| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9822 Registered: 05-2005 |
Adele & The Chandeliers (with special guest Karin Bäumler) - German On My Mind https://adeleandthechandeliers.bandcamp. com | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1813 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah, that's good, innit? Great way to start an autumnal Sunday morning! Very Robert phrasing! Oh wait, that's track 2! No wonder I couldn't pick out Karen. So: Adele & The Chandeliers - Treasure | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1814 Registered: 10-2006 |
Although, before Pádraig led me astray, my choice was going to be: Midlake - Roscoe Fantastic to hear that great song again. Trials was an exceptional album, did they ever get to that level again? I think I bought their following disc, listened, sighed, and tucked it gently away forever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9824 Registered: 05-2005 |
Silver Sun - Last Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYtbr86c jaM RIP their singer/guitarist/songwriter James Broad https://www.nme.com/news/music/james-bro ad-of-silver-sun-has-died-2805582 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9830 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine). A new video for the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFpynC2 ygQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9831 Registered: 05-2005 |
And another new video for the election. New Radicals - You Get What You Give https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj5wJhFp PNY | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1815 Registered: 10-2006 |
Car Seat Headrest - Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1yeirl lcY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4497 Registered: 03-2005 |
One of the reasons I've happily diversified to a lot of non-English language music is because the lyrics in the majority of songs simply aren't worth knowing. You won't very often find something on the level of "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" or "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" nor even the dinner party wit of "Inferno." Most pop music people have seldom, if ever, opened a book. And if your lyrics aren't any good, for f--k's sake don't print them out on your video. Happy U.S. election day, everyone. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9836 Registered: 05-2005 |
How did they get the camera into my kitchen? | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 123 Registered: 03-2015 |
Vote That F....... Out - Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 124 Registered: 03-2015 |
Another one. The President (2020 Version) - Robyn Hitchcock | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1333 Registered: 03-2007 |
Srta. Trueno Negro - Infinitesimal ( Barrio Mondongo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQwaKqQa -jo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1816 Registered: 10-2006 |
City and Colour - Hello, I'm in Delaware Twas either this or Perry Como... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLULIGe kIA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9840 Registered: 05-2005 |
Silver Jews - Random Rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPD0JLwp c3k Right now I'm outsourcing all my happiness to this song and the voters of Nevada. Don't let me down, silver state. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4499 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bestia Bebe -- Que clase de ciudad es esta? Right now, I'd rather hear something that takes me far away from the obsessions surrounding me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVMfT4A nXw | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4500 Registered: 03-2005 |
But . . . if I want an anthem for paranoia: The Now -- The Invaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnx43OWv 9z0 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1818 Registered: 10-2006 |
Neil Young - Ordinary people One of my favourite "open another bottle of Chianti & play it loud" songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaF_LBOz qKo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9848 Registered: 05-2005 |
Josh Rouse - Angels We Have Heard On High https://joshrouse.bandcamp.com/track/ang els-we-have-heard-on-high?mc_cid=492853c ca9&mc_eid=aa732882d9 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1819 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jess Gillam - Orbit Cumbria’s very own, very young Jan Garbarek, with an exhilarating tune by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4mN50m qis | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4502 Registered: 03-2005 |
I was a bit slow getting up this morning. I came out of the shower to the sound of my neighbors banging pots and cheering. I went to the computer and saw the news that Biden has won the election. That cacophony by my neighbors is the best song I've heard in a very long time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4503 Registered: 03-2005 |
I live a few very short blocks from where Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard come together. I'm hearing a lovely continual peal of car horns on parade. Another lovely song this morning! | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 218 Registered: 09-2004 |
Wow Randy, you live right by one of my favorite bars in the world, Tiki-Ti! I'm jealous! I'd be tempted to go there everyday if I lived nearby! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9852 Registered: 05-2005 |
I woke at 5.30am Sydney time and saw the news. All I can hear is birds singing. It’s beautiful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4504 Registered: 03-2005 |
OMG, Austin! If you yielded to that temptation every day, you've be in Forest Lawn by now!! I have a friend who loves the Ti and we'll go there whenever he drops by for a visit. (He lives in the northern San Fernando Valley). It's a fun classic old Angeleno haunt. I'm a lightweight as a drinker--literally as well as figuratively--so I only go there on those occasions when Sam wants to go. But, like all bars in Los Angeles, the Tiki's been closed during Covid. I'm hoping they own the premises. It's likely that they do as they've been there for so long. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 219 Registered: 09-2004 |
Randy, I think you are right that I wouldn't be long for this world if I went there daily. I too hope Tiki-Ti opens after COVID. The most striking thing about that bar (apart from the Tiki drinks that hit like a steamroller) is that you can smoke in the bar (or at least you could last time that I was there) because of a strange LA law that allows owner-operated bars to permit smoking. It was like I was back in the 1990s with all those people lighting up! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9855 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! Biden quoted its lyrics in his speech and that’s good enough for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Z dn4 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1820 Registered: 10-2006 |
John Barry - Journey to Blofeld's Hideaway I thought I’d turned on the radio to some music for Remembrance Sunday or maybe an elegiac accompaniment to Trump’s stately exit from the White House, but no, it’s Bond in a helicopter. Lovely piece of music though. Apparently the worst ever JB got the best ever JB soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDfHEBZG 6JU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4505 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's very nice Stuart! Not being a Bond aficionado I hadn't heard it before. As for Trump's exit, perhaps this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUtDhq0G dME | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2015 Registered: 08-2006 |
The song that popped into my head yesterday was one by my old pal and bandmate Brian Anderson. He wrote it 20 years ago but damn if it isn't a perfect benediction for the weekend's events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY5ON5wO Ko8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9857 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix). RIP Bones Hillman https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n ov/09/bones-hillman-midnight-oil-bassist -dies-aged-62 | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 500 Registered: 11-2007 |
Fontaines D.C. Live from Dublin - just wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5933Dr3 7CY | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1821 Registered: 10-2006 |
I get the idea you're not a great thriller reader, Randy, but the Fleming Bond books are excellent fun and completely different from the bombastic cinema sequence, enjoyable nonsense though they could be (and nostalgic if, like me, you saw most of the Connery films up at the Regal with dad). What Ian McEwan does with a balloon ride or a honeymoon dinner Fleming could do with a game of bridge. I remember when I eventually picked up Casino Royale to read how adult and sweaty and tough it seemed and the punch it packed. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 468 Registered: 02-2007 |
Love On A Farmboy's Wages - XTC | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9863 Registered: 05-2005 |
Madness - Victoria Gardens, which is referenced in the book I’m reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlSXED9 fXw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9868 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Simon - Getting Ready For Christmas Day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_1GXjP SIw From his best late period album, So Beautiful Or So What. I thought it was from maybe 2014, but it’s 2011. I was astonished. I can usually tie albums down to the exact year, and often the exact month. Oh, and having just checked, I see that Getting Ready For Christmas Day was released as a single almost exactly 10 years ago. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1825 Registered: 10-2006 |
Counting Crows - Omaha "Play Pádraig 'Omaha'" said my wife authoritatively (with reference to the other thread). I hear, and obey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdcZhfg o90 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9872 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening now, Stuart. It's ... OK. Apologies to your good lady wife. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9873 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, thanks for the Fontaines D.C. link. That is indeed wonderful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9874 Registered: 05-2005 |
And my own song of the day is inspired by the filling I'm getting this afternoon. The Dentists - Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51TQOJa wEg | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1826 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for the Madness song, Pádraig: I have the feeling there are a lot of good Madness tunes out there I don't know at all. Very Beatlesy melody. I guess "She" is the wonderful Maggie T. I'm looking forward to seeing how Gillian Anderson tackles her on the Crown. I suppose I can't hold her wholly responsible for my years of unemployment back in the 80s, but I sort of do. In the end I followed charming Norman Tebbits's advice and got on my bike, all the way to Sweden and an unexpected life in teaching. It can hardly be called a career, but the amount of laughter it led to has been worth its weight in gold. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1827 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thunderclap Newman - I see it all Odd things arriving on my Fbk page today, including this. Well, there's only one Something in the air, but this is worth a listen. Nice little sax flourishes, if that's what it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2ieP6w Yu4&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0DU_JSiQq5w C6ElsCBMD33ZUQTYEANKzZ8QwZmWgxZlqlInfsS0 sSpZkg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9881 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Madness are, of course, best known for their fabulous singles, but there are also many gems to be found among their non-single album tracks. Victoria Gardens was co-written by Cathal Smyth, whose sole solo album, A Comfortable Man is brilliant and worth picking up if you come across it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Comforta ble_Man | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1828 Registered: 10-2006 |
Come across & picked up! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9885 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Reverbs - Trusted Woods https://strumandthrum.bandcamp.com/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9886 Registered: 05-2005 |
Leah Flanagan - Starlight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQr63JQH CqM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1832 Registered: 10-2006 |
Stereolab - Tempter Who would have tagged Kim Wexler as a Stereolab fan?? Hidden depths beneath that crisp, brusque, dark-voiced surface, of course. Now I love her even more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rpzrtat v6Q | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9890 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub's new single Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaoUahi Y1k&feature=emb_logo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9891 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Better Call Saul is, I think, the greatest TV show ever. I don't fear Covid-19 ending the world, I fear it ending the world before we see the final season of Better Call Saul. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 220 Registered: 09-2004 |
Ah, Padraig, that Teenage Fanclub song has depressed me all week. It just isn't that good, to my ears. Gerry will be missed on the album, I'm sure. Also, I hate to disagree, but Breaking Bad is better (so far) than Better Call Saul, although the show isn't over so I can't be definitive. Any fans of "The Leftovers"? I just watched it and have to say that it has one of the best final episodes that I've ever seen. And it is not that big of a commitment - only 28 episodes over 3 seasons. Totally sticks the landing. (Although a show about 20% of the Earth's population disappearing may not be the best choice of a show to watch during these times....) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1833 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hmmmm, lots of things to love with Saul, though it tends to be the surrounding characters that grab me more than Jimmy himself. A word for Patrick Fabian's Howard, a performance of wonderful comic poise. Breaking has that almost Shakespearean narrative for Walter which in the end carries the day. But, if we're talking Shakespeare, I'd vote for the Wire over both of them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9893 Registered: 05-2005 |
The O'Malleys - We're All Green https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/20 11/11/30/the-reindeer-age-cassette/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9895 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blades - Downmarket. An Irish mod/power pop/soul band that should have got an international break that never came. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb26XPQB x78 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9906 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bleachers & Bruce Springsteen - Chinatown. This is quite lovely. I'm not sure I've ever heard of Bleachers before. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music -news/bleachers-chinatown-bruce-springst een-new-album-1090416/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9909 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cas Wallin - Pretty Sarohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kkFiJ7 0sw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9910 Registered: 05-2005 |
Austin, it will be interesting to see how Teenage Fanclub will split up the writing duties now that they are 33% writers down. Maybe Gerry's replacement will write. That new song does not augur brilliantly for what is to come (but I don't think it's terrible by any stretch, and it may be a grower). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9913 Registered: 05-2005 |
King's X - The Difference (In The Garden Of St. Anne's-On-The-Hill) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYoMnesf SQQ I've loved this song since I bought the album it comes from in 1989. Just beautiful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4511 Registered: 03-2005 |
Go-Neko -- Los Malos De Verdad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5ZT9Yo hKM I'm on the spaceship now. Don't know when I'll be back. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9922 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rush - Stick It Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32AcJkB2 vbY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9929 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fugazi - Public Witness Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimPNp7A aZk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1834 Registered: 10-2006 |
Kacy + Clayton & Marlon Williams - I Wonder Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp9s-2Qj RWI Don’t often play stuff the old man would have enjoyed as well, but this would have fitted in ok with his Jim Reeves, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash collection. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9930 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Deacon Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPYAnjn h4M | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1835 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bright Eyes - Persona Non Grata Wow, bloody hell. Not just the bagpipes that put tears in my eyes when this came on this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaY0A2d eD8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9933 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mudhoney - Revolution & Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits. An unreleased split 7" in which the Seattle men and the Rugby men cover each other. Both covers are brilliant, though Spacemen 3 take the task a lot more seriously than Mudhoney. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9935 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mudhoney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jOlN4tI KZ8 Spacemen 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jojf7K8u D_s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9938 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jayhawks - Big Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWYh9fdY BtA I'd never seen the video before. It's hilarious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Girls Names - Zero Triptych https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OnBruKe BWU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9949 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gemma Hayes - Pieces Of Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gnUCTh pxg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gregor - The Rock (And The Stars) https://6regor.bandcamp.com/album/destin y | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Duncan Maitland - Lucky You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVucflPB ZpQ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1841 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gillian Hills - Tut Tut Tut Tut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sN21hNa eEA Queen’s Gambit is maybe the first injection of sex into chess since the scene in Thomas Crown and Anya Taylor Joy is the most magnetically watchable screen presence in ages. And the soundtrack includes the Monkees, Kinks and this great 60s French beat girl song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9962 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64J8mo8 oZE | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 470 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Civil Wars - Disarm | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9967 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cinderella - Shelter Me. A complete rip-off of not one, but two Rolling Stones songs from the same album (you'll have to watch the video to see what I'm talking about) and yet still great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgi5xdft OIA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9969 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blackfield - Open Mind: The Best Of Blackfield | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9970 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, that one above went in the wrong thread. |