Hi all! I realize we’ve been at this nearly a month now, but for those as thick as me, here’s a repeat summary of the rules anyway. You choose one song in response to each theme, and post it with an appropriate justification, ideally a link, and as much personal anecdote and rambling reminiscence of days gone by as you can muster.
- A new challenge will appear every Tuesday – if it’s not there by 10pm (the traditional time for the 30Qs back in April) whoever has stewardship that week will be hunted down by the rest of us! We take it in turns to set the challenge – normally, whoever wants to set next week’s challenge, make yourself known over the course of the thread. If no-one has volunteered by, say, Friday, the job defaults to whoever posted first. No problems on that score at the moment: Debbym has next week, and I believe amylee has claimed the week after.
- No artist can be duplicated in one week – whoever posts firsts gets to keep their choice. No gratuitous selections of Tom Petty or The Grateful Dead just to piss tfd or Chris off as that would be mean, but no guilt if your perfect song inadvertantly treads on someone else’s toes. However, unlike in the 30Qs, song choices can be repeated in subsequent weeks (though we might want to impose a one-week prohibition of repeating songs) because it’s doubtful anyone’s going to want to keep track of everyone’s choices indefinitely.
- Challenge questions don’t have to be as pithily worded as the 30Qs – with so many of the big things in life covered last month, we’re inevitably going to be peeping into the cracks so we can probably afford to be more precise and/or convoluted in our questioning than would have been appropriate for the Facebook masses. We relish complexity and ambiguity!
- I’ve not set it up so don’t look at me but we can get together a Dropbox folder of choice cuts each week – people can simply put songs in the box on request or as they wish.
Feel free to add to and alter those rules. Now here’s my probably-the-least-pithily-worded-challenge-in-the-brief-history-of-the-ANSWSCs:
Inspired by a discussion between Mnemonic & nilpferd (I think) of the above linked song over on RR recently, which I’m eternally grateful to Abahachi for the introduction to, I wondered …
Which artist do you only own one song by, love it to death, but have never added to it?
Now I do mean ONE song! This is a challenge based on compilations, downloads and (dare I say it?) the ‘Box – even 7″ snigles tend to have two tunes by the band. You didn’t know that artist until stumbling across this one song: it blew you away, you now have it on heavy rotation on your Walkman/iPod/stereo . . . but you’ve somehow not got round to grabbing anything else the artist has released. Well, here’s your chance to wax lyrical about it, and see if any of the rest of us are fans who can tell you where to go next. But, I’ll say it again, you must only own THE ONE SONG by the artist, NO MORE! Unfortunately for me, that rules the Marcin Wasilewski Trio out, as the Professor also treated us to their version of Hyperballad a while back. Instead, I’ll post my choice as an early comment. I hope this works! Good luck everyone.
So here’s my official choice for the challenge:
The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
I have listened to a couple of other songs on youtube, etc., but nothing has tugged so instantly at my heartstrings as this.
Why not? What’s missing in their other tunes? . . . Dunno. Someone enlighten me.
I really enjoyed this song and I liked the words very much, but I am not sure if the Brooklyn in the song is referring to the place in New York or a person?
Hmmm, I have to admit I hadn’t even considered the possibility of Brooklyn as a person here, Sakura.
Nice choice DsD, I don’t own any of their stuff, but I like what i’ve heard.
This is great DSD. I’ve got Ten Thousand Words off this album & it’s just wonderful. (A fav of Mrs. Fintan)
OK, Ten Thousand Words will be sought out soon.
Ta, Fintan (and Mrs Fintan, of course).
Very good choice DsD. @AlexisPetridis ripped the shit out of this album last year with an uncharacteristic amount of assumption and lack of research, and there’s been some controversy about this album because the Avetts have been hugely influential as a bit of rough and I & Love was so perfectly more polished.
I compare it to Elbow’s Seldom Seen Kid, the Fleet Foxes and a fave we share, Deep Dark Woods’ Winter Hours.
Sometimes a band gets polished to such perfection it gets to be too much. It becomes like – and I do write this 100% theoretically – like a cocaine orgasm. I think that’s why people have difficulty with the Beach Boys and some Beatles and not with the Band. (And, to throw in a wildcard here, the Watson Twins). It gets so delicately perfect and poignant you can’t stand it, and Ten Thousand Words is one of those songs. If there was an ultimate RR/Spill song, this would be it:
10,000 words swarm around my head
10 million more in books written beneath my bed.
I wrote or read them all when searching in the swarms still can’t find how to hold my hands…..
And on it goes with more words to challenge you. (Come on Blimp, you wish Frightened Rabbit had written this)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133513/Avett%20Brothers%20-%20Ten%20Thousand%20Words.mp3
What amazes me listening to this song is that every line is slightly offputting.
@Tin, I seem to remember you posting this and that I really loved it but I was put off buying the album by the Petridis review. I should clearly reconsider that decision.
As I remember Meme the only people who like this stuff are middle aged white men who spend their evenings playing with their record collections.
I should in fairness mention that I hadn’t paid much attention to Alexis before that and have been surprised since to find he has more constructive ideas about music than anyone I read and usually does put the work in.
There’s always gonna be a mental asterisk when I read one of his reviews though, like being with a partner who cheated once.
Both songs newtome, both brilliant, thank you.
DsD is an early bird this week.
Prepare for cowbell:
This is the only song of them I own also!! Although I like it very much I always think they maybe lack really belief in their music……
Another song that crops up on my various rock comp’s, and must be the only song by them in my collection. I think I agree with Sakura – this is great, but there is something lacking, and it may well be conviction.
I love this, I used to have the album (“Agents of Fortune”) which wasn’t bad, though of its time, I think. “Don’t fear the reaper” was always one of the closing songs at Tiffany’s (Tuesday night is rock night!) circa 1976.
I’ve got that album, it is the only one of theirs I own though.
I do like the song very much, I did go in search of more songs by them, but now only have that one again, that could be a bad thing, but it is a good song.
Interesting point Hoshino about they didn’t really commit to the song. Maybe deep down they realized it was shit. Luckily there is always techno to show us the [not] way
Keyside Strike – In This World
I picked up a slightly depressing compilation recently full of knuckleheaded bands moaning about “political correctness” and generally sounding like Daily Star readers playing bad punk. In the middle of the comp was this track which seems to come out of nowhere (the North East apparently) – a great riff and there’s something that just feels positive about it. Add to that the band seem to be pretty sound politically as well (they’re on the bill at an upcoming “Skinheads and Punks Against Racism” gig). It won’t be everyone’s bag on here, but don’t necessarily be put off by the band logo.
I have checked out one or two oher tracks and they seemed to veer between a New York Hardcore sound and psychobilly neither of which are m bag, so I guess this may remain the one track by them in my collection.
It is a cheerful and positive song!!! I really enjoyed it!
I actually like this (don’t faint). As we’ve said before, I’ve nothing against punk bands who help to put down racism.
I haven’t even listened to the song yet, but I’m close to fainting.
thumbs up here, lots of energy, I can imagine jumping up and down to this.
Loved it.
But you know what? I probably don’t need to hear anything more from them.
Strange to be here near the top…
I don’t own any single tracks but I’ve found something that fits rather well on a party collection I made once: Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity doing their version, serendipitously and appropriately, of the birthday boy’s Wheels On Fire. It is a great version and I remember falling in love with it (and her) at the time.
I love this it si so dramatic and romantic!! Actually I think there is a similarity of this and some Nacy Sinatra ballads…I am actually thinking of Bang Bang there is a similar feeling for me.
Ah! Memories of the TV series Absolutely Fabulous! (Apparently Julie Driscoll teamed up with Ade Edmonson – Jennifer Saunders’ husband – for the version used there).
But this is the ultimate version. As so often, Bob is eclipsed by his own songs in other people’s hands.
Mind you, the Siouxsie and the Banshees version has a predictably sinister edge to it…
@Zalamanda:
As so often, Bob is eclipsed by his own songs in other people’s hands.
Unlike! (It’s his birthday, dammit!)
I’m with Treefrogdemon here. There are very few times when I prefer covers of Dylan to the original. Jimi Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower being one of them.
It’s a kind of tribute to his songwriting, I think, that so many of his songs take on new life when covered. You must admit that Bob’s voice does have a certain Marmite quality to it.
But then, I’m one of those apparently rare people who isn’t particularly fussed either way by Marmite – and I’ve come to appreciate Bob Dylan’s voice more over recent years. I must confess, though, that I have never heard the man’s own version of this song.
predictably I prefer the Siouxsie version
I didn’t hear the Basement Tapes version of this until long, long after JD & TBA’s had embedded itself in my head, so they almost seem different songs to me, as are the Hendrix and Dylan versions of Watchtower. As pieces of music, I prefer the two covers, but Dylan still owns every syllable of the words.
Funny how sometimes an artist you don’t own can be part of your personal milieu. My best friend was a big fan of this group & He was always playing it back when so I’ve heard it many times but don’t have even one song. Takes me back though.
From an old Uncut mix cd containing Glastonbury live recordings comes this:
Never heard of this band before getting the cd and never heard anything else by them since, but I just love this track. It’s almost as if Idon’t want to hear anything else for fear of being massively disappointed.
It si a really nice song, but I find his accent really strange and difficult, I had to listen really hard before I realised he was saying “got”
It is a lovely song!
I think I’ve got that Uncut CD! Wasn’t the song a minor hit of some kind? I seem to recall it was about the singer’s young child – possibly a premature baby – who spent some time in hospital. It is a lovely song. I can’t recall anything else by them, though.
I was working in London and Kent when Athlete started out and had their first couple of singles (and have the first two albums I think) – first album was mercury prize nominated. Think people had issues with the ‘Estuary’ singing voice – but everyone spoke like that around the area.
Wires I love (but did have baby with horrible medical stuff poked into his skin – so easily emotional about the song) it went to number 1 with the album selling at least half a million on the back of it…. they then ended up in the Bedwetter camp trying to recreate that effect.
‘You got the style’ is my Medway boy racer summer tune of choice… I HAVE NO SHAME (much!)
This is a really nice track – maybe I even prefer it the Wires track.
I do not have a problem with the sound of the voice only some of the pronunciation took me a while to understand how he speaks. I got how he pronounced “hot” directly as I recognised it from “how he pronounced “got” from the previous song. Actually I think it is a charming accent!
I like all sorts of music, but actually to listen I find thrash core jazz metal the genre most difficult.
So in my collection I have only a few tracks I have downloaded and actually really only this one which I actually play occasionally.
Bleach03 are from Okinawa which I suppose is why I first found out about them and they are a girl band and I really like that girls are not afraid to perform and push the limits in music, but I have never bought an album form them as I know i will never play 40 minutes with out a stop!!!
But Sometimes I am in a mood when only this will do!!! Fortunately not very often!!!!
I hope you like it!
Oh sorry I forgot to say the song is called Otoko ichokusen or Man’s Life in English.
Yay ! Bleach !
I have a CD called “Three girls from Okinawa” which, I think is a compilation.
Ain’t if funny, I bought the CD ages ago ( it was a birthday present !) and hadn’t really heard of Okinawa before ( apart from the during the war).
Then we had our Japanese student to stay and now you’ve joined RR and I’ve discovered the Rinken band ( thanks to you).
Synchronicity or serendipity* ?
* Your “new words” “homework” for today.
They are great!
I had to look up the album Three Girls from Okinawa as I did not know it…..and apparently it is a compilation that only released in the UK!!!
I wonder did they ever tour there or was there some connection to the UK you know about?
Thank you for the home work! I will learn the new words and use them in RR of the next task!
Chalk up another impressed newbie here.
that was bloody brilliant Sakura! Thanks!
Great stuff! One thing this band isn’t short of is self-belief!!
THIS is really good!
Not a million miles away from early Motorhead, I’d say….though Lemmy probably wouldn’t like to be described as ‘jazz’.
LOL!!! maybe not!!!
The jazz thing comes from the improvisation part of the Genre I think so – I am not an expert!
I could repeat my Thom Yorke/Black swan nom here, which I already used on one of Tinny’s challenges, or cheat slightly with Göttsching’s album length E2-E4…
But I notice I have an even bigger elephant lurking on my shelves… Gil Scott Heron, The revolution will not be televised.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpqut_the-revolution-will-not-be-televise_music
I encountered this years ago via a Flying Dutchman compilation a friend sent me and love it, but though I’ve heard the odd GSH track since, I’ve never acquired any other music from him. (It helps that I don’t acquire ‘box music, so can claim not to “own” any of the other GSH tracks posted on RR down the years, though I have listened to them)
Got to say I’m slightly shocked by this, nilp! Not disapproving, because I get your explanation. My musical obsessions were shaped in the company of five or six other mates and it was only when they’d all left Liverpool that I realised I didn’t own a whole load of stuff I considered part of the fabric of my life. And sometimes, it’s just there so why bother paying for it yourself?
Nevertheless…until someone shows up and chooses Bob Dylan’s Blowing In The Wind, you win the Most Eyebrow-Raising Answer Award (or the Paul McCartney Memorial Face, as we should now learn to call it since the sponsorship money came in).
hee hee.. I am a bit of a reductionist I suppose, I don’t tend to want an artist’s entire catalogue or months of box content just because it’s there… but I have probably gone to extremes in the case of GSH.. (can I substitute Paul’s eyebrows for those of Groucho Marx btw, as I think they suit me better…)
But it’s true about what your friends own; I used to enjoy visiting people and hearing stuff I normally never got to listen to; it’s the same these days on the ‘Spill and RR, I suppose- I don’t really need or want to own everything that gets showcased here, though I do like a lot of it.
It is a great track! And really I think it is historic and influential for so much music that came after.
I have the first Nuggets compilation and although it is stuffed full of gems, there are very few that I’ve ever wanted to follow up and hear more by any of the bands.
This is one of the best tracks though, The Standells with Dirty Water.
It is just a truly great garage rock classic and the organ sound is to die for.
Only one track !
Shocking !
You should check out Sometimes good guys don’t wear white, Medication and Riot on Sunset strip or, one of my favourite “riffs” of all time Mainline.
And the same guy, Ed Cobb, also wrote Tainted Love. so he’s a two-hit wonder. OK, 32-hit wonder, cause that’s how many gold records he has/had.
I remember him most for infamously thinking Chocolate Watchband not worthy of much promotion.
It is great track, like you I think the organ is great, it sort of has a really strong English feel to it but the voice sounds American. Maybe there is a Beatles feel it some how?
You could (& I have) just put it on repeat. Pairubu’s advice is well worth following though. Still one of my favs.
The Standells once appeared in an episode of “The Munsters”. They didn’t impress, but this is a classic.
Allow me to introduce you to: Marshall Crenshaw – Fantastic Planet of Love.
One of the most ‘up’ songs I know but also the only track by Mr Crenshaw that I’ve ever knowingly heard. I discovered it thanks to Danny Baker, who used to play it regularly on his Saturday morning radio show back in the 80s. Turn the volume up HIGH!
Allow me to introduce you to: Marshall Crenshaw – Fantastic Planet of Love.
One of the most ‘up’ songs I know but also the only track by Mr Crenshaw that I’ve ever knowingly heard. I discovered it thanks to Danny Baker, who used to play it regularly on his Saturday morning radio show back in the 80s. Turn the volume up HIGH!!
Hey toffee – this had been put into the spam pile for some reason – I can’t figure out why – bloomin blog elves!
Apologies for the double posting. It didn’t appear in the blog but the elves wouldn’t let me post it again, telling me that I’d already posted it! I only succeeded by adding a second exclamation mark at the end!!
Please feel free to remove the first attempt.
This was interesting!! It starts out really blues like but there is a lot of Jazz influence also. Interesting! I liked it!
Oh what the hell, let’s go guilty pleasure. Looking at my “Top 25 Most Played” in iTunes, this leaps out. I downloaded it having been to see the stage show of “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (this is turning into a guilty pleasures confession) and having heard it and thought, “What is that song? I know it’s cheesy but I love it.” Thanks to the wonders of the interweb, I soon worked out what it was. And I still love it. I already knew other tracks of hers (most notably Love is a Battlefield), but this is the only one I’ve been tempted to download. I love the cleanness of the production too. I know it’s all kinds of bombastic, but hey, it thrills me.
Pat Benatar: We Belong
Whatever you do don’t buy the rest of the album. I had become a big Pat Benatar fan about a year before this came out, mostly because Lemmy had put tracks from her Live from Earth album on heavy rotation whenever he guested on the Friday Rock Show, and so was all set to add this to my collection when it came out. This song seemed to augur well, but the album is one of the few that I have ever desperately tried to give away within a week of buying it, and occasional subsequent listens have never changed that opinion…
Now THAT’S the kind of answer I was hoping this thread would throw up. As per some of the other comments, there are artists I haven’t chased more from because any other song would be a letdown after that first bullseye.
I’ll quite happily take advice that justifies that worry.
I love these Dramatic ballads also Bish!!!
I actually love this song. And the only other one by her that i really like is Hell is for Children. Otherwise she falls into the “respect” category as opposed to like. Love is a Battlefield must be one of the cheesiest videos ever.
Not really a guilty pleasure but I’ve just noticed the only PB I have is Heartbreaker. And I like this & will confess to loving Love Is A Battlefield (cheese or no) which I now have to find a copy of.
Thanks to Shane (thanks, Shane!) mine is I Heard You Got Action by Pony Up! – and I love it so much I wouldn’t dare to get anything else by them, in case it wasn’t so good.
I like it because it reminds me of the Shangri Las, of course, and also because it reverses that gender stereotype that annoys me so much in Summer Nights. Yes, everyone, women do like sex. They might be more interested in that than in whether someone’s got a car or not.
Link later because I’m at work. In fact I’m surprised they let me on to the ‘Spill even. Evil IT guys are so inconsistent!
I loved it! I like the way it shows the girls asking about what happened the night before! This is typical!!!
I hope you do not mind if I put the link here?
Oh, not at all, Sakura – thanks a lot! I can’t ever get on to YouTube at work, whatever mood the evil IT guys are in. (Probably just as well.)
I am at home this time of course, and I had just looked at it, so I thought maybe I should just post it.
I pleased you were not offended!
that’s ok TFD – I do have more Pony Up! but I Heard You Got Action is my fav.
women with one thing on their minds – great excuse for another track – with fun animation – did it get anywhere near the RR summer list – did it …….!:
Fair Weather Friends by Daedelus
Love the animation, Shane – not so sure about the song though…
This is hard… My initial thought was that I hardly ever buy singles but that there were a couple of great songs in there (Robert Plant’s Big Log, Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise), and then I read the rubric properly. I also buy very few compilations; not entirely sure why I have this atavistic sense that they’re at best vastly inferior to proper albums, however uneven, and at worst utterly pernicious monsters devouring the world of music (anyone of a certain age remember the moment when they rejigged the album chart because otherwise the top 47 places would all have been taken up with Now That’s What I Call Yet Another Bloody Compilation?
Next thought: I used to own the first two volumes of The Best Album in the World Ever from the heady days of britpop. Unfortunately I do or did own albums by most of the artists I actually like, and of the others, most of them have a track on each album so are ruled out. Briefly thought of Echobelly’s Great Things, which seems to be the only track which is (a) the only one from that artist and (b) rather good, but I’m not convinced…
Finally, it came to me: the old NME Singles of the Week compilations. Most of the tracks, I have to say, bring back miscellaneous memories but don’t especially grab me, but there is one that I thought was remarkably brilliant and yet never had any inclination to buy, or even listen to, any others. Hope this is the right video (as usual, I’m doing this without sound on the work pc…): Faith No More, Everything’s Ruined:
“Robert Plant’s Big Log”
Fnarr !
I down load lots of tracks, so unlike you I do have lots of singles and eps. But I like albums by my really favourite bands and singers.
This is nice song, but it seemed to take some time to really get started, for me, it seemed like before about one minute after the start the band were not really enjoying it!
But I really enjoyed it!
I’m quite surprised Aba! I had you down as a “The Real Thing”/”Live at the Brixton Academy” era fan. I know DsD is a fan too, and they are in my Top Five bands of the 90′s list, and “Live at…” is pretty much the best live rock album I know!
I didn’t know I knew that, I must have danced to it at a rock night in Newquay at some point! I thought I only knew “Epic”, which I remember being impressed by when I stayed up to watch “Noisy Mothers” which was shown at stupid o’clock in the morning when I was a student, happy days. Thanks for reminding me that they’re quite good.
I think it’s fair to say that my collection of “rap” music is, at best, scant.
However I do own one or two tracks and even like a few of them. This one was, in fact, my first ever “A” lister ( BITD of Paul Mac..)
It was, apparently, quite a big hit in Scandinavia. I didn’t know that, I was attracted by the spiffy Samba drumming that backs this version ( there are other, more “rappy” versions around”
MC Junior and MC Leonardo- Rap das armas.
I was a little upset when, after my success at listing, I discovered that the words are rather unpleasant, more or less glorifying violence !
Oh well.
It is nice when you discover a song with (or by) serendipity!!!
I think it is always a problem with Rap that sometimes the words and not very nice, and the music is not so interesting.
Of course the best rap has great rhythms and music and is not just a backing track to some quite rude words.
This track is very different and I like it a lot, I do not know what the words are but musically it is interesting and enjoyable!
This is a song that I would very often hear coming out of cars in Brazil and wondering what the infectious hook but never knew the title until recently. The lyrics are about the ongoing war between the drug lords who control some favelas and the Brazilian special forces, the detail they go into in describing the weapons, various gangs, and law enforcement brigades makes it almost sounds like a war report. Oh and it’s not technically rap, but a kind of baile funk called “funk proibido”, as in forbidden.
only song I have heard by this geezer – jim greer. have listened to it loads.
http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/mp3s/thebedroomtrio/diamondjim/diamondjim-littleheartbreaker.mp3
It is really good beat to it! I can imagine it on a playlist to listen to in a car journey!
Excellent question, DsD! And you’re right – the download universe and the influence on other ‘Spillers, as well as my existing rare groove predeliction for artists obscure enough not to be found anywhere except on the one track, means I have half a Noah’s Ark’s worth of one-hit wonders in my collection.
The initial temptation is to go for the likes of Rainbow or Whitesnake who aren’t my regular cuppa but for the one anthem that everybody knows, and then for hugely popular acts who have only managed to sneak one tune through my sensors (though Britney, Oasis and Elton John each have two and could probably each have one or two more if I was being fair, so they’re out). And the Honeybus/Starland Vocal Band/Rupert Holmes/Fat Larry’s Band types are too easy.
In the end, I’m going for someone I know did other stuff and I have no reason to believe I wouldn’t be fond of it if I got hold of it, but the one song I have by him is so perfect, I’m left with the feeling that owning anything else by him would somehow devalue both the song and the artist. As it is, it’s a thing of beauty:
Colin Blunstone – Say You Don’t Mind
I was never aware of Colin Blunstone before, but there are some songs from the 1970s that are really great and I think there are many treasures from this time that have been forgotten. A lovely song!
He had a band called the Zombies in the 60s, Sakura. In fact I think they have recently revived themselves, which was very Zombie-like of them.
Hi TFD – Tahk you for the telling me about the Zombies.
I checked out the Zombies and I recognised some of their tracks.
I really like British pop music and I like this period of the 60s very much with the Beatles (of course) but also the Animals, Stones, and many other groups, including of course the Zombies, which I now know about also!
Thank you!
Sakura – The Zombies “Odessey and Oracle” is one of THE great British pop albums of the 60s – personally, I’d put it just after The Beatles and The Kinks.
I wasn’t aware of Colin Blunstone’s solo stuff though. I’m looking forward to listening to this (but can’t listen to anything tonight, because the radio is playing wall-to-wall Bob Dylan and I’m not switching off).
He has a beautiful voice, he used to sing with various people including the Alan Parsons Project, the one that I remember is “The Eagle Will Rise Again”:
Listen if you dare …
His voice is great in this!
Is it a religious song?
It is a very beautiful song!
Ooh, tricky. I don’t download music very often (bizarrely, I tend to prefer owning a disc of some sort – it feels more real, somehow. Illogical, I know.) One sprang to mind that I downloaded a s a one-of, but I’ve aready sent it to Bish as a potential earworm, so it’s probably off-limits.
Then I started thinking about compilations. Rock comps, to be specific. I’ve got one or two of those hanging around as what I actually bought on purpose.
I toyed with the idea of Ram Jam’s “Black Betty” (does it count if I own it twice, on two separate compilations?), but then I thought of this:
From 1994. A band called Whale, with a very strange song called “Hobo Humping Slobo Babe”. I like the contrast between the shouty blokes and the quirky half-singing voice of the girl. I mostly don’t want to know what it’s about as it sounds faintly unpleasant but I did read one of the comments on YouTube that (apparently) explains it all. Oh well.
It isn’t the sort of thing I usually go for at all (too shouty, reeking of possible misogyny, not enough in the way of melody entwined with clever lyrics), but it stuck in my mind and when I saw it on a low rent comp in a sale a couple of years later, I actually bought the CD just for this one song. I’ve never wanted any more of their stuff; this just seems complete by itself (besides, I’d assumed that they were one-hit wonders, although it seems that there is more stuff on YouTube).
I think I only like this song when I don’t try and think about it. It’s not very… cerebral.
And I seem to have lost the ability to embed YouTube videos, too. One more try, using the ‘old embed code’:
If that doesn’t work, you’ll just have to follow the link if you’re sufficiently interested. Just to be certain, this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5SiU2U5_k
I have this, but it’s on cd single, so I must have at least two or three other tracks by them.
Did you fix my embedded video, Blimpy? Thank you!
It is a catchy song, and has that magic somehow when things just work even if you do not know why or do not normally listen to that that type of music.
I did a little looking just now for other stuff and I found out that the girl does that ‘up-skirt’ shot in every video ….ummm ….but we have songs by bands we really are no sure about morally or politically!!!!
The music is great that is the most important thing I think so!!
DOND! I remember this well (and nothing else by them at all)
I like the girly bit, but the shouty bit doesn’t work for me, it passed me by somehow!
Right – I had this album too and I think I sat in on an interview once….the write up on youtube is rubbish – they’d say stuff like that all the time – it’s basically the Beavis and Butthead demographic – the songs were written using an English rhyming dictionary (they’re Swedish, I think) and meant nothing much, they just planned to make stuff sound offensive… (I’ve just seen a quote that they started as ‘Southern Whale Cult’ – they were no such thing – entirely cut and pasted (really with glue and scalpel) from a Southern death cult fanzine) -
the influence was the Sugarcubes (but they didn’t really have Bjorks ideas) this track kicks arse – but they weren’t that interesting really.
Now for the Media whore bit.
‘that ‘up-skirt’ shot in every video’
well, the early 90′s had a few interesting visual indents… indie females had a look that involved mini dresses and Dr. Marten boots – it was tough and feminine at the same time.. Gingham dresses often had leggins, cut offs or ‘granny pants’ worn underneath or blokes boxers – all fine for moshing at the indie disco… this wasn’t thrill the boys with sexy undies dressing…
The video technique is a pastiche of ‘cock rock’ or it’s alternative title: ‘film it like the red hot chilli peppers do’
It’s MTV styled on the cheap for indie bands – one camera mounted low on location or on set – everyone thrust at it – you’ll notice the crutch shots are not excessively female… simple… it was a fad. (most Yoof TV shows where filmed from that angle -
I imagine red hot chilli peppers videos still are)
it would have been a lot harder for boys to wait for every crutch shot taped on a VCR and then freeze frame it.. so the idea that 20 years down the line every set of your pants would be analysed would be unthinkable.
This track is on my ‘indie disco’ setlist always.
(Now if someone can post ‘Trouble’ by Shampoo!)
Shampoo were local girls, I remember buying the Trouble CD single, and being asked by the dude in Our Price whether I was related to them.
Couldn’t possibly post “Trouble” by Shampoo because a) it’s Sheddi who owns that, and b) he’s got a whole cassette single, which almost inevitably has another track on it. But it was rather fun, wasn’t it?
Oops – that Anonymous was me.
Something else to say, which is -
Thanks for the background, Shane! I like that much better than the trite explanation on YouTube. I’d picked up on the Sugarcubes influence already – it might be why the song appealled in the first place.
Never heard of ‘em. Started off hating that … by the end, I’m looking to download it!
This question is very much a toughie for me, as i don’t really own any music anymore. Save the handful of singles i’ve bought as downloads to send in for earworms over the past year. (maybe a few rips too, but i’ll keep quiet about that as the UK is reviewing their copyright laws,and i’m getting embroiled in some of the CiF debates on that, siding with the creatives as opposed to the “freetards”.) I’d buy plenty more from each of those artists if i’m ever inclined to buy a music collection again, with one exception, a song i no longer really love much.
I do remember having one compiliation album, probably one of K-Tel’s rock collections. The only songs i remember on it were Yes’ America cover (and i subsequently had quite a few more Yes albums), and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid (ditto), which i played to death at the exclusion of all of the other songs once i found it on the album.
So my answer is going to have to be sort of a cheat, from a single that i owned. Because the B-side here in the US was essentially a slight reworking of the same song as the A-side. One that i still absolutely love nearly 4 decades on, with no desire to own anything else by them.
Focus – Hocus Pocus
This was a great choice for a theme!! It has produced such a variety of music!!! But is there a theme emerging about dramatic themes??? This is almost operatic at times!! I loved it!!!
It’s the guitar that does it for me. Stellar. And the vocals are really kind of cool, they must have been fun to do.
Amy – I too only have one by these guys (are there more ya think?) I seem to remember first hearing this on one of those K-tel things too. Might have been 8-track even. Long gone now.
There are a couple more that i found on youtube, some serviceable (Sylvia and Janis), nothing in this league. Just for fun last night i looked around to see if i could find the K-Tel (or whatever) album that had Paranoid on but no luck. I wonder if they had K-Tel in the UK? TV ads and all.
I’m intrigued, Amylee – you don’t own any music anymore?
Anyway, this was played relentlessly on the Thames Poly bar jukebox circa 1972. Argh – yodelling! But it brings back such great memories.
Nope. I bought albums, not singles. Gave them away before i moved to NYC a long time ago. Was a good thing, as i ended up moving a lot and couldn’t possible have carted them around. I haven’t assembled a CD collection because i’m still not settled permanently, and as i spend most of the day working in front of a computer, can listen to pretty much anything i want on the internet no no real reason to buy a collection. Saves me a shedload of money too.
you have to tip the screen at a weird angle to skin up on it tho’
I think the yodeling is the best bit, it makes me grin my head off every time. I had a best of prog rock compilation with this on it and it has remained with me despite a lot of the other stuff falling by the wayside.
I am a cheap bastard. Probably because i don’t really like to work jobs much.
We certainly did have k-tel, very poor sounding compilations ( too many tracks squeezed on).
We also had Ronco, famed for the Buttoneer and other fantastically useless items that my Dad used to buy.
If he hadn’t accidentally burned his shed down we’d have a “Museum of Crap” on our hands.
Ronco – Ginsu knife! We had those ads too.
Another great choice. Used to own “Focus Three” which was a double album. Saw them c. 1973. Amazing.
I have both Focus III and it’s predecessor Moving Waves on CD, Some of the guitar playing is out of this world.
There is a solo on the long track on Moving Waves (Eruption, based on a baroque opera called “Euridice”) that is truly superb.
Thanks, I’m going to look around for that….
Seems I have tons of one timers, mostly downloaded from music blogs (and The ‘Spill of course) over the years….I’ll pick a good one….
“White Love” by One Dove. An early ’90s balearic classic. I saw One Dove back in the day, forgot about them for 15 years then sought this out online. The posted clip isn’t the exact version I’ve got, but it’s close enough.
It is really nice summer fell to it! I really enjoyed it!
But the album was brilliant too! How can you not own it, if only for Breakdown which I think is even better than this…?
Yes, get the album – 3 mixes of this song, for one thing.
This was easier than I first thought, being more of a completist myself, or at least a pursuer, in that I tend to want more if I hear a song I like, which often ends up being disappointing. I went for something I love now, but didn’t give its proper attention(?) when it came out. A bit like barely noticing a girl in school and then meeting that same woman some 12 years later and realising she is special, but that’s another story. The song in question is from 1993, back when there was no room in my heart for “dance” music. I heard it again in Brazil a couple of years ago, in a remixed form in my techno addicted co-worker’s car. The remix wasn’t as good as the original, they had kept the synth riff but the vocals didn’t seem as soulful, so I went back to the source and fell in love with it. I get goosebumps when her voice comes in.
Robin S. – Show Me Love
I think there was some great dance music for the 1990s. I loved it !
I’m confused now. When Robyn resurfaced a couple of years ago and they mentioned her 90s dance smash “Show Me Love”, I assumed it was this song, which I remember well. I’ve just googled Robyn’s one – it rings vague bells, but isn’t nearly up to her later standards.
Who knew there were two Robyn/Robins wanting to be shown love in the 90s? I’ve learnt something this afternoon.
There were several mixes barbryn. Some not so good. Maybe that’s what you heard.
@tcm – nope, just me somehow conflating a black dance diva from Queen’s with a young Scandinavian electro-poppet, on the not entirely unreasonable basis that their song titles and (more or less) names are identical.
grrr, I’da bet I could win this week but this is near unbeatable. (If it was the Tonka Mix I’d throw in the towel)
Just time to do this before I go and picket Pickles.
The reason I have only this song is because, as far as I know, they only recorded one record. I used to own the 45, but that went AWOL at a party, so I pinched a download from YouTube.
The group, The Anglos, were rumoured to be something to do with Stevie Winwood, but it later transpired that Mr. Winwood only produced the record and the band was American.
Jackie Wilson fans will notice a distinct similarity between this and his “Now That I Want Her”.
Anyway, The Anglos “Incence”
I love this!!! A great track that makes me want to dance!!!
I hope you have a successful demonstration!!!
This is surprising in several ways. It’s status as the universal nom song makes it odd as no one used it during the 30 day challenge. I really couldn’t get enough of it when it first came out (1967) & even though I listened to the radio hoping to hear it it played I never bought the 45. While I’ve seen her twice I can’t recall what else she might have sung. It’s really this that means Bobbie I guess.
Ode To Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Ah – I believe that’s the only one of hers I’ve got, too, Fintan.
Another dramatic song! I really do wonder if there is theme developing here???
It is a great track! I think for me it one of those song that I always seem to have known, but can only vaguely remember a few words or phrases, and I can never remember who was the singer……. Then I say to my friend “do you remember the USA song about the guy jumping of bridge?”……..and then you talking about hundred other songs but never remembering the one you want!!!
So thank you Fintan28!!! Now I know it!!!!
Sakura – Pleased to help. As I alluded to there was a long period on the RR where it got nommed every week no matter the topic. Amazingly not usually as a shoehorn( well maybe a small one)
The nomming-it-every-week was a joke, because for a long time new people would nom it even though it was long-zedded – so the regulars took to nomming it just to be helpful. Or possibly to be annoying – I can’t remember. But we got bored with that in the end.
I’ve got an anthology called Ode to Bobbie Gentry, which is very nice indeed. I like her voice, which has a nice catch in it, and her own compositions are all quality stuff (there’s a fair few covers on the anthology, too).
“… Billie Joe” is a definite standout, though.
One that I picked up from RR (probably Steenbeck) and I am taking this as a salutary reminder to buy some more
I’d gladly take credit, because I love Souls of Mischief. But like so much good music, I only knew about it because of Ejaydee.
I’ve got a stack of covermounted Terrorizer magazine CD’s with some gems on them.
This track was a huge huge favourite of mine when I first heard it, very OTT hipster-friendly power metal! But I never followed up on it and don’t own anything else by them, i’m sure i’d be disappointed.
3 Inches Of Blood – “Deadly Sinners”
Actually that’s kind of awesome
But like you i don’t know if i’d look to find more of it either.
WOW!!! That was amazing!!!
Actually I loved the video!! I think live videos of metal is the best way of showing it!!!
do the vocals sound like Bruce Dickinson or is that just me? I think they’d be more popular without the beards, fun though.
You know, i thought they reminded me of someone! He did have a high voice, and i get in trouble for this, but i can’t stand Dickinson’s voice.
Here’s a juicy nugget heard many moons ago, but only picked it up on the Ubiquity comp ‘Brotherhood’ – listen to those horns!
It is great! The brass is wonderful!!!
the soundtrack to my most messy split! – hurrah for the wise words of lazy beach grooves:
it was on a Muzik magazine compilation – so as far as I can tell the only track by them I own (I have remixes, but nothing else) it still means a lot.
If only i’d found you sooner,
maybe you’d have found me saner,
now i’m lost in the unknown.
If i had crosses to bear,
then i’ll accept being there,
and it was all for you.
But if the damage is great,
and maybe you were too late,
then i will just keep drifting through.
Travelling on and travelling on until my life is gone.
It is great song and a great one to dance to! I have never heard of them before. I will investigate now! Thank you for sharing!!
I’m a bit of a musical magpie, so I have lots of one-song-only artists in my iTunes library. I like to download sample sets from hip hop albums, for one thing, and they always contain little gems.
I know I’ve posted this before, but…
Tell her, by Fred WIlliams and the Jewels band. If I could find more, I would!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tell+her+fred+williams&aq=0&oq=tell+her+f
Of course I meant this…
this is great and you are right Steen a true one off recording – did you find it thru a fela kuti use, sampling it?
Thanks for the comment, Shane, and I’m glad you liked it! I found it through a Talib Kweli song. I like the way they use the sample in the track, and it’s a very good track, but I think I might like the sample better! (not the first time that’s happened)
I like the video quite a bit too.
Talib Kweli – of coarse (I was trying to do too many bits of research at the same time!) like the vid – good track – but like the Jewels band more.
have you heard the Blue Scholars album? – interesting collection of rappers – I’m researching all the people they talk about – and that to me is a good sign of intelligent hip hop. (I’ll put some in our box for you)
I’ve picked up some great one-offs from Earworms, Festive Spills and so on over the last few years… this is hard. I’m going to pick a song that must have dropped into the Box a year or two ago (thank you to ?Steenbeck ? eejay?).
Not an artist I know anything about, and not really my genre, but it’s an immense tune. I did search for some more of his music, but only found a very inferior rapper with the same, er, Alias:
Not me, but I like it!
I’ve posted this and ‘Pill Hiding‘ on spill playlists – both tracks from : Anticon label sampler 1999-2004.
(if you are interested in hearing more – have a search for the Resurgam album on E-music – it has that electronic/indie crossover appeal… for any more of the correct Alias – alway check that it’s on Anticon records..
here’s a review
Thanks for introducing me in the first place, and for the further information – sounds interesting. Next month’s eMusic credits…
have a look in the barbryn box – I sorted a sample out for you.
Barbryn – just realised this verse would shove it straight in last weeks afterlife perfectly.
“I’m sick and tired of them thinking that there’s an afterlife, so they spend their whole life benign. They killed another creature years ago that claimed to be my son, so now they mold their lives after him and claim that he’s The One. The one that will save them — lead them to a new breath. I hate to break it to them: I have nothing for you after death”
Gah, yes, should have thought of that. Shane – thanks hugely, but I can’t see a barbryn box anywhere…?
I just re – invited you to share a folder – hope it reaches you.
Received with thanks – I think I deleted the whole folder last time you shared something.
Here’s one which was on a free CD from The Grauniad some years back, for some reason it shows up as being “Teardrop” by Massive Attack on my system but it is definitely The Archie Bronson Outfit and “Cherry Lips” – I love it!
Even young Munday thinks it’s “cool”, which is a bonus as he has just turned me to turn off what i was just listening to (Taj Mahal) which he said was a horrible racket (?) Kids today, eh?
it’s quite jolly, I am rather put off by the hula hoop girl in the video though, I hope she didn’t feel too exploited.
I do like the “…Outfit” – if you haven’t heard this one, it really is pretty….BELTING!
The Bronson’s are a big hit in the Fugit household – at least with me. Must be played loud to fully appreciate, I reckon.
That’ll be ‘he has just asked me to turn off …’
I hope my comments have got on ok. Using a mate’s laptop in a cafe in Cambridge waiting for our celeb to appear.
A bit of a one hit wonder for my choice, The Passions song
“I’m in Love with a German Film Star”
I love the floaty, restrained beginning, the dreamy, echoey guitar sound and then the delightfully light vocals, it’s a perfect song to dream to. Kind of shoegazey I suppose?
I admit that I did buy the album, but it was so terrible I got rid of it again very quickly. I suppose it’s the lyrics too, I have a penchant for German accents and hearing German spoken, (Wings of Desire is my favourite film), I can see the titular hero in my minds eye…
It was this or Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins, but this wins because I don’t expect it’s very well known.
Don’t own it, but it’s spectacularly wonderful. Back when I listened to last.fm, I picked this up from someone else in the RR gang, and it then turned up regularly – which was always a pleasure.
And Der Himmel ueber Berlin – sorry, massively pretentious, I know, but I watch all these things in German to improve my comprehension in a pleasurable way – is one of my all-time favourite films.
not pretentious at all, it is the original title after all, a friend of mine was just saying she’d like to see it without subtitles to see if she understood it. Glad you liked the Passions track, such a pity it seems to be a one off.
Der Himmel ueber Berlin – is one of my all-time favourite films too.
I had the beautifully designed film posters on my wall as a student.. such brilliance, it’s unbelievable.
I generally try to buy German dvds with subtitles auf Deutsch, as my reading is much better than my listening comprehension and so I have the opportunity to check whether I’m genuinely making sense of things. The trouble is this one (or at any rate the edition I got) is that the subtitles are only for the snatches of English and French, not for most of the dialogue – and, while Peter Falk does mumble a bit, I don’t actually need subtitles to follow it. Some of Handke’s more philosophical ruminations, on the other hand…
In 1967, the British Board of Film Censors, banned the movie “The Wild Angels” on the grounds that it might subvert our youth. We were in Berlin the next year where there was no such ban and saw it was playing at a cinema. We expected English dialogue with German sub-titles, but no – it had been dubbed into German. Result – total incomprehension for 97 minutes. Still, the bikes were nice to look at and so was Nancy Sinatra.
Strangely, the next year, the same board of censors allowed the screening of Brando’s 1954 film “The Wild One” which had been banned at the time for the smae reasons.
I once watched Psycho dubbed into Italian, it wasn’t an improvement to be honest.
Great choice, Beth. Am I imagining it or did the Pet Shop Boys do a spectacularly pointless cover with Sam Taylor Wood recently?
what a very strange thing to do, I hadn’t heard of that, but I can’t see that the original could be improved upon.
I have the Passions and the Pet shop boys one (it’s not good) and one by sunscreen.
Passions is all anyone needs!
Excellent choice! From the days when watching TOTP was culturally de rigeur. This is my first attempt on The Spill – next step is uploading a song which is likely to lead to a break-out of some Father Jack mannerisms!
Lovely to have you, mmoloney! If you look up at the top there’s a tab marked Manual which was written by Maki. Ignore the bit about YouTube though, because that doesn’t work any more. To post a YouTube link just copy the address (the one at the top of the YouTube page) and paste it into your comment with a line to itself.
good to see you here too, mmoloney. If I can post I’m sure you can manage it
Thank you both!
Greetings mmoloney. Come on in, kick yer shoes off. Can I get you a drink?
Good choice. One of those songs that I know I like but can never quite remember. Needless to say, I haven’t managed to acquire it to date…
I think it was released a few years before I started paying proper attention to the world of pop music.
I remember this! And I used to have it on tape. I wonder what happened to it… It’s still fab.
it’s on many an 80s compilation CD, if you wanted to own it again
Just a thought about downloading single tracks – I hardly ever do. I seem still to believe that I need to listen to a whole album, not to just one track that might be an instant standout; I suppose on the premise that the song you find instantly attractive is the one you get bored with quickest.
But I used to have this same argument with my father (along with many, many other recurring arguments!), because if he got a new CD (as a present from me, for instance) he would listen to it once, decide which tracks he liked, record these on to tape – he didn’t know how to work a computer and didn’t want to learn – and then take the CD down to the charity shop. I used to say ” but maybe if you listened to it a few more times you would find there were tracks you liked better…” But no. That was it.
Have any of the rest of you come across this attitude? Or do you (perhaps) share it? Because I find it inexplicable.
I did, very breifly, go through a short phase of doing something similar. In my defence, I was rather young, and couldn’t afford many tapes. I used to borrow LPs from the library and just put my favoutrite songs on tape. A practice that I later regretted – and, in most cases, remedied by buying my own copies of the albums I effectively mutilated.
@Zalamanda, I did that too! I loved getting records from the library, much more exciting than getting CDs now.
I listen to albums as a whole to begin with, but I do skip songs sometimes, once I’ve given them a chance.
I know that’s awfully presumptuous of me, as the artist intended it to be heard in a particular way, but if I left, for example, “New Dress” by Depeche Mode on Black Celebration ticked, I would end up not listening to the album at all because it spoils the whole for me. See also “She’s So Fine” on Hendrix’s Axis, and “Shabop Shalom” on Devendra’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.
Sorry to be inexplicable.
‘once I’ve given them a chance’ – that’s the difference, I think, isn’t it? What I meant was that my dad would only listen to something once, and if he didn’t like it, that was it.
I don’t understand it either TFD. I am the purveyor of music for a lot of family and friends, especially my little sister, but everytime her ipod fills up and it’s time remove songs, she looks on itunes for the songs she’s listened to the least, or she hasn’t listened to at all and tries to remove them first, if I don’t stop her.
However, I hae learned to accept that there are songs that I don’t “need” to put myself through if I really don’t enjoy them.
Wow – there’s some weird and obscure stuff on here! It’s an interesting idea DsD and there are a few “lone gems” on my iTunes so this is not as easy as it might first appear. Apologies for the odd picture but had to resort to the ‘tube for this. This is a very moving piece from a band I tried to listen further to but got nowhere with. I love to play it loud and just listen…it’s almost impossible to do anything else simultaneously , it grabs me : the language is odd , the sound unique and it’s all vaguely unsettling. Wonderful!
Welcome back, gremlin! Could be music for a funeral procession, enacted with great solemnity and respect (although I’m not sure about the squeaky-whistly noise). Powerful and affecting.
Maybe one of our Spanish speakers could offer a flavour of the lyrics?
This so dramatic also!! The voice and brass are great!!!
It sounds almost like a funeral march – you know like the old Jazz funerals in New Orleans?
Thank you Maki for the translation!
Thanks for the welcomes – been meaning to come on for a while but life keeps getting in the way
Thanks to mr. Maki for the translations – I had some of it worked out but it’s so bizarre , I thought I must have been making it up myself.
It’s a real one-off , as the rest is (!) and part of me doesn’t want to spoil its effect by listening to something by them which will ruin this – I’ll stick with this choon , even if all their other stuff is brilliant…
Hi Gremlin
Very good to see you here!
And the lyrics- obscure and surreal they would translate something along these lines:
I’ve got a thorn that marks my (finger) print
I’ve got a thorn that sings (of) floating pain
I’ve got a beast inside that is neither me nor I
I’ve got a pain that blows it doesn’t air my laziness my laziness
why why keep on crying why
if we’ve only got three days and two are left girl
nailed to the door I’ll be nailed to the floor
I got nailed
Nailed to the door listen
lazy flight is not still
tumbling flight doesn’t blink doesn’t twitch doesn’t sleep
when it speaks of her
I’ll be nailed to the door
I’ve been nailed to the floor
Nailed to the door I’m empty
EYUP, GREMLIN. Good to see you!
There are many, many songs I could have chosen but I will go with this one which should intrigue Ubu and the other J. Richman fans on here. A stone cold classic.
Shame I can’t find the vinyl version as the sound is pretty ropey on this.
Not bad at all, missed this one in the 90s, to be honest missed most of the 90s for various reasons.
Ace. I’ve known of this song for years, but had never heard it until last week on Gideon Coe’s show. It didn’t disappoint.
Can I change my mind ?
Despite my chosen name here I only own this track by Pere Ubu. They were actually one of only 2 bands that I walked out on at the first song ! Silly old me.
Ha! Final Solution is the only Pere Ubu song I have too, but I came to it from Living Colour’s very loud rock version – Vernon Reid’s almost anti-tonal guitar suits the mood perfectly.
Great song. I remember seeing them at the Roundhouse in 1978 probably supporting Graham Parker and they were bloody weird but fantastic. The great thing about seeing bands in the years 76-79 was anything could turn up on any bill. I once saw The Slits, Don Cherry and Patrik Fitzgerald together for example !!!
Should get a DsDond for this one:
Patrick Verbeke – Le Blues Du Bebe Heureux
The only thing I’ve got by the man and I really must get round to hunting down more stuff.
Er ………… s’ok, I s’pose.
(Sorry Maki, I’m not really in the mood for something that sounds like Ry Cooder & Terry Evans being produced by Daniel Lanois for the soundtrack to a quirky French rom-com!)
Interesting challenge for me. I am an inveterate amasser of music, be it vinyl/cd/mp3.
Yet one song sprang immediately to mind. I used to buy the annual Cooking Vinyl sampler CD which was a cheap, eclectic and left field selection from the label. The likes of The Ukranians would rub shoulders with Jackie Leven, Violent Femmes and June Tabor. My choice is the live version of the song featured in the video. It instantly transports me to somewhere seasidey and warm, probably with a caipirinha (or frozen margerita, eh tfd?) in hand. It also reminds me that life can be very good to some people and Mike Nesmith – who’s mum invented Tippex – has fortunate never to have to stoop to a Monkees reunion.
Eh, anybody know why the video isn’t embedded? Thanks!
Yes. You didn’t do as I told you.
You’re quite right tfd (by which I mean DRINK! GIRLS! etc…)
(let’s try that again!)
Interesting challenge for me. I am an inveterate amasser of music, be it vinyl/cd/mp3.
Yet one song sprang immediately to mind. I used to buy the annual Cooking Vinyl sampler CD which was a cheap, eclectic and left field selection from the label. The likes of The Ukranians would rub shoulders with Jackie Leven, Violent Femmes and June Tabor. My choice is the live version of the song featured in the video. It instantly transports me to somewhere seasidey and warm, probably with a caipirinha (or frozen margerita, eh tfd?) in hand. It also reminds me that life can be very good to some people and Mike Nesmith – who’s mum invented Tippex – has fortunate never to have to stoop to a Monkees reunion.
that is very summery and pleasant, thanks for posting it. I was just watching some Monkees being chatted to by Jools Holland, sometimes I think it’s cruel when he shows a clip of the interviewees in their prime and then cuts back to the grizzled old things they are now.
Thanks again! The live version is really better, but the video was nice and cheesy and conveyed the spirit of the song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYavDuoZTs&playnext=1&list=PL0D9C8BA45A1FD897).
Agree with you about Later – it’s a bit like a couple of your aunties coo-ing over some old photos…
DONDS for the Cooking Vinyl samplers.
Thanks DsD for the dond and the welcome!
See what happens when you go away for a few days ? Hundreds of posts and I find that May 1366 has nicked my Colin Blunstone choice. And as I’ve already posted King Creosote in another section, I’m going to have to stick this in as third choice. THIRD CHOICE !!!!!, who am I kidding. this stands out on its own in any line up.
Don’t know much about her, never saw the film and only ever got this track.
Released as a single in 1981 from the 1980 film “Breaking Glass”.
Hazel O’Connor………….”Will You”
Best bit of sax playing anywhere……….
I’ve actally got a Hazel O’Connor anthology. It’s pretty darn good, as it happens. And there was me thinking (once upon a time) that Breaking Glass was all there was to her career.
oh yeah! I’d forgotten about this. In the toolbox of one-hit wondery this is the wrench of …. Can’t say I’m enamoured with the sax, to be honest, or really any one component of it ’cause its all dated. Corker of a song though and a great pick.
? Where’s the video gone ?
I very much doubt that I’m alone in owning this one on an R & B compilation but knowing nothing about any other recordings of his
I used to play this to my niece when she was about six or seven and she could sing the whole thing doing all the voices.
He’s a lonely frog…aw…Yes, this is the only one of his I’ve got, too.
Great track. He had two very big hits in 1960 with “But I Do” and “You Always Hurt The One You Love”, both sone in a very “Fats Domino” style.
That of course should be “both done”
Brilliant track !
What were they putting in the water back then ?
I know I shouldn’t do this ie suggest another song but using Ubu’s method can I change my suggestion to this please.
God I love this song !!
ah, my apologize for leaving you waiting for so long but the one hit – and not even a hit – wonder of the week:
peeps make sure you get the Bla Bla Mix and then play it in your cars loud all summer. Its the next best thing to Scooter.
Blimey, it’s getting like the Mothership over ‘ere this week, 215 posts for me to scroll through – that’ll teach me to come late to the party (actually, there were over 1000 posts on the Mothership before I’d even got my computer turned on this week, and I haven’t got the energy for those kind of numbers this week)…
One of my favourite songs EVER, and I keep meaning to track down more about this artist because I think there’ll be a lot for me to like there
Fiona Apple – O’Sailor
debby – I like Fiona Apple a lot, and that’s one of my very favourites. She had a bit of attitude which the music industry didn’t take to in one so young, pretty and female, and I don’t think she’s had the career she deserves. I’d recommend Extraordinary Machine, which this is from, and When the pawn… (full title: When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king / What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight / And he’ll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring / There’s no body to batter when your mind is your might / So when you go solo, you hold your own hand / And remember that depth is the greatest of heights / And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land / And if you fall it won’t matter, cause you’ll know that you’re right.
Here’s another to sample:
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man. I know a lot of Donovan and have never bothered to buy any, but this song, even though i liked it before, my feelings about it were utterly transformed after seeing it used in the opening scene of David Fincher’s Zodiac, where it soundtracked the first killings and set the scene for that tail end of the sixties era.
I didn’t know previously that JPJ, Bonham and Page from Led Zep all performed on these sessions (pre LZ), although its debatable whether they all played together on this particular track.
The context in which its used on Zodiac turns it from being psychadelic and hippyish to something altogether more dark and disturbing.
The only link i can find showing this particular scene with the music. Although i would hope most of you with your wonderful taste in music and film would already have seen this.
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