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| From | Daniel Gackle <danielgackle@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Audities yes |
| Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:40:38 -0600 |
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I vote for this list over Facebook too! To me FB sucks as a
place to share interests. The Audities list on the other hand
has always held up, even if it is a little slow these days. It's an
institution, we can afford a couple slow years now and then :)
In the local spirit and in no particular order, here are some tracks
I'm enjoying lately. Many are well known to this crowd but most were
new to me. The ones marked * are from Sott 23 CDs that I've slowly
listened my way through over the last year (I'd credit the individuals
but don't have all the CDs handy). Also, a couple are marked "live"
because I couldn't find the studio tracks, which are great in both
cases.
Daniel
Fanny - Hey Bulldog - unique! sounds like a glam ABBA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX7G2mMIUAQ
* Michael Pink - Northern Girls - guitar pop with some beautiful chords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Uxz_YbMuU (try to ignore the asinine
video)
Jonny - Candyfloss - folk-psych gem that just nails the sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxexpOF61Ds
Billy Harner - Homicide Dresser - great r&b rave-up with a pop edge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxY30vRLaj8
Cheers Elephant - Peoples - pretty good airy number that ends with an
utterly cool guitar outro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksS1GhMFhFI
White Wires - Outta my mind - standard but cheerful punk-pop, very
Barracudas in the middle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaottdWY0YU
Fletcher Johnson - Messin up my mind - has a catchy chorus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92T1HU9lACE
Cold Warps - I'm with you - more standard cheerful punk-pop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg7R3mb0CC0
The Letters - Nobody loves me - plaintive 1980 classic, too energetic to be
self-indulgent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrHQvJ3W5k
The Distractions - It doesn't bother me - another new wave classic, 1978,
whose sound
that last one reminds me of. I bought this record a long time ago based on
its
must-be-seen-to-be-believed cover:
http://www.thedistractions.co.uk/Media/Documents/tjm2docs.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk2jRzV6Adk
The Shivvers - Remember tonight - a lovely number with a lush sound
that matches the emotion perfectly, plus a long piano solo that
manages, surprisingly, to keep up the tension. How many examples are
there of amateur orchestral pop this expertly done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGIMoZtr0c
* The 88 - Dead on the water (live) - a pastiche of late 70s-early 80s
hard rock AM radio, except it's actually better than most of the
originals. I like it more than the 88's poppier stuff, which seems
kind of forgettable (though I'm open to suggestions). This one is
definitely not forgettable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_1ctJVdwfI
(Googling digs up the studio version here:
http://www.youclubvideo.com/audio/137439/the-88-dead-on-the-water)
Broken West - Gwen now and then - catchy number in a trendy style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf0uAkq3_XY
Wiretree - Back in town - I first listened to this band after a post here
last year (by Rich Horton, thanks Rich!) They have an astonishing
number of excellent acoustic pop songs. Unfortunately, to my ear,
they haven't been produced in a way that does justice to how good
they are, or could be. This one comes close though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-YafZvHEY
* Race Horses - Cake - endearingly whimsical - reminds me of wacky mid-70s
Eno (a la Seven Deadly Finns) - especially the distorted guitar break
that starts at 2:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfKoVS0Ek4M
* The Kits - She's the number one (live) - a fab specimen of what used to
be called pub rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLSoGQxN6y8
Paintbox - Get ready for love - one of the great lost Easybeats tracks
that Vanda & Young scattered through the 70s. I love the "No No, Yeah" bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=935YlU0G_VY
Deja Voodoo - How Can I Miss You (If You Won't Go Away) - I always thought
this was a cover of an old country number, but it turns out they wrote it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boeVs8b9-4I
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