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Five for Friday
Mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0j22...
This Is the Kit — Hotter Colder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIez7...
The Jazz Butcher — Southern Mark Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a53L3...
The Bench Connection — All Strings Attached (Happiness Runs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Okc...
Ghostpoet — Immigrant Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0c_d...
Alborosie — Kingston Town
Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians
Funnily enough, I've spent the past two weeks binge-listening to The Jazz Butcher after having not listened to them for a few years. Weird!
Mod
#spooky
To celebrate my recent birthday money enabled purchase of the Lee Hazlewood box set/book malarkey today's five from me has a distinctly Lee flavour.First up she's not Nancy she's Suzi Jane Hokum and for my money that's even better. Same Old Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewosm...
Next up it's the sweet (geddit) sounds of Honey Ltd with Louie Louie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v-p6...
The International Submarine Band are next to surface (really I should be on the radio) with Do You Know How it Feels to be lonesome produced for Lee's label by Suzi jane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8B1i...
Sanford Clark with his version of Lee's Houston (I can't think of any links for that, maybe I'm not cut out for radio after all)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2Gv...
Finally the great man himself, You Look Like a Lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_GY...
Rock on!
Mod
That boxset sounds like a complete winner
One For Friday from me, but it's a damned goodun.The results are never good when bands reunite and release new material, a fact that tends to be even more pronounced when the band in question is one that I never cared about when they were originally active.
London combo The Godfathers are back, and proving to be the exception. Colour me impressed and set the controls for loud...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXU21...
Mod
"Up, Up and Away"
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
"Wichita Lineman"
"Galveston"
"MacArthur Park"
Have a great weekend Hamiltonians
Mod
Julio Iglesias — La Mer
Slowdive — Falling Ashes
Carl Orff — Malagueña
Jimmy Webb — P.F. Sloan
Morrissey — Spent The Day In Bed
Have a splendid weekend
Mod
Here's a Kinksonian five for Friday...
Plastic Man
Autumn Almanac
Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Days
Suzannah's Still Alive
Been a bit tied up for the last few Friday's so technically this should be 35 for Friday but I'll stick to the standard 5 for fear of boring everyone.1. I happened to be in a second hand music and bookshop (yes I know a little bit of heaven in West Norwood) anyhow the proprietor was playing a record to check it wasn't scratched and when we'd heard enough I went up and bought it. Ben E. King's Rough Edges from 1970 was that album and this is his cover od the Beatles Don't Let Me Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEZr...
2. As it's Friday and at some point near the end of the evenings revels I will undoubtedly be struck down by a certain melancholy here's Silver Jews with their Friday Night Fever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_K5...
3. Next an artist/song I was introduced to by Cerys Mathews on her BBC radio 6 (I'll never call it 6 music) show. Frazey Ford - Done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXRry...
4. A lovely bit of blue eyed soul from Delaney and Bonnie next, always difficult to pick just one track of theirs but I'm going for Get Ourselves Together this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzdXO...
5. Couldn't let Fats go without a mention and it might be an obvious choice but it's also great. Blueberry Hill...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCP...
CQM wrote: "Couldn't let Fats go without a mention..."If you're a Fats fan and haven't heard Smiley Lewis, click the link and turn up the volume. He was a major influence on Fats, and his recordings are virtually peerless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IKv3...
Mark wrote: "CQM wrote: "Couldn't let Fats go without a mention..."If you're a Fats fan and haven't heard Smiley Lewis, click the link and turn up the volume. He was a major influence on Fats, and his recordi..."
I shall do that and my work colleagues be damned!
CQM wrote: "I shall do that and my work colleagues be damned! "One man's work colleagues being damned is another man's work colleagues being educated. Good luck!
Mark wrote: "CQM wrote: "I shall do that and my work colleagues be damned! "One man's work colleagues being damned is another man's work colleagues being educated. Good luck!"
Well they've had a blast of that and Hook Line and Sinker now so...
Mod
And Smiley Lewis? Where do you pull them from Mark. Is his other work up to that standard? If so I feel a comp purchase in the offing.
Smiley Lewis' stuff never faltered, at least not any of the stuff that I've heard. Purchase with confidence!
Mod
This would appear to be a good option.....
Did you manage to haul in a stack of Smiley Lewis yet? Wondering how you're going with it all, and having a hard time imagining that you're disappointed in any way, shape or form. His recordings are absolutely majestic, and he paved the way for countless piano players that followed in his wake. Along somewhat similar lines, at some point you should knock an ear to the recordings of Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis -- all shining examples of early barrelhouse boogie piano, who heavily informed the earliest rock and roll rumblings, particularly influential on players like Jerry Lee and Little Richard. You simply can't go wrong.
Mod
Personal faves at the moment are 'Shame Shame Shame' and his version (presumably the original too) of 'I Hear You Knocking' and of course the superb 'Mama Don't Like It'.
What's this? More of the same?
Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis
I'll have a rummage. Thanks.
Steve Young - Alabama Highwayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEQp1...
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Humming Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViUAf...
Morphine - I'm Free Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM043...
Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHnFI...
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPgf_...
Rock on people!
Mod
Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
I'm unfamiliar with the other three but, given their rarified company, must assume they are similarly high grade tuneage
#offtoinvestigate
I got a ticket to see Morrissey in March 2018 earlier today - given his recent somewhat questionable utterances I don't know whether to be pleased or vaguely ashamed
Here's my five....
Eric B. & Rakim — Paid in Full
Diana Ross and the Supremes — I'm Livin' in Shame
Smiley Lewis — Shame, Shame, Shame
The Mountain Goats — Abandoned Flesh
Ghostpoet — Dopamine If I Do
Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians
Nigeyb wrote: "I got a ticket to see Morrissey in March 2018 earlier today ..."For me, 2018 is already shaping up to be a banner year in NYC -- Peter Perrett in March and, just announced, John Cooper Clarke in April. Never seen either, despite decades of being a fan.
If I were the sort to use the word stoked, I’d use it now.
Mod
Mark wrote: "If I were the sort to use the word stoked, I’d use it now. "
Elated, excited, enthused, inspired, fired up, experiencing a keen sense of anticipation, looking forward to it....?
Nigeyb wrote: "Elated, excited, enthused, inspired, fired up, experiencing a keen sense of anticipation, looking forward to it..."All of the above!
Mod
Troika by Peter Perrett
Final Score by Squeeze
End of the Season by The Kinks
Mr. Sandman by The Chordettes
Rumer by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
Apropos of nothing in particular, I plan to watch Bronco Bulldog on YouTube later....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHnMt...
Have a great weekend Hamiltonians
Let me know what you make of Bronco Bullfrog. We watched it about fifteen years ago, long before it was cleaned up and officially released on dvd. Ours is a very dodgy quality bootleg that appears to have been mastered off of a seventeenth-generation vhs tape, which leant it a quality, both audio and visual, that was near impossible to understand and get into.
1st up it's Blur - For Tomorrow, it seems like only yesterday but this video featuring the band capering about London shows a place that looks very different these days.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F156e...
Libertines - What a Waster regardless of the divided opinions on Pete Docherty the Libertines debut single was a loud, foul mouthed breath of fresh air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFU_b...
The kinks - Have a Cuppa Tea from their album Muswell Hillbillies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6qx...
Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves just because "Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEag0...
Pulp - Razzamatazz Jarvis and co at their best!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZQJe...
Mod
This week, unusually, you've come up with five I already know, and love.
It's definitely been too long since we've had any HMHB round here.
Mod
Here’s one for Friday...I can’t tell you anything about the artist… she’s certainly nothing special… maybe slightly this side of bland… and the song itself is fine enough, but not exactly brimful of originality… the real treat, though, is her backup singer. Man, what a voice! Somebody sign that gent up to a twenty-album deal. I’ll buy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM-TT...
Mod
Squeeze - Innocence in Paradise
Morrissey - Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up on the Stage
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Baxter Dury - Mungo
Peter Perrett - Troika
Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians
Nigeyb wrote: "How do you find this stuff Mark?"Pure dumb luck, really, and nothing that I can take credit for! I was watching a clip from Graham Norton’s show, and that clip automatically played next. That guy’s voice stopped me dead in my tracks, and completely knocked me out!
Mod
It's Friday, which can only mean one thing. Here's a five to launch you into the end of the week, or the weekend if you will...
Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile- Continental Breakfast
This Is The Kit - All Written Out in Numbers
Chet Baker - My Ideal
Brett Smiley - Solitaire
Have a most pleasing weekend
Mod
It's Friday, which can only mean one thing. Here's a five to launch you into the end of the week, or the weekend if you will...
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music For A Found Harmonium
David Bowie - Sound and Vision (Sonjay Prabhakar remix)
The Zombies - A Rose for Emily
Dion - Born To Be With You
Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues
Have a most pleasing weekend
I had a tough job deciding between this and Starbucks Where the Starbucks Used to be but in the end this one wins out. It's John Wesley Harding - The Devil in Mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pYCd...
After a recent mention by our very own Nigeyb this has been running round my tiny brain.
HMHB - Joy Division Oven Gloves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEag0...
Next it's Tanya Donelly - Bright Light. If i'd known this video existed back in 1997 I would have fancied her even more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGAl...
Which leads me on to Mark Sandman and Morphine - I'm Free Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM043...
And finally because I always dreamed of being a hobo and riding the rails Glen Campbell - Gentle on My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A7iu...
Rock on!
Mod
Here's my five, shrouded in mystery, leaving you no choice but to click without prejudice...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKlXQ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpM3H...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGVXR...
https://youtu.be/f5vZ4KKf0DU
https://youtu.be/fZn18rLlEXk
Mod
It's Friday, which can only mean one thing. Here's a five to launch you into the end of the week, or the weekend if you will...
Misty in Roots - Man Kind (Live at the Counter Eurovision)
Rialto - Monday Morning 5:19
Hello - 99 Ways
Cliff Richard - Move It
The Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Have a most pleasing weekend
Mod
It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....
Vince Taylor & The Playboys - Brand New Cadillac
The Clash - Capital Radio
Highly Likely - Whatever Happened To You
Billy Fury - Wondrous Place
J Mascis - Listen to Me
Have fun
Mod
It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for yer Festive Five for Friday....
Lionel Bart - Give Us A Kiss For Christmas
The Ventures - Frosty the Snowman
Embassy Singers - I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus
The Leisure Society - The Last Of The Melting Snow
Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas
Have fun
Mod
It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....
The Lions - The Magnificent Dance
Pete Williams — Suddenly Shattered
Sleaford Mods - B.H.S.
Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Have a splendid weekend
Nigeyb wrote: "Pete Williams — Suddenly Shattered"New year, new Pete Williams album to look forward to.
Anything else, music-wise, on the near horizon and worth looking forward to?
Mod
In answer to your question, I'm interested to hear....
The Damned
Django Django
First Aid Kit
Belle & Sebastian
The Skids
Alan Tyler
All due in the next few weeks
What about you?
According to the man himself, the new album’s finished, and he reckons it’s his finest yet. No idea about a release date, but I’ll absolutely keep you in the loop.Apart from that album, nothing’s on my radar. Not yet, at least.
I knew that The Damned were here in NYC a few months back, recording in Brooklyn with Tony Visconti producing. Safe to assume the forthcoming album is from those sessions?
Mod
Please do - very exciting news
Mark wrote: "I knew that The Damned were here in NYC a few months back, recording in Brooklyn with Tony Visconti producing. Safe to assume the forthcoming album is from those sessions?"
That's the one...
The Damned have announced that a new record, their 11th studio album, will be released via Search & Destroy to coincide with their upcoming 2018 Evil Spirits UK Tour. The album is their first in a decade, and is produced by Tony Visconti.
The band said that they “want to do the unexpected”, which sees the return of bassist Paul Gray to the line up.
The Evil Spirits Tour takes place 26 January – 17 February 2018
Slim Jim Phantom will be joining the band on the road in support. The Brooklyn-born rockabilly legend is renowned for his expertise as the drummer of the Stray Cats, spearheading the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 80s.
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Here's a quick five from my end of Patrick Hamilton Street....
1.
A crap name but a band who make very pleasing music. Here's their cover of 'Keep On Loving You' which is, possibly surprisingly, rather lovely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJPp...
Cigarettes After Sex — Keep On Loving You
2.
Ex-members of House of Love and Adorable have just released their second album, every bit as good as the first, and here's a ridiculously good example of their schtick (I had to knock up a quick vid and upload it to YouTube so you could hear it)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMk_...
Pete Fij / Terry Bickers — If The World Is All We Have
3.
I've been singing this in my head quite a lot recently. No surprise because it's super duper....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tcA...
Michael Nesmith — Different Drum
4.
This is one of the most inventive hip hop/sampled/cut up tracks you will ever hear in all your puff. Life reaffirming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnk...
The Avalanches — Frontier Psychiatrist
5.
Kinks man and one of his sons have collaborated on fab new album which I commend. Heartily. Tear in the eye stuff.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkb6...
Dave Davies & Russ Davies — Path Is Long
Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians