Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 20th September 2024. Here's the tunes that tickled your fancy this week...over to...
"Hi folks...I was at the Little Orchard Cider festival, albeit having sober fun as racing in County gig rowing Champs at Newquay next day.
The Wurzels followed by Doctor & the Medics...only in Cornwall..., hence..."
Love, Peace & Bananas by Dr and the Medics -
Go Away (live) by Hold The Sun - "Local band, just saw them on BBC Introducing stage, very good."
Sometimes I Drink my Coffee by the Grave of William Blake by The The -
https://youtu.be/h2-4pYP-LJY?feature=shared
"Have a cracking weekend all.
Cheers!"
"Greetings one and all! An eclectic mix this week..."
Barbara's Rhubarb Bar by Bodo Wartke - "Starting with a choice that was triggered by Piers' selection of earworm music last week.
Bodo Wartke is a popular German comedian in the Tom Lehrer vein and this song has been a huge viral success. It's based on a German tongue twister and concerns Barbara, who bakes fabulous rhubarb pies. So popular are they that she opens up a Rhubarb Bar, which attracts a few local barbarians. They are heavily bearded and become so civilised by Barbara's rhubarb pies that they decide to shave off their hairy beards - hence the need to open a barber shop in the rhubarb bar. You get the picture. I'd suggest you turn on English captions if they don't appear automatically.
I'm pretty certain you will play this again (and again)."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkBf0dbs5I&ab_channel=BodoWartke
"Tim, along with the song itself, the two guys put out a video with a dance routine of their own devising. That also went absolutely viral on TikTok and YT with countless interpretations. Please, as a bonus, would you allow this example? - it's only 18 seconds."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7OJe4SaByG8
(Click the link if you're interested as this will not embed into the RPM site. Tim)
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted by Billy Bragg - "As true now as it has been since the album release a few years ago."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX695XcKgc&ab_channel=BillyBraggVEVO
Little Kawai by Walter Becker - "From his under-rated '11 Tracks of Whack' solo album. The rest of the album is grungey and quite heavy, but it ends with this charming ode to his son Kawai."
"See y'all"
"Hi RPMers, I hope you're all safe and well. Here are three tracks that I've listened to in the past seven days..."
Pilgrims Progress by Greenslade - "Greenslade were very popular among prog rock enthusiasts in the early seventies but, despite some wonderful Roger Dean album cover artwork, I didn't fully engage with them at the time. Perhaps this was due to the fact that they didn't have a guitarist but instead had two keyboard players. (No guitar and one keyboard player was enough to put me off E.L.P). As the years rolled by (and with the assistance of YouTube and Spotify) I have warmed to them. This is a track from their second LP 'Bedside Manners Are Extra' (1973). By the way, I am not in any way 'anti-keyboard'....I hold many keyboard players in high esteem; Dave Greenfield, Ray Manzarek, Booker T Jones, Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Jimmy Smith and, yes, Keith Emerson among many others."
Turquoise Days by Echo & The Bunnymen - "I'm reading Will Sergeant's memoirs at the moment so the first two Echo & The Bunnymen LPs have had a fair bit of turntable time. This is from their second album 'Heaven Up Here' (1981)."
No Jobs (Live) by Capital Letters - "I picked the title track from this LP last week and it's been on the turntable a few times since... so here's another track from it."
Back to Loneliness by Tom Kinsella -
Da Selkie Wife’s Sang by Astrid Williamson -
She’s Leaving You by M J Lenderman -
"Here are my picks for this week and hoping I can slip in a couple of weeks with a bonus track selection as we will soon be winging our way to New Zealand for a few weeks.
Best wishes to my fellow RPMers as always."
Comin' Home by Delaney, Bonnie & Friends - "I thought I might have picked this before but if I have it's still worth another spin." (Nope, don't think you have. Tim the Archivist)
Journey by Duncan Browne - "Heard recently on steam radio."
I'm Through With Love by Arthur Prysock - "May be out of Vogue but great singer and song. I still admire singers like Arthur, Brook Benton, Marty Robbins et al."
"If I'm allowed a bonus track..."
Cold Day in Hell by ("much missed") Gary Moore -
"Hello RPMers, and long may the summer continue. Bit of a mixed bag this week. I was headed for a Toronto theme with a Massey Hall connection (my first concert there was J C Young) and The Quintet Live was my first live jazz album. News then came in re JD Souther's passing and so I lost the thread."
Embraceable You by The Quintet (Recorded Live at Massey Music Hall, Toronto.) -
Song For Juli by Jesse Colin Young -
Doolin Dalton by J D Souther (Live 1973 Old Grey Whistle Test.) -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-rzHESvTw4&si=KAsHlxQIOpMbKoqB
"That's All Folks."
"Hi RPMers, thanks for your playlists...been enjoying your tunes. Here’s my 3."
Victoria by The Fall -
Cement Mixer by Clinic -
We're Not Alone by Dinosaur Jr -
"This week I have chosen three songs by Josh White, in two clips from the 1949 movie "The Walking Hills." This is a better-than-you-might-expect film that is similar in theme to the much superior "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" from the previous year. Perhaps the most memorable aspect of "The Walking Hills" is the scope given in it to showcase Josh White's talents- after all, this was 1949 and these things didn't happen to blues singers. The film is the first Western directed by John Sturges (most famous Westerns the over-rated "Gunfight At The OK Corral" and the perennial bank-holiday favourite "The Magnificent Seven." Best Westerns the under-rated "The Law and Jake Wade" and 1967's "Hour of The Gun," which was perhaps the first film to significantly challenge the self-created legend of Wyatt Earp). The actors seen in these sequences include Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, William Bishop (a big name in 1950s TV), John Ireland, and the wonderful Edgar Buchanan."
(1 and 2) Blues and Spiritual by Josh White -
Riddle (I Gave My Love a Cherry) by Josh White -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YneX8svsi8Q
"Best wishes and good health to all RPMers."
"On Thursday morning I was in full on electric jazz mode listening to Miles Davis’ ‘Tutu’ album which I consider to be a masterpiece… I had already put it on my mental list for RPM inclusion. As I am sure I have reminded you all before 'Man makes plans and the Gods laugh!' It was the third Thursday of the month which meant that that evening it was time for ‘The Jewel’ Acoustic session in ‘The Crown’ on Fakenham market place… I host it every month. At most sessions people take turns to perform. When doing that an inexperienced ‘floor singer’ never gets the chance to settle in and get over their nerves. The performance anxiety is the same for every turn you take. ‘The Jewel’ is an exception. We have a featured artist. From the very start I had the idea that we should spend some of the time going around the room giving everyone a turn and also give one person the opportunity to play for half an hour. It has been very successful. This month I had asked Scott Guy (who was a complete newbie when he first started coming along and had never performed more than one song at a time) to fill the half hour guest spot. He was delighted to be asked. Boosted by stragglers from the Brancaster Shanty festival and Guy’s family and friends his spot attracted the largest number of attendees that we have ever had. I hoped that he wouldn’t be too intimidated. But from the very start he chatted confidently to the audience about his material, and when he began his voice was strong (and in tune) his guitar playing was more than competent and he had chosen some remarkable material which included songs by ‘The Stains’ ‘Slipknot’ and Chris Issacs amongst others, he followed his penultimate song ‘Freebird’ with a Sing-A-Long version of ‘Purple Rain’! He nailed it. He nailed them all! He was brilliant! He glowed.
I’m sure I have had ‘Purple Rain’ before so… I suggest that you all put this first selection on auto repeat for an hour or so, just as I have done."
Funky by Prince featuring Miles Davis -
"A couple (Brian and Sue) who are regular visitors from The North East played a lovely version of this gem (one of my all time Desert Island Discs)."
It's All Just Talk by Clive Gregson and Christine Collister -
"There was a great cover of a song by the Australian band the ‘The Waifs’ (which I may post another week) but although I did have the passing thought, strangely enough, nobody covered this one that has also made its way to the front of my brain in the last week…"
Jumpin' Jack Flash performed by Johnny Winter -
"Tracks this week come from some archive trawling and a revisit to two recent new releases."
Happy Birthday by Kula Shaker - "Well, I've had a fair few tracks from the new Natural Magick opus already...but not this one yet. For me and Ewan as we've just had birthdays."
South Saturn Delta by Jimi Hendrix - "Title track from the Experience Hendrix compilation released in 1997. Recorded in the summer of 1968, this exploratory track shows where Hendrix was possibly headed musically. I had to stop painting the hallway wall and give it my full attention, as you may imagine."
Morning At Midnight by Jack White - "The new "No Name" album now has track names rather than numbers...this was previously B_04. Stomping modern blues, I reckon.""
'Til Next Time...