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Elfman · 15-06-06 23:06:45

I'm going through a Rolling Stones phase at the moment. I really pissed my house mate off the other day by playing Sympathy for the Devil about six times on loop very, very loud. (He is an opera fan. I tried that once. It wasn't for me).

Also feeling a bit militant lately so I've been giving Dick Gaughan and Harvey Andrews some hammer. (Not just on CD. I've been picking up a guitar and singing a lot of their stuff as well). Oh and listening to John Martyn and Ry Cooder on my Walkman whilst walking to work.

Elfman.

blissed · 16-06-06 01:21:27

I quite like some of 's work. I like cry of Doves I think thats what it's called. but thinks he's actually 12 inches taller than he actually is, and that he's the reincarnation of Jimi Hendrix, but you can't really hate him for being a nutcase

blissed · 16-06-06 01:22:34

Ooh Elf I like Get of my cloud. One of my favs.

Burlesque · 16-06-06 01:39:30

Being picky is my specialty: it's called "When Doves Cry".

Ooops, I think I just inadvertently revealed that I like him too ...

Burlesque.

stolengirlfriend · 16-06-06 03:25:18

Blissed, the little symbols made me laugh. Very clever.

Anyway, I just can't stop listening to this Angels and Airwaves record. Bleh. It's been three days of very little else.

nihpuad · 16-06-06 07:44:16

stolengirlfriend wrote:

Does anyone else have guilty pleaures? Musical guilty pleasures, I mean.

I wrote a long post in response to this the other night, but I don't see it on the board anywhere. I hope it's just that I failed to successfully post it through some goofy incompetence, and not that the PTB removed it for some unintentional sin that I'm about to repeat! (:|)

My guilty pleasure is the Starland Vocal Band, (in)famous for a cutesy-sexy hit song called "Afternoon Delight," which makes anything by Abba sound like Mozart in comparison.

Actually, SVB did some stuff I don't feel guilty for liking: They've got an absolutely gorgeous acapella version of Paul Simon's "American Tune" (which is not the sort of obnoxiously nationalistic song the title might conjure up), and it turns out that "Boulder to Birmingham," which I always thought Emmylou Harris wrote, is actually an SVB original.

But the guilt comes in because I really like "Afternoon Delight." In fact, there's a number of cutesy-sexy hits from that era that I like: "Midnight at the Oasis," by Maria Muldaur; "Lovin' You (Is Easy 'Cause You're Beautiful)," by Minnie Riperton; another SVB tune called "Baby You Look Good to Me Tonight"... I do draw the line at Captain and Tennille's "Muskrat Love," though!

I guess there's no use asking if y'all will still respect me in the morning, eh?

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tellin · 16-06-06 12:36:02

Toby Keith

White Trash With Money

Burlesque · 16-06-06 13:21:27

Guilty pleasures, eh? Well, I don't know if being a Weird Al fan counts? Maybe I should be ashamed of myself, but I'm not!

Burlesque.

Siobhan · 17-06-06 09:31:51

right now i'm crazy about the soundtrack to kinky boots.
the part that sends me most is the cut at the end - it's kirsty maccoll.
someone else referenced fairground attraction earlier, which was the band through which i was introduced to kirsty. had no idea that another women who sung with them also died tragically, and young.

soundtrack music sort of morphs two threads, eh? Well, at the risk of being too off-topic, i plead with everyone reading this to see kinky boots. i'll have to mosey on over to the film thread to see if anyone has done a review.

meanwhile, on the subject of guilty-pleasure listening, i dare anyone to top my geeky depths, as it were: en guard, dauphin! captain and tennille COVERED muskrat love, but America released it first. I only know that because I listened to it oh, about a hundred times.

(Whoops. I seem to recall that this forum asks that we use standard caps. Mea culpa.)

Billy Bragg and Woody Guthrie on Mermaid Avenue; today I hummed their "Stromboli" (about being in love with Ingrid Bergman) all through a lunch meeting after the waiter insisted on announcing the stromboli special in a fake Italian accent.

such a big world and so much music to love.

The_West_Wind · 17-06-06 10:05:45

Right this very second I'm listening to the last minute of Marilyn Manson's cover of Type O Negative's "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend". To be quite honest, I think it sounds like they Just sped up the whole song a few beats and put Peter Steel's voice up an optive.

Now it's just changed to "Secret Agent Man" by The Superjesus.

And up next... who knows?

bodyhead · 17-06-06 13:56:11

For fans of David Bent, this is his inspiration, Alan Partridge, interviewing an angry farmer on his local radio programme.

http://tinyurl.com/l42x6

stolengirlfriend · 18-06-06 05:29:01

Oooh covers.

I tend to like cover versions that do something different to the track. Like when Sleeper covered "Atomic" by Blondie, it was hardly noticeable.

I have a few pop-punk bands that did amazing covers. I highly recommend that you check them out, if you haven't already.

The Descendents covering "Wendy" by the Beach Boys and Big Drill Car covering "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.

Anyway, while skating today I had the Liam Howelett 's version of the "Back to Mine" series on repeat. There's no real mixing here, but a very interesting mix of tracks. Skating to "Jolene" by Dolly Parton is pretty rad.

Burlesque · 19-06-06 00:02:04

Siobhan mentioned Kirsty McColl. Her death was a tragic loss. I've got her "Electric Landlady" album, and though it has been some time since I listened to it, I remember I couldn't get the song "Days" out of my head for weeks. "Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim" is also a great one. And her version of "Miss Otis Regrets" is another one of those songs that I used to play over and over again. Need I mention "Fairytale of New York"? I thought not.

Burlesque.

Siobhan · 19-06-06 00:25:09

ah.

yeah.

(I'm sad.)

Siobhan · 19-06-06 00:41:33

Burlesque, I just paused to put Fairytale of New York in.
Can't remember who she's singing with -- it's the Pogues, but -- you know, she sang with such great gravelly partners: Billy Bragg, Evan Dando (oh, jesus, more death -- have you heard him cover Lara Nyro and Victoria Williams' "The Frying Pan Song?"

And more death. Gravelly voices put me in mind of the thread about older contributors -- Max suggested Leonard Cohen, which made me think -- If *I* ever videotaped myself a la IFM, the soundtrack would be Rufus Wainwright covering Jeff Beck's version of Leo. Cohen's Hallelujah.

I think that would feel amazing -- coming to Hallelujah and sharing it with the whole world.

OK -- may they (the living) keep making beautiful music and may they (the departed) hear the music of the spheres.

It's Father's Day here. It's also my annual family reunion. I'm meant to be with my dad, but I'm sitting at my desk, and he's a mere three hours away (my parents live ten hours from me, so this is wonderfully close.) I'll go tomorrow but am aching to be there now. He and my mother surrounded by cousins and nephews and etc, and none of his own children there. How many more father's days do i get to have with him? wish I could sing to him -- oh, such a perfect day; i'm glad I spent it with you -- the way Kirsty MacColl is singing it here in my office.

Enough hijacking. Rest in Peace, Kirsty. Perfect Day. Burlesque, did you ever listen to Ewan MacColl?

Burlesque · 19-06-06 01:04:23

No, I haven't listened to Ewan McColl, actually. I'll check Youtube. If you like gravelly singers, do you happen to like the "gravelliest" of them all: Tom Waits? He's my all-time favourite singer. You can hear the life experience in his voice, and it's just great. He's gotten a bit repetitious of late, unfortunately, but his older material is pure gold. I'm also a Cohen fan (even though I live in Sweden, I've had the privilege of seeing both Cohen and Waits live). The male singer on "Fairytale of New York" is the Pogues' lead singer Shane McGowan.

I think "Hallelujah" would be a great sondtrack to an IFM submission. The lines "I did my best, it wasn't much/I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch" would take on a whole new meaning.

Hmm, let's see, I think it's Jeff Beck's version of "Hallelujah" that made me cry like a child at the end of the saddest episode ever of "Scrubs". They used it on an episode of "The West Wing" too, and Cohen's own version is in "Shreck" and "Shreck 2", I forget which. I think it was the first one, because Nick Cave and Waits are featured in the second one, and I think I would have remembered if Cohen had been in it as well.

I like the fact that you care so much about your family. I'm really not in contact with mine that much, and for several reasons this is for the best. I hope you have a pleasant time with your father and the rest of your family.

Oh, and yes, since I suddenly became unsure: did you receive my reply to your message? I don't trust computers ... (looks suspiciously at screen to see if it in any way looks shifty or sinister ... or like it smirks. I don't like it when they smirk.)

Burlesque.

Siobhan · 19-06-06 01:45:46

Yes, I did, in fact, but was hoping you'd either email me the text or rephrase your threadtext to your liking and then repost it!

It felt too communal to email. But I understand.

Yes, I love my family. I hear you about yours --- it's always a challenge. What was it Philip Larkin said? "They fuck you up, your parents." ??

For me it was a choice. I could just has easily have walked away years ago and no one would have begrudged me.

But what? hey?! yo!
back to currently listening to -- in this moment, still Kirsty MacColl; a few hours ago, Iron and Wine.

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ … ered_days/

Iron and Wine, people. Sam Beane and heaven in a man's mouth.
If you've heard about this guy and want to take a sip, I'd recommend you begin with "Our Endless Numbered Days."
a reviewer says: "... one of those albums where every song is perfect and you find yourself obsessing about each one at different times. Sam Beam sings about Southern life, love and death. Folk music has never sounded so beautiful." I quite agree.

Here's a plug for a friend of mine: Brianna Lane on CDBaby records. She's amazing if you like sassy smart singer-songwriters of the Ani-esque folk ilk.
Best place to start: "On Rooftops" http://cdbaby.com/cd/brianna

Since we all live over the world, I'd be grateful to hear about more regional people whom I might not otherwise ever hear about.

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Burlesque · 19-06-06 02:04:29

I don't think I can bring myself to write that kind of stuff down again. Let's just say I didn't know what I was doing, and leave it at that .

I listened to some of Brianna Lane - excellent music. Not entirely original, of course, but seeing as that was her first album, I think she has enormous potential. Thanks for plugging her!

By the way: couldn't find Ewan McColl on Youtube, nor any samples of his music elsewhere on the Web, but I did read a bit about him. Quite a life, and quite a career!

Regional people ... There are Swedish musicians I like, but it would be rather pointless of me to name them, since I highly doubt that their music is available internationally or even on the Internet. Freddie Wadling and Lars Demian are two very talented people, and one of our "National poets", Cornelis Vreeswijk (born in The Netherlands, had most of his career in Sweden) was a truly great singer/songwriter. Wadling used to sing mostly in English, but the other two are basically Swedish-only. Pointless, as I said, but at least I've made my contribution to the multi-cultural feeling of IFM.

Burlesque.

stolengirlfriend · 19-06-06 03:44:47

I don't want to fuck up this exchange, but I want to concur with Sam Beam being totally brilliant.

There was a period of time that everytime I listened to "The Trapeze Swinger" (which I believe was only released on the "In Good Company" Soundtrack), it made me cry. And, of course, I had it on repeat. A strange time it was.

Sorry.

Burlesque · 19-06-06 03:46:50

Why is everybody sorry all of a sudden? I love it when people post! I love it! Please post!

Burlesque.

Siobhan · 19-06-06 04:06:38

Wow -- I have never heard that one. Thx, StolenG.

And I don't think one can fuck up an exchange! "exchanges" only happen when there are two people talking, and that's a sign for more folks to jump in.

LOL -- which reminds me, in a funny way, of the first time I ever slept with more than one person. (I"ll make this short.)

The next morning, they had both gone to work, and I was off that day, so I was the one to sit in the sunroom, drinking coffee and staring out the window thinking, wow. and wow.

Then I went back upstairs and started to make the bed (which, you know how that goes, you have to get IN it one more time and roll around and kiss the pillows and suchlike).

And as I was pulling up the covers and plumping the pillows, I put pillows three-abreast across the headboard. Usually there had been two, or two-over-two, if you know what I mean. But this morning, with the beautiful energy that that bed had held, suddenly I saw/felt the bed as I never had before: it seemed like a place that was NATURALLY suited more for three than for two.

dunno if that makes sense, but it was an image i'd not thought about in a while, stolenG. So, given the context of this forum, thought I'd share.

stolengirlfriend · 19-06-06 04:21:51

Siobhan wrote:

started to make the bed (which, you know how that goes, you have to get IN it one more time and roll around and kiss the pillows and suchlike).

I can honestly say that I haven't had that experience. Although, I have kept a shirt unwashed for an extra couple of days because of the lingering scent. I suppose that it's the same. Maybe.

I feel like such a prude. I guess that's why I usually stick to posting in the music topics.

"And they went on to say that the pearly gates had such eloquent graffiti, like "we'll meet again, and "fuck the man" and "tell my mother not worry".

nihpuad · 19-06-06 07:05:23

Siobhan wrote:

meanwhile, on the subject of guilty-pleasure listening, i dare anyone to top my geeky depths, as it were: en guard, dauphin! captain and tennille COVERED muskrat love, but America released it first. I only know that because I listened to it oh, about a hundred times.

America? Really? I'm surprised I didn't know that. I saw them in concert once (at the height of their fame) and wore out my (original vinyl) copy of their greatest hits album. Guess it took really serious musicians to make it a "greatest hit," eh?

BTW, about that combative tone you took with me? %@$#& you and the horse with no name you rode in on!! (;);););))

nihpuad · 19-06-06 07:07:44

Burlesque wrote:

I think it's Jeff Beck's version of "Hallelujah" that made me cry like a child at the end of the saddest episode ever of "Scrubs". They used it on an episode of "The West Wing" too,

Yes, and to terrific effect. A great moment in a great TV show, which I miss already.

Burlesque · 19-06-06 13:19:36

dauphinb2 wrote:

Burlesque wrote:
I think it's Jeff Beck's version of "Hallelujah" that made me cry like a child at the end of the saddest episode ever of "Scrubs". They used it on an episode of "The West Wing" too,
Yes, and to terrific effect. A great moment in a great TV show, which I miss already.

So they've stopped producing it now, have they? It was a really good show, and the moment you mention was almost as heartbreaking as the one in "Scrubs".

Burlesque.

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