Music
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Weekend Music (I know, it's already Saturday afternoon here, Saturday night in Europe, and sometime Sunday in Australia and New Zealand.) This is by very far not my favorite Sinatra song, but I heard it more or less accidentally, on XM radio in a rented car, a couple of days ago, and the lyric had…
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Weekend Music I believe it was Monday night that I was listening to a Velvet Underground album, their third and self-titled one, and thinking I had noticed something pretty significant about it, and that I might do a post about it as the weekend music post. But dang: who wants to listen to the Velvet…
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Weekend Music (and Dancing) Did I mention that I had finished watching Swing Time a week or so ago? (after discussing it here). These two scenes will give you a good idea of what it's like; they really constitute one scene, from fairly early in the movie, when Lucky (Fred) has only recently met Penny (Ginger). Of course,…
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I found this the other day when I was looking for "Migration." It's a very young and very impressive Innocence Mission, or at least Karen–you can hardly see Don, and according to the comments on this video the other guys are the house band for the TV show (the name of which we are not…
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Weekend Music From Small Planes, an album that was, I read somewhere, a collection of songs that for one reason or other didn't make it onto other albums. Lyrics here (scroll down for this song).
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Weekend Music Someone pointed out the resemblance of last week's Camera Obscura song to one by Hem. Here's another Hem song, one of the best from their album Rabbit Songs. Lyrics here. This is not my favorite Hem song, which is "The Part Where You Let Go", from an EP called Home Again, Home Again (which…
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Weekend Music Rob G has recommended this band to me several times, but I hadn't followed up on the rec till a week or so ago, when the state PBS network featured them on a weekly live music series, from a gig in Birmingham (Alabama). I was immediately taken with them–not only with the music,…
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Weekend Music Last week, trying to think of who The Clientele's singer reminded me of, I thought of Al Stewart. And then I thought of this song, which, though it's an instrumental, somehow has some of the '60s feel of The Clientele's work. Moreover, it's actually from the '60s. I'm not sure exactly when or…
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Weekend Music The strange thing about the mid-'60s English sound of The Clientele is that you think they sound a lot like somebody but you can't figure out exactly who. At least that's the way they affect me. I've written about them before, in 2007 and 2008. About this album, in fact. Although I have a…
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Weekend Music I have a real find for you this week, if you don't already know the song. And if you know the song but not the video, you still have a treat coming. I'm still listening to one of my CDs full of random mp3s, and this song, as performed by Iain Matthews, came…
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