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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2087 Registered: 10-2006 |
Adwaith – Eto Stand-out Sunday morning radio song: had me scratching my head over the language till I realised the programme was coming from Cardiff… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXgIri8 yRg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4740 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, Stuart, that one is right up my alley. Welsh language indie pop! It sounds vaguely like something I'd expect from one of the Baltic countries. It's lovely. Copy ordered from Libertino Records' website who have a simple and functional Paypal link. There're a lot of other Welsh or Gaelic titles in their catalog. They don't bother with bandcamp and the one copy available from a seller on Discogs is overpriced. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2089 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, it's a good sound. Hope to get the album. meanwhile, Celest – Andar My favourite tune from this Mexican bunch that’s not included in the session posted in the Watching thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJFyOg9w qtM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2090 Registered: 10-2006 |
Let Me Go – Erik Truffaz & Sophie Hunger This is the kind of intro that will always perk me up, a neat drum pattern and some soft organ chords. All you need really. Sophie’s lyrics sound like they were made up on the spot but her cool voice is a good fit on top there. Something very Mike Scott about her phrasing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UrjJG0 qDs | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 135 Registered: 03-2015 |
We Have Met Before - The Gutter Twins. It took me a couple of listens to realize what this song was really about, which is obvious now. I read in the interview recently that Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli first bonded (among other interests) over their shared Catholic childhoods. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10257 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Saints - All Fools Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsgdLWOh oJA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10258 Registered: 05-2005 |
And also, The Saints - Just Like Fire Would https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snwi7462 Xf8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2092 Registered: 10-2006 |
Celest – Hasta Que El Tiempo No Nos Separe The song I keep coming back to these days from this gleeful young Mexican band. The three-part chorus harmonies are stuck firmly in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXYAt7tD nBo | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 546 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2093 Registered: 10-2006 |
Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d'Eau Douce & Bertrand Belin – Oiseau A “bel hommage à Bashung et Manset en même temps” says one commentator, who I’m happy to believe, with Belin providing his best Bashung impersonation, including the “cui-cui-cui-cui-cui-cui” bits which echo an AB song I can’t quite put my finger on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZRNViaA z6Y | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4743 Registered: 03-2005 |
Juárez -- Invierno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodwikce AwY&list=OLAK5uy_kiXT_W4eFN2RQ-S7SNkh5wN VxM8K_-RJI&index=10 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1432 Registered: 03-2007 |
Wimp Factor 14 - Steam Rolling, But It Wasn't Steam Rolling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LH3KyNp byE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2095 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Roches – Losing true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MtQscjl ciI That quirky side to the sisters put me off back when I used to hear them on the radio, so I missed out on radiantly soul-stripping stuff like this. With the Hammond Song, Pretty and high etc, enough to promptly order the compilation of Maggie Roche songs issued after her death in 2017. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4744 Registered: 03-2005 |
Produced by Robert Fripp. Stuart, a good friend of mine was a big Roches fan back in those days though I don't think I ever heard this so maybe it was all before this album. I heard the more typically "quirky" stuff done by them which I slagged off as novelty music and tuned them out. It does make sense that they would move beyond the early approach. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1433 Registered: 03-2007 |
All three sisters wrote but Margaret ( Maggie ) was the strongest songwriter in my humble opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDPFrtQH 6lI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UjoDj8Q xR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh-U7nag Cjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3SBuAqb xz4 The quirky side of their output certainly put people off but there is a lot to like in their back catalogue. 'Can We Go Home Now' and 'Winter Coat' from one of their later albums are absolutely gorgeous. The harmonies are exquisite. "The fit is generous and loose The coat is filled with down of goose Should I feel guilty about that? I wouldn't wear the fur of a cat." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2096 Registered: 10-2006 |
The harmonies are killer, Hugh. I think Bach would have been proud of some of their stuff! What I used to hear as off-key is probably just some chord I wasn't used to; either that, or serendipity. So the quirky stuff and the more heart-wrenching material actually went hand-in-hand, it turns out, with Maggie, as you say, more responsible for the latter. Fripp, according to my Italian dictionaries of rock & pop, produced their two finest albums. I look forward to further exploration. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2097 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, that’s rich, after months of deviously proposing great RF solo stuff for a radio sort-of competition, it’s this Roches track that actually gets me on air… so, instead of mature, considered reflection on one of my favourite songwriters, it’s all a bit of babble about a band I know hardly anything about. Sorry, Robert. I’ll try again in about a year. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 703 Registered: 08-2005 |
A live version of Everything's Fine by Ed Kuepper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QM4ByZ5 kcc Not quite sure everything is fine at the moment, but it's a great song. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4745 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that Simon! That's a big arrangement for a live show. No, everything's not really fine right now but somehow music people get on. It was probably not the smartest thing I've done but I ordered a new CD from a Russian label in St. Petersburg as Russian tanks were busily creating their own traffic jam on a highway in Ukraine. It was duly dispatched and I received email confirmation of the same. But seriously, I didn't expect to ever see it. Yesterday it arrived at my house. It took over a month to thread its way through the obstacles and maybe my name is now on a U.S. Government list of uncooperative sorts, but here it is. I'm as horrified and depressed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine as anyone else here in the U.S. but somehow I can't quite believe that music people are part of it. I can't believe that a little weedy indie band in St. Petersburg who do their songs in English are in favor of their country's invasion or share Putin's persecution complex. I look at music as a sort of esperanto that weaves a parallel universe, a continual reminder that there are human beings on both sides of any fence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5SQF4Q bx8 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1434 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rewind ( Translation ) - Super Mario ( Translation ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-Pbi-O B-w Opening track from the band's third album ( translates as The Beginning Of A Wonderful Friendship ) which was released late last year. The board is not set up for the Russian language hence the translation. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2099 Registered: 10-2006 |
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You into the Dark Italian radio seems to be playing this song a lot these days, a weird choice unless it’s been on some TV thing (quick check: yes, most recently the Gervais death series, but several others, plus innumerable covers. Also DCFC’s biggest selling single). But my wife had never heard it before and had to pull the car over to listen to it through. “What a lovely song.” We sat a bit and looked at the fields around us riotous with wild flowers. Maybe not so weird then, considering these pressing times. Checking the lyrics, I was a bit disappointed to see it was “Calgary” and not “Calvary” as I’d always heard it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHY1D0t KRA | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 704 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Chesterfields - Ask Johnny Dee Three minutes (bar three seconds) of pure pop perfection from a band I saw on a number of occasions back in the 1980s, when all was well in the world. (Or at least in my world.) I love this song, and though I hope to live forever, this is the song I want played at my funeral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwsImzf- wrs | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2100 Registered: 10-2006 |
Keren Ann & Quatuor Debussy – You Have It All To Lose Keren back with a doozy… sounds like she’s had her old Lee & Nancy albums out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWL9JiLu jPk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2101 Registered: 10-2006 |
Karen Peris – For a Giraffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKo6dM4Y NHs |