The Pale Fountains sí que estaban en el lugar adecuado, pero claramente su propuesta distaba mucho de sonar en el momento acertado. El Liverpool de la primera mitad de los ochenta, estaba, como el resto del mundo, más interesado en los nuevos héroes del synth-pop y aledaños que vampirizaron la década o los últimos estertores de un punk ya moribundo, que en un pop tan delicado y conscientemente retro (The Beatles, Burt Bacharach o Love no es que estuvieran precisamente de moda en ese momento) como el que practicaba el cuarteto . [...]
Thanks to Kyle , we have a full slate of Scottish music-related docs on the schedule for this weekend. We get things off on the good foot with this television doc about Postcard Records. Postcard was a Glasgow-based independent record label founded by Alan Horne & Edwyn Collins in 1979, as a vehicle for Orange Juice and Josef K releases. The label's motto was "The Sound of Young Scotland", a parody/tribute to the Motown motto, "The sound of young America." Although short-lived, Postcard was to prove a [...]
Joe writes: I have been thinking about Deacon Blue recently. They were my favourite band for a while, until Aztec Camera released Stray. Real Gone Kid features on a current TV advert. I recently gave their classic debut album Raintown on vinyl to a friend for his birthday then ended up discussing Deacon Blue versus The Blue Nile with another party guest. While I know The Blue Nile are great, what I loved about Deacon Blue is how ambitious they were. Ricky Ross was trying to be the Scottish Bruce Springsteen. Personally I prefer artists who aim high and fall [...]
Times New Viking is an Ohio rock trio that delivers raw rock 'n' roll. Jumping from different labels over the years including Matador and Merge, the band has released five proper albums in a little more than five years. On its last album, Dance Equired (Merge), Times New Viking dropped the lo-fi fuzz in favor [...]
Day 20 - Your favourite song by a male solo artist They may hide behind band names but either one of these two classics by two of my all time favourite male solo artists could have been used for today challenge. I'll play both those songs till the day I die. However, and Kara can testify through gritted teeth about this, this 1948 classic has been the soundtrack of my mind these past few days. I could never get sick of this song . . . unless it's [...]
Aztec Camera - Jump [Van Halen] | bx . watch the original
Le morceau inédit et caché (car réservé aux adhéwants) du mois d'avril nous a été offert par les marvelous Moonjellies de Tours (37). Je ne dis pas ça pour énerver les non adhéwants, je tente juste d'expliquer pourquoi j'ai décidé de poster les deux titres plus bas. Dans une chronique fleurie du premier et recommandé LP [...]
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Stockholm band Sailor & I have carved a niche for themselves with their thematic indie music. Their first release, John Franklin, paid homage to the late, great, explorer through song while simultaneously putting the band on the map. For their third release, the band has teamed up with Swedish producer Alexander Sjödin , and really let him take the reigns from song writing to production. The Tough Love EP , set for release toward the end of March 2012, is supposed to be as much a musical journey for the listener as it is for the band- [...]
Snow eh? Bonkers! I know I used this on my Christmas Mix but it's apt for a walk around a frozen Roath Park Lake. [Right-click and "Download Document" for mp3 of Aztec Camera's Walk Out To Winter]
You'll have to forgive me: I didn't have any album covers on hand today, so instead I just decided to take a picture out the window and pretend it was an album cover. I kid, I kid. But Aztec Camera's cover for Knife (along with the video for lead-off track "Still on Fire" ) is eerily similar to what Seattle looks like today (and, OK, most of the winter), apart from the weird floating origami blobs and the sandy riverbank. Why did I never listen to Aztec Camera back when the young Roddy Frame was releasing records [...]
Same idea as last year . Xmas Mix 2011 by Sammyfax on Mixcloud Tracklist: DJ Shadow - Best Foot Forward (Xmas Edit) Lindstrom - Little Drummer Boy Baby Jazz - Song for the Season J.D. McDonals [...]
"We were two in a million, Stars like the ones in the sky, A love scene and a vision, We saw the world and we waved goodbye"
In surveying jangle-pop albums, calling an album great makes allowance for more uninspired tracks than on most other genre releases. Like early ‘50s rock albums by groups like the Everly Brothers – who inspired many of them – they are slipshod assemblies of 45s and tracks produced to sound faintly like those 45s. They're nevertheless [...]
Let's take a flashback to the far away time of four days ago, when I posited this question to my readers: "Anyone care to recommend a good direct-drive turntable? I’m finding more and more problems with my Audio Techinca. Any advice would be appreciated." The sole comment in reply said: "Search far and wide for used Technics turntables. There’s really no substitute." I already knew that, of course, but it's nice to get independent verification. What's even better to get, however, is a used Technics SL-1210 MK2 for $200. [...]
Play People - Somewhere In My Heart [Aztec Camera] | zs
Play People shares their energetic, charming and wonderful cover version of Aztec Camera 's equally wonderful Somewhere In My Heart . Somewhere in my heart by play people
Back from vacation! A much-needed week and a half and literally accurate — my daily life mostly vacated, aided by amazing vistas, pastas, good company, and a happily spotty Internet signal. I'm just now getting reacquainted with familiar things (l ike paying for train rides in advance and not getting nailed with a stiff fine for not having a ticket when there's no clear place to buy one). And girding myself for pizza that's not supernaturally delicious. Erkay...back to music then. Usually during vacations, a song or two slip into my head and loop through it [...]
It's raining. It can stop anytime. Stupid rain. Aztec Camera Backwards And Forwards (Live) Jump The Bugle Sounds Again (Live) Mattress of Fire (Live) The Birth Of The Tune (Live) Do you like Aztec Camera? Do you like the fact that I semi-routinely post rare tracks by them? If so, swing on by to the amazing Anna Hegedus' website . If it wasn't for her I would have [...]
Whatever it is about Scotland that makes its songwriters singularly smart devotees of pop music, it has continued unabated for some time. Alongside the power-pop titans of Teenage Fanclub and twee-minstrels of Belle and Sebastian stands Roddy Frame, better known with a backing band under the moniker of Aztec Camera. Their 1983 debut, High Land, [...]
In the March 2008 issue of Mojo, there was a sprawling article on the Smiths. But if you look a little closer (on page 75 to be exact), you'll find a list of bands that were predecessors, contemporaries, and influencers on Morrissey, Marr & Co. These "indie" bands, oft classified as C81/86 or as part of Sarah or Postcard records, shared some of the jingle and jangle of the Smiths, without the spotlight. While some of the bands may remain in their cult status, others I must admit, I did listen to occasionally or often: Wild Swans, Orange [...]
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