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BtVS: Revelations – With the glove comes the power

Jan 312012

Ahh… Gwendolyn Post – I love Gwendolyn Post and really wish she’d been strung out for a few more episodes… I’d have loved to have seen her doing more English things with Giles – Giles needs more Englishness around him and Gwendolyn was just so gorgeously and perfectly English…

there is talk in the council that you have become a bit too… American

She deserved a nice three or four episode arc instead of being fried within one.

The pictures are fun to look at, Mr. Giles, but one really ought to read the nice words as well

Faith! A word of advice, you’re an idiot.

As an aside… while I thoroughly appreciate Screencap Paradise for providing me with most of the pics on this site – it’s nowhere near as much fun as this Unflattering Buffy Screencaps.

Let the audience finish the song

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Jan 272012

The Ruts let the audience finish the last track on ‘The Crack’ – “this number’s called ‘You’re a Human Punk’”

Hanoi Rocks let the audience finish their cover of The Stooges ‘I Feel Alright’ from their live album ‘All Those Wasted Years’ – “Get up and dance!”

One shot: White Horses

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Jan 192012

I love White Horses (it was top in My top 6: TV theme songs)… and I love all these versions of it…

Claudine Longet

Jacky

Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike

Dean & Britta (maybe Les chevaux blanc?) … also available in English

Kitchens of Distinction … see also the Toilets of Destruction

Argh! forgot this one (thanks Murray)…
Trashcan Sinatras

BtVS: Band Candy – That’s cool… very Juice Newton

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Jan 182012

After a long, long hiatus (I wrote about Homecoming in May!) we’ve finally got back to Buffy and back with Band Candy that veers wildly from the unbearably long Angel Tai Chi sequence and almost as long and nearly as unbearable Xander/Willow footsie-playing – to the thoroughly enjoyable… which is mostly Joyce and Ripper…

Joyce: You got good albums.
Giles: Yeah, they’re okay.
Joyce: Do you like Seals and Croft?
Giles: <gives Joyce a look>
Joyce: Yeah, me neither.

I love that Giles is a music snob – and while he doesn’t necessarily have great taste (that’s proved later… in a coffee shop) – we do know that he has Cream and The Velvet Underground in his record collection so Joyce’s “you got good albums” is about right.

Of course Tales of Brave Ulysses isn’t Cream’s finest hour – and frankly their finest hour was on the Lulu show in 1969… only lasted about a minute (you need to wait (or skip) seven and a half minutes into this clip) and didn’t have any of them on stage!

One shot: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

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Jan 132012

Everyone loves having a shot at Dylan’s finest… here are some faves:

Damon & Naomi

Richie Havens

13th Floor Elevators

The Byrds (Byrds-y version)

The Byrds (slide-y version)

Joan Baez

… and Bob obv

And that was 2011…

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Dec 292011

Not many classics this year but lots I loved – here, off the top of my head, are some… for the sake of wanting to have an album of the year I’ll give it to…

Wye Oak – Civilian

Although any one of these three could also have been in that slot…

The Unthanks – Last
Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
The Feelies – Here Before

And these also got plenty of plays…

Bjork – Biophilia
Trembling Bells – The Constant Pageant
Damon & Naomi – False Beats and True Hearts
Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide Take Me Home
The Unthanks – Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons (although specifically the Robert Wyatt side)
Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
Amor de Días – Street of the Love of Days

There were lots more

Last.fm reckons different:
Top 10 artists:

Luna
Galaxie 500
The Unthanks
The Feelies
Damon & Naomi
Throwing Muses
Stereolab
Motörhead
The Beatles
Big Star

Top 11 tracks

The Unthanks – Gan To The Kye
The Unthanks – Starless
The Unthanks – The Gallowgate Lad
Galaxie 500 – Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste
The Unthanks – Queen of Hearts
The Unthanks – Last
Luna – Slide
Galaxie 500 – Ceremony
Lower Dens – Two Cocks
Damon & Naomi – How Do I Say Goodbye
The Feelies – Should Be Gone

Top 10 albums

The Unthanks – Last
Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
The Feelies – Here Before
Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement
Wye Oak – Civilian
Damon & Naomi – False Beats and True Hearts
Galaxie 500 – On Fire
Gordon McIntyre – Midsummer: A Play With Songs
Big Star – #1 Record / Radio City
Nancy Sinatra – Lightning’s Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971

And the rather puny list of this years gigs…

Damon & Naomi, Woodpecker Wooliams and Birdengine
The Unthanks
Stevie Jackson
St. Vincent, Cate Le Bon
Throwing Muses, Spectrals and Special Benny
Anna Calvi and Halloween, Alaska
Truck Festival 2011
Electrelane, Halo Halo
Ozzy Osbourne, Revoker
Damon & Naomi, Richard Youngs and Michio Kurihara
Damon & Naomi
Transmitters
Dean Wareham, Haight Ashbury
The Unthanks, Trembling Bells
Piano Magic, Ringo Deathstarr and SPC ECO
Dean Wareham, Ringo Deathstarr and Echo Lake
Kristin Hersh

One shot: Strange by Galaxie 500

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Dec 132011

I love the Internet – it has made my life richer, it has found me friends, it has put me into in-real-life conversations with my heroes… and it has people on YouTube doing covers (I’ve expressed a love of this once before on this blog).

Whereas the proper band‘s Galaxie 500 cover of choice seems to be Tugboat, the webcam-soloist seems to opt for Strange…

I came across danandkitty’s cover of Strange on YouTube earlier in the week – and it’s one of the most lovably sweet covers I’ve heard – just a man and his ukulele and his (clear) love of music -it is beautiful

I’m also rather partial to this cheesy synthesizer instrumental cover

And here’s Galaxie 500… and a kazoo

My top 6: Album 1 / Side 1 / Track 1

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Dec 092011

Ahh – you know it’s not really a “top” anything – the concept was artists who never surpassed the first track on the first album… a few of these obviously did! So it’s just six great arrivals…

Portishead – Mysterons

Sparklehorse – Homecoming Queen

Joanna Newsom – Bridges and Balloons

Love – My Little Red Book

The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning

Patti Smith – Gloria

One shot: 96 Tears

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Nov 252011

A bit of preliminary research showed that most covers of 96 Tears are in fact crap – steaming away at the top of that pile of poo is The Stranglers cover.

Here’s the original (and best) followed by some gems and some not that bads…

96 Tears – ? and The Mysterians

96 Tears – Big Maybelle

96 Tears – Eddie and The Hot Rods

96 Tears – Suicide

96 Tears – Thelma Houston
Actually the instrumentation on this hilariously bad (I blame the 80s) but as it went on I found myself strangely hypnotised by it…

I should really stop there!

One shot: George Harrison’s Isn’t it a pity

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Nov 152011

Just finished watching George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Martin Scorcese’s documentary about George, great in parts but on the whole only OK – anyway it got me thinking of these… obviously…

Isn’t It A Pity – Galaxie 500