| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Kelly - They Thought I Was Asleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWj5irDE 4cs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10360 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sophia - Oh My Love. I’ve loved this song since it was released 20 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_KxDZGE LfE | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10363 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Back In The USSR. I’ve often wondered if The Beach Boys were annoyed or flattered by the spot on pastiche/homage. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10364 Registered: 05-2005 |
Becky and the Birds - The Wolves (Act I and II). A cover of a Bon Iver song. I find him tedious, but this is beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0wz33d fj8 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 729 Registered: 08-2005 |
The theme song to the film I Start Counting, by Basil Kirchin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6AJxjT 0SM The film's name later being used by a British 1980s band. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2192 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, splendid stuff, Simon, thanks for that. Meanwhile: Nick Cave – Nature Boy So Nick trauchles off to the Coronation, blabbering about how the Queen glowed at him once like a holy object. What is it about otherwise intelligent Australians – see Clive James – who go to pieces when ushered into a Royal Presence? Ah well. This is still one of the best things I’ve heard all week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JquzYr-5 bE4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10367 Registered: 05-2005 |
House Of All - Aynebite. A great Fall copy played by a bunch of ex-Fall musicians. https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/track/ay enbite | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 730 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, thanks for that. Nick Cave is somebody whose music I should like, and a lot of it that I've heard I do like, but I don't really know where to start with his body of work. (Or oeuvre, if I felt so inclined...) His duet with Kylie is gorgeous and one of my favourite songs. Meanwhile, I leave you with the Great Society's version of Eden Ahbez's Nature Boy. I'm not sure it's better than Nat King Cole's version (it's not!) but it has Grace Slick on vocals... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnRRROs _bw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I had to look up trauchle. Thank you for introducing me to a new and lovely word. I hope to engineer cause to use it in conversation as soon as is practicable. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2193 Registered: 10-2006 |
My active Scots vocabulary is down to about 20 words now, Pádraig, most of them deriving from insults chuckled scornfully at me by my dad (glaikit, peely-wally, gowk, spurtle legs…) A shame that such a rich horde of words should have passed into history. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 731 Registered: 08-2005 |
'Spurtle legs'? I'm trying to picture those...! ************ I'm fond of the word 'stramash' for a commotion, often used in rugby union commentaries when Scotland are involved, before the term 'handbags' is rolled out of the cliché mill. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1510 Registered: 04-2005 |
"stramash" ? I alwys thought it was a word invented by STV football commentator Arthur Montford in the 1970s. "Aye, and it's a right stramash in the goal-mouth area" The Scots language has a wonderful range of these onomatopoeic words. Is there a better word than "dreich" for damp gloomy weather ? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2194 Registered: 10-2006 |
Stramash is a fine word. But, knowing little or nothing about rugby, I don't get the "handbags" reference! "Dreich" (usually in my experience preceded by "gey") is Scotland's top Scots word, apparently: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-504 76008 But, bumfle and fankle?? Never heard of them! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 732 Registered: 08-2005 |
From the Cambridge University Press: Handbags is used to talk about a situation in which two football players seem angry and threatening but do not actually fight: It wasn't a serious confrontation - just handbags. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4828 Registered: 03-2005 |
I hope this website is providing a correct pronunciation. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona ry/dreich I've always liked "blatherskite" since introduced to it--probably on here. It's so easy to understand and has just the right dismissive tone to it. For some reason Merriam-Webster doesn't provide a pronunciation for "trauchle" but says it should be spelled "trachle." Great, an American dictionary telling a Scots how to spell a Scottish word. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10370 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Handbags' is a sexist reference, meaning to suggest they are not real men, but fighting like women who first have to drop their handbags. It has often been used in football, but I don't think it started as a sporting phrase. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emitt Rhodes - Friday's Love. iTunes tells me it's two years and 11 days since I last played this. From his final album, Rainbow Ends. What a way to go out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89MkecYZ f3Y | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2195 Registered: 10-2006 |
Still Corners - Old Arcade Pleasant enough indie-by-numbers sort of stuff, “will these do?” lyrics etc, but the tune now… a little reminiscent of something…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLdsF9Pl u7g&t=5s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10372 Registered: 05-2005 |
A very slowed down Streets Of Your Town? With a Hope Sandoval soundalike on vocals. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4830 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's funny. I always assumed "handbags" meant a pair of old ladies whacking each other directly with their handbags. It conjured a vision of somebody like Maggie Thatcher clobbering somebody with her terrifying purse. Or maybe a Monty Python scene. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2196 Registered: 10-2006 |
My mind wants to impose a Robert Forster solo song over the Still Corners tune; perhaps just imagination... Meanwhile, Liz Frazer gives husb a decent handbagging in Sixties classic The Family Way... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu5WfLPH 3JM | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1512 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cranking up the old hi-fi with some vinyl spinning. The forbidden pleasures of homeworking  Hüsker Dü : She Floated Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGZ35wG BJU A strange one. Pádraig, does that melody sounds suspiciously like"milkmaid a'churnin'" music to you ? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10373 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ha! Andrew, I always thought She Floated Away was an odd folky song and never really liked it. But it’s not a big leap from that to what Grant Hart was doing a few years later with Nova Mob’s The Last Days of Pompeii album, which I love. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 735 Registered: 08-2005 |
She Floated Away - a truly great choice. Followed on the album by the fantastic Bed of Nails. One Grant Hart song, one Bob Mould. (And you have to love a band with multiple umlauts in their name!) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 736 Registered: 08-2005 |
I saw Grant Hart live at the Exchange in Bristol in 2013 - a small venue with, I'm guessing, an audience of around 75. I was taking pics with my very non-pro camera he mocked me as being a member of the CIA or similar - all with very good grace!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4831 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for the handbag demonstration Stuart. Solo song? Or "Dive For Your Memory?" | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2197 Registered: 10-2006 |
Or the Evangelist? Something, anyway! Such a mighty album, WSAS, a well-travelled, much-loved cassette now gathering dust in a cupboard somewhere. Another band who perhaps never realised the true sum of their parts until they split. I don't know the Nova Mob album, Pádraig, will check it out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - The Narcissist. I love almost everything they do, but their new single is particularly fantastic. It’s like they’ve wound the clock back almost three decades to make a pop song again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gr8Z3rU eJM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10377 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Mutton Birds - While You Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90VQFJs3 IB8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2198 Registered: 10-2006 |
Grian Chatten – Fairlies Never got very far with the Fontaine guys, but I’m a sucker for a bit of a strummed rockabilly thing, a minor key melody and a good shouty chorus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU79fE_z elU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4832 Registered: 03-2005 |
Les Mentettes -- Don't Make Me Over This song comes from the third album and creative peak for this very idiosyncratic Argentine band. This great album is called "Songs from an Imaginary Film." Imaginary indeed. They wrote all their songs in English, presumably hoping for an audience beyond the home country. Many of them had a music hall style. They sounded like no one else in Argentina. Needless to say--since you haven't heard of them--it didn't happen. They recorded an EP and three worthy albums including one the reprised a bunch of songs from their first EP and album, now backed by a large complement of orchestra musicians. Then they capitulated and released a final fourth album of depressing and unworthy radio-targeted dance rubbish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-29LY5 U08&list=PLZidex93l11LsZXzeD3RPFZMTR0GVR Vf7&index=3 And here's the next song on the album just to give an idea of the scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YASiHIVl mIk&list=PLZidex93l11LsZXzeD3RPFZMTR0GVR Vf7&index=4 | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 147 Registered: 03-2015 |
The Spinanes - Hawaiian Baby I never listened to this band from Portland in the 90's and even had advanced copy of one of their CDs that I never played. What can say I about this amazing song that references The Verlaines and in particular their Death & the Maiden (One of my all time favorite songs) and Slow Sad Love Song. Buffalo Tom also do an ok cover of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvr75rZm Z2A | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1514 Registered: 04-2005 |
En Attendant Ana - "Principia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qr4ukHk 2F8 Truly fab Merci to the great https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.c om/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10382 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emm Gryner - Straight To Hell A beautiful cover of the Clash classic. I think I've probably posted this before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AMg5OP 7OM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2200 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dinosaur Jr – Feel the pain Giorgio the barman’s floor-mopping music last night was this cracker, which I don’t remember ever hearing before, though it turns out to be one of J Mascis’s most famous tunes. I have a few albums from this fertile period in his career, but Without a sound seems to have got a lukewarm reception. Great song to see out the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXkN3nJy WEA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10386 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jade Jackson - Don't Say That You Love Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LElXcHWY cFM | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1515 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Chills - Push https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2zCLvm i_k&list=PLMlPUDs3t9pCKuCUU-oy8u_7QbmEwP QKw&index=1 And it seems like a "corrected" "Brave Words" is finally seeing the light of day https://thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/albu m/brave-words-expanded-and-remastered | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1517 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Rutles - "Let's be Natural" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVCv875 h7s When I saw Yo La Tengo a couple of weeks ago, at the end of a mammoth 2 1/2 hour set, the last encore was introduced as "Maybe the most beautiful song ever written". I kept thinking that I somehow knew it, but wasn't sure from where. Harry Nilsson ? Badfinger ? But no it was this Ron Nasty (Neil Innes) classic. Who says that Americans have no sense of humour ? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 751 Registered: 08-2005 |
Andrew: re Brave Words Martin Phllipps confirmed on Monday that the corrected version of Brave Words will be released on CD as well as vinyl. And I will definitely be buying... I have vinyl but listen mostly on CD for the convenience! |