Great Lost Tracks - An Everyday Series

Just to prove to Mo that all 80's musics not pish

Not an REM fan James although I'll grudgingly admit a few of their tunes are OK.

I like quite a few 80s acts, including the Smiths for example. Generally it was a shite decade though. Admit it!

Its not my favourite decade by any means Mo, I'm a Britpop bhoy. There has been some decent stuff amongst the shite though ....... New Order, early Waterboys, The Pogues, Billy Bragg, Dexys (apart from Too Rye Ay of course which is bollocks), Lloyd Cole, Ted Hakins, early Robert Cray and of course the overspill from the 70's

Good selection there, Jimmy. Let's edit my opinion of 80s music to: Anything Crown likes is probably shite!

Is that better?

supermo wrote:Good selection there, Jimmy. Let's edit my opinion of 80s music to: Anything Crown likes is probably shite!

Is that better?

Absolutely

he sent me Victims though by Culture Club which is top class

The thing with 80s pop is...

Nine times outta ten you remember it as brilliantly dancey, trashy and stompy...

...like this



And then you play it again

And you realise that you only liked that track back then cos you once put it on a comp tape and had the good sense to precede it with the fantastic Archie McPherson commentary from the WC qualifier vs Wales at Anfield 1977 (on the B-side of a Rod The Mod single - canny remember which one) where he goes.

" Good running by Buchan...and there's Kenny Dalglish in there.... OHHH YESSSS! WHATTA GOALLLLL! AND THE SCODDISH SUPPORT... ARE GOING MAD!!! (release pause button) OHHHH YESSS... YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD NOISE LIKE THIS IN ALL YOUR LIFE!!!"

Segues perfectly into Judd Lander's harmonica intro.

And then....


You play this



And realise what a superficially glossy piece of over-produced pap Culture Club actually were.

Never fails

You log in - 4 on, 3 viewing

Seconds later...

1 on, none viewing

It's a good job I got impeccable manners and a thick skin

"So why do we say hello? It's just a fashion that we follow that we should be forgetting
a fashion that we follow that we should be forgetting
It's a fashion that we follow that we should be forgetting
But then you do it again,
you do the same again"



Immo Greene...

News at Ten...

Blind drunk...

Comin to the end of... summat

Dreadfully cold

Desperately fukked off

Personally...

I reckon the 90s are due a comeback

Ricky D... it's ouever to yeuuw

"Come to Daddy came about while I was just hanging around my house, getting pissed and doing this crappy death metal jingle. Then it got marketed and a video was made, and this little idea that I had, which was a joke, turned into something huge. It wasn't right at all."

True that - ya freaky mofo

Or the late 70s

(You need the volume up full for this one to gain the proper effect)

Maaan - this still sounds fukkin incendiary

Let's hear it for those tracks that fall between the decades

1980 - is it really late 70s or must it be early 80s

Does music really deserve to be chronologically pigeonholed?

Prolly not

Should I go to bed before I make a complete and utter cunt of meself?

Too late

Sometimes you just want it a bit noisy

Knoworramean?



"Woke up this morning desperation a.m.
What I`ve been saying won`t say them again
My head`s not empty, it`s full with my brain
The thoughts I`m thinking
Like piss down a drain

And I feel like a beetle on its back
And there`s no way for me to get up
Love`ll get you like a case of anthrax
And that`s something I don`t want to catch

Ought to control what I do to my mind
Nothing in there but sunshades for the blind
Only yesterday I said to myself
The things I`m doing are not good
For my health

And I feel like a beetle on its back
And there`s no way for me to get up
Love`ll get you like a case of anthrax
And that`s something I don`t want to catch"

Or... if you like it a bit noisy and de-constructed...

"Love crops up quite a lot as something to sing about,
cos most groups make most of their songs about falling in love
or how happy they are to be in love,
you occasionally wonder why these groups do sing about it all the time -
it`s because these groups think there`s something very special about it
either that or else it`s because everybody else sings about it and always has,
you know to burst into song you have to be inspired
and nothing inspires quite like love.

These groups and singers think that they appeal to everyone
by singing about love because apparently everyone has or can love
or so they would have you believe anyway
but these groups seem to go along with what, the belief
that love is deep in everyone`s personality.
I don`t think we`re saying there`s anything wrong with love,
we just don`t think that what goes on between two people
should be shrouded with mystery."

A bit of 80's country rock, it will piss off Mo and Crown in one fell swoop

Fuck me it's Gerry Sadowitz's da

Continuing the vague country/rockabilly theme

and this one follows no theme at all, god it's beautiful though. Is it better than Arethra's cover, fucked if I know:pirat:

There's snow outside, must be time for the Reindeer Section. Not everyone's cup of tea but who cares

This track finds them at their most melodic, truely wonderful

Apologias por grumpinesso previosa.

Ay muchacho!

Outrageous




Course it was all your fault...

...but I'm bettuh now....

(One for A there )

Another one for A...


One of the great under-appreciateds

JimmyMcGrory wrote:and this one follows no theme at all, god it's beautiful though. Is it better than Arethra's cover, fucked if I know:pirat:

Carole (with an "e") is a goddess of the popplier song

A muse of the music, Venus of the vocal, lit from within - a real drop-to-yer-knees job.

We forgive her the fact that she inadvertently facilitated the abomination of Bye Bye Baby by the BCR...

We celebrate the fact that her voice makes the hairs on the backs of the necks of right-thinking people the world over stand on end.

Alex Chilton knew this...



PS

I quite like her.

Not fussed for that Go-betweens track Immo, first time I've heard it

Here's This Is The Sea

Abslootly love Lord Lexworth of Chiltonmeister so ah dae

He's an erratic maverick - ranges from bits where he clicks perfectly to bits where he churns out a loada predictable schlock cos he's got too scared of not doing it, to bits where he's so downright sloppy, fukked-up and embarrasingly faux-naif that he makes you want to look away... this way... any way.... fukk's sake - not THAT way... look - he's comin over now

I like him a lot

(Alex Chilton - High Priest - New Rose Records - out for ages you lazy dilletante bastards )

JimmyMcGrory wrote:Not fussed for that Go-betweens track Immo, first time I've heard it

Here's This Is The Sea

Loved that album - but F-mans B's left me totally cold.

I've always had a problem with the Folk/Pop mix.

Pop/Rock always seemed quite naturally urban to me.

Jazz, soul, ska, reggae and (occasionally) country all seemed to fit but the fiddly-bollocks stuff always seemed a bit "bolted-on" to me.

Yea - even unto the folkiousness of Sir Van of Morristoun

My loss i know - just a blind spot

Urban acoustic...

Why is it that one Bunnies track is never enough?

You put one on the thread...

and before you know it they're multiplying like... welll...





"It appears because it's what I feel
No I don't understand
If you're askin, no I don't mind kneeling
But when my knees hurt I like to stand...

...No matter how I shake my fist
I know I can't resist it"

...and just now and then, the musical trawl out of the previous tracks and into yer archive...

leads you to riches beyond compare.

A "found" track/clip.

A wee surprise.

The musical equivalent of overcoming the physical impossibility of tickling oneself.

(Although I have it on very good authority (cheers C/Bhoy ) that flies in the face of such strictured, academic thinking and obsessively attempts to "tickle himself" at least three to four times a day .... every day ... the filthy beast )

Expect a (vinegar) Strokes track next...

A Pearl and Dean/Perfect Kiss-Off Production

Pah-pah,pah-pah,puh-puh-pah-pah, puh-puh-pahhhhhh - PAH!



"Her papa was a midget
Her mama was a whore
Her grandad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty-four
(What a slimy old bastard he was)
Man don't you think I know she hates me
Man don't you think I know that she's no good
If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me
I think she'd kill me if she could
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
Maybe that's why I love her so...

...She will laugh at my mighty sword
She will laugh at my mighty sword
Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
Lord, hep me if you will
Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know
Maybe that's why I love her so"

And to conclude proceedings...

Please be upstanding for the national Anthem of Stennydonia



"I never drink in the afternoon
I never drink alone.
But I sure do like a drink or two
When I get home.

Let me tell you what I do.
I sit here in this chair.
I pour myself some whiskey.
And watch my troubles
vanish into the air.
Rollin', rollin'
Ain't gonna worry no more
Rollin', rollin'
Ain't gonna worry no more"