pop music 🎵
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the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister
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Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”
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the bloke from the Wire on The Body of An American
I’ve never seen Back to the Future.
I only realised today, when I saw this poster, that the name of the band ‘McFly’ is a Back to the Future reference
Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all
I particularly enjoyed
BBC - Archive on 4 - Shane Macgowan - The Old Main Drag
in honour of the season
Love and cannibalism in the Yorkshire Dales
I’ve never thought much about the folk song ‘Ilkley Moor Baht ‘at’ before Paul Sinha mentioned it on his radio show.
I think the only bit in the words below that really needs explanation is ‘baht at’ means ‘without a hat’ ….but there is a full translation on Wikipedia
ON ILKLEY MOOR BAHT ‘AT
Wheear ‘as ta bin sin ah saw thee,
On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at?!
Tha’s been a cooartin’ Mary Jane|
Tha’s bahn t’catch thi deeath o’cowd
Then we shall ha’ to bury thee
Then t’worms ’ll cum and eat thee oop
Then ducks ’ll cum and eat oop t’worms
Then we shall go an’ ate oop ducks
Then we shall all ‘ave etten thee
That’s wheer we get us oahn back
Lauren Laverne is the host of the Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs.
She used to be in a band, called Kenickie
I’m kind of sad that, so far, nobody has ever picked a Kenickie song as one of their eight discs
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/139254/2024/s-l400.jpg" width=“392” height=“400” alt=“Four illustrated people are driving a car on an album cover with the title “Kenickie In Your Car."">
Nick Hayward, of Haircut 100, recounts how shocked he was seeing Sparks wandering around his home town - Beckenham.
There is something particularly arresting about seeing someone famous, not on stage and not in London, but just mooching about the place in which you grew up
These are the only two famous people I’ve seen walking around Salisbury, and, coincidentally, I’m a huge fan of both
Nick Heyward reboots ‘the fragrance of rock’ - Word in Your Ear
Some music-related AI pub signs
Oasis:
The Pogues:
The fifth Beatle:
The Waterloo Sunset:
A friend has met Paul McCartney a couple of times
I thought about what I’d say if I ever met him.
I came to the conclusion that I’d ask him what his favourite Elvis song was
I dreamt last night that I met Sir Paul in a cafe. I’m a bit disgruntled that in my dream I neglected to ask the question
“1000 copies were pressed (which sell for £1000 upwards)”
I sold my copy for £25…although to be fair I was glad of it at the time
I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I guess), and got this
I quite like it, tbh
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway 🎵
I’m not much interested in the Oasis reunion from a musical point of view, but it would be nice if the Gallaghers are reconciled…especially for their mum
Rock sages Mark Ellen and David Hepworth discuss musical plagiarism lawsuits in the attached
At one point I think Hepworth refers to ‘ambience-chasing lawyers’….which I think is genius.
Words I like - Missing You
Who did you murder, are you a spy? I’m just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry So I just drink red biddy for a permanent high I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die
Christy Moore - Missing You
Words I Like - Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)
Jules Rimet, still gleaming
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds, The Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
An Elvis story I hadn't heard before
Songwriter Mike Stoller was in a mid-Atlantic ship collision in the 1950s. He abandoned ship into a ‘broken life boat’, and was eventually picked up by a cargo boat
Stoller’s writing partner, Jerry Lieber, met him when he landed back in the US, and said that they had a hit with Hound Dog. Stoller said ‘With Big Mama Thornton’? No, said Lieber, it’s some white kid
Stoller tells the story better than I do - podcasts.apple.com/qa/podcas…
I have one thing to say today, and it’s this.
‘Get Over You’ is a better song than ‘Teenage Kicks’.
Get Over You by The Undertones songwhip.com/the-under…
I’m listening to Rolling Stone’s The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. It’s good fun
Coincidentally I was scrolling through Wikipedia’s list of Chelsea managers, as you do, and it struck me that binning Anceolotti and recruiting AVB might be one of the Worst Decisions in Football History
This has been one of my favourite reggae songs over the last couple of years
#TodayILearned, via Record Collector magazine, that ‘Niney’ was given that name as a nickname because he lost his thumb in an an accident
Blood and Fire by Niney The Observer songwhip.com/nineytheo…
Bette Davis on Jackie DeShannon’s song, Bette Davis Eyes
Bette Davis was also a fan. “She said the song made her cool to her grandchildren,” DeShannon says with a laugh.
From this month’s Record Collector magazine
