potrokin, by misreading one of your posts you reminded me of my favourite Buddy Guy tune : )
Fyi, potrokin unfortunately deleted his account, something to do with porn and terfs.
Kate Bush. I liked The Dreaming, still need to get around to listening to her other stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmTVu5bNXtc
And some trip hop
Tropic of Cancer sounds pretty similar, but a lot of their songs deal with the same love crap.https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/stop-suffering
Might also like Blouse
Thanks for those suggestions. Didn't see them till now. Had a brief listen and both seems up my alley, though I think I prefer Blouse out of the two of them (they seem to be fans of New Order going by their sound).
I like having Kraftwerk looping in the background when programming. It's neat how they did some songs in five different languages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fa_fRNUGZk
Just came across Thievery Corporation recently. I like this particular song, but some other their other song titles sound Alex-Jones-ish ("false flag" e.g.) which is somewhat of a put-off.
Bo Diddley back in 1965 - still making the electricity fizz.
JD, Les Bains Douches has some nice recordings on it
Lou Usher sings ‘Blue Wing’.
He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
Well, it might have been a bluebird, I don't know
but he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska
The salmon boats and 45 below
Well, he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla
and his cellmate there was a Little Willie John
and Willie, he was once a great blues singer
so Wing & Willie wrote him up a song
They sang, it's dark in here, can't see the light
but I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes
and I fly away, beyond these walls
up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
on a poor man's dreams…
Lou Usher sings ‘Blue Wing’.He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
Well, it might have been a bluebird, I don't know
but he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska
The salmon boats and 45 below
Well, he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla
and his cellmate there was a Little Willie John
and Willie, he was once a great blues singer
so Wing & Willie wrote him up a song
They sang, it's dark in here, can't see the light
but I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes
and I fly away, beyond these walls
up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
on a poor man's dreams…
The confederate flags are a bit concerning. Never heard of B.D., but he's a bit too tame for me, like listening to the beach boys or something (though I'm sure both were more musically interesting/novel back in the day).
‘The confederate flags are a bit concerning’
Oops, didn’t spot that – the moral is - if you wear a flag on your head, you’ll get a bonce like a billiard ball.
B.D. had a hard core following and was ‘covered’ by other musicians including Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, Them, The Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones.
I never liked his voice but the last four minutes of this are truly epic.
Sound slightly more refined than other "communist/anarchist" punk bands. Lead singer apparently died recently.
Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On, Rhiannon Giddens and some pals with music to lift the heart.
I am listening to Right Ho Jeeves read by the amazing Jonathan Cecil.
Also Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show series 2. Not to be confused with the god awful TV show. I particularly recommend this to Auld Bod who I’m sure would love it.
Class war on wax!
Paul Simon The Boxer Live in Paris
Killer new tune from B Dolan...
Cash - Folsom prison blues
If you're ever shitfaced at 4:45 in the morning and you don't remember why your alive, this is some walruses.
David Essex - Rock On
Sunday morninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK82JvRY5s
Stephanie says
I’ve been listening to the lovely Loaded Album. Perfect for the summer weather and gently uplifting. I can make use of all the uplift I can lay my hands on at the moment too!
zugzwang wrote:
Sunday morninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK82JvRY5s
Stephanie says
I’ve been listening to the lovely Loaded Album. Perfect for the summer weather and gently uplifting. I can make use of all the uplift I can lay my hands on at the moment too!
"Sweet Jane" is a great tune off of that. I think I prefer the live version on American Poet. There's also the more melancholy 1969 version, but it's missing Reed's typical convention-defying lyrics ("Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest"). White Light/White Heat (edition with bonus tracks) is one of my favorite VU/Reed albums.
My partner of 35 years is called Jane and being a soppy old sod I have a romantic attachment to that song.
Oh Sweet Nuthin’ has a class conscious element to it if you really push your interpretation to the commie limit!
It’s funny, when I was a teenage junky it was all about Sister Ray and the other seedy/wild side tunes. I only listen to the pretty ones now.
My partner of 35 years is called Jane and being a soppy old sod I have a romantic attachment to that song.
Oh Sweet Nuthin’ has a class conscious element to it if you really push your interpretation to the commie limit!It’s funny, when I was a teenage junky it was all about Sister Ray and the other seedy/wild side tunes. I only listen to the pretty ones now.
I always thought "Sweet Jane" had an anarchist/communist element to it (the "those who've ever played a part" bit), but anarchism/communism likely wasn't on Reed's mind (at least to my knowledge). The "Sister Ray" track is pretty nihilistic and all, don't really derive much from that (there are lots of Reed songs I dislike actually -- um, "I want to be black" is pretty tasteless, the album Metal Machine Music in its entirety comes to mind, etc.) There's a JD cover of "Sister Ray" out there. Reed's music seems all over the place (had a song called "Jesus" which I don't know what to make of), can't really pigeonhole him or anything like that. I gravitate more toward the prettier songs too ("I'll be your mirror" is great in that regard). Your relationship with this music is probably much different from mine; pretty cool the libcommers who actually experienced these musical periods firsthand.
pretty cool the libcommers who actually experienced these musical periods firsthand.
Easy tiger! I was only 5 years old when Loaded was released!
Ska cover of Despacito performed by the Holophonics
I like listening to some of Kmfdm's stuff every now and then. They use the "anarchist/communist" labels quite a lot (and also quoted Bakunin in one song), more to be shocking or subversive I think than as expressions of their actual political beliefs (similar to a lot of punk bands).
There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do – now – to fight back against the attacks we know are coming.
A short biography of Helmut Klose, German anarchist and hobo who fought in the Spanish civil war.
Selected reading on cultlike behaviour of left-wing parties in the UK.
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potrokin, by misreading one of your posts you reminded me of my favourite Buddy Guy tune : )