5 days ago by Matthew

Neil Young’s On The Beach was originally released in 1974 as the follow up to the commercially and critically successful Harvest. It was raw and loose, and from the lyrics and sparse production, it’s clear that Young was in an emotionally dark place at the time. For a modern equivalent, you could co ...

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8 days ago by dysonology

Which one’s your favourite? Nina sang it first in the late Fifties, but Nick Cave and Kimbra give it the full treatment (hat tip to Dana for the Kimbra version). Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: cover versions, i know i will never be free, kimbra, music, nick cave, nina simone, plain gold ring

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12 days ago by Mondo

Refits, reworks and retreads are the themes for tonight's Radio Podrophenia - an all suggestions special of cover versions built around a playlist handpicked by the Podrophenia Panel from.... Simon, Drakey, Marmite, Dave Wright and Dog Faced Boy. Tonight's opener will be a Simon says suggestion Sand ...

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17 days ago by philspector

Here’s a thing. In the post-Winehouse search for gin-u-wine authentic blue eyed soul, any pretty young thing with a gritty voice and a decent set of breasts found themselves in a dusty, analogue recording studio listening carefully to whatever it was that the svengali their record company had plucke ...

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24 days ago by philspector

Bleeeeeeaaaaaach. I’m from Ayrshire. I can’t pretend to understand the gangsta leanings of Cribs ‘n Bloods ‘n West Coast v’s East Coast. Not that that stopped every two-bit Burberry ned who ever stole from the music shop I once worked in. The 2 Pac posters were just about the most shoplifted items t ...

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26 days ago by Daniel

So after I slagged off Virgin Radio here, our kitchen radio struggled to stay tuned in to the station. It’s like the station had the hump with me, and didn’t want to play any more. The tuning kept migrating into static, or other stations. So I gave up, and wandered around the dial until I heard a pa ...

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27 days ago by Rob Jones

Listen to this track by Pacific Northwest R&B supplicants the Sonics. It’s “Have Love Will Travel” (that title being a possible reference to Have Gun Will Travel, a TV western program), a well-travelled rock tune, written by the same guy who wrote “Louie Louie” , Richard Berry. This tune would be co ...

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27 days ago by funky16corners

Beep beep beep beep….. Playlist Hawkshaw/Mansfield – Action Scene (KPM) Brenda Lee – Is It True (Decca) Nat Stuckey – Listen To the Band (RCA) Echoes In the Wind Nat Stuckey – In the Year 2525 (RCA) Fabulous Thunder – Jealous of You (Tight) Dino Desi and Billy – I’m a Fool (Reprise) Lee Hazelwood Di ...

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32 days ago by philspector

Song To The Siren was originally released on Tim Buckley‘s near-mythical Starsailor album. Long-since unavailable on CD, if you don’t have it you can buy it these days on iTunes. I think a re-issued vinyl made a fleeting re-appearance a couple of years ago before burying its head once again in the s ...

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33 days ago by Mondo

Bowie's barnets - missing the classic T J Newton do though Happy 65th birthday (belatedly) to ol' blue/brown eyes himself David Bowie - continuing with the riff of H, what a run of great haircuts he's paraded through the ages.. Why H? Because tonight we unwrap chapter 8 of the Podrophonic Alphabet. ...

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