Sunday, June 24, 2018

Songs Of The Week, 2018: 6/16/-6/22



Walk A Thin Line- Fleetwood Mac
Don't Wait Up For Me- The Beat
Helpless- ELO
Flower King Of Flies- The Nice
Blang Dong- Dr. Feelgood & The Interns
Ashes By Now- Rodney Crowell
God Bless The Girl- David Bowie

ZIP

Walk A Thin Line- Fleetwood Mac
I was listening to the New Pornographers and recalled their version of this song, which was performed live for KCRW. I wanted to post that as a SOTD but couldn't find it, so I went with the original.

Don't Wait Up For Me- The Beat
My friend caught Paul Collins' Beat live last week and loved it. I played the album and loved it. This is a personal fave.

Helpless- ELO
iPod shuffle strikes again. I had no idea what I was listening to. This is an outtake from the "Flashback" boxed set.

Flower King Of Flies- The Nice
I picked up a Nice album from 1987 that was complied by Davy O'List under a pseudonym in an attempt to stick it to Keith Emerson. Great set, as it focuses on the shorter psychedelic songs, of which this is one.

Blang Dong- Dr. Feelgood & The Interns
It's a song called "Blang Dong!" Incidentally, this is the band that cut the original "Mr. Moonlight" which The Fab Four covered on "Beatles For Sale."

Ashes By Now- Rodney Crowell
Felt like hearing it.

God Bless The Girl- David Bowie
A leftover from "The Next Day." Might be my favorite overall and it kills me that it does not appear on the vinyl.

9 comments:

Squints said...

>>iPod shuffle strikes again.<<

Heh. The awesomest thing about my 120GB Zune when I got it and loaded it up in 2009 was that stuff would pop up continually that I'd forgotten I had. (Never mind that actually putting it onto the device was an act of volition.)

Squints said...

The Beat should have done slightly better in the world than they did. At least half of that first record made it onto my player, and about half of their second one did also. Which didn't happen with too many of those acts. The Romantics were an exception. I actually prefer National Breakout to the Nemperor debut. (It sounds dirtier.) By contrast, I had high hopes for the Kings' "Amazon Beach" followup, which was on a twofer with "The Kings Are Here." It was sadly unlistenable. Not a single actual song to be found.

JAYESSEMM said...

Hey Sal ... I'm having one of those

"404 Not Found The server can not find the requested page:" messages.

And I'm intrigued with that Pornographers live on KCRW track :-)


Anonymous said...

Sal it just may be be but I can't download the music.

This pops up instead:

404 Not Found
The server can not find the requested page:

ms003oc2.lunarbreeze.com/~burnw0/sotw1822.zip (port 80)
Please forward this error screen to ms003oc2.lunarbreeze.com's WebMaster.

Be well (and the invite to appear on "Lost at Sea" is always open!)

Allan

Sal Nunziato said...

The link has been corrected. Sorry for the hassle. All working now.

JAYESSEMM said...

Many Thanks!

dogbreath said...

Thank you, Mr N. Always a fan of the SOTW zips & good to hear Bowie's "God Bless...". Plus that Nice thing is unknown to me so I must explore. Cheers!

A walk in the woods said...

2 things - 1) I've been considering seeing The Beat live at their ATL show - this may push me over the edge!

2) Now I HAVE to hear the New Porno's version of Lindsey's song... and, have you ever heard the Blake Babies' wonderful version?

Anonymous said...

"Ashes By Now" is such a perfect song. It's so good that it makes me mad that Crowell sometimes seems to put his writing on cruise control.