Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 8th November 2024.....nope, still don't get how that happened...here's some music to divert a confused mind...over to...
"Thank you RPMers for your contributions last week. I’ve not been listening to much music this week but I have been checking out Jenny Sturgeon and Louis Abbott (from Admiral Fallow) as Perce and I are embarking on a seafaring, song-writing workshop off the west coast of Scotland next year, led by these two very different singer-songwriters; should be interesting…."
Air and Light by Jenny Sturgeon -
Squealing Pigs by Admiral Fallow -
"Here's my choices."
Like A Woman by Lady Blackbird -
Skin by Rag'n'Bone Man -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1Al-nuR1iAU
If performed by Jack Jones -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iIX7tM4Kz8A
"RIP Jack. You kept your beautiful voice.
This is my favourite love song lyric.
Have a marvellous musical week everyone."
"Hi Everyone, here are my three for this week."
Charlotte Sometimes by The Cure - "My favourite track by The Cure which I bought on a 7" single back in the early eighties."
Only You Can Rock Me (Live) by U.F.O. - "A band at the peak of their powers in 1979."
The Island by The Decemberists - "This track has everything... it moves me every time I hear it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjvYoGAz0Fs
"Best wishes to you all, as always."
"Hi folks...3 as an homage to my journey round parts of the UK in early October."
The Great Pyramid of Stockport by Anthony Szmierek -
The Ballad of Wigan Pier by The Houghton Weavers -
"Hi RPMers, hope you all had a good week. Here’s my 3 tunes this week."
In Bad Dreams by The God Machine -
Magic Forest by Fat Mattress -
H.A.P.P.Y. Radio by Edwin Star -
"Here's my 3 for the week with best wishes to all as ever."
Well All right by Blind Faith -
Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Jackson Brown Soldier Of Plenty -
"Greetings to all RPMers, in a week when music seemed at the same time both less and yet more important to me, I could not help but start without a comment on it. ( I hope this is acceptable Tim.) "
The World Is Going Wrong by Mississippi Sheiks -
"I was lucky enough this week to see both the David Murray Quartet at Ronnie Scott's and Jochim Cooder at Greystones in Sheffield. Two excellent shows."
Ninno by David Murray Quartet -
Fuchsia Machu Picchu by Joachim Cooder -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9v4OsZ3XZ0
"That's all folks."
"It is a gloomy dark day and what with Trumps win I found myself with a little time on my hands. I didn't really notice that I had just sat and typed - hope I haven't run on too much...
I’ll leave it to others to celebrate the long life of Quincy Jones and start with what has been a wonderful ear worm for the past 45 years, which I believe was once used in cinemas as a backing track for adverts featuring kaleidoscopic patterns made with peanuts and popcorn."
Liquidator by The Harry J All Stars -
"And there is almost another tenuous cinematic connection to my next one... for a few weeks during the summer of 1964 I slept on a LiLo on the kitchen floor my older brother’s flat in Chiswick. He didn’t mind what I got up to and I had a little spare cash as I had a very part time job washing up and clearing tables during the day, in a cafe next to Kew Bridge. One Saturday night after catching the early screening of the recently released ‘A Hard Days Night’ I wandered over the bridge to Eel Pie Island. I remember that after paying the 1/- entrance fee I only had enough money to buy one bottle of dä glo green Fanta pop (only a bit cheaper than the scrumpy). It wasn't a huge crowd but Ken Colyer and a sax player, (possibly his brother) climbed up out of the mid summer, duffel coated audience to play a few solos with Aker Bilk (still a big name at the time). Bowler hatted Aker and his band (who all seemed pretty ancient to fourteen year old me) were the supporting act for T-Bone Walker. But although by then T-bone would have been in his mid 50s and much older he was a far more dynamic showman and definitely the real thing. With his sharkskin suit, his amplifier and his blonde Gibson he was nothing less than fabulous. In dawn's early light I had to walk back from Twickenham as I didn’t have enough change left to catch the bus. A year or so later, on the juke box at the Capri Coffee House (Mod dive caff) I discovered a cover version of one of T-Bone's songs on the back of the slightly surfy ‘Your’e my girl’ by 'The Rockin' Berries'. It was years later that I tracked down the original when it was rereleased on 'Charlie Records'. (Hurrah for Charlie Gillet!). As a result it was their version that I subsequently played over and over to try to learn how to play my first blues shuffle… (‘Brother Bill’ was far better than the A side!) But given the choice I won’t subject you to ‘The Berries’."
Last Clean Shirt by T-bone Walker -
"But enough of the olden days... after managing to buy several kilos of Harina from lidl I have spent some of this afternoon making 500grams of fresh Nachos… they are a perfect, crunchy snack and comfort food, but not great if you are trying to loose weight as they beg to be accompanied by salsa, guacamole and soured cream… As I flipped them in the scorching pan I felt a touch of Tejano appropriate. (Even more so in the face of the act that ‘the cousins’ have committed in the last few days!)"
Polka y Huapango (and another quick one) by Narcisco Martinez & Ramiro Cavazos -
"Hi guys. Here are my three contributions to the weekend amusement."
Rudie Can't Fail by The Clash - "When you get to want to hear the Clash again, that's all you can listen to. Well, that's my experience. As always, very hard to find just one song out of the many contenders."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEK9oK02D1M&ab_channel=theclashVEVO
A Postcard to Nina by Jens Lekman - "One of my sons introduced me to Jens Lekman (metaphorically) and I'm so glad he did. Love this tale of a guy wanting to help his friend by pretending to be her boyfriend, in front of her parents. She's gay."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqWu04lrBI0&ab_channel=pintulus
Lost Weekend by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - "Talking of Nina, our own RPM Nina chose a great Lloyd Cole song back in Week 17 and I have been listening to this album recently. When it came out, we had it on auto-repeat. Anyone seen him live? I haven't but wonder how good he is on stage."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwWoGJXrPyk&ab_channel=LloydColeVEVO
"Adios, amigos."
"This week, more revisited 80s neo prog, an Old Time tune which was new to me, and some remastered/remixed space rock."
Garden Party by Marillion - "Here's a song in one of prog rock's favourite time signatures; 5/4. "
The Falls of Richmond - "When in Norfolk, John D. played this tune to me. What a cracker!"
Space Is Deep by Hawkwind - "Continuing the remixing and remastering of classic early Hawkwind albums, Doremi Fasol Latido has just been given the treatment...and very nice too. Unfortunately Youtube haven't caught up, so here's a fave from the previous 1996 remaster to be going on with."
'Til Next Time -