| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2180 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Coral - Put the sun back The album this comes from, Roots and Echoes is absolutely fucki astonishing, I can't quite get over how damn good this is. Fireflies could be the new James Bond theme, echoes of Matt Monroe and Jimbo Morrison, John Barry too. Rebecca Beach, recalls Art lee god rest his soul, I can hear Crosby Stills etc, Neil, and James voice has a real Jim Morrison tone to it sometimes, James is a much undervalued classic singer. Jim Morrison had the voice of velvet, then he could rip ye appart like Grizzly Adams' grandpappy on a bear hunt! Yep I'm all American today. Well most days of late actually, now where's my green card!? | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 175 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lemonheads = It's about time (acoustic) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2185 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gene Clarke - In a misty morning 9first time I heard this was from the great Dave Graney) Also She don't care about time. I can't believe how great this is. I can see wher STipe gets his role model from on this one. Both songs are with me thanks to Randy. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 25 Registered: 02-2008 |
Mary J Blige - Work That | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 446 Registered: 01-2006 |
Grey Day - Madness. Even though it's a nice day lounging at home here.. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2190 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monochrome Set-The Puerto Rican Fence Climber | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 49 Registered: 02-2008 |
Treat Her Right - Get a Gun | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 165 Registered: 10-2006 |
Steppin out queen - van morrison - incredibly crazed violin solo rips into the middle of this, wonderful - only the cheerful horns tootle back in a bit too soon, you can just hear the violin wailing away in the background with manic splendour. great vocal as well. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1065 Registered: 01-2005 |
A nice dreamy, trippin' song by Traffic: Forty Thousand Headmen | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deus - The Architect. This band are like wine. though I miss their real no-friendly experimentalisms... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 967 Registered: 09-2006 |
Runnin' Around - New York Dolls | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2204 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ranger - Leave a light on. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 49 Registered: 08-2005 |
Wandering Kind - Laura Veirs | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 68 Registered: 02-2008 |
Cape Cod Kwassa - Vamp Weekend | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1079 Registered: 10-2004 |
Care of Cell 44 - Zombies | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1087 Registered: 10-2004 |
Associates - Party Fears Two | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2212 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fu*kin superb song that Jeff, what an audiable icon! Scott Walker - Two weeks since you've been gone. Oh shit pass me the hankey, Sons of is comin next... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 353 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mechanism - Steve Kilbey | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2053 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rent Man - Black Uhuru | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1102 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michel Legrand - The Appointment Suite (Part 1) Stockholm Monsters - Terror Pylon - Crazy | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2224 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Kane Gang - Closest thing to heaven | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 98 Registered: 02-2008 |
Johnny Cash - I Wont Back Down | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 601 Registered: 04-2006 |
Dave Cloud and the Gospel Power - Puff Rider | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2235 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, I intend to take a listen to DC & TGP, based purely upon the ludicrous and genius nature of their/his/her band name! The Pale Fountains - Unless. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1109 Registered: 10-2004 |
Servants - A Sun, A Small Star | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 603 Registered: 04-2006 |
Spence, here you can listen to a few songs of dave cloud. also a short biography can be read. some songs are good, some not. puff rider reminds on beefheart. stumbled over this song on a record shop. yeah, and happy birthday to your two little girls. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 604 Registered: 04-2006 |
flaming telepaths - espers great version of that classic BOC tune. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1110 Registered: 10-2004 |
oh man, i love BOC!! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 102 Registered: 02-2008 |
"Red and black thats their color scheem". Yeah great group. I saw them once on a triple bill with the New York Dolls and Kiss. The singer of BOC was kind of a jerk, calling the audience a buncha "pussies". I always wondered what he thought of the NY Dolls. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 605 Registered: 04-2006 |
spence, forgot to insert the Dave Cloud link. here it is: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus eaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=228248 155 | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 606 Registered: 04-2006 |
Blue Oyster Cult rocks. One of those seventies bands which weren't my favourite bands at that time, but well known. now some of those stillhave a place in my heart, whereas the most of my favourite bands from that time didn't 'survived'... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1113 Registered: 10-2004 |
Wow, nice to see a little BOC love here, Andreas. Now I'm dying to get home so I can put on Secret Treaties and Tyranny and Mutation - BOC's two best albums. Their riffage was just sick: Hot Rails to Hell, Dominance and Submission, Wings Whetted Down, etc... awesome stuff! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1576 Registered: 03-2005 |
So THAT's who "BOC" is! I was wondering. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 106 Registered: 02-2008 |
Gudbuy T Jane - Slade. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 985 Registered: 09-2006 |
Another BOC fan here...beyond (actually, intertwined with would be closer to it) the monster riffs was a sharp sense of humor, something the other leather-clad horror/mystico rockers either had contempt for or ignored altogether. And Don't Fear the Reaper has a great deal of wisdom to impart. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 108 Registered: 02-2008 |
Sensual Seduction - Snoop Dog | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 988 Registered: 09-2006 |
They'll Need a Crane - The Wrens | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power - Lavender Clothes. Christ he's brilliant, the voice and sound of Iggy and The Stooges, whilst wearing the look of one Mr Grizzly Adams.! Thanks Andreas. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 614 Registered: 04-2006 |
Your welcome, Spence. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2264 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hot Chip - One pure thought Starts off like Richard Lloyd, I dunno, from his Fields of fire album, then goes into Depeche Mode, Heaven 17 then into David byrne land. Its a great track | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 996 Registered: 09-2006 |
Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III - Cornershop As descriptions of our everpresent hype culture go, "the overgrown Supershit" is a nicely turned bit of phrase. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 282 Registered: 01-2007 |
Sweetest Decline-Beth Orton I'm loving the cd as well, Central Reservation had it for ages but not played it much | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 998 Registered: 09-2006 |
(I Was) Born to Cry - Dion Verging on the sort of wonderful self-parody that Elvis pulled off with "Love Me." | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 126 Registered: 02-2008 |
Hollow Man - REM. Dam. Sounds like somebody slipped em some musical Viagra. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 999 Registered: 09-2006 |
Listening to the Jim Reeves song "The Blizzard," in which a fella and his horse make their way home through the title storm until he succumbs to snow madness and freezes to death 100 yards from the house. Put me in mind of other story songs...what are your favorites? They can be more concrete tales like "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" or maybe slightly more oblique, like "The Sound of Rain." What I can come up with (beyond those three) at this exact moment: "The Little Lady Preacher" and "Turn it On, Turn it On, Turn it On" - Tom T. Hall (actually he's got about million of 'em) "Lola" - Kinks (likewise) And many more to come... Lola - Kinks | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1110 Registered: 01-2005 |
"El Paso" is a great story song. Kirsty MacColl even did a great version of it. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 129 Registered: 02-2008 |
I gotta mention Lilly Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts by Dylan. Also, Gun Street Girl by T. Waits is a goodun though the story doesnt quite add up or make sense. Alls I know is the bloke kissed a girl wot lived on Gun St. and got in a heap o trouble! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1000 Registered: 09-2006 |
Definitely some good ones there... Lost a Number - Grin He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones 13 Months in 6 Minutes - The Wrens Up the Junction - Squeeze | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1588 Registered: 03-2005 |
There are so many great story songs. I have to mention to pop gem "Bus Stop." Two Ian Tyson songs come to mind as well: "Rio Grande" and "Barney." Actually Tyson has dozen a zillion story songs. Thinking of Allen's mention of "Sound of Rain" I'm reminded of the Easybeats' brilliant murder song called "Peter." It was only recorded as a demo. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 154 Registered: 02-2007 |
Black Diamond Bay from "Desire" by Bob is an oft overlooked gem of a story song | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 188 Registered: 10-2006 |
April Fool Day's Morn is a kind of story I suppose, though like all of Loudon's mainly a slice of autobiography - beautiful and funny anyway. Meanwhile there's maybe a story in Jacksonville Skyline too, by Whiskeytown, but a lovely piece of early morning melancholy whatever. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1112 Registered: 01-2005 |
I suppose I should mantion Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger album. Every song on the album is a story song, set in sequence. One of the greatest if not the greatest country album of all time. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1001 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'd say that Loudon one certainly qualifies, Stuart. Reminds me of another personal favorite, The Man Who Couldn't Cry. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1116 Registered: 08-2006 |
Let's not forget the great Tom T. Hall in all of this. Perhaps the king of the story song, IMO. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1003 Registered: 09-2006 |
Actually mentioned a couple of his above, Rob...was just listening to another great one of his today, "It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines." | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 130 Registered: 02-2008 |
Another great story song: 3rd Rate Romance Low Rent Rendezvous - Amazing Rythm Aces. "I've never really done this kind of thing before have you?" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1005 Registered: 09-2006 |
'And he said, 'Yes I have...but only a time or two.'" Perfectly sung. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1118 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ah, you beat me to the punch, Allen! I'll go in another direction, then: "Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night" by the Coup. Maybe the only tune ever to feature a beating with a prosthetic limb. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1007 Registered: 09-2006 |
That is a fine, multifaceted tale indeed...and of course once one starts in on rap story songs one can go for quite awhile..."Fatal Attraction," "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa," "My Fault,"... And speaking of grim tales of violence, more than half the songs on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, an album that fascinated and freaked me out in about equal measure as a kid. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 155 Registered: 02-2007 |
Agree Allen, I just listened to that record a coupla days ago. Great story songs that still resonate with me, having been brought up ina house filled with Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins tunes till I was a teenager!! The old man could sing ALL the songs on Gunfighter Ballads and it was the same freaky fascination for me. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1008 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, I grew up pretty country too, David. I actually remember first pulling that album out of my grandma's record collection when I was over there one day...and then weeks later surreptitiously sneaking it back to my house so I could play it when I wanted to. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 156 Registered: 02-2007 |
Funny we all come to Gbs via different routes. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2273 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daniel Wylie - I love America. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1014 Registered: 09-2006 |
Slippery Fingers - Grin "...slippin' all over yoooooou." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2289 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Kids - heartbrakes. The singer is gorgeous too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon Fisher Turner - Maddox Eyes. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1154 Registered: 10-2004 |
Marden Hill - Oh Constance | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2297 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff I adored Marden Hill. Always - Dreams of leaving. |