Filed under: Video of the Day | Tags: Evie Sands, Miranda July, music, Spiritualized, video
Having recently posted spots by Evie Sands and Miranda July, I looked up this video for “Anyway That You Want Me” which was also covered by Sands and Was Featured in July’s film, Me And You And Everyone We Know”.
I used to find that buying that buying a CD after a first sitting at a listenning post (Soundscapes on College, Virgin at Union Square) was an iffy proposition. Listening with headphones put every tune in it’s best light, especially when it was loud. A lot of neglected CDs entered my collection that way. The absolute best find that came that way was the reissue of Evie Sand’s Anyway That You Want Me. No regrets. I have found the odd song here and there on collections but sure wish she had reached a higher level of success and more output.
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I knew I had been neglecting the blog (the thousands of letters coming in made that clear) but was surprised to see that the last entry was Labour Day. That’s despite my ambition to place a video of the day on the blog.
Anyhoo… in deference to the last post, I’ll start with Pete and The Pirates and “Mr. Understanding” an video that’s very old school.
Filed under: picks | Tags: music, Pete and the Pirates, Tap Tap, Tom Sanders
Tap Tap is the side project of Tom Sanders of Pete and the Pirates fame. This album showed up briefly a couple of weeks ago on e-music but without the downloads. It was then removed but appears to be back up.
Tap Tap
Here is a live (and rough) version of one of the albums songs.
Filed under: picks | Tags: Dave Wakeling, Haunted Love, June Brides, Lawrence Welk, Lloyd Cole, music, Phil Wilson, The Believer, Wreckless Eric
For the 2009 version of The Believer‘s annual music issue, they solicited a host of artists to submit acoustic versions of old/new songs. All are exclusive and this batch is more successful than other recent editions. Lloyd Cole, Wreckless Eric and the bonus track by newcomers Haunted Love are all worthwhile. I especially liked the Dave Wakeling song, “Never Die” but it was Phil Wilson that sent me to e-music to download a combined collection of his solo work and (C86 era band) June Brides material.
Oh there’s also a nice little essay on the Lawrence Welk show in this issue.
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June Brides
I didn’t want to leave my reference The Creation to the seemingly back handed compliment in the last post. “Making Time” was a glorious find indeed.
Here is a link to what sent me searching for The Creation:
An earlier post focused on discovering 60’s band The Action years ago on e-music. They were always name checked but never played anywhere. Anyways it was a great discovery, I was impressed by how deep the album was in great tunes. Other elusive bands of the era like The Creation had some great tunes but whole albums weren’t that rewarding. I was really surprised to find a new release of The Action. It consists of a lot of covers and isn’t as strong (naturally) as their greatest hits package, but it also holds some great music. including some of the songs from the documentary I had linked to.
- The Action
Fiery Furnaces are a band that can infuriate, but I always feel compelled to go deep with them, because they can be just as rewarding at times. “Charmaine Champagne” has about five songs in there, and I really like about three of them.
Merge Records is streaming the upcoming Clean album, Mister Pop at their site:
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=625
Mister Pop
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