What have you been listening to today? Again….

[Deereyme66]

Bolton’s finest – Cherry Ghost. Cracking title track album opener. Very much missed:

[Deereyme66]

Love this track and video starring David Thewlis. There’s a new version featuring Elton John which is still good but more polished production wise and loses the edge of this version I think:

[Gurnelista]

Good stuff DM, white man’s blues. Sounds like a sedated John Cooper Clarke.

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Deereyme66

[Iron-awe]

Both great tracks DM, Cherry Ghost deffo got The Divine Comedy vibe about them for me. David Thewlis just wizard as always.

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Deereyme66

[Deereyme66]

Yes, or a Leeds version of him Gurnelista? I believe they hail from there

[Deereyme66]

So much Divine Comedy to choose from I-A. I’d go for this uplifting number from a few years back. Daft video to accompany it:

[Siderite]

Not music, but I have been watching a public service announcement by awaywego. :-)

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Iron-awe

[Iron-awe]

Thanks for the Divine Comedy video DM, very quirky which I think is good in music. Neil Hannon has the look of the late great comedian Graham Chapman with the pipe and specs. Always liked Talking Heads who had an unusual quirky musical way , David Byrne was brilliant IMO and Tina Weymouth was a fab bass player.

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Deereyme66

[Deereyme66]

Listened to a lot of Talking Heads again recently reading Chris Frantz’s autobiography. Always been a big fan of the earlier years, first 4 albums, Fear of Music my fave. A real shift forward in composition and production.

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Iron-awe

[Northumbiron]

Went to see American Utopia at the local flea-pit earlier this year.

Worth a watch.

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Deereyme66

[Deereyme66]

Mention of JCC the other day – stuck this CD earlier. Beasley Street from it. A classic.

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[Deereyme66]

Failsworth’s finest. Definitely a ‘play loud’ track…

[Northumbiron]

I’ve had Primal Scream’s Evil Heat album for the best part of twenty years and still listen to it.

There’s some quirky numbers on it none the least “Some Velvet Morning” which has a stylish video featuring Bobby Gillespie and a cameo from Kate Moss (a regular on PS vids).

The other day quite by chance I discovered that the track was in fact a cover of the original, recorded some 35 years earlier by Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra. So I checked it out; and boy! There was some weird shit around in that ’67 Summer of Love!

Never seen two versions/videos of the same number quite so different.

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[Iron-awe]

Good stuff NI, wow what a difference but who would have thought Lee and Nancy did that track. Thought they would still be stuck down in Jackson.

[Deereyme66]

Definitely heard the original before but never the Primal Scream version. Prefer the original.

[Gurnelista]

Been getting into jazz of the late 50s recently, like this. Seems to suit summer breezes.

[Deereyme66]

It’s become a tradition on mine whilst on hols to listen to the whole of Pretzel Logic and Aja on the balcony with a few ice cold beers and a fag on late at night. Not both albums on the same night mind, that’s just crazy. Planning to make a start on Pretzel Logic later. Happy days 😀

[Deereyme66]

Bit early in the evening to be ‘duckwalking’ in every bridge bit of this but what the hell 😳

[Deereyme66]

Music always sounds loads better on holiday abroad IMO. Why is that? I don’t know. Leaving the shit, the everyday, the humdrum, feeling care free, tranquil, at one with the world. Yes, I am really enjoying my hols. 3 years in the making. F*** Covid

[Northumbiron]

Ah! Pretzel Logic. Memories!

Mid seventies and I found myself one day in the presence of a very attractive young lady who said she’d just bought this record by a group called Steely Dan, and asked if I liked them.

Despite having heard next to nothing of their stuff I lied through my teeth. There upon I was invited back to her place to listen to it! And to quote Bryan Ferry, “Dim the lights, you can guess the rest!”

It wasn’t a long standing romance, but some years later when I started dating Mrs NI guess what was lurking in her record collection?

[Iron Age]

Drifted back to another time, oh but it was good.

[Deereyme66]

Wry smile NI. Pretty sure you’ve told us that one before. No matter, it’s still a good un 👌

[Deereyme66]

Iron Age wrote:

Drifted back to another time, oh but it was good.

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Love it Iron age. Is my memory playing tricks on me or have you not posted that here in the past? Bloody lovely track anyway

[Deereyme66]

Another holiday fave just listened to. Right, we’re all back – starting on the Dan. Roll ups, headphones and beer ready. Let’s go 😃

[Gurnelista]

Aye, Steely Dan – I know what you mean NI, about ‘guessing the rest’ – I once had the Royal Scam as the soundtrack to a similar encounter, many years from now. It’s the fusion of melancholy and romance which does it for many, along with the musicianship and imagery in the songwriting which is the crux of their appeal I think.
That said, I sense there’s not so much demand for this style at present, sadly. Maybe too ‘white’ and maybe a bit too free and easy for the troubled times in which we live.
What is the music of now? I don’t know, which is probably why I’ve started revisiting classics like this…

[Deereyme66]

People will always happen upon the Dan for many years to come Gurney. Partly for the the reasons you cited. Perhaps stumbling upon via Spotify recommendations (aren’t they the most sampled act in the world? Or thereabouts. Mainly hip hop and dance tracks). Or friends will whack a track on and they’ll be alerted to it.

[Deereyme66]

Not played that much music today. Had this on earlier before we went out. A blast from the past from Ben Watt’s Buzzin Fly dance works (as opposed to Everything but the Girl)

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[Gurnelista]

I hope so DM.
There was a tv doc some time back discussing the merits of ‘yacht rock’ – it’s a pub debate whether SD qualify, some of their stuff certainly brushes shoulders with it. But the optimistic, smooth, free, easy ‘yacht’ sound seems almost the polar opposite of the mood of the times now. Unlike the Ben Watt, or Sleaford Mods with this disturbing stuff, I guess….

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[Deereyme66]

It might sound ‘yacht rock’ to the uninitiated. I probably thought so many years ago before listening more deeply, but it’s more jazz rock than anything and a lot of Donald Fagin’s lyrics are socially and politically driven. A lot of darkness in there compared to the upbeat music

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Gurnelista

[Northumbiron]

As the weather of late has had a sultry, warm Continental air about it, I have been taking my evening chill out with a liberal helping of accordion!

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