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July 24, 2010 at 18:15 #308335
On a friends recommendation, I’ve recently tooled myself up with some Carole King.
I hadn’t realised how many genuinely excellent tunes she has written over the years, and she has a voice like a doleful angel spooning honey into my lug-hole.
I’m more than happy to pass on the recommendation.
July 25, 2010 at 00:10 #308471Does anyone remember when The Cure did From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea at Glastonbury years ago? I’ve got it on tape somewhere but darned if I can find it; one of the best sets I’ve ever seen [on the telly, unfortunately; wasn’t there!]. Always amazed me how they could do such dark songs and then do a pinky ponk sort of song straight after.
July 25, 2010 at 19:24 #308649On a friends recommendation, I’ve recently tooled myself up with some Carole King.
I hadn’t realised how many genuinely excellent tunes she has written over the years, and she has a voice like a doleful angel spooning honey into my lug-hole.
‘Tapestry’ is a timeless album
Before finding fame as a solo singer/songwriter with that around 1970 it’s as well to remember she and husband Gerry Goffin had written many a well-crafted catchy toon for other artists throughout the ’60s. A thoroughbred indeed
Heard any Laura Nyro GH?
Plenty on youtube
Similarities with King, not least the plaintive voice
July 27, 2010 at 12:55 #309071Among others:
Sheila by Tommy Roe
El Paso and
Strawberry Roan by Marty RobbinsPanis Angelicus by Andrea Bocelli
Blue Bayo by Roy Orbison
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
Sweet Nothings by Brenda Lee
All on YouTube.
Also watching Uma Thurman in that dance with Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
Nothing to touch fifties and sixties songs.
July 27, 2010 at 23:43 #309247Well back into Talk Talk at the mo……didnt really appreciate em first time round even though i bought all the albums but sound even better as the years have gone on!!!
July 29, 2010 at 18:53 #309777Well back into Talk Talk at the mo……didnt really appreciate em first time round even though i bought all the albums but sound even better as the years have gone on!!!
One of the most underrated and underappreciated bands of all time. Mark Hollis is a true genius and not unlike Mick Karn, the more unflinching he became in his refusal to bow to commercial pressure, the less in the limelight he appeared.
I understand he completely retired form the music business following his critically acclaimed solo album.
These are my favourite tracks in no particular order:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wNW60eXnaU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwkrNNeV … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HsGsB-MCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cIWsQuYVegDo check out his eponymous solo album if you haven’t already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0rzonn8qAIt isn’t too difficult to see where the likes of Radiohead’s later work found its influence.
July 30, 2010 at 19:01 #310042test
July 30, 2010 at 19:47 #310062July 30, 2010 at 19:52 #310067Was just wondering whether that is who it claims to be.
Same song in a duet by Melanie Safka and Johnny Cash in the second part of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6zfS96W … re=related
Fairly ignorant and tone deaf.
Came across the Dusty and Linda versions a couple of months ago.
August 1, 2010 at 21:04 #310469Off topic (apologies) but my "test" post was to see if my avatar had appeared – but all I’m getting is a little square – I loaded it as a .gif image – any ideas what I am doing wrong please?
August 2, 2010 at 10:06 #310534Dunno, there is no info on that nowadays. Try it as jpg?
August 2, 2010 at 16:25 #310603Heard any Laura Nyro GH?
Plenty on youtube
Similarities with King, not least the plaintive voice
I haven’t, Drone, but will make enquiries.
August 2, 2010 at 16:27 #310605I listened to some Nyro a couple of days ago. She doesn’t sing notes, she sings chords.
Breadth, I think, is the word.
August 2, 2010 at 18:53 #310627Good work guys. We’ve got Janis joplin’s version up from 20 to 29 views.
I think I ought to get some kind of award for the combination of the cache of the artise combined with the lack of views. A few weeks ago I came across a Dusty with only 70, which I think beats a Janis with only 20, but with all seriousness, surely I’ve got the quinella?
August 4, 2010 at 12:42 #310889http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJRMO1WCvw
I’d forgotten how utterly delicious this song is – though it does blatantly steal the sequenced intro from Japan’s single "Quiet Life"!
Fair play to Jeremy Vine who played it the other on his show. Sound bloke Vine, I bumped into him and his brother outside the Kentish Town Forum following a Magazine reunion gig in February.
He is believe it of not a massive Theatre Of Hate fan:
August 4, 2010 at 21:43 #311030Just got the new Arcade Fire CD. Like what I’ve heard so far; going to give it another listen tonight if no one in the house is trying to get to sleep….
August 5, 2010 at 14:12 #311111A real nice live version of
Travel Is Dangerous
from Scotland’s finest…
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