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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9312 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - I've Just Seen A Face. I'd somehow never before noticed how much Paul Simon ripped this off for the melody of The Boxer, four years later. Judging by a google search, no one else seems to have noticed either. Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LbJfC0 SYM S&G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_p xlY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9316 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pale Fountains - Reach. An absolute gem of a pop song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dUBgMTG vTM | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 496 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pale Fountain - Unless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOi3hmA 3Cw My fave song of them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4393 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spanish Amanda -- What If Your Tribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B8b_ZfG my8 I was hoping to find a video for "The Russian David Bowie" but, well, the Spanish Amanda's tribe is pretty small. This will serve. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9317 Registered: 05-2005 |
Boston - More Than A Feeling. I know Randy is also a big fan of this classic and likes to test new hi-fi equipment with it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4394 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, a great favorite, that one. One of the things I noticed way back when I was a relative kid in the 1970s was that the record collector freaks and the hi fi sound freaks were nearly mutually exclusive. The record collector guys did not want to waste a penny on a sound system because, of course, that meant not getting some awesome vinyl rarity. The hi fi guys were totally unaware of all the great music that had been created. Nobody was going to walk into a stereo shop in California with a copy of the Easybeats' "Falling Off the Edge of the World" or "Left Bank Too" or "Scott." Everything was about how clear the cymbals sounded and how rumbling the bass. Nobody seemed to be thinking about the songs or arrangements. You know . . . the music. When I went through a heavy phase of revamping my sound system with renovated vintage equipment a few years ago I ended up, of course, on some hi fi folks' email lists. I get a periodic email from a vendor called "Audio Classics LTD." These emails will almost exclusively reference rock music released between 1967 and maybe about 1974. A certain amount of jazz will also be mentioned. The latest email quotes Bob Weir on the demerits of digital sound. I'm supposed to care what a probably deaf member of the Grateful Dead--who I never had any use for--has to say about modern recorded sound. If I need to test my system for bombast, I go for something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBdFA6sI 6-8 The outfits and hairdos are much better. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 639 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Chills – Dan Destiny and The Silver Dawn (Randy, I'm not sure I agree with everything you say but I most enjoyed your description of the audiophile/musophile Venn diagram crossover!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9321 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Noveltones - Left Bank Two. Randy’s right, no one ever walked into a stereo shop to test the latest hi fi equipment with this record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCHRW8G 9yY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9328 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Second Of The First. That’s how to open an album; with a brilliant track one, side one. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1349 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFBuYHl deY "Are you ready Steve ? Uh-huh" RIP Steve Priest One of the first 45s I ever bought. That intro is still fab. I'm sure that I played my tennis racket in front of the mirror many many times to this song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1747 Registered: 10-2006 |
Orpheus – Can’t Find The Time The best song Scott Walker never wrote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_D4O3f uBg Cited in the highly entertaining and informative “Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968” by Ryan H. Walsh | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9330 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a great song, Stuart. I’d never even heard of them before. | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
I think the honour of best Scott Walker song goes to Neil Hannon and Kathy - an ode to his wife and as beautiful as a song gets. I'm not even a big Divine Comedy fan but love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKd-eVh7 KxE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4399 Registered: 03-2005 |
That Noveltones thing is hilarious Pádraig. I'd never heard of it but now I guess I know why they called their second album "Left Banke Too." (Sorry about forgetting the "e" in Banke, that misdirected people.) You could not go into a hifi shop to listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0geDRT TRc Andrew, I feel like I jinxed him. The thing about a Scott Walker song: it really needs The Voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7gMlpAB ItE | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1351 Registered: 04-2005 |
Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw0zYd0e Ilk Really loved her first album ("Stranger in the Alps") so looking forward to the new one (this month) | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 152 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dana Gavanski - I Talk To The Wind Today is bandcamp Friday but there’s not actually much new music released as part of it. This, however is new and is superb. She’s played this live before and recorded a version for Marc Riley. Today’s version is a more complex arrangement featuring saxophone. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9333 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Evil Dust. Remix from Alternator One (Best Of Funky Alternatives) compilation. And very fine it is too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9334 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hard-Fi - Seven Nation Army. A great cover of the White Stripes song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnICUyKd MO8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1751 Registered: 10-2006 |
Saint Saviour & Willy Mason - Rock Pools This weekend’s highly addictive radio selection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKeLAEvu jw0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4402 Registered: 03-2005 |
So where do you think that video was made? I assume the U.S. midwest somewhere or maybe Canada but Saint Saviour is an English artist. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4403 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rank & File -- Amanda Ruth. The Everly Brothers reincarnated as the Kinman brothers, Chip and Tony. The iPod reminded me of this classic as I sat on the back patio and read a David Malouf short story yesterday afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKJSbZaI 3b4 The Everlys covered "Amanda Ruth" in 1986. From Texas the Kinmans started out in punk band The Dils, their best-known song in that incarnation probably "Class War." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59snbRKj vM4 Live in 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyS6Tww O9g They relocated to Los Angeles and became part of its punk scene. Rank & File came after the Dils. And after Rank & File came Cowboy Nation, basically the Kinman Brothers on their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk0Q9IE- CUI Here's a little documentary on them as Cowboy Nation. Tony Kinman, the dark haired one, died a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOo75cv6 _F8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9335 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cult - Libertine. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 154 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of The Dils (and The Chills and The Go-Betweens) https://youtu.be/yc-zoc7ySlI | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1280 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have managed to source copies of Cowboy Nation and A Journey Out Of Time by Cowboy Nation. There is a copy ( No Cover / Insert ) of Cowgirl A-Go-Go for sale on Discogs for US$4.89 but the Seller wants US$27.00 for shipping. One new and two used copies for sale on AmazonCom ranging in price from US$99.00 to USŁ199.00!!! I passed. Burgers, One of my favourite Comet Gain songs. Cathedrale - Yet, So Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScpakBYI faA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Avion, the very sweet new single by Afel Bocoum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzd4_SkR cZU&feature=youtu.be | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9343 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Push The Sky Away, live with orchestra and choir at Sydney Opera House. I hope this isn't geoblocked. It is immense. https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital /videos/music/nick-cave-warren-ellis-pus h-the-sky-away.html?ecid=EMT%3Anick_cave _20200609_FOHTY%3AWatch_Now%3A_Nick_Cave _and_Warren_Ellis&bId=260489693&acId=163 7040&mid=PDM36116&utm_source=email&utm_m edium=content&utm_campaign=nick_cave_202 00609_FOHTY&utm_content=Watch_Now%3A_Nic k_Cave_and_Warren_Ellis | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1754 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sorry - Perfect This is quite robust. I do like male/female vocal things. And I like the idea that she used to bully him at school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYkfqQr qKo https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/m ar/17/sorry-the-band-making-ennui-sexy-9 25 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alabama 3 - Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9353 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ivy - Thinking About You. A just about perfect pop,song. RIP Adam Schlesinger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH7SO1_N vw8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9355 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nyack - I'm Your Star. A 1995 power pop song I haven't played in a very long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1qUR-E NH8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1758 Registered: 10-2006 |
Italian power pop from, er, around the 1620s... a baroque piece sung by a French ensemble, it left me open-mouthed when I heard it yesterday, one of the freshest, most beautiful things that has come my way recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XglR15fY 2zI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9356 Registered: 05-2005 |
That’s very beautiful, Stuart. Thanks for posting the link. I think it was Hugh who first started posting YouTube links to our songs of the day. YouTube brings a lot of joy that way. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4409 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, that's incredibly modern sounding. I tend to think of baroque music as a rigid, almost hieratic sound and accordingly have never been able to bond well with it. This is the polar opposite of rigid or hieratic. I found the CD on discogs even though I guessed wrong as to which name would be the composer's. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9357 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Lord Of All I Survey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J2GjUi5 Yqo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1759 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think Fasolo might be a bit of a one-hit wonder as 17th-century Sicilian organist priests go, this is certainly the track that gets most talked about over the web. Even then, attribution is apparently a little doubtful, with his name only recently being connected to a handful of works that had previously been assigned to a variety of other composers. This sounds like a troubadour song more than anything, but of course priests and monks also produced some carnal works alongside religious effusion. I think baroque music is getting a bit of a do-over from younger musicians and groups these days, who seem to favour a rougher, grainier sound with a bit of welly to it, drawing out folk and gypsy roots, rather than the tinkle-tonkle hotel high-tea way of playing. I’m not much of a baroque buff, classical music for me doesn’t really get going until around the 1870s, but I’ve enjoyed some of the newer recordings. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1760 Registered: 10-2006 |
John Cale - Half-past France A little bit of morning radio serendipity. As the song gets underway: "Oh, I like this," says the wife, "Who's this?" "John C..." I start to reply. At which point, he sings, "Wonder when we'll be in Dundee." Laughter all round. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1997 Registered: 08-2006 |
Public Enemy: "State of the Union (STFU)" Not as world-historic as, say, "Fight the Power" this nonetheless scratches an itch. These times call for some pissed-as-hell Chuck D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvDRe79 F8k | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9358 Registered: 05-2005 |
It’s Monday in Sydney, so I get a new pick. Sports Team - Here’s The Thing. It’s a quarter century since the height of Brit pop, so it’s overdue due a revival. This song is a nice cross between prime time Blur and Pulp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFdWhW0O HSo | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 490 Registered: 11-2007 |
Fontaines D.C. cover The Jesus And Mary Chain's Darklands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhukXgD6 YiU What a brialliant cover of a brilliant band done by a brilliant band | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1761 Registered: 10-2006 |
Orla Gartland - oh GOD Short and tart-sweet, Orla is swallowed up in her Catholic guilt: “If I always do what I’m told/I’ll be bitter at 50 years old…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1jomiD7 YUM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1762 Registered: 10-2006 |
And the wrong link, sigh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OdS2Vf0 QL0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4410 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, I really enjoyed that long distance Zoom or Facetime or whatever'd presentation of the Fontaines covering the Jesus and Mary song. It's been so long since I heard "Darklands" that I'd totally forgotten it. I think I'd like to live wherever the electric guitarist is located. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4411 Registered: 03-2005 |
My song for the day: Be Brave Benjamin -- Beard and Belly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Za36OWT cZE Really simple but it works. Almost Ricky Nelsonesque. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Free Time - 5th Floor. It reminds me of Prehistoric Sounds-era Saints. https://freetimeband.bandcamp.com/album/ in-search-of-free-time | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1763 Registered: 10-2006 |
Clio - Éric Rohmer est mort A rather lovely homage from a young Bisontine girl who could easily have featured in one of the films she is so deftly cataloguing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdvAt7s uK8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9362 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just watched the Orla Gartland and Fontaines DC videos. Thanks for the links, guys. Nice to see Irish artists being bigged up. Randy, I think that is Emy Lough in County Monaghan, which is in the area where that guitarist, Conor Curley, grew up. Maybe that’s his family home and he’s spending the Covid lockdown there. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1998 Registered: 08-2006 |
Steve Earle - "It's About Blood" One of several terrific tracks on his new LP, "The Ghosts of West Virginia." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKWPjr0N PQo | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 499 Registered: 05-2005 |
Green Gartside - Tangled Man. My single arrived yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9fyMMq s9w | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9366 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmic Rough Riders - Glastonbury Revisited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP0y3WG qrQ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1353 Registered: 04-2005 |
Aberfeldy - Love Is An Arrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaHHPLn LT4 RIP Ian Stoddart | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4413 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, I picked up that album at Unknown Pleasures when I was in Edinburgh two years ago. ?? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9369 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brian Wilson - There’s So Many https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiAeZoNF yPk | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1354 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, Ian was a well known musician (drummer and bassist) in the Scottish music scene. Probably best known for being the drummer with Win (formed by Davy Henderson after The Fire Engines split). There is an interesting article on the recording of the Aberfeldy album here https://www.soundonsound.com/people/jim- sutherland-producing-aberfeldy Recorded in mono on 1 mic ! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1764 Registered: 10-2006 |
Aberfeldy made some lovely pop, especially their second album, Do whatever turns you on, I think. Did Riley go on to do other stuff thereafter? The town itself, meanwhile, has a fond place in my heart as the very first time I walked into a pub, to order a pint. There was a pretty wee barmaid who asked me if I was an archeologist "from up at the dig." For some reason, I took this as a huge compliment and felt about ten feet tall as I swung my rucksack onto a stool and sat down beside it. I got out my NME and started to read. I swigged some heavy and munched some peanuts. The barmaid was singing to herself softly behind the bar. I thought, "I could get used to this." And indeed I did. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1285 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, I suspect you will remember this classic of its time TV advert from the late 1980s / early 1990s. I still have my vinyl copy of their debut album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFclpprR 48c The band live on the BBC in 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAqcJ8o iqA | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1355 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hugh, Most certainly do ! Must admit that I was never a massive fan of Win (although Davy H is a maverick genius !)...but I did see them live at Coasters in Edinburgh and they started with their version of "In Heaven" (from the film "Eraserhead"), which then merged straight into their first single "UnAmerican Broadcasting". A great beginning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I love that story. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1766 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dana Gavanski - Trouble Listening from the other room, I thought this might be an old Curved Air track or something. But, no, it's the lass Burgers has been mentioning recently. Very interesting indeed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9373 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cloth - Demo Love. A new (to me) Glasgow band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7Ly-R9 On0 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1286 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, They are signed to Last Night From Glasgow a not-for-profit record label based in Glasgow. Demo Love appears on their debut album which was released late last year. I like this track from the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Psi6zp 0xI Link to a nice review of the band in The Skinny magazine. https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/review s/albums/cloth-cloth | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 158 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad you’re interested in Dana Gavanski, Stuart. She’s just released the first track of a 4 track covers EP - a version of King Crimson’s I Talk to the Wind. From a conversation I had with her in Glasgow and what she’s being playing live I guess the other tracks may be Tim Hardin’s Never Too Far, Richard and Linda Thompson’s Withered and Died and possibly something by Judee Sill. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. I knew you’d know them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9375 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rentals - Information (And The Island In The Sky). They are sounding very late period Blur-like on their new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88rTNC5l UBc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9376 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flywheel - Caterpillar. A mid-90s Cork band. Closer to Dublin's MBV than any of their fellow Corkonians. |