Pains of being pure at heart- "idem" LP 2009

Our s/t debut on Slumberland Records (us) + Fortuna Pop (uk) will be released in Feb. 2009 on CD/LP/MP3.

slumberland records. keeping it foolish since 1989.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART

Meet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a New York four-piece who plays dreamy, noisy pop with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering drums. Despite only having been together for the best part of a year, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are fast becoming the most name-dropped band in underground circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Their debut album will be released on Fortuna POP! in February 2009.

“Sunshiney C86 pop with jangly guitars and a slightly fuzzy underbelly, coming across like early My Bloody Valentine meeting the Smiths.” (SoundsXP)

http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart
http://www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com

Mojo Febrero 2009

In this issue

FREE CD: MOTOWN NUGGETS! This month MOJO celebrates Motown's 50th anniversary with 15 of the finest tracks from soul's greatest label. Feast on gems from Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha and The Vandellas, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Supremes and many more!

THE 100 GREATEST MOTOWN TRACKS: Honouring Motown's golden birthday celebrations in style, MOJO chronicles the Detroit hit factory's remarkable history with a rundown of their 100 greatest tracks chosen by the likes of Iggy Pop, Mark E Smith, MC5, Gnarls Barkley, The Clash, Paul Weller and many more. PLUS! Exclusive interviews with Motown's main players including Berry Gordy, Holland-Dozier-Holland and Martha Reeves!
TODD RUNDGREN: The master of the three-minute pop song has turned his back on left-field eclecticism for another stab at arena rock. In this month's MOJO Interview the studio wizard explains to Peter Doggett why, this time, he can't afford to repeat himself.

FRANZ FERDINAND: The Scottish alt-rockers have returned from a three-year hiatus and are now ready to reclaim their place among the upper echelon of British pop greats with a new album dripping in late night hedonism. "We're allowed to do what the fuck we want this time," they tell MOJO.

MITCH MITCHELL: As the driving force behind Jimi Hendrix's rhythm section, Mitchell's jazz flourishes formed an integral part of the '60s most influential rock trio. MOJO's Mat Snow looks back at the drummer's career and delves into the kaleidoscopic world of the Experience's last epic, Electric Ladyland.

9 FOR '09: Behold! From star-studded mash-ups to neo-classical ska-pop, MOJO picks the best new acts guaranteed to brighten the year ahead.

REVIEWED!: Antony and the Johnsons soar towards new terrain / Franz Ferdinand take us nightclubbing / Kraut-folk newcomers The Phantom Band / Guns N' Roses / Doug Paisley / Justice / Hawkwind retrospectives / The Factory box set / Pavement

PLUS! Mick Fleetwood / Seasick Steve at the MOJO Club / Peter Gabriel / XTC / Manic Street Preachers / Captain Sensible / Gary Lightbody / Ultravox / Farewell, Mama Afrika.

AND FINALLY… Our Weird Record Club sees a bewildered Jonny Trunk trying to pack in a few filthy habits with the help of charismatic failure Reveen.
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Joanie Summers: The Pepsi Girl

Joanie Sommers (born February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress.

In the early 1960s, she sang It's Pepsi, For Those Who Think Young in commercials and came to be referred to as 'The Pepsi Girl'. Years later, uncredited, she sang Now You See It, Now You Don't, Oh, Diet Pepsi for the sugar-free companion product.

Her 1965 track Don't Pity Me (Warner Bros. 5629 - Don't Pity Me / My Block) became a huge Northern Soul hit in the UK and still fills the dance floors whenever played

Lecturas: los coleccionistas de discos en el blog de la escuela moderna

Pues si, el Kiko Amat dedica un montón de posts -lleva ya 20- a ese raro especimen humano que tanta literatura ha causado y que -a mi también- fascina cada vez más.

Naturalmente el coleccionista de por si es un ser con una indiscutible tara que no le hace ver en la vida más allá de sus objetos preciados. Ello provoca situaciones divertidas a la par que grotescas y en la escuela moderna hay hasta 20 casos de estos, tanto nacionales como extranjeros. Uno de los más divertidos es el caso de un ex miembro de The Membranes que actualmente codirige la tienda Intoxica en Londres. Ahí va un par de anécdotas del hombre. (Más en http://www.laescuelamoderna.blogspot.com/

- Fui a la casa de dos hermanos que me prometieron que tenían miles de LPs. Los tenían. Incluso el lavabo estaba hasta arriba de discos. Llegué a las 9:00 de la mañana y me fuí de allí a las 18:00 de la tarde con el coche lleno hasta los topes. Mientras yo buscaba por entre sus cajas, los dos hermanos habían pasado el día sentados delante de la televisión, viendo hardcore porno, bebiendo birras y debatiendo por qué sus mujeres los habían abandonado. Sé que los $5000 dólares que les pagué por su colección se invirtió en las mejores putas de Pennsicola.

- Volví a una tienda que había visitado un año antes, y allí me mostraron el artículo que había aparecido hacía un año en un periódico local sobre un misterioso inglés (yo) que se había dejado una pasta en discos raros en la tienda. ¡Con fotos incluidas!

Bob Stanley’s siesta-themed playlist

Aquí http://www.chickfactor.com/2008/12/top-ten-lists.html Gail nos ha hecho un regalo estupendo. Sobre todo este top 10 de Bob Stanley sobre sus canciones favoritas para la siesta... Algunas ya las conocoía pero hay un par de revelaciones de las que me he quedado prendado: Priscilla Paris y Clydie King

Bob Stanley’s siesta-themed playlist

1. Love Letters - Ketty Lester2. Wondrous Place - Billy Fury 3. He Noticed Me - Priscilla Paris 4. Missin' My Baby - Clydie King5. All I Wanna Do (from Sunflower, not 20/20)- The Beach Boys6. Try - John Barry7. Chanson d'O - Francoise Hardy8. Sara - Fleetwood Mac9. Oh My Love - John Lennon10. Amore Come Dolore - Ennio Morricone

David Candy, Paul Jones, el film "Privilege" y él

En el mini lp que le editaron Siesta/jet Set/If en el 2001 a David Candy (el que fuera miembro de Nation of Ulysses y The Make Up), hay una bonita canción titulada "Bad Bad Boy" que luego ha resultado ser una versión. La original la interpreta Paul Jones (cantante de Manfred Mann) en la película de culto inglesa "Privilege" (ver http://blog.allmovie.com/2008/08/21/744/) con el título de "I´ve had a bad bad boy". Está claro que él está detrás de esto.

"London" – Frida Hyvönen

Bonita canción folkie de esta sueca amiga de The Concretes.

La canción está disponible en: http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopular/2008/12/london.html

Ahora estoy con la discografía (completa) de Broadcast

HOJA PROMOCIONAL DE HAHA SOUND POR BOB STANLEY

Walking into Rough Trade in covent garden some seven years ago, instead of the regulation dub or atonal screech-rock, i heard the oddest space lullaby, a mechanical melancholy waltz. peeking at the record deck, the hand-stamped label told me it was ‘accidentals’, the first single by broadcast. i bought two copies, just in case.
i was intrigued enough to go and see them on their home ground, at the unpromisingly named jug of ale in birmingham the following week. it didn’t live up to its name. with lights and a film show to shame anyone i’d seen in the last five years, it felt more like i’d walked into the party scene in midnight cowboy. this may not have been entirely accidental. broadcast looked incredible. beatnik technicians, fierce concentration. clearly, they cared a lot about their music. and it turned out ‘accidentals’ wasn’t even close to being their best song. pretty soon, i realised they were the group i’d always dreamt about.
the music was bent on fighting the forces of reaction - more radiophonic than radio clash, lalo schifrin instead of led zeppelin. music that tried to break out, burst free into utopia using electronica, twisted samples, perverse rhythms and otherworldly wordless vocals. music that suggested a million new directions, none of them pointing to memphis or moseley shoals. broadcast made further leaps forward, signing to warp and releasing work and non work (a collection of early singles) then the noise made by people in spring 2000.
this was where their pop sensibilities and experimental urges became fully assimilated: ‘papercuts’, ‘come on let’s go’, ‘you can fall’, which director lynne ramsay used as a pivotal song in the film morvern callar.
hardening their aesthetic, they worked their way through three different producers before realising the unspoken understanding that ran between them meant that they were the only people capable of finishing what they’d started. the reviews tripped over themselves with gushing adjectives.
with haha sound even outside studios have been forsaken - it was all recorded in james’ house bar the drums, which were taped in a church hall across the road. the influences are again cinematic (trish references milos forman’s loves of a blonde, hans richter’s dreams that money can buy, and the beautiful czech horror/fairytale valerie and her week of wonders) as much as musical. karl orff’s musica poetica is also cited – "absolutely amazing tunes," says trish, "little christmas songs for kids to sing at school." james plumps for eccentric british jazzman, basil kirchin. they worry that french singers like zouzou and clothilde are too obvious to mention, when they are clearly not. "steve from tommy boy used to laugh because we’d talk about joseph byrd (of electronica pioneers united states of america) as if he was john lennon, like he was the most famous person in america!"
broadcast are not the kind of group who bash you over the head with some coarse gimmick. haha sound steals into your mind, gently drenches it with found sounds and the sweetest melodies. like cindy sherman’s self-portraits, they are beautiful and unsettling - hints of ancient folk song dipped in a world of echo. they are still my favourite group.
~ bob stanley

SHIVERS INSIDE PART 43 Broadcast – The Noise Made By People – LP BY JOHN CARNEY

It was a bit sneaky the way I managed to get the song used. We were all being humoured and given a chance to get involved. I know my best mate at work thought it was fantastic to get Joy Division’s Atmosphere featured, but that’s not exactly way out these days is it? They’re very classic rock now Joy Division aren’t they? It did work brilliantly though. Very sobering. But Broadcast were less obvious. So when they were in a bit of a rush to put a montage together of Sven’s travels during the half-time of the France v Portugal match, somehow everyone thought the insouciance and unattainability of Trish sort of fitted. I think a few knew it was a bit of a left field pop thing, some thought it was a bit Carpenters or Saint Etienne, and it was that pop sheen that got it through.

I thought it was really funny afterwards when people were reading all sorts of meaning into the way the song was used. The line about “what’s the point in wasting time on people you’ll never know …”. People were tapping way on their blogs about how that was a cunning condemnation of Sven’s selections. Was it heck! We just needed a song to use quickly that was going to be a bit different, and that was the one I was playing most on my iPod. People were too preoccupied by Ronaldo to worry too much about a bit of music. But the response was so good that it got used again to soundtrack Italy’s route to the final. I was so proud of that.

It wasn’t even as though I was the world’s greatest Broadcast fan. I’ve got a few of their records. Love the poppy bits. Hate the twiddly bits. And I don’t think they’ve bettered those few songs on The Noise Made By People. Unchanging Window. Come On Let’s Go. Papercuts. Really lovely. There’s a great bit in Papercuts where Trish sings about writing a page about me in your diary, and the word diary is streched out into three syllables, and that’s really sexy like Rihanna extending her umber-ella. Just everything seemed to fall together on those songs for me. They stepped out of Stereolab’s shadow and stole the show. I had a bit of a crush on the singer too. She had that Sandie Shaw or Francoise Hardy thing going on with her fringe which I’m a sucker for.

The irony is, and this is where I feel a bit of a fraud but hey ho, that Broadcast are about as contemporary as I get. As work gets more pressing, more pressured, and families and things become more important, music takes a bit of a back seat. So I can’t really take credit for being super hip. But the World Cup owes me in a way, so fair’s fair.

Betty Blake sings in a tender mood LP 1960

Vocalist Betty Blake made one fine recording for Bethlehem in 1960, Betty Blake Sings in a Tender Mood. On the strength of it, she deserved more opportunities and exposure.

(De allmusic)

BETTY BLAKE

Here’s another singer who started out with big bands. Betty Blake sang with Buddy Morrow from 1955 to 1957. But after leaving Morrow she seemed to drop below radar until 1961 when her Bethlehem LP ("Tender Mood") was released. The album contained a large number of Alec Wilder songs. And one side of a 45 Blake made for the Golden Crest label, “The Lady Sings the Blues,” was also written by Wilder. Blake also appeared as a guest artist on a Golden Crest LP. But after her Bethlehem effort, nothing is known of any other professional activity until her death of cancer at age 63 on September 19, 2001. Something of a mystery, for the Blake’s lone album is a good one and received some nice reviews. The musicians include Teddy Charles, Zoot Sims, Kenny Burrell and Mal Waldron.

(Tracks: Let There Be Love, Love is Just Around the Corner)

de http://people-vs-drchilledair.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-shot-wonders-part-7.html

El cancionero de Bacharach & David visto por...

The Dells Sing Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits - 1972

Forget Dionne Warwick, and think Burt Bacharach -- because on this sublime little set, The Dells are singing some of Burt's greatest tunes ever -- all set to impeccable arrangements by the legendary Charles Stepney! The album's more wonderful than you might even expect -- a true high point in the career of all parties involved -- and a tremendous recasting of Bacharach's original brilliance -- taking his key compositions into the most sophisticated styles of the Chicago soul scene in the 70s! There's a sense of timing and phrasing here that's quite unique -- hardly simple covers of Dionne Warwick's approach to these hits -- and Stepney's backings feature his own Fender Rhodes, guitar from Phil Upchurch, percussion from members of The Pharoahs, and some fuller horns, harp, and strings. The Dells are equally great too -- and serve up some of the best vocals of their career -- really magnificent harmonies, and soaring solo parts that seem to even go beyond their best-known hits. Titles include "Walk On By", "Trains & Boats & Planes", "I Say A Little Prayer", "Wives & Lovers", "Close To You", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", "This Guy's In Love With You", "Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head", and "A House Is Not A Home".

Anita Kerr Singer Reflect on the Hits of Burt Bacharach and Hal David 1967

Any lover of 70s tunes, especially Bacharach, will love this double album set of Anita Kerr singers. The quartet's harmony and arranging is superb and the talented foursome provides its own introspection on some of Bacharach's more meaningful songs, i.e Alfie, Windows of the World, etc. This is not Ray Conniff by any means. Sublime vocals and a disc you'll never tire of listening to.

Best Songs of 2008: A Take The Pills! Compilation

el blog take the pills ha colgado (aquí: Download ) sus 29 canciones favoritas del año. Además hacen su lista de mejores lps y eps del 2008 (http://takethepills.blogspot.com/2008/12/various-artists-best-songs-of-2008-take.html )

Jeanne Moreau - "The Inmortal"

él Records edita esta recopilación de la actriz francesa. "La Vie Cocagne" es el hit. Fuera de este cd me he encontrado también otro gran tema fechado en 1965 titulado "Quelle Merveille Ton Coeur".

Released 20/10/08.

If there was a single actor who captured the very essence of the French New Wave, it was Jeanne Moreau. In Truffaut's groundbreaking Jules et Jim she achieved global recognition, giving a performance of spellbinding intensity as the mercurial Catherine, who becomes tragically entwined in the lives of two friends who both love her. During the film, she was required to perform the song, Tourbillon de La Vie (Whirlpool of Life), which Truffaut felt encapsulated the spirit of his masterpiece. Her recording went on to become a massive radio hit and prompted the idea of recording a full LP under the auspices of producer Jacques Canetti.

The award-winning albums that transpired in 1963 and 1966 comprise this edition and feature songs written by Cyrus Bassiak (Serge Rezvani). The debut in collaboration with George Delerue and the legendary Ward Swingle, its elaborate orchestrations giving way on the sequel to more intimate and sensuous settings with guitar and bass. A Jules & Jim apart, cinematic highlight include Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story for Orson Welles; Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel) and for Louis Malle The Lift to The Scaffold and Viva Maria in which she co-starred with Brigitte Bardot Jeanne Moreau is global in her appeal.

Jamais Je Ne T'Ai Dit Que Je T'aimerai Toujours / Tout Morose J'Avais Un Ami / Les Mots De rien / Anonyme / Adieu Ma vie / Tu M'Agaces / Tantôt rouge, Tantôt bleu / Ou Vas-Tu Mathilde / Les Wagons Longs De Lit / Angora Rose / Les Mains Sur Les Tempes / J'Ai La Mémoire Qui Flanche / La Vie S'Envole / La Peau Léon / Rien N'Arrive Plus / Moi Je Préfère / Le Blues Indolent / La Vie De Cocagne / L'Homme D'Amour / L'Horloger / Ni Trop Tôt, Ni Trop Tard / Les Mensonges / L'Amour Flou

Kiki Dee on Dusty (Time out London 10-04-2008)

The Three Wise Men - "Thanks for Christmas" 1983

Este single es -junto a The Pogues (with Kirsty McColl) "Fairytale of New York"- mi canción navideña favorita. En realidad no son más que XTC con pseudónimo. Lo más curioso es que las canciones del single vienen firmadas como Kaspar, Melchoir and Balthazar... NOTE: Recorded by XTC and released under The Three Wise Men. Both sides are non-album tracks. Produced by XTC and David Lord (credited as The Three Wise Men and the Good Lord). Recorded at Crescent Studios, Bath, Avon, October 1983."Countdown to Christmas Party Time" features backing vocals by Erica Wexler. Andy originally intended to invite some office girls from Virgin Records to sing on the record and call them the Virgin Marys.Although authorship of both songs is credited to Kaspar, Melchoir, and Balthazar, they were actually written by Andy. It was never decided who was Kaspar, Melchoir, or Balthazar among the XTC members.

May also be found on the album Rag & Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts & Leftovers (comp.)

Unpopular songs of the year

Alistair Fitchett está colgando en su blog sus canciones favoritas del año. Además del mp3, hay comentario y foto de cada una de ellas: http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopular/

Russ Garcia - "I Lead a Charmed Life" de "Sounds of The Night" 1957

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Released 27/11/08. Regarded to be one of the best vocal group albums ever recorded, Sounds In the Night combines the hauntingly delicate arrangements of Russ Garcia with the extraordinary wordless vocals of the soprano, Marni Nixon, whose voice reached millions through such movies as The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, for which she ghosted the vocals of Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood. (She also stepped in to provide the high notes for Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend).

This edition also features Marni Nixon performing Dennis Farnon’s Mother Magoo Suite, which with its magical, hovering orchestration and gently rocking chords, taps into a vein of mystical wonder reminiscent of Walter Schumann's soundtrack for the classic 1955 film Night of the Hunter.

Roy Budd - "Diamonds" 1975

Investigando los favoritos de Mike Alway me he topado con esta maravilla. Es la canción que da título a una de las muchas bandas sonoras que compuso el inglés Roy Budd. Cantan el trío vocal -sonido Philadelphia- The Three Degrees. 100 % Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick

(From Blaxploitation.com): Only issued in Italy (as 'Colpa Da Un Miliardo Di Dollari', shown here) and the UK, this is without doubt Budd's finest soundtrack. Elements of his earlier work can be clearly heard in the Middle Eastern segments of the LP and use of distinctive instrumentation. The album features music from a surprisingly good heist movie starring Richard Roundtree, shot in Israel. Many of the best tracks were not included in the movie. The album contains raw funk ('The Thief'), jazz ('Party Piece'), an easy listening-with-wah bossa nova ('Brauty And The Bass') and a sentimental soulful theme by the Three Degrees in addition to some excellent atmospheric Eastern-influenced tracks. Look out for Budd's trademark use of deep bass to underpin his dark, menacing funk themes. Quite superb.

(from http://www.cherryred.co.uk/el/artists/roybudd.htm: Roy Budd is best known for his brilliant score for the Michael Caine gangster movie 'Get Carter' one of the most popular British films of modern times and one that is regularly shown on television and spoken of both as Caine's best. Roy Budd was a virtuoso pianist often seen on British television in the sixties/early seventies when Budd was a major figure at the centre of the London jazz/mod scene. Like the voices of Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield, Budd's piano is one of the distinctive sounds of the sixties and this album should be classified soundtrack first, then pop/lounge, then jazz.

No son Orange Juice, aunque lo parezca - TWIG "Ciao Ciao Bomb" (El primer single de vinilo de Cloudberry

VER VÍDEO CLIP aquí: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=43375794

Mike Alway en The Guardian

http://c86indiepoparchive.blogspot.com/2008/12/mike-alway-en-guardian-music-to-watch.html

Your Heart Out, el nuevo fanzine de Kevin Pearce

Gracias a Jumped-Up Pantry Boy, me entero de que Kevin Pearce ha vuelto a hacer fanzines.

http://pantry.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/something-beginning-with…-y/ :

A friend of ours is at it again, some twenty years after last venturing out in fanzine format. Click here to download … your heart out, and read thoughts – always entertaining and often preconception-destroying – about the mod revival, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida, the Fallen Leaves, jazz singers of the fifties and sixties, Charles Stepney, Bacharach and David, travels in MySpace, YouTube gems, Raw Records, Betrand Burgalat and Robert Wyatt, bossa nova, and Marina Van-Rooy and Peter Coyle. And, of course, spinning off at tangents in all directions.

Hasta ahora he leído la mitad (estoy por su majestuoso artículo de las chicas jazz de los 50 y 60) y es realmente fantástico, descubriendo, al menos para mi, cosas nuevas que desconocía totalmente (aunque The Fallen Leaves me parecen horribles y los grupos neomod de los 80 un tanto cuestionables, pero todo es opinable e incluso leerle es una gozada por el entusiasmo que transmite).

Por si fuera poco en Caught by The River -el blog de Heavenly Records- me he encontrado también escritos suyos (http://caughtbytheriver.net/?s=kevin+pearce ) y también he descubierto que mi adorado John Carney, es realidad es él (http://antirockblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/john-carney.html )

La foto de este post, corresponde a una de las chicas jazz de las que habla en Your Heart Out. Al buscar-encontrar estos discos me he topado con una gozada no sólo musical, sino también de diseños y portadas. Es sólo una muestra de la riqueza iconográfica de la época.

Mike Alway (que a traves de él-Cherry red está reeditando también cosas en esta onda), Bob Stanley, Joe Forster y Kevin Pearce son los verdaderos gurus de descubrir los tesoros del pasado...

Lecturas: Joe Forster (por Alan Mcgee) y el sello de moda, Slumberland Records

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/nov/25/joe-foster-creation-slaughter-joe

http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/slumberland-records-interview/

Brogues blog - Single of the Year

Track of the year para indie-mp3.co.uk

El Gran single navideño de The Wedding Present (¡featuring Simone White!)

WEDDING PRESENT CHRISTMAS DOWNLOAD SINGLE OUT NOW

The Wedding Present’s 2008 Christmas EP is available now for download.

“HOLLY JOLLY HOLLYWOOD” is a festive duet in the classic tradition where David Gedge shares the vocal duties with much-admired American songstress Simone White. David, who wrote the song with Wedding Present bass player Terry de Castro while living in Los Angeles says: “I’ve wanted to release a proper, bona fide, Christmas song for years, so this is something of an ambition fulfilled.” There is also an acoustic version of the song where the female vocals are provided by Terry. The third track on the EP is the band’s beautiful version of WHITE CHRISTMAS.

Pam Berry DJ

En el zine Wrap your troubles hay una deliciosa entrevista con la ex Glo Worm, Black Tambourine y ahora en The Pines, Pam Berry. Aunque asegura que ahora está muy ocupada con sus dos hijos y con sus manualiades y antiguedades (http://craft-ho.blogspot.com/), ocasionalmente hace de dj y pincha "country crooners, ladies singing Bacharach, some old stuff like Opal, Revolving Paint Dream y The Weather Prophets."

Por cierto en Chickfactor dicen que acaba de cumplir 10 años de casada. http://www.chickfactor.com/2008/11/happy-decade-pam-mike.html felicidades

(FOTOS

de los blogs de heavens is above, think small y del propio de Pam Berry

El paraíso de Bob Wratten

en el zine wrap your troubles el líder de Trembling Blue Stars dice que este es "The loveliest place" en el que ha estado. Se trata de unas islas llamadas Sethlands (son un grupo de islas del Atántico Norte situadas entre las Feroe, el suroeste de Noruega y UK. Más info: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Shetland)

En concreto puntualiza un paraje llamado Bressay Lighthouse (más info: http://shetlopedia.com/Bressay_Lighthouse ) "It´s everything I could ever want from a place", dice

Rock de lux de Diciembre

Portada: Marianne Faithfull

Lee Hazlewood (2 páginas)

Robyn Hitchcock (2 pags)

50 años de bossa nova (4 pags)

Jabalina records (3 pgas y cd de regalo; ¡incluye zipi y zape!)

DVD pop del mes: el documental de Joy Division de Grant Gee (parece que lo han editado en España). Guillot dice: "Imprescindible" (film documentary directed by Grant Gee and written by Jon Savage

Lp del mes: Jolie Holland

El Kiko este mes: entrevista a Oxford Collapse y" y hace la crítica del lp de Euros Child al que califica de "lindo". También la de un libro de Robert Abella: "Revival Mod 1974-1988. Historia de un renacer" del que dice que "no es el libro definitivo sobre el revival mod".

Blogs, blogs , blogs y más (excelentes) blogs

SINGING AND SWINGIN http://singinandswingin.blogspot.com/

CROONERS http://thecroonerscorner.blogspot.com/

BOSSANOVA http://bossa-filmes.blogspot.com/ (filmes)

http://loronix.blogspot.com

http://regalameestanoche.blogspot.com

LA VARIETE http://qtalos.blogspot.com

EASY LISTENING: http://wwwebbrazil-eb-brazil.blogspot.com/

http://thirdisland.blogspot.com

Mojo, Q y Uncut lps del 2008

Mojo Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2008

1 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2 - The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
3 - Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
4 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [2007]
5 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
6 - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
7 - Glasvegas - Glasvegas
8 - The Week That Was - The Week That Was
9 - The Bug - London Zoo
10 - Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
11 - Portishead - Third
12 - Don Cavalli - Cryland
13 - Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
14 - British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
15 - Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - Roll With You
16 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
17 - Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
18 - Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide
19 - Beck - Modern Guilt
20 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science
21 - Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
22 - Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
24 - Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
25 - Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
26 - Peter Broderick - Home
27 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
28 - Neon Neon - Stainless Style
29 - Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals [2007]
30 - The Night Marchers - See You in Magic
31 - Duffy - Rockferry
32 - Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left
33 - Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic
34 - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
35 - Our Broken Garden - When Your Blackening Shows
36 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
37 - Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck & Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic [2007]
38 - Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
39 - Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
40 - The Black Keys - Attack & Release
41 - The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
42 - Juana Molina - Un Día
43 - Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
44 - Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance
45 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
46 - James Hunter - The Hard Way
47 - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
48 - AC/DC - Black Ice
49 - The Neil Cowley Trio - Loud... Louder... Stop
50 - Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Q Magazine
1 Kings of Leon - Because of The Times
2 Fleet Foxes - s/t
3 Coldplay - Viva La Vida...
4 Vampire Weekend - s/t
5 Glasvegas - s/t
6 Duffy - Rockferry
7 TV On The Radio - Dear, Science
8 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
9 The Racontuers - Consoluers of The Lonely
10 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
11. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
12 Keane - Perfect Symmetry
13 MGMT - Orcular Spectacular
14 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
15 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
16 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
17 Adele - 19
18 British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
19 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
20 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
21 Razorlight - Slipaway Fires
22 The Killers - Day and Age
23 Beck - Modern Guilt
24 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of The Understatement
25 Metallica - Death Magnetic
26 Conor Oberst - s/t
27 Neil Diamond - Before Home
28 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
29 AC/DC - Black Ice
30 Portishead - Third
31 Black Mountain - In The Future
32 Oasis - Dig Out Your Souk
33 Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
34 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
35 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
36 R.E.M. - Accelerate
37 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
38 John Mellencamp - LifeDeathLoveAndFreeedom
39 Santogold - s/t
40 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
41 Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
42 Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning
43 Joan As Police Women - To Survive
44 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
45 Jack Johnson - Sleep Through Stattic
46 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tounge
47 The Verve - Forth
48 Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
49 Emmylou Harris - All I Indented To Be
50 Dido - Safe Trip Home

Uncut Magazine
50 Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
49 Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
48 Byrne/Eno - Everything That Happens..
47 Sic Alps - USEZ
46 Pete Greenwood - Sirens
45 The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
44 REM - Accelerate
43 Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
42 Metallica - Death Magnetic
41 James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In
40 That Was The Week - s/t
39 Beck - Modern Guilt
38 Endless Boogie - Focus Level
37 Lambchop - OH(Ohio)
36 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
35 Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations
34 Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
33 Sigur Ros - Bollocks to typing this out on a BlackBerry
32 Flight of The Conchords - s/t
31 White Denim - Workout Holiday
30 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
29 Robert Foster - The Evangelist
28 The Felice Brothers - s/t
27 MGMT - Orcular Spectacular
26 Lucinda Williams - s/t
25 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
24 Glasvegas - s/t
23 Black Mountain - In The Future
22 The Raconteurs - Consolers of The Lonely
21 Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
20. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
19. Rook - Shearwater
18. Real Emotional Trash - Stephen Malkmus
17. Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp
16. Limbo, Panto - Wild Beasts
15. Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
14. Harps and Angels - Randy Newman
13. James Blackshaw Litany Of Echoes
12. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
11. Brighter Than Creation's Dark - Drive-by Truckers
10 22 Dreams - Paul Weller
9. Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon
8. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7. Stainless Style – Neon Neon
6. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
3. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
1. Third - Portishead

A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul - BOX SET 2008

The title of this new boxset from Universal just about sums it up - A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul.

Compiled by Wigan Casino DJ Russ Winstanley, it's a four-disc set, each with its own theme - Motown Memories, Motown's Hidden Nuggets, Northern Floorshakers and Northern Anthems. For the serious collector, there's probably little new - although some tracks have made it out of the Motown archives for the first time. But for the less obsessive, it promises a mix of dancefloor staples and rare gems from the 60s to the present day - yes, even Frank Popp makes an appearance.

Disc One: Motown Memories

1. The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You 3:082. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Just Walk In My Shoes 2:243. Marvin Gaye - Little Darling (I Need You) 2:464. Chris Clark - I Want To Go Back There Again 2:395. The Detroit Spinners - I’ll Always Love You 2:436. Four Tops - I’ll Turn To Stone 2:287. The Supremes - There’s No Stopping Us Now 2:578. The Velvelettes - These Things Will Keep Me Loving You 2:279. Kim Weston - Helpless 2:4210. The Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding 2:4311. Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons - The Night 3:2112. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - I Ain’t Going Nowhere 3:3213. Earl Van Dyke & The Motown Brass - 6 By 6 2:2014. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Whole Lot Of Shakin’ In My Heart15. R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost In My House 2:2616. The Isley Brothers - Tell Me It’s Just A Rumor Baby 2:5617. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run 2:5618. San Remo Golden Strings - Festival Time 2:3119. J.J. Barnes - Real Humdinger 2:3520. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything’s Alright) 2:5321. The Velvelettes - He Was Really Sayin’ Somethin’ 2:2922. The Marvelettes - I’ll Keep Holding On 2:2823. The Detroit Spinners - What More Could A Boy Ask For 3:1224. Brenda Holloway When I’m Gone 2:0825. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - California Soul 2:48

Disc Two: Motown’s Hidden Nuggets

1. The Velvelettes - Ain’t No Place Like Motown 3:192. Gladys Knight - You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ 3:263. Frankie Valli - Thank You 3:324. Tammi Terrell - Tears At The End Of A Love Affair 2:575. The Contours - Baby Hit And Run 3:016. Four Tops - Have A Little Faith 2:487. Reflections - (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet 2:108. Kiki Dee - The Day Will Come Between Sunday9. David Ruffin - You Can Come Right Back To Me 3:0410. The Sisters Love - I’m Learning To Trust My Man 3:1311. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Baby (Don’t You Leave Me) 3:0812. The Isley Brothers - My Love Is Your Love (Forever) 3:0913. Brenda Holloway - Think It Over14. The Originals - Suspicion 3:0715. Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart Of Mine16. Tammi Terrell - I Gotta Find A Way To Get You Back 2:5917. Edwin Starr/Blinky - I See A Rainbow 2:2918. The Isley Brothers - Why When Love Is Gone 2:3319. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - One Way Out 2:3420. Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) 2:2121. Debbie Dean - Why Am I Lovin’ You 2:4622. Edwin Starr - I Have Faith In You 2:1823. Brenda Holloway - All I Do Is Think About You 2:5424. Edwin Starr - If My Heart Could Tell The Story 2:2725. Martha Reeves - No One There 3:30

Disc Three: Northern Floorshakers

1. The Tams - Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me 2:252. Holly St James That’s Not Love 2:213. Earl Jackson - Soul Self Satisfaction Demo Version 2:244. Barbara Randolph - I Got A Feeling 3:035. The Dalton Boys - Take My Hand 2:526. Jimmy Ruffin - He Who Picks A Rose 2:447. Bobby Hebb - Love, Love, Love 2:528. Prophets - I Got The Fever 2:549. William Bell - Happy 2:3110. Johnny Taylor - Friday Night 0:0011. Carolyn Crawford - Keep Stepping (Never Look Back) 2:2312. The Supremes - Life Beats 3:2613. Gloria Jones - Tainted Love 2:4314. Jeanette Harper - (Pick Me Up) Put Me In Your Pocket 0:0015. Chubby Checker - At The Discotheque 2:2816. Bunny Sigler - Girl Don’t Make Me Wait 2:2417. The Dells - Wear It On Our Face 3:2018. Four Tops - Sweet Was The Love 2:5019. Tommy Good - I’ve Gotta Get Away 2:4120. David Ruffin - Walk Away From Love 3:18(Charles Harrison J. Kipps) Charles Kipps Music Inc.21. Drizabone - Real Love 3:4922. Frank Popp Ensemble - Breakaway 3:3723. Don Covay - It’s Better To Have (And Don’t Need) 3:0824. Pete Warner - Just Want To Spend My Life With You 2:3025. The Temptations (with James Jamerson) - You’re My Everything 3:27

Disc Four: Northern Anthems

1. Yvonne Baker - You Didn’t Say A Word 2:392. Bobby Paris - Night Owl 2:143. Vickie Baines - Country Girl 2:104. Chubby Checker - You Just Don’t Know5. The 3½ - Angel Baby 2:366. Evie Sands - Picture Me Gone 3:177. Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe 4:138. Joy Lovejoy - In Orbit 2:249. Patti & The Emblems - I’m Gonna Love You A Long Time 2:1610. The Lewis Sisters - Breakaway 2:3211. John E. Paul - I Wanna Know 2:1112. The Sapphires - Gotta Have Your Love 2:1613. J.J. Barnes - Every Time I See You, I Go Wild! 2:5914. The Charades - Key To My Happiness 2:0815. Spyder Turner - I Can’t Make It Anymore 2:1716. Edwin Starr - S.O.S. (Stop Her On Sight) 4:0917. Sammy Davis Jr. - You Can Count On Me 2:1118. The Funk Brothers - Aint No Mountain (inst) 0:0019. Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over 2:3820. Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By 3:0621. Dean Parrish - I’m On My Way 2:43

Momus - "Joemus"

The new Momus album, Joemus, is a collaboration between the veteran electronic vaudevillian and Joe Howe, a young Glasgow breakcore musician known for his work with Gay Against You and Germlin. Asked, back in 2007, to do a cover version for a limited edition box set called Recovery, Momus called on the young Scot's services to make a cover of David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, which turned out "not so much a pop song as a ping pong match between Coco the Clown and Major Tom... a series of satistfying thwack and plock and boiiiiiing noises," according to Momus. The Bowie cover isn't on Joemus, but the Nintendo Glam Rock feel -- and the odd noises -- persist. The pair worked over the internet, then spent several weeks together in Berlin fine-tuning the results. The Joemus album sounds like the hits of 70s Scottish glam rock sensations The Bay City Rollers played on 80s amusement arcade equipment. Joe's frenetic, ADD-addled jams get turned by Momus into folk jigs, but the fast numbers alternate with tenderly morose slowies, covers of Cliff Richard ballads and Ryuichi Sakamoto croons. Then it's back to the beats-and-edits frenzy, and tales of horror, from Dracula (a duet with Groopie Kyoka Kyoka) to Ichabod Crane. The result may be the most satisfying pop album Momus has ever made -- but only if your definition of pop tends to the edgy, jumpy, fresh, and weird

Vincent Delerm - "Quinze chansons" (2008 LP)

El disco contiene quince canciones muy breves, dos de ellas no superan los 52 segundos.Las canciones contienen referencias a personajes actuales o de hace décadas, como la actriz Fanny Ardant, el fotógrafo Martin Parr, el futbolista Patrick Vieira, el actor Peter Falk, el escritor y político Max Gallo...Como en ocasiones anteriores Delerm se acompaña de los músicos Albin de la Simone, JP Nataf y Peter Von Poehl.

El nuevo de Scarlet´s Well

Ya disponible en tha passion of indie

¡Temazo de Northern Soul! The Kittens - "Looky Looky"

Ayer escuché Flor de Pasión y me encontré un especial sobre Ashford & Simpson y fue un shock escuchar esta canción de este desconocido grupo. Esto dice Allmusic:

Like a lot of Chicago soul vocal groups, the Kittens are popular among Northern soul devotees. Another trait that they share with revered groups of that genre is that they became more popular later than when they were together and recording, during which they never had any nationally charting records. The Kittens emerged from Chicago's west side, forming around Farragut High school student Bernice Wills and Marshall High students Thelma Mack and her cousin Laurel Ross. Arranger/producer Johnny Pate signed the group to ABC-Paramount in 1964, as newly appointed Midwest A&R director for the label, a position created specifically for him. As the arranger for the Impressions, he and the label created a Chicago branch around 14th & Michigan to tap into the vibrant Chicago soul scene of the '60s. Their ABC Paramount singles include "I Got to Know Him" and "Lookie Lookie." Around 1968, they began recording for Chess, with "Aint No More Room," "Hey Operator," and "I've Got to Get Over You." Their other releases were "I Need Your Love Tonight" on the Don-El label and "Foolish Little Girl" on Grant.

Empieza el baile

Listas de lo mejor del 2008. Rough Trade los más madrugadores:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/content.lasso?page=albumsoftheyear08.html

Comet Gain - "Love without lies" Clip

Rodado en balnco y negro y retratando el ambiente -bueno, su ambiente- londinense nocturno. Todavía quedan románticos.

Bubblegum Lemonade - "Doublepluesgood" LP (Matinee)

Más retro indie c-86 pop.

EL NOMBRE

"Bubblegum Lemonade comes from the Mama Cass Elliot debut 1969 solo album, 'Bubblegum, Lemonade And Something For Mama'. When I first saw it the potential for a band name jumped out at me. Also being obscure, Bubblegum Lemonade gives me an almost unique Goggle search result. I have learned this the hard way having previously been in a band called the Search Engines. What was I thinking ? A great name, but impossible to find online"

THE RICKENBACKER GUITAR

"It has a unique Clang sound that cuts through the audio mix. Many of my favourite guitarists played the Rickenbacker; Roger McGuinn, Marty Willson - Piper, Peter Buck, Susanna Hoffs, Paul Weller and Johnny Marr. Did you know that there is a Rickenbacker International Airport ? You couldn't land a Flying-V there. A Jefferson Airplane, maybe!

MATINEE

"Matinee is the new Creation, Sarah and Factory. Jimmy Tassos has the ears of Alan McGee and the eyes of Peter Saville. I'm going to have to see what that would literally look like in Photoshop. Matinee is about making the best possible pop records but in their own uncompromising way"

STRAWBERRY WHIPLASH

"Strawberry Whiplash have the cute vocals of Strawberry Switchblade combined with the fuzzy guitars of Meat Whiplash. They were both local bands. 'Since Yesterday' (STRAWBERRY Switchblade) and 'Don't Slip Up' (Meat WHIPLASH) are two of my favourite songs. Sandra sings and I (Laz) play the instruments in Strawberry Whiplash; Bubblegum Lemonade is primarily a solo project."

INFLUENCIAS

"Talulah Gosh, the Razorcuts, Primal Scream,My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus and mary chain, the Byrds, the Primitives... When first getting into music, my favourites were the Velvets and the Byrds which of course led me towards the Mary Chain, Love, Rain Parade, the Kinks, Spacemen 3, and so on.

(Declaraciones extraídas de pennyblackmusic)

Sylvie Vartan en Nashville 1964

Leo en el Mojo de este mes -con Leonard Cohen en portada y 10 páginas dedicadas a él-que el canadiense se fue a la isla griega de Hydra en un retiro semihippie en su etapa de escritor en los 60 cuando todavía no se dedicaba a la música. En el equipaje llevaba discos de Ray Charles, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Charleze Inez Foxx y el lp que grabó Sylvie Vartan en Nashville...

Bonito de verdad: "Sunflower" de The Beach Boys 1970

Texto de allmusic

After Reprise rejected what was to be their debut album for the label, the Beach Boys re-entered the studio to begin work on what would become a largely different set of songs. The results signaled a creative rebirth for the band, a return to the beautiful harmonies and orchestral productions of their classic mid-'60s material. Though the songwriting didn't quite reach the high quality of "California Girls" or "God Only Knows," Sunflower showed the Beach Boys truly working as a band, and doing so better than they ever had in the past (or would in the future). Many of the songs were co-compositions, and the undeniable songwriting and performance talents of Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston were finally allowed to flourish: Dennis contributed "Slip On Through," "Forever," and "Got to Know the Woman," while Bruce wrote "Deirdre" and "Tears in the Morning." After a succession of spare, unadorned lead vocals on rock-oriented albums like Wild Honey and 20/20, Sunflower returned the Beach Boys to gorgeous vocal harmonies on the tracks "Add Some Music to Your Day," "Cool, Cool Water," and "This Whole World." And the arrangements, tight and inventive, showed Brian Wilson once again back near the top of his game (though the production is credited to the entire band). Sunflower is also a remarkably cohesive album, something not seen from the Beach Boys since Pet Sounds. As with that album, Sunflower earned critical raves in Britain but was virtually ignored in America. [Sunflower was made available in 2000 as half of the two-fer collection Sunflower/Surf's Up.]

Dentro del Wintercase

The Radio Dept. en Mirror (Valencia) el 23 Nov 2008. Con Maga

El Kiko este mes y el resto del RockdeLux

Kiko Amat escribe en Rock de Lux un par de páginas sobre Fleet Foxes y critica los lps de Kitty, Daisy y Lewis, Julian Cope, Herman Dune (que la revista destaca como uno de los lps del mes; ya fueron portada en Octubre), Indienella y unos tales Chiquita y Chatarra (¡lo juro! se llaman así)

Al margen del Kiko, Rock de Lux dedica 3 páginas a Brian Wilson y dos a Van Dyke Parks. A su vez cada vez más profundiza en aspectos no musicales (¿sindrome Les Inrockuptibles?), cosa que a mi me parece estupendo, dedicando 2 páginas a Richard Ford, dos a Jonathan Demme y dos a la serie The Wire. El Lp del mes es el nuevo de Portastatic (un doble cd recopilatorio de 44 canciones, con temas inéditos, y limitado a 3000 copias)

En la sección de comics comentan el nuevo de Adrian Tomine -"Shortcomings", editado por Reservoir Books-Mondadori- y lo ponen fatla ("patinazo", escribe Pepo Pérez), cosa que no me extraña conociendo que va de asuntos raciales...

Lo peor del número es el tema de portada (los grupos del afroindie -Vampire Weekend y demás) el cd de regalo (de subterfuge) y la -parece- inevitable folklorica entrevista a Christina Rosenvinge, que siempre que saca disco el rock de lux acude raudo y veloz a entrevistarla...

En la sección de discos, el Freire comenta el debut de The Pains of Being Pure Heart con el que
se muestra entusiasta y el gran single de Robert Wyatt con Burgalat.

Para el mes que viene anuncian cd de regalo del sello Jabalina ("lo pequeño es hermoso", dicen)

Y finalmente destaco un anuncio a toda página de Time Out Barcelona, que muestra 16 portadas de la revista (y son muy atractivas desde el punto de vista del diseño) http://www.timeout.cat/barcelona/ca

2 Canciones gratis del nuevo lp de Would Be Goods

Would-Be-Goods - Sad Stories

Would-Be-Goods - The Ghost of Mr Minton

A Matinee Press Release: Highly anticipated fifth album ‘Eventyr’ from revered London quartet. “Sad stories are more beautiful” sings Jessica Griffin on the opening track, and those words could be the motto for the album as most of its songs are inspired by folk tales—timeless archetypal stories composed in northern Europe in the 19th century. ‘Eventyr’, meaning ‘adventures’ or ‘fairy tales’, was the title of Hans Christian Andersen's classic collection of stories, and in songs such as ‘Melusine’ and ‘Heart of Tin’, the Would-Be-Goods show that tales of imagination can evoke the joys and sorrows of life more vividly than dreary realism. Some of the songs stay closer to home: ‘In Bohemia’, ‘The Girl at No. 7’ and ‘The Ghost of Mr. Minton’ depict the arty low life of midcentury London to magnificent effect. Musically, though, ‘Eventyr’ is not a folk album: the songs distill ‘50s and ‘60s styles into something entirely new, traveling through baroque pop, bossanova and rockabilly.The album was developed slowly over two years and sees Andy Warren—formerly of Adam and the Ants and The Monochrome Set and bass player on the first two Would-Be-Goods albums—return to join Debbie Green on drums and backing vocals, Peter Momtchiloff on lead guitar, and Jessica on lead vocals and guitar. Another classic album from a band that never goes out of style! The band are launching the album at London's Bull & Gate on November 15th 2008

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything with you (7" - Slumberland)

Esto es como volver a 1986...

DESCARGAR/OÍR CANCIÓN AQUI: “Everything With You” single

Y no lo digo sólo por el sonido, sino también porque este es su próximo tour con ¡The Wedding Present!

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART

Dec 2 Arts Center w/ The Wedding Present Colchester
Dec 3 Wedgewood Rooms w/ The Wedding Present Portsmouth
Dec 4 Academy w/ The Wedding Presnet Oxford
Dec 5 Princess Charlotte w/ The Wedding Present Leicester
Dec 6 Academy w/ The Wedding Presnet Manchester
Dec 8 Pavillion w/ The Wedding Present Cork
Dec 9 Andrews Lane Theatre w/ The Wedding Present Dublin
Dec 10 Limelight w/ The Wedding Present Belfast
Dec 12 Captain’s Rest Glasgow
Dec 13 The Cockpit: w/ The Manhattan Love Suicides Leeds
Dec 14 The Social Notthingham
Dec 16 “Twee as Fuck” @ Old Blue Last -w/ Comet Gain London
Dec 17 The Lexington - Fortuna Pop + Spiral Scratch Present London, London and South East
Dec 18 Forum w/ The Wedding Present London

John Carney

Actualmente mi mayor fuente de inspiración para encontrar música es John Carney. A través de sus series "Shivers Inside" (http://www.shiversinside.com/), 50000 reasons (http://www.50000reasons.com/) y Shop around (http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/2005.html) -todas dentro del ya extinto webzine tangents- me lo estoy pasando muy bien. Esta mañana por ejemplo me he leído dentro de shivers inside su part 30 y es realmente brillante. Está dedicada a una mañana de compras en Londres donde visita Rhythm y Compendium (una librería ya extinta y cuyo cierre produjo gran conmoción: "The closing of Compendium is one of the sadder moments in the history of my bookstore passions. My English friends had long raved about Compendium, but back in 2000, word spread that it was shutting down. I travelled up to London a few weeks before it closed to get a feel for store. Sadly, it lived up to expectations, which made its demise that much more tragic." Jeremy Mercer en The Guardian).

Carney descubre en esta un ejemplar de sort of special edition of That Will Never Happen Again dedicado a las "British girls from the ‘60s" y "And I’ve become totally obsessed with it". El fanzine lo realiza un experto spectoriano y soulero llamado Mick Patrick, que por lo que he podido descubrir a través de Google, trabaja ahora en Ace Records.

A partir de aquí Carney evoca sus memorias sobre las chicas pop inglesas:

"The funny thing is I’ve been tracking down old Sandie Shaw and Dusty 45s for ages. But they’re just the tip of the iceberg it seems. This mag features loads of stuff I’d never even heard of. Now I really want to hear Louise Cordet and Billie Davis. The reassuring thing is I guess that there’s already things I’d stumbled across. Stuff like Madeline Bell. I absolutely love her version of What The World Needs Now. It's one of my favourite Bacharach covers. Which is saying something. And Samantha Jones’ Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine. I first heard that years ago on an old northern soul compilation called Sold On Soul, which my brother had. I played that to death. It also had The Drifter by Ray Pollard. Garnet Mimms’ Looking For You. Irma Thomas’ What Are You Trying To Do? The O’Jays and Jackie De Shannon. Little Anthony’s Better Use Your Head. Fantastic. A real education at the time.
The blue eyed soul thing is a bit of a recurring motif too, with a bit on Lorraine Silver of Lost Summer Love fame, and Kiki. Funnily enough they showed Doctor In Clover on the TV the other night, and Kiki sounded fantastic on the soundtrack. I love those films. Any excuse to do my Leslie Philips impersonation. All Kiki’s ‘60s recordings were brilliant. And I can fully understand why Motown asked her to make a record for them. But the soul fans over here turned their noses up. Ah the fools. "

Recomiendo la busqueda de la totalidad de dichas canciones, todas verdaderas joyas, especialmente las que están en negrita

Bonita mañana del sábado que he pasado, gracias al señor Carney.

SHIVERS INSIDE

Once upon a time I was accused of disappearing into my world of books and films where darkness came too soon. Total nonsense of course. There was music too. But the suggestion was that I was missing out. Total nonsense too. Products have so much to teach us. So many stories to tell…
© 2007 John Carney

FIFTY THOUSAND REASONS
They Made Magic These pen portraits build up into a gallery of special people. These people have made unique contributions to popular culture. Some of the stories will be fairly familiar, and some may seem slightly strange. There are some glaring omissions, and some odd inclusions. A thread of narrative runs through, and it’s all as subjective as hell.

© 2006 John Carney

Jarvis Cocker en la BBC 6

Gracias a Popcasting (http://www.geocities.com/popcastingpop/) me entero que Jarvis Cocker estuvo en este programa http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/stephen_merchant/ pinchando "Jarvis' favourite melancholy tracks"

Aquí: se puede descargar el programa jarvis cocker on bbc 6music

**Jarvis Cocker standing in**
Talking Heads - Heaven
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
David Essex - A Winter's Tale
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town
Adam's Singers - Sing Something Simple
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
Esperanto - Eleanor Rigby
Specials - Do Nothing
Jake Thackray - The Last Will And Testament Of Jake Thackray
Sutherland Brothers - Sailing
Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
Nelly - Hot In Herre
RD Laing - Life Before Death
The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Of Montreal - ID Engager
Iggy Pop - Tiny Girls
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Screaming Lord Sutch - Monster Ball
Judy Henske - Bye Bye Blackbird