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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gin Blossoms - Allison Road. I’m only 30 years late to the Gin Blossoms party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-UBnjzJ MQ0 | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 225 Registered: 09-2004 |
Padraig, I'm glad you are into the Gin Blossoms. At the same time, to me, the songs are very hard to listen to knowing what happened after Doug wrote them. The writer of the Gin Blossoms' hits has one of the most tragic stories in rock and roll. This is a pretty good description of what happened .... https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/jesus -of-suburbia/Content?oid=2190439 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10157 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll read that, thanks for the link Austin. My song of the day is Dawes' take on The Waterboys' classic Fisherman's Blues. I almost never like covers of songs where I adore the original. This is an exception. https://dawes.bandcamp.com/track/fisherm ans-blues | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10158 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just read the story, Austin. Wow. That's one of the most harrowing articles about a musician I've ever read. It's powerful stuff. | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 29 Registered: 03-2006 |
Andy Partridge - Ghost Train (2021) Long live XTC The soundtrack of our days Books are burning, Generals ans Majors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4OjvIs uDI | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1961 Registered: 10-2006 |
Conor Oberst - Milk thistle Sometimes hard to catch a few words from a radio song to identify it, but not here, where they also turned out to be the (excellent) title, though fairchild and perhaps lazarus might have worked too. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1962 Registered: 10-2006 |
Slaughter Beach, Dog – Your Cat Shouting at my sister in law’s google player gets me a lot of stuff I might not actually want, especially if I get the pronunciation even slightly wrong, but this jumped out at me for the cheerfully laconic lyrics: “He asks how much I'm drinking and I lie/But doctors are always trying to tell you/Some torturous way to live your life/It's not like they know everything ever/Hey man, I went to college too.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQM_hTHp hPs | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1433 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hamish Hawk - The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_-Yhyd Syc A definite Divine Comedy vibe ? Think that's King Creosote in the video wielding the shovel... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1434 Registered: 04-2005 |
And a second ? A new song by Big Thief - Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0dXT-v -vY Best described as a scuzzy groove ? Simply wonderful. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1963 Registered: 10-2006 |
James – Sometimes I seem to remember on previous dogsitting visits that shouting at your google player the name of a band would get you a whole chunk of time dedicated to that particular band. Now, shouting out a band name gets me a Spotify channel that might possibly include something by that band, but will mainly be other stuff. So yelling Miossec will get you a lot of Gaetan Roussel and screaming Waterboys will get you a lot of Elvis Costello, but also this song by James, which dragged me in from the garden because of the Grantesque intonations in the first couple of verses. I have never heard anything by James to convince me that life would turn to ashes in my mouth if I did not immediately rush out to buy something by them and Sometimes doesn’t change that, but it is a whoppingly fine pop song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU5YAHN 3vQ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1964 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for more Hamish H, Andrew, whose last single Call for Tiree was also very Divine Comedy and also very good. This one was filmed at Leith Theatre, I see! Just along the road from where my old dear was born and where I lived for a couple of years myself. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1435 Registered: 04-2005 |
Nanci Griffith - There's A Light Beyond These Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBMy5Eh wnk RIP. I confess to not knowing a lot of her recordings, but her "Best of" album is a great collection. Her sincerity always shines through. I think that it was the song "Ford Ecoline" on a freebie NME tape (The Tape with No Name ?) that was my introduction to her. She was a participant to the BBC Scotland series "Transatlantic Sessions" which produced some wonderful music. Her is her version of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather" from that programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMW2otJ XMQ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1436 Registered: 04-2005 |
James ? The band that U2 could have been if they could actually write songs  I saw them on their first visit to Edinburgh (at the time of the Factory releases ?) when they were in their early "sea-shanty" phase. There were about 12 people there. The next time they played in Edinburgh they had lost their record contract, gained several new members and brought half of Manchester with them. What a contrast and what a gig ! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4663 Registered: 03-2005 |
Restless Leg - Caught the Corners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ionWpnhL AN8&list=OLAK5uy_kLL9_2Yj1m083pCeRDCl1DN CcikPRZmWM&index=3 | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 370 Registered: 05-2005 |
My old man's a dustman: Lonnie Donnegan Listening to BBC radio two because morning radio where I live is heavy on current affairs which can be too much. This is the opposite end of the spectrum. The song reminds me of Boris Johnson, maybe because he looks more like a Chimney Sweep than a Prime Minister. He might be good at something. If the string quartet on the Titanic were drawn from the ranks of the current British Cabinet, they might have played 'My old man's a dustman' instead of 'Nearer my God to Thee' as the ship went down. May as well laugh as cry. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1965 Registered: 10-2006 |
MIOSSEC - Non non non non (Je ne suis plus saoûl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ytS2PV WF4 Not surprisingly, the Miossec Spotify channel includes some of his own great work, but also other contributions from some of the lowest, most guttural voices in French music. There was one other song I liked a lot but could not catch a word from, sung in a higher range with one of those twitching rockabilly rhythms that French musicians often seem to love and a simple three-note farting synthesiser riff that ran through the whole thing. Very frustrating. The Arthur H track also took a lot of work, I was trying to run down something called “L'Alsace et l'ennui” or a variation thereof till the wife set me straight. Bertrand Belin & Camélia Jordana - Le mot juste (Le beau geste) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ogfobKU Ntg Arthur H - Assassine de la nuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRlDl37 POI | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1966 Registered: 10-2006 |
Mentioned by Andrew just a few days ago, Hamish Hawk’s “The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973” sounded excellent on the radio this morning, declaring itself a great listen right from the opening bars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_-Yhyd Syc But for today, played just a few songs before: Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERixQR- hxY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4664 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lo Que Será - Los Lagos de Hinault Stuart's description of the elusive song from his Miossec Spotify channel reminded me of this entertaining bauble from Los Lagos de Hinault's current album. I almost posted it as my song of the day yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpzDjm8m pLM&list=OLAK5uy_nL1KQMOjCkFURrTc341MUyz zGXKUFtYzQ&index=5 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1967 Registered: 10-2006 |
Inspiral Carpets – Saturn 5 I can’t remember whether I lost interest in the Carpets myself or whether the NME did it on my behalf, but after the first few singles and album I can’t recall much at all. Four albums in, however, they were still producing stonking pop songs like this, a bit Teardrops, a bit Weller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cy86u6 Wi4 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1439 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYgJZ79F mBo RIP Charlie Watts Simply one of the best rock drummers ever. Even if jazz was always his first love. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4666 Registered: 03-2005 |
And you can hear that jazz influence in his playing now and then. It was this performance that woke me up to it once I was old enough to pay attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8WOwnvO oV8 He played like a grownup. And the above was recorded at Chess Studios, the most suitable studio for the Stones in their early period. But if silly bombast was wanted, he'd deliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_ljybp z1c Charlie is my darling, indeed. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1968 Registered: 10-2006 |
Viet Cuong & Inbal Segev: Room to Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-GovJ1e DG8 Inbal Segev is a cellist who played one of my favourite pieces of what I suppose must be called “modern classical” music, the stunning ‘Dance’ by Anna Clyne, so when she commissioned 20 composers to come up with lockdown pieces I was curious to hear one, and this is brilliant – amazing what spaciousness and intensity you can cram into four and a quarter minutes! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10165 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crystal Swing - He Drinks Tequila. Probably the greatest song ever. https://youtu.be/QAsUfWvIiXY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4668 Registered: 03-2005 |
Time Flies By (When You're a Driver of a Train) - Half Man, Half Biscuit This is the HMHB song tossed up by my iPod a couple days ago that I couldn't remember the name of. Not high art but there are times when this works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHKL7uR 6yA |