| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9508 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ride - I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8GtvAz DFQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9509 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rubberbandits - Bertie Ahern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFjO_YCl DEo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9512 Registered: 05-2005 |
Song Sung - Come To The Water. Irish identical twin sisters who are now based in New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxx6cTpI 6UA | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1784 Registered: 10-2006 |
Malcolm Middleton - Buzz Lightyear Helmet Nice to hear Malcolm again, here in epic 8-minute suite form. He’s feeling shite but he’s going to have fun on the east coast he sings at the end, well, good luck to you there, son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG4BiecV HJ8&list=RDWG4BiecVHJ8&index=1 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1372 Registered: 04-2005 |
...and Arab Strap are back... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/s ep/03/return-arab-strap-sex-death-eterna l-preoccupations-hedonism new single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CN6sxD vr0 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1373 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks Stuart for bringing that new Dominique A 4 song release to our attention at the end of August. Minimal indeed. But beautiful. Un endroit mystérieux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWzCFXM N6M | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1785 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm addicted to the first track, Andrew, Papiers froissés... it's great to have a song I have to hear at least five times a day, hasn't happened for a while. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9514 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rolling Stones - 100 Years Ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrciVFFw 3iQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9523 Registered: 05-2005 |
The House Of Love - Christine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOgRvj7 6zI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9527 Registered: 05-2005 |
Underworld - Dark & Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEUwJ9l Klc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9533 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Human League - Being Boiled. I bought this on 7” almost four decades ago after it was rereleased to cash in on the success of Dare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NStTkS RQw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9536 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Be A Rebel, their first new song in five years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6E6ugW7 TOo | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 648 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost Just discovered this today and it's fabulous. I saw the Throwing Muses at the Bristol Bierkeller in 1989 and Kristin Hersh solo twice, and she's fantastic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9539 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, how bizarre. I was just having a text conversation with a friend about Kristin Hersh and how I’d first seen Throwing Muses supporting REM in Great Woods outside Boston in 1989. I saw them a few years later in Dublin and have also seen her solo twice - in a university hall in Austin and in a tent in Sydney. She’s a unique talent. Have you seen this? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/s ep/09/throwing-muses-cult-band-interview -kristin-hersh | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 649 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, that's where I discovered Your Ghost. I spend an inordinate amount of time on the Guardian's website, mainly slack-jawed and aghast at our present government's apparent disdain for the law. Ah well, what could possibly go wrong?! But at least we have Kristin Hersh. And I think it's time for me to go through the Throwing Muses/Kristin Hersh back catalogue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9540 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kristin Hersh - LAX. Listen to it and the rest of the album here https://kristinhershfire.bandcamp.com/al bum/possible-dust-clouds | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 650 Registered: 08-2005 |
REM - Carnival of Sorts I know REM are quite divisive but their first handful of albums stand up against anything in modern music (is 1980s modern? Who knows...) I love jangly guitars, wilfully obscure lyrics and the sheer passion of this cracking live version for 1983. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 651 Registered: 08-2005 |
The link that was meant to be in my last post... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7zZ4ge nsA And it's followed by a splendid version of Harborcoat too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sehg7gEb gyU They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got Metal shivs on wood push through our back There's a splinter in your eye and it reads, "React" R-E-A-C-T | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9543 Registered: 05-2005 |
Welfare Heroine - Where Do You Go To My Lovely? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lB6xW-C WKg RIP Dele Fadele. He died two years ago, but it only became widely known a couple of weeks ago, and I only read about it yesterday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9547 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nits - The Train. It’s been a very long time since I last listened to this gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCuA-JZd MDM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1788 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Delgados - Witness So good to hear this one again. Did Emma Pollock go on to great things? I must check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zJqGZl KRI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9554 Registered: 05-2005 |
Weyes Blood - Something To Believe | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1789 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cosmo Sheldrake - Cuckoo Song With a name that sounds like the bad boy in a Billy Bunter story, here’s Cosmo with a Benjamin Britten tune, apparently, words by the lady who also wrote Twinkle twinkle little star. All very pastoral and lovely to wake up to on a Sunday morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbQyFZmu A58 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9557 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Pocketful Of Sunshine https://theapartments.bandcamp.com/album /in-and-out-of-the-light | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9569 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jean Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouche (Alternate Version) https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.c om/album/l-enfant-assassin-des-mouches-a lternate-takes | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1791 Registered: 10-2006 |
Vetusta morla - La Deriva Oh dear, that terrible YouTube cliché, “Money Heist brought me here…” I can’t stand the damn series myself, but the wife has a love-hate thing going with it, so I’m stuck with it for a bit. I haven’t managed to get into much of the Spanish jangle – Spangle maybe? – featured here in recent months, maybe because none of the voices seem to work for me in that particular context, but then I lived there for three years without really getting into a lot of local music, except for Luis Eduardo Aute and Maria del Mar Bonet perhaps. But I do like this song a lot, even without the uber-sultry Úrsula Corberó – because nothing in this series is not way over the top – doing a rather fetching drunken dance to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpL_gVtL 3YQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9573 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, there was an indie band called Radial Spangle in the 90s. I may be the only person who remembers them, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_Spa ngle | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9577 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Roman Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LSJngxG zYs | ||
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El Mató a un Policía Motorizado - El baile de la colina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vW_sNkX eOs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9584 Registered: 05-2005 |
Modern Nature - Footsteps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hceTNlSy e4k | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9587 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - Another Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eccQtKZ fwk&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Media+Li sts&utm_campaign=7b27993c9b-SPCVINYL_COP Y_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a52069a dae-7b27993c9b-141624841&mc_cid=7b27993c 9b&mc_eid=c732c5a248 I think this might be my favourite Bats song in decades. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1792 Registered: 10-2006 |
The GBs - Finding you Strolling up to the car to meet the wife and help her with the shopping and this great tune there blasting out, took me a few seconds to realise what it was... then it was a bit of crazy if sedate old man dancing while small children pointed anxiously from the public gardens. How good to be surprised by joy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9599 Registered: 05-2005 |
Take joy anywhere you can find it, Stuart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9601 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lykke Li - I Will Survive https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=B0axj9 OsgPw&list=RDAMVMB0axj9OsgPw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9603 Registered: 05-2005 |
75 Dollar Bill - WZN3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jix7hgNs 6Xk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1794 Registered: 10-2006 |
May Erlewine and Woody Goss – Back soon Beautiful sounding cool traditional groove about which I know nothing except that it was recorded in Chicago and that May’s voice sails over the top like the smoothest, sexiest thing imaginable. “I don’t know where you’ve been, but I hope that you’re coming back soon…” Ends with a classic sustained organ note and a snappy drum move which probably has a proper name which I don’t know. Gorgeous. No link available yet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9606 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Novaks - Goodbye Rock And Roll Band. Newfoundland’s finest garage rock band, and it’s all over in less than two minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GREMbbzG Ds0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9610 Registered: 05-2005 |
Danny & The Champion Of The World - Never In The Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAPtrOD xjs | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1795 Registered: 10-2006 |
MIOSSEC - Non non non non (Je ne suis plus saoűl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ytS2PV WF4 Nifty piece from M's first album, apparently getting some sort of anniversary rerelease, though I haven't worked out if any extra goodies are present are not. Like Dom A, he has also put out a lockdown EP, some of which sounds very lush. DomA also gets a mention in the question & answer session cited below, but I've still to get to proper linguistic grips with it. https://www.telerama.fr/musique/miossec- sans-la-fossette-de-dominique-a-aurais-j e-sorti-mon-album-boire-6696903.php | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4458 Registered: 03-2005 |
I am currently reading the first volume of Robert Sidelsky's enormous biography of John Maynard Keynes. I'm at his Cambridge undergraduate years when he was inducted by Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf into the Apostles, a secret society. I have limited enthusiasm for secret societies and their contrived exclusivity but in reading about this one, how nonmembers are dubbed "phenomenal" I immediately thought of an old treasure I hadn't actually heard in at least a decade, a song whose lyrics still pop up in my head unbidden at lovely random moments . . . . The Kinks -- Phenomenal Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrklNk5O F-c Is it possible that the working class Ray Davies was aware of the Apostles and their designation for everyone outside their little clique as "phenomenal" in this oh-so-Edwardian song? Is his cat phenomenal in the Kantian sense, the idea of the cat rather than the fact of the cat? Or is this merely a case of a semi-literate American discovering one of the less common senses of a word hideously overused in the compulsive hyperbole of his native country? Whatever. It was anachronistic in 1968. It is timeless now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9612 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, a great song from a great album. Thank you for reminding me of it. I think Davies may have meant cat as in hippie speak for a cool person. Song of the day is Robert Scott doing a very good My Bloody Valentine impression on the almost nine minutes long instrumental Baron 5 (Harmonic Deluxe) https://robertscottnz.bandcamp.com/album /report | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9617 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deadstar - Don't It Get You Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064EvmOU bfQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4460 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ultim Cavall -- Records de Kyoto The title song from their first album (and the entire album) wears well with repeated plays. Their second album from last year is less subtle to my ears. I don't normally link live versions but their sheer discipline and competence as a band shines here even if the lead vocal doesn't project well enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngkvz0w3 Atw and here's the studio version just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmmmW84 tpI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9621 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - American Crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7TxGTP sV4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9627 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Earle - Colorado Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWggcL_j BbU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9628 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - It Is Accomplished. One of the most uplifting, beautiful pieces of music ever composed. And from the greatest ever soundtrack; for The Last Temptation Of Christ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0EYRC4N Q-Q | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9632 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didn't intend to post two songs of the day yesterday; I thought the Steve Earle one had not gone through. Today's SOTD is Ana Damir El Motakallim by Issam Hajali, a Lebanese musician who recorded it in Paris in the 1970s. The mix of eastern music with rock is sublime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jNbJuRh uYc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9640 Registered: 05-2005 |
Monoswezi - Mapfunde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v308ggHC y0o | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1796 Registered: 10-2006 |
Daria Huber – John my beloved This is the kind of thing I love Italian X-factor for, a slightly tremulous 17 year old lass giving a sweet, crystalline performance of a Sufjan Stevens song. Proud dad looks on. There’s a bit of Italian talk over, inevitably, but the judges are suitably & forthrightly impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpjZwR1Y MuI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9649 Registered: 05-2005 |
Renaissance - Ukraine Ways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRHUqFMQ YNY |