Savage Henry
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Anyone know anything about the following acts, all of who's albums turned up in my 6 Music prize package:
Nitin Sawhney
The Bellrays
Dashboard Confessional
I must confess all three have passed me by, and I wish that the Stereophonics had passed me by. That might have to go down the charity shop...
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No it's not... good track nevertheless though.
You're right of course, I should have said my personal favourite. But I do think the lyrics are particularly abstract on that track.
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Music a go-go round my house. REM, Find the River, the final (and best) track on Automatic for the People.
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A review of the new Edward (Nighthawks) Hopper restrospective at the Tate Modern on Radio 3...
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I've just won a big bundle of CDs on a competition on 6 music, I'll be well cheesed off if I have won a Coldplay album...
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Nick Drake is one of these breed of artists that is overwhelmingly revered purely because he died early. He was a good singer/songwriter, who may have been slightly ahead of his time, but his godlike status among many is somewhat cringeworthy. Although he is currently inside the UK Top 40 with a single relase
At the moment, the new Morrissey album is taking some shifting from my stereo. Now THERE'S a proper singer/songwriter who deserves all praise. A true legend. Been there and done it for over 20 years, and still producing extremely high quality music. His solo stuff has maybe never quite reached the height of the Smiths, but it's still better than most of the drivel thats out nowadays.
In an age of Justin and Britney, long live Steven Patrick Morrissey.
He is a bit of a fud though. On jools Holland he came across really petulent and childish, but at the same time he played There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, so I can't complain.
As for Nick Drake being in the top forty, that's one of the best things that's ever happened. I wonder how it'll go down with the kids on the Radio One chart show?
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Mogwai on six music. Weird but strangely beautiful. Like a Hayao Miyazaki anime.
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Sir, I applaud that.
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It's an NL game: St Louis Cardinals versus the Chicago Cubs I think, which will be a good match-up.
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Andy Kershaw's show on Radio 3... which should just about take me up to time for baseball.
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Just finished watching a Japanese animation called Spirited Away on DVD, now I'm digging REM's Automatic For The People, which is slightly better than I thought.
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I always miss the start of the Jeff Buckley one and tune in with about 20 minutes to go. I wonder if its available on video or DVD..... off to Amazon to have a look.
I think it may be on again tonight... but don't quote me on that. It might be the Nick Drake one.
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Just watched a pointless documentary about Nick Drake followed by an excellent one about Jeff Buckley on BBC4. To be followed by Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle at th cambridge Folk Festival.
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Okay... very.
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Big Iron by Johnny Cash, and I do not have the words to describe how moving it is.
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Waiting Around To Die by Townes Van Zandt. Which will be followed by Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash. Party on, dudes.
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Late junction on radio 3. It is absolutely nuts.
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David Byrne's been on my stereo for two days running now and I'm still not tired of it...
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David Byrne - Grown Backwards complete with covers of Lambchop and Verdi... just stunning, as per usual from Dumbarton's finest.
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I'm watching the mighty (and Scotland's very own) David Byrne on Jools Holland, and he's in concert on bbc4 later...
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I haven't heard much, but the one track I did hear sounded like she was singing a White Stripes song - which isn't a surprise, really, but it was damned good. I've gone back in the archives a couple of years to find Cobblestone Runway by Ron Sexsmith. And it's terrific.
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Welcome back Jim.
Nice holiday?
I don't do holidays, I was travelling
But it was just the best, honest to goodness San Francisco is the greatest city I have ever been to...
You have no idea how depressing it was to leave S.F basking in 30 degree heat and then arrive in London 12 hours later (well 20 actually)in 11 degree rain.
I could talk for hours about the last 6 weeks, but I'd just bore you!
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I'm going through something of a country phase at the moment, was listening to Johnny Cash, Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons a lot when I was in California.
Incidentally, at opening game instead of playing "God Bless America" the San Francisco Giants played "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie, which I thought was a classy touch.
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Got myself Gene Clark's No Other the other week, and it really is fantastic. What with all the Gram Parsons coverage at the moment, and the South by Southwest festival, I've been in a country frame of mind.
Also bought Load by Metallica at the same time. And it's surprisingly understated, believe it or not!
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What Are You Listening To?
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I thought the first Oasis album was called Definitely Maybe, and I couldn't tell you about the Libertines (apart from the fact that the singer has serious problems).
But as to Neil Young, his best acoustic stuff is either Harvest (most accessible) or After The Goldrush (my personal favourite). Rust Never Sleeps has an accoustic half and a stunning electric second part, I'd also give a mention to Freedom, a mid 80s classic when most of his contemporaries were churning out rubbish, and On The Beach, Zuma and Tonight's The Night (his so-called doom trilogy) but they are pretty heavy going.