| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Perrett - Kill A Franco Spy https://peterperrett.bandcamp.com/album/ the-cleansing | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2340 Registered: 10-2006 |
Great title, anyway! Will check the song out later. Meanwhile, following the Butler, Blake & Grant theme, one of Norman's most gloriously BigStarrish moments. Teenage Fanclub - I Don't Want Control Of You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHwkZPr JHw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2341 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wow, an epic couple of minutes, Pádraig! Excellent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10762 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like your description, Stuart. It is epic, even though it's all done in 152 seconds. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2342 Registered: 10-2006 |
I wonder what it's based on? Hemingway? Rounding off the Butler, Blake, Grant trilogy… I’ve trawled through some of BB’s later work, but nothing I found seems to match the fevered exuberance of his first band. So here they are. My Dark Star – Suede https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6rPNb lQc | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 822 Registered: 08-2005 |
Connie Converse - Squirrel Thing A wondrous obscurity from the 1950s from a singer-songwriter who disappeared in the 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpR4D-SN Yes Robert Forster is a fan of the release of her work, How Sad, How Lonely, which is presently unavailable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Con verse | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005 |
How Sad, How Lovely is great. You can still get it on Bandcamp. The later releases of her stuff aren’t as good. Nat(alie) Johnson, once of Monkey Swallows the Universe, did a great live set of CC covers which you can get for name your price on Bandcamp. Finally, there’s a somewhat patchy album of covers called Vanity of Vanities. Petra Haden and Margaret Glaspy’s versions are superb. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2343 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar Drum-heavy girl-voice pop is not a bad thing to wake up to on a cool, overcast Sunday. Was it really such a good idea to get rid of Kelli, I wonder? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2-tRoIY HJY | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2345 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yukimi – Sad Makeup I love the sparse instrumentation on this. Her voice is nice soft soulish but then the chorus really kicks it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dX9SCOx msY | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2347 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Roebucks - Sable Very attractive sound from this Brighton band. Like the crunch in the guitar solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29xtOYL gOc | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1580 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fontaines DC - "It's Amazing To Be Young" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjI1L0dB AVI New single ! And a stonking anthem  | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 253 Registered: 05-2005 |
I had an exciting trip to Barrow-in-Furness the other night to see Carlisle United extend their unbeaten league run against the hosts to 65 years. They played Fontaines D.C.’s Liberty Belle before the kick-off. A regular thing for Grian Chatten, I guess. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 576 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pretty Persuasion by a fine young band... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_OWQ4- Ivg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10771 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Just A King In Mirrors, from The 10 Rules Of Rock And Roll 10". These are Robert's notes on the song: Grant McLennan my songwriting partner in The Go-Betweens wrote this for the b-side of Part Company in 1983. Which shows the band was either crazy to put material as strong as this on a flipside, or we had so many good songs and this was the only home it could find. This is a beautiful ballad from Grant. Melodically strong as always, and with a lyric that really cuts and evokes a person and a scene. Normally I never asked Grant what his songs were about, but this one so took me at the time that I asked him who the subject of the song was. He said it was Nick Cave, whom Grant was close too at the time. I don't know what I thought when he told me that, but listening to the song now, and singing it, it sounds nearer to a portrait of Grant himself. A final note added as humbly as I can. The guitar solo on this is by me, and I think it is one of the best things I've done. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 823 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Corgis - If I had You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5XCNua Ibo It's lovely. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 824 Registered: 08-2005 |
That should be the Korgis, of course. Damn and blast spell-checking technology! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 825 Registered: 08-2005 |
Tubthumping as performed by the fantastic They Might Be Giants. What's not to love about that pairing?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0Amcgx ot8&list=RDMM&index=19 |