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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2299 Registered: 10-2006 |
Asobi Seksu – Strawberries Working my way through Pitchfork’s 50 greatest shoegaze albums. This in at no.37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtHIWHhA ZOA | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 227 Registered: 05-2005 |
Waxahatchee - Right Back To It. Paste magazine reckon her latest album is the 4th best of the 2020s. It’s not quite that good but it’s my second favourite of 2024 so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhER WJw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10731 Registered: 05-2005 |
Omertà - Kremer & Bergeret. Oh, this is fabulous. Randy, here’s your new favourite band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLL7osG9 mq0 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 800 Registered: 08-2005 |
Belle and Sebastian - Dog on Wheels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoD2HRN4 G6k I love a bit of Belle and Sebastian and went to see Stuart Murdoch at the Bristol Beacon (formerly the Colston Hall) on Saturday, in its small Lantern venue. Some other act called the Pretenders were in the main hall. Stuart was there to promote his first novel, a lightly fictionalised account of hs struggle with ME (not me, but the illness!). And he played this in a three-song set. He's a fan of the Go-Betweens too. This is from the song Shoot the Sexual Athlete: 'Cause I'm a fan of The Go-Betweens A fan of Robert, and I always have been But I like Grant, now that I've met him Because he's charming | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 801 Registered: 08-2005 |
REM - Carnival of Sorts live from 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNkO5W-b mpE Bonkers, madness, loveliness. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2302 Registered: 10-2006 |
With reference to the Omertà track, Pádraig, I see that in an interview Florence Giroud intriguingly mentions a Sophie Marceau album, ‘Certitude’, “one of our culture’s true hidden gems”. That sounds worth tracking down. I’ve heard a little of it online and so far the hiddenness is more understandable than the gemness, but time will tell. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2305 Registered: 10-2006 |
Amyl and the Sniffers – Big Dreams Sounding a bit like revved-up Courtney Barnett, strikingly so at the end, had she decided to give up writing witty & literate lyrics just for a moment. But the oomphed-up vocal, Morricone style, on the Heys! and the Oohs! is pretty irresistible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZSqcFA 0Z0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4941 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bathers - Feathers, Books & Lace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_uH5id j1Y&list=OLAK5uy_lVwdvfLv4A4dDuZ_rbS-vr8 Z0vr3XNsr0 Surely Chris Thomson is the most romantic Scotsman alive. And then a counterbalance from possibly one of the most cynical persons in the Bristol music scene: The Reverend Jonny Kinkaid - Waiting for the End of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGfLGlH bIo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2306 Registered: 10-2006 |
Clio – Là je suis saoule Oh, a French lass again… although Clio has already produced some very nice pop stuff, this is really lovely, and a great little video up on the roofs of what might be Paris, despite obvious lack. I didn’t know that “bisontine” indicated that you were from Besançon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsV-8xc5 870 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 805 Registered: 08-2005 |
Dory Previn - Beware of Young Girls I only discovered this recently, and it's as dark as it gets. And equally, at the same time, it's a thing of loveliness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmi7eeCN Vvo | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 806 Registered: 08-2005 |
And two for the price of one... Vashti Bunyan - Where I like to Stand. Ah... wistful thoughts... and as with Dory Previn, I only discovered her music quite recently. And it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUPFvht jdU | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1568 Registered: 04-2005 |
Avishai Cohen - The Seventh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-eZRnI qaQ The last track on his fabulous new record "Ashes to Gold". Composed by his teenage daughter apparently. Piano by my pal Yonathan. 3 minutes of beauty in this troubled world. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10736 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Global Twins - Sympathy For The Devil. Hopefully this makes it onto the coming box set. The Global Twins is, of course, Grant and Robert under a pseudonym. |