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WEDNESDAY


I keep thinking this guy is as good as it gets, and he keeps getting better and better. How does he do that?


This is Country Music - Brad Paisley ~ Released on May 23rd. 2011


The title track, please. If you're under time pressure, play any song from the album you like. Yeeha.

More "new to me" that "new in 2011":
Rise - Eddie Vedder
Slow - Rumer
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Three wishes - the Pierces
ledft bank two - the Noveltones
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Only you - Matthew Perryman Jones
Stay - Sugarland
I was everyone - Joan as Policeman

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

Very enjoyable program tonight, good to see Mandy wasn't distracted by the need to remember tomorrow's play-piece :-)

Best of 2011, that's easy....


"The Deep Field" by Joan As Police Woman


The reviewer from the Independent pitted it against Adele's "21" which was released at the same time and the score was Joan 4 - Adele 2


Any track from the album is worth playing and I've requested at least 6 or 7 on this blog before. The singles were "Magic" and "Nervous" but the following would probably be more suitable:-

The Action Man
Run for Love
I Was Everyone


Just hope she's as good live at the fringe as she is in the studio


Paul from Ayr

Joe, didn't see that until I hit the button, good to see we are agreed on one of the tracks......no excuse then!

Incidentally I like Adele's current single about setting fire to the rain much better than the previous two from her album.

If we started doing 'new music Monday', Uncle Vic might be a bit miffed.

I don't like this limitation of 'it had to be releaed this year' but can include reissues - I'm confused, I don't know what's been reissued? How can I tell?

Thanks for shouting Bonnie Raitt for me,Scotch, it made no difference, no matter.

Anyway - realesed in 2011, my album of the year so far - and I doubt it'll change -

From the album -Into The Murky Water:

The Hungry Years - The Leisure Society

Paul McCartney meets The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - the songwriter, Nick Hemming won an Ivor Novello for 'The Last Of the Melting Snow' before the band even had a contract and they have made the best cover version I've ever heard - but as these are before 2011, they don't count.

Bryan, if you're prepared to listen - listen to the whole track - it develops as it goes and ends magniicently.Very radio friendly, drivetime listening.

I discovered The Leisure Society whilst checking out new things on Spotify - i liked the cover, listened and was completely blown away. So I ordered the CD - an absolute joy to own - beautifully packaged, just great.

regardez youse

henri

ps there must ahve been a lot of mystified listeners during tonight's version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'?

In no special order:

k d lang and the sis boom bang - Heaven
Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
Paul Simon - Rewrite
Joan As Polis Wifie - Run For Love
King Creosote and John Hopkin - Running On Fumes
Example - Changed The Way You Kissed Me
Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow
Drive By Truckers - I Do Believe
Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town
Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Decemberists - Down By The Water

Henri - mystified about what?

Why they've sat through two hours of the blindingly obvious.

The only new music I've bought this year is Foo Fighters' Wasting Light, an antidote to the Autotuned mince dished up as music these days.

Walk - Foo Fighters

Janelle Monae please. Quite simply the most entertaining live performer I've seen in a long, long, time ... as can be witnessed from any Glastonbury YT video.

Either 'Come Alive' , 'Cold War' or 'Tightrope' would be a delight ... and deserved exposure.

... share the theme sentiments by the way!

Scotch Git - seconded, of course!

Twisted Mile -Woodenbox & a Fistful of Fivers
Welcome to Your Wedding Day - Airborne Toxic Event
Ghost Woman Blues - The Low Anthem
Down in the Valley - the Head and the Heart
Try to Sleep - Low
Dust Bowl- Joe Bonamassa

My sources that usually help me keep up to speed with newness are currently undergoing their own updates. Then I read others who are championing new folks I've heard and liked.
#10 Kene - Julie - Janelle Monae. Please. And thank you. Come Alive. Too good not to play. And no swearies. Just uber exuberance, as if that's anything to admonish. GET IT ON!!!!

#7

huge 2nd for Heaven - k d lang - one the highlights of this year's gig.

#8

I know 'Cash' (as our hero calls him) has been canonised and is above all criticism, however,I was mystified as to why that version of this song was thought to be stunning or better than Roberta Flack (which almost everyone had asked for). It conveyed absolutely none of the quiet wonderment of the subject matter.

Momentaltily, I though he might sing 'the first time ever i saw your face, I felt comepletely depressed'.

Oh well, that's my Leisure Society shout knackered.

Last time, "recent discoveries" was successful.. but in who's opinion? I recall a carefully considered list i.m.h.o. was presented only to be blanked by Oor Bryan & Ricardo! Having said that I can't be arsed trawling back through the blog like Glen in order to present the evidence. However, I do welcome the initiative & reckon Gaie's "jotter" might just be the fresh start that theme setting needs.
Plus anything that keeps Queen off the show is also to be welcomed! ;-)


Anyhow, you ought to all know by I "Just Can't Get Enough" of these guys... Personal Jesus (Stargate Mix) 2011 ~ Remixes 2 Depeche Mode 81-11

#6 & #14

The 'dahn sahrff' event must be awfae exciting if you're spendin time bloggin!

I always feel like somebody's watching' me

I don't know what a 'dahn sharff' event is, but the height of the day's excitement was having Kaye Adams just behind me on the flight back from London this afternoon.

Having said that, Smiffy and myself had a great couple of days - London's a great trown, i really like it.

regardez youse

henri

#14 got to agree Henri, I too love Cash, but didn't think much of this effort

@Henri it is such a great town maybe your hero Macca should write a song about it? Maybe even an album?

Tonight's show @ ya Bryan Burnett

I am NOT Dale Kelvin


DC (been at work so having alison again)

for heavens sake, Henri did you have to tell him? - you've just made a very





jealous Git

They're wanting new themes. They want them tweeted. There are 2970 characters in the theme jotter. That's 22 tweets and around 200 themes. Even if I were confident about tweeting I couldn't be bothered.

Anyone got webspace they can upload the jotter to?

Capn must have

#22
i didn't know Scotch had the hots for Kaye as well as Alison.

Kaye is much prettier in life than she appears in photographs. Nice pins, but not as tall as I would have imagined (if I had imagined).She looked quite sombre and serious, mind you, getting kids through Stanstead is probably no fun, so as we exchanged courtesies over seats, I didn't bother telling her I like the show - which i do.Apart form 'Off The Ball' and 'Get It On', 'Call Kaye' is probably the station's best show - though i think Rikki would be good at that too - good interviewer, Rikki.

regardez youse

henri

PS what is a 'dahn sharff' even?

Eric/ Faither, you can dish out the lecture now on commenting on appearances.

*sigh*

'dahn sharff' is a directional description, regarding an event which you allegedly attended and which took place furth of this parish, in the opposite direction to 'oop north'

*further sigh*

#23 shairly that should be "Anyone got webspace onto which they can upload the jotter?"


Looks like I need a holiday.

Not sure about Wednesday's theme. If it's the best song I've heard in the first part of 2011, it would be an auld one. If it's to do wi songs released in 2011 & I choose the best, I'm still waitin.

In fact, I'll wait until Thursday

Night night

DC

#21 @ ya Dc

what a fibber you are...........DC.....Dale_Celvin...see.....you are dale kelvin.

tryin' to keep that quiet too.....yeah right!!

cheers frae the dale

#25

The Sunday Times drew attention to some of her personal Tweets about Lord Mayors and riots.

They won't all have appeared in 2011 but I heard each of the following tracks for the first time this year and they have made my life better as a result

Anthem for a seventeen year old / Broken Social scene (wonderful through headphones)
Rise / Josh Bray
I don't think I'll ever get over you / Colin Hay
Diner / Martin Sexton (thanks Julie)
Mr Tambourine man / Melanie (thanks Senga....miss you xxxx)
Jar of Hearts / Christina Perri (very Adele-ish)

However the album I have played to death this year is
Sky at Night / I Am Kloot
Every track is superb so take your pick.

btw Henri, you were right...Dogs in traffic is very rather good!

.....and it did take a while.

#6

Henri,

You're welcome!

Anyone suspect that the themes they'd take from Gaie's list would be the ones that have actually been done before?

howdi y'all @bogotariat (whatever this means, but as you'll have noticed I'm not good at colloquialisms)

#26 it was the 'r' in 'sowph' that confused me - I though it sounded like a religious festival and can confirm Google didn't have a reference for it.

#28 Compliments about Boris, I take it?

#30 Thanks, though the first two albums, 'All You Need Is...' and 'Strange Kinda Love' are more obvious choices for a soul boy, such as yourself.'Dogs In The Traffic' is a slow burner, right enough, but worth it, I think.

regardez - youse

henri

Can we have clarification on whether old tracks new to you count or if it's just new 2011 music and reissues (that you can identify have been reissued this year).

If it's old tracks new to you, my list will stretch from here to Pacific Quay.

I think the Chaz Jankel album

ooops... something wrong there..I think the Chaz Jankel album, 'The Submarine Has Surfaced' was released in 2010, but is his latest work and is a stoater.

Wherever We Go - Chaz Jankel

regardez youse

henri

#14

Henri,

Re: Cash. I disagree. Nobody can come close to Roberta Flack's interpretation, but there is plenty of emotion in Johnny's.

Also, using the argument that Roberta Flack should have been played because the majority asked for it does our cause no good whatsoever. How many times have we complained about the team's irritating habit of pandering to the masses?

Leave democracy to the political blogs. Let's keep pushing for the best mixture of seldom heard and familiar music to be played, regardless of how few (or how many) listeners actually ask for it.

:o)

An album worth checking out is Glen Campbell's latest (and supposedly is last due to Alzheimers), Ghost on the Canvas. I'll go with the title track:

Ghost on the Canvas - Glen Campbell

Gaie, second your Low Anthem shout. I like their "Boeing 737", though its not as good as the Saxon original.

#37 I'd like to hear that, there was an excellent interview with him in one of last weekends papers.

I was in a wee pub last night where they played really good music...the kind of playlist that really adds something to the ambiance and makes you eagerly wonder what gem they're going to play next. A really eclectic mix. There wasn't even anything obscure...just good songs you don't hear every day.

The friend I was with (who simply cannot understand why I keep listening to GIO as every time she's heard it she's described it as "pants" (or she maybe used a less-flattering description)) thought the music in the pub was wonderful...thing was though...it was just a good GIO playlist...the kind we get every now and then nowadays, when they just seem to get it right...when they veer away from the typical safe teatime/drivetime stuff and venture back into what the show used to be like.

She didn't believe me!

ma' name's dale and a' don't care so pop-pickers
this is the song that's had the greatest impact on me this year.....its been played before but that disnay make it a bad song.
its surprisingly perceptive.
its fun.
its got a great tune.
it's an unusual song by one so young.
i love the sentiment of the song.
it'll still get played in years to come.

'price tag'...........jessie j.............................how brilliant is that?

cheers frae the dale

#36 Sorry 'enri but got to agree with Scotch. I was attempting to suggest something similar @ #15, benefit of the doubt an all that but maybe Bryan et al picked up on Gaie's effort and this is an attempt to meet half-way!

#37 Spooky... for some weird reason I slammed his album of covers on during the drive home last night... just fab! I'll definiately check out Ghost on the Canvas.

#26

Not sure about "onto"

#33

See It may account for the glum expression. Still, she'll be consoled to know she's got "good pins".

#14 #36... of course if we had played the man himself (Ewan MacColl)... then that would have put the cat amongst the pigeons... surely the songwriting sings it as it was truly intended... ah well, I asked!

For tonight: Gillian Welch: The Way It Goes

I'll very much back Kene's shout for something perhaps more typical from Janelle Monae. See if you can also find youtube of her singing at this year's Grammys with Bruno Mars and B.o.B.

Some songs I've liked from this year are:
Wye Oak - 'Civilian' or 'The Altar'

Iron & Wine - 'Godless Brother In Love'

Frankie and the Heartstrings - 'Tender'

The Vaccines - 'Wrecking Bar'...it's soooo Ramones.

Are the Vaccines a tribute band like Barking James Harvest?

#43 I see a Conservative big wig said “Anybody who works for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ as a presenter on current affairs programmes has to be objective and politically neutral across a whole range of issues if they are to retain their credibility", should be ok as Loose Women, oops sorry Call Kaye, covers such current affairs as:

what age we should start teaching our kids the facts of life
what being a Girl Guide meant to you
do buskers annoy you
do you take better care of yourself than you did when you were younger
What can be done to help men lose weight
maternity leave - how long is too long
should we allow kids to be more messy
what do you think of rippling muscles on a woman
Is it OK for men to cry
Do fat parents deliberately make their own children fat to feel better

#43 I wondered about that. You can put something 'into' a space but 'on to a server'

Clarification required. We need tae be telt by someone who kains

DC

#46

I've asked before if they are any relation to The Jags.

Have we ever had disease and innoculations as a theme?

howdi ya @ blogotariat (whatever that means)

#44 - interesting point, Mike. Ewan MColl hated all cover versions of his song, including Roberta Flack for the reason they were too slow: The original clocks in in about 2:30, Roberta Flack was twice that (but reduced for the single) and Johnny Cash is 3:50, so he wouldn't have liked it either.

I agree it's completely wrong for me to criticise our hero for playing minority tracks against the demands of the proletariat: democracy is meaningless in musical appreciation - even if they are his personal favourites - and I look forward to the selection of other minority requests this evening and in the months ahead, starting hopefully with The Leisure Society or Chaz Jankel and the host of other goodies my peers in this blogotariat have put up.

My problem with the 'Cash' version is not that it lacks emotion, if anything the reverse is true, too much emotion in that voice and it doesn't convey the joyous discovery of 'the one' - but the opposite: terminal loss. It sounds filled with regret and the remorseless remorse that you sometimes get from people who become maudlin with drink.

I found it painful to listen to, a little too personal or profound in it's honesty, which reveals the tragedy in all it's horror. The voice sounds broken and done in and doubtless there is an aspect of that which is stunning to the observer or the hard core fan but for me, there's something not quite right with listening in on a man watching it slipping away. The implosion of My Way, it 'holds you in his armchair...'

I found it voyeuristic and painful, but I've doubtless not heard it as intended.

Interesting how we hear the same thing differently.

regardez youse

henri

This year I got to see two great performers live and missed one that I'm kicking myself for now that I got the album.Veterans all three for sure so they reflect my "retro"taste these days.Firstly,the amazingly talented Kurt Elling whose album "The Gate" was my album of the year and includes a stunning cover of King Crimson's "Mattie Kudasai".Progrock goes Jazz!Secondly kd lang's "Siss Boom Bang" and heartily big up "Heaven".I meant to go see Paul Simon but wasnt sure how good he would be these days.I hear his live concert was brilliant so bought his latest cd"So Beautiful or So What"and its the best he's done since" Graceland".Would be great to hear the lovely "Afterlife" or "Rewrite"Cheers,Willie Bartke

#47

These all seem like worthwhile topics for discussion, particularly the last one.

I think it's much more likely that parents are gorging themselves so that their obese offspring don't feel bad about themselves. This is a virtuous circle in which the parents can also feel good about having obese kids - awin/win situation, as they say.

When someone shouts 'Hey fatso!' they can all stand together united as a family.

And let's face it, we need to see more united families, if only in their obesity.

Wish I'd heard that programme.

regardez youse

henri

Onto definitely suspect, but you're right, DC, a preposition a bad thing etc. Standards slipping right enough.

Adam - you had me going there.....yes I like Boeing 737 too,and I wish they'd record the fantastic version of Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women they did at Òran Mòr earlier this year. I've looked at some youtube clips of them doing it but they're nothing like as good as that was.

Johnny Cash - don't like him any more than I do

#50

I don't think so, but they once did Boils, Sores and Suppurations

#53

My wife and I looked out of the window this morning for the heartwarming sight of new primary school children in their oversized uniforms before we remembered that they are required to go in 4x4s now. I believe someone is trying to get them on bikes - good luck.

#54
Is there something significant about this clip Gaie?
You're not innit are you?
(I thought I caught a glimpse of Senga smoking on the corner of the station about 3 mins in)

#54 #56

A very interesting historical document - I feel as if I should be in it, but in 1976 you could still commute by car. You can just see Scotch heading up the stairs to The China Sea.

#56 no, not me and since it's allegedly Neil Young that's in it then obviously it's not in the least significant.

ps I don't like Kaye Adams either, the few times I listened to her I couldn't work out if she was playing devil's advocate or was really prepared to air her own opinions in sometimes quite childish ways.

There are lots of people I do like though. Honest.

Willie - prog rock is Jazz.

The Beatles revolutionised everything - in turn, the jazz and blues clubs had to move towards pop/rock and their musicians moved too.

Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were jazzers, Clapton & co were bluesmen.

Cream was jazz played on pop instruments, which became 'rock'. I saw Jack perform Cream numbers with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Big Band - they sounded like Glen Miller numbers.

If you listen to bands like 'Yes' it's self - evidently jazz - long pieces of improvisation from great musicians, the piece returning, eventually, in time to a basic theme. Strangely, i didnt notice at the time - I thought it was all very far ahead or ' progressive' (and like Taxation which swallows large chunks of your income, so prog rock swallows large amounts of your time) but when I can bear to listen to any of it now, I hear jazz.


I've just heard Alex Salmond on the news. I thought it was Tom Morton.

regardez youse

henri

My discoveries:

* Little Miss Higgins - Bargain! Store Panties
via your good selves

* Loudon Wainwright III - Bein' a Dad
via Janice Forsyth

and 3 stripped down, laid back reworkings of weel kent songs:
* Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach (30th Anniversary Version)
* Madness - Baggy Trousers
* AC/DC - The Ace of Spades
both those last two put together for a certain beer brand's ad campaign.

#60

How long before Norrie corrects that, Lemmy tell you?

#59

I seem to recall that Cream featured a lot on the jazz mags of the day, Henri.

#61

Mea maxima culpa

#23/#24

#64

Izzat post-posterous? Or...

;o)

Gaie...that Woodenbox thing was amazing......i'd put them right up there with Neil Young :-)

#54, #57


Oh, good! When Santa brings me that time-machine I'll know where and when to find him...did he steal yon moothie fae Dylan?

Hahaha Paul, I'm sure they're aiming higher than Glasgow Central. Maybe Queen Street?

Agree with paul #66. Loved that, gaie.