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     Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4747 Registered: 03-2005 |
El Hipnotizador Romantico - Nuestras Batallas This rousing hyper-pop number invokes the seaside funhouse sounds of early 60s Joe Meek in the instrumental passages. Coincidenza? Maybe, but I have come across other Argentine productions that throw out little hints to let you know that, yes, they're giving homage to the troubled wizard at 304 Holloway Road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjyVfky_ 8Vw&list=OLAK5uy_mjDcyr6bd3S0ljl-b1Zs9hr QYhyKjT0iE&index=3 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10263 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, that is so good. Thanks for the link. It’s so Meekish that if I was their landlady, I’d be worried. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4748 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig, it's a good thing I hadn't yet poured my coffee when I read your comment. Today's song of the day for me would not be known to me if not for your introduction to "Faded Glamour": Animals That Swim - All Your Stars Are Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53BeXa2U kgc It's the first track on the above link. This final album from Animals That Swim disappointed me and maybe I should revisit it to be sure. Nevertheless this opening song stood out on first listen several years ago. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2102 Registered: 10-2006 |
Les Rallizes Dénudés – A shadow on our joy From Kyoto’s very own Velvet Underground, famous apparently for their “unrelenting psychedelia and pure sonic assault”, but here scratching your ear out with some lyrical guitar wailing. https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/ track/a-shadow-on-our-joy?fbclid=IwAR1ao 9cSLTyJFhEHAH4PeL3IW-L92pe5uUUl-jMx9L_cc atY_UzummQQsQ4 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1435 Registered: 03-2007 |
Gordon McIntyre - I Crave Rivers, I Crave Seas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6XTeg9C aoM From his debut solo album 'Even With The Support Of Others' which will be released on 15th July, 2022, by Lost Map Records. Gordon was the singer / songwriter with Ballboy. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4749 Registered: 03-2005 |
Vinyl only. Grrrr. Thanks for the heads up, Hugh. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1436 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Very disappointing but many small independent record labels are no longer issuing titles on C.D. Firestation Records are a prime example. Only two of their last ten releases have been made available on CD and that situation is unlikely to change in the near future in my opinion. The following track was uploaded to YouTube in December, 2021, and does not feature on the new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HvvW12 OJA | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 705 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kirsty MacColl with Billy Bragg - A New England Simply gorgeous and it brings back memories of Billy Bragg, Glastonbury and the 1980s. I was young! I had hair! And I love this song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4a6NaU 5Rg&list=RDMM&index=8 | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 359 Registered: 05-2005 |
A lovely song just released by NZ band Lets Planet inspired by and dedicated to Grant McLennan. So uncannily Go-Betweenish that On first listen I had check it wasn't a cover version of a Grant song I wasn't aware of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFe1ifyF sHw | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 195 Registered: 05-2005 |
Was There Anything I Could Do? never made sense, grammatically. Franz Ferdinand’s cover is better than the original, to my ears. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4750 Registered: 03-2005 |
There aren't a lot of three chord songs that will move the needle for me. If such a song makes it into my consciousness it will be because of the lyrics or how it is performed. "Was There Anything I Could Do" never made the cut. I vastly prefer the sort of song that splatters a strings of chords at me, like "Love Goes On." | ||
| david Unregistered guest |
i know Pádraig is the go to guy for Cathal but the new ep is superb. i think his voics on tracks like Lazlo Plantagenent is as good as its ever sounded. on spotify details below https://nomoreworkhorse.com/2022/05/17/e -p-of-co-aklan-cathal-coughlan-review/ [ oh ive never liked was there anhything i can do much either - or Streets of your town!] | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4753 Registered: 03-2005 |
Caroline Trettine - To His Coy Mistress This wonderful musical setting for Marvell's poem, complete with pedal steel by BJ Cole, still works 22 years after its release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG746zNM 3YQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4758 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spend You Wishes - Dolly Mixture Most of their best songs remained in demo form. Debsey Wykes had the voice of the archetypal British girl next door. They could write a pop tune. They could harmonize. We had to settle for Bananarama instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TLZ88n 5b4 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4759 Registered: 03-2005 |
Natural Progression - Boomgates The Boomgates are a combination of members from various Melbourne bands such as The Stevens, The Stroppies, Dick Diver and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Every single time my iPod pitches up one of the songs from the Boomgates album--usually pairing Steph Hughes and Brendan Huntley on vocals--I cheer up. Who would have thought a "supergroup" of musicians from the most lo fi music scene in the world would create such a classic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJbb55o1 hnA | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2107 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Delgados – Everybody Come Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oqid7C xL8 Hands down song of the morning so far. Apparently another “reforming after the disappointing solo career” band, although their band career, despite a great deal of quality work, was also disappointing, so how is that going to go? On the other hand, a friend tells me Mick Head is No.6 in the album charts with Dear Scott, so everything is possible – I didn’t even know they still had an album charts. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 196 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Head will be number 6 because the Official Charts Company weights physical sales much higher than streams. One LP purchase is equivalent to 100 subscribed (track) streams or 600 unsubscribed. That’s why you had Wet Leg at number 1 for a week because Domino sold quite a lot of vinyl on the day it came out. I thought Angel Olsen would be higher than 24 but I suspect Secretly Canadian haven’t included their Society sales yet. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4762 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Byrds - Bugler My iPod library has a vast number of songs spanning a lot of years. I love when it pitches up something I haven't heard since I was a kid. The late-era Byrds were unfairly overlooked even though Roger McGuinn refreshed the lineup with truly talented people rather than allow it to deteriorate to a mere McGuinn backing band. This wonderful song was written and sung by the late Clarence White, one of the Los Angeles country rock scene's greatest talents. He died in 1973 when hit by a car operated by a drunken driver. He and his brother had just finished a gig and were loading their equipment into a parked car when he was struck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksnEnEbz Lmc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2109 Registered: 10-2006 |
Los Bitchos - The Link is About To Die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahCmDNb FkI After a few radioless days as two official support groups and a technerd mate struggled to identify why my new router connected to everything except my internet radios – my mate came up with the solution first, move the effing radios nearer to the router, connect, then move them back, sigh – this was, ironically, the first song that came on to enliven a rather tetchy and dispiriting day. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2110 Registered: 10-2006 |
Suede - She Still Leads Me On Well, back with a bit of a bang after all those years, and it’s about his mum, too. Awww. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJd1Z1G 3M4 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2111 Registered: 10-2006 |
Alice Boman - Night And Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAhgA-A srw Ezra Furman - Forever In Sunset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUTcb36 8kM By chance, two very different songs about something maybe on the cusp of beginning, Alice all lofi Swedish shimmer, Ezra very hifi, like Chrissie Hynde channelling Springsteen. |