| Author | Message | ||
     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1051 Registered: 09-2006 |
Being that we're more than halfway through the month it's probably about time... Four Little Diamonds - ELO | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1052 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sweet Jane - Gang of Four, live version amongst the extras on the Entertainment! reissue They make some obligatory, defensively ironic/apologetic remarks to the crowd about playing it, and then proceed to perform it in what is, for them, a very warm and playful manner, especially the singing. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 167 Registered: 02-2008 |
Drinking Again - Frank Sinatra Every word rings true and glows like burning coal. J. Mercer must've written dis one expressly fo' the Chairman. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 58 Registered: 08-2005 |
Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole. Came up on shuffle on my iPod - love the line "She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront" and his strange, affected delivery. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 65 Registered: 10-2006 |
..'Cheekbones like geometry eyes like sin' agree 100%, I love the title track and Charlotte Street, still go onto Brand New Friend off Easy Pieces. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1143 Registered: 08-2006 |
I heard "Perfect Skin" on my college radio station back in 1984. Bought the record immediately. I've played it tons over the years and when those guitars kick in at the start of the albums it still gets me every time. And "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?" is one hell of a closer. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2386 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glasvegas-Geraldine. Wicked man! Jesus Marychain crossed with the Proclaimers! Go figure! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1635 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agree with the Lloyd Cole comments. Just a brilliant record all the way through. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 446 Registered: 07-2006 |
shakespear's sister's cover of "could you be loved". typical 88 "alt-dance/pop" fare....but i've always liked siobhan's voice. who am i kidding - i freakin' love it! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1224 Registered: 10-2004 |
I played Rattlesnakes so many times over the years that at one point I had to stop and lay off it for several years. I think after another year, it'll sound fresh again. I have to do that with a lot of records that I love, actually. Perhaps somewhat blasphemously, I might even like Easy Pieces more. Slightly. Another brilliant album, IMHO. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 306 Registered: 01-2007 |
I played Easy Pieces on vinyl last thursday great LP how come it doesn't get played as much as Rattlesnake? Probably because Rattlesnakes was/is such a concise high quality body of work whereas Easy pieces doesn't sit together as well, the songs are all good maybe a little too complicated. It sounded great on my vinyl copy | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2390 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gene - Where are they now? indeedy. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 307 Registered: 01-2007 |
Jeff you got me started on this Easy Pieces and played it again today, I think the production is what is wrong with it the songs are great, and the sequencing could have been altered, note Langer and Winstanley were the producers which may account for its loss of a live feeling | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 171 Registered: 02-2008 |
Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 166 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Company In My Back (the live version from Kicking Television) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2397 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains I couldn't wait to hear them, so I myspaced em. They sound good on first listen. Kinda reminds me of Rufus Wainright, bit Autumn Defense. They mention shaggy rock as influence, listening to the other tracks, I feel Randy will want to comment on their mid 70's mid of the road leanings... Overall, very listenable. I'm gonna get the album. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rufus Wainright!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont you mean Lowden Wainright Spence?  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2401 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Rufus mate! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2402 Registered: 05-2005 |
All the songs on the myspace page are bloody excellent, better than The Who, thank God I saw sense! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1059 Registered: 09-2006 |
We the People Who are Darker Than Blue - Curtis | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2408 Registered: 05-2005 |
THE PALE FOUNTAINS - PALM OF MY HAND. (PACIFIC STREET VARIETY) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2409 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pale Fountains - Beyond Friday' Field. Possibly the strangest, weirdest and most fulifling Paleys song from theis classic, Pacific Street. Its like something from West End Story, its like the kinda music that used to play between Schools for Colleges programmes on ITV in mid 70's English daytime TV, its got steel drums, its got bongos, its got harpsichord, its boss, anova, its Mick head, its streets ahead, its phased treated muscial interludes, the production of this track had got to be totally experimental, its at odds with the rset of the album, and its a beauty, I fu*kin love it! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2423 Registered: 05-2005 |
Me again, I think my mammoth posting has resulted in me scaring the board off into corners wher they can hide from the mass hysteria that are my postings!!!! Song of the day. the Wolfhounds - LA Juice. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1641 Registered: 03-2005 |
But they're all great songs, Spence. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2432 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today, House of Love - Shine On. I never much cared for it. Though it was a real pub song, people my age, at this time of release 18/19 really related to its lines "Little Jesus are you watching me, I'm so young - just eighteen" and "Look at me, proud of being, proud of being seventeen" from Beatles and Stones. Whateer...Shine On sounds extremely magical and the best song in the world just now. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 451 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's a beauty spence which still sounds eerily timeless. though my fave was always the very post-psychocandy christine. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 203 Registered: 02-2008 |
Across 110th Street - yep, you guessed it Mr. Womack... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1185 Registered: 01-2005 |
Across 110th Street, the 70's movie, has been playing on cable as of late. I don't thing I've seen any of those black explotation movies from the 70's, except for Super Fly. I did enjoy QT's homage to them however, the very underated Jackie Brown(Across 110th Street, the song, is in the movie). |