I watched some BBC documentary about Ray Davies recently. He's a fairly eccentric chap.
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Quote: Ben @ September 7 2013, 7:32 PM BSTI watched some BBC documentary about Ray Davies recently. He's a fairly eccentric chap.
I agree. Very individual.
The Bill Ryder-Jones clip was interesting. Ian Skelly has a CD too but I reckon it's their mate, Neville Skelly, who has the biggest solo potential. "The Poet and the Dreamer". Can't find a clip of him at his best though.
Yeah, I quite like the Bill Ryder-Jones album. Not too keen on James or Ian Skelly's albums. Much like The Coral after their brilliant debut, it's all just a bit too retro.
Quote: Ben @ September 7 2013, 7:57 PM BSTYeah, I quite like the Bill Ryder-Jones album. Not too keen on James or Ian Skelly's albums. Much like The Coral after their brilliant debut, it's all just a bit too retro.
Yes - I get that. As many bands show earlier influences, the ones that can sound a bit like the 1950s/early 1960s appeal to me because I didn't know that era and originally dismissed it. And the Coral are good live.
The first of these is 93 today. The second is a youthful 83.
Al Caiola - The Magnificent Seven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_iXbamW53E
Sonny Rollins - St Thomas
I saw The Coral live once many moons ago and they were very good. Should have seen them in 2003 as well, but they cancelled as one of the band was ill or something.
Quote: Ben @ September 7 2013, 8:54 PM BSTI saw The Coral live once many moons ago and they were very good. Should have seen them in 2003 as well, but they cancelled as one of the band was ill or something.
That was the year I saw them. Then again once in 2007 when they weren't half as good.
Little Milton, born this day in 1934, was an American electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul singer and guitarist. Like Elvis, he first released songs on the legendary Sun record label. Later he was associated with soul labels Chess and Stax where, as a record producer, he helped introduce Albert King and Fontella Bass. In 1988, three years after his death, he was justifiably inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Gloria Gaynor, 64 today, will always be best known for the monster disco hit "I Will Survive". However, the song was considered "radio unfriendly" by Polydor Records when it was first released as a B side in 1978. As a disco record, the song was unique for its time as there were no background singers. Had it been originally planned as an A-side, it would have been more heavily produced and possibly less successful.
Little Milton - Who's Cheating Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waaaVA2zaKA
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
And the main one. Buddy Holly was born on 7 September 1936. He would have been 77.
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb7KyPSbFqo
Buddy Holly - Learning The Game
Because We Want To-Billie http://youtu.be/D_XI_290cfw
The Valley by Los Lobos
Quote: Horseradish @ September 7 2013, 7:26 PM BSTTalking of which.......
3 years ago today, Ray Davies got the Outstanding Achievement Award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards -
Ray Davies and Damon Albarn - Waterloo Sunset/Parklife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4SMs1r6jo
and Happy Birthday to Chrissie Hynde who is 63 -
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
The Ray Davies & Damon collaboration is fun. I like the way Ray semi-pranks Damon at the end by starting to play "Parklife" when he's not expecting it, and Damon has to join in.
"The White Room" had some good stuff on it. Pity it was axed.
Chrissie features on this video/charity single for the Haiti disaster:
Shane MacGowan and friends "I Put A Spell On You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAogfDIusU
Also on there is Mick Jones. They worked together in the early days. I wonder if any of their music survives?
The new Arcade Fire single:
http://www.music411blog.com/2013/09/hear-new-arcade-fire-song-two-days-early.html
Sounds a bit like Metronomy. And I like it.
Ballad Of The Hoodlum Priest by Willy DeVille
Blood On The Rooftops by Genesis
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ September 2 2013, 10:23 PM BSTHide Your Colours by The Jayhawks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUIolBWAvSg
Take The Money & Run - Crosby and Nash
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song, Chris Stills - Rattlesnakes, The Jayhawks - Hide Your Colours, Wilco - Solitaire, Calexico - Victor Jara's Hands, Extreme - Hole Hearted, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl, Blind Melon - No Rain
Liked the Jayhawks best and then Chris Stills. The latter's inherited his Dad's talents. Calexico's song is a testament to a very great man. I never got the RHCPs and still don't. I do remember going to see my bank manager one Saturday morning and finding she was about 24. She said she was prepared to agree to any financial arrangement as she needed to leave for one of their concerts. That was when I knew banking had changed. The Blind Melon song was pleasant but the video was weird. I see the lead singer died tragically.
Crosby & Nash - Naked In The Rain, Immigration Man, Whole Cloth, Take The Money and Run, Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out Of The Sky, Bob Seger - Wait For Me, Doobie Brothers - Nobody, The Byrds - You Don't Miss Your Water
Enjoyed those. I appreciate Crosby and Nash plus Stills increasingly with age. It's surprising they ever appealed to youth as they are neither fast or loud. Guess it all made sense at the time. Never realised that the Doobies were such a huge phenomenon with their own Doobie plane. The American charts in the 1970s were always very different to ours. We got the big songs in Britain but not a lot else. CCR were great. Think I am right in saying they sold more records worldwide than the Beatles in 1970. People forget that now.
I have highlighted my favourite song in each of the two groups.