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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10024 Registered: 05-2005 |
Power Of Dreams - 100 Ways To Kill A Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4TUmOG ZFw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1896 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yiruma – River Flows in You Apparently very well-known amongst folk who love vampires and newly popular thanks to lockdown, this is indeed rather a pretty piano tune. There’s a lot of this sort of stuff around these days, what a Telegraph columnist sneeringly – can they ever not sneer? – referred to as “therapy music”, but this is a straightforwardly morning-enhancing melody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7maJOI3Q Mu0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR21Gq6kQUGGs H4Daaxi9kiOKr4oRh-c1aHVTDZIhFhcnmSMtc_c4 0w9Mc0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10026 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wedding Present - Bewitched (Marc Riley Session) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10028 Registered: 05-2005 |
Link to the Wedding Present song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJr3C2Lb tAQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4571 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the WP Pádraig. It reminds me I should pull out "Bizarro." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1897 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bunny Wailer – Fig Tree If there was ever a reggae album that one should slap Morrissey lightly around the chops with, perhaps it would be BW’s Blackheart Man. This great wee song also manages to include the Scots saying, “mony a mickle maks a muckle”, apparently adopted into local patois. On a personal level, I avoided figs for many years, until one summer we had a tree laden with the fruit outside our holiday flat and one evening my wife, impatient with my stubborn refusal, pressed a hunk of pecorino cheese into the heart of a fig and jammed it peremptorily into my gob. Fastest conversion ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeRfAUXE kzc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10029 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hellacopters & Papa Emeritus IV (Ghost) - Sympathy For The Devil, live on a Swedish quiz show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4jZEUp Yo4 | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 20 Registered: 03-2006 |
Steely Dan - Aja | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10032 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Belligerents - Flash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-EXjgAu adA Randy, have a listen. If this doesn't grab you, then your reticence (expressed on another thread) is well placed. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4572 Registered: 03-2005 |
Nope, doesn't grab me. It reminds me of "Screamadelica" which I loved when it came out. But that was a long time ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10033 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fair enough. I hadn’t noticed the Primal Scream influence, but you’re right, it’s there. Thirty years since Screamadelica. No doubt there’s a super duper fantastic edition box set coming later this year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4573 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile I have a song of the day. And it's from North America! Change of Seasons -- Soft Spoken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99H8NyP IeY | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 488 Registered: 02-2007 |
Uli, Ive been listening to most of Steely Dan this last fortnight and Aja is perhaps their best. I was never into any of this kinda jazz rock at the time but now appreciate the amazing musicianship on most of their albums. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 663 Registered: 08-2005 |
BMX Bandits - Star Wars I took a punt on some 'new' CDs recently, pretty much on spec: the Vaselines, Teenage Fanclub and BMX Bandits. Really enjoying the BMX Bandits. And now I'm listening to some genuinely new music, Eerie Wanda, who I first heard on a CD playing at Bristol's Rough Trade record shop. Haunting and stripped back to the minimum. I'm open to other suggestions to broaden my musical horizons; I only discovered the House of Love thanks to fans on this forum. Hope everybody's well out there. I have my first Covid jab in two weeks' time and the second one in June. And I've presently got loads of freelance work, which is nice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10034 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, have you felt Bill Gates taking control of your mind after the Covid jab, or does that only become apparent after the second dose? Mammút - Shore. I'm listening to the 12" EP, but this link is for a radio session version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKteBGh7 VxA | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4575 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a great disciplined drummer in that band, Pádraig. My song of the day is from Sweden: Victorian Tin -- Snow Violet Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqPYN9E miA | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 664 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, I'll let you know! Of all the things I worry about - and there are quite a few - Bill Gates injecting probes into my bloodstream is not one of them. Nor is 5G. The Earth is not flat, either; the US did land a man on the Moon; there was no gunman on the grassy knoll. That said, I'm pretty sure the British royal family are lizards, that David Icke's always right! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10036 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, that’s a great description of that drummer. Simon, yes, do keep us posted. I’m only jealous. I have no idea when I’ll be able to get the jab in Australia. But then, Covid barely exists here, so it’s not as urgent for us as it is for most other countries. I hope when we do get dosed that it will allow international travel again and that all the antivax morons are excluded from commercial flights forevermore. That would make me happy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1899 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, what an insult to lizards, such lovely wee things! And, unlike the wretched Windsors, so good at staying out of sight. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4577 Registered: 03-2005 |
But Simon, you do concede that there are space lasers trained upon the woodlands of the western United States starting all those fires, correct? They were funded by the Rothschilds. Everybody knows that! Pádraig, I would love a regime in which people who don't get vaccinated are prohibited from getting on planes! The correlation between them and morons is just about 1:1. Maybe I'd even have room to sit in some sort of comfort. Interestingly I may actually adopt the common Asian tourist's practice of wearing a mask on flights. I had one European vacation thoroughly ruined by a head cold that started on my first full day in Paris. I almost certainly picked up that bug during the eleven hours spent inside the cramped little tube that shot me there. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 665 Registered: 08-2005 |
Luckily with regard to the Rothschild-funded space lasers making way for the high-speed railway, the Americans would never actually vote for somebody who believes in that! Would they?!?! And re Covid. The one thing this country seems to have done pretty well is its vaccination program. Pity that 140,000 people dying made it such a necessity to get it right. (My next post will be about music. Honest!) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 666 Registered: 08-2005 |
Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today Written by Graham Gouldman whose other credits include the equally excellent Bus Stop by the Hollies, For Your Love for the Yardbirds, Dreadlock Holiday. The list goes on... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4578 Registered: 03-2005 |
Simon! There was a period when Graham Gouldman ruled the world. He actually had an excellent album of his own in 1968, produced by Peter Noone and arranged by John Paul Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUvi3IB LcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdogyP7 cLE And amazingly, he has a new album out last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v1XqD8P 5uM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1903 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pomme - Grandiose Ok, if someone is going to steal the nickname of the main character in maybe my favourite ever French film , they’d better come up with the goods, and she does, really, in this lovely, richly minimalist song – French female singers have cornered the market in this sort of stuff, and Pomme does it so well, with a voice of gently muscular musicality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIqA5sg5 gZM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4579 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, if you are referring to the generally understated vocal style of the chanteuses (chanteusie?) I agree. I can think of Carla Bruni's creepy sex kitten style as an exception that proves the rule but usually French female singers bypass all the histrionic or showbizzy or labored or otherwise gimmicky vocal stylings that are nearly the mandatory norm with anglophone female singers. The exceptions to the latter that seem to prove the rule are people like Frances Gibson of the Cannanes and Holly Throsby. I'll admit that being a creature of the anglophone world I originally couldn't quite "get" the French vocal style. I wondered why all these singers were so diffident. And then the day arrived when I just couldn't stand to listen to the fussy, showy style I'd grown up with. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10038 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've been bigging up the Graham Gouldman album for ages. It's in my top albums list of 2020. Does no one pay attention? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10039 Registered: 05-2005 |
Apologies, everyone, for my intemperance. A quick search reveals that I never previously mentioned Graham Gouldman. I was mixing him up with his former 10CC bandmate Kevin Godley, who released a great solo album very late last year called Muscle Memory. Too late for the top 20 albums of the year I posted, in fact. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10040 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Destiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMvOIbCv btY&t=192s | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2029 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's a nice tune. Thanks, Padraig. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1907 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Woodlice - Keep the Light On Baby Very Weather Prophetsian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUa79b6S YRk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew Farriss - Run Baby Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jt8nYm 9fw From a solo album coming out on Friday by the former INXS guy. This track isn't far removed from what Grant McLennan was doing on Horsebreaker Star. I'll be interested to hear how the rest of the album sounds. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1414 Registered: 04-2005 |
To the barricades Comrades ! Avec un peu d’émotion and a stirring chorus. Cyril Mokaiesh - Communiste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCT-rge 8k4 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4583 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that Andrew. Without the language--all I can get with my complete lack of French is "J'suis communiste"--I'm left to listen to the music and absorb the visuals. I like the big French balladic arrangement and the song. I find Mokaiesh' grooming contrived, what with the BoJo fake messy hair and the artfully unshaven look that requires careful trim work to maintain. I love the vintage film snippets. And then there's the commercial tag at the end, inviting you to visit his page on . . . Facebook! Ok, maybe that wasn't such a glaringly awful thing in 2011 but I'm not entirely sure. Are the lyrics ironic or sincere? There are a LOT of confusing inputs here. Most of the time I'm happy not to know what the lyrics are on a lot of music I listen to because, frankly, most people's lyrics aren't very good. But that means I lose out when the lyrics ARE good. In the meantime though I'm going to see what I think of some of his other songs. I haven't had a new big-production French artist to explore in a long time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4584 Registered: 03-2005 |
So far, everything's coming up good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTgK9VJ 32Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHRyeYhY WkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZgXbdu8 3PA I've yet to hit a dud from this man. France is one of the relatively few places where I find major label music enjoyable. In the anglophone markets I find major label music acts a total must to avoid. France is one place where big-buck productions and very professional musicians can produce interesting music. Maybe it's because France doesn't seem to have so many small labels, or because the entire francophone world is a lot smaller than the anglophone or Spanish speaking worlds and thus the majors have to be a bit more like independents. Or maybe I just generally like the French aesthetic, consequently the more MOR offerings are ok. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1415 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi Randy, Don't know anything at all about him ! I was in a car at the weekend and we were all choosing songs and someone asked for this to be played. The luck of the draw ! Merci à Thierry F ! I believe that he must be sincere..."La loi du marché" is a duo with Bernard Lavailliers who is certainly "engagé"... There are comments on YT about him stating that he is commmunist but releasing on Universal. But the Facebook page is a link to download the song for free  Obviously he took a decision to change direction at some moment. This is from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJPdY3J kcU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4585 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok I'll have to do a work-around. That video is not available in my country. But I see on discogs that he had a brief early spell recording under his surname only. I've ordered his first two solo albums, the one with "Communiste" and the next album afterward. I'm sure I'll end up getting the rest. A late friend of mine was involved in a relationship with a French expat (from Toulon) who used to say that he was a communist but that he loved luxury. He was a clothing designer and swanned around in a bright yellow Mustang convertible. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 668 Registered: 08-2005 |
Vashti Bunyan - Where I Like to Stand. Just.... wonderful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6u_7yd4 bg8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10047 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Long & Shane O'Neill - Far From Home. The most Go-Betweens-like song I've heard in ages. Years, probably. https://davidlong4.bandcamp.com/album/mo ll-zeis | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1908 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pierce Turner - Time Flies Browsing some old mix-tapes, inspired by the Guardian article mentioned elsewhere, here’s one track and artist I certainly didn’t remember. Wexford-born, first album produced by Philip Glass, the Irish Times described him as “one of the most important Irish artists of the last twenty years” and in 2005 his song “Wicklow Hills” was voted among the top twenty-five Irish songs of all time by Today FM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8g5MNsU kpg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4587 Registered: 03-2005 |
Allo Darlin' -- Dive for your Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7nKTbmU khs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10052 Registered: 05-2005 |
Care - Besides (Three). One of my favourite ever b-sides. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1909 Registered: 10-2006 |
Favourite ever b-sides?? All time: Blur & Francoise Hardy - To The End Close runners-up: When people are dead/Steven (You don’t eat meat…) Never bought many singles really, but there was a record shop in the centre of Stockholm that had a bin full of cheap singles with the centre bit taken out, and I had a mate with a turntable with that plastic bit to fit the single over, so I could buy up a pile of singles, take them round to his and bung them on a tape. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10056 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles’ Rain is almost certainly the greatest ever b-side. It’s a better song than 99% of any a-sides I’ve ever heard. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1910 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jane Weaver – Heartlow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSb3x-WK Lh8 Recently a lot of the excellent radio tracks I’ve heard sung by women have almost all turned out to be sung by one woman, Jane W in other words. | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 21 Registered: 03-2006 |
Prefab Sprout - Dublin | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10057 Registered: 05-2005 |
Catholic Action - Witness. This is the only link I can find for it and it doesn't work in Australia, but hopefully will in your country https://soundcloud.com/catholic-action/w itness | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1911 Registered: 10-2006 |
Rose Betts – Song to the siren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhJoypII qyI Well, a delicious surprise, within the mammoth solemnity of the Snyder cut Justice League, to find London singer Rose B delivering this Liz Fraser-homaging version of this tremendous song to introduce the Flash. Ezra Miller is hardly my idea of Barry Allen, here reconstituted as a wisecracking “nice Jewish boy”, but on the other hand he is always great fun to watch. Rose sings it beautifully. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1416 Registered: 04-2005 |
But the original is always best Tim Buckley on the Monkees show in '68. They had good taste those boys... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBH GY4 His recorded version wasn't released until the "Starsailor" album in late 1970. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1912 Registered: 10-2006 |
I checked out this version for the first time this morning, Andrew, good to hear the words finally! What a tremendous song. This Guardian article also came up, which might be interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n ov/17/song-to-the-siren-classic | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1417 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, Thanks for that article, very interesting. Never knew that there were so many covers. And I just had to listen to that Pat Boone version...certainly surpasses the definition of dreadful ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWrneyK- czg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4590 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for this walk down memory lane, Stuart and Andrew. It takes me to the time when this place I live was really a place to be. And yes, the Monkees did have very good taste. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4591 Registered: 03-2005 |
And my song of the day: Javi Punga -- Rock de Volver al Futuro Punga was (is?) the most consistent and determined proponent of Flying Nun aesthetics in the giant music scene of Buenos Aires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zdSvppO 22c | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1357 Registered: 03-2007 |
Javi Punga - La teoría de los campos integrados https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrxn7Bi 9Ps From his most recent release ( Ned Flander - El Club del Lo-Fi Vol. 8 ) which appeared on Bandcamp in February, 2021. Digital download only as far as I am aware. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4592 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. Great to see he's still cranking things out at an almost terrifying rate. I keep blundering across indications that more of his output received physical release than I thought. "Punga" from 2004 was apparently released to the extent of 100 copies way back when. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1913 Registered: 10-2006 |
Morrissey - Come Back To Camden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itldtaLv _X4 That damn melodic phrase around, “here you’ll find/despair and I”, but lyricless (“That’s the end/of you and me” was the nearest I could get) was bugging me all weekend until suddenly, just as I was dropping off to sleep, the title whisked into my mind. “Morrissey!” I yelped. “What the f***?” hissed my wife. What a relief anyway. And what a majestic song. Which brought to mind Auden on Yeats: “Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives, Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honors at their feet. Time that with this strange excuse Pardoned Kipling and his views, And will pardon Paul Claudel, Pardons him for writing well. In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate. Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice.” | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10059 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - The House That Jack Kerouac Built, the stunning version on G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume 2. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10062 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan – Come Here My Love (Van Morrison cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IYqWbi6 aSw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1914 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gaëtan Roussel - On ne meurt pas (en une seule fois) Not so much for the song, which has GR stuck in much the same rhythmic and melodic groove he’s been in ever since the magnificent work he did on Bleu pétrole, but for the video, in which we see tantalising glimpses of biathlete Martin Fourcade running a fantastic looking trail in the Vercors massif – as mentioned so memorably at the start of Bashung classic La nuit je mens. At a far more leisurely pace, perhaps one day… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp4DWqNJ jD0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10066 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Panics - No More Tears |