Mogwai (Glaswegian guitar post-rock combo) "Mr Beast" and
The The (80s alternative pop) "Soul Mining"

have both just had the headphones pumping.

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Stylistics "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)"
My Bloody Valentine "To Here Knows When"
Butthole Surfers "Detachable Penis"

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 Somebody's been downloading incorrectly labelled songs! The last song you listed was by a band called King Missile - not the Butthole Surfers (or Buttonhole Surfers as they were somethimes known by people too afraid to say their real name)

I once saw My Bloody Valentine play in a University Gymnasium in Sydney by the way. They were awesome.

Got a home-made collection of Split Enz (Quality quirky, New Zealand, new-wave pop that was compulsory listening to most Australians in the late 70s and most of the eighties). Very different to later incarnations such as Crowded House and the Finn Brothers as this picture will attest.

Attempting to soften the edges of insomnia with 'Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy' and 'Here Come The Warm Jets' by His Brianness of Eno.

It's difficult to express just how great these two albums are. I think they have been secret compulsory listening for everyone who's mattered in music in the last two and a half decades.

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In that case, perhaps I should give them a listen and see what ideas I can "incorporate ("rip-off") into my own tunes." To be honest, haven't even heard of the first one, maybe I should check them out. I thought the other one everyone pinched was "Music for airports"

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I just find them joyously accessible, with an amazing ear for melody and a keen eye for the 70s social contract (this is me being a ponce). Art rock with heart and humour. You can hear everything in there -- Roxy Music of course, but The Beach Boys, Bowie, Velvet Underground, even the great indiepop of the 80s and 90s. But unmistakeably original

Episode 6 /The Hitcher - Mighty Boosh
Beginnin' to see the light - Velvets
Moon Hop - Derrick Morgen (Ye-Ye-Ye-Ye-Yeah-Yeah)
Heart Like Railroad Steel - Charley Patton (nice title)
It Takes a Lot to Laugh - Fat Po' Lee and Barbecue Joe Lee

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Had a Sundays evening yesterday.
Every time I listen to them, I come to the conclusion that they are one of the greatest bands of all time. Beautiful voice, beautiful guitars, relaxing, simple music with genuinely poetic lyrics.
Only made 3 albums, but hugely popular and hugely influential. Sort of the James Dean of the indie scene really. Plus, as with all truly great bands, there's a Bristol connection.

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I really liked the Sundays - I was thinking about them not so long ago and then a (poor) cover of one of their songs came on the telly in Sir William's Pub.

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Presumably Tin Tin Out's version of "Here's Where The Story Ends". Not actually the worst version in the world, but a little soulless. Was a huge hit though, which at least made the Sundays some money.

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James Dean? Did they have a car crash onthe Clifton Bridge or something... missed that

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No, no, they're still alive. Two of them are married and living in domestic bliss. I was just comparing the effect of their three albums to that of Dean's three films. Quality beats quantity any day.

I'm catching a bit of The Funk & Soul Show on BBC6. It's presented by Craig Charles, who is a tugboat, but there's some wicked stuff on there.

Sat 7-10 pm (CET), but I think you can hear it on Listen Again.

Was listening to The Cure "17 seconds" - God I love that record even if it is bloody miserable. As it is rather nice outside I followed that with ELO "Mr Blue Sky" to give me some "energy."

Gonna try and connect all my machines together and churn out a tune or 2 of my own.

Had a nice little beach Boys double "Sunflower" (1970) and "Surf's Up" (1971) - I know there are a couple of fans on this forum so I'll throw open this question -

How good is this song?



Answer (In my opinion) = very

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How good is this song?

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Prefer Dierdre meself, bagatelle though it is. It always make me laugh.

Actually, I think Sunflower is up there with the great BB albums.


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Not as good as 'feel flows', 'till i die', or 'surf's up', but miles better than anything else on the album.

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Worrabout Disney Girls?

 

brazo de natillas wrote:

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joel wrote:

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Worrabout Disney Girls?

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Lays it on a bit thick for me.

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Yeh, it is syrupy.

 

i picked up hatful of hollow for about a fiver... really enjoying listening to it in the motor.

also got sundays RR&R and tracey thorn out of EBTG hoping for some nice electronica but it was a bit soppy really...

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She chose the well tried scheme of just plumping for answer C) if you don't know the answer from the following....

3) Bristol

A) has had good musicians before

B) has never had good musicians before

C) is a city of farmers

D) is famous for its pubs

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Well it certainly isn't D), unless you count being known in the West for the easy availability of heroin as "famous". For pubs you need to venture into Somerrrset.
As for answer C, the concept of a "city of farmers" is surely a little surreal. Where exactly would they farm?
Mind you, when I was living in Kranj, my students always referred to that as a city. Guess it's all relative.

Incidentally what was the correct answer?
 

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I love Massive Attack and Portishead though find the Sundays a bit "twee" (sorry Harriet Wheeler fans - I'm happy you like them). I just wanted to share this with Muppet as I thought it might amuse him (or depress him, I guess)

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No, not amused or depressed. Though I do feel inspired to find a Sundays forum and instigate a little hate campaign. Should England be beaten in this afternoon's match, the inspiration will no doubt increase.

"Twee", honestly...

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Honestly who does come from there, pre TripHop?) - Not trying to be funny, but I can't think of anyone

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The Wurzels should be top of your list. In fact, the 'Bristol triangle' is now generally accepted as being a Bristol parallelogram, with the Wurzels in the bottom right.
Other than that, Nik Kershaw, Republica ("baby I'm ready to go-o").
Erm, Russ Conway...
There. Loads for you.

I always thought Nikkers (as he probably doesn't like to be called) was some Ipswich. Did you know he is an occasional poster on a Dr Who forum I post on.

Some of his first 2 albums are great by the way.

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Some of his first 2 albums are great by the way.

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Mate, you're getting harder and harder to believe on this thread...

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I always thought Nikkers (as he probably doesn't like to be called) was from Ipswich. Did you know he is an occasional poster on a Dr Who forum I post on?

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You post on Dr Who forums??

(English teachers please do not correct this to "fora")

Mr Kershaw was definitely born in Bristol. As were Sara and Keren of Bananarama.
Oh, and Cary Grant. In fact, the house where the young Archie Leach spent his days is a stone's throw from mine.

I've been working in Budapest for a week, so no access to most of my music. However, I did bring a Soundgarden CD with me, and stuck on "Jesus Christ Pose" yesterday. Fantastic. How the hotel room remained un-trashed is a mystery to me.

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A question to all you music lovers:

How many of these knock-offs do you own?

http://www.knockoffproject.com/

Never heard of them, but Never Mind the Bollocks 1983 by the Bollock Brothers sounds like it should be in every music collection...

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Interesting.

To answer your question.

I can safely say that I own none of the albums which appear on the right hand side.
I do love "Weird Al Yankovic" though, but don't know if I could listen to a whole album.

On the left, a fair few.

 

listening to One Night Stand by the Flaming Groovies, classic 60s psychedelic outfit...
it struck me how much modern it sounded, more like late 80s Manchester or something, and on further inspection i discovered it was actually recorded in Australia in 86.

Odd.

Some good tracks and some pointless ones ... e.g. a workaday version of Money ....

At the moment I'm in a "Rubber Soul" mood. My 2nd favourite Beatles album (after "Abbey Road"). It definitely has the best work by McCartney "I'm looking through you" being my most loved composition by him. "Run for your life" is great too (but a bit violent if you listen to the words carefully enough).

And as the sun is shining I'll follow it up with some Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix as I saw them once in glorious Aussie sunshine and they always remind me of cloudless warm days.

And although I have the feeling I shouldn't - I am really enjoying the new Travis single "Closer" a very gentle and pretty song.

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It definitely has the best work by McCartney "I'm looking through you" being my most loved composition by him.

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I really like that one, even though he's mostly whining, as he is in 'we can work it out', the other McCartney (half of a) number I really like in the non-ballady vein.

Hitting Hank hard, for reasons of my own. And some fabulous Okeh soul.

Two words: Blonde Redhead.

Described by "The Word" as My Bloody Valentine meets Abba. Magnificent.