| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2372 Registered: 10-2006 |
Arvo Pärt – Stabat Mater Dearly as I love the world of modern pop rock, after a browse through international news this week, sometimes you’ve got to call on the big kahunas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2WuzKeD x8U | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10841 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt Berninger - Blue Monday. Classics shouldn't be covered unless you can add something to it. He has, by discofying it. Great cover. https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-natio nals-matt-berninger-releases-rocked-up-c over-of-new-orders-blue-monday-3892012 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2374 Registered: 10-2006 |
Françoise Hardy-Fleur de Lune After the great Brel from Simon, the great Françoise, with this delicious piece of pop, originally written by Brits Tommy Brown and Mick Jones and called Song of Winter, with a rather trite lyric. She wrote the French version herself and introduced a whole new level of sensual sexedupideness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulq_jb7M hT0 | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 268 Registered: 05-2005 |
First new music in three years from the normally-prolific Courtney Marie Andrews. Her last six albums are all masterpieces https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F21DAOD7If c | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2375 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hell of a voice. I have some CMA things, but maybe didn't give them the attention they deserve. She's playing some tiny places in England this autumn, a good chance to hear her up close. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4979 Registered: 03-2005 |
I tend to acquire too much music too rapidly to properly digest all of it at the time. One of the bands I blundered upon in 2022 was the Latvian band Tramplini. I was very impressed by this band and scooped up what I could find of their recorded output, two EPs and one album. But the continual influx of new discoveries eventually obscured Tramplini as so many others until I was reminded of them when last night's errand in the car was enlivened by this wonderful overlooked song from the band's 2011 album. The gorgeous vocals (and keyboards) are those of Anete Kozlovska. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7WmGCUv tc4&list=RDm7WmGCUvtc4&start_radio=1 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 877 Registered: 08-2005 |
Stuart, I'm not sure that's a word (I'm a sub-editor so I know these things...!) but that's a fab song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10846 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Christmas In Tunisia. Too early for a Christmas song? Never. Anyway, it's instrumental and the title only reflects the fact that it was an R.E.M. fan club single at Christmas 1994. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1593 Registered: 04-2005 |
John Martyn & Danny Thompson - Spencer The Rover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQQYLV9i r5A RIP the great Danny Thompson. What a life and what a character. I think I once read that he was the only person to be on the same edition of Top of the Pops playing with 2 different groups ! One was Everything but the Girl and the other possibly Kirsty MacColl ? Do yourself a favour and spend an hour in his company. Wonderful stories. "An Evening With Danny Thompson" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGPQq4I imc | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4980 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that link Andrew. Here's an earlier example of Mr. Thompson's fine playing and great choice of artists to work with. Recorded in 1966, also including John McLaughlin on guitar and Red Reece on drums, song written by Duffy Power and John McLaughlin: Duffy Power - It's Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpYNCWV FkI&list=RDXBpYNCWVFkI&start_radio=1 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2376 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Cords – Fabulist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx3XH95c 2Uk An Italian reviewer got their hands on the new album and is very excited: “Hold it right there! From Scotland comes a breath of fresh air, a debut preceded by a cassette and a flexidisc that literally sold out in a matter of days. Grace and Eva Tedeschi, from Greenock, are two sisters, but also two inseparable friends, raised in a home environment where music was played on the turntables as nourishment and healing for mind and body: Nirvana, Cure, Camera Obscura, but also Shop Assistants and Talulah Gosh.” | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 269 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got my copy of The Cords album through the post from Monorail last week. They’re on Skepwax in Europe which is Amelia Fletcher’s label. There’s some live sets on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-want. They cover Heavenly on one of them. The album seems to have sold pretty well on Bandcamp. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2377 Registered: 10-2006 |
Amelia's had an interesting career, I see - "Singer, songwriter, guitarist, economist." "Label owner" as well, then. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 879 Registered: 08-2005 |
Michel Legrand - I Will Wait For You From The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A tremendously moving song from an equally moving film. Back to a chanson for me after some Jacques Brel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaY6iWmQ XS4 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 880 Registered: 08-2005 |
Dory Previn - Twenty-Mile Zone. A mix of humour, darkness and sexiness by the former wife of Andre Previn (he left her for Mia Farrow, the bitterness of which is captured in the fantastic and acerbic Beware of Young Girls). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sOn7bi DZU |