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John Lennon and Cathy's (haunted) Clown

Oct 21, 2009, 8:52am If There Is Hell Below...
John Lennon - Cathy's Clown unreleased
It's been a while I know. There is no excuse, apart from needing to give this blog a serious facelift. Until I actually do this I'm gonna begin posting and will put up a mega spotify list in the week. This last month or so has seen the release of some great albums, it'd be silly to ignore. In the meantime here is a haunting cover of a stripped down John Lennon singing the ever amazing Everly Brothers Cathy's Clown.
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Album of the Day: Gospel Music

Jul 21, 2009, 9:21am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: Gospel Music SPOTIFY LINK: Gospel Music You know what to expect from the title. Sam Cooke, The Staple Singers and Blind Boys of Alabama join in with a collection of gospel music for all sinners and saints.
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Beck- Run Run Run (Velvet Underground & Nico)

Jul 20, 2009, 10:45am If There Is Hell Below...
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo . Check out Beck's 'Record Club' he's supposedly gonna be putting his spin on a classic album each month or so this month he's doing Velvet Underground & Nico. He essentially just makes it sound like any other Beck tune, this is no bad thing Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Venus In Furs" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo .
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Album of the Day: The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band- Vol. 2

Jul 20, 2009, 7:30am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band- Vol. 2 SPOTIFY LINK: The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band- Vol. 2 Describing what The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band sound like is made all the more easier by having a name that neatly wraps up their sound in 6 words. If it was at all possible, the record sleeve for this 1967 album would’ve been printed on blotted acid dripped paper, obviously this could never be possible but the sound of this album is soaked in the [...]
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More Air-New Air

Jul 17, 2009, 7:16am If There Is Hell Below...
More Air-New Air DOWNLOAD: Air- Do The Joy More Air after last weeks live stuff. They have a new album in October, this is a new thing, a good thing, a familiar thing.
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Album of the Day: Chess Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves

Jul 17, 2009, 5:25am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: Chess Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves SPOTIFY LINK: Chess Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves More a compilation less an album. Some of Chess Records finest cuts of jazz and funk psych grooves (clues in the title really). Rotary Connection, Muddy Waters, Solomon Burke, Bo Diddley, Marlena Shaw and more, it gets feet-a-tapping and hair-a-shaking. Ripe for getting ready for the weekend.
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Album of the Day: D'Angelo- Voodoo

Jul 15, 2009, 11:30am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: D'Angelo- Voodoo SPOTIFY LINK: D'Angelo- Voodoo I hate this cover, it's rubbish, D'Angelo works out this can be seen, but I do not need to see the fruits of his labour in my record collection. But not to be put off by the vain cover this album is a peach of a soul record, it has the right ingredients that I wish modern soul today had it's got some Sly, Jimmy Brown, Curtis Mayfield and a dash of Prince. Take a slice of Devil's Pie.
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Live Air. Phenomenal

Jul 14, 2009, 10:48am If There Is Hell Below...
Live Air. Phenomenal Live at Kesselhaus, Berlin October 29th 1998 DOWNLOAD: Kelly Watch the Stars DOWNLOAD: Be a Bee > Tomorrow Never Knows > Sexy Boy DOWNLOAD: Le Voyage de Penelope It'd be wrong of me to take the credit for these uploads which I grabbed from the guys at artdecade - a fantastic blog which is regularly updated with gems. [...]
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Link Text:Be a Bee > Tomorrow Never Knows > Sexy Boy
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Link Text:Kelly Watch the Stars
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Link Text:Le Voyage de Penelope
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Album of the Day: The Explorers Club- Freedom Wind

Jul 14, 2009, 4:47am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: The Explorers Club- Freedom Wind SPOTIFY LINK: The Explorers Club- Freedom Wind I'll get this out of the way now, The Explorers Club sound so much like the Beach Boys it's close to pastiche. But the songs are far too well produced, the harmonies too tight, melodies so sunsoaked and infectious to simply dismiss. And to sound like The Wilson's plus Mike Lowe is certainly not the worst direction for a band to make. It's actually the softer songs on the second half of the album that reveals there is more to [...]
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Album of the Day: Silversun Picks- Swoon

Jul 9, 2009, 5:46am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: Silversun Picks- Swoon SPOTIFY LINK: Silversun Pickups- Swoon I keep letting this happen to me, I keep missing essential gigs- Silversun Pickups played and went. I should've been there really, Carnavas was great and the follow up Swoon is just as good if not better. They make a hairdrying noise in the best possible ways, sonically awesome, loud and epic, it's rude not to experience it live. I've already said "album of the year" a few times this year, so I'm gonna now refrain [...]
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Another Spotify List: Just a small taste of what I'm listening to.

Jul 7, 2009, 11:07am If There Is Hell Below...
Another Spotify List: Just a small taste of what I'm listening to. SPOTIFY LINK: Nothing Else To Report Man these posts are all over the place. Bit like my current status of being no fixed abode, it makes familiarity and adjustability a little outta step. Been buying plenty of discs lately, put some of the flavours on a harmless little spotify playlist . There's some Traffic, John Williams, The Bees, Everly Brothers, Scratch Perry & The Upsetters and Vetiver amongst others. Enjoy.
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Album of the Day: Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther

Jul 2, 2009, 11:33am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther SPOTIFY LINK: Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther Ocassionally I remind myself how good this album is, today is one of those days. I genuinely believe it to be a standout album of the decade, some say it sounds 70s with some Fleetwood Mac in their, some Crosby, Stills & Nash. I'd prefer to call it "timeless", an album that would sound great whenever it's released. [...]
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Introducing: Race Horses

Jul 2, 2009, 7:42am If There Is Hell Below...
Introducing: Race Horses DOWNLOAD: Race Horses- Cake DOWNLOAD: Race Horses- Cacen Magnu LINK: Race Horses Myspace BUY THE SINGLE: RACE HORSESCAKE It is essential one does their research before writing about a band. The lazy man (me) goes on wikipedia , or just check out their myspace [...]
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Link Text:Race Horses- Cacen Magnu
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Link Text:Race Horses- Cake
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Album of the Day: Soft Machine- Third

Jul 1, 2009, 5:54am If There Is Hell Below...
Album of the Day: Soft Machine- Third SPOTIFY LINK: Soft Machine- Third Sorry haven't blogged in a while. Starting a new job, looking for a new house and without casual use of the internet (I'm doing this at work shhhh ) has meant I haven't really been able to. That hasn't stopped me posting regular "Album of the day" links on facebook from spotify . God I love spotify more each day, you can guilt free share great albums and it's little commitment [...]
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25 Songs Scientifically Put Together To Appeal to Dads

Jun 19, 2009, 11:20am If There Is Hell Below...
25 Songs Scientifically Put Together To Appeal to Dads My target audience Spotify Playlist Link: 25 Songs Scientifically Put Together To Appeal to Dads Fathering Sunday coming up isn’t it. You can’t buy your Dad flowers, after wasting money to get in your mothers good books by buying dying foliage- he realises that they’re a pointless purchase. And do you really wanna edge your father closer to that inevitable heart attack by buying him alcohol or chocolate? You give your Dad what has been a reliant in his life, you introduce him to [...]
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Glass Candy, Sally Shapiro and Stevie Nicks

Jun 16, 2009, 6:01pm If There Is Hell Below...
Glass Candy, Sally Shapiro and Stevie Nicks Ooh went off the rails with posting towards the weekend, this is often the case. I seem to be up to other things when the day begins with 'S', usually enjoying company with drinks and music. Women week will be coming to an end, my Karen O post got taken down, I don't mind them taking the song off box.net and emailing but taking down my words is annoying. So thought I'd try and make it up to you by offering a hat trick of ace ladies as I begin to draw Women's Week to a [...]
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Link Text:Glass Candy- Digital Versicolor
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Link Text:Sally Shapiro- Miracle
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Link Text:Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen
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Marnie Stern

Jun 11, 2009, 1:15pm If There Is Hell Below...
Marnie Stern "Man, this chick can play" is what I thought to myself like a mysoginst idiot. There aint any doubting she plays some killer, lightning fast, loud licks and yet her twiddling still allows for great tunes. Man she makes a good noise. Here is a slice of from her precision noise pie of a second album the annoyingly titled if you're attempting to type it ' This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is [...]
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Link Text:Marnie Stern- Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
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Karen O

Jun 10, 2009, 2:10pm If There Is Hell Below...
Karen O Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; coolest woman on the planet? Probably go along with that, who else is there really? Lady Gaga dreams every night of being as interesting, sexy, talented and as vital as Karen O, Katy Perry is essentially pointless, that girl from The Ting Tings has a look in her eyes that suggests inside she's dead. But it's not just about being cool is it? Yeah Yeah Yeahs have made some of the decades greatest releases from the first EP to their latest album. This probably their defining musical moment... [...]
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Link Text:Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Date With The Night
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Link Text:Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll (Weird Tapes Version)
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Link Text:Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Zero (Animal Collective Remix)
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Women Week: Joni Mitchell

Jun 9, 2009, 8:53am If There Is Hell Below...
Women Week: Joni Mitchell Of all the immensely talented women featured in this here 'Women Week', none of them do to me what Joni Mitchell can do. In my honest opinion I don't think there are many better songwriters man or woman who could rival Joni. Her voice is rich and sweet, the delivery of her disgustingly spot on lyrics is perfection and her guitar playing is unmistakable, she's gotta be the greatest female player surely (we'll get to Marnie Stern later in the week)? It's little surprise that she managed to turn two thirds of Crosby, [...]
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Link Text:Joni Mitchell- Free Man in Paris
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Women Week: Tina Turner

Jun 8, 2009, 2:52pm If There Is Hell Below...
Women Week: Tina Turner Never done a theme on the blog before but thought I'd constrain myself a bit and maybe make things interesting. The theme is broad and doesn't really force too much constraint, in that the only way you qualify to be in the theme is that you aren't the proud owner of a penis- sorry Lady Gaga and the Pussy Cat Dolls I'm still not convinced you're not actually in drag- and you're only getting in on the theme unless the music's great. Gonna start off with Tina Turner. It's an unfortunate fact that Ike bought the best [...]
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Link Text:Ike & Tina Turner- I Like It
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