I first heard Mack the Knife sung by Bobby Darin, when I was a kid in the early '70's - it fascinated me right off the bat, even spending some of my not so heard-earned on one of his albums... which wasn't a patch on the one song I bought it for. Anyways, I'm listening to January's "Music Alliance Pact" collection, & found that I Guess I'm Floating had chosen this excellent & very properly story-telling version of the song, along with an extra verse that lends some atmosphere - although it stands [...]
I first heard Mack the Knife sung by Bobby Darin, when I was a kid in the early '70's - it fascinated me right off the bat, even spending some of my not so heard-earned on one of his albums... which wasn't a patch on the one song I bought it for. Anyways, I'm listening to January's "Music Alliance Pact" collection, & found that I Guess I'm Floating had chosen this excellent & very properly story-telling version of the song, along with an extra verse that lends some atmosphere - although it stands shy of [...]
Trying to get back into this lark - I've been trawling, nay trudging, through the icy slush of new sounds that get sent your way if you have so much as a sniff of a music blog. Dreary & grey tho much of it is, like life, ones persistence & hope can be rewarded. This is very good I thinks, from Denver, Colorado two-piece 28-200 (twenty eight to two hundred) who are Aimée (drums & vocals) + Mister L (guitar, bass & vocals) - likely I'd lose nearly a minute off the end... short , sweet & [...]
Trying to get back into this lark - I've been trawling, nay trudging, through the icy slush of new sounds that get sent your way if you have so much as a sniff of a music blog. Dreary & grey tho much of it is, like life, ones persistence & hope can be rewarded. This is very good I thinks, from Denver, Colorado two-piece 28-200 (twenty eight to two hundred) who are Aimée (drums & vocals) + Mister L (guitar, bass & vocals) - likely I'd lose nearly a minute off the end... short , sweet & [...]
So The Secret History have been around a while now (2007), and yet seem surprisingly little-mentioned on music blogs. Perhaps I price myself too low? . They've been busy, it seems - recording their first full album "The World that Never Was" and here's a single from it. ♫ Johnny Anorak - The Secret History The World that Never Was (March 16 on Le Grand Magistery ) myspace | iTunes | Amazon | buy from Darla [...]
So The Secret History have been around a while now (2007), and yet seem surprisingly little-mentioned on music blogs. Perhaps I price myself too low? . They've been busy, it seems - recording their first full album "The World that Never Was" and here's a single from it. ♫ Johnny Anorak - The Secret History The World that Never Was (March 16 on Le Grand Magistery ) myspace | iTunes | Amazon | buy from Darla [...]
Just a dry-cleaner's wall sign, from the more well-worn end of Washington Street in Brighton, Mass. listen buy | website | info they've some cool signs & posters - here's another... no doubt swans come from far & wide to get a spruce up for Springtime. and this... because it's blue too :) and fishy... and we had a great time [...]
Just a dry-cleaner's wall sign, from the more well-worn end of Washington Street in Brighton, Mass. listen buy | website | info they've some cool signs & posters - here's another... no doubt swans come from far & wide to get a spruce up for Springtime. and this... because it's blue too :) and fishy... and we had a great time [...]
A Cross? listen Buy | myspace | Free Download
A Cross? listen Buy | myspace | Free Download
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A month eh?, it's passed slowly at times in the living, yet quickly (some of it) in the looking back - outright painfully too, in part... I clean missed any mention of The Woodlands when their self-released (and titled and recorded and produced) album came out in May this year - not surprising, haven't exactly had a digit on any kind of musical pulse in recent months... it's well worth seeking out though, the two tracks below are accompanied by another eight nicely differing, yet equally fine songs - all created by the wife & [...]
A month eh?, it's passed slowly at times in the living, yet quickly (some of it) in the looking back - outright painfully too, in part... I clean missed any mention of The Woodlands when their self-released (and titled and recorded and produced) album came out in May this year - not surprising, haven't exactly had a digit on any kind of musical pulse in recent months... it's well worth seeking out though, the three tracks below are accompanied by another seven nicely differing, yet equally fine songs - all created by the wife & [...]
A new track from the wonderful My Gold Mask - two posts in one day?, I must be on something; just coffee & cigarettes actually, omg!. Yep, it's a fine cover of the early eighties hit for Kim Carnes, written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie De Shannon, first recorded by De Shannon for her album - New Arrangement - which if you know me, you'll know I've tried to find so's I can post the original... but I haven't got it yet, maybe tomorrow on a less slothful connection?. Fine it is then, [...]
Do bands ever surprise you by what they sound like after you've seen a photo? - or vice-versa?. I know, I know, books and covers, cameras & lies, but I just can't help observing... The first track here is by far my favourite from The Life and Times of Rosa Lee - indeed, was this that made me go back & re-listen to the others with fresh ears. Does it scream The Only Ones at you? - does me, I can hear Peter Perrett, singing it, not that I'd cite The Library as sounding similar; [...]
A lovely hot sunny day here it was, just wisps of white cloud in an otherwise blue sky - too nice to fret about soaking wet floors in my temporary home, yet fret I did, or rather at the indifference of a man who'd give slumlords a bad name. Could be much worse though - it could be winter with just a teeny gas fire, or I might be flat broke, rather than just passing a few sometimes disagreeable months between bricks & mortar. 90ºF and damp as hell, wasn't a whole lot of fun though, but blow [...]
You may remember my mentioning the KaiserCartel cover of Lucinda Williams' 'Something About What Happens When We Talk', and her being an artist I hadn't heard of before. Being me, I of course dug out the original, and here it is. ♫ Something About What Happens When We Talk - Lucinda Williams Sweet Old World (1992) buy it I've not yet heard anything more than this album - Sweet Old World, but I'd venture to suggest it may not be her best, [...]
I'm hardly keeping up with keeping up, am I? - a post now & then, due to fruitless self-re-housing attempts, and the grind (yes) of silly bugger estate agents (realtors) who seem hell bent on making things as opaque and frustrating as possible... an unhappy knack, indeed. It's far from doom & gloom though, goodness me no, and by way of a musical example, I've been enjoying the new EP - Rock Island - by KaiserCartel, who I regrettably missed when they played nearby in late June; what a bummer!, I'd have liked to see them live. [...]
What do these four have in common? - just my possibly odd connections, made on hearing the first - a lyric here & there, an opening chord sounding nicely reminiscent on the last one... and they're all rather good I think. Slightly surprisingly so, in the case of The Playmates; very much a novelty number, which has worn wery well. A rather loping along, Spanishy Western feel to this, good for driving along to, a great guitar & backing vocals break round 1:45, cool strings too. Gemma Ray's from England, as it happens, but darned if I can [...]
What do these four have in common? - just my possibly odd connections, made on hearing the first - a lyric here & there, an opening chord sounding nicely reminiscent on the last one... and they're all rather good I think. Slightly surprisingly so, in the case of The Playmates; very much a novelty number, which has worn wery well. A rather loping along, Spanishy Western feel to this, good for driving along to, a great guitar & backing vocals break round 1:45, cool strings too. Gemma Ray's from England, as it happens, but darned if I can [...]
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