What are you listening to? v1.0

[Barmby Rover]

I am listening to We Love the City by Hefner.

In particular "The day that Thatcher Dies"

Check it out.

[RobTheRover]

I'm gonna dig some late 80s vinyl out after the match tonight.

"She was only the grocer's daughter" by the Blow Monkeys,  I think.

[jonnydog]

I've just acquired his new album Tape Deck Heart (deluxe version) two weeks early!

... It doesn't disappoint

Where did you get that from?   Any chance of a listen?

PM sent mate

Can I have in on this??

PM sent

[River Don]

Much as I enjoyed 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald and LFO, they were rather lightweight compared to some of the techno stuff coming from mainland Europe in that era. Like a bit of candyfloss compared to THIS flash-fried 20 oz steak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cRGVaJF7Y

Or this lot from Switzerland, using sampling to make entire new sounds before the bell ends on ToTP had even heard of that "Ah-Yeah!" sample that Timmy Mallett made famous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhHMXTGCC8

(Admittedly, it were shite trying to pull the blart while frugging to that one...)

Mind, if you want a bit of lightweight UK euphoric techno fluff, this were a half decent one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUxhNWDlGts

See, at the time, largely thanks to the lads at Fon and Warp records in Sheffield, I was looking the other way towards Detroit and Chicago. Kraftwerk with added funk, stuff like:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYDiu2RpDc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYDiu2RpDc</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt86Rtw3Z7M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt86Rtw3Z7M</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ</a>

[RobTheRover]

With you there RD.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhAnUX7xQI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhAnUX7xQI</a>

[River Don]

A bit more Chicago.

Back in 1990, us we used to go to this little club at the bottom of a multistory car park in Sheffield. Half the crowd were black kids and they all seemed to be amazing dancers, then there were us awkward white kids...

Anyway this track was always the highlight. It involved dancing in pitch black with the occasional burst of strobe light.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UG3sLkGgo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UG3sLkGgo</a>

I don't think any of us had any religious leanings!

[Sheepskin Stu]

One of the tightest performances I've ever seen.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDb4szpWmc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDb4szpWmc</a>

[River Don]

This thread has made me quite nostalgic. This is a cracking song I still listen to occasionally.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phWv7l8Lm_A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phWv7l8Lm_A</a>

[BillyStubbsTears]

RD

Incredibly, despite having loved that sing for 30 years, I've never seen that video before. Ta very much. Shocking barnet, mind.

On the theme of indie bands with accordions, here is the one that should have been the greatest of them all. And spot the compere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgKPVqulyZU

[RobTheRover]

My one regret is that I never saw The The live.  I have all their albums, including the first 4 on vinyl.  Infected was the soundtrack to getting home from London in 87 from a New Order/Primal Scream gig (that was before Bobby Gillespie rediscovered rock and roll).  Ended up sleeping on mailbags on a train that seemed to stop every 10 minutes and got into Donny at about 4.30am.  Happy days.

[The Mighty Brian Rowe]

Infected eh, one of my all time favourite records. Got the full length video / DVD thingy that I downloaded a while ago.

BTW King Charles was epic at The Leopard last night 

[BillyStubbsTears]

I saw The The at some dodgy dive in Moss Side or Rusholme or some such in the 90s. It was around the time of Dusk I guess so some way down from his peak. And to be honest, I can barely remember a thing about it.

So a bit of a non-post then. I think I saw The The, but I didn't remember when, where or what it was like...

[BillyStubbsTears]

This thread has spurred me to go back and listen to the The The back-catalogue. Bloody Hell but I'd forgotten how good Soul Mining was. Cool, smooth, spiky, vulnerable, vicious, rough around the edges, some average filler material but moments of sublime genius.

A bit like the Rovers this year.

And here's a nerdy admission.

The night before the play-off final at Stoke, I sat and listened to "I've Been Waiting For Tomorrow (All of My Life)" a dozen times.

(Could have been worse. I could have listened to any of the couple of dozen The The songs that are about having a J Arthur.)


And PS: "I'm just a symptom of the moral decay that's gnawing at the heart of the country" is a line that Mark E Smith would give up ale for.

PPS: Mind, that song wi lines like "You were emotionally independent, but starved of affection. But now you've been trapped by tenderness and been beaten into submission" and the bit about cutting chunks out of your heart and rubbing them into your eyes. That were never going to win an Ivor Novello.

[BillyStubbsTears]

See, at the time, largely thanks to the lads at Fon and Warp records in Sheffield, I was looking the other way towards Detroit and Chicago. Kraftwerk with added funk, stuff like:

RD. Me too brother. I saw the Chicago Jackmasters House tour in 87 at Sheff Uni. The start of a new era of music. Frugging in the moshpit to rhythms that came from another universe. A dozen Gods that I'd heard fleeting snippets of, and who were suddenly there on stage, showing how dance music's future was going to be.

Although the experience was slightly soiled for me  by touching the hand of Daryl Pandy just after he'd been rubbing his gonads while singing "Love Can't Turn Around". The fat, camp, dirty bas**rd

[RobTheRover]

Darryl Pandy. Ha!

Now he looked like he'd eaten half of Chicago!

Edit : I didnt know Darryl had died.  Shouldnt have come as much of a shock, given he used to sweat out about 5 gallons every night.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/06/rip_darryl_pandy_singer_who_he.php

[BillyStubbsTears]

Rob

Bloody 'ell, I hadn't realised that!

Also found out that Nitro Deluxe has gone an all

http://www.radioclash.com/archives/2012/05/03/rip-nitro-deluxe/

Let's Get Brutal was an astonishing sound from round that time. It sent shivers down my spine when I first heard it. Distillation of cool and funk into a few electronic blips. A perfect synthesis of Kraftwerk and Funkadelic that Afrika Bambaataa and Mantronik had started a few years before.

Grand times

[Sheepskin Stu]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mx71H5XFg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mx71H5XFg</a>

[RobTheRover]

Rob

Bloody 'ell, I hadn't realised that!

Also found out that Nitro Deluxe has gone an all

http://www.radioclash.com/archives/2012/05/03/rip-nitro-deluxe/

Let's Get Brutal was an astonishing sound from round that time. It sent shivers down my spine when I first heard it. Distillation of cool and funk into a few electronic blips. A perfect synthesis of Kraftwerk and Funkadelic that Afrika Bambaataa and Mantronik had started a few years before.

Grand times

Aye. I loved "Let's get brutal".   Cracking tune.  I did a mix of that with Lil Louis' s French Kiss. It was pretty good,  even if I say so myself.

[Sheepskin Stu]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRoIuEe6Bbs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRoIuEe6Bbs</a>

[Sheepskin Stu]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oy3xJHwQeU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oy3xJHwQeU</a>

[Sheepskin Stu]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gWQ1PUyMg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gWQ1PUyMg</a>

[River Don]

Liking that stuff Stu. I've had a synthesier fad myself.


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqbuxFnP1KM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqbuxFnP1KM</a>

[River Don]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp1zL0HXCdQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp1zL0HXCdQ</a>

[River Don]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWpx4wwS-Co" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWpx4wwS-Co</a>

[streatham dave]

Stuff on a lot in my car a bit of Carlos Santana
 http://youtu.be/5ePEmeNzviQ

[streatham dave]

Or a bit of Bruddah Iz
http://youtu.be/k_YfyKahP-0

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

I'm into Frank Turner's new stuff at the minute.  Also liking the 1975, think I'll see them at Glastonbury and Frightened Rabbit who I used to like then faded from but liking them at the moment.

[Jenny]

Franks new album is awesome - I've had it on for nearly three weeks and not bored in the slightest, the album tour has been pretty amazing too

1975 are ace, seeing them next weekend at Live at Leeds - the lineup is causing me headaches too much to see, too many clashes!

Got Shed Seven tickets for their Christmas tour today, shame is so far away

Get some Rae Morris on, totally beautiful singer songwriter

[MrFrost]

On the subject of music, I notice Tramlines in Sheffield is no longer free this year.

[Jenny]

£6 a day is hardly gonna break the bank is it.