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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2292 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lady Blackbird – Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled) Some huge anthemic soul classic I thought I’d missed out on around forty or so years ago, no big surprise, drums sounding like something Primal Scream would have sharply snaffled. But no, released just last month, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkpeNvKG 7Vc | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 794 Registered: 08-2005 |
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes (here in a fab live version from 1984). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-WKXss MKg I've just been to see him live at Komedia in Bath, where he did two solo sets, 26 songs in total. He was in very good voice, the sound mix was excellent, though he was suffering from pain in his fingers. A most enjoyable gig. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1560 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fab indeed Simon ! Lloyd did confess at the time (to my pal Al and his fanzine "Alternatives to Valium") that despite having written "She looks like Eve Marie Saint in 'On The Waterfront'" he hadn't actually ever seen the film  | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1561 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Beauty of Gemina - Countless (There's No Home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_JzANDh 894 A recommendation from a pal with far more "gothic" taste than me, but I like this. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 797 Registered: 08-2005 |
Department S - Is Vic There? (The French version, I kid you not!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6wIKpF NBw This is a song that was big in my first year at uni and I even got to see Department S when they played a gig at our halls of residence for a mighty £2. I also got to see The Sound there, which was worth the £1.50 I paid. UEA, Norwich was excellent for live music, with just October and November 1981 taking in Bow Wow Wow, Greg Lake/Gary Moore, Bauhaus, Madness, Pig Bag, Killing Joke, Steeleye Span, Squeeze, Level 42, Stranglers, which will give some idea of the choice available. I met a lovely girl at Steeleye Span, up from London for the gig and to see friends. I had high hopes, but it wasn't to be... Happy days!!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2294 Registered: 10-2006 |
I Like Trains - Hope Is Not Enough This just turned up, and I do like trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohx6FWGX x08 The band “draws its inspiration from historical failings and a pessimistic world view”. I think we can all get behind that. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 798 Registered: 08-2005 |
I'll watch that later, Stuart. Trains are indeed great - the only way to travel, apart from by bike! I toured Australia and New Zealand largely by train in 1988, including the Ghan. More happy days! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10722 Registered: 05-2005 |
OMC - How Bizarre. I've loved this song since I first heard it on the radio in Dublin in the summer of 1996. Wow, where did those 28 years go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2oC99e_ xPY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4935 Registered: 03-2005 |
Very entertaining, Pádraig! Listening to the four numbers of theirs that are posted on Discogs for their album it's clear they had a very simple formula but it's fun to hear the NZ contribution to this sort of pop hip hop. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1563 Registered: 04-2005 |
My Cosmic Girl - Psychic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRhL2KX xKM From NZ... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, on my first ever night in New Zealand, in January 1999, I sat in a cafe on Queen St, Auckland, watching in awe as the fun and joy of that OMC video seemed to be recreated up and down the street. It was the height of summer, so it was a warm evening and Pacifika kids in souped-up cars were driving up and down the street, over and over, blasting out hip hop, shouting good-naturedly at each other and generally having a ball. It was a lovely and fascinating sight. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1564 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Cure - Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9SVAtM kJM We're all getting old... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1565 Registered: 04-2005 |
King Hannah - New York, Let's Do Nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K--HIroT D5g Fab | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10724 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Othyrs - Nobody Knows. This is a great psych pop song by one of the guys from The Wolfhounds and his son and daughter. And it’s on a label run by one of The Undertones and his son. https://dimplediscs.bandcamp.com/album/s cience-sunday?utm_source=album_release&u tm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fb&ut m_campaign=dimplediscs+album+science-sun day | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2295 Registered: 10-2006 |
Rod Mckuen - Jean Lovely old romantic tune from the Jean Brodie film “written in London for the great Maggie Smith” according to Rod. I wonder what Muriel Spark thought of it. Rod was my ideal type of poet when I was about 10, a casual Beat-looking sort with million-seller books, his own BBC show and big soppy ballads written with people like Jacques Brel and covered by Sinatra. I didn’t know he was also a Gay activist with a colourful if difficult background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZQz5U0 el0 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2296 Registered: 10-2006 |
That Cure song is a good slab of polished black granite. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4938 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dolly Mixture - Grass Is Greener On a drive last night, my trusty iPod dug this gem out of its pool of 22,000 songs I've uploaded. In what must be the greatest algorithm match ever, a dozen or more years ago Amazon suggested "you make like this" for a then-new 3CD compilation of everything recorded by the legendary Dolly Mixture. And what a match! This song, dear readers, is a mere demo recording but a good one and that's all there is to document it, plus a muddy sounding version performed by the band on BBC. In a proper and fair world Dolly Mixture would have made everyone forget Bananarama. They were a real girl band with real songwriters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1ZzRuJ t1w | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10727 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a great song, Randy. |