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  • #308335
    Grasshopper
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    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.

    #308471
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    Does 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.

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    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.

    ‘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

    #309071
    Grimes
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    Among others:

    Sheila by Tommy Roe

    El Paso and
    Strawberry Roan by Marty Robbins

    Panis 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.

    #309247
    Ardrossthegreat
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    Well 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!!!

    #309777
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    Well 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=_cIWsQuYVeg

    Do check out his eponymous solo album if you haven’t already:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0rzonn8qA

    It isn’t too difficult to see where the likes of Radiohead’s later work found its influence.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0rzonn8qA

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    test

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    #310067
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    Was 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.

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    Off 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?

    #310534
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    Dunno, there is no info on that nowadays. Try it as jpg?

    #310603
    Grasshopper
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    Heard any Laura Nyro GH?

    Plenty on youtube

    Similarities with King, not least the plaintive voice

    I haven’t, Drone, but will make enquiries. 8)

    #310605
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    I listened to some Nyro a couple of days ago. She doesn’t sing notes, she sings chords.

    Breadth, I think, is the word.

    #310627
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUDmEvT_Vw

    Good 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?

    #310889
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    http://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:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_6K1xG … re=related

    #311030
    moehat
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    Just 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….

    #311111
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    A real nice live version of

    Travel Is Dangerous

    from Scotland’s finest…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjgt4QryaFM

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