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Julian H. Cope

By Julian H. Cope,
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saintscottofthenortham

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Just proves we all have different tastes!

 

HaHa! Tis' the beauty of music. To fully appreciate it you would be better hearing the bands previous stuff, because the album I have mentioned is one of stripped back acoustic versions of their previous material along with a few extra tracks.

 

Personally i love it, and it is selling very, very, very well... So i'm not alone.

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HaHa! Tis' the beauty of music. To fully appreciate it you would be better hearing the bands previous stuff, because the album I have mentioned is one of stripped back acoustic versions of their previous material along with a few extra tracks.

 

Personally i love it, and it is selling very, very, very well... So i'm not alone.

 

Indeed that is true ! I even managed to engage a friend of mine on a chess site in a debate of the merits of BBC. He loves them, I'm ambivalent but for the sake of the debate decided I hated them lol We never did agree on anything other than we disagreed but also more importantly that it really was, like most things, a matter of personal choice/taste.

So enjoy away, I'm about ( though as it is 2am via headphones!) to listen to The Ramones !

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Two Door Cinema Club's album is brilliant, the hype is well deserved.

Today has been a day of commuting, so i've had some old school Biffy Clyro (Scary Mary era), old school Phoenix [unitled era), old school Rammstein (Herzeleid era) and old school RHCP (Mother's Milk era) on my iPod on the trains today. It's been rather bloody brilliant.

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The First of the Singer Songwriters (1924-1946) by Hoagy Carmichael. This is a four-disc set on the JSP label, which focuses on releasing high-quality, remastered collections of jazz, blues, and pop from the 1920s-1940s. This set consists of 101 tracks. It's not just Hoagy Carmichael versions of his own songs, but lots of interesting interpretations of his material recorded back in the pre-WWII years.

 

Hoagy Carmichael was a great songwriter: some of his classics include: Stardust, Georgia on my Mind, Rockin' Chair, Up a Lazy River, In the Still of the Night, The Nearness of You, Heart and Soul, I Get Along Without You Very Well, and Hong Kong Blues. As well as being a composer, he was a pianist, actor and band leader.

 

He appeared in 14 films, often singing one or more of his own songs. A couple of his notable films: To Have and Have Not and The Best Years of our Lives. In am amusing quote, Carmichael once decribed his screen persona thusly: "the hound-dog-faced old musical philosopher noodling on the honky-tonk piano, saying to a tart with a heart of gold: 'He'll be back, honey. He's all man'."

 

One of the finest contributors to what has been dubbed "the great American songbook".

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The First of the Singer Songwriters (1924-1946) by Hoagy Carmichael. This is a four-disc set on the JSP label, which focuses on releasing high-quality, remastered collections of jazz, blues, and pop from the 1920s-1940s. This set consists of 101 tracks. It's not just Hoagy Carmichael versions of his own songs, but lots of interesting interpretations of his material recorded back in the pre-WWII years.

 

Hoagy Carmichael was a great songwriter: some of his classics include: Stardust, Georgia on my Mind, Rockin' Chair, Up a Lazy River, In the Still of the Night, The Nearness of You, Heart and Soul, I Get Along Without You Very Well, and Hong Kong Blues. As well as being a composer, he was a pianist, actor and band leader.

 

He appeared in 14 films, often singing one or more of his own songs. A couple of his notable films: To Have and Have Not and The Best Years of our Lives. In am amusing quote, Carmichael once decribed his screen persona thusly: "the hound-dog-faced old musical philosopher noodling on the honky-tonk piano, saying to a tart with a heart of gold: 'He'll be back, honey. He's all man'."

 

One of the finest contributors to what has been dubbed "the great American songbook".

 

I will check this chappie out......meanwhile I will carry on listening to the best of ELO - through my posh Denon headphones whilst I am working.

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Halfway through Arcade Fire's new album The Suburbs. Not sure what to make of it. Seem to have lost much of the raw energy and emotion of their first two excellent albums (esp. the first). More mature and sensible bit not as fun.

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saintscottofthenortham

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The Antlers - 'Hospice' (2009)

 

A very slow but beautifully written album. The singer Peter Silberman put himself into Social isolation for near on two years (?) whilst he wrote the album. Indie/folk/alternative... if ya like that sort of thing have a listen. It was one of my favourite albums last year and have found myself back on it.

 

Highlight track - 'Kettering'

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I have had Orb and A huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld on today as I was changing the taps in the kitchen.

 

Basically been listening to Orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld while doing chores.

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I have had Orb and A huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld on today as I was changing the taps in the kitchen.

 

Basically been listening to Orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld while doing chores.

 

Sound choice for any job. However, did the dripping water at the end of Spanish Castles make you think you'd sprung a leak? ;)

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