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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eric Bogle - No Man's Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0S7nDWx xiA | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4819 Registered: 03-2005 |
When the above song started I thought "what?!?! Is Pádraig testing us to see if we listened to his link? It sounds like milkmaid a'churnin' music!" I'd not heard of Eric Bogle before. Graham Lee's on one of the guitars here. In 1983. This might be shortly before he joined the Triffids. My song of the day: Doctor Millar - The Morning Shift I loved this song from the first time I heard it about ten years ago. And it resonates more strongly with me as times goes on. The only unfortunate thing is the hidden track coupled with it at the end, which kills the mood. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4820 Registered: 03-2005 |
Criminy. Forgot the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWWIV1n a1g | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ha! Randy, I've eased up on 'no milkmaids' ban over the years. I hadn't even noticed that Graham Lee played on that song. I knew the song even before that as an Irish folk group covered it, presumably based on the live version Eric Bogle had previously released. Bogle also wrote And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, made more famous by the Pogues cover. I read an interview with Bogle one time where he said hundreds of bands have recorded it thinking it is a very old folk song, rather than something he wrote in the 1970s. They credit it to 'Trad arrangement', meaning he doesn't get the writing royalties. Thanks for the Doctor Millar link. I'd either forgotten or didn't know about the secret track. It sounds familiar, though, so I must have heard it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10320 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robbie Fulks: Fountains of Wayne Hotline https://edcyphers.com/tag/fountains-of-w ayne-hotline/ Also read this while you're at it. https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam -schlesinger-celebrated-fountains-of-way ne-hotline-robbie-fulks-1234569967/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hanni El Khatib - Two Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2SOzqHn bGs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10327 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kostars - Never So Lonely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlNZFpSs zLc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10328 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marta and Tricky - When It's Going Wrong https://falseidols.bandcamp.com/track/wh en-its-going-wrong-4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10329 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul McCartney - Once Upon A Long Ago. One of his loveliest songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIMeyTK -sU | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1502 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVJ7FWc 4rQ Glorious! Gaz Coombes was on France Inter the other night and they played his cover of this, which ain't bad but the original is better  | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 247 Registered: 09-2004 |
Wednesday - Chosen to Deserve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTi7e9gE pN4 Wonderful song, in a Drive By Truckers meets Big Thief sort of way. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1503 Registered: 04-2005 |
cabane "today" feat. Sam Genders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCA_P5-k 5WA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10331 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue In Heaven - Julie Cries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waLi-dPe BaU Nothing by them has ever been released on CD, which is just astonishing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10334 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Reds, Pinks And Purples - Bed Of Roses. It's from the You Know You're Burning Someone covers EP https://theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp. com/album/you-know-youre-burning-someone | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2186 Registered: 10-2006 |
Silver Jews - Punks in the beerlight Listening my way through the whole Berman oeuvre, apart from the maddeningly astray American water. Had I picked up on them at the right moment, they would surely have fitted in snugly at No 3 in my Crucial Band list. Like the Smiths and GBs, he had the gift to deliver a line that could make you grin out loud. The guitar beginning is perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtA869eH 21c | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4823 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link Pádraig. I was unaware of Donaldson's new covers EP. I love the way he makes the songs his own. And I love his wooly vocals, like a diffident Colin Blunstone. The Reds, Pinks and Purples have captured my enthusiasm far beyond any other recent U.S. artist. I can never put my finger on why most modern American artists fail to move me. I've thought that maybe they're too familiar sounding--too much like myself and all the people who surround me--and I need some sort of distance or exoticism. Or perhaps it's what Kevin Wynne (aka Skulldisco) once wrote on this board: that Americans don't do irony, something that really ticked me off at the time. I've since reluctantly found myself agreeing with him. And perhaps the consequence for me is that they seem to lack subtlety or depth or ambivalence. It's what made me despair of many of my own songs, on which I really tried to reach my own musical ideals. Some things pleased me but the majority did not. Whatever it is that makes it harder for me to bond with most of the music by my countrymen/women, there is a resigned, mournful and yet resolved feel to Donaldson's best work that really gets under my skin. He seems to express a form of joy that can only arrive in the wake of sorrow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10335 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I remember that statement about Americans and irony. It's far too broad a sweep to tarnish a whole country with. And anyway, T***p proved Americans totally get irony. Just as Brexit proved the British are the masters of irony. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10336 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - Cardboard Box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I-opM7 ZFI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10339 Registered: 05-2005 |
Inspired by Andrew on the gigs thread: Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - OD'd In Denver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qil0RpvK 3MM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4825 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Hardy Boys - Harbour Lights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULK0BR9 wwc I've had this 1989 Scottish gem on vinyl for perhaps a half dozen years but its impact struck yesterday when I finally received a CD compilation for the band. The compilation is titled "The Hardy Boys Play Songs from the Lenin and McCarthy Songbook." No, it's not a covers album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10347 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, what an amazing song. I’d never heard of it or the band before. Or if I did I’ve long forgotten them. I presume whoever wrote the lyrics lived in Northern Ireland as a child and the family moved to Scotland to get away from The Troubles. It’s heartbreaking. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2189 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, good stuff. Voice very reminiscent of someone... hard to find, though! Will have to settle down and Utube them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4826 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig, thank you for connecting the dots for me! It may shock you and Stuart (and Hugh and Andrew and everybody else) but way over here in California in my innocent cluelessness I had no idea what was meant by "will we ever see Carrickfergus again?" I thought maybe it was a person's name. I should have realized from the first line about the bombing and "it was Easter Sunday 1973." That was all so far away from me in agricultural central California when I was 16. What struck me in all my ignorance was the depiction of childhood grief and loss. Some of the other tracks combine the guitar indie pop band sound with Gaelic fiddle to extraordinary effect. It's almost as if Five Hand Reel cut its teeth listening to the Smiths and popped out of university into the shitty job market of the Thatcher age like so many other bands from the era that I like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYhI178D GBA Not as prominent violin here, but I've attached it just because . . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uu4xbuG 4wo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10348 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hardy Boys’ entire output is available digitally for a mere £6.50 here https://thehardyboysmusic.bandcamp.com/a lbum/songs-from-the-lenin-and-mccarthy-s ongbook | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10349 Registered: 05-2005 |
And you're welcome, Randy. Thank you for introducing them to me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10350 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hardy Boys interview here http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p =249 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4827 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link, Pádraig. There's a lot of useful information in there. I thought the title for the compilation album was wordplay linking Lenin with Malcolm Eden's and Tim Gane's socialist band McCarthy rather than US anti-communist demagogue Joseph McCarthy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2190 Registered: 10-2006 |
Natalie Merchant – Gulf of Araby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9SIsGp Iyg It’s a pretty good day which gives you a lovely song you’ve never heard before. Sung by Natalie, written by Katell Keineg, both song & singer knowing how to take their time. I’m always intrigued by geographical references in lyrics, here Keinegg, of Welsh/Breton parentage, slips in Killiney in Ireland and New Hope Creek in North Carolina. It’s a good, strong lyric, anyway, and Natalie gives it a fine dramatic rendering. Interesting that in 1989, SPIN magazine felt comfortable about describing her “big ethnic lips, kicky little haircut, insinuating alto.” Her ethnicity, in this case, which I didn’t know, is Sicilian, the original surname being Mercanti. She is a nifty mover in some of the older videos I watched, her voice complemented by Jen Turner’s zestful guitar work – another career to check up on. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10352 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Katell Keineg lived in Dublin for a while in the mid-1990s, which would explain the Killiney reference. Nothing can explain or excuse the Spin reference. Apart from the casual racial slur, what appalling writing. What’s a “kicky haircut”? What’s an “insinuating alto”? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1508 Registered: 04-2005 |
Re : Natalie Merchant. When I saw 10,000 Maniacs live I was worried that she was spinning round so much that she was going to fall off the stage in Edinburgh's Queen's Hall An excuse to wheel out this link again. I was there that grey Glasgow day, and this was an absolutely magical moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAp1Keu eUU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2191 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah, you spent your young manhood wisely, Andrew! I was listening to classical music for most of the 80s, one way to surivive unemployment, I thought, and by the time I got a job and was redirected back to pop rock by my new, clued-in mates, I was in central Sweden where the only gigs available were by the Toy Dolls and Georgie Fame. Actually, the Fame gig was a belter apparently, and my teaching colleagues all ended up back in his hotel room with a great deal of booze and merry anecdotes. And I was out of town! |