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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1947 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fw RaM Sharon & Angel go full-on diva power ballad a la Stevie Nicks, plus nice visual Abba reference. Sharon’s voice is my favourite of the moment, alongside Zaz and Nadia Reid. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1948 Registered: 10-2006 |
Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAn3JdtS rnY A little bit Cranberryish, this college-radio friendly Canadian band. Perhaps Riverdale is bringing the name back into fashion – my old man’s name, too, so the ears pricked up. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 187 Registered: 05-2005 |
Both Alvvays albums are brilliant. I prefer the second one. I only came across them via Anna Burch who shares a label and cited them as an influence on her first album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1949 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Rolling Stones - 100 Years Ago (Piano Demo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsQROnH GA4 Slowed down, maybe, with a string arrangement and a lyrical Mick Taylor solo, this could’ve been another Angie. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gemma Hayes - Hanging Around. Even with the glaring, to me anyway, comping used on it, it's still a pop/rock classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktgyKAc CBI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It OK? If Microdisney had ever made a rock record, it may have sounded like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5VG2XWU EbA | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4636 Registered: 03-2005 |
Skooshny - Science Changes Everyone Another fine offer from this barely noticed and now forgotten Chicago/LA band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQvLS-cX QyA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10141 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Goon Sax - In The Stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHtsMIC Pdc&t=244s This augurs very well for their third album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1950 Registered: 10-2006 |
Katherine Priddy - Eurydice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJW3bjff 02I A mix of cool, knowing contemporary singer-songwriter with traditional folk, something a bit early Genesis proggishness and, what’s that, Lucy in the sky with diamonds? Toasted by Richard Thompson and presented yesterday morning by excellent comic actor Stephen Mangan (his non-fight with Matt LeBlanc, ie a fight between two grown men who have obviously never been in a fight in their lives, is still one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV), a taster for her debut album, out on 25th June, and I will be running along to… well, my keyboard, I suppose, to purchase it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4637 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the Goon Sax link Pádraig. It's very promising. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 677 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Associates - Party Fears Two, a song that takes me back to my university years back in the 19th century (at least it feels that way...). The fantastic Martha Ladly (now professor Martha Ladly) is on keyboards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lx1_Add -z4&list=RD-Lx1_Add-z4&start_radio=1 And on tonight's Newsnight (UK BBC2 21 June) there was a blink-and-you-miss-it Go-Betweens reference. In an interview with the Scottish football pundit and sometime DJ Pat Nevin there was a framed copy of 16 Lovers Lane on the wall behind him; Nevin's famously a huge fan of indie music. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 188 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pat Nevin was at the Go-Betweens’ last Scottish show, in-store at Avalanche Records in Edinburgh. He was also at Grant’s DJ set at Born to be Wide that night where he was introduced to Grant. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 678 Registered: 08-2005 |
I Start Counting - Theme to the obscure Jenny Agutter film from 1969. The film's worth catching too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1zh3J0G wrQ (Burgers, when I read your post I was wearing a shirt bought from Avalanche - showing the cover of the single of the theme tune of Belle et Sebastien, the French TV show from the 1960s that was shown every summer in the UK for years. And is the most haunting song ever) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 679 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone There's a slighlty more famous version but I've only just discovered the original recording, and it's a real beaut! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8I xtc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4643 Registered: 03-2005 |
That Nerves track is great, Simon! It certainly beats the other version. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 680 Registered: 08-2005 |
The ever-fantastic Kristin Hersh - Mississippi Kite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHfcDHx 5po Fantastic, visceral, angry. And fantastic again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10143 Registered: 05-2005 |
Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfZHWNX Z3M | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1953 Registered: 10-2006 |
The maturity of Damon Albarn will bring forth, I hope, things of great wonder and beauty. Digging into the riches of English poetry does seem to have an invigorating effect on the modern songwriter. |