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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2417 Registered: 10-2006 |
Paul McCartney – Sing the Changes (live) On a bit of a PM binge, so this is another song of his I’ve never come across before: from one of the Fireman albums, here in a gutsy live guitar-driven version, very McCartney-indie style with surreal cut-up run-on lyrics that chime along with the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6EbORrY L0k | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 919 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Cure - Lovesong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks_qOI0l zho Just flipping through the channels and I came across The Cure: Radio 2 In Concert. (The Cure on Radio 2 in the UK is an odd concept...) It moved me to tears within seconds - at the passing of time. I met Robert Smith in 1996 (he was lovely) but that's 30 years that's passed in no time at all... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10920 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, the third Fireman album, Electric Arguments, is the one Sing The Changes comes from. It’s also their best and, for me, probably the best McCartney album outside The Beatles. If anything connected to The Beatles can be considered a lost classic, Electric Arguments is. Much of it reminds me of The Beatles’ more experimental turns, such as Tomorrow Never Knows. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2418 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ta, Pádraig! Anyway, if you or anyone else around has some PM solo stuff that they think is worth hearing, you can always cut down my browsing time by letting me know! Although I'm quite enjoying watching the vast clutch of concert vids available on Utoob. My goodness, what a stage devourer he is, how he does thrive on playing live. Even when in one concert his voice is obviously shot to blazes from the very start he powers through, sounding like Louis Armstrong with a bad throat. Today, it's Jenny Wren from Chaos and Creation, which apparently makes use of the same Bach piece he modified for Blackbird: "Me and George used to play this together for folk to show that we weren't as thick as we looked." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubCa3JZ dEk | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Explained by the guy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rsJIxV9 XVU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2419 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks, Trou. And today... Paul McCartney – The Back Seat Of My Car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKsgckli B84 I wasn’t going to include some of the more obvious & well-known good stuff, like his first solo outings and Band on the Run, but this track is so outrageously wonderful it’s impossible not to, a richly melodic mini-opera on teenage shenanigans that brings Ram to a crashing end. The overwhelmingly savage contempt and hostility some of his early work was greeted with is rather startling to read nowadays, (“monumentally irrelevant”, “emotionally vacuous”, “an excursion into almost unrelieved tedium”) when Ram is routinely placed No. 1 in his post-Beatles output and the McCartney album is also well-regarded. There’s even a little lukewarm love for Wild Life here and there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deer Tick - Mary Singletary. This is so good. It sounds like The Replacements with a serious dose of Catholic guilt of the Bruce Springsteen/Greg Dulli/Craig Finn variety. Probably not surprising, given the Rhode Island band members’ names are all Irish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5_Pejy AVE | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 922 Registered: 08-2005 |
James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (Live version) Saw them last night in Cardiff and they were truly marvellous; the obvious choices would have Sit Down, which moved to tears, and Laid, but this is fab. I think it has a Go-Betweens feel at the start, then veers off, but I think it's a very moving song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCALwj9q VAs | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 160 Registered: 03-2015 |
Bleak Squad - World Go to Hell Don't need to add anything this because it says it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCuGSf8 4eo |