02-03-2018, 05:16 AM
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The Flying Burrito Bros.Their name intrigued me so I bought their first LP The Gilded Palace of Sin not knowing what they sounded like.It was good so I got Burrito Deluxe which was also good.Good for me
Wild Horses I think is a Stones song but both versions sound...good.
02-03-2018, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Psmith
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The Flying Burrito Bros.Their name intrigued me so I bought their first LP The Gilded Palace of Sin not knowing what they sounded like.It was good so I got Burrito Deluxe which was also good.Good for me
Wild Horses I think is a Stones song but both versions sound...good.
I'd read about Gram Parsons and was looking in his section in a record shop and noticed the Flying Burrito Brothers in there. I took a chance on a "2-on-1" CD package with both albums and thought it was great.
Wild Horses is a Stones song (not sure which album it's from off hand), but this version is a corker of a tune: Susan Boyle.
I don't normally watch these type of programmes by the way!
02-03-2018, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Ffosse
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Yes, I like the Flying Burrito Brothers - more particularly the Gilded Palace album. I'm also a Gram Parsons fan.
Originally Posted by Psmith
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Wild Horses was on the Sticky Fingers album but The Burritos released their version a year before starting a rumour that Parsons had actually written it.
I always was a bit puzzled who actually did write that great sing though.
Some more selections coming up now...
02-03-2018, 10:37 PM
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No.641: "Daydream Nation" by Sonic Youth (1988):format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1352572-1287426701.jpeg.jpg)
While we in the UK were suffering the atrocities of Stock Aitken & Waterman's trebly and trashy disposable pap, our cousins in the USA had REM, Guns N' Roses and this fabulous trio, Sonic Youth. Thurston & Kim Moore & Lee Ronaldo were the mainstay of this very unsung group for their entire history which lasted over two decades and produced some wonderfully avant garde indie-psyche-rock. Here's very possibly their finest few minutes, 'Teen Age Riot':
02-03-2018, 10:46 PM
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No.640: "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels" by Dexys Midnight Runners (1980)
Flying onto the scene as complete outsiders in late 1979 with their brand of frantic northern soul mixed with a barrow boy East End image (what wasin those holdalls?), Kevin Rowland and his band of undesirable-looking misfits came out of nowhere amongst the new-wave and ska elite to top the charts with their homage to the late soul star Geno Washington.
It was an absolutely fantastic single which was followed by this album full of soulful songs.
Their follow-up album, Too-Rye-Ay was even more successful due mainly to the fact that it included the monster hit 'Come On Eileen' which is now probably one of my most hated records of all-time. But for now, let's hear those other two classics:
02-03-2018, 10:52 PM
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No.639: "This Is The Sea" by The Waterboys (1985)
Thanks to the classic single 'The Whole Of The Moon' rewarding leader and main songwriter with an Ivor Novello award, The Waterboys have become one of the leading lights in Irish music. But it's not all down to that single, the band have that uncanny Irish knack of combining melody, great songwriting and a flair for solid entertainment to provide the hits (what on Earth am I talking about?)
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