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Have Song, Will Sing Vol. 2 - Songbirds 2008-08-01 02:42:00 The term singer-songwriter has acquired a bad reputation, unjustly so. As I’ve said before, the genre is in its best state since the days of Joni Mitchell and her contemporaries. The critics, it seems, seem to conflate the rich diversity of artists thus categorised with a glut of performers who have found mainstream success, but who are not actually representatives of the genre. They are not
Have Song, Will Sing Vol. 1 2008-07-27 09:40:00 Last year I did a series of Songbirds which seems to have been quite popular, showcasing female artists who fall within the singer-songwriter genre which unaccountably has acquired something of a bad name among the critics. In my view, the genre has not been in a more fertile state since the 1970s. Indeed, it is probably more varied now than it was then.
I’ve thought of doing a similar series o
Pissing off the Taste Police with Simply Red 2008-07-25 04:39:00 Here’s a cred rehab I never thought I’d perpetrate, yet here I am, giving qualified props to Mick Hucknall, the much reviled MOR-soul merchant of supermarket and megastore premier shelf space, whose CDs in many households reside alongside those of Céline Dion, Kenny G and Michael Fucking Bolton (as his mother calls him).
Even before he hit the big time in 1985, he was called "the most r Read more:Police
, Simply Red
Pissing off the Taste Police with the Bay City Rollers 2008-08-13 18:18:00 ...
It was inevitable that the Bay City Rollers
would be regarded as the apogee of uncool, even in their pomp. The screaming, barely pubescent girls at their concert one might have overlooked – after all, the Beatles survived that. Even the outfits – tartan and stupid sock revealing bell bottoms – might have been forgivable. But the juncture of both was too much to accept for the self-respec Read more:Police
Isaac Hayes : He's a dead mutha... 2008-08-11 01:31:00 ...shut your mouth.
To mark IsaacHayes
’ death on August 10 ten days short of his 66th birthday, here is a mix I’ve called Hot Buttered Symphonies, a selection of some of those epics, mostly cover versions, Hayes produced in the early parts of his career, from 1969 to 1973.
He is best known, of course, for the Theme from Shaft, a funk masterpiece which provided the pun in this post’s title Read more:Isaac Hayes
Pissing off the Taste Police with Counting Crows 2008-08-07 18:11:00 The Taste Police
does not seem to have a cohesive position on CountingCrows
(the lack of a “the” in their name is an irritant). But the groundswell seems to suggest that “loathsome” is an adjective which would accurately capture the mood in some platoons.
The notion of Counting Crows being the subject with which I aim to piss off the Taste Police will have tipped off the attentive reader
The Originals Vol. 2 2008-09-02 11:06:00 .
In the second installment in what promises to be a long series of lesser-known originals, we look at a couple of traditional folk songs which became rock classics, a couple of songs recorded by others before the composers scored a hit with them, an influential group that only ever released four songs, and a soul classic that never became legendary because its cover was even greater. A big thank
Intros Quiz - 2003 edition 2008-08-31 19:45:00 September has arrived: that means spring in the southern hemisphere (not that the weather where I am cares to consult the calendar) and a new intros quiz, this month bringing our 5-year cycle to 2003 (meaning that for the remaining three months I'll have to think up some new themes). As ususal, 20 song intros of 5-7 seconds in length from single releases in 2003. As far as I can ascertain, all Read more:Intros
Great Moustaches in Rock: Dr Hook 2008-08-20 18:44:00 Dr Hook once punned with prurient poise: "When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard". It is difficult to imagine that said beautiful woman would find it easy to relieve that rigidity when confronted with the explosion of ill-advised whiskers which served to detract from the occasional eyepatch and a calvary of tonsorial catastrophes. I suspect that even the promise of pan Read more:Great
Pissing off the Taste Police with Rod Stewart 2008-09-25 07:24:00 .
Rock legend Rod Stewart
is going to play concerts in South Africa, the morning radio DJ announced breathlessly. In our celebrity-starved land, that is big news. Amplifying the public joy is the certain knowledge that it will be the real Rod coming to our shores, not a tribute act pretending to be the real article, as happened when “Earth, Wind & Fire” toured the country. Our boy Rod is a Read more:Police
Any Major Funk Vol. 3 2008-09-16 18:32:00 Apart from the phenomenally popular Christmas mix, the first two volumes of Any Major
Funk have been the most downloaded mixes on this blog. Acting on apparent demand, here is Volume 3, with a fourth installment in the works. Like all my mixes, this one is timed to fit on a standard CD-R. As before, these tracks cover the golden age of disco-funk, 1978-83. So put your hands up in the air and
The Originals Vol. 9 2008-10-13 12:19:00 .
Another installment of lesser originals (and their famous cover versions). After Volume 8, caithiseach of The Great Vinyl Meltdown send me an even older version of Whiskey In The Jar than the one I posted by the Seekers. I'll add the Highwaymen version from 1962 to the original post, and stick the link to the file at the end of this one. caithiseach's series on incredibly rare early '60s vinyl
Any Major Funk Vol. 4 2008-10-02 01:34:00 .
Here's the final Any Major
Funk mix, covering the years 1977-84. I'm aware that the first two installments are currently inaccessible due download limits having been reached on the DivShare account on which they are stored. The limit will be reset on October 11. I don't have the collated files on my system any longer, so please try again then.
As for this mix, a few standards and a few lesser
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