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Post by vya on Jan 21, 2015 18:42:34 GMT 1
Lana del Rey - Gods and Monsters
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Post by vya on Jan 21, 2015 4:44:52 GMT 1
VotB were just fantastic - a really high proportion of their singles were of extremely high quality, and they really deserved at least one really big hit (I think I agree that "Monsters and Angels" was their very finest, but it's a close run thing with two or three others vying for that title - "Perfect Place" was simply lovely, even if the single mix has become really difficult to find, "I Say Nothing" and "I Walk The Earth" were brash and ballsy and brilliant, and "I Think I Love You" is such good fun... That said, forgotten? perhaps - but I was really surprised to hear "Don't Call Me Baby" on Radio Two recently....odd, as it really was not that big a hit, now a scarily big number of years ago. Bring on a revival I say.
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Post by vya on Jan 20, 2015 0:51:11 GMT 1
Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun
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Post by vya on Jan 17, 2015 16:27:30 GMT 1
Ian McCulloch - Proud To Fall
(also to clarify that the Stone Roses track I nominated earlier is called Mersey Paradise, not Mersey Parade...)
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Post by vya on Jan 12, 2015 22:47:25 GMT 1
Never understood why they never rereleased "Burst" after they'd finally got their breakthrough top 40 hit - it really was a very fine single, and quite their best. All four singles off that first album were minor delights though (with "Hit The Ground" being the least accomplished of them). How we hoped for more...
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Post by vya on Jan 7, 2015 0:03:56 GMT 1
Trisha Yearwood - This Is Me You're Talking To
Seriously, just like the best song ever, it seems....
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Post by vya on Jan 5, 2015 8:30:33 GMT 1
I'm also a bit of a That Petrol Emotion fan, and at 45, I'd have had Love And Money at least among the contenders (although: that said, the band they span out of, Friends Again, might have been a shoo-in at 59 for me.)
Interested to see what's coming next...
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Post by vya on Jan 2, 2015 10:28:46 GMT 1
Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool Beatles - She Loves You
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Post by vya on Dec 31, 2014 1:25:44 GMT 1
I'd defend Pele, lightly, as well: "Raid the Palace" and "Fair Blow The Wind For France" were kind of minor-league good fun, kind of slightly folkier Kingmaker ripoffs... Oh that does sound like damning with faint praise, but I liked 'em anyway, without rating them particularly highly. It certainly was the case that they got major label backing remarkably quickly....
The Blue Aeroplanes were a bit dull; at their best kind of bit like REM but without any hint of oooph
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Post by vya on Dec 29, 2014 11:35:03 GMT 1
Joanna Law - First Time Ever
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Post by vya on Dec 27, 2014 20:41:25 GMT 1
Really can't fault the inclusion of Stump here - odder still to recall that Woolworth's policy of stocking the entire top 75 singles then meant that this wonderful bit of weirdness was available, briefly, in every high street of the land. The Pale Saints were quite special too (but not so much as Stump), but their "big hit" wasn't quite their best single....
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Post by vya on Dec 25, 2014 2:23:50 GMT 1
I love the Go-Betweens, and am quite familiar with (a) all of their albums and singles, and (b) their near complete lack of commercial success, both in the UK and their native Australia and more or less everywhere else (for all that a bridge is now named after them in Brisbane). But I am genuinely shocked that neither Tom Waits nor the Godfathers got highter than no 80....
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Post by vya on Dec 22, 2014 22:37:59 GMT 1
Momus: the Pet Shop Boys for perverts, in short. a good thing.
Popinjays were fun if a bit slight. Don't know the others yet , will check em out -: not sure how the BMX Bandits passed me by, as they were one of the very few (almost) big bands to play gigs at my uni when I was an undergraduate (Teenage Fanclub and Whiteout, or possibly Perspex Whiteout being the others)
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Post by vya on Dec 21, 2014 10:34:19 GMT 1
"Special One" is great. Indeed "Joy 1967-90" has a few other guitar pop delights among its tracks, not least "It Happens Every Time"...
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Post by vya on Dec 20, 2014 23:02:07 GMT 1
Not disputing that "Godlike" is superior (well, perhaps), but this is the singalong-a-Dylans track I recall from Gary Crowley GLR shows in the early 90s...
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Post by vya on Dec 20, 2014 17:04:38 GMT 1
Love See See Rider, and found an MP3 online somewhere of their unreleased album - which is certainly up to the same high standard as the singles. With the Prims (oh, OK, they were on RCA by then, so: no), they could have been at the core of a legendary Lazy Records scene, had they only kept at it a little longer...
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Post by vya on Dec 13, 2014 16:18:20 GMT 1
great, great chart. one of the joint no 79s, IMO one of the very finest records there, by the Triffids, is actually called Trick of the LIGHT, not night...
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Post by vya on Dec 11, 2014 0:23:22 GMT 1
Randy Edelman - Uptown Uptempo Woman
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Post by vya on Dec 10, 2014 22:21:27 GMT 1
Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain
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Post by vya on Nov 29, 2014 22:42:41 GMT 1
Black - You Don't Always Do What's Best For You
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