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Awesome cover, not heard of those guys before.


Here you are, you big ol' pacifist, you....




Edit: Just googled and you-tubed(sp?) Breeders. Hadn't realised they were a Pixies spin-off. And the guitar riff to Canonball is instantly recognisable - just didn't know who it was before now. Thanks for enlightening me.

Ooh love the faces.


Here's a bit of Envelopes to prepare you for the new album coming out next week.

They're the bes Franco-Scandanavian quirky pop outfit around (I can name at least one more, honest)

and the new album seems to be winning the plaudits




 

JUST as I achieve the ability to watch youtube clips at work the (admittedly spiffy) embedded business above happens! Can I request a reversion to youtube clips?


Great Howling Bells track MP - but my you are predictable with your chanteuse thang aintcha? ;-)


In a good way of course

oh my days - Curve... I had many a sleepless night in my youth over Toni Halliday... in the words of, well, you... *sigh*


In many a drunken stumble of late, I have been known to belt out


The Weeping Song - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds


I will be looking for singing partners at the next drinks!

Blimey, Piers. Maybe it's a generational thing but I didn't know one of those artists.


Quite liked Mum - sort of a chilled version of Roykssop. Curve didn't do it for me I'm afraid. Nicole Atkins - well in your words - *sigh*.


Talking of which, I have a strange thing for:


Martha Wainwright - When the Day is Short

Curve was an early nineties thing. Hangover from goth with a small g (my bloody valentine, cranes, cocteau twins etc) and a precursor to the girl pop-rock of the mid nineties such as garbage, echobelly, elastica, sleeper, with a dance influence (which was beginning to seep into the mainstream about that time), whilst others went sort of shoegazy like the inimitable Slowdive.


Nothing strange about having a thing for Martha. How are you with Joanna Newsome, Scout Niblett and the like?


Oh dear God, I've a generational difference, noooo, I'm a dinosaur!!

Heh, well not quite. A "generation" is perhaps a bit long - epoch perhaps?! ;-)


Seriously though, early nineties would mean I'm about 10 so my music knowledge was limited to my Dad's Tina Turner collection...and not even the early good stuff! I can see the influence on Garbage Elastica et al but they're not really my cuppa either so probably why Curve have remained off my radar.


Just listened to some Scout Niblett(!) and quite enjoyed that. Will have a listen to Joanna Newsome later today and let you know. In the meantime I'm in the mood for something my Dad would take credit for making me listen to:


Ike and Tina Turner - Proud Mary

Lets settle on aeon shall we?


Tina and Stella, cool tune! Your dad can't have been that bad, mine had some Abba in his collection!!


As I'm on a girl power roll (& rock) here's some more across the ages, though I'll try and think of the music rather than my teenage fanatasies


Blondie - Heart of Glass *possibly first ever sigh* *stop it*

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound

The Sundays - Cry *sigh* *doh!*

Babes in Toyland - Hello

Holly Golightly - There is an End

Taken By Trees - Lost and Found

Isobel Campbell - Revolver

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