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Life lessons
On Sunday I was listening to Lianne La Havas’ COLORS rendition of “Bittersweet” on YouTube.
We’re picking that fight everyday
This shit’s going nowhere
The Algorithm did its job well and showed me the latest KEXP concert by a new to me band called English Teacher. I was blown away.
Even though I’ve seen more COLORS Shows than KEXPs
A bit prog at times, and a lot music studenty, but they can really play so that’s all forgiven, especially if you listen to the interview with the band at the end of the full concert.
“Albert Road” is possibly my favourite, although I think the recorded version is even better and more poignant with the video (especially in light of the drama of the last couple of days):
(Steve’s mate’s son used to play in The Fall…)
So don’t take our prejudice to heart
We hate everyone
The world around us never showed
How loving can be fun
More than The Fall, they somehow remind me of The Sugarcubes, who I loved back in the late 80s, but who I haven’t listened to properly for a long time. I listened to the album “Life’s Too Good” this afternoon while working, and it was better than I remember it. “Deus”:
He put me in a bath tub
Made me squeaky clean
Apparently Bjork’s producer produced English Teacher’s album.
More reminiscent of The Fall (and Frank Sidebottom), perhaps, is their song (and video) about the singer’s smalltown hometown of Colne in Lancashire and its inflated egos, “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab”.
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
So watch your fucking feet
Can’t say I like the original, but this cover of The Stooges’ “Johanna” is electric.
I’ve really been feeling the cold of winter in my bones this week.
So it’s no suprise that I should find myself listening to Sleepy Sun.
Feel it in your bones…
With or without sun, we’ll grow
Rise above winter’s deep hole
We all need a reason
Why we take the time to wonder
Stumbled upon this great live recording of The Kills playing “Baby Says” last night.
One of my favourite live performances, and in particular this song “The Swamps” by Widowspeak.
Check out the guitar break around three minutes in!
As far as I know, the full concert is no longer available anywhere else online (free to view), so I uploaded it here to share.
Some personal listening highlights of the year.
Dua Lipa's Tiny Desk concerts
Dua Lipa’s Tiny Desk concert at home in between covid lockdowns in 2020 is the most watched Tiny Desk concert ever.
Which doesn’t surprise me at all as we must have watched it literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
My little boy absolutely loved it, and even me and big kid secretly liked it, too.
Love Again is my favourite.
She’s just performed a new concert at Tiny Desk HQ, and it’s also very watchable and listenable, with These Walls the standout track.
Jon Batiste's Tiny Desk concert
Jon Batiste, like Alicia Keys, is a supremely talented musician and performer. This is another must watch Tiny Desk concert from 2019.
This is another video my little kid enjoyed watching, singing along to (before he could talk), and dancing to with his big brother (before falling asleep).
Don’t it make your soul shake?
Noel plays his guitar as if he’s scared it will break, and Oasis’s funkless, sexless plod is always carefully pitched below the velocity at which fluid dynamics dictate that you might spill your lager.
I like some Oasis stuff, the early stuff. I like some woke stuff. This quote and picture are true enough and funny, though.
