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Post by andrew07 on Dec 19, 2019 18:26:38 GMT 1
I've always liked the Stone Roses debut album, and of course this song was what opened the album. This version of "I Wanna Be Adored" by the Raveonettes is just wonderful
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Post by andrew07 on Dec 19, 2019 18:18:00 GMT 1
I'm not the biggest fan of Madonna but I love this cover of "Like A Virgin" that Teenage Fanclub did for their "The King" album. I even requested this as "Tune Of The Unexpected" on Janice Long's Radio 2 show back in 2011, and she did indeed play it.
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Post by andrew07 on Jul 7, 2019 22:07:47 GMT 1
Just had to put in the one band who had the most chart entries without ever hitting the top 40. In an era of Welsh bands making it in the late 90s (Manics, Catatonia, Stereophonics, Super Furries), it surprises me that this band never got a top 40 hit. Nearest they got to was No.41 with "Patio Song", but I've gone with
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe
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Post by andrew07 on Jul 7, 2019 9:43:06 GMT 1
The debut single for the Smiths in 1983, which fell short of the 100 (I read it got to No. 124). Only Sandie Shaw's cover would be a hit, reaching No.27 in 1984.
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Post by andrew07 on Jul 7, 2019 9:33:44 GMT 1
This got to No.1 on the indie chart in 1985 but neither this, nor any of Felt's singles ever troubled the top 100.
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Post by andrew07 on Mar 26, 2018 17:08:43 GMT 1
Love a bit of Dinosaur Jr
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Post by andrew07 on Mar 26, 2018 16:58:08 GMT 1
I really don't think we hear too much of Ian Brown's solo career on the radio, except maybe "My Star" and "FEAR". Obviously he's not the best singer in the world but I don't mind his solo stuff. And this one, the follow-up to "My Star", I haven't often heard on the radio much, maybe the title was a bit too much, though it was shortened to "Corpses" for single release:
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Post by andrew07 on Jan 22, 2018 19:51:07 GMT 1
Was going through my singles collection and remembered that I have this on 7", a Charlatans single from 1991, that has never appeared on any album of theirs or even any greatest hits comp either, making it something of a "lost single".
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Post by andrew07 on Dec 3, 2017 22:37:24 GMT 1
Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard the Fab Four's last UK No.1 on the radio either, maybe stations are afraid of offending Christians due to the use of the words "Christ" and "crucify". Hmm, speaking of censorship, I don't know if this song has been played much due to the swear words in it, but and I'm not joking, I do remember taping this off Virgin Radio one afternoon back in 1995 I think, uncensored and not a word got said afterwards, not even an apology funnily enough.
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Post by andrew07 on Nov 23, 2017 11:57:55 GMT 1
I was slightly disappointed by Drastic Fantastic at the time too, probably because at least 3 tracks from it were re-recordings of old demos KT had recorded when she was looking for a record deal just prior to her recording Eye To The Telescope. It seemed like she'd abandoned much of her folky sound in favour of a more rock-oriented one, which sounded very American, probably because she spent quite a lot of time out there too.
It took me 10 listens or so to get into Kid A by Radiohead. I hated it at first, but eventually it grew on me after a while, because I started to become intrigued with what they were trying to do on it, where they were becoming experimental taking influences from Autechre, Aphex Twin, even "Bitches Brew" era-Miles Davis. Not really an instant album, hence why it did divide fans and critics at the time but one that takes more than a few listens to get into. I remember confusing everyone in my office placement at that time with it, they were like "what is this?" "is this a song" and "this is rubbish", even my mum, bless her, dismissed the track "Everything In Its Right Place" as "funeral music".
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Post by andrew07 on Nov 12, 2017 18:05:08 GMT 1
I was disappointed by Ash's comeback album Kablammo! I was one of those who pre-ordered a signed copy of it from Pledgemusic and then when it arrived, I thought the first 3 tracks were alright "Cocoon", "Let's Ride" and "Machinery", but then suddenly when it went onto "Moondust" I felt rather glum about it. It briefly picked up on the next two tracks but thereafter it went downhill right to the end. Such a shame and such an almost misleading title. I know there's fans who rate it as their best album since "1977" but even I wouldn't go that far, as much as I liked their A-Z singles too, I have at times felt like they lost some of their edge after Charlotte Hatherley left the band.
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Post by andrew07 on Nov 2, 2017 20:31:05 GMT 1
Love that Stump song, always was a great highlight of the C86 compilation. Glad you mentioned HMHB too, I remember hearing this very short track by them in Avalanche Records, must have been around 2001, and right after it ended the guy behind the desk said to the manager, "that's one for the metalheads then".
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Post by andrew07 on Oct 13, 2017 14:17:53 GMT 1
Of course a massive a hit for Sinead O'Connor in 1990, and a lot of people know that Prince had written it. Though he had written it for a band that he mentored called The Family. Prince had written every song on their self titled debut album but only kept his name credited to this song, possibly because he saw a potential in it. Sure enough there was, and after the success of Sinead's version, Prince himself started to perform it live (there's a live version included on two retrospective collections of his, The Hits 1, and 4Ever.)
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Post by andrew07 on Sept 5, 2017 20:21:55 GMT 1
Loved that Liam Lynch track, and it was the shortest song to reach the top 40 until 2007 back then too. This track just cracks me up too. There is a ruder, and sweary titled version too, but this version is better and funny:
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Post by andrew07 on Sept 1, 2017 7:17:05 GMT 1
I hate the fact that there's a number of people who are only going to associate Kirsty MacColl with THAT Pogues collaboration, when she did so much more. I don't think I hear this one enough, and it surprised me to learn that Johnny Marr co-wrote this and wrote the tune just after he left the Smiths, and the album it's from "Electric Landlady" he came up with that title, because Johnny was staying in a house that was owned by Kirsty and thought it was a nice play on the title of Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" album.
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 17, 2017 22:36:03 GMT 1
Pearl Jam, were born out of Mother Love Bone. Mother Love Bone only recorded just one album, called Apple but sadly singer Andrew Wood died of drug addiction in 1990, before it was released. One of the standout tracks from it was Crown Of Thorns, which later featured on the soundtrack to the film Singles in 1992 joined up with their song Chloe Dancer. After Wood's death, members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were asked to join Temple Of The Dog with Soundgarden vocalist and recently departed Chris Cornell and recorded an album. And shortly afterwards Gossard and Ament joined Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready and formed Pearl Jam and went on to much bigger things.
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 14, 2017 22:33:39 GMT 1
And this one too..
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 14, 2017 22:29:06 GMT 1
Will never forget when this charted
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Post by andrew07 on Aug 4, 2017 20:34:10 GMT 1
While we're on the subject of acts on Warp, I'm surprised no one's mentioned AFX himself. He's made quite a number of unusual and at times good tracks. This one has got to be, for me one of the weirdest singles to ever make the top 20, or isn't the video more weirder? Went with the basic broadcast video, as the constant swearing at the start of the full version of the vid gets a bit monotonous after a while.
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Post by andrew07 on Jul 7, 2017 11:19:05 GMT 1
Not one, but two for the price of one here. I have absolutely no memory of this split-single charting at all in 1993, I didn't get to hear this song from Nirvana until I bought the With The Lights Out box set in 2005. This never appeared on any studio album, so I reckon the reason this single charted at No.12 was because Nirvana fans were waiting for new material, and this came out before they released In Utero that same year. I notice this version I posted doesn't have the lighter clicks that you hear on the beginning of the single version.
And on the flipside was this, I didn't get to hear this either until I saw the video on youtube a few years ago. I doubt this got played at all say for a short snippet on The ITV Chart Show when this charted on their indie chart back then. The promo video was banned by all television networks. I don't think either side of this single got played on Top Of The Pops either, even though I did read that Jesus Lizard did get an invite to perform this on TOTP, not sure if they did in the end.
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