They don't make music like they used to

Tonight I are mostly been listening to the soundtrack of "The Mission"

Currently reminiscing dancing under age at Ecstasy Plus to tunes from Culture Beat and Real McCoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvgUdrzGNys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMWJcrvZSJk

I fell blonde - never knew Donna Summer sang this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQOYimLUt4&feature=related

has been a bad year for singers

Nice little article from a recent LA Times (31/05) gig review on our very own The Clean.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/05/live-the-clean-stays-youthful-at-the-echo.html

Particularly liked this comment:

With Scott wearing a battered straw fedora and David’s bandanna sweatband slipping down his forehead, they looked a bit like the kind of Down Under yokels English snobs have always dismissed their former colonists as. That’s Britain's loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRDqtdSpmLQ&feature=g-hist

Wot?

OK, seriously now.  I had been scouring the interweb for this song.  Heard it on a documentary about reggae a gazillion years ago (or at least a more bassier version).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oc5-BJh3Iw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY

Lovely Boy!

More youtube browsing turns up this gem that i had completely forgotten about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOCWUgwiWs&feature=related

Something for Dairyflat and Doloras to get stuck into.

(great song - got me all nostalgic like... again)

 Bearing in mind the thread's title....   my friend in Milan recommends this. She says to proves that all is not lost - Planet Funk - Another Sunrise

The video is just so... uplifting.

 Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely (1969) 

Now they don't make them like this anymore....  (or do they?) I played this a few days back and Kylie was not impressed.  Pah!

So I emailed him, Peter Sarstedt, with a couple of questions. Kylie despaired.

Then he replied to my email. Kylie even more despairing! 

Kate Garner - phwoarr.

Another 80s classic for young teenagers.

She later went on to be a photographer of note - how do i know?  Because I youtubed Kate Garner to death a year or two back.

"Duck Rock" was both a breath of fresh air and also tainted with exploitation.

I thrashed the album mercilessly until the accusations of ripping off surfaced.  I never played it or listened to it again until just now (thanks youtube).

The music is undeniably fantastic.

Getting all country and bluegrass on youtube:

Chris LeDoux - Look at you girl

Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis

Keith Whitley & Alison Krauss - When you say nothing at all

Flying Emus - Different drum

The Warratahs - pretty much anything of theirs

My youtubing re-encounters with the Flying Emus (apparently you can't get "Postcards from Paradise" on CD - it was only vinyl. More of my yoof gone without a trace), has today ended up with the Cowboy Junkies (Misguided Angel) and reading on Wiki it's interesting to note that they have continued to release many albums since the seminal "Trinity Session" - but none have made any impact outside of Canada.

One of their recent albums "Renmin Park" seems to be a fusion of Chinese music and the CJ  blues/folk sound.  Nice.

Edit: Here is Margo Timmins' wiki page. LOL.

Walking in Memphis is an all-time fav.

First record I ever bought from a record shop. Cost 45p in 1978, thats about $762 in todays money !

(Currency conversions & inflation adjusted pricing has a margin of error of + or - 98.3%)

My first record was a 45 rpm of the New Seekers "I'd like to teach the world to sing" (A side) and "Boom Town" (B side).

This was 1972.  My bro had Benny Hill ("Ernie the Fastest Milkman" and "Ting-a-ling-a-loo").

Later on we got Lieutenant Pigeon ("Desperate Dan" and "Opus 200")

Anyway - I just heard Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" on some Jamie Oliver show on TV.  I think Jamie O is a twunt but Neneh Cherry is one fine lady.

I only know Rip Rig & Panic from the Young Ones.  I don't think she was singing there was she?

 I don't know. Put that down to it being so long ago....but I think it is Andrea Oliver...  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8paRfr2_E 

Neneh Cherry had a baby about this time.... so maybe she wasn't performing as much.

Morrissey in Auckland last night superb......My head this morning very sore

I am reliving 90s American indie-guitar at the moment.  Buffalo Tom, The Lemonheads, Belly, etc.

Yays for Spotify as I've never got around to taking it all of disc.

Cheers.  Playing now.

Bad Manners:

You Fat B@stard 

Lorraine 

My Girl Lollipop 

Culture - Baldhead Bridge (I had a tape of this many years ago):

Heard this on National Radio this afternoon:

 Burning Spear-Slavery days 

 Just been listiening to The Clash....  Finally bothered to look up the lyrics to Tommy Gun

Tommy gun, you ain't happy less you got one
Tommy gun, ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun
Maybe he wants to die for the money
Maybe he wants to kill for his country
Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it

Tommy gun, you better strip it down for a custom run
Tommy gun, waiting in the airport 'till kingdom come
And we can watch you make it on the nine o'clock news
Standing there in Palestine lighting the fuse
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it

Tommy gun, Tommy gun

Tommy gun, you'll be dead when your war is won
Tommy gun, but did you have to gun down everyone?
I can see it's kill or be killed, a nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it

Tommy gun, you can be a hero in an age of none
Tommy gun, I'm cutting out your picture from page one
I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours and give my false support to your cause
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
Alright

Ok, so that’s agreed, about the price
I make it one two, ten dollar
For ten, reasonable
And boats and tanks and planes, it's your game
Kings and queens and generals learn your name
And I see all the innocents, the human sacrifice
And if death comes so cheap then the same goes for life

This is - in two words - f*cking amazing.

And this is a collaboration between Morricone and Westenra - almost as good as the original and equally moving:

Noddy Holder! 

 Was in Seoul for the last two weeks. I saw The Autocratics  at the Asia Ska Festival....  they made music like they used to....