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[Val]

Thanks David.
I always listen to your choices (eventually) and you usually come up with something I don't know and want to hear again. I love that version of "Little Red Corvette".

Greg, I know more of yours and they often act as reminders; Taj Mahal gets played in the car next trip.

Patrick, nothing, but it keeps the chit-chat off the main thread.

[Nigeyb]

^ It's in the "other stuff" Patrick - a place where you can discuss anything that takes your fancy

Thanks all for the latest choices. I'm just back from End Of The Road festival where The Flaming Lips were the star turns. Wonderful.

[Nigeyb]

A Five for Friday inspired by last weekend's splendid End Of The Road festival...




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPnz...
Ezra Furman - My Zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMybi...
Gruff Rhys - American Interior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDHi...
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuFv...
Stealing Sheep - Rearrange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THw4...
Nick Waterhouse - This Is A Game


Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians

[Greg]

Hello on Tuesday

For Kraftwerk fans, here is a very well written article by Julian Evans.
The art of the Kraft, from 1997

http://www.julianevans.com/2012/12/th...

[Nigeyb]

^ Thanks Greg - as you say a well written article. Great to see you popping in too.

[Nigeyb]

So it’s that time again and here’s a selection of top tuneage to kickstart your weekend.

Joy is unconfined as the new album by Pete Williams new album “Roughnecks and Roustabouts” is available to download on Pete’s PledgeMuisc page. Something I strongly recommend you do.

Here’s a track from it. It’s called “People”. I knocked up this video too…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4Sj...

Pete Williams - People

I’ve been listening to a lot of music by the Head brothers recently, especially the Pale Fountains and Shack, and also the peerless “Magical World of the Strands” from whence comes this beaut…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ueA...

Michael Head and the Strands - And Luna

Another artist who has been popping up on the nigeyb turntable is Glen Campbell. She’ll laugh when she reads the part that says I’m leaving…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUg5p...

Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Here’s the haunting timeless simplicity and beauty of “Know” by Nick Drake…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-eHB...

Nick Drake - Know

And finally, here’s the wonderful “Sister Europe” by The Psychedelic Furs…

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

The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe

Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians.

[David]

Nigeyb wrote: "So it’s that time again and here’s a selection of top tuneage to kickstart your weekend.

Joy is unconfined as the new album by Pete Williams new album “Roughnecks and Roustabouts” is available to ..."

Wow. Wonderful DIY there, Nigey. That is one of the best songs on the album. I listened to The Bureau stuff on Spotify last night. What a great sound.

I'm a bit strapped for time today. I'll see if I can do Six for Saturday tomorrow.

Be excellent this weekend, Hamiltonies...

[Greg]

Yes, great selection Nigeyb, three-fifths of which I knew. I became a fan of the Furs late, after a find in a sale bin of Richard Butler's debut solo album. A great album.

My five Hamil-tones this week are -

Wear Your Love Like Heaven from the album a gift from a flower to a garden by Donovan
and
Un Homme Et Une Femme "A Man and a Woman"
as these two songs are from albums I've had forever, mentioned in Julian Barnes' A Sense of an Ending, which I read recently.

Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & The Wailers

One Good Man by Janis Joplin from a solo album Kosmic Blues

Fugitive Dub by The Skatalites Meet King Tubby

[Nigeyb]

^ Thanks David and thanks Greg


Greg wrote: "Fugitive Dub by The Skatalites Meet King Tubby "

I've recently acquired a couple of excellent budget priced Dub comps...

Island Presents: Dub
http://goo.gl/Itqh7Q

Front Line Presents Dub
http://goo.gl/BkamHe

Both great value and chock full of top dub-age

[Nigeyb]

'allo 'allo 'allo, Enhance that Friday feeling with some more tip top tuneage

I've been listening to a lot of The Cramps this week, and here's one of my all time favourite tunes by The Cramps.

Well you can't dig me you can't dig nuthin, do you want the real thing, or are you just talking...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLpa...
The Cramps - Garbageman

I expect you need a lie down after The Cramps. Here's one of my favourite tunes by one of my favourite bands. It's Build a Fire by The KLF..

I hum this tune for all the girls I've known...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVPKs...
The KLF - Build a Fire

It's also been a week for listening to the Mescaleros. Here's the late great Joe Strummer with Get Down Moses performed at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2006...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weH4H...
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Get Down Moses

My old mucker Blitzkrieg Bob turned me on to Tarrus Riley and I've been enjoying a good old rummage through his back catalogue which in turn meant I discovered this fantastic lovers rock style tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGuLq...
Tarrus Riley – She's Royal

And finally, another nod to a much missed musical legend, let's celebrate Lou and that Crazy Feeling...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3YiU...
Lou Reed – Crazy Feeling

Have a great weekend.

All the videos here...
http://nigeyb.tumblr.com/post/9787465...

[Greg]

Patrick wrote: "This is all very interesting but what does it have to do with Patrick Hamilton? (sorry to sound stuffy!)"

Patrick, to every question there is an answer.
I had an idea, what if we try and make a Five For Friday from a title of a Patrick Hamilton novel.

20th Century Boy - T Rex

Land of a Thousand Dances - Wilson Pickett

The Streets of London - Ralph McTell

Over Under Sideways Down - Yardbirds

The Sky is Crying - Elmore James

[Nigeyb]

^ Brilliant. Bravo Greg.

[Val]

It has to be a Scottish compilation today:

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-IJ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIX5Q...
or, if you prefer songs sung by the people who wrote them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkCi...

[David]

Great choices, Nigey, Greg and Val.

The Man is on my back this morning, so I'll be brief.

Referendum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgrN...

Referendum outcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92E-...

The Man and his plans and demands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J07dZ...

Since it's the 19th and getting very near "late September"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcoWU... (and check out the mandolin player)

And, Just Because....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULLG8...

To the weekend, with all haste! Remember the picnic basket.

[Nigeyb]

^ Classic selections from both of you Val and David. Inspired.


Val, I can't believe that - in amongst your Scottish selections - you couldn't crowbar in....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0b...

Donald Wheres Your Troosers?

All the lassies say "hello"

:-))

[Val]

No place for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZojp... either, unless I had a clip of my slightly inebriated teenage daughter and her more inebriated friend performing a karaoke version.

[Nigeyb]

^ Talking of which "Sunshine On Leith" is a life reaffirming film if a little schmaltzy. Brought a tear to my eye and plenty of chuckles too - but park any cynicism elsewhere before venturing in.

[Val]

..or Travis, OMD, Del Amitri, Jethro Tull, Aztec Camera, Humblebums, Fairground Attraction, Sileas, Annie Lennox, Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild, Tartan Amoebas, Deacon Blue or many of the other bands in my CD collection.

[David]

You're a fan of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils?

Hurray!

[Nigeyb]

^ Thanks Manfred - splendid selections, good to see you getting bang up to date with that last one

[Nigeyb]

Another Friday, and it's time to celebrate the weekend.



Denim and Lawrence's stinging attack on Britpop from Denim On Ice, but you knew that already didn't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NmDp...
Denim - The Great Pub Rock Revival

Here's some new music, a collaboration between Prince Fatty and Nostalgia 77 on the Tru Thoughts label.

Tru Thoughts is an independent record label based in Brighton, UK.

http://www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi7A0...
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army Dub feat. Dennis Alcapone

I've been revisiting Magazine a lot this week. With McGeoch gone to the Banshees "Magic, Murder And The Weather" was never likely to be amongst the band's best work but this is just a perfect pop song that is right up there with their very best...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdJzO...
Magazine – About The Weather

And it features on my latest mix...
http://www.mixcloud.com/nigeyb/reason...

Here's a classic pop tune from the 1970s and from another bunch of unclassifiable mavericks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYke...
Sailor - A Glass of Champagne

And, finally, does anyone else remember The Untouchables (the LA band, not the British band) and Free Yourself? It was released on Stiff Records in the UK and got to number 26 in the UK singles chart in 1985 and is mightily infectious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVDuy...
The Untouchables - Free Yourself

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

Videos here....
http://nigeyb.tumblr.com/post/9845711...

[David]

Good choices Nigey. Friday is improving by the minute as a result.

Prompted by a friend enjoying Randy Vanwarmer's version of this song on a TOTP re-run last night, I reminded him of the superior Barbara Jones lovers' rock version

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfxFiv2sK4

and inspired by last week's mid-90s vibe, here are four from that era that I loved.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yaq06FxkG0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzcRqyXGdk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSHIidlesQ

Each brings me back to watching TFI Friday with the kids, probably the nearest modern telly has come to the sepia-tinted days of Ready Steady Go, where the cry was "The weekend starts here".

It does.

Make it a good one.

[Nigeyb]

^ ^ 90s-centric



^ Indie-tastic

I salute you both

[Nigeyb]

Here's five more tracks to herald the start of the weekend.



Is this the best song by Linton Kwesi Johnson? I think it just might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8acV...
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Want Fi Goh Rave

Now then, and by way of contrast, here's a much underrated Glam era track that is utterly poptastic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4Ti...
Barry Blue - Do you wanna dance?

And talking of utterly poptastic, so is Storm in a Teacup by The Fortunes. This is a particularly poignant choice because the song was co-written by Lyndsey de Paul who died yesterday. RIP LDP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtiu...
The Fortunes - Storm in a teacup

For reasons I cannot explain, I have been regularly enjoying this Cypress Hill classic as remade by Prince Fatty and Horseman (can't wait for the album in November).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ecv7...
Prince Fatty Feat. Horseman - Insane in the Brain

And finally, one of the all time greats, here's Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iL...
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians.

[Nigeyb]

^ All new to me. Will investigate later. Thanks Manfred

[Greg]

Some good choices there, and always something new to investigate, I agree Nigeyb.

Here's my five for the weekend.

At the Mercy - Paul McCartney

Sweet Thing - Van Morrison

Just Another Guy (instrumental version) - Peter Green

End of the Beginning - Black Sabbath

5000 Country Music Songs - Ry Cooder

[Greg]

Nigeyb wrote: "Here's five more tracks to herald the start of the weekend.

Is this the best song by Linton Kwesi Johnson? I think it just might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8acV...
Linton Kwesi ..."

Herald is a good word Nigeyb. I really liked the Linton Kwesi Johnson pick. While watching the Barry Blue clip, I invariably wonder with Glam, where do the Glamsters get their clobber, is that off the rack or custom made?

To welcome the weekend here's my Hamiltonian herald.

Slave - The Rolling Stones

Slave Driver - Bob Marley

Alone Again (naturally) - Gilbert O'sullivan

Solitude Is Bliss - Tame Impala

A Ridiculous Man - T-Bone Burnett

[Nigeyb]

^ wonderful selections Greg and Manfred. Thanks to both of you. What a splendidly eclectic and tasteful group we are.


I will be lovingly curating mine in the next few hours.

[David]

Great selections, friends. That's a good hour of a football-free Saturday taken care of tomorrow.

Rather a solipsistic themed collection from me today after an occupational hazard-type small misfortune on the way to the mine at around 0700.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmhMKWt8DI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8wFpopUPO4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oUIoyG1tQg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK0lRSO_2E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvfsfS6NVUc

First world problems!

That's the weekend on the horizon and I'm cycling that way. Tag along.

[Greg]

Manfred wrote: "Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
From Bob's best album (in my humble...) Blood on the Tracks.
"You're gonna make me give myself a good talking to"

Good call Manfred. This morning Simple Twist of Fate shuffled to the fore, and I had to say, what a genius piece of songwriting, genius performance. So this afternoon I was in a Bob zone, listening to the Unplugged version of Desolation Row. What a fabulous version. I couldn't choose a best Bob Dylan album, but Blood On The Tracks is certainly up there.

[David]

I absolutely agree, Greg, and I'd say that it feels like it's side one and two of a double album where Desire is sides three and four.

[Nigeyb]

The weekend's here. Hurrah. You can rely on me to inject some novelty and idiosyncratic choices to lower the tone. Here we go...



My enjoyable trawl through the wonderful world of Jonathan Richman continues and if you insist I tell you my favouritist song of this moment then I will reply, as quick as a flash, it's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDP53...
Jonathan Richman - I was dancing in a lesbian bar

^ If that doesn't put a smile on your face and get you grooving round the room then seek medical attention.

Is life not quite panning out as you might have hoped? Fear not. Here's Will Powers to provide the solution.

You probably already know that Will Powers is photographer Lynn Goldsmith who slowed the recordings of her voice to make the spoken word sections sound male whilst reading from self-help manuals...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVLhZ...
Will Powers – Adventures in Success

^ Make it happen, make it happen, make it happen.... There's a great dub version of this track for anyone that likes that sort of thing (and what right thinking person doesn't?)

This has been a good week for those that love Vic Godard, especially those that live in the South East of England. Not only has "1979 Now!" finally arrived, but Vic 'n the Subway Sect played in Brighton last night and I was grooving down the front and loving every minute. Vic is the dictionary definition of that much overused epithet "legend".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoxKB...
Vic Godard & The Subway Sect – Born To Be A Rebel

^ This is my favourite track from "1979 Now!". In fact I love it so much I'm going to make a video for it, as all the versions on YouTube are live recordings. Watch this space.

A lot of modern music passes me by these days but I always thought Hard Fi had some great tunes and there's none better than the perfect punky pop of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch6qy...
Hard Fi - Hard To Beat

And finally, and for no particular reason other than it's an infectious fun pop song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9YcV...
Dream Warriors – Wash Your Face In My Sink

Th-th-that's all folks.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Videos here in one handy package...
http://nigeyb.tumblr.com/post/9963642...

[Greg]

David wrote: "I absolutely agree, Greg, and I'd say that it feels like it's side one and two of a double album where Desire is sides three and four."


Yes David, so true. Those two albums are the Rubber Soul/Revolver of Dylan's oeuvre.

[Greg]

Nigeyb wrote: My enjoyable trawl through the wonderful world of Jonathan Richman continues and if you insist I tell you my favouritist song of this moment then I will reply, as quick as a flash, it's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDP53...
Jonathan Richman - I was dancing in a lesbian bar

Interesting, Nigeyb. I'll have to listen to this again to get the relevance to 'Laissez-faire'. There is a song I heard years ago by Loudon Wainwright, I think it was called "I Wish I Was A Lesbian" or something like it. I've never been able to track it down.

[Nigeyb]

Greg wrote: "Interesting, Nigeyb. I'll have to listen to this again to get the relevance to 'Laissez-faire'."....



I wouldn't listen too hard Greg.

JR just makes silly rhymes throughout the song contrasting the first bar (the boring bar) and the (more exciting) Lesbian bar.

The "laissez-faire" rhyme goes...

Well the first bar things were stop and stare
But in this bar things were laissez faire
In the first bar things were stop and stare
This bar things were laissez-faire

Makes me smile - but there's no hidden profundity - just humorous lyrics and an uber catchy tune.

Sometimes that's all anyone needs.

Greg wrote: "There is a song I heard years ago by Loudon Wainwright, I think it was called "I Wish I Was A Lesbian" or something like it. I've never been able to track it down. "

Sadly I cannot help you with that. However I would add that this is an absolute classic from LW....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6eS...
Loudon Wainwright III- The Swimming Song

^ I adore it

[Nigeyb]

^ STOP PRESS



I just put Loudon Wainwright III + Lesbian into YouTube and lo and behold...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhxr...
Loudon Wainwright III - I wish I was A Lesbian

[David]

Yet here
http://youtu.be/46EbjMkeghE

Loudon reflects on infant son Rufus's hunger for breast milk.

The more carnal pleasures to be had with these "gentle snowdrifts in an open field" (Dave Cousins) may be lost on the titular (see what I did there?) Rufus, as he is famously gay.

Loudon is marvellous.

[Nigeyb]

^ I most certainly am. It's wonderful.


^ ^ The whole Wainwright clan are prodigiously talented.

[Greg]

Many thanks Nigeyb, for finding the song! You legend.

The five songs I posted for the weekend was inspired by a Hamilton title. Can you guess the book?

[Nigeyb]

^ Very good Greg - that'll be the auld Slave of Solitude :-))

[Greg]

Well done Nigeyb. It is enjoyable thinking of songs relating to a book title.

[Nigeyb]

^ Lovely, lovely, lovely. Thanks Manfred.

My choices to land very soon - once I have a few minutes to curate them.

Yes, it's true. I curate my choices.

[Nigeyb]

Flipping heck, is it really that time again?

Yes it flipping well is. Let's get this party started...


Here's one of the greatest songs of all time ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfZUq...
Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear

Now then, here's a big shout, the best ever song by New Order is, perhaps somewhat controversially, this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahU-...
New Order – Age of Consent

Yes, Tears Of A Clown, yes, Mirror In The Bathroom, however I'm saying this doesn't get the credit it richly deserves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0w...
The Beat – Save It for Later

It's a crazy world right? Yeah. What you going to do though? Let's embrace it. An underrated glam classic from the legendary Chinnichap team...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNh2h...
Mud – Crazy

My enjoyment of this year's splendid album by Jenny Lewis has sent me back into her back catalogue including her previous band, Rilo Kiley. Here's a fine tune from Rilo Kiley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtNV3...
Rilo Kiley – Portions For Foxes

Th-th-that's all folks.

Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians.

All the vids and ting...
http://nigeyb.tumblr.com/post/1002322...

[David]

Brilliantly eclectic there, as ever, Nigey. I must stop all this working nonsense and put a collection together for this afternoon.

[Val]

This is not inspired by a book title, but by a book cover:
How to be both by Ali Smith, which did not win the Booker Prize this year.

The blonde: Sylvie Vartan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkcan...

The brunette: Francoise Hardy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLoe...

Those are their best known ones in this country (and still not that well known).

The book also references:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvFO...

The winner was The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3_Bl...
(one of the better national anthems and nice to hear it without swimming pool distortion)

and the French song 'everyone' knows, although maybe not this, the original version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Zw4...

[Greg]

Yes, there looks like some great choices to listen to through the week. I love soundtrack music, great to work to. I'm a big fan of John Barry. Also a fan of Francoise Hardy.

O.G.D. (aka The Road Song) : Wes Montgomery

Wide Open Road: The Triffids. This one is from the 'eighties, recorded in London.

These Dreams of You: Van Morrison

Please Call Me, Baby: Tom Waits

Comin' Back to Me: Jefferson Airplane

Cheers, enjoy the weekend

[Nigeyb]

^ Great choices Greg and Val. Thanks

[Greg]

Here's one from the past. Norman Gunston interviewing Keith Moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfK3...

[Susan]

Certainly from the past - not exactly PC was he? I hope you, as an Australian, were not too offended Greg - although I suppose you couldn't have been, if you posted it!

[Nigeyb]

Here is. Again.



But it's not 12XU. It's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qyka...
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba

I've been enjoying a re-examination of eighties synth pop over the last week or so, which has included a reappraisal of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (who I once saw support Joy Division) and they are sounding better than ever. This is magnificent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyl9e...
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Joan of Arc

On a similar tip, here's a bit of Japan for ya...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiM3u...
Japan - Life In Tokyo

Is this the best thing Gorillaz ever did? I think probably yes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mfK...
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

And finally, is that the sun rising....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KoH...
The Beloved - The Sun Rising

Have a blissed out weekend Hamitlonians.

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