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[Mark]

I have to admit to being a bigger fan of Visconti than I am of The Damned, so my interest in the album is mainly to do with the Visconti half of the equation.

[Nigeyb]

I'm not a huge fan of The Damned either, though enjoy a few of their songs. It's the Visconti factor that intrigues me most too.

[Mark]

On closer inspection, I’m slightly curious to hear the forthcoming album by The Go! Team. And there's also a forthcoming reissue of The Pleasure Seekers -- one of the absolute toughest 1960s Girl Groups ever, thanks in no small part to their lineup having included a very young Suzi Quatro. If you're unfamiliar, here’s a sample...

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

[CQM]

I was totally unaware of the Pleasure Seekers but that's superb!

[Nigeyb]

I had heard the name in relation to Suzi Quatro, but had never actually heard the group. As CQM states, it’s superb. Thanks, as always.

[Mark]

Really glad to have pointed them out, then. As far as I understand, bits and bobs have "leaked" out over the years, individual tracks, but this is the first proper compilation of what appears to be their complete recorded works.

https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/w...

[Nigeyb]

It looks as though it's a US only release at the moment. It's not on the Rough Trade UK site, or on Amazon UK. Still, should still be easy enough to procure. Thanks again Mark.

[Mark]

I’m sure you’re right about it being easy enough to procure. In fact, it's as simple as clicking the following link sometime before it expires in a week’s time. Let’s call it my belated Christmas present for you and CQM. And anyone else among us who might want to disturb their neighbours with it.

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/T...

Enjoy!

[Nigeyb]

Thanks Mark - that's very kind

[Nigeyb]

PS - I just discovered I already own three tracks by The Pleasure Seekers on the Suzi Quatro box set The Girl From Detroit City.

[Mark]

The Pleasure Seekers really stood miles apart from your typical Girl Groups of the 1960s -- they played their own instruments, they wrote their own songs, and veered away from the typical saccharine sweet teenage heartbreak rulebook. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that music... I’d trample a massive pile of platters any day of the week to get to The Ronettes. The Pleasure Seekers should command the spot in musical history that’s universally reserved for The Runaways.

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....

The Go! Team - Mayday
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Radio Radio
Alternative TV - How Much Longer
New Hearts - Just Another Teenage Anthem
Lori & The Chameleons - Touch

Have a splendid weekend

[CQM]

Mark wrote: "I’m sure you’re right about it being easy enough to procure. In fact, it's as simple as clicking the following link sometime before it expires in a week’s time. Let’s call it my belated Christmas p..."

Excellent, cheers for that, I shall be enjoying that through the headphones on the way home from the pub tonight!

[Nigeyb]

A heartwarming image CQM. Enjoy both pints and post-pub musical accompaniment.

[Mark]

CQM wrote: "Excellent, cheers for that, I shall be enjoying that through the headphones on the way home from the pub tonight!"

Here’s hoping it managed the job of putting a spring into your stumble home.

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....

Shame - One Rizzla
Fast Cars - The Kids Just Wanna Dance
PP Arnold - Medicated Goo
The Fall - Rollin' Dany
Orange Juice - Holiday Hymn

Have a splendid weekend

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....


Georgie Fame - Funny (How Time Slips Away)
John Barry - Main Theme (The Ipcress File)
Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me
The Limiñanas - Shadow People
J Mascis — Come Down

Have a splendid weekend

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....


Roy Budd - Get Carter
The Human League - Rock 'n' Roll/Night Clubbing
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock
Toots and The Maytals - Broadway Jungle
Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe

Have a splendid weekend

[Mark]

Jungle Rock's one of those songs that I could listen to every day, without tiring of it. Absolute classic.

[Nigeyb]

I couldn't agree more Mark

[Mark]

Listening to Hank Mizell today led to me beating a path to the wonderful Hank C Burnette, whose Spinning Rock Boogie is absolutely bonkers...

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

And if that’s not new to your ears, perhaps I can suggest a bit of Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9an...

Pete Frampton was certainly paying attention.

[Nigeyb]

Belated acknowledgement of your splendid vids up above Mark. Bravo Sir.


It's a freezing Friiiiday, as we shiver through our short Siberian winter, here's a chilly Five for Friday....


The Special - Rat Race
Barry Gray Orchestra - Joe 90
Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums
Morrissey - Suedehead
The Lurkers - Ain't Got a Clue

Have a splendid weekend

[Greg]

Hi Nigeyb, look what I found on a Friday, I think you'll like this.
A Literary Hub article, it should bring a smile, and a few laugh out loud spots. And a link to a Spotify Lit Hub list.

https://lithub.com/11-pop-songs-for-l...

[Nigeyb]

Grat stuff - thanks Greg

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....


Little Richard - Keep A Knockin’
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Alternative TV - Viva La Rock n Roll
Wire - Dot Dash
Big Star - Thirteen

Have a splendid weekend

[Mark]

Nigeyb wrote: "Little Richard - Keep A Knockin’"

Through a mutual friend who was working with him at the time, I was fortunate enough to have been taken backstage to spend a bit of time with Little Richard about 25 years ago. As our chat was finishing up, he said that he had a gift for me. After rummaging through his bags, and then writing something with his back turned towards me, he presented me with a bible, in which he inscribed "To Mark & Karen, Jesus loves you and so do I, signed Little Richard. To this day, it’s the only bible I’ll allow in my home.

If you’re not familiar with the song stylings of a gentleman named Esquerita, you absolutely need to get acquainted. A flamboyantly gay piano pounder with the best hair in rock and roll history, it was Esquerita who taught and mentored the young Little Richard after meeting him in a Macon, Georgia bus depot late one night in the early 1950s. It was a few years later, at the urging of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps, that Esquerita signed with Capitol Records and unleashed his savage and unholy brand of voola on an unsuspecting America. Sample one of Esquerita’s finest moments here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUF81...

Listen to a brief interview of Little Richard discussing Esquerita here...

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

[Mark]

Behold Esquerita’s 1958 scorcher, The Voola, and marvel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5tq...

[Nigeyb]

Lawdy Miss Clawdy. Truly there is no end to your ability to astound Mark. You met Little Richard AND he gave you a personally inscribed bible? Truth is, most assuredly, stranger than fiction.

What's more Esquerita is a new name for me to conjure with. Curiously Big Audio Dynamite have a song called Esquerita which I now realise must be a tribute to the self same artist....

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

Those two Esquerita tunes are mighty fine. Thanks, as always. I shall prioritise an investigation of his oeuvre, talking of which, any album called Wildcat Shakeout Revisited - Full Tilt Rock and Roll 1958-1962 must surely be a wondrous thing....

[Nigeyb]

Mark wrote: "Behold Esquerita’s 1958 scorcher, The Voola, and marvel."

Unbelievable - both rockin', and experimental and out there. What a song. Sounds like Joe Meek producing Diamanda Galas. Or something.

[Mark]

I’ve cobbled together a compilation of Esquerita tracks for you -- or anybody else keen -- to download and enjoy. The link is active for the next week, so grab it sooner than later here...

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/U...

And yes, Mick Jones wrote the song as a tribute to The Great Man.

I first stumbled upon Esquerita in the early 1980s, after spotting his Capitol lp in a shop and deciding that, if ever you could judge an album by its cover, this was certainly the time. How right I was!

Esquerita went on to record more soulful records after the first rock and roll era passed... good stuff, to be sure, but not quite on par with his rocking Capitol sides. One of my favourite examples would be his version of Mississippi God Damn...

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

[Nigeyb]

Thanks for the tuneage Mark - grooving to it right now

[Mark]

My pleasure, happy to help corrupt ears everywhere!

[CQM]

I'm sure at some point we all feel like packing it in and jumping in our pick up/zip car and driving off into the unknown to start a new life somewhere down that dusty road between hither and yon. So here's my pack it in for Friday 5

Mike Nesmith jumps in his pick up on Bye, Bye, Bye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcgZK...

Guy Clark L.A. Freeway, pretty sure I feel the same way about landlords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa7Ek...

Stuart Staples That Leaving Feeling (not usually bothered by videos but this is pretty good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XytH6...

Seasick Steve looks like he's spent plenty of nights in a train yard. Gentle on My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCR8...

There's no prettier sight than looking back on a town you've left behind... Townes Van Zandt I'll Be Here in the Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGOx...

[Nigeyb]

Classic selections CQM - thanks so much


In a somewhat different vein


World of Twist - Sons of the Stage
Tony Ogden - MacArthur Park (Macclesfield version)
The Bubblegum Secret Pop Explosion - Honey
Earl Brutus - The S.A.S. And The Glam That Goes With It
Go-Kart Mozart - Big Ship

Have a great weekend

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....


Mott the Hoople - Ballad Of Mott The Hoople
Hank Williams - Lovesick Blues
The B-52’s - Private Idaho
The The - This Is The Day
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme

Have a splendid weekend

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


It's Friiiiday, which means it’s time for Five for Friday....


The Eternals - Stars
Graham Coxon - In My Room
Norma Tanega - You're Dead
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - No Action
Karl Bartos - Atomium

Have a splendid weekend

[Nigeyb]

A spontaneous five from the 1960s which I have been singing in my head....


The Who - I can see for miles
The Rolling Stones- Paint it black
Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About a Mover
Them - Gloria
Edwin Starr - 25 miles

Have a wonderful weekend

[Doug H]

Gloria... Now I’ve got Patti Smith ringing in my ears and Gilda Radner in Patti Smith drag dancing in my brain. Cheers for that!

[Nigeyb]

A pleasure Doug

[Nigeyb]

The sun is shining so let's have some top tuneage.....


Knobheads on Quiz Shows by Half Man Half Biscuit
This Is England by Dub Spencer & Trance Hill (Clash cover)
The New Adventures Of Black Beauty by the Southbank Orchestra
Something For Your M.I.N.D. by Superorganism
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by Billy Taylor Trio

[CQM]

Morning all...
I'm sure you all have heard about the great loss the world of film has suffered and so in tribute to that great star I'd like to first up offer this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1ht...
Bye Liz.

Number 2 on this beautiful Friday in the best of all worlds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrpp...
Galaxie 500 Isn't it a Pity (didn't know it was a George Harrison song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3r-T...
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxMG...
Wreckless Eric, Reconnez Cherie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPgZ...
The Staples Singers, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Rock on!

[Nigeyb]

Marvellous stuff CQM - never heard that Sid James / Liz Fraser song before, or indeed come across the associated film.

A catchy little number too. Gonna be humming that later.

I hadn't heard she'd died - v sad. RIP Liz.

Big thumbs up to all your other selections too.

Bravo Sir - have an enjoyable weekend

Here's a quick five in response....

Renato Carosone - Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano
Timi Yuro - It'll Never Be Over For Me
Faces - Cindy Incidentally
Barry Gray Orchestra - Joe 90
The Paper Dolls - Something Here In My Heart

...and going out to Hamiltonians everywhere

[Nigeyb]

CQM wrote: "Wreckless Eric, Reconnez Cherie"


You've sent me down a Wreckless Eric wormhole. Solo, with Amy Rigby, Le Beat Group Electrique etc. Sometimes he's a joy innee?

[Nigeyb]

A quick five to keep the wolf from the door....


77:78 - If I'm Anything
This Is the Kit - Waterproof
David Bowie - After All
The Wild Swans - My Town
Pete Williams - Fondly

Have a magnificent weekend

[Mark]

Nigeyb wrote: "You've sent me down a Wreckless Eric wormhole. "

As he’s been living upstate for the past decade or so, I’ve had many chances to see him, and it’s always been a hell of a fun night out, whether solo or backed by his band. One of the absolute finest bills I’ve ever seen was a few years back, when Eric and band were support for Ian Hunter. A night to relive over and over.

[Nigeyb]

Eric and Ian. On the same bill. I would never have imagined such a combination. Must have been wonderful.

[Mark]

I think they’ve done quite a few shows together, although I’m not sure if they’ve just been around the general NYC and tri-state area, or whether they’ve toured together. Either way, it was one of those dream bills that don’t happen often enough, where the place is rammed to the rafters for both sets. And deservedly so.

Are you hep to The Len Bright Combo? It was Eric plus assorted Headcoats and etcet. Their debut [?] album contained one of my very favourite Eric tracks, titled You’re Gonna Screw My Head Off.

Well worth a listen, but be forewarned, you'll be hitting the replay button a few times. An addictive and perfect blast, try it here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQG6...

[Nigeyb]

Thanks again Mark


Mark wrote: "Are you hep to The Len Bright Combo? It was Eric plus assorted Headcoats and etcet. Their debut [?] album contained one of my very favourite Eric tracks, titled You’re Gonna Screw My Head Off."

Yes. Absolutely. Love the LBC.

[Nigeyb]

Five for Friday...


Homicide - 999
Super Disco Breakin' - Beastie Boys
Jaws - Lalo Schifrin
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of - The Human League
Day by Day - Generation X

Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians

[Nigeyb]

A punky five for ya....


Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone - Slaughter and the Dogs
Don't Dictate - Penetration
One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
Love And A Molotov Cocktail - The Flys


Have a great weekend