Week 14 - Fri 5th Apr
Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 5th April 2024. Here's a bunch of post Easter sounds to while away another rainy weekend...over to...
Nina -
"Hi folks. Hope all's good.
Here's my choices - 3 fairly dramatic + a cutesie extra number from Gomez if Tim allows..."("Yep, I was waiting for the bonus track floodgates to open."...Tim)
Good Luck by Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula - "Yes, Lisa - 'ave it! Raucous, ballsy & emotive."
Nancy Boy by Placebo - "One of Brian's finest in my humble opinion, from Placebo's debut LP in 1996. (+ Could you ever hope to find a more un-Brian Brian?😁) Slight sideways pop at Brett Anderson/sexual tourism, lyrically very clever. Didn't share the official video 'cos the clown freaks me out."
R & B by English Teacher (live at WFUV) - "Stonking bass line + the drummer's no slouch, despite looking about 11!"
Bonus Track!
If I Ask You Nicely by Gomez - "More funky drumming!"
https://youtu.be/HRQirCTS-dA?feature=shared
"TTFN folks."
Jackie -
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen - "Performed operatic style at last week's lunch time music in Kirkbymoorside Church."
David -
"More eggsciting Easter tunes from all RPMers last week and thanks to Jean especially for her New Orleans memoirs..
A Japanese American friend, whose musical tastes I very much respect, was lucky enough to be in Knoxvillfe for the Big Ears festival a couple of weeks ago. Imagine my surprise when she told me Adrianne Lenker clashed with Charles Lloyd and that she would have to miss him !
So I had to check this out more thoroughly, especially when I saw she was playing 3 (yes THREE) nights at The Barbican. I listened to a lot of stuff and I still don't really get it."
"However, here is..."
Adrianne Lenker with Sadness as a Gift -
"Next up with a book tie in, the biography of Terry Allen by Brendan Greaves entitled Truckload of Art was released this week. And so...."
Terry Allen with Truckload of Art -
"And finally a rather excellent duo who I most certainly do get..."
Ordinary Elephant with Scars We Keep -
John
"Hi RPMers, Hope you are all keeping well. Here are three tracks heard in the past week..."
Joy By Smoove and Turrell - "Went to see these chaps at Norwich Arts Centre on Saturday. Excellent!"
Too Much, Too Young (Live) by The Specials - "Watched a very interesting 2-Tone documentary on BBC4; hugely entertaining."
Advent Of Panurge (Live) by Gentle Giant - "From a recently purchased live LP."
Piers -
"A quick one as it is getting late. Three songs that I have heard performed live at the same gig this week, one is a cover..."
Lady with the Braid by Dory Previn -
Wilder When I Was With You by Sarah Jane Scouten -
Calliope by Olivia Chaney -
Kevin -
"Noticing the advance of Spring each day - the early chestnut trees in particular - put me in mind of one of my favourite Larkin poems (The Trees) which, in turn, sent me off through my Collected Poems for others which I have long loved.
Larkin is, I believe, the best British poet of the second half of the last century. I most admire his ability to employ everyday language to address sometimes profound issues; it also disguises the often technically accomplished verse forms."
The Trees - "Not a profound poem but a timely one."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXf-gq65GO0&ab_channel=GhostOfRupertBrooke
Going, Going - "An early environmental warning poem which identifies commercial development as a major contributor to the un-greening of the countryside."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkKr_9jcNs&ab_channel=mousegeek
The Old Fools - "I think this is a simply devastating dissection of ageing, filled with memorable lines and images ('extinction's alp') and the tone is typical Larkin: clear-sighted, sardonic yet not cynical. Sadly (ironically?) he never got to fulfil the prophecy of his final words, having died relatively young himself."
"When I want to remind myself that there are much more positive and far less bleak views of ageing, I'll read Tennyson's 'Ulysses'."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFQA8uCI7A&ab_channel=PhilipLarkin-Topic
Tony -
"Here are my 3 for the week. Hope everyone is ok - looks like sun might be on it's way soon..... but if it rains there's always the music to while away the time."
Two Pairs Of Hands by Mark Knopfler - "3rd release from the upcoming album One Deep River. My copy is on order."
Ride With Your Daddy Tonight by Brunning Sunflower Blues Band - "First of two this week based on a compilation set I have called "History of UK Blues and R & B 1955 - 2001. Bob Brunning preceded John McVie and was a founding member of what would become Fleetwood Mac. They released material between 1968 and 1971."
Fool For The City by Foghat - "The band formed in the early 70's from musicians who left Savoy Brown and who were joined by Rod Price on slide guitar."
Jayne -
"Hi RPMers, this week it’s a 'things never change' track plus an old one and a new one; all the best to you."
Sheriff Fatman by Carter USM -
Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell -
Citi na gCumann by David Murphy -
Philip -
"As mentioned last week, I'll start with Sierra Ferrell, but then move on to a song by one of my favourite artists that seems to follow quite naturally after Sierra's number."
Lighthouse by Sierra Ferrell -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT1FtxG24ow
Waiting For You by T-Bone Burnett -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuNH18VH9c
"And finally, something that seems to have caused some controversy, but Dolly likes it, so there! Whereas Dolly "begged," Beyonce "warns"."
Jolene by Beyonce -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUGkvjh5CYg
"Best wishes to everyone."
Tim -
"A bit of an odd mix this week...but that's how it often is."
Nervous Shakedown by AC/DC - "Happy birthday Angus Young for last Sunday (69). Here's something from the oft overlooked mid 80s, a period which saw the band's albums receive lukewarm at best reception from the music press, which is a shame because there are some classic AC/DC numbers....like this one..."
Falling Through The Rising Sun by Daisy Rickman - "I've been playing Daisy's new album, Howl, on and off over the past few weeks, released to coincide with the Spring Equinox. It's a pretty laid back freak folk trippy hippy outing....which is a good thing in my book."
Still Raining, Still Dreaming by Jimi Hendrix - "This one seemed to compliment the weather at the moment...."
'Til Next Time...