| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2117 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Tremolo Beer Gut – Caipirinha River Cruise A cool little instrumental with VU riff, twanging guitar and whistling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpX0MX2 VHg | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Favourite Teacher - the second single by Sydney band Victoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUElq98l 9tE Great song. The band consists of ex-members of Youth Group, Songs, Vines and Smudge. This song is written and sung by Max Doyle, formerly of Songs. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 362 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here's the official video of Favourite Teacher by Victoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjm1UU4 2Jw | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 139 Registered: 03-2015 |
Sally McLennan - Arrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1lqbW0f 6C8 I saw on that other Go-Betweens posting area (i.e. Facebook) that Grant's sister Sally passed away last month. Her whole rare CD that Grant produced and played on in 1996 is up on Youtube. There is something I have always enjoyed about Australian County music. P.S. I should also play Bachelor Kisses and Sally's Revolution. There may be other songs that Grant wrote for her. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 389 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yep, I got a signed copy of that one. Grant produced and plays on two or three tracks. I guess "Sally's Revolution" was more than likely about Grant's sister Sally (who worked as a teacher BTW). I don't get the Bachelor Kisses connection with Sally however. Is there something obvious I am missing? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4772 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that information, Fred. And for the link. I didn't know about Sally's album. My song for the day is a bit stylistically compatible: Georgiana Starlington - Louise Louise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzbvxqYb HlI | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 140 Registered: 03-2015 |
Fsh - Grant stated at least once that Bachelor Kisses was dedicated to his sister. I always looked at the lyrics as words of warning to his younger sister about the world of men. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 141 Registered: 03-2015 |
I also found this about the song from Wikipedia. "We came back from Christmas in New York having lost our record company somewhere along the way. I wrote this in immigration having been refused entry to the United Kingdom. The first person who heard the song was my sister. She said that Marianne Faithfull should sing it." Grant P.S. I would love a whole album of Marianne Faithfull singing the Go-Betweens. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2118 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Big Moon - Wide Eyes Some very Grantesque moments on this song, to my ears, with its robust tune and a female voice that really thwacks out of the radio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY2RaPeI 18A | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4773 Registered: 03-2005 |
I swear I heard this before pursuit of a link on Discogs led me to it. Hugh must have posted it on here once. My song for the day is: Newsletters - Lucky Country This type of tune has floated out of Australia off and on for decades. And I am filled with musical love every time another one appears. This type of song works in 1965, in 1985 and in 2015. The simple, memorable guitar hook with the simple unpretentious and very Australian vocals and the basic easy chord progression is something it seems that only certain people in Oz--and nowhere else--can pull off. And of course there's a bittersweet story. Drums by Lachlan Denton (Ocean Party) and violin by none other than Robert McComb formerly of the Triffids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zsmXVv iQU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2119 Registered: 10-2006 |
CIEL - Baby Don't You Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUJf7_87 hrA Nice slice of euphoric pop designed to brighten anyone’s Saturday morning. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 709 Registered: 08-2005 |
Saw the fantastic Emily Barker last night at one of the oddest venues I've ever been to - the Pump in Trowbridge, England. Handily it's in the backyard of a pub... Essentially it has the look and feel of a 18th or 19th century barn but Emily was fantastic, and in addition to Nostalgia, she played a cover version of Bright Phoebus, which would have been my request. She's moving back to Oz later this year. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaMVcmHS Nyc | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like that CIEL song but they don’t do themselves any favours with a name that brings up several other artists. The uppercase styling doesn’t help much. On a similar note, the excellent Tessa Rose Jackson records as Someone. Discogs has her as Someone (15). Meanwhile, Caitlin Rose is back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s3VIeUQ u0w | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1451 Registered: 03-2007 |
Apparat - Goodbye Theme tune from the German TV Sci-Fi Series 'Dark' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66VnOdk6 oto | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2120 Registered: 10-2006 |
Zaz – Port Coton From Zaz’s excellent first album, a gorgeous little song – paying homage, maybe, to the dramatic rock formations on the island of Belle Île, off the coast of Brittany. Written, like the marvellous Éblouie par la nuit, by Raphaël. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_Jz8my 7ts | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1481 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, Had a holiday on Belle Île a couple of years ago and spent many hours at Port Coton watching the waves crashing in. It was easy to see why the Impressionist painters had been so inspired by the place at the end of the 19th century. My choice of the day : a definite Grant vibe to Morby's vocal phrasing ? Kevin Morby - Bittersweet, TN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdkbmoqj 404 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 710 Registered: 08-2005 |
Georgy Girl by the Seekers - in honour of the co-writer Tom Springfield who has just died, and Judith Durham. It's a fantastic song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIbfYEi zLk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2121 Registered: 10-2006 |
Such an evocative song, Simon. Co-written by Jim Dale, apparently, a favourite comedy actor of mine in my youth. My dad, immune almost completely to the joys of music in general, was a big Seekers fan, especially the Carnival is Over, another Springfield tune - if borrowed, I see, from a Russian original. Andrew, looks a bit like Mull! I wish I'd had more time to visit France, I've only scratched the surface, there's so much to see... several trips at the drawing-board stage but always put off and getting less and less likely. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2122 Registered: 10-2006 |
Arooj Aftab – Saans Lo From an album that is a “stunning, largely beatless affair, masterfully blending Sufi devotional music, smoky jazz and blues, ambient soundscapes and Buckley-esque acoustic flourishes”. Well, that’s a lot, together with lyrics in Urdu, but it all sounds sublime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPyG9WEe 1vk | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1452 Registered: 03-2007 |
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPVgAhR E6E Another song from the soundtrack of the German TV Sci-Fi series 'Dark.' It features on their album 'Still Smiling.' | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2123 Registered: 10-2006 |
Luigi Tenco – Quello Che Conta Fabulous piece of warm, lyrical Italian pop from ’62, music by Morricone, and, rather to my surprise, Iggy Pop played it on the radio just last week! Tenco would go on to write his own, more sophisticated, stuff and then, for no very clear reason, kill himself during Italy’s beloved San Remo song festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmdPylXe IVw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2124 Registered: 10-2006 |
Fergus McCreadie – Glade What a great piece to wake up to, an airy, exhilarating, genre-trouncing piano melody from Highlands-born Fergus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFD2b9N Yrk | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2125 Registered: 10-2006 |
Clou – Comme au cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlbIj2zY Lqo Ok, so somewhere in France there’s a Stepford-wife type secret factory turning out young girl singers with beautiful voices and at least a couple of lovely songs to kick-start their careers. Here’s another one. |