The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[Lat-Literal]

I love this...quite new. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNsBCf34fQ

Great vid!

Yes, that works for me. It is a funny thing - how the apparent slackers who know precisely what they are doing are so much more appealing than those in life who are supposed to know what they are doing and are as slack as hell. I make no bones about being for Sister Theresa - it's totally perverse and bordering on the willful but I take little notice now of the rest. When I see her I feel slightly reassured. I guess it is the appearance. I can't help it. I definitely get a bit of chemistry there. Anyhow, from what I gather these people spend most of their time hanging out on an island in the Thames. I heard their indie chippy chop style a long time ago and didn't mind it but a forum mate, George, has posted this one. Not sure of its period but it is different from their norm. I quite took to it as to me it invoked Van and a lot of indier vehicles on a northern soul style sixties motorway. No cars allowed; it's purely designed for amateur boating. Not so much a breeze as a windy chug-along. Do the members comprise sons and a son and his father? I'can't recall but if so, that might well explain it:

The Mystery Jets - Sister Everett - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzeHlWXf-w

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/15C1C/production/_90361198_maypolice.jpg

https://previews.123rf.com/images/americanspirit/americanspirit1306/americanspirit130604036/20515937-A-car-boat-races-up-ahead-of-a-sailboat-during-the-1992-America-s-Cup-race-near-San-Diego-California-Stock-Photo.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/02/04/16/30E06AA800000578-0-image-a-19_1454601919376.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/875637272091123712/4QfMuf-q_400x400.jpg

(the bit before the end sounds like early music and the actual end is unexpectedly abrupt)

[Lat-Literal]

With hindsight, not so much Van, northern soul, cross-platform transport or politics but, hey, in the moment and all that jazz. I'm coming to York soon before it is too late. Travelodge. Not sure when yet but I'm going to meet Stanley in the Blue Bell and Pulcy and all the other York folk. Then we're going to Tynemouth and Durham and Holy Island and Bootham Crescent. All the spiritual places. Not that they knew anything about it before now. This lot wouldn't have got anywhere without York's Red Rhino. Lucky them. I didn't get anywhere:

The Wedding Present - Nobody's Twisting Your Arm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5shLgVKcKE

Heavily promoted if not necessarily released by them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rhino_Records

See also Andy's of Norwich but that is a slightly different thing.

[Lat-Literal]

China Crisis:

We - for which I - think these ones although there are a few other (in some cases more) obvious tracks:

African and White - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ea0QFcfGTw
Christian '83 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-jq0ub8us
Arizona Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vYeX16EFO0
The Highest High - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnhMoL8Kaz0

Sweet Charity (in Adoration) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmcVXuFss8
St Saviour Square - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJGv9jz7-M
Red Letter Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6WWcUOXUy4
Bigger the Punch I'm Feeling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQU0C6S_-k

To Emma with the substantial learning difficulties which caused such worry. The permanent employment, the decision to join the church when there was no religion in the family, the forthcoming marriage to someone there with equal difficulties........what a success. And to the twin boys, not quite thirty, the first to be educated at university, fully employed, still sharing a room and doubting given the financial situation re housing if they will ever be able to leave the parental home. It's a funny old life........and only so much can be planned.

[Lat-Literal]

Counter-balance:

Big Star - Ballad of El Goodo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1t6l7UUPc

Love this.......early-mid seventies.......post Byrds as it sounds but you can hear the 60s beats and also the glam in it.
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Push it through that lens and it works entirely in that way.........Stewart, especially 1970s' Lane, possibly even Bowie.

But this is the first guitar indie song long before guitar indie was invented.

As for alt-country - it pre-dates it by two whole decades.

Ludicrously underrated - because of the originality.

I tried so hard to get to Hertforshire or wherever it was to see their last British gig in the early 2000s.

My boss at the time made it but I couldn't do so and it is a regret.

(The Stax connection, sadly, messed it up for them - Stax didn't know how to promote them)

[johncorrigan]

I hadn't heard Al Green do 'I want to hold your hand' before it turned up on the radio this morning. One of the best Beatles' covers I've ever heard, I have to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9mkVMv830

[Lat-Literal]

I hadn't heard Al Green do 'I want to hold your hand' before it turned up on the radio this morning. One of the best Beatles' covers I've ever heard, I have to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9mkVMv830

Great.

Imagine being in your early 20s and in the north. You fully buy into it and there are mates and supportive music swirling around to reinforce you and you with them and you with them in that place. They don't see you between lunch bar time and evening bar time because they are slightly irritated you are claiming to be writing poetry while listening to Steve Wright.

Do you turn up at the seminars? Mainly not - too afraid unless forced but you work like the clappers in the third year so you get something good in the end. The paid staff are not sure they have ever heard of you. That was the big point frankly - face to face it would have been a 3rd and there would have been no point. I couldn't risk senior facial attitude. Still can't.

Anyhow, you hear that a bloke of 16 even further up the country has been composing in his bedroom and doesn't feel weird about it. No mates, unlike you having been pushed out cool above The Wash which is how you are now because the body dissolves into location. Now old, the last time I saw him live I saw him supporting Edwyn Collins who had just suffered from a serious brain injury. I did the same with my mate Greg although we subsequently fell out. This is the best 16 year old's album of all time and every ache has post-adolescent meaning:

Roddy Frame and Aztec Camera:

High Land, Hard Rain:

An absolute gem - and delirious:

Walk Out To Winter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXnhXGLEaA
Release........ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJ5JW5K9nc
Back on Board - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ohrs6eadhU
We Could Send Letters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9cSn0wkltg

Limitations?

16......he was 16.

[cloughie]

I hadn't heard Al Green do 'I want to hold your hand' before it turned up on the radio this morning. One of the best Beatles' covers I've ever heard, I have to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9mkVMv830

Doesn't do it for me jc - rather a crude attempt. Wilson Pickett pulls off Hey Jude and manages to restrict it to about 4 mins - always thought the original goes on too long. Beatles covers could occupy a thread, however, there have been many good and some very bad over the years. Richie Havens did some particularly good ones!

[johncorrigan]

Doesn't do it for me jc - rather a crude attempt. Wilson Pickett pulls off Hey Jude and manages to restrict it to about 4 mins - always thought the original goes on too long. Beatles covers could occupy a thread, however, there have been many good and some very bad over the years. Richie Havens did some particularly good ones!

I thought it was brilliant, cloughie...there you go. Agree re WP's 'Hey Jude' which I first heard on the rather excellent 'Duane Allman Anthology'. Re Richie Havens, I swear I once saw him do this utterly amazing version of 'Rocky Raccoon' on Old Grey Whistle Test or the like. Never seen it anywhere since...wish I could...maybe I dreamed it. I mean I'm sure it was 'Rocky Raccoon', but after all these years I doubt myself.

[cloughie]

I thought it was brilliant, cloughie...there you go. Agree re WP's 'Hey Jude' which I first heard on the rather excellent 'Duane Allman Anthology'. Re Richie Havens, I swear I once saw him do this utterly amazing version of 'Rocky Raccoon' on Old Grey Whistle Test or the like. Never seen it anywhere since...wish I could...maybe I dreamed it. I mean I'm sure it was 'Rocky Raccoon', but after all these years I doubt myself.

jc, some years ago I put a compilation of Beatles covers together, under the broad heading of Heavy Beatles (OK not all were heavy!):

BEATLES Golden Slumbers
BEATLES Carry that weight
JOE COCKER With a little help from my friends
JOE COCKER I'll cry instead
JOE COCKER You've got to hide your love away
JOE COCKER She came in thru the bathroom window
YES Every little thing
DEEP PURPLE Help
DEEP PURPLE We can work it out
SPOOKY TOOTH I am the walrus
VANILLA FUDGE Ticket to ride
RICHIE HAVENS Eleanor Rigby
RICHIE HAVENS Strawberry Fields Forever
RICHIE HAVENS Lady Madonna
RICHIE HAVENS She's leaving home
OTIS REDDING Day tripper
WILSON PICKETT Hey Jude
JUDY COLLINS In my life
JUDY COLLINS Tomorrow never knows
BEATLES The end

[teamsaint]

jc, some years ago I put a compilation of Beatles covers together, under the broad heading of Heavy Beatles (OK not all were heavy!):

BEATLES Golden Slumbers
BEATLES Carry that weight
JOE COCKER With a little help from my friends
JOE COCKER I'll cry instead
JOE COCKER You've got to hide your love away
JOE COCKER She came in thru the bathroom window
YES Every little thing
DEEP PURPLE Help
DEEP PURPLE We can work it out
SPOOKY TOOTH I am the walrus
VANILLA FUDGE Ticket to ride
RICHIE HAVENS Eleanor Rigby
RICHIE HAVENS Strawberry Fields Forever
RICHIE HAVENS Lady Madonna
RICHIE HAVENS She's leaving home
OTIS REDDING Day tripper
WILSON PICKETT Hey Jude
JUDY COLLINS In my life
JUDY COLLINS Tomorrow never knows
BEATLES The end

Wot no Siouxsie, Cloughie ?

[gurnemanz]

Some more Beatles covers:


Eugene McGuinness- Yer Blues

Unthanks - Sexy Sadie

Gemma Ray - Long, Long, Long

Joan as Policewoman - I Will

Jim Jones - Get Back doesn't hold back!

Thea Gilmore - All You Need is Love

Julie Fowlis - Blackbird in Gaelic

[cloughie]

Wot no Siouxsie, Cloughie ?

Now then ts, you know I don't do punk!

[teamsaint]

you've got to love their other Beatles cover though..........

[Lat-Literal]

Well, there's a lot to take in there. But if there is only one track of Bruce that you could take to a desert island? Of this, I am very sure, First, though, a fairly brief word on common identification. In the early days. the lighters were held up by what I guess were blue collar workers meeting with "intelligent" students. They had to meet in some context. It was there.

Recently I have read in a broadsheet newspaper about his pecs as a sixty-something and how to younger and middle aged liberals this is something of a let down apparently. Bruce not quite playing the wheezing factory worker with a brain in his dotage. Hard luck. Get yourself a different remit, newspapers, and maybe you might save yourselves from oblivion. I didn't even know where pecs were until 47. No. Springsteen became to me - and it took a very long time - the underrepresented lower middle class. Still is. Here is the ultimate sing-a-long for us alongside the unthinking brave rescuers whom we are unable to emulate. There are many contenders and this is so un-obvious it doesn't even register with the likes of Q. Good.

On balance the greatest Bruce of all time.

File under no ego:

Bruce Springsteen - Nothing Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKYYChoQIvI

Middle Ground Man - Springsteen on Trump and his own depression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_UoZ8wP6zg

(pre-election)

('Tis the gift to be simple; 'tis the gift to be free)

[johncorrigan]

I mean I'm sure it was 'Rocky Raccoon', but after all these years I doubt myself.

...and there was a version there by Richie after all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PQjshQc6s8