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Post by jk on Apr 13, 2021 14:03:57 GMT -5
I'd been looking for this one for ages. I used to play "Soul Coaxing" à quatre mains with a friend back in 1968. I never forgot the tune but I did forget whose orchestra it was that played it. Recently I was under the impression that it must have been Michel Legrand, so I spent ages combing through his albums on YouTube and finding nothing. It was only after seeing the name Raymond Lefèvre while reading about Paul Mauriat (of "Love Is Blue" fame) that a light went on in the jk brain. So I went to YouTube, entered RL's name and "45" and hey presto. Boy, am I glad to hear this again! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Coaxing
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Post by nts1drums on Apr 17, 2021 21:34:36 GMT -5
Beach Boys: The Nearest Faraway Place (I regret nothing) Non-Beach Boys: How Dare You by 10cc. Fascinating.
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2021 3:06:06 GMT -5
Beach Boys: The Nearest Faraway Place ( I regret nothing) Non-Beach Boys: How Dare You by 10cc. Fascinating. Haha. Nor should you. I love "TNFP". The odd thing is that for me it starts during the day on a tropical beach and ends at night in the Hollywood hills with snow falling. Ah, now that's a hobbyhorse of mine: instrumentals on albums by bands known for their songs. Especially title-track instrumentals (others being Small Faces' "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" and that Beach Boys one (best track on the album in my view). Well, let's be hearing it then:
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Post by nts1drums on Apr 18, 2021 9:32:11 GMT -5
Just talking about 10cc for a bit. That was the only instrumental they ever did iirc. Goddang they’re incredibly underrated. Their first 4 albums are the best that ever were released and the fact that the majority has never heard it is astonishing!
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2021 15:29:06 GMT -5
Just talking about 10cc for a bit. That was the only instrumental they ever did iirc. Goddang they’re incredibly underrated. Their first 4 albums are the best that ever were released and the fact that the majority has never heard it is astonishing! Well, I love "Donna" and I like most other singles I've heard by them, particularly "The Wall Street Shuffle" and the truly extraordinary "I'm Not In Love". But it's not a band I've felt drawn to investigating further. I'm guessing everyone has bands like that.
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2021 15:30:25 GMT -5
Actually, my big moment with 10cc was when they were called Hotlegs. My local library was selling off stuff no one borrowed for peanuts. I remembered the name Hotlegs from their 1970 hit single "Neanderthal Man" and forked out my few eurocents for Thinks: School Stinks (with the alternative green and yellow cover). I thought it was a lovely album and I still do. From it, this is "Suite FA" (On My Way + Indecision + The Return): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinks:_School_Stinks
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Post by nts1drums on Apr 18, 2021 15:40:04 GMT -5
Ah yes! Hotlegs how could I forget? Run Baby Run & Um Wah Um Woh are just fun tracks to listen to, & have you ever heard Today (both the Hotlegs & the Festival versions, the latter literally 10cc under different name)?
They also did a cover of Teenager In Love (under Rubber Duckie), Da Doo Ron Ron (under Grumble) & the Manchester City FC anthem!!
Also the two Neil Sedaka comeback albums in the early ‘70s (including the original version of Love Will Keep Us Together!!).
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2021 16:38:46 GMT -5
Ah yes! Hotlegs how could I forget? Run Baby Run & Um Wah Um Woh are just fun tracks to listen to, & have you ever heard Today (both the Hotlegs & the Festival versions, the latter literally 10cc under different name)? They also did a cover of Teenager In Love (under Rubber Duckie), Da Doo Ron Ron (under Grumble) & the Manchester City FC anthem!! Also the two Neil Sedaka comeback albums in the early ‘70s (including the original version of Love Will Keep Us Together!!). Thanks for the info, nts -- and the tips! I gave both "Today"s a listen and was knocked out by the gorgeous slower version by Festival:
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Post by nts1drums on Apr 19, 2021 12:48:48 GMT -5
While I’m at it, there’s another instrumental track I like (not as much as How Dare You). It’s Foreign Accents by Godley & Creme. THAT is weird & I like it!!
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Post by jk on Apr 19, 2021 16:27:14 GMT -5
While I’m at it, there’s another instrumental track I like (not as much as How Dare You). It’s Foreign Accents by Godley & Creme. THAT is weird & I like it!! Great track! But you're not kidding about it being weird. Those lines in octaves cutting across the rhythm are insane!
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Post by jk on Oct 24, 2021 5:44:58 GMT -5
Check out the lineup on this Jeff Beck instrumental ("Beck's Bolero" was the B-side of his 1967 UK hit "Hi Ho Silver Lining"): Beck (lead guitar) and Page (flat top), John Paul Jones (bass), Nicky Hopkins (piano) and Keith Moon (drums)! Great to hear it again. With thanks to carllove over at BBT.
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Post by jk on Jan 24, 2022 6:48:57 GMT -5
Rest in peace, Don Wilson. No wonder this section of the board is suffering when his obituary ends up in the BB section. Well... let's put it down to force of habit.
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Post by jk on Jan 24, 2022 13:27:44 GMT -5
Oooff -- this took a while. Well, the thing is... one track stands out head and shoulders above the excellent all-instrumental Sovietwave 24/7 live stream I have on when grappling with recalcitrant jigsaw puzzles. So yesterday I screen-captured the name of the artist and the track's title (both in Cyrillic letters). Then I tried typing it out on an online Cyrillic typewriter, which was a barrel of laughs. I then took the result to Google Translate but just as I feared it turned out to be gibberish. In desperation I sought out lists of Sovietwave stuff, on Spotify to start with, and after a couple of false starts (right title, wrong artist) miraculously hit the jackpot. The name of the artist (from Kiev, Ukraine) is Протон-4 (Proton-4); and the track title ("Путь на амальтею") translates as "The Path To Amalthea". The reason this track grabbed my attention in the first place was the mournful sequence of four gorgeous sustained chords repeated throughout -- a bit like Pink Floyd pinking away a tear. (Now I think of it, it's not a million miles away in mood from Dave Gilmour's sad four-note motif just before the beat kicks in on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".) Its mournful nature brings to mind a friend of mine who's pretty messed up right now, and also the lovely person I unthinkingly chased away from this forum. So this is for them: soundcloud.com/proton-4-1
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Post by jk on Apr 10, 2022 14:26:25 GMT -5
I do like this, for a couple of reasons. First off, the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" was my first musical damascene moment when I was confronted with it in a library book of piano music at the tender age of five. So you could do this too! So music was more than just the dreary stuff you were taught to play so you could win competitions at your local school of music. Harry Cack, as my music-teacher uncle liked to call him, could really put the boot in when he wanted. I then discovered he was all over the radio in the mid 1950s. Nice! The other reason is that Beerdigungs Lauten, the death metal/grindcore outfit that recorded this thrilling version of "Sabre Dance” as the fifth and final track on their 1994 album Slay The Close Of Yours [sic], hail from Armenia themselves. Indeed, I have never heard a more respectful version! They follow their compatriot's composition closely -- the melodic middle section in particular adopts the melody and counter-melody note for note: This description and the photo come from a brilliant blog called The Industrial Twilight: "To my knowledge, Beerdigungs Lauten were the very first extreme metal band in Armenia. The band was formed in 1993 by two former members of Demon Spirit (Armenian clone of Slayer, with no known releases), after they started listening to such bands as Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Atrocity, Righteous Pigs, etc. and decided to play more brutal music. During the autumn of 1993 they held their first rehearsals at Armgiprodor (a scientific faculty outside of Yerevan). "The winter of 1993-1994 was very hard for them, as well for the citizens of Armenia as a whole: constant electricity outages, war in Nagorny Karabakh, economic blockade by Turkey and Azerbaijan, etc. However, in spring of 1994 they got lucky: an Yerevan-based band called Dumbarton Oaks offered them a rehearsal base. They got all the needed equipment shortly thereafter, and recorded their first and only demo at Ardzagank studio after two months of rehearsal. After that, they were invited to the 'Barev' TV show, which was their first appearance on TV. After 1995 the band was pretty inactive, but they finally split up only in 2004 after playing a final concert in Yerevan. "Unsurprisingly, Slay The Close Of Yours sounds quite raw. Back then there were only two recording studios in Yerevan -- Ardzagank and Asparez -- and BL had chosen the former (because they had some friends there), even though Asparez had better equipment. Anyway, the very fact of existence of brutal death metal in Armenia 20 years ago is quite interesting. ... I also think BL were the only band in the world to make a death metal version of 'Sabre Dance'." [ Source]
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Post by jk on Sept 28, 2022 14:07:53 GMT -5
This post takes the thread title -- "Non-Brian Instrumentals" -- at face value, as "Beach Boy Stomp"/"Karate" is a Carl composition. Recorded in 1962, it was the Boys' first recorded surf guitar instrumental, as opposed to the songs about surfing that would come to define them.
This is respectfully dedicated to the recently active poster who injected new life into the Beach Boys Stomp thread:
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Post by Awesoman on Nov 7, 2022 8:47:39 GMT -5
Off the top of my head:
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" - Earl Scruggs
I especially dig this all-star performance of it:
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Post by jk on Nov 7, 2022 9:29:01 GMT -5
Off the top of my head: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" - Earl Scruggs I especially dig this all-star performance of it: Oh yes! YouTube gives the line-up as Earl Scruggs (banjo), Glen Duncan (fiddle), Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar), Steve Martin (2nd banjo solo), Vince Gill (1st electric guitar solo), Marty Stuart (mandolin), Gary Scruggs (harmonica), Albert Lee (2nd electric guitar solo), Paul Shaffer (piano), Jerry Douglas (dobro), Leon Russell (organ), Glenn Worf (bass) and Harry Stinson (drums).
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Post by jk on Nov 17, 2022 17:02:46 GMT -5
I remember marvelling at this offbeat instrumental by Mr. Bloe back in 1970. What, I wonder, kept "Groovin' With Mr. Bloe" from the #1 spot in the UK? With thanks to pendlewitch for posting that list of number twos (which on reflection is a pretty terrible choice of words).
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Post by jk on Dec 20, 2022 10:27:52 GMT -5
From 1962, this is "Shadoogie" performed by Little Remy & The Flying Rockers, who can be considered exponents of what became known as Indo Rock:
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Post by jk on Jan 7, 2023 13:39:36 GMT -5
Moving away from The Flying Rockers musically and geographically, these are The Four Shakers, all the way from Geneva, Switzerland. "Convoi", written by Heino Gaze, was recorded at Radio Suisse Romande, Geneva in September 1963.
The Four Shakers were Daniel Nicollin (lead guitar), Alain Joilat (rhythm guitar), André Pochon (bass guitar) and Jean-François Griesinger (drums). A commenter at one of their other videos said they were all 18 at the time!
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Post by jk on Jan 13, 2023 5:42:55 GMT -5
Looking through lists of songs for ones with "air" in the title, I bumped into this gem by the Dutch band Ekseption. I do believe I prefer this to "A Whiter Shade of Pale", to which it bears certain similarities, although the big tune of "Air" is all JSB. Rick van der Linden's wacked-out piano solo is something else: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekseption
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2023 9:04:08 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Nov 8, 2023 6:05:06 GMT -5
It was in mid-November four years ago that I was invited to join a family-based team to take part in a jigsaw puzzle contest in an out-of-the-way place called De Lier (not featured in the example below). A week earlier, by sheer coincidence I had discovered this video of a nocturnal drive from Delft (been there many times) to De Lier (wherever that was). Although the accompanying instrumental is so-so (rendering this slightly off-topic), it makes for a great late-night experience. www.nklegpuzzelen.nl/informatie/hoe-werkt-het
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Post by jk on Nov 15, 2023 17:08:11 GMT -5
While looking around YouTube for an "official" instrumental by King Crimson, I ran up against this stunning 4/4 jam (a rarity indeed for KC) dating from the Thrak sessions:
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Post by jk on Feb 7, 2024 17:45:37 GMT -5
This wonderfully atmospheric instrumental was written and conducted by Rogier van Otterloo (he of "Only With You" fame) for the Dutch film Turkish Delight with Toots Thielemans on harmonica (the images of Amsterdam are unrelated to the film):
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