Meteorites: Yann Tiersen

Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) is guest narrator on this stunning spoken word piece that reflects in beautiful poetics about street corner passion and clumsy fumblings in the darkness. It's the last track on French composer Yann Tiersen's album Infinity and shimmers with simple yet atmospheric orchestration. Dreamy and wistful, it brings out the deep Scottish brogue of Moffat's vocal intimacy snaking through the darkness and bringing voice to every frustrated heartache that was ever lost for the words needed to describe itself. The stunning video performance by Clemence Poesy brings every second of sheer emotion to life right in front of your eyes.

http://yanntiersen.bzh/
http://www.aidanmoffat.co.uk/
http://clemencepoesy.net/

Sloop John B: The Beach Boys

The harmonies, the melodies, the inventiveness, the academic nous. This band created the greatest summertime soundtracks in the history of summer itself. The exuberance of surf rock resonating along Californian shorelines are, in every single way, the sole property of this band. And let’s not even begin the deserved sycophancy which Pet Sounds so glaringly earned itself. It's a struggle to say anything about the Beach Boys without stumbling off into the precious stones of their majestic masterpiece- it would just seem terribly uneducated not to give it a nod on the way through. Best song on the album (in my opinion) is seventh track Sloop John B. Smooth guitar chomping with a full band arrangement and the shared vocal duties of Brian Wilson and Mike Love.

They are legends though, aint they? (starting a new paragraph with an observation built on something from a previous paragraph is incorrect grammatical structuring by the way) Traditionally a West Indies folk song the Beach Boys version is musically different from the original and employs tambourine, electric bass, clarinet, organ, glockenspiel, flute and saxophone throughout the transformation. Brian sang the first and third verses while Mike took charge of the second verse. Released as a single in March 1966 it charted highly throughout the world and remains their most popular hits...and the only track on Pet Sounds that isn't a Brian Wilson original.

SLOOP JOHN B
We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinkin' all night, got into a fight
Well, I feel so broke up, I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well, I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

The first mate, he got drunk
And broke in the captain's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone? Yeah yeah
Well, I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home?
Hoist up the John B's sail
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up, I wanna go home
Let me go home

The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home?
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go?

The Beach Boys Official Site

One For Sunday Night: Wendy James - The Nameless One

The perfect girl singing the perfect song.

Sunday evening can now fuck off and bother us no more

It may have been written by Elvis Costello

 but Wendy James has a remarkable singing voice

and a stunning presence.
This was her debut solo single released in 1993
 and first to be taken from her debut album
 'Now Aint The Time For Your Tears'

Nobody could have done it better.

Fuck Sunday Night With Half Man Half Biscuit!

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT SITE

Something For Your Weekend.

Isa & The Filthy Tongues

'New Town Killers'

(Released:2009)

Stacey Chavis

Martin Metcalfe

Fin Wilson

Derek Kelly


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I interviewed the band in 2009 for MUSIC NEWS SCOTLAND you can read it HERE

Louise Distras: Shades Of Hate

This is the best song I have heard this year so far, and I've heard so many many songs up to now  Glorious fucking perfection! Especially great is her raw, throat shredding vocal delivery at 1:50, the primitive grit-edged roar breaks to a harmonious 'oooh', and all within a 5 second timescale. A stand-out moment.

 

http://www.louisedistras.co.uk/

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