tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045621976922014712012-01-28T13:41:33.628ZAcross The Kitchen Tablesome half decent tunes, personal ramblings and the odd rant.drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.comBlogger10911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-9862720343128286032012-01-27T06:18:00.000Z2012-01-27T06:18:00.488ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
Back to 1999 this week with a bit of funky Big Beat from the Groove Armada with added Gram'ma Funk and Fatboy Slim.
Have a good weekend people
Groove Armada featuring Gram'ma Funk - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Remix)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-60381066373209168022012-01-26T06:11:00.002Z2012-01-26T06:11:00.240ZThe KKK Took My Baby Away
Although we do have quite a few nutters in Lanarkshire, I'm not sure that too many people will have found themselves in the same predicament as Joey Ramone. It appears that some fannies with a penchant for wearing white bed linen have abducted his girlfriend!
Stiff's older brother's son knew the names of the Ramones before those of the Teletubbies. Makes you kind of proud of the parenting drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-60044864049411088882012-01-25T15:52:00.000Z2012-01-25T15:52:50.335ZI Taught You How To DanceThis is so gorgeous, all of the hairs on the back of my neck are sticking up.
Darren Hayman - I Taught You How To Dance (Official Video) from Darren Hayman on Vimeo.drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-41149339947361528102012-01-25T06:47:00.000Z2012-01-25T06:47:00.436ZMa Baby (He's Boring)
The Southern States of the USA don't have a monopoly when it comes to singing about disappointment in relationships.
Here is a sad, sad tale from deepest Lanarkshire of a guy who is more interested in his boxsets than his girlfriend.
The Just Joans - Ma Baby (He's Boring)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-34884409437264906932012-01-24T06:58:00.001Z2012-01-24T06:58:00.733ZHe Called Me Baby
He Called Me Baby was originally entitled She Called Me Baby, a country song written by Harlan Howard. Until about ten years ago I had only ever heard the Patsy Cline version.
I was travelling home from Edinburgh, late one night during a hectic data base lock and had turned the radio to Radio 2 for some reason, just in time to hear Bob Harris play the Candi Staton version which bowled me overdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-78563980897969800222012-01-23T06:45:00.002Z2012-01-23T06:45:00.912ZDon't You Worry Baby
Here's a track which, when I was a teenager I would never have described as Northern Soul. Since then I like to think that I have grown up, (possibly) become less blinkered and realised that all that nonsense about the tracks having to be 60s stompers was exactly that, nonsense and that there is room for the likes of Don't Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come in that broad church that is drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-87263935475307018862012-01-22T09:25:00.000Z2012-01-22T09:25:19.210ZBaby Says
When I first saw the Kills at King Tuts all those years ago I thought that they were brilliant. But since Keep On Your Mean Side the next two albums the duo released disappointed me. There is really nothing wrong with them, they are on the whole good albums but there was something missing, nothing I could pinpoint.
Last year's Blood Pressures on the other hand was probably one of my favourite drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-44756821808217032202012-01-21T20:59:00.001Z2012-01-21T21:00:30.214ZJust Because . . .
this is quite, quite wonderful.
Sam & Dave - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Nothing wrong with mine, she's just stumbled in the door after being out all day in the Town!drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-63748009298890903832012-01-19T06:29:00.001Z2012-01-19T06:29:00.306ZA Man Is A Mean Thing
Here is a cracking slab of RnB courtesy of Barbara Perry. Another track that was unreleased back when it was recorded in 1967. It was finally released by Kent in 2008 on the New Breed R&B With Added Popcorn cd and a subsequent 7" single with I've Got A Feeling by Gladys Bruce on the flip.
Barbara Perry - A Man Is A Mean Thing drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-41454809832629188142012-01-17T21:31:00.002Z2012-01-17T21:46:04.665Z37°2 le Matin
I bet I wasn't the only person who had this poster on his wall and was ever so slightly obsessed with Beatrice Dalle back in 1986/87.
I once made my good friend Trudi sit through Betty Blue, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Three Colours Red all in the one afternoon/evening. Can't quite remember what she did to deserve that but we remain friends to this day, amazingly.
Gabriel Yared - 37drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-30279358358773070752012-01-17T06:34:00.000Z2012-01-17T06:34:00.909ZJust Lovely
I haven't listened to Rilo Kiley much recently, I'm not sure why, I think that the totally underwhelming last album and my complete ambivalence to the two solo efforts by Jenny Lewis may have something to do with it. Yesterday, however this song came on the ipod on the journey up to Dundee and it made me revisit More Adventuros and The Execution Of All Things on the road back down. I think thatdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-85135002495810576102012-01-16T06:59:00.001Z2012-01-16T06:59:00.949ZGloomy Monday?
I think that today is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year not for me, that accolade is always the day when the anti-christ gets another one of his manufactured non entities to number one on the Sunday before Christmas.
Anyway, last week to start the week we had a jazz tinged housey bit of soul, this week I feel that I am straying into The Ghost of Electricity's territory with adrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-1072640605687776242012-01-14T09:51:00.001Z2012-01-14T09:55:09.863ZKeeping Warm
Went to see We Were Promised Jetpacks with Stiff just before Christmas for what is becoming to be a
annual fixture for December along with The Wedding Present.
As usual they were very good getting better with every gig. The only problem with the evening was all the twats who seemed to be on a Private School Christmas night out and their incessant chatter which luckily was drowned out by the drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-78389387596440872512012-01-13T13:26:00.001Z2012-01-13T14:13:13.942ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
Technology, don't you just love it until it fucks up.
My work laptop decided it no longer wanted to connect to the Internet yesterday and due to my reliance on web based systems I'm as much good as a man short. So today I will be tidying up my office and feeling guilty about doing next to nothing, as my laptop gets couriered to Luton to either be rebuilt or scrapped.
But back to the music. drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-11340992203787015512012-01-12T20:38:00.001Z2012-01-14T12:28:21.095ZHappy Birthday
Number two son is three today.
Here is a tune he likes to jump about to. I blame his mother.
M.I.A - Paper Planesdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-66532185616926342992012-01-11T06:12:00.002Z2012-01-11T06:12:02.821ZDays Like This
I'm probably going to get a visit from the download plods for this. But what the hell, I really want to post this, as the lyrics convey the very antithesis of how my last few days have gone extremely well.
"When everyone is upfront and they're not playing tricks" - If only.
Very grumpy Northern Irish Gentleman - Days Like Thisdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-86586056413285516692012-01-10T06:21:00.000Z2012-01-10T06:21:02.305ZSo Long
Davy the Ghost has an interesting wee series on the go over at his, where he is finding reasons to be cheerful during this quite glum month. Me being the miserable bastard that I am, am not really that enthused by London buses or random strangers smiling at me. I have to have something a bit more tangible to cheer me up or something to really look forward to. Failings on my part, I know.
One drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-4303307145196524962012-01-09T06:14:00.002Z2012-01-09T09:38:13.019ZThis Is What You Are
How about a little bit of jazzy tinged, Housey, Italian blue eyed soul to start off a new week. If you close your eyes and concentrate hard enough, it is no longer january and the sky definitely isn't slate grey but a rather bright blue and lovely and warm.
Now, doesn't that feel better?
Mario Biondi - This Is What You Are.drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-23998517049073930722012-01-08T10:50:00.000Z2012-01-08T10:50:23.988ZI Is Three
The Pale Fountains - From Across The Kitchen Table (7" version)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-1945839252677598022012-01-07T06:25:00.002Z2012-01-07T20:45:51.014ZHow Was This Ever Thought To Be Rubbish?
In 1975 Phil Spector decided that he was the person who could revive the flagging career of Dion DiMucci. At the time Dion was thrilled to be working with one of his heroes but by the time it was completed he all but disowned the album saying " it was basically Phil's album". The decision not even to release the album in the US and it's negligible impact in the UK can't have boosted Dion's drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-54022757806197390822012-01-06T03:30:00.001Z2012-01-17T15:58:29.397ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
Back to 1987 today, well it was actually released in 1986 but it came to my attention the following year, for what has to be one of, if not the best sounds to come out of that period of early House Music.
Move Your body for me is synonymous with Saturday nights spent in the Sloe Club in the RGIT Union in Aberdeen getting off my face and trying to dance to this new wonderful music. It was the drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-90857543572791814102012-01-05T19:40:00.000Z2012-01-05T19:40:50.194ZCarla Thomas
I just can't get away from the soul at the moment.
I've been looking at all of these "Ones To Watch for 2012" lists and absolutely nothing is floating my boat.
So
Here is number 405 of the Top 500 Northern Soul tracks. I'll Never Stop Loving You by Carla Thomas was a track that was never released when recorded but was discovered on tape by the crate diggers at Kent and released in 1991.
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-84096107143371476112012-01-04T21:08:00.001Z2012-01-04T21:09:17.129ZDreich Is The Only Word For It.
It looks as though we are being battered by "Son of Hurricane Bawbag" at the moment. The wind is howling and the rain is pishing down.
It is at times like these that I search through the shelves 'til I get to M, reach for some John Martyn, put it on the turntable and listen, really listen then it doesn't seem so cold and miserable, well it is but I just don't care any more.
John Martyn - drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-70884469701485898452012-01-03T22:40:00.001Z2012-01-03T22:41:46.929ZA Good Thing Going
When I was first getting into Northern Soul all those years ago, it wasn't easy getting a hold of the tracks as nobody I knew had any collections to speak of. The only way to get a hold of these tunes was to buy home made compilation tapes from ads in the back of Scootering or to buy the few compilation albums and repress singles on labels like Casino Classics and Inferno.
One of the best of drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-1839756306356695402012-01-02T12:30:00.001Z2012-01-02T12:36:26.849ZOnly The Lonely
It's Max's first football match today, local derby between Airdrie and Albion Rovers, the two best teams in Lanarkshire, if you don't count either Motherwell or Hamilton, when I come to think of it they probably aren't the best two teamss in Airdrie and Coatbridge.. The last time we played the mighty Rovers we were thrashed seven (7) two. I'm quite confident we will do much better today.
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-9218463683606501312011-12-31T15:27:00.002Z2011-12-31T19:10:27.105ZHogmanay
Usually at the moment I am fretting over the menu for tonight's meal for ten but due to changes in circumstances of a few of our friends it was not really on the cards this year. Instead we will be going three doors and bringing in the new year there. It also mean that I can slip away after the Bells and get to my bed and not have to wait until the last guests get their taxi, usually around 4 drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-74274170718470094792011-12-30T16:07:00.000Z2011-12-30T16:07:48.308ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
By Christ, that was a quick week. I most certainly have over indulged in food, alcohol not so much, although I did manage to arse a bottle of Foxdenton 48% London Gin and very nice it was too.
This Friday sees us back to 1993 and a bit of Gospel tinged House courtesy of the 50 strong Sounds of Blackness with a little smattering of the genius that was Sasha before he disappeared up his own arsedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-41780033967182956722011-12-28T22:38:00.001Z2011-12-28T22:40:45.520ZStop
Here's a bit of blue eyed soul from 1967.
Bobby Diamond is better know as actor Robert Miano who started his film career in the original Death Wish film, the unfathomable popularity of which resulted in Michael Winner being the prick that he is these days, however I digress. But before that he recorded this stomper for Columbia which became a bit hit with the Casino crowd during the 70s.
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-61332704759111894662011-12-27T11:11:00.000Z2011-12-27T11:11:40.742ZToo Much Apple Pie?
Well, I hope you have over indulged as much as I have and I'm not the only one feeling like a right fat pig.
The turkey turned out perfectly moist, everything worked out well. You can keep your Heston's, Jamie's et al for fool proof instructions has to be the domestic goddess, no not that pretender, the daughter of that fuck wit of an ex Chancellor of the Exchequer. I mean Delia, I have drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-42342190280332817512011-12-24T17:37:00.001Z2011-12-24T18:16:00.642ZMerry Christmas
Well, the Chocolate Torte is made the veg is all prepared, the turkey has been picked up from the butcher's after a "how fucking much" under my breath. I think it is time for a Bloody Mary and ten minutes to myself. Then if S has all his prep completed out for a couple of pints and I do mean a couple then back to wrap L's presents and then bed.
Thanks and all the best to all of you who have drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-22604374007733585932011-12-23T15:30:00.002Z2011-12-23T16:11:30.477ZIt's The Friday Before Christmas . . . Let's Dance
We'll that's that then. The closure of the Edinburgh office, a bit ironic that on Radio 4 last night there was a programme detailing how Scotland was leading the way with clinical trials in the UK and today the last presence by a Pharma Company in Scotland closes their Research office and not with a bang but with a miserable, barely discernible fart. I am, to say the least at a bit of a low ebbdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-513286072694037442011-12-22T16:30:00.001Z2011-12-22T19:18:06.631ZOsaka Monaurail
Anybody up for a bit of Japanese soul?
It's a belter.
Osaka Monaurail have been going for quite a while, since the turn of the millennium. They have released eight albums and some very good 7" singles. This track is there first single since 2009 and features the vocal talents of Shirley Davis an Australian singer who we deserve to hear a whole lot more of.
Osaka Monaurail - No Trouble On Thedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-66176595444969769012011-12-21T15:51:00.000Z2011-12-21T15:51:32.093ZHe Got Game
Nothing to say really.
This has been going through my head all day today.
Public Enemy - He Got Game drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-33022033154723346732011-12-20T06:58:00.001Z2011-12-21T08:39:40.322ZDefinitely The Last
I love Alex Harvey but strangely this is the first time he has appeard here.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mama, They're Burning Big
Louie
Corrrect link now in place drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-19176151328871242572011-12-19T15:58:00.001Z2011-12-19T16:07:15.030ZPicture Me Gone
Here is one of my all time favourite northern tracks and one of the first that I ever bought on 7".
Madeline Bell's version of the track was released in 1967 on the Philips label but it took until the mid 80s and it's popularity amongst Scooterists for this song to get the recognition it rightfully deserved.
Madeline Bell - Picture Me Gonedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-22745792154638012372011-12-18T09:30:00.002Z2011-12-18T11:42:59.658ZGigs Of The Year
This year saw me attending more gigs than I did last year but there were still loads that I was unable to attend due to financial constraints or travelling with work.
Like last year the accolade of worst gig of the year goes to that spineless bastard Smith, not his band mind you, who sounded great but the git himself who yet again decided that the crowd in Edinburgh did not deserve any effortdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-24881680000901100672011-12-17T12:09:00.000Z2011-12-17T12:09:20.378ZDJ L Suggests . . .
. . . You might like to listen to Lunaire. He reckons it's a particularly nice piece of Shoegaze with just the right amount of twee and goes particularly well with the Arctic landscape outside.
Personally, I think that this lot have been listening to more My Bloody Valentine and Trembling Blue Stars in their Melbourne apartments than is healthy but what do I know.
Lunaire - Pale Beneath A drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-1433972444188950412011-12-16T16:28:00.002Z2011-12-16T17:32:36.091ZA Reference To Beer On A Friday Can Mean Only One Thing
This is to keep Anon happy he has been rather quiet of late and well it is Christmas after all. It is also an excuse for me to post one of the best titled songs I have come across.
The Joy Formidable - My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than A Hundred Dead Christmas Treesdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-41452542535083737502011-12-16T16:20:00.000Z2011-12-16T16:20:19.359ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
I don't know about where you are but it's "bloody baltic" up hear in the frozen north. I'm not sure why we say this as the Baltic isn't a particularly cold place b ut we do and it most certainly is.
So here is a track from 1992 which from the name of the band/producers alone makes me feel much warmer. It was released on UCR records and reminds me very much of Liberation/Liberation 2 which drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-45675941772139153622011-12-14T10:58:00.001Z2011-12-14T12:44:55.406ZLast One I Promise . . . Well Mebbie
This will be the last christmas track, well unlesss I have an urge to post something else.
I eventually got a copy of this on 7" single earlier this year while digging through the boxes on the floor in Head on one of my trips to Belfast. I already had the single sided seven with the vocal version but the choral version had alluded me up until then.
At the weekend I was thinking while making drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-80556336732934028902011-12-13T06:21:00.000Z2011-12-13T06:21:02.013ZWinston Smith
Following on from yesterday's post, here is a track in honour of the anti hero of 1984.
Winston Smith is one of the highlights from Dogs seciond album Tall Tales From Under The Table. I still think that they would have been more successful if they didn't have such a pish name.
Dogs - Winston Smithdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-1402579302097891082011-12-12T06:16:00.000Z2011-12-12T06:16:01.030ZAlbion
Don't know what it is about this song but when I listen to it I automatically think of these lines:-
It was bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-27834521114998286762011-12-11T10:43:00.000Z2011-12-11T10:43:34.617ZAnothor Bloody Christmas Song Drew?
I had a successful day yesterday on the Byres Road and Gt Western Road. Suffice to say all presents are now bought and I also managed to get a few things in my favourite second hand record shop for good measure and one thing which turned out not to be what I originally thought it was but good none the less . So I am feeling a bit Christmassy.
You would have to be a real hard hearted bastard drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-7565563049622472802011-12-10T11:21:00.000Z2011-12-10T11:21:26.691ZI Suppose It's Time
I have just put the tree up and at this moment L is still enjoying decorating it. Give her time and she will be at the end of her tether as the boys take off what she has put on, finds her favourite bauble, the one she has had since she was a kid broken and the lights not working. Season of joy indeed.
I'm off to the town, to Nancy Smillie's to try and get something for L's Christmas. So I drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-85561918128953535642011-12-09T21:43:00.001Z2011-12-09T22:01:17.266ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
A lot later than normal.
Not had a chance to think about this but this was what I was listening to when I thought that my time had come yesterday while flying on the orange airline from Glasgow to Belfast.
Have a good weekend people.
Primal Scream - Come Together (Farley mix)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-12560222879861823092011-12-07T21:36:00.000Z2011-12-07T21:36:03.139ZSpector, No Not That One
I'm off to Belfast 'til Friday.
Here is a track from th Tracks Of My Year. There has been a lot of coverage of Spector in the music press, some good, a lot bad. As far as I'm concerned, I've liked everything I've heard so far, they're far from being the most original band in the world but then again who is these days?
I particularly like the break at about 2 mins twenty.
Spector - Never Fadedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-65614792083868650002011-12-07T16:52:00.002Z2011-12-07T16:58:27.393ZDobie Gray RIP
Go easy Dobie and thanks for Out On The Floor which always packed the floor at Scooterist do's.
However, this seems more appropriate.
Dobie Gray - Drift Away drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-15918507458061272712011-12-06T21:32:00.000Z2011-12-06T21:32:37.837ZThe Girl Can't Help It
I'm not sure whether I've seen the film that this is the theme tune to or not. I have vague recollections of watching it some Saturday or Sunday afternoon a long time ago, however that may be rubbish. But I haven't been able to get the theme song out of my head since a programme a few weeks ago on Radio 4 recounting when Jayne Mansfield came to England and toured the Working Men's Clubs in thedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-44052092434547650102011-12-05T10:55:00.000Z2011-12-05T10:55:34.115ZBloody Snow!
The above picture was taken from my front door at about 8 am. The bloody white stuff is back, let's hope it is not a repeat of last year.
Comet Gain - Moments In The Snowdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-27704665642140778112011-12-04T23:17:00.000Z2011-12-04T23:17:58.973Z"What do you expect us to do, go and make a jungle record?"
"Nothing justifies the track—it was a pile of shit but it did serve as a reminder why we should never go back in the studio again—'cos we knew we were past it . . . " Is how Bill Drummond described his and Jimmy Cauty's contribution to the Help album, a cd compiled in aid of the charity War Child.
However, I don't share Drummond's view, I love the track and it's one of the two tunes that drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-16732112926392235262011-12-03T17:06:00.001Z2011-12-03T17:08:10.177ZThe Tracks Of My Year
This last twelve months has seen my fixation with dubstep and new dance tunes grow, without ever having set foot in a club, alas I think that my days for clubbing are well and truely in the past. I prefer to sit and listen to these tunes in the comfort of my red chair with a G&T in hand and the stereo at a loud but still acceptable, volume.
I have also bought quite a few old R&B sevens and drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-52309412260490453312011-12-02T11:12:00.001Z2011-12-02T11:13:44.853ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
Today's piece of vinyl was one of those records you picked up having not heard but everybody else had been raving about or in this case raving to. When I eventually got around to listening to it I was more than a little disappointed.
Forty Miles is built around a looped piano sample from Jimi Polo's Better Days and was originally released on Inner Rhythm in 1991. I have posted the instrumentaldrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-57821707882962534542011-12-01T06:47:00.000Z2011-12-01T06:47:01.263ZHound Dog
I don't know why it is but I seem to be swinging from the latest Techno and Dubstep back to the earliest R&B and Soul at the moment and sort of disregarding everything in between.
Here's another 7 inch re-press I managed to get my hands on recently.
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dogdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-36258657258571912182011-11-30T07:04:00.001Z2011-11-30T07:04:00.330ZNot Another Remix Of Limit To Your Love, You Say
Last week Acid Ted posted a couple of remixes of Limit To Your Love by James Blake and I commented that I had ben totally underwhelmed by what I had heard. That was until I heard today's track but I think that my liking for this track has more to do with the freshness of the remix rather than the source material
Dauwd is a young producer/chef from Wales who has recently signed to Pictures drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-38458397998343670792011-11-29T06:55:00.002Z2011-11-29T11:38:06.854ZCelebrate, What's To Celebrate?
I'm off down to Luton for a few days to "celebrate success" and look to the future. The thing is I'm not really in the mood to celebrate success when I know that by the 23rd of December the office that I worked in for a good few years and many highly competent, professional and knowledgeable people will no longer be there and will no longer be on the end of the phone or just an email away with drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-19664043185456422642011-11-28T13:47:00.000Z2011-11-28T13:47:22.522ZGood Rockin'
While looking through some vinyl yesterday I came across Good Rockin' by Rocking Dopsie and the Cajun Twisters. I hadn't played this album in years so put it on and was delighted to find out that it sounded as good yesterday as it did when I first bought it, over twenty years ago on the recommendation of Big Boab.
Rocking Dopsie And The Cajun Twisters - Look Out Mr Heartachedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-54383008449506417182011-11-27T12:24:00.000Z2011-11-27T12:24:30.791ZDJ L Suggests . . .
. . . you may like to listen to
Dauwd - Acireamsdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-28578530153484830022011-11-26T13:28:00.000Z2011-11-26T13:28:30.668ZWhen Smokey Sings
Japan, my arse!
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - I Second That Emotiondrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-42240500659663906612011-11-25T17:27:00.000Z2011-11-25T17:27:58.880ZFriday Night Pass
It is nearly as rare as meeting a fellow blogger down in the smoke for a few pints and sorting out the whole of pop music but it has happened, me and my mate have finally been able to obtain Friday night passes at the same time.
In honour of the occasion it has been necessary to move Sturdy Girl from the sidelines to her rightful place on a Friday night.
Sorry that the tune has been used drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-63492658848059118772011-11-25T06:29:00.001Z2011-11-25T06:29:00.705ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
I've had a week in Scotland for a change, no stupid o'clock flight's, long train journeys or value depreciating car journeys. Would like to say that I'm all the better for it but I feel as if I've been slacking somehow.
Today's track comes from 1993, contains a sample from a Primal Scream song and was released on the Bosting label and that is about all I know about it. You can go look it up ondrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-24125657833731060462011-11-24T12:47:00.000Z2011-11-24T12:47:22.349ZSay Something Nice To Me
This popped through my door today. At last I have it on 7".
As with Saturday's post, file under Pure Class.
Bobby Kline - Say Something Nice To Medrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-66722308871328646952011-11-24T06:48:00.001Z2011-11-24T06:48:00.752ZLove Is Like An Itching In My Heart
Here is a brilliant bit of what would you say, mainstream soul, I think I will stay clear of the P word.
This Holland-Dozzier-Holland composition was recorded in 1965 and released the following year when it reached number 9 in the Billboard charts joining the select club of Supremes songs penned by that illustious trio which didn't get to number one. For me it is right up there with the best drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-45474642593023676592011-11-23T06:14:00.000Z2011-11-23T06:14:00.300ZMy Sugar Baby
Right, let's get back on track after yesterday's little excursion into the universe of Dr Alex P and back to the soul and a track that I can't believe that I haven't posted before as it is one of my all time favourite northern tracks, guaranteed to get shoes a shuffling and hips a moving.
If you find My Sugar Baby rather similar to the all time number one northern and most expensive drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-15345661762108811072011-11-22T06:21:00.001Z2011-11-23T19:37:50.653ZMajestic
On the long journey up the road on Friday while making the resolution of never drinking with Davy H on a school night ever again, I was looking for something mellow to play and decided upon the Orb. Recently whenever I have reached for the Orb it has been Adventures, or Baghdad Batteries. I felt that the former was rather too cliched for this situation and well, Baghdad Batteries had too many drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-80006591204349937172011-11-21T06:31:00.000Z2011-11-21T06:31:00.607ZBaby Don't You Weep
I have been on a bit of a northern tip this weekend. Maybe I'm trying to cleanse my mind of all of those suggestions of Norman Greenbaum, T Rex, Haircut 100 and the rest over at Davy H's bit. Or maybe I am just in the mood for an all nighter or weekender as I have recently been reminiscing about the Togetherness Weekender's at the Cala Grand Holiday Park in Fleetwood. Those were the daysdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-70124531328671384252011-11-20T10:24:00.000Z2011-11-20T10:24:51.155ZBaby Please Don't Go
Here is something a bit special, courtesy of those wonderful crate diggers at Jazzmann Records.
Rose Mitchell's version of Baby Please Don't Go was the first release on Jazzman's Juke Box Jam series and I can't think of a better track. This, in my opinion is the best version of this oft covered r n b standard. What an amazing vocal delivery and those handclaps really set the whole thing off.
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-16844989817596393342011-11-19T09:22:00.002Z2011-11-28T16:03:09.234ZThe Stunners
With the controversy still raging over at Mr H's, the only thing for certain is that Davy no longer qualifies for membership in the "This Blog Continues To Decline Foundation For Middle Aged Men" so it is with a heavy heart that I hereby revoke said membership.
Oh and while we are on the subject of classification, just file today's track under, class, sheer class.
The Stunners - Nobody But Medrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-85284458028539454302011-11-18T06:17:00.003Z2011-11-18T09:30:24.140ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
While you are reading this I will be letting the train take the strain getting the 16:57 from Euston back to civilisation.
I had totally forgotten about today's track until I was scrolling through the posts on Pure Club Classics when I came across a posting for the Brothers in Rhythm remix of Here Comes The Rain Again which I remembered being rather good.
I'm sure that the first time that I drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-80344817077381481942011-11-17T07:04:00.002Z2011-11-17T07:04:00.072ZLazy Week pt 4
Up until a couple of years ago I was under the impression that today's track was a Cramps original. With a title like Goo Goo Muck, I thought that it had to come from the demented minds of Lux and Ivy.
How wrong I was, not only was it not an original but it was first recorded in 1962 by Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads.
Ronnie Cook and The Gaylads - Goo Goo Muckdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-18399678285680326912011-11-16T06:19:00.001Z2011-11-16T09:16:03.874ZLazy Week pt3
The Fall have picked some songs to cover which at first glance induce a shudder of absolute incredulity, for example Black Night by Deep Purple, sometimes they work wonderfully as in the sublime cover of Lost In Music at other times the work less well and today's choice of tune should definitely be included in the later category, suffice to say it isn't one of the group's finest moments.
I drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-14516966245758967792011-11-15T06:03:00.001Z2011-11-15T06:03:01.006ZLazy Week pt 2
Well at least the performance review is over for another 6 months. I have no idea whether I am where I should be or not and anyway it's all arbitrary as there is a curve to follow and we can't have too many people doing well as that wouldn't fit in with whoever's bullshit theory the curve was, I'm sure I could find out if I really gave a toss. That's not to say I don't give a shit about my workdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-56243030654518147132011-11-14T06:51:00.002Z2011-11-14T09:27:23.888ZLazy Week pt 1
Right, I have a really shit week ahead.
End of year review today and three days in the smoke to look forward to. So I have decided to do a week of original songs that were either covered by the Cramps or The Fall, two of the most plagiaristic bands in my collection, indeed a couple of this weeks track will have been covered by both. Both bands however put their own inimitable slant on anythingdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-59554714086271370382011-11-13T11:26:00.002Z2011-11-13T16:09:34.111ZCrimson & Clover
Prince's version of this came on the mp3 player on Thursday during my long journey up the road from Nottingham when I rashly opted to drive rather than wait the three hours for my flight home.
I think that Joan Jett's versdion is my favourite, just a baw hair in front of the original by Tommy James and The Shondells.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Crimson & Clover drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-29284138088263826682011-11-12T08:53:00.000Z2011-11-12T08:53:46.943ZEye Know
Some Daisy Age hip-hop for you. Back in the day when there was no East Coast/West Coast shit going on and guys rapped about more than money, ho's and guns. It seems so long ago.
It was a bloody long time ago, twenty one years ago to be precise.
De La Soul - Eye Know (Daisy Bass mix)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-69003256216393524422011-11-11T20:35:00.000Z2011-11-11T20:35:35.659ZIt's Friday . . . Let's Dance
I don't know about you but I'm in the mood for some uplifting house music, courtesy of Strictly Rhthym.
I am not ashamed to admit that I cried the first time I heard this, granted I was full of more than just emotion that night but still.
Have a good weekend people.
South Street Player - (Who?) Keeps Changing Your Minddrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-67699550194335802012011-11-11T07:01:00.003Z2011-11-11T07:01:01.234ZLest We Forget
For Cpl Andrew WingatePrivate James Little
Eric Bogle - No Man's Land drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-45349690498720652522011-11-10T06:05:00.000Z2011-11-10T06:05:00.396ZPop Perfection
Is there a more perfect pop song?
The Ronettes - Be My Baby drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-70928205279288762332011-11-09T11:01:00.001Z2011-11-09T11:01:59.132ZBlack Satin
I wish that this duo would tour over here sometime soon. As I've said on numerous occassions they make a beautiful racket live and to a lesser extent on vinyl.
This track comes from their third full album Lust Lust Lust released in 2007.
The Raveonettes - Black Satin drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-40531521230394321712011-11-08T21:31:00.001Z2011-11-08T21:34:27.564ZLook At Me Now
Terry Callier has had a sort of renaissance over the last few years what with supplying vocals for the likes of Massive Attack and working with Farley & Heller and Paul Weller amongst others.
His recording career stretches back to 1963 and covering the genres of Jazz, Soul and Folk. Not the kind of stuff that you would associate with northern soulbut tunes like Ordinary Joe and today's postingdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-73439733656877760342011-11-07T15:19:00.001Z2011-11-07T15:19:40.204ZScience of Silence
Do you think that the similarity to Neil Diamond is intentional?
I really like this song even although the lyrics are pretty crap. Does that mean that I am secretly a fan of Song Sung Blue? Certainly not.
Richard Ashcroft - Science of Silence.
I'm off to see The Airborne Toxic Event tonight, yippee, @ the Arches, yuck!drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-19497147484402832222011-11-06T10:15:00.000Z2011-11-06T10:15:46.604ZA Plague For The Naive
This post was prompted by the track that Scott over at Spools Paradise uploaded yesterday.
Just Like Fred Astaire is probably my favourite song by James. When I hear it I cannot help but smile it is such a an upbeat optimistic song, the last verse especially.
Meteors may strike the earth
Nations live and die
I'm the boy who got the girl
Who showed me how to fly
We can cross the race drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-40798266147149858242011-11-05T08:45:00.000Z2011-11-05T08:45:57.827ZMassive Attack Vs Burial
I have thought long and hard about posting this in it's entirety as it is brand new. I don't generally do this, if a new record comes out then if I think that others may like it I will post a track off of the record but not the whole thing. But a couple of factors have pushed me into posting both sides.
Firstly, this is a limited release, only 1000 copies were pressed, with no repress and no drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-37238385413424550672011-11-04T17:04:00.001Z2011-11-04T19:41:19.277ZIt's Friday . . Let's Dance
In anticipation of D's week of Techno Classics over at Acid Ted I decided that we would have some serious heavy duty dance shenanigans this Friday.
Who better then the Baron of Techno, Dave Clarke. Here is Robert Hood's mix of Clarke's seminal Red 2 release Wisdom To The Wise. So you really are getting two legends of techno for the price of one.
Oh, and SA, get your head out of the bass bin drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-50860464490889115932011-11-04T10:24:00.046Z2011-11-04T21:10:51.787ZEnough Is EnoughWell Smith has done it once more in Edinburgh, took the piss out of the people he makes a living from and sadly I was there to see it again.
The venue was busy, busier than I had expected and without doubt the biggest venue the Fall have played north of the border for some time. By 20:45, the time the band were supposed to come on stage the place was just about full.
Two minutes to nine the drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-28662955485513107422011-11-03T16:46:00.001Z2011-11-03T16:46:35.639ZA Full Gig This Time Please
I'm off to see the Fall tonight. The first time since last April when Smith decided that we didn't deserve a full gig for our money. So I am more than a little anxious about tonight as it is also in Edinburgh but at the Picture House, a venue I have not been to before but have heard that it is larger than the usual venues the gruppe play up here, so hoping that it will be more than half full.
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-15716087621300760202011-11-03T06:21:00.000Z2011-11-03T06:21:00.331ZSinead O'Connor
I've always had loads of admiration for Sinead O'Connor. I love the way she says exactly what she thinks and does not worry about the consequences. I also loved how she sort of pitched herself against the music industry and did things on her own terms.
Although neither of the above factors would have meant a lot if she didn't have the talent to back up these actions and by god does she have drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-52008282738763007302011-11-02T22:09:00.002Z2011-11-02T22:14:46.364ZWhat Do You Think?
When the clocks go back and the nights start to draw in up here in the north, I always find myself reaching for some John Martyn and in particular Small Hours for some reason.
A couple of weeks ago I did a post concerning the White Label, Stolen Voices album and mentioned that they had cut up, for want of a better word, Small Hours. At the time I was quite disparaging about this, as fucking drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-50023481464226484392011-11-02T06:04:00.001Z2011-11-02T15:49:50.242ZGui Boratto
At the end of last year I was bemoaning the lack of what I considered to good full albums that had been released and was pondering why this was so. Was it due to artists padding out albums with filler which bored me. Or had I just fallen out of love with the format, the concentration span not being what it once was? Never ever came to any conclusions but erred towards the later position
Thingsdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-84384716187004681352011-11-01T06:28:00.002Z2011-11-01T11:08:21.793ZFourteen Years
Fourteen years ago this very day I was standing in a Registry Office in Lanark, rather nervously saying I do despite the couple of swift Laphroaig's I had in The Cave on my way there.
Then we went down the clyde valley and had a rather splendid do and purvey.
This one's for L for putting up with me for what seems like no time at all to me but probably a lot longer to her.
Ruby Andrews -Just drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-43841546142189990322011-10-31T08:47:00.000Z2011-10-31T08:47:04.442ZHappy Birthday Son
It's Max's birthday today. He came into this world eight years ago at 08:30 on Halloween and has been scaring the shit out of his mother and I ever since.
Here is a couple of his favourite records.
Tinie Tempah - Written In The Stars
The Fall - Touch Sensitive
And seeing it's Halloween, here is a relevantly themed song by Shane MacGowan with the aid of the sweet, sweet tones of Sinead drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-89647290142490947132011-10-30T01:18:00.008+01:002011-10-30T01:42:25.094ZFootball And (or) Music
Unless you are a parochial, small minded bigot from west central Scotland , then this post will probably mean very little.
For years I have wondered about the correlation between having a shite taste in music and being a fan of either of the two sectarian clubs in Scotland. It has never ceased to amaze me at the lack of taste in music of most supporters of what we are led to believe are two ofdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-37633300023877445822011-10-29T11:21:00.001+01:002011-10-29T11:21:47.499+01:00Just Because . . .
. . . sometimes a bit of Marvin is all you need to get by.
Marvin Gaye - His Eyes Are On The Sparrowdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-83339009868806788642011-10-28T06:50:00.018+01:002011-10-28T06:50:00.455+01:00It's Friday . . . Let's Dance
Since it's the Friday before the 31st of October, Max's Halloween party is today and at least a few of you I bet will be following his lead by dressing up and dooking for apples over the weekend I thought that we should maybe have a themed dance track.
Finding scary dance tracks wasn't as hard as I originally thought it was going to be, my first thought, obviously was Spooky with Billie Ray drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-29274937120435992842011-10-26T06:50:00.002+01:002011-10-26T09:55:17.998+01:00Just Because
I'm in London for a couple of days and I didn't have time to do 3 posts on Sunday night.
But it is a brilliant song.
Bruce Springsteen - American Skin (41 Shots)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-48063673550475874442011-10-25T07:45:00.000+01:002011-10-25T07:45:19.078+01:00Keeping It Peel Day 2011
Last year for Keeping It Peel Day you may recall that I did a run down of my Top Ten Peel session tracks ever. This year what with one thing and another I have not had the time to do anything as extensive.
But what to do? Pick my favourite number 1 from all of the Festive Fifties, or a track that I had first heard on the Peel Show or go for another session. The problem with Peel is that there drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-69571015297383486912011-10-24T11:29:00.000+01:002011-10-24T11:29:47.314+01:00Mukatsuku Records
Here is a record label that you really should check out if you like anything with a dance beat or a bit left field.
The label was started by Dj Nik Weston and is a strictly 7" vinyl operation, no cds or downloads here. The label has been championed by the likes of Mr Scruff and Giles Peterson. Most of the artists on the label I had never heard of before with the exception of Tom Middleton drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-87930028495873880842011-10-22T06:59:00.000+01:002011-10-22T06:59:00.888+01:00Church
I have been reliably informed that 2 Bears are Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and Raf Rundell. They have produced a few 12" singles for Southern Fried, however this absolute belter of a track is released on Bitches Brew and has been remixed by Darkstarr Diskotek (Ashley Beedle & Collen Murphy) into a gospel and afrobeat tinged balearic classic.
But why the hell wasn't this released during the drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-79064401016646232212011-10-21T07:07:00.001+01:002011-10-21T07:07:00.110+01:00It's Friday . . . Let's Dance
What with all of the Stone Roses stuff that has been happening this week I have been casting my mind back to the late 80's and to what was really going on, with me anyway.
I remember buying The Stone Roses a couple of months after it's release and liking it. It didn't blow me away or anything, no Damascene moment. At this time it wasn't Manchester bands so much that interested me but more drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-32265238674367902712011-10-20T06:34:00.000+01:002011-10-20T06:34:00.268+01:00You Made Me Realise
I was going through my tracks on the mp3 player trying to make some space for new stuff last night. I hate doing this as I end up spending the night playing about a minute of maybe a hundred tracks that either I can't remember or think 'haven't heard that for a while'. Last night spending about two hours and freeing up less than half a gig of space. I even thought of converting everything backdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-72364559336943414572011-10-19T10:26:00.000+01:002011-10-19T10:26:26.708+01:00Ain't That Always The Way
It's half term up here and I took the week off to look after the boys. I also figured that I would have plenty of time to get a load of blog posts down and bits and pieces done around the house.
. . . well it's now Wednesday and I have done absolutely bugger all on either the DIY or as you will have noticed the blog fronts. We are going away for a few days tomorrow so I better get my arse indrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2