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Postby DiamondEcho » August 14th, 2018, 9:54 pm

BrummieDave wrote:A good old song if ever there was one DE.
WRT punk musicians "couldn't play their instruments" I've always thought there were two reasons for this to be put about in the late 70s: firstly because Punk did encourage lots of youngsters to form bands and play live prior to learning how to play to any decent standard and so, in some examples of local and regional bands it was true, and secondly because it was part of the marketing of Punk to emphasize the anti-establishment nature of the movement, and to ensure it remained diametrically opposed to the perceived pomposity of Arthurian legend concept prog rockers with their twin necked guitars and multi keyboard organs. All good fun!


Agreed. It was like a rebasing of 'real' away from Emerson, Lake + Palmer and their 45 minute concept tracks, or Mike Oldfield's w--k-fest opus's on 10,001 different boring musical instruments, solely for the purpose of jerking off that he could play all those instruments. [[apparently Oldfield was one of Richard Branson's first signings BTW].
Punk was in that sense about 'reclaiming music', and passion figured up there with prowess and skill.

BrummieDave wrote:In reality of course, many of the early movers in the Punk scene of '77 had been gigging since the early '70s as part of the pub rock/Hope and Anchor/Brinsley Schwarz era and who were more than familiar with both their instruments and how to perform live. The more accomplished musicians were paired with newer performers, most famously Jones and Cook who'd played together for years before being put alongside Vicious and Rotten (and Matlock previously of course), and The Guildford Stranglers being another example.


Interesting point re: Jones and Cook. And being paired up with the way-ward gobby Vicious [pliable naive fool] and Rotten.
What was the thing with the Guidford Stranglers > Stranglers? IIRC in an early incarnation they had one or more Swedes in the group. Was Hugh Cornwell the odd-one/late-one in, IDR now. ISTR he was solidly their front-man by '77.

re: psychic TV. Wow, I don't think I heard those before. [Currently playing in the background].
Maybe spotting early punk is like trying to spot early blues>rock and roll cross-over, it's not always at all clear

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Postby Howyoudoin » August 14th, 2018, 11:02 pm

Republica - Ready to Go

I remember having a conversation with a work colleague about this record and him saying, 'Hmm, yeah, that's my sister dude.'
Took a few minutes and further questions to find out that Saffron was indeed his sister. Just, wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgffRW1fKDk

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Postby BrummieDave » August 15th, 2018, 9:07 pm

DiamondEcho wrote: All good fun!


It certainly was, and still is, and long may it last. I still travel widely to gigs, abroad sometimes, to see some old bands, some new (listen to up and coming 'Shame', they're good) and enjoy the overall experience of atmosphere, music and beer.

I won't hog this thread which I think is more focused on suggesting music to listen to rather than to debate, so PM me if you have questions or thoughts on late 70s/early 80s and beyond, as I've written quite broadly around that era.

But yes, The Guildford Stranglers did have a Swedish founder member, with Hugh Cornwell joining in the mid 70s as they made a push to be part of the evolving Punk scene. And yes, Jones and Cook had been playing together for 4 or 5 years before they were introduced to Mr Lydon.

Finally if you hadn't hear of 'Psychic TV' before you may be more familar with Genesis' first proper band cum performance artists 'Throbbing Gristle', and this my favourite track of their's from that era (1978, and quite 'avante garde' it was too!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XpqCxJZdGs

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Postby CommissarJones » August 16th, 2018, 12:10 am

This thread has now racked up precisely 10,001 views. So, to acknowledge the occasion ...

"City of Angels," 10,000 Maniacs (live, 1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Zg-Dz0aWw

The video itself is nothing special, but Natalie Merchant's voice is terrific.

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Postby CommissarJones » August 23rd, 2018, 11:31 pm

"Last Minute Miracle," the Shirelles (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hno4yfQKXs

"Wanting You," April Stevens (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_JWJR4SfrE

A pair of songs that became great favourites on the northern soul circuit, recorded by artists who wouldn't seem to have much to do with the genre at first glance. The Shirelles were better known for light, teenage-oriented pop such as #1 hit "Soldier Boy" (1962); "Last Minute Miracle" was their last single to make the charts, reaching #99. Stevens is surely best known for her chart-topping duet with brother Nino Tempo on the standard "Deep Purple" (1963), in which she speaks the words of the second verse with that lovely voice.

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Postby CommissarJones » August 31st, 2018, 11:26 pm

"Born on the Bayou," Creedence Clearwater Revival (live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVhKjsImeI

John Fogerty is one of those guys who almost doesn't seem to need amplification because his voice is so powerful. In great form here. And a nice job by Doug Clifford on drums.

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Postby CommissarJones » September 8th, 2018, 10:43 am

"Time Won't Let Me," the Outsiders (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaj1wVNvSqk

"Nobody But Me," the Human Beinz (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYBBn0JyKDg

"Go All the Way," the Raspberries (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgnc6Ey0q0

"Beautiful World," Devo (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56u6g0POvo0

"I Know What Boys Like," the Waitresses (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsneH0mOq-0

The US state of Ohio may not be associated with music in the same way as, say, California, but it has served as an incubator for some pretty good bands over the years. Here is a selection of superior musical moments from the Buckeye State.

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 8th, 2018, 12:10 pm

CommissarJones wrote:The US state of Ohio may not be associated with music in the same way as, say, California, but it has served as an incubator for some pretty good bands over the years. Here is a selection of superior musical moments from the Buckeye State.


You can add the Nine Inch Nails to that list. [from Akron IIRC]

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 11th, 2018, 5:58 pm

For Jethro Tull +/or 'progressive' fans, I was surprised to find this yesterday:
'Jethro Tull - Bourée (French TV, 1969 'La Joconde')' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqxwXla3-Bw
Considering it's 49yrs old the quality of the recording/video is remakable.

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Postby BrummieDave » September 11th, 2018, 7:59 pm

DiamondEcho wrote:
CommissarJones wrote:The US state of Ohio may not be associated with music in the same way as, say, California, but it has served as an incubator for some pretty good bands over the years. Here is a selection of superior musical moments from the Buckeye State.


You can add the Nine Inch Nails to that list. [from Akron IIRC]


It would be remiss to omit a reference to an album comprising artists entirely from Akron, Ohio in this thread. Back in the heady days of 1978, and soon after signing 'Devo' to the label, impressed by the other bands coming out of the city, Stiff Records released possibly the only 'scratch n sniff' album cover ever produced. To celebrate Akron's fame as the 'Rubber capital of the world' and the home of the rubber tyre (or tire) industry in North America, the album cover had an image of a tyre which when scratched, smelled of rubber. It was a fantastic marketing gimmick, and very much in keeping with the early days of Stiff Records (also famed of course for releasing the first ever Punk single, New Rose by The Damned).

Whilst no other artist on the album made any lasting impression, a 16 year old Rachel Sweet did have limited chart success and a couple of reasonably well attended UK tours as a result of the release of this album.

Here's Rachel with 'Truckstop Queen' taken from 'The Akron Compilation' (aka Stiff Get3 to any collectors out there) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChYy9eQ1hY

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 11th, 2018, 10:56 pm

BrummieDave wrote:Here's Rachel with 'Truckstop Queen' taken from 'The Akron Compilation' (aka Stiff Get3 to any collectors out there) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChYy9eQ1hY


Oh no, I know Akron too well. A small-town [neo puritan] bigoted 'mid-west' blah-nothing of a sprawl; no wonder some people there are angry and express it musically. You wonder why the Ninch Inch Nails sound 'preoccupied with a darker side '...?

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Postby Charlottesquare » September 15th, 2018, 3:44 am

Well, the Scottish band that did not quite make it, but note a young Shirley Manson (Garbage) , and Martin ,Fin and Derek are still knocking stuff out with Isa and The Filthy Tongues, here is Goodbye Mr Mackenzie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeOe1TJKgok

And more recently The Tongues with the soundtrack to New Town Killers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxzb4yG3AtU



Also Shirley in her brief Angelfish incarnation, spotted by Garbage and the rest is history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-YCm4GXw8

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Postby CommissarJones » September 15th, 2018, 5:02 pm

"Honky Tonk Man," Johnny Horton (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6WaV2qLGI

"Just One More," George Jones (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4CHFXXM-Q

"Me and the Jukebox," Buzz Busby (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhvOvUZZrc

"A Six Pack to Go," Hank Thompson (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_-StDp5tM

"Burning Memories," Waylon Jennings (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r4qQdTBmhg

"Honky Tonk Stardust Cowboy," Lefty Frizzell (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zg-6fGGro

A few songs about life as seen through the bottom of a beer bottle.

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Postby CommissarJones » September 28th, 2018, 11:31 pm

"Moten Swing," Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra (1932)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr42hm6GvkQ

On 13 December 1932, Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra entered the Victor Records studio in Camden, New Jersey, for what would turn out to be its final recording session. It also was one of the more momentous sessions in the history of jazz, as it was virtually a template for the subsequent swing era, and "Moten Swing," one of 10 recordings made that day, is often cited as the band's finest moment.

Moten, who played piano as well as leading the band, did not play on these recordings. The piano chores were being handled by Bill Basie, who had joined in 1929 and would go on to greater fame as Count Basie. The group also contained several other musicians who would form the core of the great Basie band of the 1940s, including bassist Walter Page, vocalist Jimmy Rushing and trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page. Moten died in 1935 after a failed tonsillectomy.

The band was in seriously bad circumstances at the time the session took place, which makes the greatness of the music all the more impressive, IMV. These were some of the darkest days of the Great Depression, which had devastated the audience for popular music, and the musicians were literally going hungry after an unsuccessful tour. According to anecdotes about the session, someone managed to catch a rabbit, so the band cooked up a rabbit stew and then went on to make the recordings.

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Postby Pendrainllwyn » September 29th, 2018, 2:55 am

If you want to try something a little different I like Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings playing "The way it will be" at Puckett's Grocery store. That well known venue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6SkStmhGY

And if you want something more familiar here is them doing an excellent cover of Radiohead's Black Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSlnK0VLdtU

Wikipedia states "Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of appalachian music, bluegrass, country and americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms". If that helps! If music and cowboy hats don't mix well for you then this is probably not for you.

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 29th, 2018, 8:45 am

Pendrainllwyn wrote:If you want to try something a little different I like Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings playing "The way it will be" at Puckett's Grocery store. That well known venue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6SkStmhGY


That's really nice, good harmonies. Reminds me of one of the 'lament' style songs from Crosby, Stills, Nash, +/- Young.

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Postby Pendrainllwyn » September 29th, 2018, 12:21 pm

Glad you liked it. Neil Young was my first music love and favourite artist for 20 years.

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 29th, 2018, 2:29 pm

Pendrainllwyn wrote:Glad you liked it. Neil Young was my first music love and favourite artist for 20 years. Pendrainllwyn


Wow, but yes if that style clicks then it's above fashion, it's hard to get it out of your system. I go back even further, to circa 1983, both Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Neil Young in his own line-ups. I find CSN+/-Y very simple to like, it's more introspective and often 'gentle', rather melancholic. There is protest within the lyrics of some songs, given the era and mood back then no surprise, but it's not delivered like relentless hammer blows. Whereas NY in his latter bands (with Crazy Horse, and so on) is more of a directly political proposition, it seems much of that output is in part political protest, and as angrier music not really something to relax to IMPO.

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Postby Pendrainllwyn » September 29th, 2018, 3:32 pm

I like the first half of Neil Young's career. Not into his political stuff. Van Morrison finally took over as my favourite artist but now I wouldn't say I have one. I enjoy uncovering little known artists through Spotify and iTunes.

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Postby DiamondEcho » September 29th, 2018, 5:59 pm

Pendrainllwyn wrote:I like the first half of Neil Young's career. Not into his political stuff. Van Morrison finally took over as my favourite artist but now I wouldn't say I have one. I enjoy uncovering little known artists through Spotify and iTunes. Pendrainllwyn


I used to enjoy all of NY's music from the earliest CSN+Y to more recent relatively heavy NY+Crazy Horse and so on. But as I've mellowed with age I'm much less likely to get his more recent albums out. The irony is his path seems to have gone the opposite way, from gentle and at times whimsical/innocent/hippyish 'CSN+Y', to downright angry and protesting via NY+Crazy Horse etc :lol: Since I still have no problem listening to some genres of very 'heavy' music, perhaps it's sub-consciously my mind finding the too-late-to-the-party suddenly new angry political protestor* rather un-convincing.

FWIW I have listened to Van Morrison over the years but the style never quite clicked for me. To be clear it's not that I find anything objectionable in it; it's interesting to ponder just what it takes for a band to somehow 'just click for you'. As a teen, The Stranglers were my #1 band for a few years, but I was over New Wave by c81/82 and instead going backwards and discovering progressive rock, King Crimson, Focus, and so on. These days I'll give pretty much give any style/band a go, but if I don't like it I'll likely know after as little a 5 seconds hehe. When young perhaps it was more a question of what the message was; now I think it's a question of 'Is the musicianship seriously first rate?'

*I understand his main 'thing' is rallying on behalf of Canadian farmers.


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