TV Sound and Image: British Television, Film and Library Composers 1956-80 One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood (shit he produced for other artists.. huge influence on Phil Spector) Inner City Beat! Detective Themes, Spy Music and Imaginary Thrillers California Soul: Funk & Soul From the Golden State 1965-1976
yeah for some reason i dont often bother with compilations but trying to listen to a few more lately. slowly want to work my way through the soul jazz records ones. the stuff ive listened to so far has some real good afrobeat stuff and also some hidden gems from the studio one archives.
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Clear Spot Fela and The Africa 70 - Shakara T. Rex - The Slider Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
1, david bowie - the rise and fall of ziggy stardust... 2, nick drake - pink moon 3, lou reed - transformer 4, neil young - harvest 5, sachiko kanenobu - misora
clearly a great year with albums like big star's #1 record, exile on main st etc not even making the list.
1, stone roses @ v2012 2, sonic youth @ v2005 3, beck @ v2006 4, pixies @v2004 5, the verve @ v2008
top 5 performances at field(s) days i've been to...
1, pixies @ field day 2014 2, ride @ field day 2015 3, mogwai @ field day 2009 4, pj harvey @ field day 2016 5, thurston moore @ field day 2016
top 5 performances at latitudes i've been to...
1, nick cave and the bad seeds @ latitude 2009 2, liam gallagher @ latitude 2018 3, joanna newsom @ latitude 2008 4, damon albarn @ latitude 2014 5, new order @ latitude 2016
top 5 bands i've seen before they got BIG
1, the libertines @ norwich arts centre 2002 2, kasabian supporting cooper temple clause @ norwich uea 2003 3, editors when they were unsigned and called snowfield supporting jesse malin @ norwich arts centre 2004 4, the killers really low down on the 2nd stage @ v2004 5,father john misty supporting fleet foxes @ norwich waterfront 2008
top 5 POP stars i've seen live
1, taylor swift 2, girls aloud 3, natalie imbruglia 4, ed sheeran 5, rita ora TWICE
- Arctic Monkeys, playing some boozer in Edinburgh in May 2005
- Sleaford Mods playing Glasgow Broadcast in late 2014
- James Blunt playing a tiny record shop in Edinburgh, c2005. Rod insisted that we go.
- Kaiser Chiefs playing bottom of a three band bill in support of The Ordinary Boys at the Edinburgh Venue in early 2004. They were terrible, but I include them because they were at one point very fucking big. God knows why.
- Kasabian playing the Liquid Room in support of their second single, must have been early 2004. I met them beforehand and they were proper gents tbh. Despite how bad they've become, I've always had a soft spot for the debut album.
That must be the first time since 2004 you've referenced that Ordinary Boys gig without boasting about (unsuccessfully) half-inching Ricky Wilson's tambourine.
top 5 incredible achievements I've witnessed live by popular forum members
SuperJohnny scares the shit out of Action Bronson Rocks_Man slides across the Barfly floor and wipes out the table of drinks I'd just purchased Benoît Assou-Ekotto starts giving the "5 time!" Booker .T gesture to a big bouncer stood by the Appleton sisters at BDI Krburg out of the blue jumps up on stage with the Go! team JP is a total cunt during Bearsuit
1, around the world with mahoney 2, daily pollard 3, 500 films in a year 4, countless blogs 5, that time he was going to get his haircut streamed live on the masterplan
- The time our agreed support act pulled out with hours to go. The sound engineer volunteered to do a set of Sinatra covers instead. By himself. He was brilliant.
- The time a drunk guy insisted, loudly, from the crowd that 'we would never make it'. To which I replied: 'You're bald m8'
- The time we played a gig to about 6 people, one of whom was Ray LaMontagne
- The time a random music blogger from England called FruitbatWalton, who we had never met, suddenly became our biggest fan
- The time AndrewBarryNZ played us on his NZ radio station
Top five albums that aren’t necessarily shit, but represent the beginning of a decline in an band/artist’s oeuvre.
1. Weezer - Green Album 2. The Coral - Roots & Echoes 3. Eels - End Times 4. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 5. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.
Top 5 musicians who will never turn down a chance to appear as a talking head in a BBC4 music doc relating to a musical scene they were/are tenuously linked too.
1. Nile Rogers 2. Johnny Marr 3. Nile Rogers 4. Johnny Marr 5. N/A
1. “This boy is like a tape loop, and he has soft mitts” (Middle Mass) 2. “But he's the last domain, of a very black, back room brain” (Middle Mass) 3. “He learned a word today, the word's misanthropy” (Middle Mass) 4. “He reads books, of the list book club” (C.R.E.E.P) 5. “He is a scum-egg, a horrid trendy wretch” (C.R.E.E.P)
Top 5 musicians who will never turn down a chance to appear as a talking head in a BBC4 music doc relating to a musical scene they were/are tenuously linked too.
1. Nile Rogers 2. Johnny Marr 3. Nile Rogers 4. Johnny Marr 5. N/A
Shurely Dwayne Gallagher has to feature in there as well?
