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One of the great white soul singers was..

..(Is, she's still around) a jewish girl from Sydney.
Ladies and Gentlemen Renee Geyer,

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Noah and The Whale..

In the words of Monty Burns "I know what I like..and I don't hate this"....
Even though
1/They obviously want to make movies really.
2/The singer looks like him off Green Wing, who in turn looks like Donkey from "Shrek"
3/They're a little precious.
4/They owe a little to The Kinks (all right..a lot)

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The Journey of a tune....

"She moved Through The Fair" is pretty well-known in Irish and British folk circles, most folkies heard it first from wild woman Margaret Barry, who cut a swathe through the UK folk scene in the early 60s (although she learned it from this version by John McCormack recorded in the 1940s)

It took off like a wildfire through the folk scene with many versions including one by Anne Briggs and this radical interpretation by Davey Graham

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Obscure Oz prog band invents Krautrock..

Company Caine (see what they did there?) do Neu! at least a year before that bands debut, its all there, one chord..motorik beat and spaced out guitar.
It becomes more "of its time" after a couple of minutes.

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The Move....

Get past (if you can) the intro from some long-forgotten BBC pretty boy (One wonders where these flash in the pans are now..) and dig Jeff Lynne (bippety bobbity hat) and Roy Wood (banana) at precicesly the moment when one went off to form Wizzard and Lynn took the ball and ran with it.

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Elvis Costello or Graham Parker?..

I remember a time when these two were running neck and neck, especially when Costello first emerged and many (including me) had him pegged as a younger, slightly crankier imitation.
They obviously both come from the same place musically (Pub rock, Morrison, Brinsleys etc) but somewhere along the line Costello took the bit between his teeth and carved out his place as a singular artist, but yet...
Parker has never really bettered the run of albums up to "Squeezing Out Sparks" and has sunk into semi-obscurity, but neither has he been the sometimes embarrassing dabbler that Costello has.
I wouldn't trade any Elvis for Parker at his best, ("Protection" "Heat Treatment" "Passion Is No Ordinary Word" etc)

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I love this, me..

(Especially the kooky chorus)
Eugene McDaniels "Cherrystones"

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Bat fight..a game of honour and diplomacy...

Will Ferrell takes the piss out of every pompous overblown sporting anthem ever,,(Stick it out for two minutes)

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There's not enough jazz cabaret on here..

..(or Roger Whittaker for that matter)
This is The Peddlers with Michael Caine doing a creditable Ray Charles impersonation.
Check that rhythm section..what a gasser.

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Remember him this way..

Jacko (before he was wacko) tackling a great Jackson Browne tune with his bros.
(Tell me Jermaine doesn't come in early on the second verse..)

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Tales Of Brave Ulysses...

When I was about 12 I thought this was right mystical, concerned with Greek mythology at it's very core.
In my latter years I realised it was more to do with a louche hippy getting jacked off with London and chuffing off to the Mediterranean and "having a scene" with a bronzed blitzed out hippy chick on some island (probably Hydra)
Stonking track though.

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Three Ravens..

John Harle's sublime setting of an old folk song.
It won't be for everyone but I fell for its chilly charm when I heard in on Simon Scharma's "History Of Britain"

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"You want me to do what?..but I'm god!"

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What makes me laugh the most on telly these days..

..and I can't really explain why, is Craig ("Bing Hitler") Ferguson's gay skeleton robot sidekick Geoff Peterson.
Here is one of his finest moments, which if you haven't seen him before may not seem funny at all.

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