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Pure 80's

In for the kill ~ La Roux

TUESDAY


A lady who is an accomplished cabaret singer, very smooth, seductive even. But when she wants to, she can compete with Maggie Bell!


'Seduced' - Mary Coughlan


or a Leonard Cohen cover;

'Ain't No Cure for Love' - Mary Coughlan

In New Orleans - C.W Stoneking

We Can Be Strong - Willy Mason

Chicken Payback - the Bees

Teenage Fanclub. --- Sparkys Dream




Frank - Currently working in Inverness.

Lovin you has made me bananas / guy marks
Came out in the 1970s.
Sounded like the 1870s.
So Glen tells me.

Good show tonight and a mighty fine two kn a row to finish with

Raphael Saadiq - 'Let's Take A Walk' ... super-cool vibe...great video too...and what a snappy dresser.

Eli 'Paperboy' Reed - 'Time Will Tell' or 'Tell Me What I Wanna Hear' ... have tickets for his Edinburgh gig in August...the recorded songs are good enough but are nowhere near capturing what a great live show he puts on...seen him twice recently and it's a great night out.

An excellent show tonight.

The suerb Cosmic Rough Riders, sounds like a late 60's band in a way. One of Glasgow's finest:

Cosmic Rough Riders - Baby, You're So Free

I'll second Cosmic Rough Riders, norrie

Vanity Kills - Codeine Velvet Club

I am fairly sure that Giorgio Moroder and ABBA would both approve of:

Goldfrapp - Rocket

My favourite 50's artist is:

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

and I think this track could fit nicely in the 70's:

Scissor Sisters - Fire With Fire

and Lissie is realoly not Stevie Nicks in 1978?

Lissie - In Sleep

Kylie Auldist (with The Bamboos) - 'Community Service Announcement' (brought to my attention by 50s throwback Mark Lamarr)

The Bamboos feat Megan washington - 'King Of The Rodeo'

Ursula 1000 - 'Kaboom' ...very Austin Powers...you'll dance!

Looks like I missed a good show tonight so will have to use the listen again facility.

Just back in from having a couple o pints wi the cousin o' the late great John Martyn. Strikes me i should hae used that link a few themes back

Strugglin with Tuesday night's theme so will leave suggestions to the more inspired bloggers

DC

It's hard to be anything other than totally knocked out by the Dutch singing sensation, Caro Emerald - from one of my favourite albums of recent times the track 'That Man' although the voices are not remotely similar, I could imagine Eartha Kitt or any of the neumerous jazz/blues singers of the 40's & 50's singing this and just about anything else on the album.No wonder Amy gets pissed with this for competition.

And now, don't panic Bryan: no need to stumble over my name but I commend to the blogotariat and the production team a track from the rebirth of prog rock!!!! - From my favourite album of last year:the simply superb Plastic Beach by The Gorillaz.

' Some Kinda Nature' or 'Empire Ants' - The Gorillaz form Plastic Beach Some Kind of Nature features Lou Reed on good form.

Damon Albarn is a musical genius imho - check You Tube for the charming video of Blur and Francoise Hardy recording 'To The End'... amazing.

Ce Lo Green does pastiche soul the way Caro Emerald does pastiche jazz ballads -

Ce Lo Green - Satisfied

More to follow no doubt, but I'm being summoned to the m'lady's boudoir at this time, so nighty - night, y'all.

regardez youse

henri

Never forget you / The Noisettes
Took around 50 years to get this one released

Waking up sideways / Kassidy
Recorded in the 80s and only recently seen the light of day

Resistance / Muse
After being buried in a 70's prog rock time capsule , this track recently resurfaced.


Surprised Norrie hasn't suggested his favourite 50s group from the 70s

Let's Get Loud - The Baseballs

#16 I wondered about them paolo but I think they were too deliberately 50's. That said I should never miss the opportunity to suggest:

Showaddywaddy - Trocadero

Now what era was my favourite pixie like fantasy rock star???

What'd I Say - Ray Charles - It's 1959, the strains of Russ Conway's Roulette are dying away......
Eight Miles High - The Byrds - It's 1966, you switch on the Light Programme......
7 + 7 Is - Love - Later that day, punk arrives.

the wee bit of organ at the at the start sounds like 'the doors' are on stage but then the guitar riff joins in and its 'mick' taking centre stage and then...............

dandy warhol starts singing 'bohemian like you'...........

this song must have been played in that white pigeon hyde park gig aeons ago......but its actually from a different century.......wooooohoooo oooooh ooooh oooooh

cheers frae the dale

Bryan - This is brilliant! You won't play a better song tonight!!!

It Had To Be You - Harry Connick Jr.

:o)


And I have a brilliant Theme Suggestion - War Babies! The musicians who were born during the Second World War include all of the Beatles and most of the Stones! Best of all this is a theme everybody will love! Even Glen Miller!!!

;o)

Bryan - I forgot! The version of It Had To Be You is from the movie soundtrack of When Harry Met Sally You know, the one with the Big Band at the start. You'll find it! It's worth it. x

:o)

#16 & #18

Pah! Beaten to Trocadero by that pesky Maclean and its all Paolo Pitstop`s fault.
I`ll get you Pitstop!

The majority of selections seem to be pale and crude aping of original musical innovators by clueless upstarts who are unfit to lace their boots.

unclear paddle

nearly...

There is nothing new under the sun right enough.When I first heard Madeline Peyroux on the radio I was sure it was a Billie Holiday song I had missed somehow so studied was her delivery. Lady Day she isnt but I think she's the best of the bunch of the current wave of copyists,Rumer,Duffy et al.I love her cover of Leonard Cohen's "Half the Perfect World"or "Blue Alert".As for Kurt Elling,he blows Michael Buble,Harry Connick(sorry ,Senga) and Jamie Cullum out the water!Sure he harks back to the 50s specially John Hendricks scat vocals style but having seen him live this guy is the real(four octave!) deal and technically breathtaking.Put me in the mood for the great Annie Ross who says when she will be playing Oran Mor in July(still cant believe it)that she will be singing songs of the calibre of "Lush Life".Hear it and weep ,Mr Buble,Cheers Willie Bartke

Double entendre time ...

21st Century boy singing 1980 Punk in a 50's jazz/swing stylee ... another probably futile attempt to entice you with ...

'Holiday in Cambodia' ~~ Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine

#24

Aye faither, it's true enough, up to a point - every generation throws a hero up the pop charts and it's seldom a crude aping but somthing original - meantime the rest are usually competent performers/craftsmen/entertainers which is fair enough - we're here to be entertained.

If there had been no gospel and blues, there would have been Elvis and no Motown: if there had been no Elvis, there would have been no Beatles: if there had been no Beatles there would have been no Bowie etc etc etc .. everybody borrows from or is influenced by the past. It isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Caro Emerald and Ce Lo Green may be pastiche, but good fun - Damon Albarn is highly original in the scope of his musical imagination and a great collabaorator - constantly pushing himself in a McCartney-esque voyage of discovery.It will be Damon Albarn that will be remembered, but we can enjoy the others.

It doesn't matter to me if it's aping, as long as it's good: Great Expectations - The Gaslight Anthem - you'd never know they come from New Jersey.

regardez youse

henri

sorry that should have been 'no Elvis'

evil son

Aung San Suu Kyi must be a masochist. Two periods of house arrest punctuated by The Hairy Cornflake on the World Service, whom she describes as "making her world more complete".

Plainly this is a remarkable woman of amazing mental dexterity who can alter her outlook to suit her circumstances, no matter how awful. She's up there with Victor Frankl and Primo Levi for taking a positive message from the cesspit of human degredation.

The Burmese military must have thought they'd cracked it with The Hairy Cornflake on board. Bryan and Babs, if the junta get in touch, take nothing to do with it.

regardez youse

henri

No elves? You sure? That is a mystery.

Have always thought that 'Homesick' by Kings of Convenience (circa 2004) is a dead-ringer for early Simon & Garfunkel (particularly 'Bleaker Street' recorded 40 years previously...

of course the beatles could always sound futuristic or backwardistic.whichever way they always sounded fab.

'honey pie'...........................music hall era to the waft of a spliff.



cheers frae the dale

#32

Comin atcha through the cornflakes, Henri!

I've told you before not to under-estimate DLT. That World Service show would attract 4 million listeners and here, in this prestigious poll, he was voted among the top 50 celebrities of the 20th century (No. 41).

Back to the 80's:

Patrick Wolf - The City

The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease

"This groove is out of fashion
These beats are 20 years old"

David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones

# 36

Well, I concede, when you look at the celebrity listing you know you are dealing with a world class performer... trouble is, he knows it, obviously.

Asked to comment on the news that one of the world's celebrated political prisioners was a listener, a humbled Hairy Cornflake responded that he "wasn't surprised".

Modesty was never a strong point, resigning on air as though he was important etc. I never found him amusing, although he certainly seemed to.

To be fair his teatime show on Radio One was better: he once played Machine Gun by the Commodores and Keep On Truckin by Eddie Knedricks back to back.

His other claim to fame, if I remeber correctly, is that he once spent the night in the Miss Babs household when she was a slip of a girl.

regardez vous

henri

#32 #36 #39

You're dead right, Henri. I'd settle for house arrest on condition I never heard Dave Lee Travis again.

I used to feel the same about Tony Blackburn but age has somehow softened my
disapprobation.

There are still almost no selections of those ahead of their time. Any fool can do retro.

David Bowie - ahead of his time with at the very least his 1977 to 1980 output.

David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging

David Bowie - D.J

For all we know DLT could have been broadcasting secret coded messages out to the world and the big cuddly exterior was a disquise

10 4 rubber duck

#40

I put my list up last week

#36

Adam,

Where do you find this [Expletive removed by the moderators.]? I don't even know who half of these [Expletive removed by the moderators.] are! Did the British ex-pats in Rio come up with this list? Tell them to get a [Expletive removed by the moderators.] life!


























Jeezo.......

As noted above, The Beatles, go in both directions: Sgt Pepper was a great technological achievement at the time and a truly astonishing achievement being recorded on a four track machine.

It's influence is almost immeasurable in so many areas.

And at the time it sounded like nothing that had ever been heard before and yet today it's my least favourite Beatles album because, ironically, it sounds dated.

But it doesn't matter how you record it if the songwriting is this good -

Lovely Rita - the Beatles

And all the 80's fans on the production team should be aware that 1979's Mccartney 2 was also at least a couple of years ahead of i's time - an album made at home with a bundle of electronic keyboards and a drum machine.

Coming Up - Paul Mccartney the live version recorded in the Glasgow Apollo became a No1 in the USA.

regardez - youse

henri

Oh and there's Vampire Weekend doing their Paul Simon thing

Diplomat's Son - Vampire Weekend

regardez youse

henri

#23 Talking of which, I accidentally caught a bit of Grease the other day as they were doin the Grease Lightnin bit. It struck me that if they made it compulsory for the pit crews to perform in the pitstops during formula 1 races then they might be worth watching past the first bend.

#32 quack quack oops. That's a long time to bear a grudge. Did you get beat at the snooker.

#40 & #41 Quite Ahead Of My Time - David Bowwow (Hee Bee Gee Bees)

C'mon SG.

I thought the poll was fairly representative. Cheggers on top, wholly justified. They were proper celebrities back then not like these Simon Cowell and Big Brother fly by nights you have to put up with nowadays.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ could do a lot worse than find a vehicle for Brian Cant, Derek Griffiths and the like and get them back on the box. "Pensioner Play Away" or something.