| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Imelda May - Johnny Got A Boom Boom. Irish rockabilly girl with an appropriate name. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3087 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - I Worked Myself Up From Nothing | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1622 Registered: 10-2004 |
English Subtitles - Water | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2771 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sophia - Oh My Love (live acoustic version) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3088 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Winnebago Orchestra - Fuc*ed. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1464 Registered: 09-2006 |
Psycho Killer (alternate version with Arthur Russell on cello) -Talking Heads | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3090 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Smiths - Work is a four letter word | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1624 Registered: 10-2004 |
Tactics - Coalface | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3091 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff u heard any more on the smiths reissues? I need an excuse to go buy more Smiths!!!!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1625 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, unfortunately, I haven't heard anything further about the Smiths remasters/reissues. The only piece of news I've still seen was from Stephen Street's December blog entry, about remastering the albums: http://www.stephenstreet.net/diary.asp?c hange=yes&m=12 An actual release date for these could still be a long ways off. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3092 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Jeff. Bob Mould - the breach. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 162 Registered: 10-2008 |
spence, the bob mould album is a slight return to form isnt it? being a massive husker du fan its great to hear him produce his best album since F.U.E.L. I think the breach is ok but not the strongest, the songs that bookend the album are great, and Spiralling Down is possibly better than anything on Copper Blue!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1465 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just had the Huskers on recently...brought up memories of seeing them in the mid-80s. Great show, tainted just very slightly by the friend/co-worker I went with, who was of the age where showing enthusiasm of the "uncool" sort was verboten. So while I had the urge to get down and fling myself around to the music he spent the entire show standing with arms folded, looking supremely bored. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2778 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Hold Your Horses | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3097 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talk talk - new grass | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, yet to hear the Mould album, but if breach and a few songs o his myspace are anything to go by, I am excited at the prospect. He looks like a retired architect now! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1474 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stan Ridgeway - A Mission In Life | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2779 Registered: 05-2005 |
T Bone Burnett - Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2782 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Weepies - Painting By Chagall | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1475 Registered: 01-2005 |
Clay Allison (before they became Opal) - Hear The Wind Blow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-CcGXDM Y0&feature=PlayList&p=2E73C587E8E9FD63&i ndex=1&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3102 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nina and the Neurons theme tune. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1480 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - You are my face. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 130 Registered: 05-2005 |
peppermint trolley company - baby you come rollin cross my mind | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1377 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Maglite" - Wussy. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1474 Registered: 09-2006 |
Lake Brenda - Ass Ponys I'm a latecomer to Wussy, but have fallen hard...so much so it's even sent me back to Chuck Cleaver's previous band, which I haven't listened to in years, and which sounds great too. Though not quite as great as what he's doing now. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1378 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, through a complicated web of connections and coincidences, I booked Wussy to play my corner bar on May 30. I can't quite believe my good fortune. Given the great press the new CD is getting, I'm guessing (and hoping) this is the last time they'll have to play such as a small venue in Chicago. As a one-off, though, it's pretty exciting, and I'm expecting they may overwhelm our limited capacity pretty quick. If you're looking to get out of town, Chicago's lovely this time of year. And the show's free. The Ass Ponys were pretty great, too. I still play "Some Stupid With a Flare Gun" a lot. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1475 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wow, that's some web of connections and coincidences indeed...hearty congrats! Sounds like a heavenly venue to see them in, for free no less. Of course there's no way I could get it together that quickly to make my way there, so I guess I'll have to wait until they decide to make their way to this coast... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3114 Registered: 05-2005 |
WILco - Bull Black Nova | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Band of horses - Ode to LRC, big blasting number, cheering me up on a freakin dismal day  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3118 Registered: 05-2005 |
Axelina - Torn Jacket. Courtesy of jeff, nice tune, homemade vibe, kinda like Weather Prophets fronted by Brett Andeson | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3119 Registered: 05-2005 |
The revolutionaries - Freedom Dub | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1628 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, glad you like that one! Nick can craft a good tune. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3122 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees - Saturdays child, killer lead riff | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3123 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees - mary Mary | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3124 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees - Look out here comes tomorrow. Mr Nesmith is so, so so, right, I love the optimism in his soulful and sincere vocal approach, and delivery, not to mention the tWANG bar! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3125 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Monkees - Do not ask for love. Dolenz takes the reigns! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh shit, this one makes me cry with goose bumps, I love the chord switches, its just a great protest song!!!! The Monkees - You just may be the one. randy first sent this to me, it instantly went into my fave songs of all time category, y'know, the category that changes like my tastes and opinions change every minute! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1629 Registered: 10-2004 |
In the midst of a Monkees binge, are we? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3127 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was Jeff yes! They were remarkable, well, when they actually played/ecorded together!! did they didn't they? Dolenz was my fave | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 133 Registered: 05-2005 |
the shins- sea legs i recently got the monkees music box (box set) and went on a monkees 3 day bender | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 178 Registered: 10-2008 |
You and I - Wilco featuring the lovely Feist on backing vocals. the prettiest song on the album, and Nels doesnt get to Cline all over it!! ;-) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3129 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great eh Cosmo!!!! I remember thinking the same thing about Feist, the first time I ever heard her kev, it was on dual vocals on 2 really beautiful, beautiful tunes by Kings of Convenience called Know-how (freakin goosepimple time again), and The build up. She just comes in and applies this voice of an angel and the world is alright... Josef k - an mp3 of a 1979 rehearsal Jeez its tiny, but great. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1477 Registered: 09-2006 |
Surround Me - Grant | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1484 Registered: 01-2005 |
Dean and Britta - Night Nurse | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2797 Registered: 05-2005 |
Coldcut - More Beats & Pieces (John McEntire Tortoise Mix) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 542 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm avoiding listening to Wilco's new one till i get my hands on it which won't be until late June I suppose, It's gonna be hard. In the meantime I've been driving my partner mad by listening to loads of their old albums (apart from Sky Blue Sky) and live Jeff Tweedy solo gigs which are great. Here's a free/donation Wilco-Woody Guthrie download, The Jolly Banker, pretty much bang on for these times. http://beta.wilcoworld.net/guthrie/ | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1630 Registered: 10-2004 |
The Passage - Shave Your Head | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1478 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ray Stevens - The Streak | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 438 Registered: 04-2005 |
Karine Polwart "I'm Gonna Do It All" Track from Scottish singer-songwriter's "Scribbled in Chalk" recording, courtesy of Misha and his excellent blog. The video is rightly described as 'charming' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YYRXrW-X KA | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Biff bang pow! - if I die. I'd love to hear this remastered. This song was everything to me when I was 18. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1483 Registered: 09-2006 |
Tell Me That it Isn't True - Robert F. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3142 Registered: 05-2005 |
Its true Allen! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1484 Registered: 09-2006 |
No! NOOOOOO!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1494 Registered: 01-2005 |
In honor of the new US policy of 35.5 MPG for new auto and truck fleet sales starting with 2016 models: Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - The Cars She Used to Drive (from the live album Gotta Let This Hen Out!) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3146 Registered: 05-2005 |
2016!!? Scott Matthews - The boy with the thorn in his side. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3148 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM- I believe | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 622 Registered: 07-2006 |
my pick from pageant spence! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sir Joseph! Where you been chum!? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 186 Registered: 10-2008 |
Spence, Joes maybe been holing up in the mountains with LK/Hardin/Ewan. I was thinking about Ewan the other day so I checked his profile. He had logged in that day, and he logged in yesterday so he is lurking. Im on to him!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3151 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, Ye I.T. detective ye!!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1490 Registered: 09-2006 |
Take great care, though...don't want to scare him away. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3153 Registered: 05-2005 |
Visage - Fade to grey. Fantastic song. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1641 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nice one, Spence! For me this morning, it's: New Musik - Areas | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 191 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yours Truly The Commuter - Jason Lytle | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1492 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gone Missing - Wussy | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1507 Registered: 01-2005 |
O.M.D. - The New Stone Age | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2812 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dukes Of Stratosphear - The Mole From The Ministry | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 197 Registered: 10-2008 |
Bull Black Nova. The best song on the new Wilco. | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 11 Registered: 04-2009 |
No Myth - Michael Penn or The Days of Wine and Booze - Minus 5. Hey, A.B., Wussy is positively to die for. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2817 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - She's A Jar | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1384 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wussy - S/T. For Allen and Victor. Yet another winner, and Chuck's best songs of the three albums, IMO. Less than a week 'til they play my corner bar. I'm giddy. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1385 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hmmm, I posted an album in "Song of the Day." To make up for it: Wussy: "Maglite." Garage rock in the best sense - grimy, chugging guitars, Lisa's vocal is stellar, and the lyrics cut. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1503 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've Friended them over at MySpace and sent them an email with praise and pleading to please come out this way and play...Seattle seems a natural. If it's a (understandable) question of expense, I could talk to my boss about taking out a mortgage on the place... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1504 Registered: 09-2006 |
And Rob, is that you over on Facebook? The one listed as Chicago IL, complete with thoughtful-looking photo? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1507 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hm, that Rob has Lisa Walker listed as a friend, so it most likely is...sending you/them a friend invite. | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 18 Registered: 04-2009 |
Happiness Bleeds, Muscle Cars and Little Paper Birds get me. The "baby I love you" in the former is the disarmingly forthright culmination of everything every previous Wussy song has said. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1509 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Muscle Cars" is my song of the moment. Just made and mailed off a best-of-Wussy disc to friend and kicked it off with that one. Agreed on "Happiness" thoughts...for whatever reason I also like the juxtaposition (and rhyme) of "a paper bag of mildewy porn" with "the neverending question, why were we born?" | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 204 Registered: 10-2008 |
I played the Wussy album at work in the last hour, first time I'd heard it. Wasnt able to fully concentrate on it cos I was actually doing some work for a change!! Thought it sounded ok, a bit derivative of Yo La Tengo if i was going for a lazy critique. | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 22 Registered: 04-2009 |
It's definitely more or less the same concept, i.e. adult-couple-with-Velvets-fixation, although I've never detected anything even vaguely southern-rock about Tengo. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1513 Registered: 09-2006 |
And to state the obvious, though Chuck and Ira have a few vocal similarities, Lisa and Georgia sound very little like each other. Lyrically they cover a bit of the same ground, though from often very different perspectives. Song o'the day: "Glad to Be Gay" - Tom Robinson on the DVD of the first Secret Policeman's Ball, strumming his acoustic, head thrust forward, delivering each line through clenched teeth. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1386 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yep, that's my Facebook profile, Allen, although I'm an indifferent part of that community. The novelty of the concept wore off pretty quick. I agree with the Wussy description - kinda Yo La, kinda Velvets, but lyrically distinct from either. If were to attempt a description of Chuck and Lisa's writing styles, I'd probably go with Midwestern bohemian. To me, they evoke an Ohio alt scene I remember very well from my years living there. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1514 Registered: 01-2005 |
Zombies - This Will Be Our Year | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1515 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm quasi-indifferent over there, Rob...got coaxed into it by a family member. I have, however, run across a few chums and even my old high school drama teacher, all of whom it was nice to hear from again. So I'm not wholly averse. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1516 Registered: 09-2006 |
Plus, if I want to keep track of my kid all I have to do is pop on...he posts freqeuent updates. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3162 Registered: 05-2005 |
Without a shadow of a fuc*in doubt, Bye Bye Pride live at london is the best version EVER, the intro reduces me to a particle! | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 24 Registered: 04-2009 |
The Blonde in the Bleachers - Joni Mitchell | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 205 Registered: 10-2008 |
After listening to the Wussy album 3 times now I dont think its for me. Its starting to grate, especially the guys mannered vocals. If I fancy listening to boy/girl vocals I think I will stick with the tried and trusted YLT, Low or Sonic Youth. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1387 Registered: 08-2006 |
Fair enough, Kev. I'd recommend giving them a spin a week from now, or a month, if you're game. If you have access to them, listen to the first two records, as well. I really believe this is a band that might grow on you. But maybe give it some space. | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2009 |
Modern songwriting rarely gets better than something like "Jonah" or "Rigor Mortis" on album 2, and classic songwriting rarely gets better than something like "Airborne" or "Humanbrained Horse" on album 1. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2821 Registered: 05-2005 |
Imelda May - Love Tattoo | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 206 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Lemonheads - Fragile (cover of Wire song from Pink Flag) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 207 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ticket Taker - The Low Anthem | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 501 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skulldisco, I checked out the Low Anthem MySpace site and that song was on it. I see what you mean - the album, by the sound of it will be this year's Fleet Foxes. Trouble is, I can't even get a listing for the band, let alone the album, here in Auz! I will have to wait an extra 3 months before the tyrrany of distance is yet again overcome - even here in the 21st century! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 208 Registered: 10-2008 |
Geoff, do what I did and order it from Rough Trade. They have self numbered,hand made copies of the CD on (i think)the bands own label. The CD is about to be relaunched on Bella Union Records in Europe and Nonesuch records in the US. I have ordered records from Aus that arrive in just under 2 weeks, I am sure the same would apply in the opposite direction. http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_deta il.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=308558 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2823 Registered: 05-2005 |
Superchunk - Watery Hands. I love this song so much. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 210 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Affectionate Punch - The Associates. The first few notes of this song were playing in the car stereo when I pulled up at a roundabout, glanced to the right and saw a van with the name B. McKenzie emblazoned on it - there always was something quite spiritual,mystical and otherworldly about the bold Billy!! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 553 Registered: 01-2006 |
Hey Joe - Sparklehorse (Daniel Johnston cover). | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1642 Registered: 10-2004 |
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 502 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the link skulldiso! I'll give it a go. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's a great Lee song Jeff, have you heard 'Sometime Later' by Alpha? It's a great song from their 1996 debut 'Come from Heaven' and uses a part of My Autumn's to stunning effect |