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     Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4535 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lucas 15 -- Como la Flor Dylan from an alternative universe. Nacho Vegas and his backing band's guitarist Xel Pereda organize an album of Asturian folk tunes, and play them their way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnYRECQ 6wI&list=PLL3GAWytE9vOmOMv_zMgPGz7nBM2ID Kxx&index=2 | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 473 Registered: 02-2007 |
Wayfaring Stranger - Emmylou Harris, great guitar picking from Tony Rice | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 128 Registered: 03-2015 |
Too Many Creeps - Bush Tetras, a post-Gang of Four band that also reminds me of Delta 5 or Pylon. I dedicate this song to my brother-in-law and all the Trump loving fanatics running around out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqn-1z-B 4CM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4537 Registered: 03-2005 |
Fred! The Bush Tetras! I didn't know anything about them but simply on the basis of their great name I bought a 45 rpm 12 inch of this way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63t_egLu o1A Years later I bought an album of theirs, produced by the great Nona Hendryx. I remember being underwhelmed by it. I should see what I think of it now. And, yeah, I guess a lot of us have a Trumpidiot hovering somewhere nearby. I know that my little sister and her husband voted for him in 2016. I assume they did so again in November but it's not a subject I'll ever initiate. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1860 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yves Simon - Diabolo menthe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpYziWv 6XE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1861 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hey Joe – Alain Bashung I never bought the compilation album Climax, so had never heard this version until yesterday: the music is, I think, pretty much the Hendrix-derived sort of thing you might expect, but the vocal is very much a blistering unleashed riot all his very own. I don’t know if he plays with the words too, have to listen again for that. But what a singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-xxgDT asM | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 519 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rolling Blackouts CF - Beautiful Steven. Their concert from last year is reported in september 2021. Let's hope... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1862 Registered: 10-2006 |
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFXJw7n -fU Famously soundtracked, famously sampled, it seems, but this morning was the first time I think I ever heard this simple, lovely piano piece. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1863 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, with reference to the Bashung Hey Joe above, he does go his own way with the words, getting rid of any homicidal impulse, treating Joe as the other man rather than the betrayed lover, and ending up on a more sardonically realistic note. I came up with: "Hey Joe, don't run by like that, your house isn’t on fire. Hey Joe, come say hello, you won't die. I get home whenever I want, I’ve got a whole bunch of watches, I've got plenty of time. What’s waiting for me, I know, just a cold bed with nobody in it. Hey Joe, if we were talking, eh, what about? Hey Joe, Bosnia, the homeless, you don't give a shit about that – like you say, life's the six o'clock metro And every man for himself. For you Joe, there’s always a place, But not for me, why’s that? How come you’re so lucky, Fingers full, hey Joe, what did you walk in when you were born? Tell me! Pockets always full and car of the year – God, we forget you’re so ugly. Hey Joe, nothing left for me, thought I had a girl of my own, But it looks like she’s sleeping in your arms now. Yesterday I dreamt of having your skin, Joe, but I'd rather see you suffer - So I’ll give you this girl as a present. Hey Joe, go on, good luck, Joe." | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 520 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wedding Present ft. Louise Wener - We Should Be Together (Locked Down & Stripped Back) https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwA R0VPIt0OGTxyJrg6VcnNrEh6J1bsPgCig3Jq4Vlv 0A1iSLxgOfZPztoeF4&v=jVm_4pnHl3o&feature =youtu.be | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1401 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Ronettes - Be My Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGn Fgk Goodbye Phil Spector. A sad end to a complicated life, but what a legacy left to music. These days the word "genius" gets thrown around far too easily, but he what he did with the recording studio was certainly that. In the early days of CH4 in the UK there was a great documentary shown about him, with great stories from the Ramones (« then he drew the gun on me and said do that solo again ») and Leonard Cohen. But the best was an interview with the loathsome Albert Goldman trying to say that Spector was “the worst possible schlock ever recorded.” Each insult was punctuated with footage of the Ronettes on Shindig, that blew his view out of the water ! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4539 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, thanks for the translation of Bashung's version of "Hey Joe." There was a time in the mid-60s when seemingly everyone covered that song. The musical part of Bashung's version was far too faithful to the Hendrix version to appeal to me, but the reinvention of the lyrics is great. It rescues the song from being a mediocre macho man-done-wrong cliche into something nuanced and, well . . . French. I wonder if they might have been improvised on the stage to some extent. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 474 Registered: 02-2007 |
How Could You Babe - Tobias Jesso Jr. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4540 Registered: 03-2005 |
Mi Pequeño Muerte - Los Cuatros Fuegos Fourth track on the 2009 album "Un Futuro Brillante," a slice of indie pop reminiscent of "Seance" era Church. It's easy to imagine it spilling from the radio speakers as a car speeds down a lonely highway across the endless expanse of the Argentine pampas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiqkS1AE BeI | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1865 Registered: 10-2006 |
Robert F - Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruM6t_3q 1p0 "Comments disactivated". I wonder why? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4543 Registered: 03-2005 |
That song is the gem of "Inferno" Stuart. Robert is so good at setting poetry to music. And there's something about vocalizing words written by someone else that seems to inspire him to bring them more to life. It's as if his surprise and delight at the wordsmithery of someone else propels him further. At least, that's the impression I derive from "When People Are Dead" and "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement." He should seriously consider devoting as much as half of his output to converting poetry he loves into song. | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
cathal coughlan song of co-aklan Not on youtube but avalable to download and on Spotify A cracker and album to follow. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1866 Registered: 10-2006 |
Andrew Bird – Tenuousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9rmwllw 5q8 Possibly a little too sophisticated for my own tastes, but good to hear anyway. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4545 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you David for reminding. The Cathal song can be heard on bandcamp. https://cathalc.bandcamp.com I was made aware of this a week or two ago by a certain Irish expat who wondered how Cathal was going to remember the elaborate lyrics onstage. I loved "Rancho Tetrahedron." Cathal was in great voice for the Microdisney reunions so the new album should reward. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1868 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Byrds - Goin' Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHb7RFp oxU What a fantastic song, though, suitably, it had me straining my memory to think which version I was more familiar with, and while memory went on telling me it was a male voice, it must have been the Dusty version. This sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, though that’s probably due to the huge influence of the band itself rather than their own foresightedness. Apparently Crosby left because they favoured this track over Triad for the album, which seems fair enough. I haven’t checked out the rest of the album, but you have to be a bit dumb not to find something to knock off for Triad. On the other hand, shame on him for not feeling the poignantly floating sublimity of this either. The comments section mentions that “Gene Clark rejoined The Byrds for at least part of this album including this song, and this accounts for the richness of the vocals here.” But nobody seems quite sure. Whatever, majestic cover of a beautiful song, and the line, “I can recall a time, when I wasn't afraid to reach out to a friend” while not at all true in my own case, always guarantees a deep sigh. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4546 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love that song. For me it was definitely the Byrds version I heard first. But I was still living with two older brothers, both of them long smitten by the Byrds. And, curiously, The Notorious Byrd Brothers was a particular favorite of mine at the time even though I did not consider myself a big Byrds fan. (I was in the Rolling Stones' camp at that time.) Gene Clark's role on "Notorious" is a great mystery to me. I'd expect to be able to hear his voice in the harmony mix as he had a warmer, lower register than the others. Unfortunately I lent my copy of "Mr. Tambourine Man" to a friend before Covid and haven't retrieved it. A couple decades ago I came across Jackie Trent's version of the song. It's my favorite at this time simply because I like the way she makes sure we absorb those timeless lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VDEOGl lvk | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1343 Registered: 03-2007 |
Roger McGuinn & Richard Thompson - Goin' Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onvz9U5j apc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4547 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that Hugh. Interesting pairing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10001 Registered: 05-2005 |
Royal Depeche - Your Return. A brilliant 1987 b-side by a German band that only ever released one 7". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAC8OE7S 54g | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1402 Registered: 04-2005 |
Welcome back Pádraig !!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1869 Registered: 10-2006 |
I was going to say, "Good title!" | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1870 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bill Drummond – Goin’ back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASNQtnEq 1eQ Hell’s teeth, this is the version I was thinking of! You’d think I’d have remembered the accent, at least. I was left very much to my own devices my first year in Sweden, so spent a lot of time with my small collection of cassettes, which included BD’s The Man on one side and a great Nancy Sinatra compilation on the other, both played to death. After overdoing the Akvavit I used to phone up any girl I fancied – well, come to think of it, any girl whose number I happened to have – and play “I want that girl” to them down the phone. Surprisingly ineffective. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1403 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Goin' Back" has long been a favourite of mine too. I have this Michael Ochs photo of Goffin and King (the song's composers) on my wall. They look like teenagers...and probably were ! https://www.facebook.com/GoffinKingFound ation/photos/a.113297176736047/192473835 485047 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1871 Registered: 10-2006 |
Beautiful photo, that. Why that one, in particular, Andrew, or do you have other favourite artists around it? I haven't had an artist I love's pic up probably since I took down my old Jan Akkerman poster when my parents finally moved house. I wouldn't mind one of Samuel Beckett, maybe, up on my studio wall, he has an inspiring face and his "fail better" line always echoes. But no space at the moment. Meanwhile, Matt Berninger - One More Second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmGhtIOB lhI I love a lot about this song, the snaky guitar run that threatens to evolve, somewhere around the main chord change, into another song that I can’t quite bring to mind, the way the organ seeps gently out from the mix into a brief but satisfying solo, MB’s voice, low where I like it. The lyric, ok, is nothing special, nothing to ring round my head for days – currently occupied by some Conor O lines, anyway (“It takes a lot of gall to try to please/these dehumanizing entities/I befriended all my enemies/they had my back against the wall/Oh, a coward is what a coward does/I suppose maybe I always was/But I'm sick of it, I've had enough/And now I'm ready for the war.”) But all in all, a lot to love. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1404 Registered: 04-2005 |
To answer simply Stuart my life is complicated ! I live between 2 places, one of which I call jokingly « my swinging bachelor pad » which is where I am during my working week. There I have exactly what I want on the walls. My poster of Edwyn Collins at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London 1985 (http://www.edwyncollins.com/photo/poster -bloomsbury-theatre-1?context=user) hangs over my hi-fi. I have 2 framed Apartments posters, an original 60s Hendrix poster, a lovely « The Go-Between » film poster (Palme d’or Cannes 1971). And I have a thread on which I peg various pictures and postcards, including the King/Goffin one. My partner has impeccable taste and I love the way that she has organised our family home, but even I acknowledge that psychedelic Jimi doesn’t go too well with old Périgourdin stone ! Song of the day : the return of Feu! Chatterton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KQ5k7k 0ws&list=RD-3KQ5k7k0ws | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 522 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eyeless in Gaza - Catch me | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1874 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sandy Denny – Solo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV11TXY7 qpY Following on from other thread's VU chat, a tremendous SD song, as recommended by Lou Reed. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7cfeyP M9M) | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1406 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sure that I've posted this before but it's that good  Sandy Denny - Now and Then (demo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt44P4Ey cUM First came across this song in the mid 80s when I bought the "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" vinyl box. This demo is the only version of the song as far as I know. Denny's multi-tracked voice is remarkable. "Hairs on the back of the neck" stuff ! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1407 Registered: 04-2005 |
cabane "sangokaku" feat. Bonnie Prince Billy & Kate Stables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgARpMr inI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10005 Registered: 05-2005 |
Goat Girl - The Crack. I heard this on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6 show (a morning show which is evening listening in Sydney) and thought it was fantastic. I couldn't quite make out what she said the band's name was when she back announced it, but found it because she mentioned it was out on Rough Trade records today (now yesterday). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXium0u9 xPI Reviews call the album post punk, but there are a lot of pop smarts going on here too, which is how I like post punk to be; rhythm and melody. Randy, this might be your thing. Rob too. And our post-Brexit, ex-pat continental contingent. Hugh is probably already onto them. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1876 Registered: 10-2006 |
I've certainly liked what I heard so far, takes me back a bit to the Raincoats/Slits days... want to hear more. Re Brexit, my sister's small birthday parcel for my wife arrived..."Right, sir, just 18 euros customs duty to pay on that, thanks..." Pressies are going to have to be rethought in future... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4550 Registered: 03-2005 |
Nope. I'm still in the Hispanosphere, if there is such a thing. In Uruguay for this one. And totally in love. The singer sounds like he's 16, but he or whoever writes the songs has a solid superior grasp of it: the importance of building verses by assembling compatible parts and the value of building tension. And the whole thing has the fragile teetering beauty of early Go-Betweens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZppUXp 5F4&list=OLAK5uy_l-EPOPhar050K5nCVL_T-Tk xTlYpHpOmc&index=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6jUxc3 Dvo&list=OLAK5uy_l-EPOPhar050K5nCVL_T-Tk xTlYpHpOmc&index=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDBB0w6 Fxk&list=OLAK5uy_l-EPOPhar050K5nCVL_T-Tk xTlYpHpOmc&index=5 Even the couple songs I originally thought were weak on this album have started making more sense as I hear them again, like some of the more challenging early Go-Betweens. This is easily one of the most motivating albums I've heard in the past 12 months. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1877 Registered: 10-2006 |
Clifford T Ward – Wherewithal Just because the word came up in a recent lesson, and I immediately broke out into song. A flash of anxiety crossed my student’s features until I explained. “Pretty song from the 1970s, check it out on YouTube, by Michael T Ward.” Very authoritative. I liked the way he used vocabulary you didn’t usually find in pop, “Scullery” was another one. Did he go on to write other lovely, literate songs after his first big hits? He looked like someone's favourite high school English teacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXQ36a6 o_M | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4552 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I've never heard of him! His music is VERY British. Fellow Yanks, did he happen anywhere here? He definitely did not happen in the ignorant agricultural central valley of California and I also do not remember him when I went down to Los Angeles in '78. Is the following song during or after the time you're thinking of? It certainly fits the bill you describe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJv93h8 t5A Youtube has been pitching up quite a string of his songs after "Wherewithal." I think the song that struck me the most was "A Day to Myself." Things do get to be too orchestral as his career continues. I don't know how often I'd be in the mood for listening to classic sensitive tunes from the 70s but he was obviously very good at what he did. Good god, he did a song called "Mr. Bilbo Baggins!" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10006 Registered: 05-2005 |
He was someone whose LPs were always stocked in Irish record shops in the 80s. I think I always thought he was American for whatever reason (possibly due to the middle initial). I wish I'd known before finding out right now on Wikipedia that he was English of Irish heritage. I also wondered why I hadn't remembered reading of his death in 2001, but then I realised that it came just a couple of weeks after the death of George Harrison. I must have read of Ward's death at the time, but I don't recall it. On the day of Harrison's death, I was on a very early morning shift in The Irish Times and the online editor phoned to say George Harrison had died and to send out an alert. I was happy (and relieved) to reply that I knew and already had done. I felt like adding "if you check your phone you'll see the alert", but didn't. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1878 Registered: 10-2006 |
A Day to Myself is the one about a war cemetery visit, isn’t it? Reflects a lot of people’s experience, certainly my own. I always think I can wander quietly around, but then I choke up almost immediately. Yes, Clifford had a sort of sincere drippiness about him which I always admired, one drip to another. He looked a bit like Rick Wakeman’s kinder, gentler younger brother. Very very English indeed. He has a lot of passionate followers, it seems, on Youtube, who respond to this, which is nice to see. His career was hampered by his unwillingness to tour or perform, apparently, and then MS struck. I don’t know if, like Gilbert O’S for example, his material went down the mawkish MOR road after about one cracking album, but I’ll try to check out his later stuff out of curiosity. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 523 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julian Cope - The Greatness & Perfection Of Love | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10007 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beachnuts - Cycle Annie. Lou Reed, pre-VU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWG61Coc Cok | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1300 Registered: 08-2004 |
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSzOcvAJ mi0 Seems to be raining every day. The Thames is bursting it's banks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10008 Registered: 05-2005 |
Meshell Ndegeocello - I Wonder If I Take You Home. A brilliant cover of the Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force song. |