I’m still recovering from SXSW 2011, and will hopefully right up my review soon, but I’m off to NYC for the Big Star Third all star tribute/benefit concert.
In the meantime, here’s a wee video I shot of Admiral Fallow-Four Bulbs:
Tag: music (Page 4 of 7)
I’ve wanted to post this for some time, but kept forgetting to do so. I think I’ve been avoiding it because I usually write up a little bit about each Top 10 record at the very least. I’ll have to add it later as I’m still not in a mindset to write it up! I still need to add links.
At any rate, here’s what I loved and listened to in 2010. There are many records released that I never got around to purchasing, so I’ve got a list of almost two dozen I’d like to get at this point!
1. Teenage Fanclub-Shadows
2. Frightened Rabbit-The Winter of Mixed Drinks
3. Glossary-Feral Fire
4. Two Cow Garage-Sweet Saint Me
5. Admiral Fallow-Boots Met My Face
6. Broken Records-Let Me Come Home (couldn’t wait for the US release, so I ordered from Amazon UK!)
7. Treecreeper-Juniper
8. Elvyn-The Declline
9. Stornoway-Beachcomber’s Windowsill
10. Superchunk-Majesty Shredding
11. Ardentjohn-On the Wire
12. The Vaselines-Sex with An X
13. Michael Carpenter & the Cuban Heels-The Incomplete Cuban Heels
14. Aberfeldy-Somewhere to Jump From
15. First Aid Kit-The Big Black and The Blue
16. The Pernice Brothers-Goodbye, Killer
17. Darker My Love-Alive As You Are
18. Standard Fare-The Noyelle Beat
19. Marching Band-Pop Cycle
20. The Phantom Band-The Wants
the rest in alpha order:
Beach Fossils-Beach Fossils
Belle & Sebastian-Write About Love
Best Coast-Crazy for You
John Cunningham-1998-2002
Escape Act-Balance
Horse to Water-Junkie
Magnolia Mountain-Redbird Green
Past Prayers-Past Prayers
The Posies-Blood/Candy
Sambassadeur-European
The School-Loveless Unbeliever
The Successful Failures-Three Nights
Two Hours Traffic-Territory
Versus-On the Ones and Threes
The Wynntown Marshals-Westerner
Top songs-
1. Sweet Days Waiting-Teenage Fanclub
2. The Loneliness & The Scream-Frightened Rabbit
3. A Darkness Rises Up-Broken Records
4. Lonely is a Town-Glossary (although I could easily put Save Your Money for the Weekend here)
5. Home-Ardentjohn
6. Squealing Pigs-Admiral Fallow
7. Ghost Town-First Aid Kit
8. Don’t Leave, Don’t Go-Elvyn
9. Last Days-Treecreeper
10. That Song-Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels
11. Watching Birds-Stornoway
ps. very much enjoying songs by Weather Barn & Treefight for Sunlight
and look forward to hearing more from them in 2011
#teenagefanclub #music
The Star Signs-Don’t Look Back
now downloadable from Soundcloud in mp3 or wav:
Mick Chorba, Jim Becker, Rob Martin, Lauree McArdle, Ron Bechamps & John Williams
(the *band* name was Jim’s idea, to keep it TFC related)
created for the Teenage Fanclub Message Board tribute 40 Million Seconds-The Long Road to TFC
Featuring members of The Successful Failures, Taggart and Stars Apart. Recorded at FDR studios.
links:
http://www.fdrlabel.com/
http://www.thesuccessfulfailures.com/blog-wp/
http://www.myspace.com/thesuccessfulfailures
http://taggartrocks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/starsapart
In August, I got together with some great friends and we recorded the Teenage Fanclub song “Don’t Look Back”
It was for a contribution to the latest Fanclub message board tribute compilation and it marks the first time I’ve had the courage to record my singing voice. Mick, Becker, and Rob were great and we got an initial rough mix in just a couple hours in one night. The rest happened after I had to come back to Virginia and then Ron and John got into the mix.
It was a lot of fun to do and I’m glad I did it. I thought the hard part would be singing and recording it. Actually, it’s finishing it and putting it out there into the world for all to hear. I’ve always had an insatiable genuine love & appreciation for music, but it’s gone to a whole new level.
The entire tribute is dedicated to Tom O’Grady, who was a regular on the board. Sadly, I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person. A donation page is up in his memory that includes a link to download the entire tribute and make a donation to cancer research:
http://donateinmemory.cancerresearchuk.org/0000400
here’s another contribution from Wayne James and The Harry Evlar Experience-Sparky’s Dream, with a fabulous video:
To this day, I still defend myspace to my friends and colleagues who feel it’s not worth the time. The interface can get a bit annoying but I’ve never had trouble with it.
I am constantly adding new bands and many times, the bands who contact me to add them understand my music tastes. I’m pretty open to all genres and I do listen to every single band’s music that sends a request, but some just don’t always make the cut.
I’m sure I would have found out about them eventually, but the other day, I had a friend request from The Very Most. A band from Boise, Idaho that almost screams “we should be in your music library Lauree” They definitely made the cut!! Hell, I only needed to hear 20 seconds of the first song playing on their page to add ’em.
The Very Most on myspace
The Very Most website
they just released their second album on Coming in Second Records
Coming in Second Records
here’s a video for Spilt, Spilt Milk
At the very least (pun totally not intended…but amuses me…), myspace allows me to reach out and connect to bands I may never get to see live.
I can’t even begin to list all the UK (especially Scottish) bands I’ve connected to via myspace who probably think I’m a nut. Some of those bands have since broken up and gone on to other projects, so without myspace, I probably would have never heard the music!!
I may no longer sit for hours and hours a week at WLFR like I did back in college, but that doesn’t mean I’ve lost my “kid in the candy store” approach to getting to hear new (or new to me) music! Myspace helps with the addiction.
I realized that the horror of horrors, I had not shared my R.E.M. review with everyone yet. life has been a whirlwind since then…
at any rate here ya go, written just after I got home:
I wasn’t planning on drinking tonight ($8 cups of beer! ugh), but it was such a beautiful day/night, I was giddy like a school girl upon seeing r.e.m. I always revert back to my teens when I see them.
at any rate, we got there early and the guy parked next to us shared some beer with me and chatter. he was a real cool guy, and helped pass the time before the show. then once we got in to our seats (6th row center, fanclub seats), brian was so happy about our seats, he bought me a beer, which I drank down during the first half of Modest Mouse.
The National were incredible!!! I had yet to see them and now I love them. I can’t really get a feel for a band and their music until I see a live show….live they just rock! I never saw MM before either and I was drunk enough to not know if I had any of their stuff on my ipod. didn’t matter that I didn’t know any of the songs, really, except for like one or two, probably the two that are somehow on my ipod….they were also incredible.
incredible set by R.E.M. as well. I am an idiot and forgot to charge my camera battery, I lost my voice from screaming and singing. and I ache all over from dancing my ass off. we expected the political edge to the set with Drive, Ignoreland, Man-Sized Wreath and Mr. Richards (which dedicated to Dick Cheney, whom Stipe despises)
photos up on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluflower/
photos via my brian’s phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rev_bri/
setlist:
Finest Worksong
Living Well’s the Best Revenge
Bad Day
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
Ignoreland
Man-Sized Wreath
Little America
Hollow Man
Walk Unafraid
Houston
Electrolite
(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
Pop Song 89
Horse To Water
The One I Love
Driver 8
Until The Day Is Done
Let Me In
These Days
Orange Crush
I’m Gonna DJ
Supernatural Superserious
Losing My Religion
Mr. Richards
Fall On Me (with Johnny Marr)
Man On The Moon (with Johnny Marr)