pretext to order a couple other things Jigsaw has on offer. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1231 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I only have digital downloads of the first two album releases by The Popguns ( Eugenie; Snog ) as used CD copies are difficult and/or pricey to acquire. Love Junky was originally released in 1995. If you decide to go for it then look for the 2015 re-release as it includes eight additional tracks ( singles; b-sides ) recorded around the same time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9107 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Cat Recording Co.- Bismillah. This is something very new to me - an Indian indie band. I heard one track on an Uncut magazine CD (got the CD months ago but just played it today) and loved it and got the album. I'm pretty sure I had never before heard music from India that wasn't Bollywood, classical or a soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961LpbX4 zCU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1232 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Popguns - Sugar Kisses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZx21xlm 8oo The band released albums in 1991 and 1995 after which they disbanded. Got back together in 2014 and have since released two new albums ( Pop Fiction; Sugar Kisses.) Sad that they were away for so long but great to have them back. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1233 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Church Grims - Seen It All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYsaLg2j XLc From Paisley, Scotland. Firestation Records are releasing their Singles and Arches Sessions next month. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4293 Registered: 03-2005 |
That sounds really great Hugh. You obviously have an inside track to Uwe at Firestation because the website doesn't mention this at all. Padraig, interesting track from India. I have come across three different bands doing good, or at least decent, indiepop in Indonesia. It seems obvious that gigantic India must be a source for a lot more. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1234 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, No such luck. The information comes from their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/firestationreco rds I have a couple of CDRs by the band that were released by Egg Records back in 2003 / 2004. I am hoping the Firestation Records release collects together everything they recorded back in the day. Another nice track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gktoIKRZ 4_M&list=PL0ZnNRlSpnNmgDr27DHkNkXySIWB4V aR2&index=7 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9110 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Undertones - The Complete As and Bs. Every track they ever released on 7", and one that was only on a 12". Even most of their b-sides were great. Fine sleeve notes by Michael Bradley, too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9111 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got the name wrong, it's The Undertones ‎– True Confessions (Singles=A’s+B’s) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9112 Registered: 05-2005 |
And cutting and pasting let me down above. One last try: The Undertones – True Confessions (Singles=A’s+B’s) | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 128 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can’t find any mention of it on this site but The Perfect English Weather’s first EP contains a great cover of Dusty In Here. There was also a live clip on YouTube with their daughter singing along with her mother. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9114 Registered: 05-2005 |
(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes.. A brilliant live album with a very odd title. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1235 Registered: 03-2007 |
Burgers, It is indeed a very good cover. Only one remaining copy of the English Winter EP by The Perfect English Weather on Bandcamp. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff Whalen - 10 More Rock Super Hits | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 129 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did you already know about it, Hugh? I think quite a lot of Go-Betweens stuff gets lost under off-topic. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1237 Registered: 03-2007 |
Burgers, Although I have been aware of The Popguns for some considerable time, I only came across The Perfect English Weather very recently and I learned of the cover version when I purchased their back catalogue ( two albums; two EPs. ) I had not seen the live clip of Simon, Wendy and their daughter on YouTube. I had to search for that but I found it eventually. Thank you for mentioning it. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 464 Registered: 11-2007 |
...and here is the link to the youtube video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIpP2nH n8Q The song is not on their ep, what is a pity | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1238 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andreas, 'Still' is the lead track on the English Winter EP. Anna Pickles sings background vocals on it and 'Dusty In Here.' The track features a drummer but is otherwise very similar to the live version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9S3MmbI efc | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 131 Registered: 05-2005 |
The clip I was referring to was the three of them playing Dusty In Here live in front of a small audience. I can’t find it now. It may have been removed. I’m not certain it was on YouTube. It may have been posted on here previously but I can’t find it via search. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1239 Registered: 03-2007 |
Burgers, That's what I thought you meant. I searched YouTube but could not find it so either it was posted elsewhere or it has been taken down. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4297 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, I finally got around to listening to the version of "Dusty in Here." It's certainly not some honorary cover version. It's beautiful, sensitively done and really demonstrates the timeless power of the song. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1240 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Just Joans - The Private Memoirs And Confession Of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAa6g_p AiI&list=OLAK5uy_mFjI-FWH__bxUHNbNok_5iu WxJlNJ8maE&index=1 New album released later this month. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9120 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheap Trick - In Color (Steve Albini mix). Rerecorded by the band with Albini engineering in 1998, but never released. It should have been. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1660 Registered: 10-2006 |
Liz Lawrence – Pity party Trying but failing to put my finger on exactly what it is about Liz Lawrence’s voice that I especially like. Warmth, clarity, a suggestion of understated character, something anyway. This is a short album, just over 32 minutes, and nothing really matches up to the fiercely addictive groove of USP, but on the other hand nothing wears out its welcome either and it’s easy to metaphorically pop it back on again. Brisk and beaty. The next one could be a real cracker. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9123 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luke Howard - The Sand That Ate The Sea. Minimalist classical music from an Australian composer. It's his love letter to Australia's delicate eco-system, which came out just before the bushfires started last October. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1242 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I like this track. It was apparently released as a single and does not appear on any of her two albums. She is a talent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9jy13C oXM | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1243 Registered: 03-2007 |
Maison Neuve - Vivi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-pdVH- HEI New release by a French band who are based in Paris. Vinyl and digital download only via Bandcamp. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1244 Registered: 03-2007 |
Salem 66 - 1983 to 1987 ( Your Life Is Mine, Fork It Over ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7Guq4E oRM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9133 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - Mind Hive. My review of it is here if you want to read it (of course you do) https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/enter tainment/music/albums-of-the-week-from-p et-shop-boys-to-twin-atlantic-38890219.h tml | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1247 Registered: 03-2007 |
Capitán Sunrise – Ventajas De Vivir En Un Árbol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKuPN07 VY8 One of their two releases on the Discos De Kirlian label. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - Never Not Together | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9140 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Love. It's been ages since I listened to this. It's still a stunning mix of so many Beatles songs, and a lot of fun trying to figure out which bits of other songs are used to replace/enhance elements of the track you're listening to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - Never Not Together. I've reviewed it here https://www.irishnews.com/arts/2020/02/0 7/news/album-reviews-louis-tomlinson-nad a-surf-green-day-and-meghan-trainor-1834 680/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4318 Registered: 03-2005 |
Neleonard -- Las Causas Perdidas As Hugh and I have been finding there is a seemingly inexhaustible supply of excellent records being made in Spain. This one dates from 2016. There is a newer 2018 album which I will be getting as well as a 10inch vinyl mini-album from 2014. I'll probably spring for that as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_223Z40 icE | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1249 Registered: 03-2007 |
Nice find Randy. Both albums ordered and a digital copy of the mini album purchased and downloaded from Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXEBhoY frY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midnight Oil - Earth And Sun And Moon. An album that doesn’t get much love even from the band itself (judging by how few of its tracks appear on compilations or get played live), but which has some great songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9157 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Real Thing - The Real Thing. I'd entirely forgotten this soul/R&B/disco band's existence until reading a recent article about them on the BBC website http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/2020021 1-the-real-thing-liverpools-alternative- fab-four. Given this album came out in 1976, I was very young when I heard the singles off it - You To Me Are Everything and Can't Get By Without You - on the radio, but I still remember them. They were from Liverpool and I don't know if they ever made much of an impact in the US, but I suspect Randy remembers them anyway. Hugh too, though it may not have been your cup of tea. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9158 Registered: 05-2005 |
There's a review of the new film about them and the trailer here https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ja n/22/everything-the-real-thing-story-bri tish-soul-review | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4321 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the super interesting link Pádraig. No, I've never heard of them! That's not so surprising though. By 1976 I was moving far away from anything on the radio, if The Real Thing even made it to the radio in central California. As I've written enough times, including recently on the Song of the Day thread, I really didn't like 1970s music aesthetics. The Real Thing at least seem to have escaped disco but their music appears to have the really glossy, swirling strings sort of thing going that personally I can't get enthused about. The closest I get is probably the second phase of Jimmy James, and I have to cull his stuff. For soul or R&B, my platonic ideal in the mid-70s was Ann Peebles. She never stopped putting a bit of that salty Southern feel in her music regardless of fashion. Here she is in the impossible year of 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDHYr7H zkc Even on this Peebles record, the strings have gone all whirly/swirly and the tempo has dumbed down for the two-digit IQ sorts who needed a disco beat to figure out how to move their bodies, but at least you have that sexy rock solid rhythm section driving it and Peebles' laconic essence and delivery. There are still hints that this record originates from below the Mason-Dixon Line. Many other similar artists literally ceased to make records during the period and Peebles would disappear for 11 years after her final album on Hi Records in 1978. For my soul or R&B fix I turned my gaze to reggae--especially the almost churchy sounding Toots & the Maytals--and to the already obsolete sound of rock steady. Today, I'd probably find that with some culling the P-Funk and related music that I overlooked back then was a place to go, but I already had my prejudice against super popular music even back then so reggae was where I went. Reggae was definitely a niche interest in California in the mid-70s. But notwithstanding all of that stuff above, I am always totally fascinated by the British soul scene! It was nearly completely overlooked here in the States. And I'm interested in the parallel British version of the black experience. The most sobering parts of the David Kynaston books I recently finished about the UK from 1945 to 1962 recount the waves of racism and xenophobia that overran the country from time to time from the original Empire Windrush influx forward. AND I've loved Colin MacInnes' London books since first reading them decades ago. "To Sir With Love" was one of my favorite movies as a kid! So this story and the corresponding film sounds really interesting. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4323 Registered: 03-2005 |
Well, Pádraig, you proved to be more correct than I thought. I DO have a tiny handful of things by Eddie Amoo's first group The Chants. Here's a great stomping Wigan-style soul number from 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZLWfgi uwU I lap up stuff like this like a cat and milk. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9161 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad to help you get reacquainted, Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9168 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midnight Oil - The Green Disc, a 1990 promo-only release with great alternative versions of some songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9169 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dinah Brand - Thank You Driver. A Dublin band with deep history in Irish independent music going back to 1983 in the case of one member and the early 90s for another. I used to know both of these guys back in the day. Check it out here https://dinahbrand.bandcamp.com | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9177 Registered: 05-2005 |
Key Out - What (Do) You See. A new (to me, anyway) Australian band. I just discovered their existence today when I saw this album in Red Eye https://keyout.bandcamp.com/album/what-d o-you-see | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4331 Registered: 03-2005 |
Grushenka -- La Insoportable Levedad del Ser Translate it Stuart. Bookish Uni students pick up instruments in Spain. From 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBSZxSsJ nC4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool https://nicklowe.bandcamp.com/album/jesu s-of-cool-reissue | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1292 Registered: 08-2004 |
Exile On Main Street. Which I havent't listened to for over 2 1/2 years according to stats. :Actually thought it was longer. Also surprised to learn I still have the extras from the deluxe edition. Which were/are almost entirely rubbish outtakes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9185 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pat Dinizio - Pat Dinizio/Buddy Holly, an album of Pat Dinizio singing Buddy Holly songs. And it's great. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1295 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home OST Officially part of the Bootleg Series, I really enjoyed this back when it came out. For a start I've cooled a bit on the Dylan love. So now all these really sound like are a bunch of inferior outttakes + demos and live stuff. The raiding of the Prince vaults as they shall be known will be bigger than The Basement Tapes x 1000. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1685 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nadine Shah being interviewed on the radio this morning. I do hope the Geordie accent has made it on to the UNESCO World Heritage List. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 467 Registered: 11-2007 |
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Long time not heard by me | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1255 Registered: 03-2007 |
Close Lobsters - Post Neo Anti Arte Povera In The Forrest Symbols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Ou2sGP pOI Scottish band who disbanded in the late 1980s after releasing a collections of singles, eps and two albums are back with a new album and it is a good one. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 469 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just ordered the new Stroppies album incl secret 7“ from their bandcamp site that will be released may 1st! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1258 Registered: 03-2007 |
Säkert! – Facit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dpn1MlX 8GU Andreas, I am holding off on the new album by The Stroppies for now in the hope that it receives a CD release. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9200 Registered: 05-2005 |
The City Remains, the self-titled debut by two Irish guys, Paul McAllister and Liam Kirkpatrick. Liam has been an occasional poster here. They are both quite obviously influenced by The Go-Betweens. The album isn't out for a couple of weeks, but you can listen to one song here http://thecityremains.bandcamp.com I didn't really like the available song the first time I played it, but was then very surprised how familiar, and how good, it sounded when I played it again a week later. The rest of the album is in a similar vein, and it's all good, some of it very good. The title track, in particular, is a future classic if there is any justice. It reminds me of the kind of hyper-personal songwriting their fellow Dubliner Seán Millar excels in. I should point out that I don't know these guys and have never met them. But they were kind enough to let me have a preview as I had once (a very long time ago) helped Liam find a very obscure track - something I had entirely forgotten about until I got an email out of the blue from Paul. The album also reminds me of another Irish record, Cane141's Scene From 6am, which came out in 1998. This is high praise from me, by the way. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 616 Registered: 08-2005 |
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar - a Radio 4 comedy that's equal part political anger, outraged bile and side-splitting comedy. It may not be for everybody but it makes me laugh out loud even when I'm listening to it on my own. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9201 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sounds good, Simon. I will see if I can find it online. Might be geoblocked though. I'm listening to the preorder tracks from Hiding From The Landlord, a new compilation of Nun Attax/Five Go Down To The Sea?/Beethoven tracks. To me, this is a genius slice of Irish avant rock and avant pop. To others, it will be just noise. Randy, you may like it. Have a listen here https://nunfivebeethoven.bandcamp.com The bands are centred around the late, great Finbarr Donnelly and emerged from the same Cork/London scene that sprouted Microdisney and Stump. Nun.../Five.../Beethoven all have more in common with Stump than Microdisney, though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9202 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now I'm listening to Into The Green by François Ribac & Eva Schwabe, an album I discovered entirely by accident today when searching for Cathal Coughlan songs. He sings on eight songs on this almost prog rock album. It's all quite odd, but I'm just happy to discover more Cathal Coughlan songs exist than I previously knew of. https://ribac-and-schwabe.bandcamp.com/a lbum/into-the-green-musea-gazul-2017 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1259 Registered: 03-2007 |
Annika Norlin / Hello Saferide / Sakert! - Anna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtuYjjh yRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61KNkZpH Dd4 Such a stunning and artist. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1696 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Hugh! beautiful song, very moving. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1699 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pretty things - S F Sorrow Never heard much by the PTs, so I was quite curious when I saw this in the Fbook Top Ten of a friend's friend, standing out amidst a very tasteful bunch of the usual suspects, so I picked it up in FOPP, just got round to playing it today, and, my goodness, it was a like a crazed flock of rainbow-drenched seagulls crashing into the room. What a glorious piece of work, the kind of thing I guess all those skinny young tykes from Laguna Beach and Perth WA are trying to emulate nowadays. Norman Smith bringing along his special bag of tricks from the Beatles and the Floyd. A real treat for the old ears, anyway. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1260 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Church Grims - Yankee Mags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED8Qwn8r Y4c Scottish band who were around in the late 1980s. New retrospective to be released by Firestation Records of Germany on 27th March, 2020. Seventeen tracks in total. The version of the song above is from 'Plaster Saints: The Church Grims Basement Tapes 1987 - 1988' which was released by Egg Records in 2003. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9216 Registered: 05-2005 |
Billy Bragg - Between The Wars EP; 35 years on it’s still a stunning record. Four protest songs in 10 minutes. It got to number 15 in the UK singles chart. It’s hard to imagine a protest record getting that level of mainstream success now. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4349 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Big Gun This is a six track 12 inch vinyl compilation from 2016. The music dates from 1986. The band photo depicts five young men with paintbrush hair. Photo by Paolo Righetti. There is no information on the sleeve but Discogs tells me that the song "You'll Always Give Your Best" was recorded in Glasgow in 1986 and that the lineup of the band included a drummer named Andy Kerr. Coincidenza? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4350 Registered: 03-2005 |
And here's a link to the lead song, which according to the spine, is the title for this compilation EP, "Heard About Love." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDI1X84 sHU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9221 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a great song. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1338 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, I'm no drummer. And definitely no Andy There is a drummer Mark Kerr (resident in Paris) who is quite well known...and who is a brother of Jim (singer of Simple Minds) I'm not related. Well very distantly I suppose...the clan is from the Borders and we were known as a bunch of lazy and cowardly reprobates...apparently we waited until night-fall to cross the border and steal the English sheep. The only other notable fact is that some 30% of us are left-handed. Thus the family castle near Jedburgh has the turret staircases built to accomodate this difference...you hold onto the bannister with your right-hand, as your sword is in your left. I'm left-handed ! Does it show that I'm working from home ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4351 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lefties! No wonder your forebears stole sheep! Gauche. Sinistra. In life you gotta go with what you're handed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9227 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan has released his first original song in eight years, a 17-minute track about JFK, and it’s brilliant https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/m ar/27/bob-dylan-new-song-kennedy-assassi nation | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1705 Registered: 10-2006 |
Better late than never, PC!! Hehe. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dana Gavanski whose superb debut album is out today can’t tour so is doing a couple of sets on instagram live from Serbia. The second one is in about 75 minutes at 20:00 GMT | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 489 Registered: 05-2005 |
RIP Alan Merrill, at least corona learned me who wrote this song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbty id0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR19BglJPkFRG OM16GUd8EiYBERi36ebpkRxqKbf6yj3w7z8DI_Rk wjc8Ww |