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Post by Mandochris on May 9, 2024 7:59:37 GMT
Just catching up on this week. The Long Faces are great with echoes of past prog (Viv Stanshall is right Spot), but also the fiddle on one of the Sgt Pepper tracks !!
I am realising how important where the accent falls is in the music that I enjoy. In a typical 4/4 song, you can put the accent on the "On beat', the 1 and the 3, or on the Off Beat (the 3 and the 4), or you can put it one the 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Delays, which was pretty good in that form). I always knew that the Off Beat was my thing, but listening to all this new music that I didn't know and how the stuff I like more falls into this category, is making realise why I like some stuff more than other stuff, which intrinsically is good at what it does. But the music that gets me is based on the Off beat because, for me, that is what makes music swing and, as they say, it don't mean a thing if it ain"t got that swing. I even had a tee shirt once that said "Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3!". As a sweeping generalisation, I would say that most American rock is on the Off beat and most British rock is on the On beat. Prog is a bit different because it tends more towards classical structure than traditional folk to rock structure.
Sorry for the pretentious rambling, it just occurred to me.
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Post by ivangolac on May 9, 2024 11:14:35 GMT
I'll have a go.....Have recently got into Brooklyn band 'Nation of Language'. They are undeniably retro and hashing all sorts of early Depeche Mode, New Order, anything Vince Clarke and sound British even though they aren't. Moog me up, I say, and if you like that sort of Electro mid 80's vibe but freshened for 2020's then they might just hit the spot. I'm going with deliberate irony in their whimsy, but they are on point with a really fresh sound, that isn't fresh at all. if you know what I mean. Most of you are of a certain age, so I'm banking on your modern bands requiring a degree of nostalgia in what they do.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on May 9, 2024 17:47:57 GMT
I need a bloody good catch up with this threat this weekend!
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Post by spot51 on May 9, 2024 18:03:23 GMT
I need a bloody good catch up with this threat this weekend! Wot bastard threatened you Benners?
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Post by threehundred on May 9, 2024 22:56:50 GMT
I'll have a go.....Have recently got into Brooklyn band 'Nation of Language'. They are undeniably retro and hashing all sorts of early Depeche Mode, New Order, anything Vince Clarke and sound British even though they aren't. Moog me up, I say, and if you like that sort of Electro mid 80's vibe but freshened for 2020's then they might just hit the spot. I'm going with deliberate irony in their whimsy, but they are on point with a really fresh sound, that isn't fresh at all. if you know what I mean. Most of you are of a certain age, so I'm banking on your modern bands requiring a degree of nostalgia in what they do. This is great! Totally Mooged. I’m listening on my iPad with earphones and could be 13 again listening to my Walkman. You gonna take a week then, Ivan..?
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Post by melrose on May 10, 2024 15:49:37 GMT
Well I got behind with three today...
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Post by melrose on May 10, 2024 18:17:59 GMT
THE DAWN PARADE – a Cambridge-Bury St Edmunds band
I may have posted this story before. The Dawn Parade were one of the best bands the UK has ever produced. Full Stop. Heart-wrenching, anthemic punk-pop bliss they should have been destined for the stadiums that U2 or at least Mumford and Sons were playing but never actually got an album out.
However … This track ‘Caffeine Row’ and the follow-up ‘Hole in my Heart’ were both Rolling Stones magazine singles of the year despite never having an official release. John Peel was a massive fan. You can hear his Peel sessions on YouTube. They could sell out the Corn exchange here (1600 plus ) but only released a few small-label singles. Their Guitarist Seymore Glass formed Miss Black America and released one fantastic album ‘God Bless Miss Black America’ again a Peel favourite – Raw and melodic Punk. This is actually widely available.
Fast forward to just before Christmas 2023 and Greg McDonald – Singer-songwriter - guitarist with the Dawn Parade is playing a local pub. I turned up ay about 6:30 and the place was half full of the after-work drinkers – maybe 50. By the end of the first set the departing crowd had grow tired of his ‘Sex on Fire’ and ‘That’s Entertainment’ Soon into the second set it was just me and him. So, I asked for some Dawn Parade Originals – which he was happy to play to me and the dis-interested bar Staff.
We had a chat afterwords. He is a nice guy. He still looks the part and makes a (fairly decent living) from playing ‘Why does it Always Rain on Me’.
I despair sometimes.
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Post by melrose on May 10, 2024 19:17:33 GMT
And now…DEAD DEAD DEAD !.... Southampton’s greatest ever band.
Cross Nick Cave with John Denver filtered through Post-Punk and Leonard Cohen and The Ramones. What a band. Utterly fearless and all over the place. Again, another un-signed band who only released an album after they had broken up. You can find it on the Tube.
But sod it - here are the angelic country croonings of Matt Canning (and not here the alternating hellfire demonic shoutings with Neil Dunshire in DDD!) in the later band Woven Bird with ‘Saw you in Two’
It is a nice little thing. The CD came in an old-fashioned sweet bag with a real sweet in the middle.
Check out DDD!
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Post by melrose on May 11, 2024 0:10:42 GMT
CLOWNCORE – You will love them eventually.
Again, I happened upon this when I was searching for ‘Clowns in Toilets’. Justin Hawkins was doing the same and his channel is well worth a look. It is not just me. Also - No-one knows who they are! Like The Residents, Kiss and Mumford and Sons before them – they remain anonymous. However, word is that the Drummer is Louis Cole and the Sax player is Sam Grendel. Apparently both in a band called KNOWER – They seem to be very popular in the far east - with a girl vocalist and sounding like a more jazzy version of Stereolab
But back to reality….Clowncore have two albums available. - ‘Toilet’ (filmed in a toilet) and ‘Van’… I will let you guess.
It is weird – from the start you wonder if it is a joke -it probably is to them – but the musicianship is out of this world. I am not usually impressed by this stuff but …. the more you hear it the better it gets. They are also doing big live shows now which crap all over the likes of Underworld and Chemical Brothers.
Here we go
BTW the nifty little bit of 1970’s TV theme-show jazz muzark they use between tracks – which I had assumed had been lifted from something like The Partridge Family or a less threatening version of The Rockford Files - is actually an original of theirs. It is called IRIS –Infinite Realm of Incomprehensible Suffering.
Nice.
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Post by spot51 on May 11, 2024 8:08:26 GMT
Well that was an education melrose . Apart from The delays I'd not heard of let alone heard any of your other 4 choices yet they all had some appeal. Long Faces made the biggest impact yet as you say there seems to be little of their stuff out there beyond a few tracks on Spotify.
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Post by threehundred on May 11, 2024 8:29:09 GMT
CLOWNCORE – You will love them eventually. Again, I happened upon this when I was searching for ‘Clowns in Toilets’. Justin Hawkins was doing the same and his channel is well worth a look. It is not just me. Also - No-one knows who they are! Like The Residents, Kiss and Mumford and Sons before them – they remain anonymous. However, word is that the Drummer is Louis Cole and the Sax player is Sam Grendel. Apparently both in a band called KNOWER – They seem to be very popular in the far east - with a girl vocalist and sounding like a more jazzy version of Stereolab But back to reality….Clowncore have two albums available. - ‘Toilet’ (filmed in a toilet) and ‘Van’… I will let you guess. It is weird – from the start you wonder if it is a joke -it probably is to them – but the musicianship is out of this world. I am not usually impressed by this stuff but …. the more you hear it the better it gets. They are also doing big live shows now which crap all over the likes of Underworld and Chemical Brothers. Here we go BTW the nifty little bit of 1970’s TV theme-show jazz muzark they use between tracks – which I had assumed had been lifted from something like The Partridge Family or a less threatening version of The Rockford Files - is actually an original of theirs. It is called IRIS –Infinite Realm of Incomprehensible Suffering. Nice. Crikey..! Not going to be rushing out to buy either of their albums. Fascinating choices, Melrose… another great week.
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Post by threehundred on May 11, 2024 8:30:23 GMT
Channers has taken the week after next.
Who is stepping up next week…?
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Post by spot51 on May 11, 2024 9:05:58 GMT
Channers has taken the week after next. Who is stepping up next week… ?Ivan, Ivan, Ivan!!!
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on May 11, 2024 9:38:13 GMT
Channers has taken the week after next. Who is stepping up next week… ?I can probably do next week as, Monday aside, it's a less busy one. (Famous last words)
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Post by yateleysaint on May 11, 2024 11:08:36 GMT
I'll have a go.....Have recently got into Brooklyn band 'Nation of Language'. They are undeniably retro and hashing all sorts of early Depeche Mode, New Order, anything Vince Clarke and sound British even though they aren't. Moog me up, I say, and if you like that sort of Electro mid 80's vibe but freshened for 2020's then they might just hit the spot. I'm going with deliberate irony in their whimsy, but they are on point with a really fresh sound, that isn't fresh at all. if you know what I mean. Most of you are of a certain age, so I'm banking on your modern bands requiring a degree of nostalgia in what they do. I like these guys too - sound old but aren’t.
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