| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9655 Registered: 05-2005 |
Drive-By Truckers - The New OK, their new single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRnsO8N tUQ | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 463 Registered: 02-2007 |
Graham Parker - Don't Let It Break You Down | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1376 Registered: 04-2005 |
Adrianne Lenker - Anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4MffKz 9rk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9665 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Yetton - Head In The Clouds https://thokeitapes.bandcamp.com/album/d avid-yetton-move-to-trash-bits-pieces-of fcuts-stuff-mc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1797 Registered: 10-2006 |
Camera Obscura - Cri Du Coeur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcC6YX4 XQ4 In the shower when I could just hear this wafting through from the kitchen, the sort of thing that will get any indie kid’s heart racing. In olden times I would have had to screech urgently to the wife to get a pen and paper and listen out for the dj to announce the name at the end (which they almost always carefully avoided doing) but now I know I can just check it out at leisure on the website. I’ve only got the lovely album that Traceyanne Campbell did with Danny Coughlan recently, but with stuff like this in her rattle bag I really should get more. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 168 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mid-career, Camera Obscura were Scotland’s best band. There’s no flawless album. Some of their early songs had the male guitarist singing. The band stopped that when they realised that Traceyanne was the real talent. The Stroppies and Low, take note. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9676 Registered: 05-2005 |
The City Remains - The City Remains https://thecityremains.bandcamp.com/rele ases | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1798 Registered: 10-2006 |
Christian Lee Hutson – Northsiders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWV5lkUX PBQ One of the newish school of gentle American male miserabilists with rather sad well-observed autobiographical songs. He sits neatly, with a touch of the young Robert Fs, perhaps. The phrase “Morrissey apologists” caught my ear. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9681 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rush - The Pass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTHJv3SA MBY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9690 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pearlfishers - Once I Lived In London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGjJ_Ii z7E | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1799 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Crimea - Lottery Winners on Acid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CivjQLkG SbI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3z2GfGxTszp woUO6D8kNpOq40w_Eio16Y0oCXNOXeUKXMxbn98h 7b5Xlw A Peel favourite back in the day, apparently. Insinuatingly charming. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9693 Registered: 05-2005 |
Van Halen - Jump. RIP Eddie Van Halen. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1320 Registered: 03-2007 |
El Mato A Un Policia Motorizado - La Casa Fantasmal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRagOul 0lM or the live version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCkVpCZ 0kQ Neither of the above do justice to the song. It really needs to be heard through a proper hi-fi system. From their album La Otra Dimension. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9698 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Who single, Beads On One String (Yaggerdang Remix). It’s quite lovely, and if that sounds like I’m damning it with faint praise, I’m not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWzrHJp bvQ&feature=emb_logo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9702 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Who - Eminence Front. I’ve never previously noticed how Prince-like it is. Could Pete Townsend have been aware of and influenced by Prince in 1982? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6Zgz0T ZuA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9708 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lykke Li - BRON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZthLrNh 2x4&feature=youtu.be&src=Linkfire&lId=d0 60dfa8-e13f-40aa-a404-febc9a393f07&cId=d 3d58fd7-4c47-11e6-9fd0-066c3e7a8751 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9716 Registered: 05-2005 |
In My Room, The Mutton Birds at their most Beatlesy/Byrdsy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFMLc3QB O8M | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1802 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jacques Dutronc - Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7whXkifG _ms Great to hear this on the radio this morning, a song I first heard on a Dutroncathon that Randy sent me. I didn’t know it was voted best French-language single of all time in a music-critic poll, even beating Brel into second place. Also nice to know that, as so often in the world of music, the flute was an afterthought because they thought something else was needed and a flute player happened to be in the building. Who knows when I’ll get back to Paris, my first ever solo trip abroad at 17, fuelled by evenings watching Film International on TV. I was very impressed by the ladies of the night cooing to me as I tottered shyly back to my hotel; even more impressed by my kindly landlady asking me if I’d like a nice girl – “very pretty, very clean” - sent up to my attic room. But would she accept traveller’s cheques? Too confused by it all, I declined politely. Idiot. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9722 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, as often happens, I'm laughing out loud at your story. Supercrush - I Didn't Know (We Were Saying Goodbye) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH7PcpRY uIA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9724 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen, Villiers Terrace, the glorious seven minute Life At Brian's - Lean And Hungry version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. - Wouldn't It Be Nice https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/lis ten-to-fontaines-d-c-cover-the-beach-boy s-for-new-compilation-album-2774175 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1378 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze - "Amanké Dionti" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZhzpfh -sI The song that plays at the end of the recent film "Mignonnes" ("Cuties" in English). Went to see the film at the cinema this weekend. Excellent. Any film that gets 250,000 people against it being shown on Netflix must be worth seeing  Apparently most commented without even having seen it. It is a serious study of falling between cultures and the French state stepped in with a message of support for its director https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Presse/Commu niques-de-presse/Soutien-a-Maimouna-Douc oure-realisatrice-du-film-Mignonnes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9728 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paleface - Burn And Rob. Thirty years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIMiLwW QFE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1803 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for that Andrew. A relation of mine, long a slightly kookie new age arty type, has been transformed over the past few months into a venomous, pedophile-obsessed far-right Trump fan and has been foaming at the mouth over Netflix recently, so it seemed a good time to finally take out a subscription. As a bonus I get to watch Doom Patrol. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4477 Registered: 03-2005 |
"A relation of mine, long a slightly kookie new age arty type, has been transformed over the past few months into a venomous, pedophile-obsessed far-right Trump fan . . . ." He's Scottish? Wow. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4478 Registered: 03-2005 |
But, thinking of Scottish, here's my song of the evening: The Easy Club -- Doon in the Wee Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDuRZKc6 R6c Churning milkmaid warning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9734 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster w/ Jherek Bischoff & String Quartet - In Her Diary https://jherekbischoff.bandcamp.com/albu m/robert-forster-w-jherek-bischoff-strin g-quartet | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1804 Registered: 10-2006 |
Australian, Randy, and female! (Wait, that sounds like a cultural stereotype...) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9736 Registered: 05-2005 |
From the "kookie new age arty type" description, I'd assumed female. Men are rarely described as kookie. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4479 Registered: 03-2005 |
I confess I assumed a male because of "far-right Trump fan." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1805 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, that leaves venomous & pedophile-obsessed up for grabs, both pretty neutral, though from the posts she insists on sharing so bountifully I kind of incline towards female in both cases. Meanwhile, a song: Juniore - A la plage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftP6Uh_j SUg She does cool retro so perfectly, never overstepping. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4480 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, being a long time resident of Los Angeles I'm afraid I can virtually never take a "pedophile-obsessed" person seriously. I lived here through the McMartin Preschool Trial, in which a family that owned a small preschool in one of our beach towns were accused of an extensive and elaborate child molestation conspiracy. As I recall, the adult son of the school's owner was the primary target. One of the prosecution's child psychology experts famously testified that "children don't lie," sending millions of parents into gales of laughter. As the trial dragged on, the children's allegations became progressively more fanciful, outlandish and easily disproven. Two successive trials ended with hung juries. The prosecution finally took the hint and abandoned the case. The primary suspect--never convicted of anything--spent five years in jail during the pendency of the trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_p reschool_trial | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4481 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, song of the day: Srta. Trueno Negro -- Loderunner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4Ut_rZ V3A From Argentina. The song doesn't start until 0:30. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9739 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - Gone To Ground. Their new single and the first Bats video that has made me think "careful with that axe". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfEKiQJW 0Ww&ab_channel=FlyingNunRecords&utm_sour ce=Flying+Out&utm_campaign=67219a6c30-WE EKLY_NEWSLETTER_11812_17_2015_COPY_01&ut m_medium=email&utm_term=0_7cfab6448d-672 19a6c30-29134917&mc_cid=67219a6c30&mc_ei d=c732c5a248 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1806 Registered: 10-2006 |
Aidan Knight – Rolodex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_9Xb5Y RXw This is an attractive piece of work, especially that rather Colin Blunstoneish voice. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1322 Registered: 03-2007 |
Bestia Bebe - Omar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFyRL8N 1Tw Opening track from their self titled debut album which was released in 2013. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9741 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cat Power - Toop Toop. This is lovely stuff https://www.nme.com/news/music/cat-power -covers-cassius-toop-toop-in-tribute-to- philippe-zdar-2692207 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1807 Registered: 10-2006 |
Janelle Monáe - Turntables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFrCk6_ 0rM My favourite radio sound of the moment - that gospel crescendo is irresistible. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9751 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Lung - The Business Of Selling https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/the-b usiness-of-selling | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9755 Registered: 05-2005 |
Revelino - Step On High, one of the 7"s found in John Peel's secret record box after he died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmlOEH1 _24 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9756 Registered: 05-2005 |
And one of only two Irish bands in the box, I must add. The other Irish band being The Undertones' Teenage Kicks EP, of course. He had three copies of Teenage Kicks and a letter The Undertones sent him in there. Seeing The Undertones talking about Peel in the documentary about that record box is very moving. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9757 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've linked to that Peel documentary in another thread, but here it is again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI3_12Z2 irw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9759 Registered: 05-2005 |
U2 - The Fly. 29 years old and still sounds like a blast of fresh air. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1808 Registered: 10-2006 |
Will catch up with the JP doc later, Pádraig, cheers! Now, thanks to the American Far Right, Netflix and the new TV I had to buy, I can actually watch it on the TV, haha! Ah, see the poor Luddite being dragged painfully into the 21st century! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Primal Scream - Kowalski. I bought the 7" in the Virgin Megastore on Aston Quay in Dublin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBzYsE4 y1k | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9768 Registered: 05-2005 |
And after that Primal Scream song is Primitive Radio Gods' Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand which iTunes tells me I last played exactly two years and four minutes ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoi WSY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9770 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Carnival Brothers - Beautiful Mistake. I can't find it on YouTube. Just trust me, it's great. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1323 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, It can be found on Bandcamp. https://thecarnivalbrothers.bandcamp.com /album/deadliest-cuts My song of the day :- Snow Coats - Tropical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8dR7pM WdM From their debut albums 'Take The Weight Off Your Shoulders' which was self released in 2018. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9774 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. I didn’t look hard enough, especially given I think that’s where I bought the tracks from in the first place. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1324 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I purchased their digital downloads from Bandcamp earlier this year and compiled a seven track mini album which I burned to CDR. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1325 Registered: 03-2007 |
El Mató a un Policía Motorizado - El Fuego Que Hemos Construido https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0xGxov PvU From their album La Dinastía Scorpio which they released in 2012. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9781 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio. An astonishing song from an astonishing band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfySK7CL EEg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4487 Registered: 03-2005 |
Invisible Harvey -- La Puerta Giratoria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6l_QpEW us4 Be patient. The video has a little bit of a set up before the song starts. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9784 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donal Fagen with Michael McDonald - Pretzel Logic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDap4Bl PRU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9785 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donald Fagen, of course. I inadvertently used the Irish name Donal. Possibly subconsciously influenced by my thorough distaste for the name Donald. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4488 Registered: 03-2005 |
Cosmen Adelaida -- El Dia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0tUXAp Vi4 From their first mini album in 2011, definitely their best long(ish) player. Reminiscent of Australia's great Moffs. And that great dissonant transitional chord! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9791 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aaron Lee Tasjan, sounding very like Tom Petty on his new single Up All Night https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music -news/aaron-lee-tasjan-new-song-up-all-n ight-1081791/ | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1326 Registered: 03-2007 |
U.S. Highball - New Neighbour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOVzo6p RJI Despite the name, the band hail from Glasgow. First single from their sophomore album ( Up To High Doh ) which will be released on 20th November, 2020. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9797 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got a video not available message when I clicked the link, Hugh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9800 Registered: 05-2005 |
Orbital - Chime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhAY8z7R L-A Long time since I last played this. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 499 Registered: 11-2007 |
Love, Burns - It's A Shame b-side of the first single of Phils Suttons side-project, the master behind Pale Saints. Very Go-Betweens like. Out on my beloved label Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten from Augsburg, Germany. A must buy in my opinion. https://loveburns.bandcamp.com/album/gat e-and-the-ghost-its-a-shame | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1327 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Still working okay for me. Did you click on the link in the notification e-mail or the link on the board thread? I have found that clicking on links in the notification e-mails invariably throws up a 'Video Not Available' message. The sleeve photo for their new album was taken in Kelvingrove, Glasgow. Perhaps someone else can check out the link. The band are from Glasgow and have a thing about Kelvingrove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz_C_WBJ l1Q https://www.bing.com/images/search?view= detailV2&ccid=VbrnIHw%2b&id=A8C2F659BB41 29AA1B1F9653CE20852B9BC8DACB&thid=OIP.Vb rnIHw--QNay0ZzOvhB3wHaE9&mediaurl=http%3 a%2f%2filoboyou.com%2fwp-content%2fuploa ds%2f2016%2f10%2fHanging-Heads-at-Kelvin grove-Art-Gallery-and-Museum-artists-I-L obo-you4.jpg&exph=469&expw=700&q=hall+of +heads+kelvingrove+museum&simid=60802889 9678947170&ck=0871B64D58E834ED8F7581E5DD 93CBBD&selectedIndex=0&FORM=IRPRST&ajaxh ist=0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4491 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I also got a "video unavailable" message for your "New Neighbor" link. I don't even get notification e-mails so that's not an issue. Maybe the video simply isn't authorized for us auslanders. I can understand why they might have a thing about Kelvingrove. It's a beautiful place. But when I went I showed up too late and never made it into the museum beyond the coffee house. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1328 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Odd and particularly so in your case as the video is to promote their new album which is being released in the U.K. by Bingo Records and in the U.S.A. by Lame-O Records. What happens when you search Bandcamp for U.S. Highball? https://ushighball.bandcamp.com/ I see four releases ( Think Again; Great Record; Bless The Telephone; Up To High Doh.) Were you able to access the video for 'Hall Of Heads' from my second link? The song lyrics reference the Hall Of Heads exhibit in the Kelvingrove Museum. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4492 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, yes I was able to watch the "Hall of Heads" video. That's what reminded me that I did not go into the museum at Kelvingrove. I get the same releases on my link to Bandcamp. No CD options though. Vinyl only. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1329 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Yes, same formats as their debut album ( digital download and vinyl only.) The duo are also members of The Pooches whose self titled album was released on CD by Lame-O Records. I think you have a copy. Band bands are very similar in sound / style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnK412xj F7k | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9803 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I'm not on their email list. The second link you posted works and I'm listening now. I like it. I also love the Kelvingrove gallery. A magnificent place. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9806 Registered: 05-2005 |
Barber: Adagio For Strings, Op.11 · Academy of St. Martin in the Fields · Sir Neville Marriner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1nZmEAh mQ4 Such a beautiful piece of music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4493 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Grief Brothers -- Bethany Lane Hugh tipped me off to this current but old school U.K. country/folk group last year. It's remained one of my favorite albums since I first heard it. And this song chops me down every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1Kh0SY P5c | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9809 Registered: 05-2005 |
193 views on that Bethany Lane video, and at least two of those are me. You wonder how bands like that can even survive; certainly not from YouTube ad royalties. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1809 Registered: 10-2006 |
Barber's adagio is such a great tune,Pádraig, the kind of piece that often gets me imagining a movie biog scene, you know, he's sitting at the piano early one morning with a fag, wife comes in with the shopping, "Hi darling, look, I wrote this little thing last night, what do you think...?" Is his first listener enraptured and marvelling, or does she just say, Very nice, dear, and head for the kitchen? And then it goes on of course to break people down all over the world for eighty years or so. I love the original string quartet version too which has that edge of detail and tension to it. Very nice, Mr Barber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrxPTeP XEQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9811 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thank you for that link, Stuart. I didn't know it was written for a string quartet. That is very moving. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1330 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Just in case we have our wires crossed, I am not referring to the band's e-mail notification list, I mean the e-mail notifications sent out by this board. I received a e-mail from the board this morning regarding the link Randy posted about The Grief Brothers. The link in the e-mail displayed the full address shown in Randy's post but only part of it was underlined ( i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1KhOSY ) The 'space' and final three letters / numbers ( P5c ) were not underlined so the link fails to work as clicking on it brings up a 'Video Unavailable' message. I have to visit this site and click on the full links in the threads if I want to see the YouTube videos. Song of the Day :- Javi Punga - AmarAmar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwBRCeN6 ZKg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4494 Registered: 03-2005 |
The only problem with your fancy Stuart is that the "wife" at home would have been Gian Carlo Menotti, celebrated 20th Century opera composer. It's not likely that Menotti would have said "very nice, dear" and headed for the kitchen. The Wikipedia articles on Barber and Menotti grudgingly mention that they became "partners in life and in work" but there's singularly little about their personal lives because, y'know, it scares people. Actually, Barber fled the U.S. for Europe after one of his works was rebuffed and he and Menotti became estranged. Barber continued to compose but he sank into alcoholism and depression. I have to assume that Menotti was Barber's muse for a very long time. All of which goes to show that I need to hunt out a good book on a very interesting subject! So thank you Pádraig for posting your selection and thank you Stuart for posting your response which made me go to Wikipedia. I knew so little about Samuel Barber that I didn't even know he was American! I was only familiar with Menotti's name as a major 20th Century composer of operas, and since opera isn't my thing I wasn't overly familiar with him either. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4495 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the Javi Punga link, Hugh. My shipment with his second album arrived in Miami yesterday and the shipment with his first album is currently sitting around somewhere at Buenos Aires Avion. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1810 Registered: 10-2006 |
Darn it, I wouldn't have made the same mistake with Britten, Copland or Poulenc, but Barber, I think I did read about once, but completely forgot! Although, I don't know, Menotti being Italian, he probably did do a lot of the cooking. Good readable biogs of classical composers are not very easy to find, though there are some that manage to strike the right balance between life and work. I don't know about SB. Let me know if you find one! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1331 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The vast majority of his releases are fairly lo-fi recordings but there is a lot to like across his back catalogue most of which is digital download only. It seems that Menotti is buried in Yester Kirk, Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland. I carried out a quick search and came up with the following :- http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/ bldev_menotti.htm My two Faria Laptra packages are still in limbo at HWDC, Langley, U.K. Five days and counting and still no movement. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9812 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I haven’t had an email from this board in years. Randy, Stuart, Hugh, what an interesting discussion on Samuel Barber. All news to me. That’s what this board needs, more high art. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 657 Registered: 08-2005 |
Miley Cyrus – Zombie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l81u-oSI Ap4 An absolutely cracking version of a great song. Miley also does possibly the best cover version of Dolly Parton's Jolene. Pádraig, I saw Primal Scream in the 1980s (supporting Julian Cope at the Bristol Bierkeller, if memory serves. I think it's fair to say that Bobby Gillespie was a little the worse for wear). And re the (always fantastic) Undertones: they dedicated Teenage Kicks to me when I saw them live a few years ago. I interviewed their cycling-mad drummer Billy Doherty before the gig and joined them backstage afterwards. Happy days! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I think the Sisters Of Mercy version of Jolene is the best outside the original. Song of the day for me is Santa Monica by Paul Smith & Peter Brewis. Six minutes of orch pop/chamber pop goodness. https://paulsmithandpeterbrewis.bandcamp .com/album/frozen-by-sight | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1811 Registered: 10-2006 |
Opera was almost the last category of classical I came round to, Randy, despite being a great fan of musicals, which are probably no less absurd. But that weird operatic voice and the staginess of it always put me off. Then, during my long years of unemployment, the BBC one evening broadcast an Offenbach operetta which I watched and loved – it was funny, sexy and tuneful. I thought, well, if this works, so can the big stuff maybe. Then a mate gifted me a ticket to the Marriage of Figaro, which was also funny, sexy and tuneful and, about seven seats back from the pit, I experienced the huge sound of a live orchestra for the first time. I couldn’t see the musicians at all, so when the overture struck up I almost fell out my chair. Finally, I bought a ticket for Tosca, in a version set in Fascist Italy, which made no sense at all if you understood the words, but visually worked like a dream. Thereafter, as soon as I cashed my dole cheque, I rushed round to the local classical shop – all hushed and woody, with snooty elderly male staff, like a gents outfitters – and bought the cheapest boxed set I could find. You have to be on the dole to enjoy opera, you need the time. Puccini still goes straight to my heart, and if I had to choose the most beautiful 14 minutes of music ever written in any genre, it would probably be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHuqqEk 3Bk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3cvy6pTfCJR zd4cSMRbNP1n7_DtHR3DiRtDoKuqgFAjaS6-qzLq Rc7SyY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4496 Registered: 03-2005 |
The only time I ever received an email from this board it was about Grant. I'll be happy never to receive another email from the board. Stuart, I'm just too much of a vulgarian. I had a roommate back when I was at university who loved musical theater. I was ok with it and went to see a number of productions back then but I've never bought recordings of any musicals and wouldn't be likely to go to any performances on my own. Whereas, of course, I continue to pile up rock/folk/pop recordings and happily attend many gigs on my own having learnt that I am better able to absorb the experience without having to worry about whether my companion is enjoying it. For me with opera it's still a case of "that weird operatic voice and the staginess of it . . . ." I love symphonic music but opera still sounds like an outdoor drama staged by the neighborhood cats. Mind you, I wasn't helped here by the sudden interruption at 3:40 by some idiot flogging his body building vlog. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1812 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, is this a new thing, sticking ads actually in the middle of a continuous piece of music?? Incredible. I do have a sticking point with lieder, I must admit, some bloke in an evening suit posing next to a piano singing about his overwhelming passion for the miller's daughter. Well, I can just about handle it in a foreign language, but in English it's like having a BBC newsreader from the 1950s wailing at you. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1332 Registered: 03-2007 |
It seems like I am in the minority here as I receive regular e-mails relating to new post in the 'Song Of The Day' thread. I enjoy some instrumental and classical music but I must admit that I have never really been able to come to terms with opera. The closest I have come is some works by Gilbert & Sullivan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfnv6wnh UNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8dirgS Qqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOEr_PdV LsM |