Music Room *It's fully soundproofed*

[mockney piers]

trying out their funky new embed thingy.

If it causes problems for anyone let me know and i'll go back to good old links.

 

[mockney piers]

Here's a happy little ditty to cheer people up on a cold grey friday.

Helio Sequence - Everyone Loves Everyone

Feel the love people!!

[david_carnell]

Good stuff with the embedding.

I'm loving the new track by Welsh girl, Duffy. White soul.

 

[mockney piers]

good choice DC. I've only stumbled on to these guys recently, but love her voice.

Someone described her as the nice Amy Winehouse, which made me chuckle. Perhaps she should rename her first album Back To Blonde ;)

[david_carnell]

Ta. And just for you MP, given our last discussion:

 

[mockney piers]

Cool, if we're playing that game.

Mind you, don't know whether this should be here or in the covers thread.

[david_carnell]

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.

[mockney piers]

No probs. The guitarist, Josephine Wiggs, is my old English teacher's daughter.

They (along with everyone else it would seem) are reforming.

[mockney piers]

full title: Come On! Feel The Illinoise! (Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition; Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream)

[Jah Lush]

Seeing as it's my 50th today and I need something to cheer me up and this band always do. A quick blast of this and I'm off to the pub. Cheers!:)-D

The Faces - Miss Judy's Farm

[mockney piers]

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

 

[mockney piers]

cor, mondays don't half drag do they

 

[david_carnell]

Given the current sunny weather we've been having, this is one of my favourite summer songs:

 

[mockney piers]

I love that song DC, no idea why songza was offering a censored version, did I miss some blue language?

While we're on a bouncy music theme

 

[mockney piers]

fantastic video, typical story really, girl loves tree, tree loves girl, dad hates tree

Modest Mouse - People as Places as People

[mockney piers]

The simply gorgeous Juanita Stein and Howling Bells on one of the the albums of 2006.

Setting Sun

[SeanMacGabhann]

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

[david_carnell]

Sure thing Sean...

May I present Angus and Julia Stone - Private Lawns.

[Incitatus]

[mockney piers]

Oh plenty more of them Sean, plenty more

Nicole Atkins - The Way It Is

Neko Case - Maybe sparrow *sigh*

M?m - Green Grass of Tunnel

Asobi Seksu - Walk on the Moon

Curve - Clipped *sighs again*

[SeanMacGabhann]

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!

[david_carnell]

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

[mockney piers]

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!!

[david_carnell]

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

[mockney piers]

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