Music Library

martha reeves and the vandellas- nowhere to run

shouldn't need much introduction....probably my favourite motown band

My old flatmate was a Floyd fan, and he referred to the Scissor Sisters version as 'sacrilege'.

I think they're both good in different ways...

A terrific version of a terrific song...
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra.

The output of Sinatra at Capitol in the early 1950s with arrangers like Gordon Jennings and Nelson Riddle is second to none and I rate those Capitol albums very highly indeed. A fantastic voice with such perfect phrasing and control with sublime, sympathetic orchestral arrangements.

Graymalkin wrote:
Anyway, if someone was to wander up to me in the street and shout 'What's so good about pop music then? Eh? EH?!?' into my fizzog, I'd calmly answer 'My dear sir, it sometimes sounds like this...'

And what if they say "aren't you going to answer the question properly?" What if the only music they can stomach is Stockhausen played backwards? Do you hit them in the eyeballs? Are you that kind of man?

stanmore wrote:And what if they say "aren't you going to answer the question properly?" What if the only music they can stomach is Stockhausen played backwards? Do you hit them in the eyeballs? Are you that kind of man?

Sir, I would blank them - and the tsunami of accumulated disrespect that followed would leave them, frankly, finished in polite society.

Or I'd shout 'You wee the bed!' and give it legs.

Depends on the situation...

Apollo 440 - Pain In Any Language
Ash - Shining Light
Barbara Streisland - Happy Days Are Here Again
The Beatles - Lady Madonna
Beirut - Postcards From Italy
Bob Dylan - Chimes of Freedom
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses
The Cult - Rain
David Bowie - My Death
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
The Divine Comedy - Songs of Love
The Doves - The Cedar Room
Eliza Carthy & The Ratcatchers - Cobblers Hornpipe
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Frank Sinatra
The Go-Betweens - Head Full of Steam
iLiKETRAiNS - THE BEECHiNG REPORT
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
The Jam - Beat Surrender
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Julian Cope - Beautiful Love
Ladyhawke - My Delirium
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Max Romeo - Chase The Devil
The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
Midlake - Roscoe
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
New Order - Crystal
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pulp - Sorted Out For Es and Whizz
Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free
Robin Hitchcock - Madonna of the Wasps
Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
Silje Negaard - Be Still My Heart
Suede - Still Life
Tom Waites - God's Away On Business

Does anyone else think that our collective taste in music sounds a bit like the playlist of your average episode of Guy Garvey's finest hour on BBC 6Music?

I rented out Songs for Swinging Lovers only yesterday. It's good (though my flatmates think it's wee). Sometimes, though, I wish it was less full of sound. He could have done one song shouting above screeching feedback and it would have been complete.

Graymalkin wrote:

Starfighter Pilot wrote:Midlake - Roscoe

Top track, sir (particularly the Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remix) and one that had been an intended future entry from me - so much kudos/commiseration*!

Hoorah! It is lovely isn't it, really relaxing. Unlike this one:

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal

This isn't a YouTube link as the versions on there are an acoustic one, and the other loses the last two minutes. This is an eleven minute s***storm of a song, angry, confused, frustrated but with slither of hope running through it and coming out towards the end. It's the heart (or, more accurately in a way, the gut) of the album, and it's the song I intend to one day have my nervous breakdown to.

I hope you're looking forward to it!

Starfighter Pilot wrote:

Graymalkin wrote:

Starfighter Pilot wrote:Midlake - Roscoe

Top track, sir (particularly the Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remix) and one that had been an intended future entry from me - so much kudos/commiseration*!

Hoorah! It is lovely isn't it, really relaxing. Unlike this one:

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal

This isn't a YouTube link as the versions on there are an acoustic one, and the other loses the last two minutes. This is an eleven minute s***storm of a song, angry, confused, frustrated but with slither of hope running through it and coming out towards the end. It's the heart (or, more accurately in a way, the gut) of the album, and it's the song I intend to one day have my nervous breakdown to.

I hope you're looking forward to it!

Hissing Fauna, Are you the destroyer? is a Great album

make sure you have that nervous breakdown while living in norway sfp!

stanmore wrote:Time to put on an iron shirt and chase the Devil outta Earth. I'm stupidly addicted to this song.

Max Romeo - Chase The Devil

Oh, NOW we're talking. Max Romeo ruled. Madness did a rather fine cover of "Chase the Devil" on the Dangermen Sessions album.

Johnstone, are those the same scary women you find in Spirit in the Sky by Doctor and the Medics?

Yup. They're the Anadin Brothers.

Ok, this is cheating slightly cos it's four songs on one clip, but still...

CRAZYHEAD - Baby Turpentine, Time Has Taken Its Toll On You, Rags, Have Love Will Travel

Today I will be mostly posting... the wonderful Silver Jews...


Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight

Today's choice from the Carey household features the coolest Frenchman to have ever lived, and his ode to Bridgit Bardot (before she went all fascist on us)


Serge Gainsbourg- L'Initiales B.B.

Just listen to that lush orchestration, and admire the way he holds his cigarette throughout the song.

As further proof that my musical tastes aren't entirely restricted to stuff that was made outside of my own lifetime:

The Eels - Susan's House

Red Priest - Vivaldi - Spring (from the four seasons)

Red Priest are absolutely amazing.

Back to the 60s, and time to introduce a bit of Zappa to this thread, which has been sorely lacking until now:

The Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

xtc- dear god

Tony will be happy.

I was thinking about an XTC track for tommorow, but will save it for future.

Dear God is Partridge at his angry, satirical, cutting best. No prisoners taken, he means what he says. Techincally, it also happens to be a very well constructed song as well.

A definitive bit of Dusty. The sublime....
I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
And the accompanying video clip is a wonderfully camp piece of early 1970s variety television!

Blimey. Clock her!

Wogan said the other day that he still regards Dusty as the finest ever British female solo vocalist.

The Co=Ordinator wrote:Blimey. Clock her!

Wogan said the other day that he still regards Dusty as the finest ever British female solo vocalist.

Quite right too. You can keep your Duffy and your Lily Allen.

barnaby salton wrote:Hissing Fauna, Are you the destroyer? is a Great album

make sure you have that nervous breakdown while living in norway sfp!

It has occurred to me that staying away from Norway might mean I get away with it!

Lots of great songs posted in the last 24 hours that I hadn't heard before - the likes of XTC and Eels have been on my must-check-out list for ages. I can see reading this thread may get expensive... Anyway, I'm out at a concert tonight so it's only appropriate to big them up:

Glósóli - Sigur Rós

I can't wait!

Love this song

Johnstone McGuckian wrote:

Blur - Beetlebum

Love this song

Now that's more like it, Youngster!

You know when a b-side is miles better than the single and should have been released instead? 'Beetlebum' is that actually happening...