Monday, February 24, 2014

The Real Eurovision Song Contest # 1 Holland - Bette Serveert

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  Band named after a book of the same title, which translates as Bette Serves, written by the female Dutch tennis player Betty Stove. T...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Great American Bands from the Early Eighties - # 3 Let's Active

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  Perhaps not great but this is a nice little band. From a very good album, Cypress with a childlike picture of an erupting volcano on ...

Song of the Day # 37 - Warren Zevon

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  'I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walkin' through the streets of Soho in the rain He was lookin' for th...

Dylan, Donovan, Them and 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue'

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  There's a great scene in D.A. Pennebaker's fly on the wall documentary of Bob Dylan's 1965 British tour. Dylan has been p...

Great American Bands from the Early Eighties # 2 - The Lyres

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  Boston based band. Led by Jeff Connolly who also played keyboards (Hammond I imagine though perhaps I'm wrong). I saw them with m...

Richard Hell - Dee Dee Obituary

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a few words about Dee Dee   Richard Hell   10 Jun 2002   I was surprised to hear about Dee Dee but it's ama...

Favourite Musicians # 4 - Dee Dee Ramone

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  This might seem an odd one as Dee Dee was famously known as one of the most primitive, inept musicians ever to tread the boards certa...

Song of the Day # 36 Al Green

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  Because he's Al Green. He made his conversion to the ministry shortly after this wonderful album when his lover poured a pan of b...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Steely Dan

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A very well written article by former NME journalist Ian Penman about Steely Dan and the art of being a hipster.   Books and Culture I...

The Lost Art of Cassette Tape Spines

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Ok not vinyl. But brings back Camden Market on a Sunday afternoon in the 1980's _______________________________________________________...

American States # 2 Indiana - R.Dean Taylor

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R. Dean Taylor   A white artist on Motown. Number Five in the American charts in 1970. A big hit in my local on the jukebox. This is ...

More Songs about Losing Control

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1. The Troggs     2. Joy Division Almost posted the Grace Jones version but it seemed sacred   3. Sam the Sham & the ...

Song of the Day # 35 The Swinging Blue Jeans

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  The original was a big hit in Australia in 1959 for Chad Romero. I think this version shades it. Any band called The swinging Blue Je...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The Staple Singers

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  Here's a picture of The Staple Singers!
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Song of the Day # 34 - The Isley Brothers

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  The Isley Brothers were wonderful. From Twist and Shout to A Harvest For The World . This was just about halfway between the two. Bu...

Great American Bands from the Early Eighties.# 1 The Replacements

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Song of the Day # 33 - The Byrds

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  The Byrds had the song titles. They also had the songs. This was the B Side to Turn, Turn, Turn another beautifully simple mesmeric ...

Album by Album # 3 - R.E.M.

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Always the band I keep going back to. Because they felt like they were mine. Just their albums as a four-piece. Like a lot of early fans I t...