Entertainment For Lively Minds
I'm going to keep posting this until you love it as much as I do: An invitation
Posted by PaddyH on 6 July 2011 - 12:35am.
Please post songs by bands you consider either, a) undervalued or b) were given too short shrift in the pop/ rock firmament.
I love these bands unconditionally and it pains me they are gone, without even a bigger footnote in popular history. I am not apologetic I have posted both these songs before. They are terrific.
(Beulah - A Good Man is Easy to Kill)
(Shack - Comedy)
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Hey Paddy
I've never heard of Beulah but Shack and it's variations have always been one of my favourite bands! I saw them for the first time in the Jazz Cafe in Camden about 1995 when Waterpistol was re released! Brilliant and all over the place is what I remember! I saw them again in Dublin when they supported themselves as The Strands around the release of HMS Fable! They were terrific! Are they finished as a band? I heard Michael Head had a return to his demons but I hoped that wasn't true!
I believe at this point I post a video by Captain.
here we go, cue the music..standby Captain.
Cud/Pooka
Always felt sorry for Cud - fell between Madchester, Grebo and Britpop and always seemed on the verge of making it big. They had hefty, beefy tunes that came at you relentessly at sweaty gigs, plus Carl's massive honking voice.
I love Pooka's first LP, with its delicate, mournful, spine-tingling tunes and vocals. Unlike the other LPs, it's not slick or over-produced - you can hear the gulps of air as Natasha and Sharon sing.
Cud and Shack
made it in my eyes. They can *Still* do gigs and people will know the words and sing along. The Cud footage looks fairly recent? They may not headline Glastonbury but that is still a level of success a lot of bands will never ever have. Shack in particular would have no problem filling a medium sized venue full of teary eyed fans in most towns surely?
*Pooka Klaxon*
One of my favourite live acts ever. I'd only differ from you in that I prefer the second album (Spinning); there are a couple of duds, but the best stuff, most of it, is just brilliant, especially the closing tracks: the title song, then This River, which segues into about 15 minutes of the sea crashing against the shore; it's beautifully recorded, you can actually hear the foam dissolving. Then it fades out, and suddenly this song appears, a genuine surprise. And rather wonderfully, I've only today found out that it's called Rainbows In A Dry Sigh. It's written and performed by Natasha. As she sings in the song, I can barely breathe while listening to it. PLEASE LISTEN TO IT DEAR PEOPLE!
Lets Active and Shakin Pyramids
- their records were amongst my favorite albums in the 80s. If you don't know who Mitch Easter is, look at the production credits on REM's 'Murmur'.
- live, they were as much fun as anything I've seen. Made effin Bow Wow Wow look positively sick opening for them in 1982, and I say that as someone who would have paid to watch Annabella hoover the sitting room.
The Muttonbirds
So close. Oh, so close.
Great run of singles....
......but only one hit, which was known for years as 'the one from the bread advert' and was later covered by Jonathan King as a heart-felt farewell to (b****ing) Margaret Thatcher.
Yikes!
Honeybus.
Love the title of the OP...
It gives me yet another pretext for bigging up Julia Johnson. This live clip is very quiet, so you'll have to whack the volume right up. I'm not always a fan of explaining songs, but her little intro to Elegy, for me, turns a very good song into a brilliant one. Strong word, which many, including me, overuse. But this song really is brilliant.
Gene
At the risk of coming across as obsessed (I posted about them on the Greatest Hits thread too), I think Gene never got the acclaim they deserved. Possibly because they wore their Smiths influence a little too obviously, though I think they did something special with it.
I was also a huge Cud fan, and was in heaven when they reformed a couple of years back. It turns out that a room full of balding, somewhat rotund ex-indie kids singing along to Purple Love Balloon is in fact a Good Thing. Who knew?
One more chance to champion an unloved band y'say
Without fear of recrimination...
(The Revenants, Marry Money)
(The Revenants, Mr Lewis)
1. Always had a soft spot for Gene - some fine tunes. Once the music press got hung up on the Rozzer v Mozzer comparisons they were always facing an uphill battle.
2. The way The Muttonbirds have D.I. Alex Drake hanging around in the background - almost like a ghost - you'd think they were trying to spoil the surprise ending of "Ashes To Ashes"