Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 12th April 2024. Here's more excellent sounds from the collective's musical week...over to...
"The Guardian have just rated the top 20 Talking Heads songs, so I'm sharing their top 3 this week, starting with their number 1..."
This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads -
Life During Wartime by Talking Heads -
Psycho Killer by Talking Heads -
"Hi folks.
Thanks for another superbly varied mix, auditory nirvana.
Here's my 3, floaty + low key.
(Poet..innit 😁)"
The Words to Auld Lang Syne by Antony Szmierek -
Sweet Leaf of the North by Mik Artistik's Ego Trip -
Dance We Do by Annie Dressner - "Really enjoyed her recent session on radio 6, 1st time I'd heard her."
https://youtu.be/kZ0-UnXo6qw?feature=shared
Cheers!"
"Best wishes RPMers."
Roving Woman by Connie Converse -
Perennial Blooms by Green-House -
Sandstone Cliffs Surrounding Me by Emily Sheppard -
"Hello everyone. Such a great variety to explore in last week's bunch! Here are my threepenneth's worth."
Moanin' by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "A cool way to start the weekend."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv9NSR-2DwM&ab_channel=60otaku4
Aiobhneas by Lunasa - "My all-time favourite Irish band and this set of tunes is particularly beguiling, comprising as it does a slip jig in 9/8 time; segueing seamlessly into a jig (6/8) and finally - most deftly managed of all - a 4/4 reel. See if you can spot the joins."
"The full title of each of the tunes:
Aoibhneas Eilís Ní Cheallaigh (Elizabeth Kelly's Delight) / Jimmy Ward's / and the sublimely named Not Safe with a Razor."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6A7zLYkX8&ab_channel=L%C3%BAnasa-Topic
Ruined by Adrianne Lenker - "The essential pleasure of this RPM group is the diversity of music, based on personal taste. So it was really interesting that with my choices last week I had intended to offer three altogether different pieces and at the last moment substituted the Larkin poems, inspired by the growth of spring. Had I not done so, you would have had two RPMers (David and me) offering the very same song - Sadness as a Gift by Adrianne Lenker. My choice because I love her work and admire her talent; David because he was intrigued that a friend of his so admired Lenker that she had chosen to attend her performance at a festival rather than one by Charles Lloyd. So he checked her out and was a bit bemused. Now, as it happens, I offered two Adrianne Lenker songs back in December (2023, Week 50). I really do like her. Since reading David's remarks last week I have deliberately not looked up Charles Lloyd (unknown to me) - but I'd love it if David were to offer a track by him next time round to recommend his music to me. (This is not a challenge, but rather a genuine attempt to exchange musical recommendations.)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iJmIL83vas&ab_channel=AdrianneLenker
"In a depressing week when political wrangling has got to a point where UK MP's use of weasel words is getting the little furry creatures a bad name (!), a friend sent me a link to 75 Spins Around the Sun; Marc Nerenberg performing on the Yellow Door Hootenanny, knowing that I have a ban-joe (as he calls it) which I toy with from time to time. It succeeded in cheering me up though I don’t think I’ll ever manage to pick up the rhythm or the melody!"
This Land Is Your Land performed by Marc Nerenberg -
"And a tune that was in my head when I woke up..."
Tom Hark by Elias & his Zig-Zag Jive Flutes -
Going Down Slow by Little Axe - "Skip McDonald has had a remarkably creative career interpreting 1930s Union Chants and Son House (John L Handcox’s Mean Things and Grinning in your face respectively ) to Big Hip Hop Hits with Grand Master Flash. (The Message - which must be good as it is regularly covered by Anto Morra!) I really like this version of Going Down Slow which coincidentally ends with a sign off used by an RPM contributor."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0BRDFGof8
"Stay happy folks and if you can, try and ignore the politicians..."
"Hi Everyone, hope you're all keeping safe and well. Here are my three for this week..."
It's My Life by The Animals -
Every Song's The Same by Justin Currie -
Notting Hill Gate by Quintessence -
"Another occasional 'quickie': ("Very good to hear from you, Alan." Tim.)
Saturday see's a repeat of Pete Watermans '7" of Joy' programme on Radio 4 at 8pm.
So, here's just three of the greatest (in my opinion anyways) from the Watson vinyl vaults, omitting the Stones, Small Faces, Kinks, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Roxy Music, Wire, Sex Pistols, Byrds, Love and so many more."
Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles- "My nomination for the greatest single of all time, and probably up there for the finest video ever too..."
Cold Turkey by Big Boy Pete- "Norwich 'legend', why no blue plaque in Margetson Avenue? And, this is not even BBP; he refused to 'toe the line' for live appearances and the Record Company roped in a stand in for this German Beat Club appearance!"
Making Time by Creation- "Jimmy Page eat yer heart out: great night at Donny's chicken in a basket palace, The Sidesaddle, in September 1966."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hEb2vOOaxI
"Thanx to Piers for kindly emailing me the stories. I'm sure RPM'ers would love to read 'em too. The 'Soundcheck' perhaps, Piers, with a couple of appropriate tunes added in?"
"Hi RPMers, hope you all have had a good week. Here’s my 3."
She Darkened the Sun by Gene Clark -
What Love Can Do (live) by Bruce Springsteen -
Honey by Caribou -
"Greetings and best wishes to all RPMers and fingers crossed for warmer times ahead.
Not being one myself to take heed of weather forecasts, and always being optimistic, this week I set off from relatively mild and dry Norfolk to stormy North Wales. I had intended to share a track or 2 from the eagerly awaited new Pernice Brothers album, but climatic events took over, so that will have to wait until next week."
"First up, it's my late Mother's favourite singer..."
Slim Whitman with I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen -
"After a trip on the Mountain Spirit Narrow Gauge train up to Blaenau Ffestiniog in atrocious weather where I saw very little of the beautiful scenery, a visit to the legendary COB RECORDS in Porthmadog was called for. Going strong since 1967 and so purchases had to be made, but what ?
Geraint Watkins of course."
Geraint Watkins with Good Enough For You -
"And from that 3CD collection titled "WHAT THE STARS OF THE LEGENDARY SUN RECORD COMPANY DID NEXT" that I'd always promised myself, here is..."
Carl Perkins with Pink Pedal Pushers -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yD0xVDOtr3U&si=XuZQ68cWZOnTBNVH
"That's All Folks."
"It's got to be Blues Rock this week. I'm still buzzing from Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall last Thursday. Played a lot of tracks from his Blues DeLuxe 2 Album. So I'll be ordering that soon."
Sloe Gin by Joe Banamassa -
I'll Play The Blues For You by Albert King - "Sung as a tribute to his friend Bernie Marsden at the London Concert and he played it with his whole sole. Best I've ever heard it!"
Layla by Eric Clapton - "One of the greats...a classic. Have a good week everyone."
"A live gig, a congenial trad tunes session and some classic metal provide this weeks listening."
Before I Know It by Megson - "Stu and Debs stopped off at Helmsley Arts Centre last Saturday night. It was very good to see them again and they performed a fair amount of new material from their most recent recording, 'What Are We Trying To Say'. Here's their commentary upon our obsession with phones and social media."
Mouse Jigs performed by Flook - "Mouse in the Kitchen is a tune a few of us at the York Maltings session have been getting to grips with. It's a new trad tune composed by fiddler and whistle player, Colin Farrell, who currently plays with Lunasa...this was the first week it started to sound as though everyone had done their homework! It's the last tune in this set played by Flook."
Aces High by Iron Maiden - "From the classic Powerslave album which has found it's way into the car CD player.
There's part of an English trad tune played at the Friday session at the Three Legged Mare in York which, when speeded up, sounds remarkably like the riff from Aces High. Is Steve Harris a secret folkie...?"
'Til Next Time...