A couple of weeks ago I passed 90000 scrobbles on last.fm – so here are the milestones kindly provided by last.fm #10000 – Sparklehorse – Weird Sisters #20000 – The New Year – Reconstruction #30000 – Michio Kurihara – Pendulum on a G-String/The Last Cicada This is another track from Sunset Notes as there’s no [...]
Music
Nov 082011
Last week I saw Anna Calvi and Throwing Muses on consecutive nights at The Shepherds Bush Empire. Anna and Kristin made a noticeably different choice of footwear – one chose comfortable, sensible shoes and looked cool, one chose rather ridiculous shoes and looked awkward and quite, quite silly… Neither picture is from the London show [...]
Nov 022011
Just some sweet covers of, mildly unexpected, songs :- The Unthanks covering The Beatles’ Sexy Sadie Laura Cantrell covering New Order’s Love Vigilantes Kathryn Williams covering Python Lee Jackson’s In a Broken Dream – or go here to check out her lovely cover of Nirvana’s All Apologies Allo Darlin’ covering The Ramones’ I Wanna Be [...]
Oct 162011
I spent Friday and Saturday trying to help dad clear out his garage… in the garage is packed up a great deal of my past and poking around in that is sometimes difficult. To be honest a lot of my fave metal bands I do still love but there are a few areas that make [...]
Adam listens to a lot of Nirvana but it took a while before I realised thar Love Buzz was not an original but actually a cover of a Shocking Blue song (just like Venus wasn’t a Bananarama original!) – and you know that it’s better than the original… mostly because Nirvana did it pretty straight. [...]
One of my most beautiful and lump-in-throat inducing discoveries of the Internet age was coming across (10 years ago or so) this recording of Sandy Denny playing a live (radio) show at Ebbets Field in Denver in 1973 – until I heard this Sandy was a beautiful voice and a sad, sad story. Afterwards she [...]
Sep 302011
If I ever were to get a band together I’d definitely do a cover of Jezebel because, as this collection proves, it is actually impossible to do anything but a brilliant version If ever a pair of eyes, promised paradise, deceiving me, grieving me, leaving me blue… Jezebel, it was you Frankie Laine Edith Piaf [...]
Harpo was the Marx Brother I loves as a kid, he was the clown and you didn’t need to worry about listening to the words to find his humour… but I have to say that when he played his harp… I’d sort of lose interest – Chico’s piano playing never did that. Now I’m more [...]
Sep 282011
Today is a beautiful day… but mostly I’m stuck at work. I just sat in the garden over lunch and listened to The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints – an album that takes me away from where I am and puts me in a much better place. Like many I suspect my first introduction [...]
I was absolutely sure there were tons of songs with sirens at the beginning so I thought that was ripe for a playlist – while that may be true, tracking them down turned out to be tricky but I managed to rustle up enough (with help!) for a “my top 6″ post. First up obviously [...]
