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SQUEEZE – Is That Love
SQUEEZE – Labelled with Love
They’ll do me
Squeeze were in a class of their own, lyrics-wise in particular.
‘Up the Junction’ the grand cru of a vintage crop
Squeeze were quite fond of rhyming couplets, I do recall.
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
and a lot of "socailly conscious" bands and artists will soon be spending more time with accountants than in the studio
Publiclly bursting into tears (when the cameras on) in some african shithole (decimated by marxist policies…) before moaning about all the immigrants in the first class lounge at terminal 5
You might like this, if you havent seen it before Clivex, it made me chuckle…
44 years late on ‘discovering’ the first one but a little better on the second:-
Nice one Bulwark
I had heard about it but never caught up with it
I have a lot of time for Gervais. He does a very nice piece on africa in his stand up dvd too.
Cafe del Mar
Very nice and relaxing after being stuck in the outback of Umbria for 2 months – I thought I’d never get out!!!
How are we all anyways?
Cafe del Mar
Very nice and relaxing after being stuck in the outback of Umbria for 2 months – I thought I’d never get out!!!
How are we all anyways?
What, as in the Hooj Tunes trance classic by Energy 52? If so, top choice..
Yes! And also right now it’s Danza Espanol Classic II … doo doo doooo doo do do do
..and Training Vol XIV – very dreamyLaura Marling’s ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’…was a bit disappointed when I first heard it [being a bit of a closet folkie] but it’s growing on me. Also MGMT’s ‘Dracula Spectacular’…from the same Brooklyn stable as Yeahsayer, but more popcorny…David Bowie meets the Bee Gee’s…[luckily more of the former and less of the latter]..very jolly. getting Last Shadow Puppets tomorrow…
Currently a combination of:
The Sounds – Tony The Beat
The Duke Spirit – Lassoo / Into The Fold
The Bravery – Every Word From Your Mouth Is A Knife In My Ear (must get this as ringtone)
The Killers – Shadowplay
Linkin Park – Papercut
Foo Fighters – But Honestly
The Bravery again – Public Service Announcement
The Rapture – Get Myself Into It
CSS – Let’s Make LoveThe last named is a damn fine bit of poppy randomness but I do have one fundamental problem with the main lyric – "let’s make love and listen to Death From Above"
Said problem being I happen to own the Death From Above 1979 album and I can only say one thing about it – it’s sh*t awful!!!
God I’m bored tonight.
omg zoz your stil alive!!! lol
i’ve drifted into r&b a bit recently an so i know the track names but not the artist half the time:
Low (Flo.rida)
Wearing My Rolex (?)
Heartbreaker (?)but some others too
Every You Every Me (placebo)
Poision (Groove Coverage)
Texas Greatest Hits
Kayne West – Graduation and Late Registrationand last but not least
Daft Punk’s album Alive
daiesy the belle
Not listening to anything at moment but will download Beth Rowleys album and try and find some time to listen to it.
Next Sat (Derby day) am going to Manchester to see Yazzo at the Apollo but as i will be with lots of Erasure fans we will be the ones cheering Vince Clark a lot more than Alison Moyet.
Should be a good night out though, although i hope the meet up bar will have a telly so i can watch the big race.
Wearing My Rolex (?)
…is by Wiley. I’m a bit keener on his work with Roll Deep, to be truhtful.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Interesting that Wiley was also in Roll Deep. They must be hip-hop’s equivalent of a hot maiden race, as of course they’re also the same "cru" that yielded Mercury Award-winning artist Dizzee Rascal. As with many of these songs which sample, "Wearing my Rolex" inspired me to find the original more than to buy the record itself, and DSK’s "What Would We Do" is very good.
It’s funny this thread came up, actually. Just last week I cracked out the summer tunes for their annual 3-month airing, and two early favourites for most-played have emerged in both the wonderful early house anthem "Pacific State" by 808 State and "Summer Fun" by The Barracudas, which possesses what can only be described as the funniest intro ever put to vinyl!
Indeed Dizzee Rascal has done very well in the mainstream, and I’m of the opinion that "Fix Up, Look Sharp" is possibly the defining moment in British hip-hop history.
This all makes it all the more remarkable that he managed to lose every iota of the respect I had for him in just 4 lines of Band Aid 20’s "Do They Know It’s Christmas"!been listening to Santagold all week; want to buy Bon Iver; For Emma Ages Ago, although I’ve no idea what it’s like. v. good reviews.
two early favourites for most-played have emerged in both the wonderful early house anthem "Pacific State" by 808 State
Oh God yes. I was born and raised in Oldham, and it was played to saturation point on Piccadilly Radio, our school’s weekly lunchtime disco, the local HMV and more or less anywhere else in the vicinity for months before it finally charted nationally in late ’89. Even then, it lost none of its freshness and appeal.
It was, and remains, a peerless dance instrumental that the group never quite managed to equal over the course of four or five albums, although other chart hits "Cübik", "Olympic", "In Yer Face", "Plan 9", "Lift" and "Oooops" (featuring Bjork’s first ever guest vocal, still over a year before the Sugarcubes jacked it in) were all most enjoyable.
I’m not sure what they were thinking of when they decided to reinterpret "One in Ten" by UB40, though, or tried to imitate Electronic with the help of Ian McCullough out of Echo and the Bunnymen (a collaboration which, amazingly, managed to be less than the sum of its parts by a wide margin).
If not exactly fitting Friggo’s "hot maiden" tag, 808 State still possessed some interesting personnel. Original member Gerald Simpson was hounded out of the band after the first album, the Acid-influenced "Newbuild", and went on to have a huge crossover hit with "Voodoo Ray", one of the defining statements in Acid House, under his A Guy Called Gerald alias.
Longer-surviving member Martin Price, meanwhile, was the original proprietor of the legendary Manchester dance music store Eastern Bloc. 808 State’s critical and commercial demise coincided with his departure in 1991.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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