You Tube Stuff

[graysonscolumn]

No mention of Daft Punk, Myles – I enjoy their work to a fair extent, but there are plenty of things I’ve listed here that I enjoy even more.

Having seen possibly their last British gig ever (given that the sole surviving member, Simeon Coxe, is knocking 70 now) on Wednesday night, I am currently revisiting the work of bizarre late 60s oscillator-and-drum act Silver Apples. The support act, German Dadaist-influenced electronica / plunderphonic act Felix Kubin was a bit of a find, too, reminiscent in places of fellow sonic jokers Frederick Schikowski and Kevin Blechdom.

I think I might be paying a wee visit to Rough Trade’s online store in a few minutes’ time. Oh dear…

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.

[NWRA]

This video reveals a terrifying new world:

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_ … j4ZqY&rel=

– – –

This is my favourite song ever! (today):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP3q_4p5abI

[graysonscolumn]

This is my favourite song ever! (today):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP3q_4p5abI

Good Lord, it’s years since I’ve heard that! I remember hearing “Into the Groovey” on an old Indie Top 20 compilation and bought the LP on the strength of that – played the poor thing til it expired.

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.

[Bulwark]

Just found this on Youtube and it had me in stitches from a load of pranksters

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Z818lnT … re=channel

Then I saw these two and nearly lost a rib

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dDEWyDNp0 … re=channel

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ushFvue … re=channel

Hilarious, this ones quite comical too.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nGcb99joi … re=channel

Anyone else seen any funny ones?

[graysonscolumn]

Been meaning to dig up this thread for a while…

As a follow-up to the 2006 list of just over a year ago, herewith the long-awaited (I don’t think) list of my favourite tracks from 2007, replete with Youtube videos where they exist.

…and as sure as night follows day, and as sure as my ar*se points downwards, here’s this year’s selective bunch, once more my personal faves of hundreds of new tracks heard in the last 12 months;

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(1) JAMES YUILL – No Pins Allowed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyROzlScNxQ
My most-loved track of the year by a mile. A perfect fusion of neo-folk and Gallic techno by a Brighton solo artist with a surprisingly captivating stage presence, given that it’s basically him, an acoustic and an armada of electronic push buttons up there.

(2) KATEGOES – Happy Dancing
http://www.myspace.com/kategoes
Part of the whole happy indie scene in Birmingham that has also begotten Misty’s Big Adventure, Kid Carpet and Voluntary Butler Scheme, KateGoes come on stage in a different fancy dress each gig (“KateGoes prehistoric”, “KateGoes on safari”, etc.) and play the sort of cheery ditties that have already won frontwoman Kate Thompson a retainer to write music for kids’ television. Either your vision of Hell itself or a day-glo joy – I know which side I’m on.

(3) PRESETS – This Boy’s in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgOuXepPsA
Ah, the return of the finest exponenets of Australian electronic music. Spiky synths, sexually charged lyrics, job done once again!

(4) ALPHABEAT – Fascination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CEZpqckSI
You can’t have missed this one at the start of the year – it was everywhere. 1980s-influenced cheery Danish popsters rightly hogged the top 10 forever with the standout track from the We Are Alphabeatalbum, months after Little Brother Column played an import copy of it to death at the folks’ place through Christmas!

(5) PORTISHEAD – Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm-OkHj-VM
The absolute antithesis of Glory Box, All Mine and the like off the first two Portishead albums 11 years and more ago. Not about to grace even a fraction of as many dinner parties. Good.

(6) ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – A Good Café on George Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVhNWm65HE
A real find. Gentle, acoustic folk-indie from a Leeds sextet who were definitely one of the highpoints of this summer’s Indietracks festival. That’s not Rosie in the video – Rosie’s just a name.

(7) CSS – Left Behind
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhJC2-UNZA
Let’s Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above headed my Not The Festive 50 list two years ago, and I like this one only marginally less. More jumpsuit-wearing, keyboard-prodding Brazilian party punk pop for the innately joyous. God, that’s at least three happy songs in the line-up already. What’s happening to me?

(8 ) LADYTRON – Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBg0b8hoUs
Denser, more glammy and more guitar laced than classic early singles such as Playgirl, but a band has to evolve (unless it’s Oasis, natch ), and evolve Ladytron has. Brooding, dramatic… and sharing the same key sig as the Doctor Who theme, but we’ll let that one ride.

(9) SILVERY – Horrors
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-9nn-bI84
Is it steampunk? Is it an unholy alliance of Menswear and Cardiacs? Is it just chuffing ace? I know it’s the best song yet by some friends of friends of Mrs Column, and never off MTV2. Which’ll do me.

(10) dEUS – The Architect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CFDsG_oxg
Belgium’s best-selling band EVER, but let that not be the faint praise it may sound like. A career highlight single after a lenghty hiatus.

(11) SEBASTIEN TELLIER – Divine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz58Hw9hldw
AKA the French song that should have won Eurovision, as it murdered everything else musically and artistically as well as being a lot of fun. I can almost hear Prufrock nodding! It got him a decent slot at Latitude and is now being used to flog cars, so Mr Tellier has had the last laugh in any event. Good.

(12) THE STREETS – Heaven for the Weather
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-pG4qCfdKt4
Taken from another album a little too erraticfor comfort, and certainly not in the same league as Original Pirate Material, this was still a corking track buried among the flotsam and jetsam. A memorable Jonathan Ross appearance featured Satan himself on keyboards / sequencers…

(13) AMADOU & MARIAM – Magosa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BhyYXSe1wU4
Consistently brilliant Afrobeat exponents can’t help but bring a smile to my (and Moehat’s) face! The standout track from the year’s Welcome to Mali album, and even better in its greatly extended live form.

(14) DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Angles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkvWOAJeZmM
The title track of, to my mind, the album of the year – not a dull track on it, and especially not this scary recollection of a knifing from four or five different angles.

(15) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – Psychedelic ******* Machine
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
Yes, it’s Mrs Column’s band. What of it? I rate them that much. This gets the most hits on their website – some of it possibly due to the naughty name, but plenty of it due to it being a finely executed theremin and violin-laced New Wave floorfiller. Can’t wait for the album.

(16) WAVE PICTURES – Strange Fruit for David
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHfi4U2k-g
Taken from probably the album of the year among the be-anoraked fanzine-scribbling indie kids out there. Wordy Northampton trio recount a tail of – yes, I’m afraid so – peccadilloes with a much, much older lady. If anyone can work out what the lyrics about statues and marmalade have to do with anything, drop me a postcard.

(17) MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES – Clusterf*ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDH9UfE9SMo
The Blonde movement returns! Five surly Yorkshire teens bring back memories of the Primitives, the Darling Buds, and all that sort of thing – magnificently.

(18 ) THE ZEBRAS – Push Our Way to the Front
http://www.myspace.com/ilikezebras
The best one yet from Melbourne’s answer to Teenage Fanclub. Gorgeous melodies.

(19) NEON NEON ft CATE LE BON & GRUFF RHYS – I Lust U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lZqDmCO9c
Simon’s daughter (I think) and him out of Super Furry Animals (I know) guest on this melancholy, yet consumerism-charged, 80s-tinted synth number.

(20) KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – Going Up the Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxW3Ed7GrhQ&feature=related
A genuine musical curiosity – three teenage siblings from London who are obsessed with 50s rock’n’roll and R&B to the point of releasing 78rpm vinyl and recording exclusively in mono. Mimics, for sure, but startlingly impressive mimics at that.

(21) STEREOLAB – Neon Beanbag
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LwpTYLJvY
Yep, they’re still going. 17 years, nine albums and several dozen singles later, we arrive at this latest ditty from everyone’s favourite easy listening / Krautrock / indiepop Marxists.

(22) KIKO – Slave of My Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rij8qWLqo-U
Not an artist about whom I know the first thing, so just take in the bad-trip video in all its splendour instead.

(23) MEXICAN KIDS AT HOME – Female Thief
http://www.mexicankidsathome.com/
Four sk8er bois and one of their girlfriends from the wonderfully-named Derbyshire town of Clowne defy expectations – and appearance – to knock out some sun-kissed acoustic pop fun in the Frente! mould.

(24) FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Knickerbocker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0E8MWb3hgo
Absurdist Krautrock-influenced pop from Brighton (like so much else of merit on this list, like Yuill and Ladytron. When do I move? ), namechecking everything from Hans Christian Andersen to Lena Zavaroni via outmoded ice cream confection. Nice!

(25) ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – The Sun on My Right
http://www.myspace.com/therosietaylorproject
Sparse but warm, doomed but still able to string the words together, a delicate story of alcoholism.

(26) BJORK – Declare Independence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGC0VVobi6Ep
Another Bjork album, another arch, challenging, but ultimately rewarding listen. Longtime collaborator Mark Bell of LFO delivers some more harsh backing for Ms Gudmunsdottir to do her thing over.

(27) SAM SPARRO – Black and Gold
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY
Yep, it’s about some fella upstairs me and a few other people used to know. That aside, though, it’s the best chart pop record of the year, bar none.

(28 ) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – She Lives in Trees
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
Yes she does. And the reeds cut off his air supply. He never saw the moon.

(29) DAN LES SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Back from Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxtjTehXDy8
Live version of another highlight from the Angles long-player.

(30) WAVE PICTURES – Kiss Me
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hYypUkMC6jI
Special acoustic version of the recent single.

(31) DAWN LANDES – Bodyguard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHhez7NMCc
Minimal, subtle bluegrass, and just about the oldest track on the list. The beardy guy in the video is a caution.

(32) ROBOTNIK – People Walk Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7FVA7o4aMU
Not sure if he’s Robotnik or Rob Otnik – think I prefer the latter. I do know he’s good at clap-along indiepop chugs, though.

(33) GAMEBOY GAMEGIRL – Sweaty Wet / Dirty Damp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NzMsktBcmI
More 80s influenced stuff, this time of the roll of linoleum and bodypopping variety, juxtaposed with lyrics that even Daphne and Celeste might find a bit basic!

(34) DARREN HAYMAN & THE SECONDARY MODERN – Amy and Rachel
http://www.myspace.com/darrenhayman
The prolific indiepop storyteller tells a whimsical tale of two muffin-topped Harlow girls’ attempts to fuse R&B and death metal. Really.

(35) FAKE BLOOD – Mars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNYb45SYks
I’ve got Marble to thank for posting this up halfway through the year. ‘Ardcore returns!

(36) ORTZROKA – Planets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkD4jF8LXjo
The power of MTV2 – unsigned electronica band sends them a video, I end up playing it for weeks after. Everyone’s happy!

(37) THE LITTLE ONES – Ordinary Songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzlj_sipkmc
Not actually a particularly physically prepossessing bunch, but the song is anything but ordinary – another Teenage Fanclub-a-like melody-fest.

(38 ) BOMB THE BASS ft FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Butterfingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8lcGoS9Yc
Yes, that Bomb the Bass from the 1980s. The first album in what must be over a decade contained this fabulous duet with Fujiya & Miyagi (q.v.) and featured the year’s cutest video, singing keyboard and all. Go see!

(39) WIRE – One of Us
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=61rkMv6iF0c
Yes,that Wire from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Activities have very much stepped up again this year, culminating in a new album evidently intended as a follow-on to their mid-1980s alt-pop output (Eardrum Buzz, etc). If I’m doing anything this productive in my 50s, I’ll be a happy bloke.

(40) TILLY AND THE WALL – Beat Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3G3i0QBq0
Ever wondered what a not-at-all-smackable version of Gloria Estefan would sound like?

(41) WAVE PICTURES – I Love You Like A Madman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NU8GFzaRs
I’ll do anything for you…

(42) DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Look for the Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqnKbdqjh2I
The story of a love affair killed by overfamiliarity and boredom.

(43) SILVER WIZARD PROJECT – The Lover’s Plea
http://www.myspace.com/thesilverwizardproject
The bleakest thing in the band’s set at present, I guess, though musically interesting again with electric violin and a female part not unlike To Bring You My Love-era PJ Harvey, perhaps.

(44) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Water Curses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GZLRxVzvg
The sound of Gorkys Zygotic Mynci gulping for air from inside of a washing machine. Absolutely deranged alt-folk from a strange place.

(45) YILA ft SCROOBIUS PIP – Astronaut
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UfvHnna38
Mr Pip once more, albeit this time teamed up with starker electronics and an unsettling, disembodied sample of a kid’s voice throughout. Special guest star for about half a second at 2:34.

(46) MAGNETIC FIELDS – Three-Way
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0PvW6T-Xmqw&feature=related
This year’s Distortion was one of the oddest concept albums you’ll come across – all the “music” on the album is the distortion and feedback from instruments rather than the instruments themselves! This instrumental gives a decent idea of what that entails.

(47) BODY SNATCHERS – Freaky Ho
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDjyGIuNiA
Yep, there’s even a Grime track inamongst this lot! One of the more exciting new musical genres for me since speed garage died a death, I reckon.

(48 ) SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE – Rockist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfi8ZMu1mXM
Ostensibly a Field Music spin-off, though the two Field Music guys not in School Of Language seem to be helping the guy who is in Field Music and School Of Language to be in School Of Language rather a lot. If that makes sense.

(49) NICOLE ATKINS – Maybe Tonight
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VoCcnpbco58
Noir pop from the US singer-guitarist whose performance was one of the unexpected joys of this last series of Later…

(50) HOLY **** – Lovely Allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtQEaeGaZY
Rough-round-the-edges but euphoric post-pop / knob-twiddly instrumental. We might have called this spacerock back in the day.

I still bimmin’ love music, me.

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.

[graysonscolumn]

They actually released a brilliant album in 1990 called Manscape (standout track “A Craftsman’s Touch”) which was the last album with the original lineup to be released under the name “Wire” until 2003’s “Send”.

Correct, 1991’s electronica-heavy The First Letter being recorded without drummer Robert Gotobed and accredited to Wir rather than Wire in many places.

I think the new work is somehwat bizarrely a step backwards considering the 18 year old Manscape was surprisingly cutting edge and stands the test of time extremely well.

I don’t think they owe either of us anything approaching progression after 32 years in the game, to be honest! I’ve just enjoyed the new material as the sound of three 50-something post-punks doing what they blimmin’ well want again (and it is only three – Bruce Gilbert doesn’t appear to be involved in the recording, I notice, and Moonshake / PJ Harvey / Laika mainstay Margaret Fiedler McGinnis is doing his guitar parts on tour).

To me their new work is a very cynical attempt to cash in on the 15 years or so of being almost conmstantly name dropped by the trendy modern “brit-poppers”.

I respectfully disagree – surely the time to cash in would have been ca 1994-5, when certain of the NWONW / Britpop acts (most blatantly Elastica and Menswear) were ripping them off wholesale. As it was, Newman would barely consent to an interview at the time.

Moreover, what live performances did follow during the later 90s and early 00s (and there weren’t many) didn’t pander to these fans / converts / plagiarists, either – I saw them play a headline set at All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2002 mostly comprising of white noise and thrash.

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.

[aaronizneez]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y11X5WljnFA

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zoi9_NkY0

Sit down in a favourite chair, relax and let yourself be taken

[graysonscolumn]

No, I’m afaid I can’t agree with you on that. I think you’re still imbuing the Wire comeback as more of a credibility exercise than the band themselves probably are – it’s primarily sating a pathological urge to create and perform, as far as I’m concerned.

Having lived to achieve what he and his band-mates have since 1976, I don’t think Colin Newman could given an airborne intercourse whether the likes of thee and me think Object 47 adds anything new to Wire’s musical repartit.

As I said before, surely the best time to milk the band’s own legacy and credibility for every last dime would have been in the mid-90s when they were being namedropped widely. Choppy guitar types of more recent hue, from Franz Ferdinand to Futureheads, have not cited them anywhere near as much, though, if at all; and the extent to which the current surly yoof (and those who write for them) are ambivalent about the comeback is no better evinced than by the fact that NME hasn’t seen fit to review the new album at all.

As regards our old friend Numan, I think the extent to which he hasn’t really convinced me in his modern-day, industrial music incarnation was done to death in the “Never Mind the Bollocks” thread previously (https://theracingforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73847&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0); and if I was in an exceptionally cynical mood tonight (I’m not ), I might have suggested his Reznorisms might be regarded as equally credibility-seeking. If nothing else they have, after all, put some clear blue water between him and the airborn Thatcherite that many came to deride as the 80s wore on. Job done, then.

If I’ve understood your grievance correctly, another favourite band of mine, Stereolab, would presumably be disappointing you as well at the moment, what with their current album and the one that preceded it very much heralding a return to a more direct musical approach after they (in my opinion) lost their way completely to free jazz just under a decade ago.

I’m no real fan of adopting too linear an approach, of believing that bands should bring something new to the table every new release, just for the sake of it. I know the next Amadou & Mariam album is nailed on to be more Mali guitars, insistent percussion and negligible changes of key signatures. It’ll still be the mutt’s nuts.

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.

[Onthesteal]

This is as good as it gets for me. I get quite emotional midway through as the lyrics are so heartfelt….

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c_R2k5ArBus

[dave jay]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

.. so music videos will not be available to UK users??

You would think that the music industry would want the free publicity, it just shows you how destructive greed can be.

[wit]

"destructive greed" ???

but…but…. dj, isn’t this a British union protecting the interests of its members ?

http://www.prsformusic.com/about_us/pre … uTube.aspx

best regards

wit

[dave jay]

Sometimes Unions get it wrong .. like when they put their members out of work, or deny them an income.

I would suggest that the quality of the best recording on Youtube are not good enough to warrant a fee for listening to them. It is more like free advertising.

This has more to do with the removal of all of youtube’s old racing videos than anything else and the unrealistic greed behind it.

[Bulwark]

A complete annoyance, I have got so used to listening to tunes on youtube instead of buying them that I would honestly feel lost having to go back to my Cds and Itunes archive.

[wit]

A complete annoyance, I have got so used to listening to tunes on youtube instead of buying them that I would honestly feel lost having to go back to my Cds and Itunes archive.

….you could always explore the J-pop scene, which has had some notable German / Japanese collaborations recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKULNQk36PY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEfDJ-atM8

best regards

wit

[AngloGerman]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

*takes a deep breath*

One of the things that is not known about me (until now) is that not only is ‘Dschingis Khan’ / Genghis Khan’ my ALL TIME favourite song (German entry in the 1979 Eurovision held in Israel), but I actually had the pleasure of performing this song on stage in Stuttgart in 2001 as part of ‘joke’ cover band ‘Genghis Koc’ (in case you wonder where this is going, he was the German heavyweight boxing champion at the time, and the only other person called ‘Genghis’ we could think of!!).

I was also very lucky to meet Dschingis Khan original band members Steve Bender and Edina Pop. Sadly, Steve passed away a couple of years ago, but both him and Edina were wonderful people. Steve actually spoke quite good English, Edina less so (I think she was born in Eastern Europe somewhere), but it was quite a moment for me when I met two of my ‘music heroes!’

Darren – AngloGerman
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‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath

[Kautostar1]

Found this website……. spotify.com and music is free to listen and all legal too Only have to pay if download them

[Bulwark]

See youtube has completely got rid of, or blocked most music videos off their website. Oh dear. Will check that one out KautoStar1

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