The Lucksmiths Genre: Indie / Pop From: Melbourne, Australia The Lucksmiths are an indie pop trio from Melbourne, Australia (there must be something going on down under as this is the third band this week from Melbourne), who've been together since 1993. In the 15 years they've been together they've been called everything from indie pop (one sentence ago!), anti-folk [...]
Photography by Tsuru Mixtape Project No. 2, songs with names in the title. The reason for the season? Who doesn't want a cool song with their name in it? You certainly won't find many with "Tsuru" in the title, and I cry a little bit on the inside when I think about that. Ha! Fortunately, our incredible little music brigade had songs to spare for this project. The result? A collection of songs as varied as the society itself. From a general [...]
Sometimes, you read something somewhere else and wish you'd thought of it first. My dear friend Dirk over at Sexy Loser has been posting all sorts of great stuff in recent months based on songs he first heard on the John Peel shows broadcast on Armed Services radio in Germany. Now his latest posting is what I hope will be the first of a regular series in which he focuses in on a particular year
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? [ purchase ] Camera Obscura: Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken [ purchase ] A theme we might do around here someday is Answer Songs (you know, songs that respond to other songs). In which case I've jumped the gun with this post. Oh well. Way back in 1984, Scotsman Lloyd Cole and his band, The Commotions, put out a pretty cool record in which they asked [...]
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Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1 Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout and Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and The Commotions: two of the drabbest album covers ever made. Side-by-side, you can immediately tell when both of them came from - the mid-80s, the most tasteless part of the so-called Decade That Taste Forgot. And yet, for students everywhere these two records were, aside from the holy trinity of the Smiths, New Order and the Bunnymen, part [...]
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This mix features an array of voices that have captured me. From the long ago love for George Harrison's voice (I bought his album Dark Horse on vinyl when it was released in ?) to the most recent crush on Liam Hayes sound, represented here with his song "Whose Blues" from the amazingly overlooked album, Fed . feist monarch the shins new slang (live w/iron & wine) broadcast black cat (this one's for JV in SF) lloyd cole & the commotions perfect skin teenage fanclub [...]
I should have been at a gig by Lloyd Cole in Glasgow on Friday 26th January. Instead, I was away with Mrs Villain on a four-day trip to Milan. It was part of the things that Santa Claus gave to her last month - and I know he could have booked a different weekend that wouldn't have clashed with the gig, but this was the only free one we had in January. And it had to be in January for the sales.
To Be Heartbroken En amour, il faut parfois savoir faire preuve de patience: 1984 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions : Are you ready to be heartbroken? (mp3) Et 22 ans plus tard, la réponse arrive enfin: 2006 Camera Obscura : Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (mp3) C'est [...]
Again, no top of 2006 list for me. But here's something close. Top from 1981-1986 (otherwise known as the high school years). But a couple of caveats...I tried to stick with releases that actually came out during that time period. I also avoided the big names, just because those songs are easily found. So the skipped list is long: Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way Clash - Straight To Hell Violent Femmes - Add It Up Cure - Close to Me The Smiths - How Soon is Now Scritti Politti - [...]
Antidepressant offers all the elegance and eloquence Lloyd Cole 's fans have come to expect from him. He's said on this album he tried "to represent little lives, because little lives are often struggling nowadays" . A feeling of quiet desperation does run through the album. Probably the most cheerful track, "Everysong", offers a reminder that not every song can be depressing, while cheekily providing such a break: Surely clouds are coming soon But as of now I can see nothing but blue No use to go second guessing [...]
Love's 'Forever Changes' is one of those Mojo approved essentials in any collection of 60's classics. It sits alongside Revolver, Pet Sounds and Younger than Yesterday with very good reason. By turns beautiful and sinister it sounds like no other album from its era and reflects the uneasy atmosphere of the West Coast in the late 60's. It also reflects the dysfunctional genius of the people involved in its making, especially the mercurial Arthur Lee, who died very recently. Love tracks have appeared all over Blogland recently so I thought I would post two tracks that name-check Arthur and a [...]
T here are a couple of posts on other sites that I have to share: 1. Indoor Fireworks shoots some sparks at The Glove. A product of longtime friends Steven Severin and Robert Smith, The Glove had a release in the early eighties that mixed the darker sides of both guys' bands (the Cure and The Banshees) with sounds that just didn't fit their fulltime gigs. Long a cure fan must-have, Blue Sunshine is their one LP release and can be found with some shopping prowess. [...]
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