| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2213 Registered: 10-2006 |
Roger Daltrey – Giving It All Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAsHoDI lGk Not sure where this chestnut popped out from. A well-crafted song, anyway, not a bad lyric for a young songwriter hustling for work, though I’ve never read anything about what inspired it. A strange, weirdly prescient lyric, in retrospect, since Leo Sayer, in his early 20s, was indeed a young boy and, through the (apparently) inept investments of his manager Adam Faith (who grew up in the same street as Daltrey), also “giving it all away”, as his vast earnings from a number of hit singles and albums vanished into the financial void. “Worked hard and failed…” indeed. Then married an Italian, headed off to Australia and “toured his way back to financial security”. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10456 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whipping Boy - When We Were Young (Philo version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10457 Registered: 05-2005 |
Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ld7ff4 VB4 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1530 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Cat's Miaow - "Not Like I Was Doing Anything" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2r4nN9v g-I Not a huge fan of all that C86 scene and this Australian 90s band were clearly influenced by that. But it has a little something more ? In this technological age my son bought me a present. I had a mail saying I had an album to download on Bandcamp.Nothing to unwrap  but still kind of him ! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1463 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, The majority of the band's output was released on two albums ( A Kiss And A Cuddle; Songs For Girls To Sing ) by Library Records, Brunswick, Australia, in 2003 ( 78 tracks in total.) The label was owned by Bart Cummings who was a member of the band along with Andrew Withycombe, Cameron Smith and Kerrie Bolton. The four of them were also members of Hydroplane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTCXDMD rrY | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 758 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - I Just Get Caught Out The version on the Sounds Showcase EP, which I bought in London about a million years ago. It's one of my favourite GBs' songs and I love this version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10CkPy3 ZMw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10458 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, that’s lovely your son did that for you. Was it this album he got for you? https://thecatsmiaow.bandcamp.com/album/ songs-94-98 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10461 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Heaven Says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veuB0nPD y24 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10462 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rosenbergs - Leech Can't find a link for it. You'll just have to trust me that it's a great song. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1531 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig, Yes indeed, that's The Cat's Miaow release on Bandcamp that he got me  Very nice too | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4848 Registered: 03-2005 |
Annual Leaf - Fade to Zomp This band is now in Melbourne but they've apparently been a lot of other places as far flung as London and Seoul after starting in Christchurch, NZ. I've raved about them before and here I am again. https://annualleaf.bandcamp.com/album/fa de-to-zomp-pbcr04 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2215 Registered: 10-2006 |
Money Mark – Tomorrow will be like today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7HD0Kd f-E Bit of a rip-roaring homage to early Elvis C or Graham P, perhaps, with some thrilling throat-grabbing keyboard work. Highly stimulating. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10464 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robbie Robertson - Testimony (Unity Mix). RIP to a man who played a huge part in my musical education in the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9FhiUAO 7mk | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1532 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Band - "It Makes No Difference" from "The Last Waltz" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBqWNFO Vo8 Robertson's lyrics and the voice of an angel in Danko's. The film was shown on release in Glasgow at a late night showing in '79. It finished too late to get back to the suburbs with public transport, so I persuaded my mum to drive us. She developed a huge crush on Robertson | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10465 Registered: 05-2005 |
That’s a great story, Andrew. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10467 Registered: 05-2005 |
Died Pretty - DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07oZHDgP iqo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2216 Registered: 10-2006 |
PALATINE – La Sentinelle Amadouée https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKf3OaP8 r3E They had some nice songs out a few years back, now there’s a new album, as melodic and listenable as before. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4849 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you Stuart! Copy of the CD ordered via Bandcamp. The previous Palatine album and "Baton Rouge" EP have worn very well for me. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2217 Registered: 10-2006 |
You're welcome, Randy! I might have missed the EP, have to check. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2218 Registered: 10-2006 |
Guy Hamper Trio – Cowboys Are Square https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARFhzc8l Q6E More rampaging Hammond in this Billie Childish project, here roping in James Taylor. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2219 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lael Neale – White T-Shirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSSE7-_O qHI Wow, but where did this leap out from? And who does her voice remind me of? Great sharp, poetic lyrics. Immediately convincing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10474 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lightning Seeds - The Life Of Riley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCm3bS6w Xvk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10476 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tsar - I Don't Wanna Break Up One of the great lost power pop songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69M4MUsx ge4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10477 Registered: 05-2005 |
There should have been a full stop after the up, but I’m sure you figured that out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10479 Registered: 05-2005 |
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Tsangarides Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n29CDNQ4 F0g | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2225 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hoyt Axton – Kingswood Manor Not the yee-haw country I was expecting, rather a slightly eerie & psychedelic anti-drug song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCg_LoU nuo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10481 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fiddlehead - Queen Of Limerick | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10482 Registered: 05-2005 |
Clannad - Crúiscín Lán | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10484 Registered: 05-2005 |
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bauhaus Staircase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpIz0RQ U9c | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10490 Registered: 05-2005 |
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tahiti 80 - Changes | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2227 Registered: 10-2006 |
Teenage Fanclub – Foreign Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikCMuSHs qOU I’m not a big TF fan really, but this is a rich listen. And videod in Hamilton Mausoleum, in Lanark, not so far from the home of my old man’s mud-begotten Hamilton ancestors…! (bit of bastardy involved there, but, as the kindly custodian in the Scottish Records Office once informed me, “Ohhh, but it was all quite common back then, y’ken…”) |