So, what have you been listening to lately?

[gearHed289]

Yes, they consciously tried to underplay her. That didn't really work - just as it didn't with Tin Machine and David Bowie.

And now for something completely different: I stumbled across this because Cherie Currie had covered it. I didn't know the original, nor that they were Brits nor that they were Pete Townshend protegés or that he played bass on their album (with quite some Entwistle inspiration if I dare say!). Listening to it now, his voice is quite present in the backing vocals.

Wow, that's a very young (16?) Jimmy McCulloch on guitar. He went on to join Wings at their peak. I grew up hearing Something in the Air. I can't see what the other one you posted is. Never knew the Townshend connection.

[uwe]

I was wondering about the kid lead guitarist. With his looks you would have expected him in some bubblegum outfit or something like The Herd perhaps - teen appeal galore. No idea that he was/is Jimmy McCulloch! I didn't know that he played in a late version of the Small Facts either (together with Rick Willis of later Foreigner fame):



The other vid was just the cover of the song by Cherie Currie and Brie Darling, the drummeress from Fanny, it was the studio version, perhaps you can see this live version here:

[Rob]

Sounds fairly nasty

[slinkp]

Not that sort of thing we play much on this forum but I heard this song yesterday for the first time in a long time and it hit me hard. RIP Maggie

[uwe]

Sounds fairly nasty

There is nothing like a good singer and Cherie is of course nothing like a good singer.

[Rob]

There is nothing like a good singer and Cherie is of course nothing like a good singer.

[uwe]

I stole that from Noddy Holder: When Jim Lea was featured on When The Lights Are Out singing lead on a Slade album for the first time, Noddy mock-lauded in a Teen Magazine jingle for the album that featured it (Old New Borrowed & Blue) his bandmate's first time vocal appearance, adding helpfully: "People say there is nothing like a good singer and Jim of course is ... nothing like a good singer!

As Noddy surely agreed, Jim had a nice tuneful voice that fitted the Beatlish track perfectly, I even hear a bit of Lennon (Slade were Beatles buffs).



Cheap Trick resurrected it a few years ago:

[uwe]

Not that sort of thing we play much on this forum but I heard this song yesterday for the first time in a long time and it hit me hard. RIP Maggie

I really like it. I'm married to a folkie with a harmony vocals addiction. You have no idea what Spotify sometimes puts me through.

[Dave W]

[uwe]

You will stop at posting "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", willya? 

Freedom of expression, in the wrong hands, is a terrible thing.

[Dave W]

You will stop at posting "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", willya? 

Freedom of expression, in the wrong hands, is a terrible thing.

Don't go knocking Kiki.

[uwe]

Don't go knocking Kiki.

You're right, I ru(e) that now.

[uwe]

Ok, back to music for grown ups with a positive outlook on life: Little Brian hasn't lost his penchant for gore, but he's become all melodic and relatively undissstorrrted (someone must have given him a modern mic!) ...







At this rate, he'll pick up all the fans of H.I.M. who have no way to go!


I have a soft spot for MM and always find his metamorphoses interesting. He is also a disturbingly sophisticated interview partner. Just the right Eine kleine Nachtmusik to lighten up your day!



He also has an exquisite taste in Deutsche Popmusik, guess who played live at his wedding in a Scottish castle? Max Raabe did:

[Dave W]

You're right, I ru(e) that now.
...

In 1976, Elton John was still pretending to be straight in public. You can't blame Kiki for that.

Anyway, here's another light poppy male/female collaboration,

[uwe]

Ah yes, the lovely and also tragically late Kelly Johnson - as if Farrah Fawcett had picked up a Les Paul ...



Lemmy had a penchant for female voices, here is another protege, they're even from Berlin, Lemmy probably had high hopes they had found some Nazi memorabilia for him underneath all the rubble ...