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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 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2423 Registered: 10-2006 |
Daniel Darc – La pluie qui tombe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9B-j97c BOk I was impressed by the snappy pop elegance of Frédéric Lo’s music for that beautiful Pete Doherty Arte film and album; also by his sharp, dapper band; so that Pete looked like a cheery, bit-of-a-bad-night plumber who’d wandered into the front room and suddenly come over all punning & poetical. But I never checked out Lo’s backstory till now, and this song in three movements is a corker. I’ve never fallen for singers who buy so completely into the rocknroll počte maudi sort of thing, so Darc is not my natural cup of absinthe; but Lo obviously finds them irresistible, and good for him. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2424 Registered: 10-2006 |
Holly Throsby – Warm Jets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwCtNg-W zE4 The stupendously lovely lead-off song for 2008’s A Loud Call. No new album or novel visible recently, perhaps something’s in the works. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10923 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I met Holly Throsby one time in Red Eye Records and she is a lovely woman. I told her that a gig she’d played as part of Seeker Lover Keeper was one of the best I’d ever seen and she seemed astonished. I meant it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2425 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just about to put the first SLK album on this very moment! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4999 Registered: 03-2005 |
Robert Forster - The Roads Sometimes it's Robert's smallest things that work best for me. This popped up on the iPod as I drove home from an errand. I was on a road, natch. It comes from his album covering all the turmoil surrounding Karin's illness, but it fits well for me right now as a celebration of the little familiar things we grow attached to if we slow down enough to notice it. My surviving, oldest brother told me a year or so ago that he wants to find some new music that is based on guitar chords. For years, he's listened to the same music over and over. I might try putting together a collection of Robert's songs. They're certainly guitar chord songs and they demonstrate a graceful maturing process. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10924 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to The Roads now, Randy. Thank you for reminding me of a great song. Too often, in my eternal search for the new great thing I quickly forget beauty in the past. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10925 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - Sleep On The Wing. A beautiful song - exactly three minutes long on CD, somehow one second shorter on YouTube - from their superb 2017 album Silver/Lead. It could be about a plane journey. It could be about a bird's flight. It could be about relationship difficulties. Whatever it's about, I think of it a lot lately as it references the Strait of Hormuz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo73io1O EB0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arborist - Looking 4 Love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w73iFXC9 nAU&t=256s I have walked the Belfast streets he is singing about, but I think even if you've never been there you will find this song beautiful. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ducks Ltd. whose Harm’s Way was one of the best albums of 2024 have just released a cover of Grant’s Easy Come, Easy Go. Very good indeed. It’s on Bandcamp and streaming. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1604 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Divine Comedy - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw3aTZL0 Yrc Sometimes Neil Hannon can veer off into "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" territory and then I forget that he is capable of jewels like this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10927 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" territory is a very good description of Hannon's worst tendencies, Andrew. |