🎵 What are you listening to etc

KRG · 30 July 2015 16:13

Originally posted by @saintbletch

Pleasant KRG, but it didn’t really grab me to be honest.

I’ll give it another couple of listens.

Clearly misjudged, soz bletch.

lifeintheslowlane · 30 July 2015 16:40

Originally posted by @KRG

Originally posted by @saintbletch

Pleasant KRG, but it didn’t really grab me to be honest.

I’ll give it another couple of listens.

Clearly misjudged, soz bletch.

I think I’ve misjudged too kRG…sorry.

saintbletch · 30 July 2015 20:23

Bob Dylan - Hurricane.

Some funster looking for value for money has put it on the pub jukebox.

Dylan could write a song and no mistake.

Furball · 30 July 2015 22:01

It’s strange how popular perceptions of Dylan have changed. I remember as a kid looking on in envy as a schoolmate walked in with a white-covered bootleg. We listened knowing we were eavesdropping on genius. Now barely a ripple, yet he’s still doing some great work. Such as this:

I know it’s probably a minority view, but Hurricane is part of a seventies Dylan that I thought was his creative highpoint.

Furball · 30 July 2015 22:13

Then there’s this (and the video is as cool as fuck).

Furball · 30 July 2015 22:21

And for a touch of weirdness…

Fowllyd · 31 July 2015 08:35

It’s a fine song, and I love the video.

saintbletch · 31 July 2015 09:31

He’s good, but he’s no Billy Bragg.

BTW, when did he stop playing an acoustic?

Did I miss something?

Furball · 31 July 2015 09:33

Originally posted by @saintbletch

He’s good, but he’s no Billy Bragg.

BTW, when did he stop playing an acoustic?

Did I miss something?

Judas!

KRG · 31 July 2015 10:25

Good as he is, he’s terrible live. It’s just incomprehensible mumbling.

Halo-Stickman · 31 July 2015 12:05

Yesterday, I watched a street artist performing to The Avener’s Fade Out Lines; later, this lead me to listen to some of Phoebe Killdeer’s stuff, and, through her, to the work of French group Nouvelle Vague. This is the first time that I’ve properly listened to some of their bossa nova style arrangements of English Punk and New Wave classics. I’m a fan of the latter - my era, innit - but, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, I find myself liking some of Nouvelle Vague’s versions:

Rallyboy · 31 July 2015 15:21

Isn’t that just music for car ads, designed to please young people who don’t realise that everything they listen to has been done before.

I heard a great new song from (insert name of X-Factor loser) - something about Lucy in the Sky/Brown Sugar/Stairway to Heaven/Imagine etc

innit

TheCholulaKid · 31 July 2015 15:34

I saw Nouvelle Vague a few years ago not knowing what to expect - felt like a slightly classier karaoke unfortunately.

Halo-Stickman · 31 July 2015 15:44

Harsh, TCK!

I can only think you frequent a higher class of karaoke than I do!

jet-sounds · 31 July 2015 16:50

lifeintheslowlane · 31 July 2015 17:27

Another of my evangelical crusades that fell upon deaf ears back in the 1990s…Eric Matthews. This is about the only track from his 1995 album, It’s Heavy In Here that got any airplay… Great voice, great song, great video.

TheCholulaKid · 31 July 2015 18:10

I was excited when I saw the Sub Pop moniker, Life. Not so excited by the song I’m afraid. I’ll give the album a go though. I could’ve chosen one of many Sub Pop releases but have gone for something relatively recent. Great band name. Good tune. Amusing video:

Intiniki · 31 July 2015 18:16

Ah I quite like Nouvelle Vague and did see them a few years ago at the Brook.

lifeintheslowlane · 31 July 2015 18:52

Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid

I was excited when I saw the Sub Pop moniker, Life. Not so excited by the song I’m afraid. I’ll give the album a go though.

His delivery is very precise, in an almost British accent. His lyrics and music are so perfect it has you believing he is delivering a profound message but it’s all total bananas…I think that’s something I really love about his music. If you’re going to give his albums a try, Lateness of The Hour is probably his best.

Halo-Stickman · 1 August 2015 06:41

What is it they say about books? There are only a limited number of plots and Shakespeare originated all of them. Perhaps it’s the same with songs!

Seriously though, RB, I empathise with the point you make and agree there are many groups you could level that charge against; but, for me, Nouvelle Vague’s arrangements differ from the original to such an extent that they almost feel like entirely new songs. Interestingly, they claim to only cover songs that their female vocalists haven’t previously heard; they say this helps to achieve an entirely fresh interpretation.

Anyway, it seems there are split opinions amongst the Sotonians that have actually seen them perform live - the subjectivity of music is one of of its joys! - but, if nothing else, one of Nouvelle Vague’s former members, Phoebe Killdear, was largely responsible for this quite wonderful (imo) and original record: