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IanDG · « **Reply #3900 on:** 25 July, 2013, 08:26:46 pm »

Roy Harper - HQ

"There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun"

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3901 on:** 25 July, 2013, 09:19:45 pm »

Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois (a brilliant piece of funk - they really did have talent despite being stoned the whole time) and Bring A Friend (which has possibly the most dubious lyrics of any song, ever).

jogler · « **Reply #3902 on:** 26 July, 2013, 11:17:03 pm »

Right now I'm earwigging the Old Grey Whistle Test showing Cher & Greg Allman doing a Lieber & Stoller
composition called Love You Only.
I have nevr associated any of those four folk with the Blues but it's very

Recorded in 1977.She was hothothot.

jogler · « **Reply #3903 on:** 26 July, 2013, 11:26:01 pm »

& now Blondie

Peter · « **Reply #3904 on:** 27 July, 2013, 09:54:11 am »

Quote from: jogler on 26 July, 2013, 11:17:03 pm

Right now I'm earwigging the Old Grey Whistle Test showing Cher & Greg Allman doing a Lieber & Stoller
composition called Love You Only.
I have nevr associated any of those four folk with the Blues but it's very
Recorded in 1977.She was hothothot.

Well, they wrote Hound Dog and Kansas City, which are 12-bars.

You might be interested in this, A. They are all-time greats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller

jogler · « **Reply #3905 on:** 27 July, 2013, 10:06:21 am »

Thanks for that Peter.
I do associate L&S with the Elvis stuff & have,unfairley,pigeon-holed them into pop music.

Peter · « **Reply #3906 on:** 27 July, 2013, 10:10:24 am »

Cheers A. I'll probably be whistling some of their stuff at Eskdalemuir. Listen to the wind at Moffat!

interzen · « **Reply #3907 on:** 27 July, 2013, 01:11:15 pm »

The soundtrack to '24hr Party People' - like the film itself, the soundtrack is pretty good slice of the Manchester scene in the 80s/early-90s.

I still think Steve Coogan is a twat, though ...

Biggsy · « **Reply #3908 on:** 27 July, 2013, 04:49:50 pm »

Giles Peterson on 6 Music playing jazzy dance stuff. Bit soporific for this time of day. Talking of soporific, the new Daft Punk and Camera Obscura albums I got and listened to last night were unexpectedly down beat. I love sleepy music, but it's about time that I had an upper.

andrewc · « **Reply #3909 on:** 27 July, 2013, 11:01:58 pm »

The cooling downpour outside had me playing "Take Me Dancing Naked In The Rain" by Blue Pearl. This led me to play a load of stuff by Durga McBroom
who did lots of work backing Pink Floyd.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/xXCQuyaDpmE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/xXCQuyaDpmE&rel=1</a>

Vince · « **Reply #3910 on:** 04 August, 2013, 08:31:53 am »

Listened to 57 different tracks on the drive from Calais home last night, all of them good ones. The surprising thing is that the play list was put together by my son. Well done Boy Wunja.

Pingu · « **Reply #3911 on:** 14 August, 2013, 10:59:19 pm »

Joy Division session on 6 Music. Dodgy-lo-fi-goodness

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3912 on:** 16 August, 2013, 09:56:17 pm »

Ah, the magic that is the Commendatore scene in Don Giovanni. Translating from da Ponte's libretto:

Statue: Listen up, I'm here to seal your doom, you philandering scrote
Leporello: We are sooo fucked (hides)
Don Giovanni: You don't scare me. I am the ultimate alpha male.
Statue: This is your last chance to repent, scumbag, before you go to the fires of hell
Don Giovanni: Piss off, you old fart
Statue: Please yourself (disappears).
Don Giovanni: Ah, bugger, he wan't shitting me.
Demon chorus: Yummy!
(fin)

Littlesox · « **Reply #3913 on:** 18 August, 2013, 09:09:11 am »

The Charlatans - Some Friendly

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3914 on:** 21 August, 2013, 06:49:41 pm »

ELO - Discovery (or "Disco Very", as it's known). My O-Level geography teacher's favourite album.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3915 on:** 24 August, 2013, 05:29:09 pm »

ELO - Yours Truly, 2095 (from Time). Great lyrics.

Quote

I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much till then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
...
She is the latest in technology
Almost mythology
But she has a heart of stone
She has an IQ of 1001
She has a jumpsuit on
And she's also a telephone

interzen · « **Reply #3916 on:** 24 August, 2013, 05:42:41 pm »

Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

"Burning Inside" fits my mood quite nicely at the moment. Perhaps too nicely ....

Ruth · « **Reply #3917 on:** 24 August, 2013, 09:11:27 pm »

Sweet Thing by Bowie. On repeat. Wow.

The_Mikey · « **Reply #3918 on:** 24 August, 2013, 09:24:03 pm »

Nicola Conte - Love and Revolution

Ruth · « **Reply #3919 on:** 26 August, 2013, 05:05:34 pm »

10,000 Maniacs. Unplugged, in the Natalie Marchant era. Brian out of Placebo was on the radio and cited the Maniacs and, specifically, Natalie, as musical influences

interzen · « **Reply #3920 on:** 26 August, 2013, 05:12:47 pm »

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.

Ruth · « **Reply #3921 on:** 26 August, 2013, 05:19:28 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 26 August, 2013, 05:12:47 pm

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.

*nods in agreement

Biggsy · « **Reply #3922 on:** 26 August, 2013, 07:05:06 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 26 August, 2013, 05:05:34 pm

10,000 Maniacs. Unplugged, in the Natalie Marchant era.

I didn't know there was any other era. Surely 10,000 Maniacs without Natalie Marchant is like the Smiths without Morrisey?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3923 on:** 26 August, 2013, 09:52:21 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 26 August, 2013, 05:19:28 pm

Quote from: interzen on 26 August, 2013, 05:12:47 pm
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.

*nods in agreement

It's their studio masterpiece but it's only 80% great because there's a bit of filler on there. I put it slightly below Hatful of Hollow (which isn't a "proper" album).

The Smiths' favourite album was apparently Strangeways, Here We Come, but that may just be "we never lost it" hubris.

clarion · « **Reply #3924 on:** 28 August, 2013, 02:41:28 pm »

Terry and Gerry on Youtube.