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Post by jk on Aug 13, 2022 4:07:17 GMT -5
Glueams was a Swiss punk group. Seems there was quite a thriving punk scene in Tobleroneland (I may investigate it further some day). The lineup would seem to be Christian Trüssel aka GT (bass), Martin Pavlinec (guitar) and Marco Repetto (drums). No idea who the lead singer is. From 1979, this is "Mental": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grauzone
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Post by jk on Aug 16, 2022 15:51:15 GMT -5
I've found a little Sun Araw (Cameron Stallones' one-man band) can go a long way, although I do think Stallones has a great musical language ( "Heavy Deeds" is fantastic). It was Sun Araw's music that led me to this strange album of what Pitchfork describes as "psychedelic gospel". Icon Give Thank (2012) is credited to reggae vocal group The Congos ("Ashanti" Roy Johnson, Cedric Myton, Watty Burnett and Kenroy Fyffe), Sun Araw (second from left on the album cover) and LA producer and "noisenik" M. Geddes Gengras (far left). The whole album is worth checking out (it's on YouTube). To whet your appetites, this is "Jungle": pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16513-icon-give-thank/
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Post by jk on Aug 19, 2022 4:51:40 GMT -5
I never thought I'd find this on YouTube. It’s Sam Apple Pie performing "King Kong's Breath" (here at 2:45), a live rendition of the Zappa/Mothers of Invention epic "King Kong". I recall hearing them play this at London's Roundhouse in early 1972 at an eight-hour multi-act "Implosion". Bandleader Sam Sampson, who sang and played harmonica, left this instrumental to "me Apple Pie", as he put it (although here he's playing harp on it). What I've heard of their studio work makes me feel they were much more comfortable as a live band: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Apple_Pie
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Post by jk on Aug 24, 2022 16:32:42 GMT -5
This album should be much better known! Masters of Reality debuted in fine fashion but their second album of three years later, the wonderfully named Sunrise on the Sufferbus (1992), with Mr. Baker taking over on drums, is to my ears of another order entirely. The material is so much stronger and Ginger's playing is flawless, as always. Left to right: Ginger Baker, Googe, Chris Goss.
Every track a winner. This is the gorgeous "100 Years (Of Tears On The Wind)": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_on_the_Sufferbus
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2022 16:29:36 GMT -5
All the way from Birmingham (UK), Humantide are Chris Hickling (lead vox and guitar), Martyn Barran (bass), Richard Hickling (guitar and vox) and Ryan Kerley (drums). This is "The Company Whip": www.facebook.com/Humantide/
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Post by jk on Sept 23, 2022 5:46:06 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Sept 24, 2022 4:34:55 GMT -5
Listening to the organ (as opposed to Moog) solo on the stunning live version of "Leaving This Town" on 1973's The Beach Boys in Concert, it struck me that it comes even closer in mood and texture to the organ solo on the epic title track from Traffic's 1971 album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, which I see got played a lot on US FM radio at the time. The big difference is that the solo on "Leaving This Town" is over a repeating rhythmic and harmonic pattern not used anywhere else in the song, something it shares with the instrumental work-out on "Feel Flows". Getting back to BB73, I should add that despite these superb live versions the studio originals of everything will always be definitive for me. I guess it’s all about what you hear first. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Low_Spark_of_High_Heeled_Boys_(song)
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Post by lizzielooziani on Sept 26, 2022 14:42:47 GMT -5
I love both the studio and live versions of Leaving This Town. Yep, “Low Spark” got a lot of airplay on the New Orleans FM station that I tuned into back in the day. As for Live vs Studio, I personally prefer the Live version of Let the Wind Blow as it seems more developed. Especially love the organ blasting out at “ let the church bells ring.”
Today’s Gershwin’s birthday. Needing a pick me up, listened to him performing I Got Rhythm, S’Wonderful, and a nice uptempo Someone to Watch Over Me. 🥰
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Post by jk on Sept 26, 2022 15:50:34 GMT -5
I love both the studio and live versions of Leaving This Town. Yep, “Low Spark” got a lot of airplay on the New Orleans FM station that I tuned into back in the day. As for Live vs Studio, I personally prefer the Live version of Let the Wind Blow as it seems more developed. Especially love the organ blasting out at “ let the church bells ring.” Today’s Gershwin’s birthday. Needing a pick me up, listened to him performing I Got Rhythm, S’Wonderful, and a nice uptempo Someone to Watch Over Me. 🥰 Hi Lizzie. Agreed about his splendidly danceable performance of "Someone...". He was an accomplished painter too (that's fellow composer Arnold Schoenberg on the easel): And yes, that's a superb rendition of "Let The Wind Blow", to be sure:
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Post by jk on Sept 30, 2022 16:52:08 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 3, 2022 7:50:28 GMT -5
Anyway, there were these two Irishmen….no, not one of those jokes beloved of stand-up comedians from the 70s, but two of the most talented and delightfully demented musicians of recent times.
Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon seem to have been around for decades, although not many people could pick them out of a line-up. Andy Partridge has been amongst us for even longer, but outside of regular XTC fans he remains just a face in the crowd. Thomas and Neil both have a screw loose, which is central to their appeal. This is Thomas in his guise as front man of Pugwash, enjoying himself on a bracing beach whilst poking some gentle fun at the traditional Irish/British seaside holiday. Co-written by Partridge and featuring a non-contributory appearance by Hannon as the Liam Gallagher look-alike in hoodie and shades:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 3, 2022 7:54:28 GMT -5
Hannon is probably best known for fronting The Divine Comedy and also as composer of the theme tune to one of TV’s most irreverent and gut-bustingly funny comedy series Father Ted. But this is arguably his finest hour, a glorious piss-take of the UK’s low cost no-frills cheapo long distance coach group, National Express. With one of the greatest lines to drip from his pen – you’ll know it when you hear it:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 3, 2022 7:57:46 GMT -5
When Walsh and Hannon did join forces they came together to create an album which they described as “a kaleidoscopic musical adventure through the beautiful and rather silly world of cricket”. Entitled “The Duckworth Lewis Method” - feel free to Google this bewildering cricketing term, probably more baffling than studying quantum physics ( or ask AGD, he’s an avowed connoisseur of leather on willow) – it’s a collection of wonderful tunes about this gentle game. This is my go-to track, a Walsh/Hannon composition with apparently no input from Andy Partridge according to the credits, although sonically you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise. For me, his influence is all over this, especially the phrasing and arrangement, which are stone-cold XTC:
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Post by jk on Oct 3, 2022 8:35:29 GMT -5
Hannon is probably best known for fronting The Divine Comedy and also as composer of the theme tune to one of TV’s most irreverent and gut-bustingly funny comedy series Father Ted. But this is arguably his finest hour, a glorious piss-take of the UK’s low cost no-frills cheapo long distance coach group, National Express. With one of the greatest lines to drip from his pen – you’ll know it when you hear it: I'll be laughing about that all day now. Priceless! I see The Divine Comedy has an entry in my list of Songs that Mention "(The) Beach Boys"... Try as I might, I've never warmed to Father Ted. Sean Lock is more my cup of tea, bless him.
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Post by lizzielooziani on Oct 12, 2022 17:33:40 GMT -5
Today the Classical world was going gaga over Ralph Vaughn Williams’ 150th birthday. So I listened to The Lark Ascending (so beautiful and relaxing). Then listened to Four English Folk Songs. My ears perked up at one point -What is that tune? Wracking my poor old brain the answer finally came - John Barleycorn!
So just had another listen to one of my favorites, John Barleycorn Must Die, by Traffic. Such incredible harmonies in the second part of the song.
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Post by AGD on Oct 13, 2022 1:55:57 GMT -5
Vaughn Williams, Elgar, Butterworth and their ilk: it really doesn't get any better if it's basic Englishness you're seeking.
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Post by lizzielooziani on Oct 13, 2022 2:40:29 GMT -5
Their “ilk.” Oh my. Anyway, yes I’m a Certified Anglophile. Just listened to some Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. Now to go back to sleep for a bit (it’s 0240 here now).
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2022 3:09:23 GMT -5
Vaughn Williams, Elgar, Butterworth and their ilk: it really doesn't get any better if it's basic Englishness you're seeking. So true. I'll take Lizzie's cue and play the wonderful version I know best of The Lark Ascending, one of my favourite pieces by RVW. Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields with Iona Brown playing the solo part -- the English countryside set to music! George Butterworth's death aged 31 in the hell of the Somme is one of 20th-century English music's greatest losses: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2022 3:14:46 GMT -5
Their “ilk.” Oh my. Anyway, yes I’m a Certified Anglophile. Just listened to some Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. Now to go back to sleep for a bit (it’s 0240 here now). I was lucky enough to see Sandy Denny perform with Fairport Convention in Amsterdam in the mid 1970s. It must have been one of her last performances... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Denny
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Post by jk on Oct 24, 2022 16:48:45 GMT -5
Where on earth does one post this? It brought a smile to my face if nothing else!
"What if Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys got into microtonal music?"
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Post by DaveKFloyd on Oct 25, 2022 2:34:52 GMT -5
I'm a little late to the game with this but for the past month or so I've been drowning myself in the music of Emitt Rhodes. Every last musical note, starting with 1970's self-titled album to his fourth and sadly final album "Rainbow Ends" in 2016. I'm just sorry I didn't know anything about him 'til now...
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Post by jk on Oct 25, 2022 4:12:00 GMT -5
I'm a little late to the game with this but for the past month or so I've been drowning myself in the music of Emitt Rhodes. Every last musical note, starting with 1970's self-titled album to his fourth and sadly final album "Rainbow Ends" in 2016. I'm just sorry I didn't know anything about him 'til now... You're never too late to the game, sir. I myself only know Emitt Rhodes as a name, although one often mentioned in hushed whispers. Prompted by your post, I'll give his 1970 official debut a listen in the coming days. What message boards aren't good for!
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Post by DaveKFloyd on Oct 25, 2022 8:19:39 GMT -5
I'm a little late to the game with this but for the past month or so I've been drowning myself in the music of Emitt Rhodes. Every last musical note, starting with 1970's self-titled album to his fourth and sadly final album "Rainbow Ends" in 2016. I'm just sorry I didn't know anything about him 'til now... You're never too late to the game, sir. I myself only know Emitt Rhodes as a name, although one often mentioned in hushed whispers. Prompted by your post, I'll give his 1970 official debut a listen in the coming days. What message boards aren't good for! jk, I am quite sure you'll enjoy all his albums. Just the fact he played all the instruments and performed all the vocal parts himself, and recorded it all in a garage out back his folks' home (except for his last album) in Hawthorne, California makes it an incredible listening experience. He remained a resident of Hawthorne all his life. In fact he purchased the house opposite his parents' home. Yes, you are right. It is never really too late, is it?
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Post by Mark on Oct 25, 2022 16:02:28 GMT -5
Hannon is probably best known for fronting The Divine Comedy and also as composer of the theme tune to one of TV’s most irreverent and gut-bustingly funny comedy series Father Ted. But this is arguably his finest hour, a glorious piss-take of the UK’s low cost no-frills cheapo long distance coach group, National Express. With one of the greatest lines to drip from his pen – you’ll know it when you hear it:
I love TDC and splurged willingly for the super deluxe 30 years box set. One thing that wasn’t on there which I’ve only recently discovered is the digital only 2020 mix of Promenade. The only album that got a new mix (rather than just remaster) and it’s really good IMO. Well worth a listen if you love the original.
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Post by jk on Oct 26, 2022 3:27:33 GMT -5
Just to show there's good and not-so-good in all genres, here's what happens when William Orbit works his magic on Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orbit
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