upside downer

Thunder In the Mountains - Toyah

Crikey O'Blimey, this is chaos!

That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission of Burma

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore - Peter, Paul and Mary

Can Can - Bad Manners

On the advice of some comments in the 'Your most listened-to-live album' thread....

As Jim Bowen (almost) said, "You can't beat a bit of baglama!"

Another one for 'Live After Death' by Iron Maiden here, also 'The Original Pistols Live' by the Sex Pistols recorded in Burton-on-Trent in 1976. Haven't heard either for a good while, will rectify that shortly!

'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? - Alexei Sayle

Interesting. Here's another 'Lizard' band who went down that route on their splendidly named album Flying Microtonal Banana.

Iggy Pop David Soul Brian Emo (sorry)

Fair point. You've convinced me to stick with my farting orangutan of a voice 😄

Here's my entry for this month. I've gone down the 'David v Goliath' route where the little guy stands up for himself. It's all recorded as usual with Wavepad and Audacity, drums programmed using Hydrogen and the instruments used include a Yamaha keyboard utilising the Japanese Koto sound effect, a Westfield violin bass, an Epiphone guitar for rhythm and the lead played using my recently built 4 string cigar box guitar with a bit of flange and delay. Once again I had my usual turd-polishing saga with my vocal line (and some may say with the words, too). I really must ask my old singer to warble over the top of one of these instead.

Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) - Cowboy Junkies

'Satellite' is definitely by the Sex Pistols. 'You're looking like a big, fat, pink baked bean' is pure Lydon.

Brexit! IBTL

Moving on from the funk-fest that is Throbbing Gristle (Get on down to 'Beachy Head'!) here's some rather more standard pieces from the genre. Yum Yum (Gimme Some) - Fatback Band Fever In the Funkhouse - General Crook Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players Play these in the set with the three I had in an earlier post and you've got yourself one alternative rocking, groovy gig 🕺💃

My Name Is Not Susan - Whitney Houston

Curio for old punks.

Put your feet up and enjoy listening to the John McLaughlin Trio, you've earned it

Feet Don't Fail Me Now - Foxes

It's still sore, couldn't play for a fortnight 😄 Should have a generic pop song to post tomorrow evening 👍

I reckon it's inevitable as we get older that we find less and less in the three minute pop song to excite us because, as the cliche goes, we've heard it all before. There'll be the odd one or two that hark back to a personal favourite or we find toe-tappingly irresistible but despite the various pop genres involved it can get predictably formulaic.