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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2407 Registered: 10-2006 |
Mitski – In a Lake Mitski is back, with that lovely free-sailing voice that draws me straight in, like a female DomA, pure and musical no matter what turbulence might be going on behind her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVKgdhY V6g | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 912 Registered: 08-2005 |
Country Joe McDonald - Janis In honour of Country Joe who has just died at the age of 84. I could have gone for the never-more-relevant Fixin' to Die Rag, but I don't need to have any reminders of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhfk4X0B TmQ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2409 Registered: 10-2006 |
Maria Schneider – American Crow I didn’t remember the Bowie connection when this came on, but the links to Black Star seem obvious when you know. “It speaks to the toxicity of our present social discourse that’s devolved into an impenetrable knot of curated rage,” says Schneider, something I certainly didn’t pick up on first listen, I just thought it was stunning, especially the dynamic criss-crossing drums and brass towards the end “when the vitriol morphs into a single churning dark din that feels impossible to untangle”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLkCeVL7 oTo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4995 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that link Simon. My oldest brother had the first Country Joe & the Fish album. I would have been 12 years old. I haven't heard the song Janis in well over a half century. Stuart, one thing we can probably expect from this horrible era is a lot of great art. Artists--the good ones anyway--will continue to direct us to our shared humanity. We must cling to these wonderful people at this time as our life boats. Curated rage: that's exactly what too many non-artists have been orchestrating. I admit that I was disappointed by Black Star and didn't even give it a second hearing. I'm very much a pop guy. Even the most sharp-elbowed arty or lo-fi music I listen to has to acknowledge certain pop conventions to satisfy me. I should probably see if Black Star sounds any different to me now. My song of the day is a much-loved one that was tossed up for the first time in years by my iPod's random mode, one that has perhaps an even more multi-layered significance now than it did when it was released in 1991: Kev Carmody -- Elly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrtgTQYm O7Q&list=RDTrtgTQYmO7Q&start_radio=1 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 913 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWMRosfj Oxc Went to see the always entertaining Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain last night and they did this in another fantastic performance. Along with... Nevermind, Limehouse Blues, Highway to Hell, the Dick Barton theme, Pinball Wizard (as a sea shanty!), Life on Mars, Paranoid... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2410 Registered: 10-2006 |
Paul McCartney & Wings – Single Pigeon Thanks to Aldous Harding for excavating this little sub-2 minute gem from Red Rose Speedway, pretty certain I’ve never heard it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUmkcSe vUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAHBgZm3 YWo&list=RDMAHBgZm3YWo&start_radio=1 Brass played by the band members experimenting on unfamiliar instruments. File under, never underestimate off-the-cuff McCartney whimsy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2412 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ysé – Il neige sur la mer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPlBN6mj pPg One of those heartbreakingly wistful and fragile ballads that the modern young French chanteuse is so good at coming up with. If I’ve understood her biography correctly, she’s also the cellist with the quartet backing Pete Doherty & Frédéric Lo on that marvellously poetic film they made for ARTE in Normandy a year or so back. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1602 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, Thanks for your last 2 posts ! It's funny when I think back to my McCartney obsession in the 70s when all my friends were carrying around those triple progressive albums  Listening to "Ram" and "Red Rose Speedway" today the great man's way with a melody is sublime. Wings at the Glasgow Apollo in '75 was my first gig and remains my best ever (yes even allowing for all those Go-Betweens concerts!) And yes the current wave of young French female musicians is pretty incredible. Apparently my family have been following Ysé for ages and I was apparently told about her, but she didn't ring a bell. She's very interesting, moving between varied styles but it remains her. Ysé - Quand je regarde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpIIKf9 2Cg | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1603 Registered: 04-2005 |
We saw the young French/Armenian singer Solann in concert a couple of weeks ago and she was wonderful. We thought that we would be the oldest in the hall, but there was an amazing age range ! This is the song that kicked off her popularity, but also a controversy about her "modifying" Rome's history for her feminist beliefs Solann - Rome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAf_ApQN QlU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2413 Registered: 10-2006 |
And Sir Paul even has a new song out! And it's rather straightforwardly lovely. There's even something vaguely Forsterian about it in the vocal, especially the chorus and central section. The new album title will be "The boys of Dungeon Lane" which is as good a title as anyone could wish for. I'm a sucker for a title with a street name in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1IhyF6 R0U | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 916 Registered: 08-2005 |
Connie Convers - Squirrel Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpR4D-SN Yes How Sad, How Lovely has just been reissued (or made available again) on CD, and my copy is arriving today. Huzzah! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2414 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jacob Alon - Of Amber First there was this piece of bewitchingly ethereal music shimmering out of the radio and then an interview with Jacob himself, who turned out to be a sensitive, softly-spoken lad from Dalgety Bay, which made me feel inexplicably proud, as such things perhaps can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsN47CT4 uTE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2415 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for the Solann song, Andrew, a lot going on there! Can’t work out yet what the historical modifications might be – maybe, from the video, something to do with the Romulus and Remus legend; and I think she shouts the word “chien” at certain points. I’ll investigate further! I would have been one of the smug twits strolling around with The Yes Album & Tarkus tucked under my arm... nobody listened to McCartney back then! Took a loan of VU3 to open my eyes to a different sort of music... still love Yes, though... | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 918 Registered: 08-2005 |
Stuart, you are so not wrong about the Forsterian feel to Days We Left Behind - to me it's almost uncanny at times. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10917 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - The Popgun. Not the NZ Bats, but a US version that started out around the same time. And they don't sound a million miles away from their Kiwi counterparts. I presume Robert Scott is aware of the other Bats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvP_zGy5 vII&list=RDnvP_zGy5vII&start_radio=1 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10918 Registered: 05-2005 |
That McCartney song is lovely. There is definitely a touch of RF to it. |