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This just came up on an old playlist.
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I hadn't heard this before.
It's a track from the last album JJ Cale recorded before he passed.
Very nice it is.
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Everything about this just sums up the 80s for me - in a good way. Its long, but you just have to let it build radges

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Going to see King Creosote tonight at Celtic Connections. Listening to I DES in preparation - Blue Marbled Elm Trees is so moving and will be played at my last gig (alongside SOL of course). 🥳🇳🇬🍻🥂
 
Bossie said:
Going to see King Creosote tonight at Celtic Connections. Listening to I DES in preparation - Blue Marbled Elm Trees is so moving and will be played at my last gig (alongside SOL of course). 🥳🇳🇬🍻🥂
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I was there with my daughter.
KC's first album release in 7 years. Back in the day he seemed to put out new music every few months.
Hadn't seen Kenny play for about 13 years after seeing him a gazillion times before that. Also good to see Gav Broon and Ziggy Campbell playing in his band tonight. Hadn't seen them play since about 2010 either. A good night.

Listened to "Rocket D.I.Y" on the drive to Glasgow and "Kenny and Beths Musakal Boat Rides" on the way home. Both are almost 20 years old now!
 
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The first new album of 2024 I've really enjoyed is It's Sorted, the latest effort from LA indie group Cheekface. Lots of great hooks and smirk inducing lyrics.

Anyone who enjoys quipy, slacker US indie-pop from the 90s (Pavement, They Might Be Giants, eels, Cake...) should get a kick out of this lot. I'd imagine it'll be absolute Marmite to folk who can't stand that stuff though:

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Two Headed Boy said:
The first new album of 2024 I've really enjoyed is It's Sorted, the latest effort from LA indie group Cheekface. Lots of great hooks and smirk inducing lyrics.

Anyone who enjoys quipy, slacker US indie-pop from the 90s (Pavement, They Might Be Giants, eels, Cake...) should get a kick out of this lot. I'd imagine it'll be absolute Marmite to folk who can't stand that stuff though:

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Very much They Might Be Giants vibes from that.
Looking forward to new Grandaddy album in a couple of weeks. Have really liked what I've heard so far.
 
Sancho Panza said:
Very much They Might Be Giants vibes from that.
Looking forward to new Grandaddy album in a couple of weeks. Have really liked what I've heard so far.
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Ohhh, I didn't even know about that.

I've liked some Grandaddy stuff in the past but they're a band I rarely check in with. Not sure why either. I'll check that out.
 
Two Headed Boy said:
Ohhh, I didn't even know about that.

I've liked some Grandaddy stuff in the past but they're a band I rarely check in with. Not sure why either. I'll check that out.
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Sophtware Slump and Sumday are my favourite Grandaddy albums. I like the wistful nostalgic feel of their stuff and disillusionment with modern life and technology. Imagine ELO with Neil Young singing. If that doesn't put you off!
 
Timi Yuro “Hurt “ on Sunset records.Got on the off chance that it might be good from a Bethany shop. It is good but I’d say the production is crap.It’s like she was put in a room and they walked to the end of the corridor to record it.
 
Fernando said:
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Starts of tighter than rod petrie then morphs into Roxy Music enjoy ya bams
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Wooft.

I’ll see you and raise:

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Pleasantly Disturbed (Remastered 2002)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupPleasantly Disturbed (Remastered 2002) · Simple MindsLife In A Day℗ 2002 Virgin Records LimitedReleased on: 2002-...
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The tune speak for itself. They have just been signed up to a record label and about to release a new album. I bring you 'The real sleeping giants'
 
Mr Hibs said:
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The tune speak for itself. They have just been signed up to a record label and about to release a new album. I bring you 'The real sleeping giants'
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I'll carefully look out for that so I don't buy it by mistake 😵‍💫
 
Bangkokhibby said:
I'll carefully look out for that so I don't buy it by mistake 😵‍💫
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Each to their own and all that. Different strokes for different folks. I love the rawness and passion. Even tho they are smashed on buckfast. 2.8 million views so they can't be that bad for 2 alcys jammin in a flat.
 
Mr Hibs said:
Each to their own and all that. Different strokes for different folks. I love the rawness and passion. Even tho they are smashed on buckfast. 2.8 million views so they can't be that bad for 2 alcys jammin in a flat.
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Oh man I'm sorry I thought you were taking the piss. As you say each to their own.
 
Mr Hibs said:
Each to their own and all that. Different strokes for different folks. I love the rawness and passion. Even tho they are smashed on buckfast. 2.8 million views so they can't be that bad for 2 alcys jammin in a flat. Plus they have just signed a record deal so the studio version might be to your liking.
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Jack K said:
IMO that track should have been edited about the 4 minute mark. It's great up to then.
I hadn't heard it since spinning the album on release in 1979.
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They might never have got off the starting blocks with that approach. I remember reading they got signed because whoever did so was struck by young oiks going with a seven minute song in an era of post punk 2m 30secs.

Possibly apocryphal but there's your unwanted item of trivia for the day.
 
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Dog Race - Ill be keeping an eye on this lot this year. Only a couple of singles out so far but they're right up my street.

Typical goth/death rock stuff - catchy low end bass riff, trebley guitar, synths, yelpy vocals but done just right.

Anyone who likes a bit of Banshees, early Sisters of Mercy etc... should get a kick out of it.
 
egb_hibs said:
They might never have got off the starting blocks with that approach. I remember reading they got signed because whoever did so was struck by young oiks going with a seven minute song in an era of post punk 2m 30secs.

Possibly apocryphal but there's your unwanted item of trivia for the day.
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:friendly: no heard that fiction before.
Scottish journalist Brian Hogg liked the band a lot and persuaded his mate Bruce Findlay to sign them on the back of their demo tape which contained "Life in a Day" and "Chelsea Girl" amongst others. As you know, Findlay owned Bruce's record shop chain but he also had a record label, Zoom which had a licensing and distribution deal with Arista.

My apocryphal story re Simple Minds was meeting a very excited pal in the pub who couldnae wait to tell me that "The American" had been playing in the background during that nights episode of Coronation Street. Obviously back in them days if you missed a TV programme you could never see it again and I have often wondered if it was for real or he had just had one too many ludes!
 
Jack K said:
:friendly: no heard that fiction before.
Scottish journalist Brian Hogg liked the band a lot and persuaded his mate Bruce Findlay to sign them on the back of their demo tape which contained "Life in a Day" and "Chelsea Girl" amongst others. As you know, Findlay owned Bruce's record shop chain but he also had a record label, Zoom which had a licensing and distribution deal with Arista.

My apocryphal story re Simple Minds was meeting a very excited pal in the pub who couldnae wait to tell me that "The American" had been playing in the background during that nights episode of Coronation Street. Obviously back in them days if you missed a TV programme you could never see it again and I have often wondered if it was for real or he had just had one too many ludes!
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Not what I read before I think (it was donkeys ago) but here’s Bruce Findlay:

“I begin my conversation with Bruce by asking how signing Simple Minds to Zoom Records came about.

Did Brian Hogg recommend you sign Simple Minds after having seen them play, or did you make the decision yourself once you’d seen them live?

BF: No, what happened with that was Jim and David Henderson came to see me in Edinburgh and had a demo they wanted me to listen to. They were playing in Edinburgh that night (the gig in question was at The Astoria, Abbeymount on August 10th, 1978), but I couldn’t go so Brian went instead. He just raved about the gig the next morning, saying how amazing they were. ‘You should see them, Bruce’! “The best thing since sliced bread.” He went on to describe how the gig was in detail. How they performed. That Pleasantly Disturbed was like a little symphony in one song. So it just sounded so exciting.”

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Priptona Talks – To Bruce Findlay: Part One

It’s the summer of 1978. Simple Minds have been alive and kicking for several months. Jim Kerr and David Henderson (sometimes with Graffiti record store manager Scott MacArthur in tow), durin…
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Could do without the shots of the audience but I like this
 
I like the wistful Beatles/Kinks vibes of this.

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I’m listening to the Modern Jazz Quartet on a cassette I got years ago.It’s live and the music is great.But it suffers from poor mixing.
 
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Just took delivery of a new turntable. Haven't had one for about 14 years. Listened to Wish You Were Here in its entirety. Despite the odd crackle vinyl sounds so much better than CD. Warmer and I love that moment when the stylus hits the vinyl. Bliss!
 
Now no moaning please, but it’s what I’ve just watched/listened to 🤷‍♂️
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Here's a topical one.

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