| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9234 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fountains Of Wayne - Hackensack. RIP Adam Schlesinger. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9236 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fountains Of Wayne - Action Hero. The lyrics are especially poignant now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1717 Registered: 10-2006 |
Diabologum - 365 jours ouvrables Haven't heard much else by these lads that I like a lot, but this has a suitably appropriate air of desperation to it, chanted lyrics over a brain-cleansing Mary Chain grind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkEQecP tT8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1718 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bas Jan - King of the Holloway Road Well, this just passed on the wireless, so no way I'm not having this as well. Utterly brilliant. It was followed by the band's label owner, I think, a Scots bloke phoning in from Eigg, where I was meant to be in just 30 days, sigh. A wave from a more distance future maybe. https://vimeo.com/207783418 | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005 |
That label boss is Johnny Lynch who records as The Pictish Trail. My neighbour’s a fan of his, I’m not. The best artist on the label is Clémentine March, a French musician who now lives in London. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 621 Registered: 08-2005 |
Dolores O'Riordan singing Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlw4NohB 678 I've started doing weights a couple of times a day. Very tiny dumbbells – I'm a cyclist, after all! – but I do my exercises while looking for music I haven't heard before on YouTube, and fortunately there's loads out there. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, there was a virtual 'Tour des Flandres' yesterday. https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_greg-va n-avermaet-remporte-le-1er-tour-des-flan dres-virtuel?id=2621278&reco=2621278_hom | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 622 Registered: 08-2005 |
TROU, thanks for that – I'll give it a look after work, which I'm doing somewhat half-heartedly! It's a lovely day and I'd rather be outside! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9240 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love Penelope. Such a joyous pop song. Thanks to Hugh, for reintroducing me to them about a decade ago. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1342 Registered: 04-2005 |
Virtual cycling  I was asked to get off my bike by the gendarmes Friday evening, as I hurtled round the center of my village. And yes I was by myself and yes I was respecting the maximum of 1km from my home and yes I had the form filled in correctly and honestly. Ah but the French government changed its mind between the 20 and 26th of March apparently and you can go to the shops with your bike but not exercise. Find the logic in that ! I was well pissed off but luckily didn't get a fine, as I think my temper was well in evidence. In these situations you never have the right answer at the time. The reply to "It's the law and you need to respect it" should have been "So what would you have done with the law telling you to round up the Jews in 1942 monsieur ?". Mind you then they would have probably beaten me to a pulp at the side of the road. I'm sorry I'm being ridiculous and flippant...we are being sensible about the confinement, but some of the rules are just ludicrous. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 623 Registered: 08-2005 |
Andrew, some good points given France's history. When the UK govt looked like banning all outdoor exercise yesterday my plan was that I would do all my shopping by bike. I'm absolute rigorous in my social distancing but I think banning cycling is bonkers. One of my colleagues rode 142km the other day - on an indoor smart trainer on a group ride linked by the internet. Now, of course, you can't buy a smart trainer for love nor money, so some companies will be doing well from the present circumstances. My local wine supplier's delivery business is running at 15 times its usual level! I am presently awaiting 11 chardonnays and a picpoul de pinet on its way... sometime! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4359 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, I know it's not the same--especially in light of climate change--but I have a 60 year old Lancia convertible that needs to be driven once every week or two to keep in good operational order. This is something I do unaccompanied and normally shortly before bed time on an unpopular night when there's comparatively little traffic. I'm not going to have any encounters with potential for transmitting even a very contagious disease. But under our rules I'm not supposed to just leave my house and drive around purposelessly. The rules are made for the idiots who can't seem to grasp how serious this is and how to act, and it's asking too much of the gendarmerie to spend their days making subtle judgment calls on this stuff. So, much like your bike I'll be using this impractical car for some of my store excursions. I just won't park it in any of the lots. On the subject of song of the day, my choice is this lovely illustration of the continuity of life by Scottish band The Felt Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqBrg3ys Dx8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob Brookman - Letter To The Editor | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9246 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Prine - Summer's End. RIP to a great songwriter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9 zr0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4362 Registered: 03-2005 |
John Prine is one of those songwriters I've meant to explore forever. And I still haven't gotten around to it. Here are a couple of interpretations of his songs, one about Kentucky coal-mining sung by someone who grew up there, and another by a familiar friend of ours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozT6SGV dnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE8HkaBn NaQ I really need to stop procrastinating. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1343 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm like Randy. John Prine was always a musician whose work I planned to investigate one day. And my introduction to his songs was this performance on a wet and cold Glasgow summer's day in 1990 (1990 !!!!) I was there in the bandstand by the Clyde and the emotion comes across even in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAp1Keu eUU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9247 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a great clip, Andrew. Billy Bragg looks about 12, though he was actually 32 then. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1345 Registered: 04-2005 |
This is not a cheery period. RIP Hal Willner Always loved his Disney record. Here's Tom Waits' dark take on "Heigh Ho". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISFemeH OC4 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1993 Registered: 08-2006 |
Man, what a week. Hal Willner and now John Prine. Both giants. If anyone's interested, my little record label put out a John Prine tribute record several years back called "The Postman Delivers: A Chicago Musicians' Tribute to John Prine." It's on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1KYC5kslE DagqbwlA9ZvVs) and, yes, I have a track on there. Prine and his then-manager green lighted the project, were very generous with royalty arrangements and even gave us great tickets to a show he performed at his old high school. He was one of the very best, a kind and funny man, and a good Chicago boy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9248 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hal Willner was a genuine musical maverick and some kind of genius. This is very sad news. Paula Pell, who worked with Willner on Saturday Night Live for a decade tweeted: “Hal Willner was the gentlest genius at SNL. He bemoaned artists abandoning weirdness and authenticity but never gave up searching for it. We love you forever. Fuck off this disease and especially its enablers.” | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4364 Registered: 03-2005 |
Los Mundos Posibles -- La Guerra del Japon This is from Argentina vintage 2018, the kickoff track on their elegant and mostly elegiac 7 song mini-album "Pintura de Guerra." Nope, I don't understand much Spanish either but I find that as necessary as understanding much French to enjoy Dominique A. Physically, you can only get it on vinyl but download is always available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H83ubCcP kJM And for good measure, a couple more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUvn-teq EqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKuCcfV8 yFo The last of these is the closer. This little album is a keeper. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9250 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob Brookman - Have A Nice Day. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1297 Registered: 08-2004 |
All those folks that paid a fortune for Peloton bikes are laughing right now. Nick Cave - Let It Be | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9253 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Holy Water. An absolutely joyous pop/soul/gospel song. A bit of an overlooked classic in the Triffids’s canon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9256 Registered: 05-2005 |
Enuff Z'Nuff - There Goes My Heart. A brilliant, Beatlesesque power pop classic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9258 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eno & Hyde - The Satellites | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1726 Registered: 10-2006 |
Shana Cleveland - Don't Let Me Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUJYVBu Sks | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1727 Registered: 10-2006 |
The The - I want to b u Just a taster available at the moment: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=208686 310336533 I like the sound of this a lot, but MattJ has never really made much of an impact on me. Perhaps someone could suggest a spot where I could dip my toe into the water? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9261 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 475 Registered: 11-2007 |
@Stuart: The The - This Is the Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbF bWY The The - Perfect (Soul Mining single) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ0T2zLa 4hM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1728 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cheers, Andreas! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 476 Registered: 11-2007 |
Sneaky Feelings - Waiting For Touchdown | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 146 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emily Barker covering John Prine. About ten minutes in https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hdc n | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1729 Registered: 10-2006 |
Leonard Cohen - The Hills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FesS3D-7 o1g | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9264 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isaac Hayes - Hung Up On My Baby | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9267 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star - Watch The Sunrise | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9268 Registered: 05-2005 |
Died Pretty - DC. The violinist/dancer/backing vocalist will be familiar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07oZHDgP iqo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4371 Registered: 03-2005 |
Great video Pádraig. And "DC" is a great song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1730 Registered: 10-2006 |
Molly Drake – I remember Nick’s mum, singing a pretty & witty ballad about marital perspectives in a lovely poshish 1950s accent. One little section of the melody later used, possibly by happenstance, by Pete Atkin in the equally lovely “Canoe”. "We tramped the open moorland in the rainy April weather And came upon the little inn that we had found together The landlord gave us toast and tea and stopped to share a joke And I remember firelight I remember firelight I remember firelight And you remember smoke..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYo2ryZ3 wUs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9272 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oasis - Don't Stop... (demo). A song that Noel Gallagher thought was lost, but he found it on a CD while bored during the lockdown. And it's great. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 456 Registered: 02-2007 |
Lighthouse "One Fine Morning" |