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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10192 Registered: 05-2005 |
Goodnight, Texas - Of Wolf And Man | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4679 Registered: 03-2005 |
Respecting Pádraig's discipline in keeping us on the correct month, I'm going to follow up on the posts concerning "These Days" here with the song that I consider the greatest young person's epiphany. Years ago I blundered onto this footage taken from a 1968 TV show of the 40 or 41 year old Harry Belafonte interpreting Joni Mitchell's evergreen "Both Sides Now." For all I know I may have posted a link to it on here back then. It has all the typical late 60s instrumental over-decoration but that doesn't matter; it's all about Belafonte's reading. He wasn't nearly as old as Glen Campbell in 2008 but "Both Sides Now" probably better suits the full but still vital adulthood Belafonte could bring to those lyrics which imply a future as well as a past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1dO9tuT ATk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10194 Registered: 05-2005 |
I actually checked to make sure it was past midnight in LA first Randy, chastened by a time years ago when you posted on the previous thread as it was still yesterday on the west coast. I will check out your link later. The pathos Glen Campbell brings to his take of These Days is extraordinary and heartbreaking. His voice was still magnificent, but his brain was not. And he had enough lucidity left to understand that. There is an aching poignancy to that. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1988 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dominique A - Je t’ai toujours aimée An oldie from Dom the Dome to set me up for the evening – though I never noticed before that Jean-Jacques Burnel was a co-writer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJQqmAf 4OY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whipping Boy - Morning Rise. Before the remaster came out, I’d never noticed how Beatlesy this is. Beautifully so. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1989 Registered: 10-2006 |
Mélissa Laveaux - Lè Ma Monte Chwal Mwen This is pretty rapturous, sort of slowdown pop with slinky roots elements. Something to do with erotic vodou, it says here, ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETuMFTy DaM | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1450 Registered: 04-2005 |
Big Thief - Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTIzsTv1 ENY And yet another new song. And it's a beauty. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1991 Registered: 10-2006 |
Clio - Je me souviens de nous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvfk1naO YSM Clio Tourneux is a bit like Pomme’s less cool older sister and favours minimalist electronics rather than guitar, but she has great pop nous. Was it Francoise H that really started this rich French tradition of the (apparently) fragile melodic female voice pitched pristinely against a relatively unembellished musical backdrop? Maybe one day Pomme & Clio will make a Le Danger of their own too. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1992 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Soundcarriers – Broken Sleep There’s something a bit murky about the sound to my ears, but I like the piano lead and general groove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35cLJRO UQk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1993 Registered: 10-2006 |
Barbara Furtuna – Sanctus Nothing poppy over the last few days has gone as far in as this short piece of Corsican vocal music. Astounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1IKDNDS luU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10200 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jazz Butcher - Sixteen Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqIxyYr pYY RIP Pat Fish. A terrible loss. He was just 64. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4684 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig, what news to wake up to! I'm 64. Well, for another month anyway. There are so many Jazz Butcher songs I love. I'll just post the one that always comes to mind first for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_05cpK C70 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1410 Registered: 03-2007 |
Following on from their two previous 4xCD Bookback Sets ( The Wasted Years; The Violent Years ) released in 2017 and 2018 respectively, the band will release another 4xCD Bookback Set ( Dr. Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-sides and Seasides ) on 12th November, 2021. https://thejazzbutcher.bandcamp.com/albu m/dr-cholmondley-repents-a-sides-b-sides -and-seasides | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4685 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you Hugh. Pre-ordered. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 190 Registered: 05-2005 |
I haven’t listened to The Smiths for more than 30 years but I find the Blossoms/Rick Astley stuff as boring as it is arch. I came across a great cover of this song by Robert Ellis on a tribute album which features the peerless Caitlin Rose. Here’s the original. And remember, Dick’s a clown. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hzkBihae w | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 132 Registered: 03-2015 |
The Go-Betweens - You Won't Find It Again. The song was used in the new film Bergman Island (directed by Mia Hanson-Love) that I just saw tonight at the Chicago International Film Festival. I had no idea that it would be featured in the movie. It is a film for all the Ingmar Bergman lovers out there, but ABBA was played during the Swedish wedding scene, which would never have happened in a Bergman film. It is one of my favorite songs of Grant and it is just perfect in its unfinished state. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1451 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers for that info Fred ! I've really liked the couple of films that I've seen by Hanson-Love and heard her being interviewed about Bergman Island on the radio. Must try and track it down. And yes I agree totally about "You Won't Find It Again". Absolutely beautiful as it is in its immediacy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1995 Registered: 10-2006 |
A lovely surprise, Fred! Maybe it will start a plundering of their back catalogue for tragic montage scenes in hospitals and so on. I always find it very poignant rewatching Acoustic Stories when they chat about maybe getting a song on the OC or something. But a film for Bergman lovers is much more suitable. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10203 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hollies - Dear Eloise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB1G9A3z xRw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1996 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up The Heineken voice of modern woman, slotting in on the Maid soundtrack with masses of other plaintive-toned femalehood, but standing out as usual. Maid is not a bad watch, set in the Seattle archipelago, I think, although filmed in Vancouver. Ferries look pretty swish anyway. Trailer life and housing for abused women feature for a change, rather than those inordinately massive American houses we usually see, most of whose fridges could house a couple of families in other countries. Will Alex manage to write her way out of poverty, violence and homelessness? I’m guessing yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDW-W2J8 4Hc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1997 Registered: 10-2006 |
This Is The Kit – Recommencer Padraig posted a Kit/Mina Tindle collaboration recently I think, I hope this isn’t the same one. It’s lovely anyway, especially maybe for, what is that warm burnished sound, a bass saxophone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQWg8Yp K2M | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4686 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bassoon, isn't it? It has the oboe timbre. My song--actually artist discovery--of the day is: Francisco Bochatón -- Destreza Atrapada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDHvxkU EGc&list=OLAK5uy_lsiEcBO0MjHsaliEQQZKbEF l0ATCCbIys&index=1 His records are obviously much loved in his native Argentina because the early ones in particular tend to be very expensive to buy now. I have a couple of them, including his first album, in the acquisition pipeline. My Argentine source explains that Bochatón was a major influence on the immediately following generation of Argentine indie pop/indie rock musicians. I love learning about the various antipodean music scenes! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 538 Registered: 05-2005 |
M.Ward - Watch the Show. One track among "A Wasteland Companion", my album of the month eight years after its release. | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 31 Registered: 03-2006 |
Xtc - No language in our lungs (to tell the world the truth) Rel.1980 from the fabelous BLACK SEA - Album | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1998 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FELWZc mZw Something about the English made me think they were foreign, but I’m not sure the Isle of Wight qualifies. Still some way to go as songwriters, but a lot of fun anyway. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 231 Registered: 09-2004 |
Stuart, this is one of my favorite songs of the year along with Dry Cleaning’s “scratchcard lanyard.” Would be a great double bill of one hit wonders - the Wet and Dry tour! (Wet Leg and Dry Cleaning) | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 498 Registered: 02-2007 |
Great XTC song Uli B , great album as well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10204 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Radiators - Kitty Ricketts | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1999 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bright Eyes - No one would riot for less Another astonishing Oberst song, doubtless cellophaned neatly away on my shelves with the Complete Works Of I’ve never got round to opening. I’ve come wrong way round to this guy, falling in love with later live acoustic or stripped-down band versions and then being disappointed sometimes with the over-cluttered business of the original album versions. This one however works its eerie magic from the very start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcTv9MD EyE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2000 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dylan Thomas – Conor & Phoebe Reading an article on Dylan T by Adam Kirsch, a favourite poetry critic not only because he makes me think that I actually understand what the poets he writes about write about but that I understand what he writes about the poets that he writes about. Though the song, it seems, is not really about the Welsh bard, but “dark sh**” about Trump and whether he really is a four dimensional chess-playing genius who masquerades as dumb truth-speaker, possibly then in the same way that Dylan was a genius who played the part of the heaven-inspired word-keener, or not? Here are two live versions, Tiny desk (acoustic) and KEXP (electric), both fab. The kind of song I’d probably say to my muso mate, “Aren’t the chords just great on this?” and he’d just shrug and say, “Normal.” I’m still not wholly convinced by Phoebe yet, though she does look like some wonderfully shiny Tolkeinesque elf queen, while CO, as my wife says, always looks as if he needs a good scrub, in the sort of voice that implies she’s just the person to wield the loofah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cuZu3r xn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Yz-NyL V90 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4687 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I've always enjoyed Conor's tightly written lyrics when he sets his mind to doing them. I could never achieve his standard of course but he was a great inspiration for me when I worked on my stuff. I haven't been on an Oberst jag for a long time but it's nice to watch you proceed through your discovery. My song for the day: Paperboy -- The Hepburns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM3EeKGs DjU When I visited a shop that specializes in indie pop up in Portland, Oregon pre-Covid, I purchased 23 albums. I had not heard any of these albums nor did I have any familiarity with any of the artists. They were all selected just to see what they sounded like and following the proprietor's attempts to steer me with only the knowledge that I love the Go-Betweens as a guide. One of my purchases was an album by the Hepburns. The particular album I picked up was pleasant but didn't make a particular impression. Hugh--god love 'im--sent me a link to "Paperboy" from a later album. Ah! The music universe is so infinite now thanks to the decline of the traditional record company scene. There are timeless gems like this hidden all over the place. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2002 Registered: 10-2006 |
TEKE::TEKE – Kaminari Taking me rather gloriously a bit off my usual beaten path today… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cegl_8L- OME “a Montreal 7 piece band featuring a Shinobue (traditional Japanese Bamboo flute), a Taisho Koto and a trombone alongside fuzzy guitars and a rhythm section to create a sound reminiscent of 1960s – 70s era psychedelic Japanese soundtracks.” | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2003 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bollocks, wrong month again... |