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Julian H. Cope

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You're my role model, St Landrew.

 

Ah, knew that Deppo lad had potential.

 

You've noticed that aura...

 

Or is it aroma..? I can never determine which. ;)

 

Don't follow this though. On an extremely rare mini 80's AOR moment courtesy of Spotify. With the dismal efforts from the boys in Red & White, trying to keep the leather thing away from the Claret and Blue men for around 90 minutes, I'd thought I'd call in the music from when Saints were riding rather higher.

 

Frankly, I never liked 90% of this stuff, preferring to go skiing and latterly discovering sailing during that time. But I've had a go at More Than A feeling - Boston, which has that terrific chorus interspersed by crap verses. Tried Van Halen - Jump, and David Lee Roth - California Girls and they were abysmal. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd was pretty good though, and now I'm thnking of Santana, or maybe I should really go off the wall with Bachman, Turner Overdrive.

 

As I said, don't follow. It's certainly safer not to.

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OK, it went Santana, but to keep with the 1980's AOR theme, I went for a track off the album Inner Secrets, called Open Invitation.

 

Bit dangerous that track. Don't select it as part of a mixCD and play it in the car, and DEFINITELY NOT while riding a motorcycle, because the throttle will be let loose, guaranteed. It's a bit like BTO's Roll On Down The Highway in the sense that it suggests... yeah, go kill yourself with speed..!

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OK, It's gone all The Dukes Of Stratosphear now. I'm just exploring the limits of Spotify at the moment. There's a few things I can't find, but the Dukes aren't one of them. Here's your chance to hear utterly superb sixties music, but written in the late eighties. Try them by typing in the band name. See how many bands you can name that have influenced each original track. By the way, Spotify doesn't put them in the correct order, so they don't flow quite as well as they should. 25 O'Clock should always be first up.

 

I'm listening to You're My Drug at the moment, and the sixties sense is almost palpable.

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Via the old spotify I spent yesterday listening to

 

Jeffrey Lewis - 'Em Are I

Although it doesn't reach the sporadic dizzy heights of his earlier stuff, its his most concistant album to date (talk about damning with faint praise). Its actually really really good in an anti-folk/low-fi indie rock style.

 

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

The spotify review said it was their weirdest album to date so I had to give it a go. Its nice and droney and builds to a fierce climax with death valley 69, and the spotify ads sounded more hilariously awful than usual

 

Neu! - Neu! 75

Lovely stuff.

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Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

The spotify review said it was their weirdest album to date so I had to give it a go. Its nice and droney and builds to a fierce climax with death valley 69, and the spotify ads sounded more hilariously awful than usual

 

Neu! - Neu! 75

Lovely stuff.

 

death valley 69 was going to go in my mixtape once i had sorted out spotify

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A cracking little Sherlock Holmes adventure called The Ferrers Documents. Holmes/Watson fans will instantly realise that this is NOT a Conan-Doyle story, but one of the many clones, this time written by Bert Coules, for the BBC canon of SH stuff. IMO, he writes rather well, and his Watson is slightly less deferential to Holmes, than the proper one, although C-D's Watson was no slouch or thicko.

 

It's 45 minutes of pure Victorian escapism. I absolutely love radio drama.

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more sonic youth on spotify last night

 

Rather Ripped

Their latest album which is surprising chilled out (for them anyway). It builds really niocely as an album and delivers some real stonkers at the end.

 

Daydream Nation

It’s the repackaged edition, in particular, the live stuff on disk two is c-wording amazing.

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And mine! Ive opted for a different SY track now!

 

Same here, how embarrassing that could of been.

 

I'll probably go for something off one of their more recent ones, or the live version of Candle.

 

Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian

lovely stuff on a sunny day. best album title ever?

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I will check out Orn's mix at some point but too busy at the moment. On that note, I think it would be sensible to have a thread for each mix (as before). Kind of makes it more obvious a new one is up and then comments and discussion on that don't get mixed up with general comments. IMO of course.

 

manji, please can you remind us about your sort of music? I seem to recall you like stuff nobody else likes, or has even heard of.

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