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[Nigeyb]

Here's my Five for this Friday...


Inspiral Carpets - I Want You
Roxy Music - Editions of You
Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
New Order - Temptation
Echo & the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

https://youtu.be/at3-eZfWFBc
Echo & the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

Have a good weekend

[David]

Uplifting selections there, Nigey.

Some b-sides from my formative years. Pop hooks yes, but check the R&B on the flip:

Herman’s Hermits - The Man With The Cigar
https://youtu.be/4k1Xzn2xRy4

Chris Andrews - Too Bad You Don’t Want Me
https://youtu.be/Zr0pPpx894w

The Mindbenders - Love Is Good
https://youtu.be/ySherI3MBLI

The Pretty Things - Big Boss Man
https://youtu.be/iC5winqm1No

The Searchers - High Heel Sneakers
https://youtu.be/ve7KtUnOAys

I’m retired, so the weekend starts anywhere. Commence!

[Nigeyb]

Hurrah - thanks for official commencement, and solid gold selections

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


Here's my five for this lockdown (#2) Friday...

This Is The Kit - Keep Going
Spearmint - 24 Hours in A&E
Wire - Be Like Them
Blue Mink - Sunday
The Boys - Soda Pressing

https://youtu.be/Rk71Kb2QdlM
Blue Mink - Sunday

Have a splendid weekend

Keep on keeping on

[Mark]

For reasons that will become obvious, I’m whittling mine down to two, neither to be played withing close proximity of young and/or impressionable children, or those of the more fanatically Right-Wing disposition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8Rh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqX8...

GO JOE!

[Nigeyb]

I'm becoming obsessed by John King on CNN and his magic wall


Couple of earworms right there Mark

We're all rooting for you

[Mark]

Not sure if you’re able to watch MSNBC, but if you can, you owe it to yourself to check out Steve Kornacki and his magic wall. Total hero.

It's been a stressful ordeal, of course, but it’s increasingly looking like the result that we need. It’s a shame that all of the surrounding nonsense is obscuring the historical importance of Kamala Harris’ massive achievement.

By the way, that track by The November 3 is actually Jane Wiedlin out of The Go-Go's.

[Nigeyb]

I thought it had a Go Gos vibe - good ol Jane


I'm pretty sure MSNBC is streaming live on YouTube so off to check it out

[Mark]

I was never a fan of The Go-Go's, never had an opinion one way or the other, but I recently sat through the new documentary on them -- streaming via Showtime -- and it did the job of holding my interest. Worth a look-in if you’re inclined.

[Nigeyb]

Thanks Mark - I'll see if I can grab a look

[Nigeyb]

I'm currently watching the SUZI Q doc about Ms Quatro that was recently screened on Sky Arts here. Solid start with The Pleasure Seekers and the RAK years - not sure there's going to be much interest after about 1980 but we'll see

[Nigeyb]

Here's ya five for this Friday


David Bowie - The Supermen (2020 mix)
Love - Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
Hello - C'mon Get Together
The Chordettes - Mr Sandman
Suzi Quatro - Warm Leatherette

Have a great weekend

https://youtu.be/AuWSBfoteLg
Hello - C'mon Get Together

[Nigeyb]

Here's my five for this Friday....


Scars - All About You
Ramones - She's The One
Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray
Gang of Four - Naturals's Not In It
Biddu Orchestra - Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon

https://youtu.be/4lHpjB5VP3A
Biddu Orchestra - Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon

Have a great weekend

[Nigeyb]

Have a fab Friday...


The Upsetters - Return of Django
Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream
The Bozos - Weekend Girl
The Saints - Brisbane (Security City)
Cold Turkey - Nobody's Fool

https://youtu.be/FTSB2b-nFKY
Cold Turkey - Nobody's Fool

Have a wonderful weekend

[Mark]

Nigeyb wrote: "The Upsetters - Return of Djangoo..."

That’s one for every Friday.

[Nigeyb]

Thanks Mark


Have a wonderful weekend Hamiltonians...

Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump
Billy Fury - Wondrous Place
Pink Grease - Fever
David Essex - Stardust
The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Tracking The Dog

https://youtu.be/8mTA8tSkYKo
Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump

Stay on the sunny side of the street

[Nigeyb]

Greetings Hamiltonians


Here's my five for this Friday...

Milk N Cookies - Wok n Roll
Keith West - Excerpt From a Teenage Opera
Television Personalities - She Can Stop Traffic
Cornershop - Norweigian Wood
10cc - The Worst Band In The World

Have a great weekend

https://youtu.be/-sraKulMHZw
10cc - The Worst Band In The World

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday bookended by Felt…


Felt - Primitive Painters
Tin Machine - I Can't Read
Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With
David Bowie - I’ll Take You There
Felt - Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind

https://youtu.be/7Jtejnvza2U
Felt - Primitive Painters

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[David]

Nice. Much appreciated.

I’ve had a morning of Hogmanay deadline-beating football admin, which eats into YouTube browsing time, but I dialled up this as the soundtrack, and it provided the will to live as I edited procedures, standards documents and practice notes.

https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com...

Thumbs aloft for the weekend. From Tuesday next week it’s nearly summer...

https://youtu.be/LQ0FE1C_mlA

[Mark]

Nigeyb wrote: "Felt - Primitive Painters..."

Few songs take me back to a time and place as this one does.

[Nigeyb]

That Action Now: 20/20 Re-Envisioned looks promising. Just listening to the first tune and favourably impressed.

[Nigeyb]

Mark wrote:


"Felt - Primitive Painters...

Few songs take me back to a time and place as this one does."

I hope it's taking you back somewhere you want to go Mark

Your "happy place" perhaps?

[Mark]

Nigeyb wrote: "Mark wrote:


"Felt - Primitive Painters...

Few songs take me back to a time and place as this one does."

I hope it's taking you back somewhere you want to go Mark

Your "happy place" perhaps?"

Absolutely -- a one-way ticket right back to easier and simpler and infinitely more carefree times. That ain’t no bad place to be, these days!

[Nigeyb]

Hurrah.


Relieved to learn it has such positive associations for you Mark

[Nigeyb]

This week’s "wilfully ignoring Xmas" five for Friday…


Giorgio Moroder - Tears
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly
10cc - Good Morning Judge
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary

https://youtu.be/qEfLkrCeyN4
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly


Have a super seasonal period Hamiltonians

Here's to a legendary 2021

[David]

Merry that thing, everyone!

Torpor has set in, so my five for Festivus are picked randomly from a tiny stack of LPs by my left elbow:

Hot Nights In Georgia - Jason And The Scorchers
Scrapple From The Apple - Dexter Gordon
Steamboat Row - Gerry Rafferty
Looking For Lewis And Clark - The Long Ryders
The Shape I’m In (Live, Rock Of Ages) - The Band

Not a turkey among them.
No Cranberries.
No Prefab Sprout.
A lack of Pigbags in blankets.

[Nigeyb]

Splendid - thanks David. Hope you're having a lovely day

[David]

Yes, a good day, thank you, and I hope yours was too.

A pile of Dickens souvenirs from the family Secret Santa, new slippers to replace those wrecked by playing football all summer with a hyper-active Border Terrier, and a set of Bluetooth earbuds which is tantamount to witchcraft. My Toronto-based daughter’s partner had his eclecticism sated by receiving vinyl copies of albums by the stylistically-irreconcilable Napalm Death, and Steely Dan’s Aja. That gave me rh excuse to dig out the Dan box set and put Pearl Of The Quarter on a half-hour repeat loop. God bless us, every one, and all that.

[Nigeyb]

A splendid haul David


Mine was much more modest, primarily because our plans were turned upside down at the eleventh hour by the incompetents currently running the show

I expect to be able to reveal all around Easter 2021

Still a most lovely day with the teenage Bs and Mrs B

[Nigeyb]

Another five for Friday…


ELO - Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
Graham Coxon - Freakin’ Out
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
The Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me
The Avalanches - Running Red Lights

https://youtu.be/wAVMfthAoF8
Electric Light Orchestra - Ma-Ma-Ma Belle

Happy 2021 Hamiltonians

[David]

Happy New Year, guv.

Ma-Ma-Ma Belle is the great lost early ELO single, or at least I seemed to be the only one who recalls it in their early frenzied TOTP cello assaults. Excellent work, sir.

Alas Jeff got caught up in over-production around 1975, and always seemed thereafter (The Wilburys notwithstanding) to pursue his dream of being George Martin.

Coincidentally, my Fitbit step count has diminished a little this week due to treacherous underfoot conditions up here in the tundra, but at least twice, Mrs I has looked at me quizzically, and then shrugged, with a dismissive shake of the head as I announced, post-walk, “10497 steps. Just 41 more and I get to join ELO”.

[Nigeyb]

Genius David


I believe it was Marc Bolan (recording in an adjacent studio) who came up with that Ma-Ma-Ma Belle riff. It's blimmin wonderful isn't it? By coincidence I'm working my way through the early ELO albums having never heard them before. They are quite different to the slick pop purveyors of the late 70s/early 80s. Much to appreciate and enjoy though.

Your fitbit quote made me chuckle. I must remember to use it to, doubtless, similar levels of bemusement

[David]

I’m now wondering where ELO might have gone musically had Roy Wood not baled out early on, but the fact that we were treated to Ball Park Incident, See My Baby Jive (just about as perfect as pop gets) and his forgotten Dear Elaine solo single, means that we had two acts to admire rather than one.

I must see what Spotify is harbouring of The Idle Race’s recorded output, which I’ve not approached in years.

[Mark]

I was knocking an ear to The Idle Race just a few days ago -- sort of acquainting myself more than reacquainting, really. The track 'Follow Me Follow' seems to be the highlight, at least to my ears.

Conversely, I don’t suppose a week has gone by without giving Wizzard a spin.

[David]

I think The Idle Race epitomise how British acts developed in those days before the instruction manual had been written. Enthusiastic skifflers/US RnR covers/beat band/soul/blues/psychedelia/out-and-out rock or prog was a common path. Some (Procol Harum, the Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin etc) made great success of it). Others remained firmly in the second division (Family/The Troggs/The Groundhogs etc) never hit paydirt, but always had a deal and toured to enthusiastic audiences and personal ‘exhaustion’. They’re the interesting chancers from my youth that I need to return to, and Idle Race is among them.

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


The Cure - Kyoto Song
Prince - Baby I'm a Star
The Boys - Brickfield Nights
Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly
David Bowie - Buddha Of Suburbia

https://youtu.be/G4nbyiOvD28
The Boys - Brickfield Nights

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[CQM]

I haven't been around these parts for a while.

Angel Eyes - The Czars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVvW...

Take Me - Chris and Carla (featuring Tindersticks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSpx-...

Stay - 60ft Dolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQlps...

With My Face on the Floor Emitt Rhodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wctYn...

No Dice - James Levy & Herman Dune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBwit...

Technicalities apart, I've got toothache in my heart.

[Nigeyb]

Thanks CQM


Magnificent, as always

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Heavenly - Atta Girl
The Beat - Save It For Later
Lindisfarne - Meet Me On The Corner
Frank Sinatra - Got You Under My Skin
Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes

https://youtu.be/HEf8ogERIhQ
Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes

Have a great weekend

[David]

Roy Wood - Dear Elaine (the forgotten solo hit)
https://youtu.be/7wHLTWGIpGs

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road https://youtu.be/uhMO9azmKNU

Bronwynne Brent - Raincoat https://youtu.be/_K088THUdlE

The Kinks - Till The End Of The Day https://youtu.be/Ua8OsW9bMk0

Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band - The Uncle Willie https://youtu.be/7KXUq-PM1vo

That weekend thing - enjoy.

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


The Cure - A Forest
David Bowie - Blackout
New Order - Guilty Partner
Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

https://youtu.be/FHAbj1pIT4g
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

Have a great weekend

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


BMX Bandits - E102
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam
Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
The House of Love - Shine On
The Pastels - Train Truck Tractor

https://youtu.be/tLhepbmpsUI
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Labi Sifre - I Got The…
Television - Marquee Moon
Swell Maps - Ripped and Torn
The Lemonheads - Ride With Me
Everything But The Girl - Each and Every One

https://youtu.be/jlbunmCbTBA
Television - Marquee Moon

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Iggy Pop - Play it Safe
Viagra Boys - Ain’t Nice
U-Roy - The Tide is High
Wizzard - Ball Park Incident
Teenage Fan Club - Neil Jung

https://youtu.be/vzWds5gWS6c
Viagra Boys - Ain’t Nice

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Farhot - Yak Sher
La Düsseldorf - Silver Cloud
Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint
Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance
Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard

https://youtu.be/ID4LcHzb4jA
La Düsseldorf - Silver Cloud

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Devo - Girl U Want
Slade - When The Lights Are Out
The Tony Hatch Sound - Man Alive
The Clash - Justice Tonight/Kick It Over
Limmie & Family Cookin' - You Can Do Magic

https://youtu.be/t7Wvn1T6voc
Devo - Girl U Want

https://youtu.be/FnyH53ZSHOo
The Tony Hatch Sound - Man Alive

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

[Mark]

Make mine a Bunnyrama, as a wee nod to the great Bunny Wailer, who sadly left us a few days back...

Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Bunny Wailer - Fighting Against Conviction [Battering Down]
Bunny Wailer - This Train
Bunny Wailer - Roots, Radics, Rockers & Reggae
Bunny Wailer - Rock 'n Groove

You could spend the remainder of your life poring over every single video on YouTube without ever coming across a more infectiously joyous performance than this one, and that ain’t no hyperbole...

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

[Nigeyb]

Great stuff Mark


RIP Bunny

What a magnificent clip

[Nigeyb]

This week’s five for Friday…


Sweet - The Six Teens
La Düsseldorf - Rheinita
Jane Weaver - Heartlow
Slade - Take Me Bak 'Ome
The Cigarettes - They're Back Again, Here They Come

Have a great weekend Hamiltonians

https://youtu.be/gSb3x-WKLh8
Jane Weaver - Heartlow

[Mark]

One for Tuesday...

Cathal Coughlan & Fatima Mansions - Only Losers Take The Bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNU5H...