It’s a real challenge to write about Paco de Lucía because, although he’s a household name well beyond the realms of Flamenco, the range and variety of styles he has covered is so wide that it’s impossible to condense it all into one post. We are going to do our best, however, to make sure [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Friday Night Flamenco – Paco de Lucía
Posted in Flamenco on September 30, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Venomous Beings!!! The MFF 24 Hour Challenge!!!
Posted in 'Spill Challenges, Readers Recommend, Uncategorized on September 30, 2011 | 83 Comments »
This is post for all the Spillers missing their MFF!!! It should have appeared by magic at midnight UK time and if you are reading this then I suppose so that it must have worked!!! As you know, I come from a sub tropical island so we learn very young about venomous things that crawl [...]
A Pig, A Cowboy and The Other One
Posted in 1970s, tagged grateful dead on September 29, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Here are two little jewels and something altogether different from Casey, for your listening pleasure. Ron McKernan, aka “Pigpen”, was the prime mover in ensuring The Warlocks became an electric rock band and his R’n’B raps were an essential part of the Grateful Dead experience. He went on this tour against doctors’ advice, making the [...]
Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ or Hadaka No Rallizes )
Posted in Experimental, Psychedelia, Uncategorized, tagged 裸のライーズ, hadaka no rallizes, Les Rallizes Dénudés on September 29, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Les Rallizes Dénudés were a legendary Japanese experimental noise-rock band, lead (controlled megalomaniacally might be more accurate) by visionary guitarist Takeshi Mizutani that were active between 1969 and 1996 (there is no evidence that they are officially no more) but only ever put out a few official releases, which were live albums anyway. Their commitment [...]
Summer means fun
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2011 | 21 Comments »
“Then you’ll never hear surf music again”- Jimi Hendrix. 1967 “Oh yeah ? Says who ? ” Me. 2011
Today’s EOTWQs are brought to you by the letter C
Posted in Quizzes, tagged the letter C on September 28, 2011 | 86 Comments »
1 Candy? Collard greens? What’s your favourite food beginning with a C? 2 Alarming news: the Cliff Richard 2012 calendar is already selling fast. What calendar would YOU like for next year? (NB does not have to begin with C.) 3 The nights are drawing in (if you’re in the same hemisphere as me) and [...]
‘spill over EELS
Posted in 'Spill Challenges, 1990s, 2000s, Tributes on September 28, 2011 | 49 Comments »
EELS is a band formed by singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E. There’s at least 9 albums to choose tracks from and 2 solos recordings, plus an album as MC Honky… if you could be so kind – I’d like a ‘spill over view of his output. Do you like EELS? (the band [...]
I Need Your Bedroom Eyes
Posted in 2010s, Indie, Totty, tagged Dum Dum Girls on September 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I have had “Bedroom Eyes” by Dum Dum Girls stuck on repeat for the last few weeks, and now there’s a fab video to go with it. Press play if you like 60s girl groups, The Raveonettes, The Bangles, Fleetwood Mac, The Pretenders or any good music really. Catchy as hell chorus, sublime bridge and [...]
Spill Challenge No 22 – Covers That Never Were
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2011 | 128 Comments »
Ah yes, the rules are the thing – erm… A new challenge appears every Tuesday Morning or evening – or not. No song may be chosen twice unless it is. This week’s challenge is to choose a song that you would like to be recorded by somebody else. For example it was once suggested in [...]
Earworms – September 26
Posted in Earworms on September 26, 2011 | 29 Comments »
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley Thea Gilmore – Ever Fallen In Love (Buzzcocks cover) You are in a paint or fabric shop flipping through samples of rich autumnal colours for your _____ room and one so warms you to the core that you forget it’s cold [...]
poppy, light, lipstick, town, apple, wine, roses, blood
Posted in Country, Folk, Rock, tagged red things on September 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
What a music-filled weekend it’s been so far! And what a shame someone can’t have a special anniversary every weekend. You know – songs about wood, songs about paper…what do you mean that’s not special? I’d have had my 41st this year, as it goes, had I taken the precaution of remaining married. But I [...]
red recordings on ruby sunday
Posted in Readers Recommend, RR Playlists on September 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
1 Love is Red/Green Tender Trap 2 Red And Purple The Dodos 3 Cherry Tulips Headlights 4 Cherry Lips Archie Bronson Outfit 5 Earth A Run Red Digital Mystikz 6 Red Candle Bulb Meursault 7 Ruby II Amy Millan . . 1 Red Rag Brakes 2 A Martyr For My Love For You The White [...]
Happy 40th Anniversary, Mr and Mrs Webcore !
Posted in Readers Recommend, Tributes on September 24, 2011 | 94 Comments »
The multiple-perspective collective has come together to celebrate the Webcore’s Ruby wedding anniversary with this playlist, intermingled with some snippets and signposts (with special thanks to The Guardian for its community content and search facilty). I never thought I’d miss you, half as much as I do (Labi Siffre, It Must Be Love) It is [...]
Friday Night Flamenco – Family Sagas (1)
Posted in Flamenco on September 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
To speak of the Montoya family is to speak of art, tradition, legend and character. The Montoya family tree has many branches and today we’re going to take a look at just one as an example of how flamenco traditions are passed on from generation to generation. This is a long post but there’s no [...]
Reddy, Steady, Go
Posted in RR Playlists, tagged Red on September 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Hunters & Collectors – Red Lane Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Share The Red Laika – Red River Wire – Red Barked Tree Ema – Red Star She Wants Revenge – Red Flags & Long Nights Album Leaf – Red-Eye Laurie Anderson – Bright Red Trespassers William – Red Accidental – Illuminated Red Simone [...]
EOTWQ – Buffy Edition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged EOTWQ on September 23, 2011 | 73 Comments »
1. Who is your fave Buffy character? 2. Who is your fave Buffy villain? 3. What’s your fave Buffy episode? 4. What’s your fave non-Buffyverse Joss Whedon project? 5. Who is your least fave Buffy character? Optional: How will TFD find a way to plug Mr. Petty in this thread?
Best Cover Band Ever? (Pt. 2)
Posted in blues, tagged blues, cover artists, Covers, gov't mule on September 22, 2011 | 33 Comments »
Ok, just to get the answer out of the way first – no. Gov’t Mule is not a contender for the best cover band ever. I’d put them in roughly the same category as the Dead (and they do tend to play together, amusingly covering a Metallica tune together, and Sugaree) as cover artists – [...]
Spill Challenge no 21 Covers that never were.
Posted in 'Spill Challenges on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah yes, the rules are the thing – erm… A new challenge appears every Tuesday Morning or evening – or not. No song may be chosen twice unless it is. This week’s challenge is to choose a song that you would like to be recorded by somebody else. For example it was once suggested in [...]
Not my fault..
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2011 | 19 Comments »
This post is like so totally not my fault. Another poster ( name withheld to protect the guilty) mentioned Japanese cover versions of “Western” music and I just had to go through my collection and find some of my favourites to post for your “enjoyment”. So, as you can see, it’s really not my fault*. [...]
‘Spill Weekly Song Challenge #20 – Collectibles
Posted in 'Spill Challenges on September 20, 2011 | 189 Comments »
You all know the rules by now… So. Last week I received a parcel from Amazon. Nothing very weird about that – I’m forever buying sh*t off the interweb. The package comprised two CDs: a best of Al Wilson (ordered following a discussion about “Do what you gotta do”, written for him by Jimmy Webb, [...]
Earworms – September 19
Posted in Earworms on September 19, 2011 | 31 Comments »
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” Robert G. Ingersoll Freddie McKay – Love Is a Treasure I’ve been craving smooth, soulful music lately. And this is it! steenbeck Victor Johnson – When You Say You’re Mine In ToffeeBoy’s Listening To [...]
Like a dog in the rain
Posted in Country, tagged Jon Randall on September 18, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been thinking for a while about doing a post on Jon Randall, composer of my well-worn afaserae Whiskey Lullaby; and it so happens that I just went out to mow the lawn and found it was raining… Poor old Jon – he seemed to have such a bright future, having started his career in [...]
Jake Shimabukuro
Posted in Uncategorized, World on September 18, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I absolutely love Jake Shimabukuro!!! He is an Hawaiian ukulele player and I have nominated him two times in this week’s task in RR. In my islands is quite a lot of ukulele music but it comes from the people who went to Hawaii before the second world war when times were very bad for [...]
And we got nothing to be guilty of… (Part 6)
Posted in Pop, tagged Guilty pleasures on September 17, 2011 | 20 Comments »
OK, d’you know who we can all agree were terrible? Aqua, that’s who. “Barbie Girl”. “Doctor Jones”. The sub-Roxette ballad one… They were unmitigated shite, weren’t they? And I, as a man of taste (if not wealth), took great pleasure in despising them. Nasty, cheap, synthetic rubbish. Pah.
All Apologies
Posted in RR Playlists, tagged Apologies on September 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Strange Parcels – Sorry Bootsy Mark Stewart – Shame Les Claypool – Off White Guilt Trail Of Dead – Mistakes & Regrets Josef K – Sorry For Laughing David Thomas Broughton – Apologies Morrissey – I’m Not Sorry Wolfgang Press – Derek The Confessor Adrian Sherwood – Forgive Yourself Thee More Shallows – Walk Of [...]
