All tracks in part one up for consideration DsD.
2 Scottish Pop Spearmint
3 Hips For Scotland Psychonauts
4 Chips And Cheese Eugene Kelly
5 All Over Glasgow Decoration
6 The Sixth Stone Aidan Moffat And The Best-Ofs & Ian Rankin
7 New Lanark De Rosa
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Tracks 3 and 4 to be considered DsD.
2 I Could Be Happy Seavault
3 Cathkin Braes De Rosa
4 Shopping For Blood Franz Ferdinand
5 Wicker Girl (b side) Hefner
6 Mortgage Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra
For those with less indie taste here is some traditional folk from the Shetlands – lovely stuff.
2 Golden Goals Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag
3 The Teetotalers Reel/The Fairy Dance Aly Bain
I loved that whole entire list. Totally hit the spot. Thanks.
Glad to be of service – a very indie experience…
But Scottish indie record labels are a brilliant source of my collection – so it’s great to big them up.
I was beaten to these that would fit in just as well …
Mull Historical Society - Mull Historical Society
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
Winter Home Disco -The Pictish Trail
The Happy Song -The Aliens
This Is The Hebrides - Mull Historical Society
I Hate Scotland - Ballboy
Coast On By - King Creosote
and odd mentions can be found in:
Blackmail Man - Ian Dury
Fortress/Deer Park - The Fall
Black Out – Pavement
The Sutcliffe Catering Song - Pavement
lots of fun.
Hmm, i’m on kind of a massive Pavement obsession lately. I did not know those songs were about Scotland.
Wanted desperately to think of a Vaselines song, but seems that they were all about sex, not Scotland. At least someone got a Garbage song in…
heehee – I wouldn’t claim the Pavement songs are about Scotland – I have intense trouble fitting them in any theme – random stream of verbals rather than lyric writing .. that I love .. blackout would just about manage to fit with this section:
Black Out – Pavement
The gauzy thoughts of the sturdy Scots
Wrestle with the elements
Up on the trail high
I need to know where does it go
where-as this is just the gibberish at the end of:
The Sutcliffe Catering Song - Pavement
up, up, up and far away into the highlands of scotland, tartan and sweden, and green and red and black and a little bit of yellow, and buy me a sweater please, I’ve gained 20 pounds
brilliant stuff though
Oh, that would be more than enough for an RTJ shoehorn.
You are most welcome to nominate them before 12 if you like – big donds from me if you do.
I try to keep a limit on my list now we have to do the work ourselves .. (without pay)
No, i won’t be nomming them – they’re not mine and i too am trying to keep it managable for our volunteer gurus. I put up 3 songs i’m happy with this week, don’t feel the need to kill DsD at deadline, especially as commenting and the system seem to be pretty fucked up at the present moment.
Hi saneshane, just listening and the Spearmints and Psychonauts are out if sequence. No problems. I love Scottish pop: IRN BRU is the ginger fae me.
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Ah! you can’t win them all:
fixed (I hope)
Fixed. If I were a betting man (and I am, really) I would put a tenner on The Spearmints being A or B-listed. A braw list. I knew a girl who had hips for Scotland… a faraway, glazed-over-look descends across Fuel’s eyes.
The Ms. is from the Murray clan – glazed over ‘life’ descends (mostly from poorly child slung over shoulder slumbering away as he has been since 2AM – meaning no bloody sleep again – hips that (briefly) pass in the night is all I get from that idea. *sigh*)
Where was I?
oh yes – Spearmint is ideal – an outsiders view of how good Scottish pop is – rather than nationalism or egotistic national pride/depression . perfect.
but I’m finding ‘new RR’ great as a social app while there in real time – but not easy to invest any effort into… because everything gets lost.
Time to collect big lad from school..
My uncle always called people from Scotland “sweaties” and loved to deal in every stereotype going. He had some idea of English superiority obtained from his father (my grandfather, of course). The grandfather also claimed he was from an aristocratic family fallen on hard times. He was a drunken, abusive womaniser, good at freeloading and spending other people’s money, but not his own – it’s only with hindsight that I realise he had a claim to be royal. Anyway, my uncle did some family research and found out that the family line takes in royal Stuart blood that entitles himself (and me) to a full pipes and drums wedding, or something. The uncle moved up to Scotland and got married with such a ceremony. The irony. Now I have no idea where he is, nor does the woman he married.
The bastard took her money too.
Lovely playlist Shane, great tunes all the way, and I’ve not even got to the reeling teetotallers yet. Scottish Pop, the Hips, the Chips and The Sixth Stone all hit the spot; as did that version of I Could Be Happy and Mortgage. Is that a hammer dulcimer on the Scooby-Doos ?
King Creosote (Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra) would probably use a hammer dulcimer but I wouldn’t know if it came and bashed me on the bonce – glad you enjoyed.
thanks for that – enjoyed listening while cooking … liked the guy doing his Clare Grogan impression .. goddess
glad you enjoyed too – I’m wondering if Sakura advertising it as a Shoey playlist might leave some people slightly disappointed –
I Could Be Happy Seavault is one of the many 7″ record clubs I join – this being a MORR music collection with some brilliant B-side covers – I do love the fact they sing ‘Skive’ for my holidays – instead of ‘Skye’ (or at least I think they do)..
cheers for popping in.
The Shetland tunes are lovely too. I think I was wrong about the hammered dulcimer, it’s a banjo playing the tune with the percussion very tight to it, so it sounds less plucked. Hammered Dulcimer is a bit of an oxymoron, as the root of “dulcimer” would mean “gentle”. Here’s an example of that gentle hammering