Silly Thing- Sex Pistols
(I Want To Be An)- Anglepoise Lamp- The Soft Boys
Lonely Lonely Girl Am I- The Velvelettes
North Parade (A Summer Place)- 4th Street Orchestra
All Or Nothing At All- Frank Sinatra
Sweet Kid- Suede
Careless Ethiopians- Toots & The Maytals w/Keith Richards
Silly Thing- Sex Pistols
(The best Pistols track without Johnny Rotten.)
(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp- The Soft Boys
(This popped up on the iPod last week and I hadn't recognized it. I also couldn't find it on my Soft Boys records. Turns out, it was a single only. Further research shows it appeared on CD reissues of "A Can Of Bees.)
Lonely Lonely Girl Am I- The Velvelettes
(How deep in the Motown catalogue? This gem didn't even crack the Top 40.)
North Parade (A Summer Place)- 4th Street Orchestra
(You'll recognize it.)
All Or Nothing At All- Frank Sinatra
(The instrumental break, with that organ and those horns, building up slowly, only to explode into a trombone solo, is one of the most exciting stretches in recorded music.)
Sweet Kid- Suede
(Did not have "Antidepressants" coming in as one of my favorite albums of the year on my bingo card.)
Careless Ethiopians- Toots & The Maytals w/Keith Richards
(We spoke recently about duet records and collaborations, and most agreed, good ones are hard to find. I forgot about 2004's "True Love" from Toots & The Maytals, which is pretty strong throughout. Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Beck, Marcia Griffiths, The Skatalites. Willie Nelson and this gem with Keef.)
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Looking forward to your review of the new Suede album. Uncut loved it.
Hadn’t listened to Suede before (I skipped most of Britpop) and was pleasantly surprised. Will check out the album.
True Love is very good. So is Light Your Light which has Bonnie Raitt on at least one song.
- Paul in DK
The word eclectic springs to mind for this mix!
A reminder, Sal, to please continue to contextualize your musical postings, even if it's just the shorties you pen for these weekly collections. Because of what you wrote here, I'll give a listen to the Sinatra cut for that musical interlude. If for no other reason, the music geek in me always likes to hear other fans discuss what grabbed them (or not) in what's under discussion.
Before anyone attacks me for not otherwise intending to give the Sinatra cut a listen, I've heard enough Sinatra to know his singing and music isn't my cuppa. I do the same for death metal, modern country-pop, etc. Surely there are exceptions, but time and interest are limited.
C in California
Really enjoyed that Keef, thank you!
An excellent mix.
Captain Al
Sorry ...so Radar wanted to promote SB as the new power pop sensation akin to the Knack for instance and the band fell out with the label for that reason. So SB eventually self released their first LP A Can of Bees (which bombed by the way as there was little promotion) even though the record was reissued the following year by the Aura label. So the original indie pressing has a white background back sleeve colour whereas for the first reissue it is yellow not to mention there are different side B songs. All later reissues have a pink background back sleeve with again different side B songs including Anglepoise Lamp this time around. So A Can of Bees was essentially a series of psychedelic jams different from their more pop/folk rock (but still psychedelic whatever it's supposed to mean) follow-up Underwater Moonlight which is often more highly regarded. Eventually the Anglepoise Lamp single (backed with Fatman's Son) was the sole SB release on Radar. The Radar sessions later turned out in a bootleg called The Day They Ate Brick.
J from Europe.
I hadn't heard Silly Thing in a while. Agree. Best post-Rotten SP, which, still ain’t saying much.
Soft Boys - My first exposure to this band was at Lou's Records not long after they first opened. It was at the original location on the east side of the street. We had been surfin' and shroomin' at Swami's and figured we'd check the bins before getting some grub in Encinitas. They were playing the import-only Soft Boys EP, Near the Soft Boys, and I flipped over it. Jesus Christ did I flip! Those dudes were channeling Barrett, The guitar sound and playing on Kingdom Come sounded so perfect in my psychedelicized state. When they flipped the record over and Vegetable Man came forth I had to find out who these cool motherfuckers were. The record was the only copy they had, so I snagged it. The clerk that helped me looked like Popeye's arch rival, Bluto. He had the beard and the bod in board shorts and army boots. It was trippin' me out since I was still post-peak high. He informed me that they had an import-only album out as well. I looked at A Can of Bees but put it off till later. We were starving so we booked to Captain Keno's. Later turned out to be four years.
I got pregnant in 1981 and, by 1984, had three kids. Me and the old man had to figure out how to function as a family in the midst of our major drug operation. We bought a third house. One strictly for family. Priorities changed, but not entirely. I still bought records here and there and I did it in bunches. When I was six months pregnant with my third child I went to Rhino Records in Claremont. This was when they were at the smaller location on Yale down the hall from the Birkenstock store. One of the employees razzed me asking me if I ever WASN'T pregnant. It was out of character for the usually reserved graduate student. He was a super nice guy. Too good for this world, actually. Since he was six years younger than me, he had his pulse on what was happening with current music. I generally followed his recommendations during that time. On this haul I picked up Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground; T.S.O.L. - Change Today?; Green On Red - Gravity Talks; Jazz Butcher - A Scandal in Bohemia; Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather; Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit; Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime; Husker Du - Zen Arcade; and Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain. Rob also recommended the Soft Boys 12" EP, Wading Through a Ventilator, but I declined in favor of A Can of Bees. Apparently, it was a reissue and it included (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp. When I went to the back room and perused, I ended up buying Led Zeppelin’s Listen to This Eddie and Danish TV 1969 bootlegs. Rob threw the Soft Boys EP in for free when I checked out Such the deal.
VR
Groovy version of Theme from A Summer Place. Very kewel. What a make out song that was. Personally, I preferred being parked at the Point in the back seat of a 1963 Chevy Impala lowrider, high on Ripple and reds, listening to Tommy James & the Shondells' Crystal Blue Persuasion and enjoying the tuck and roll. But seriously, the 4th Street Orchestra tune is gonna get heavy rotation on my game room jukebox.
My dad's into Sinatra, therefore, I was exposed to it. This is his best recording of this song. It's largely due to Nelson Riddle's arrangement and band. The last two minutes of the tune make it for me, both the break and the finish. The B-3 is a stone gas. The modulations make me wet. The bass and drums are beyond copacetic. Credit where credit is due: Artie Kane-organ; Ralph Pena-bass; Irving Cottler-drums.
VR
Thanks for the reminder of the Toots duets record. Hadn't heard it in a long time. Pulled it out last night. Great record.
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