and old love came up on a random playlist the other day. reminded me of the times when it was in high rotation in my car, around the time of some personal shit… still hits home.
Anyone of a certain age and familiar with the Liverpool music scene might remember The Pale Fountains who scored a couple of (very) minor hits in the eighties.
Their lead man , Michael Head , released an acclaimed album last year , titled ‘Dear Scott’.
Here’s one track from it , but go check out the whole thing. It’s really quite something.
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Our idols are old. Sign of our mortality too perhaps.
Just thought I’d leave this here. I can remember when I was learning to play guitar I would play along to this at full blast - feedback and all. It drove my mother up the wall. Interestingly, Hendrix included the riff at the end of “In From The Storm”. Clearly he had fans.
Huge influence for music as such… Just a fucking shame the state of music now
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Great song , covered too by The Pogues , who also recorded this classic anti-war song , one of Shane MacGowan’s finest compositions;
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Wouldn’t it be gooooooood to beeee in your shoeeees
Eveeeen if it wazzzz for juss’ waaaan daaaaay
Wouldn’ttt it be goooood if weee cudwisshhhh ah-selvess aaaaaaaah waaaaaaaay
Nick kershaw???..was it a one hit wonder type song…
Yeaaaaahaaaaaa it was but what a one hit wonder type ah song it was!
“wouldn’t it be good if…”
I mean you could write 5 follow up songs just on Liverpool with that.
He wasn’t a one hit wonder. He has some other really good songs.
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Just the only one I could remember…
The Riddle. I won’t let the sun go down on me.
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Oh yeah…little man with spiky hair…
Oooooooooooooh… wordssssss cannaaat express how muchhh yaa meaaaaan taaa meeeeeeeeeee
There mus’ be sum udda wayyyyyy ta makeeee ya seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Lay There! (I know it’s really Lady)
I JUST
FEEL
LIKE
I WONT GET 'CHU
ATTAR MA MIND
AS WE DANCE!
BY DA MOONLIGHT
Niknowdatit’strueIcantell bythelook…inyouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuureyesssssss
Real thing …the 1st…2nd blind reindeer…
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This sounds really interesting. I’m wondering if it will be available in Germany at some point. Netflix, maybe?
Have you seen any of it yet?
Public Enemy were quite possibly the most important band to come out of the US , and Chuck D was one of the most eloquent and inspiring individuals to ever pick up a microphone. (Really hope I can catch this somewhere.)
Although you don’t hear that much about him now he’s still making records , both with PE and solo.
In 2020 , after George Floyd , and at the height of the BLM protests , he decided to remake Fight The Power in collaboration with others. The result was something almost as startling as the original , and arguably even more pertinent given its context.
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