LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS - PERFECT BLUE (DREAMTIME MIX) (MEDIAFIRE link due to server limitations) Hi Everybody! I got a new DreamTime Mix for you today. It's the 1985 track Perfect Blue by British band Lloyd Cole & The Commotions . You can find the original version of this track on their album Easy Pieces . I combined the Album Version & the Instrumental Version . The mix clocks in [...]
LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS - PERFECT BLUE (DREAMTIME MIX) (MEDIAFIRE link due to server limitations) Hi Everybody! I got a new DreamTime Mix for you today. It's the 1985 track Perfect Blue by British band Lloyd Cole & The Commotions . You can find the original version of this track on their album Easy Pieces . I combined the Album Version & the Instrumental Version . The mix clocks in [...]
Steppin Out turns one next week! We'll be jamming the finest in new wave, synth pop & freestyle, along with new visuals by Ordo Solido. Plus we have special guests to help us celebrate: Start Making Sense , a live 7 piece Talking Heads cover band! Oh hell yes! And I can't forget the music! I actually don't have any Talking Heads for you today. Instead, here are a couple of dance mixes of a New Wave track done by François Kevorkian: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - My Bag (Dancing Mix) [...]
A lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam Sull'Independent di ieri c'è un bell'articolo scritto con un certo understatement da Lloyd Cole (per i più giovani, ecco la voce su Wikipedia ) che racconta gli alti e bassi della sua lunga carriera - prima su major e poi da "indie per cause di forza maggiore" - attraverso gli alberghi di ogni genere di cui è stato ospite. Una lettura istruttiva. >>>(mp3): Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - [...]
I've not brought a Lloyd Cole album since.......................we ll his first originally released in 1984 - no particular reason just one of those artists that passed me by, despite the fact his début Rattlesnakes is a classic of it's time and was bestowed with a number of irresistible tunes including Perfect Skin and Forest Fire, then I read a recent review in Uncut and was intrigued that the album review led with "Cole Countries it up" and followed with a favourable write-up, so I thought I'd chance it and get a copy. Right decision? [...]
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I put Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ' Rattlesnakes album in the same category of relatively-unheard-in-North-Am erica U.K. 802s releases not dissimilar to Prefab Sprout 's Steve McQueen. They both contain some of the most fluid and sophistopoppy songs of the decade that have held up through the test of time. Rattlesnakes achieves the distinctiveness of being very reminiscent of the mid-802s (this is just good pop music, not new wave) while still retaining its contemporary status. I remember very little about 1984-1985 aside from some very distant memories of my sister bringing home a classroom guinea [...]
Lloyd offers more of the same on Rattlesnakes. The title track has rather arch strings. Also, how many pop culture and literary references can you fit in one song? Lloyd Cole & the Commotions: Rattlesnakes
Friday already. We've had births and birthdays, been scalped, and travelled to Cardiff and Crewe and all points in-between. It's been a average week on Ken Bruce's Popmaster and I'm looking forward to a very large glass of wine!So I'm going to be lazy, take the easy option and leave you with this appropriately titled, hugely influential classic from the 80s. A band, and a song, that helped define
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Forest Fire it's just a simple metaphor...
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Perfect SkinI choose my friends only far too well,I'm up on the pavement, they're all down in the cellar.With their government grants and my i.q.They brought me down to size, academia blues.Louise is a girl, i know her well,She's up on the pavement, yes she's a weather girl.And i'm staying up here so i may be undone.She's inappropriate, but then she's much more fun
KILMARNOCK EDITION FESTIVAL is next up in our Step Away From The Computer guide to spending the summer in the great outdoors. The phrase 'Kilmarnock Edition' refers to Poems, the first collection of work by Robert Burns, which was published in Kilmarnock in 1786. Perhaps in years to come it'll instead be synonymous with an indie music festival. If you think that's a bit far-fetched, just wait for the confused looks when you tell people that Franz Ferdinand's death started World War I. Location: Dean Castle and Grand Hall, [...]
Today's post comes to us from Glasgow, Scotland, where the band Camera Obscura originated in 1996. If Looks Could Kill is off the band's third album Let's Get Out of This Country , released in June of 2006. On an interesting side-note to the album, the first song ( Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken ) is actually a response to the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ' song Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken? . If this post has whet your appetite for Camera Obscura, the band released their fourth LP, My [...]
For the second time in a forthnight I saw a member of an eighties band who's been solo for three decades. Lloyd Cole may not have the same stage presence and energy as Morrissey, but he played a fine show at Dolans on Saturday. Lloyd started out with the Commotions and he released three albums with them before going solo in the late 80s. Like The Smiths, The Commotions played melodic indie pop combined with witty albeit melancholic lyrics. His solo work continued in this vein and he has ammassed seven albums, two live sets and [...]
During a career that spanned 1984-1987, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions were one of those bands that divided opinion. To some, they were part of an era that gave us a great cannon of intelligent indie-pop (see also The Go-Betweens and The Smiths), but to others they were a bunch of boring musos led by a pretentious poet with a deadly dull delivery.Personally, I loved them.Formed by a bunch of
The handsome chap in the photo is my kid brother Stevie.....and the snap was taken three years ago today. So he's now 43 as of this morning.....I don't see him all that often as he lives in Florida with his wife and two kids (one of whom is in fact 'the face of The Vinyl Villain on the right hand side'), but I know he has a read of this nonsense almost every day.Stevie's taste in music isn't as
With the recent announcement of the Academy Award nominations, we thought we'd take a look at songs that could have been written in tribute to some of this year's nominees. They weren't of course, but if they had, most of them would have better selections than the bulk of this year's original song nominees . Just how the Academy failed to nominate Springsteen's song from "The Wrestler" is beyond us. Sure, Dylan and Eminem have taken home Oscars, but so have Phil Collins and Three 6 Mafia. And just for the record, The [...]
The return of the occasional series featuring different songs with the same titles..... Three songs from a long time ago are featuring today, from bands that are well accounted for in my collection of music, but it was only a day or so ago that I realised they had something in common:- mp3 : Joy Division - These Days mp3 : Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - These Days mp3 : R.E.M. - These Days
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were formed in Glasgow in 1982 and released "Rattlesnakes", their debut album, two years later. Despite being praised wildly by the UK's 'indie' music press from the outset, it also proved to be an excellent album. Cleverly written, "Rattlesnakes" also features more catchy tunes than a debut album is generally entitled to. For this 20th Anniversary release, the "
CSS - Move on Bruce Springsteen - Independence day Damien Rice - 9 Crimes Lloyd Cole and the Commotions -Sweetness Keane - You don't see me Pass to unpack .rar files is always: tmi. All tracks in .mp3 format. Dead links won't be repaired. Requests in comments, aswell as your appriciation!
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