Today's Interesting Fact About Pop Music
Despite his reputation as the fourth Beatle, Ringo Starr managed a grand total of four compilation albums from 1975 onwards. Each track was personally selected and commented on by Starr, each track was specially remastered to fit current recording standards, and each track was total and utter f**king shit.
Quote: john tregorran @ 13th May 2020, 11:54 PMI've stumbled upon this youtube.
It has lots of Peel Sessions and later ones from Lard.etc....
Good job, mate! That's a real find!
I clicked on The Cure first - was around the time I saw them at Brum Uni.
Looking forward to Robert Forster.
Cranes are on there, Lofty.
Neil Innes for you, Chappers.
Radish will probably not go to bed for at least a week.
Nice mix of the old and new.
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 14th May 2020, 6:46 AMYes, Prefab Sprout have changed the innermost fabric of society. Not just a bunch of jumoed up, heads up their own jacksie, pseudo art school wankuz. How do they do it? What's their secret? I guess we'll never know.
The clue is in the title "From Langley Park to Memphis" which, if it had only reflected the Sprouts's home village, would simply have been called "From Witton Gilbert". But what with Witton Gilbert being close to the village of Langley Park and what with Sir Bobby Robson being from the village of Langley Park and football's Elvis and what with - no, three what withs are not needed here - that made a radical difference. That is, what with Sir Paddy McAloon being sophisticated music's Sir Bobby Robson and having literally a direct line to Elvis on the other side. You can find more about the Elvis connection in "Jordan The Comeback" which is also a better starting place for finding God than the Jehovah's Witnesses.
So far from being "a bunch of jumoed (sic) up, heads up their own jacksie, pseudo art school wankuz", they did in fact establish an entirely new ethos. Their post-modern leap towards, and in many respects creation of, the new realism combined Kierkegaard, Proust, Zola and Shearer with the cubist period of Elvis's daughter, Priscilla. And as the mines were closed, their charitable initiatives helped local pit folk to make an effective transition from coal to a PhD level of appreciation for Barbara Hepworth, a fluency in Mandarin Chinese and ultimately really brilliant jobs at Sports Directs's. Could they have been more "noir"? Peut-etre. But when the starling rests on the escritoire, it is always half past seven.
Thanks for clearing that one up.
John Lennon to Ian Curtis: 'I know you're depressed, but nothing to get hung about.'
Ian Curtis to John Lennon, "I'd worry about yourself John, you're living on borrowed time "
Ian Curtis and John Lennon to One Direction: You are total and utter f**king shit.
Ponies
Robotic Gregorian Choir - Dies Irae:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovv11y36W98
Cameo - Word Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
Deadbolt - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sna9Uti_5Y
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music For A Found Harmonium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E
Mules
Frank Chickens - Fujiyama Mama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3wDnqKQtk
Des O'Connor - Dick-A-Dum-Dum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUiuVNWxYA
Gaither Vocal Band - Jesus On the Mainline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1W8_VXgs4
Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda:
A is for Appalachian
Paul Overstreet - She Only Likes Me For My Willie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1rhOcGo24
The The - Infected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIy18qIaCU
The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels On My Wagon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLhcg_FU9g
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
Z is for Zydeco
Hooverphonic - Unfinished Sympathy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oox5S-HM74
Dope Lemon - Hey You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8UbnYqSFE
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Hymn For A Droid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLYHLW-xfhs
Vic Damone -The Shadow of Your Smile:
Hooverphonic do a reasonable version but I have to play this now.
What a breath of fresh air it was after the plinkyplonk of the 80's. 
Quote: john tregorran @ 15th May 2020, 9:25 PMHooverphonic do a reasonable version but I have to play this now.
What a breath of fresh air it was after the plinkyplonk of the 80's.
The original is the best.
Did you see the OK Go video?
It was all actually done. No computer trickery. It must have taken years to prepare.
Great to see a really useful product from scientists for once rather than them sodding around with bats and bugs.
Quote: john tregorran @ 15th May 2020, 9:25 PMHooverphonic do a reasonable version but I have to play this now.
What a breath of fresh air it was after the plinkyplonk of the 80's.
Massive Attack are always good for cleansing the palette.
Bill in Blackpool
Noisestorm - Crab Rave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDU_Txk06tM
Ken Dodd - The River { Le Colline Sono In Fiore }:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQeM9j4DKI
Nilla Vanilla Fudge - My Lucky Knickers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDokQkyx-0E
Charlie Chaplin - Mad Chaplin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRy3LQrwp3o
Meilnda in Margate
Declan O'Rourke - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlbnxEQo9M
Fad Gadget - Ladyshave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0pyUOkYmT4
Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew - Sea Monsters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5g9M5FAq4
Jean Cras - Âmes d'enfants:
Live - Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires :: 5/15/20 :: Brooklyn Bowl Nashville :: Sneak Peek
In his final years, John Lennon survived on my herb loans. Living on borrowed thyme.
