| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2307 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ivan Graziani - Lugano addio One of the great merits of Italian X-Factor is its occasional unearthing of classic songs you might not otherwise get to hear, in this case a gorgeous ballad from 1977, which, like a lot of golden age Italian pop, manages to pack in a whole lot of interesting stuff. Here, while the lyrics refers to Addio a Lugano, a song by Sicilian anarchist and poet Pietro Gori, written in 1895 after fleeing to Switzerland to escape from the reprisals of Italian law, Graziani slips it into a romantic context, with a girl from the north, daughter of a veteran who fought in the mountains, falling in love with a boy from the south, son of a fisherman, and Lugano deliberately identified for its beauty and natural, economic and social contrasts, a border town where different lifestyles, dreams and hopes meet. “You spoke to me about frontiers, financiers and contraband…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KtATae A9M | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1570 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pentantangle - Sweet Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShDVFHjP mhk RIP Shel Talmy | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4943 Registered: 03-2005 |
How funny. I have a CD version of the "Sweet Child" album but I never noticed that Shel Talmy is the producer. It wouldn't have occurred to me. I associate him with The Kinks, early Who, Creation and the Easybeats' assault on the international music scene. I never knew he played a part in the folk scene. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2309 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lou Reed & John Cale - Berlin (Live, 1972) Never seen this before! Wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_83BliF cFg | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2312 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow Rollicking out the radio as fresh as a daisy, lovely guitar sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVJ7FWc 4rQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10743 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Heaven Says. Early Go-Betweens sounds better to me, the older I get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veuB0nPD y24 |