General Music thread

[PhaseShift @phaseshift Time Lord]

I actually popped in because when I was in York I was reminded of a bit of genius that touches on Doctor Who. So a post with a lot of links, some to do with Who! And a question – Is there a more loveable nerd than Neil Hannon in music?

This is the bloke who wrote the Father Ted theme (remind yourself) and then released a lyric version that turned it into a lament of teenage lust in “Songs of Love”:

Got Daniel Radcliffe to appear on a “Duckworth Lewis Method” cricketing themed spin-off due to some tangential involvement by Hannon with the Jarvis Cocker fronted Wyrd Sisters in the Harry Potter movies.

Very Fifth Doctor

And was also Murray Golds first choice as vocalist on a couple of big band productions for Who had he been available. Here is his version of “Love Don’t Roam”, the song playing at Donna’s reception in Runaway Bride.

And here is his version of “Song for Ten”.

What a bloody nerd! Oh – his version of “Word Up” by Cameo is fantastic as well. No bright red codpieces, but plenty of banjo.

Any other nominations for nerd of the decade gratefully received.

[Anonymous @]

OK, just to jazz up this joint a bit (@Whisht, where the heck are you?!) and tie into other Doctor Who-related threads, specifically the contribution the mighty @blenkinsopthebrave made to the 50th Anniversary thread …

Here’s a bit of The Beat and Save it For Later.  Because that’s apparently what we’re all supposed to do with respect to the trailer for the 50th.  (unless you were a lucky sod who was at Comic-Con in San Diego this summer, you jammy toad)

[Whisht @whisht]

sorry @shazzbot – I’ve been neglecting the threads….

The Beat’s great, so thanks for that.

I don’t have anything that is even vaguely suitable, Who-related, waiting-related (except on the 50th)…. unless a tenuous link to people being told “don’t share the comic-con trailer”.

Don’t…. don’t… don’t…

[Anonymous @]

I was going to post a link to Chumbawamba’s ‘Waiting, Shouting’ to sum up the frustration at the lack of a trailer but I can’t find it. I did, however, stumble on their soundtrack to ‘Revengers Tragedy’ which stars not just The 9th Doctor, but The Master too! Marc Warren (Love and Monsters) also features.

Liverpool, Drive With Care

Don’t Try This At Home

[IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan @pedant]

Here, have a foot tapper.

[wolfweed @wolfweed]

[ScaryB @scaryb]

In honour of Gallifrey’s particularly-hued skies (@Juniperfish – this up your street?) Arthur Lee & Love – Orange Skies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhxuWc6Mhh0

(Someone should make a Doctor Who themed video for this 🙂 )

 

[Whisht @whisht]

Sorry – been kinda preoccupied with a few things (but have been keeping up honest!).

Just thought I’d post a bit of the ol’ music.

The lyrics are hard to discern, but kind of appropriate, so I thought I’d add for all you lyric types (ok, @Shazzbot).
hope you enjoy!

– – –

As logic stands you couldn’t meet a man
Who’s from the future
But logic broke as he appeared he spoke
About the Future
“We’re not gonna make it” He explained how
The end will come – you and me were never meant
To be part of the future –
All we have is now –
All we’ve ever had was now
All we have is now
All we’ll ever have is now

I noticed that he had a watch and hat
That looked familiar
He was me – from a dimension torn free
Of the future
“We’re not gonna make it” He explained how
The end will come – You and me were never meant
To be part of the future –
All we have is now –
All we’ve ever had was now
All we have is now
All we’ll ever have is now –

All we have is now –

– – –
[well, if they needed a down-beat theme for the 50th, here it is!]

[Anonymous @]

@whisht – awww, the Flaming Lips!  Wayne Coyne!  and his plastic bubble!

That song, whilst downbeat sonically, really does have the most a propos lyrics for the 50th.  You are awesome once again, with your musical choices.

I hope your preoccupations won’t preclude you from keeping your promise to join us at the pub next month …

[ScaryB @scaryb]

@htpbdet @Shazzbot @bluesqueakpip @tardisblue

Further to the conversation (which I’ve just caught up with!) on the film thread re the casting for Into the Woods (Depp’ll act great and by the time they’ve finished autotuning and audio tweaking he and Corden’ll sound great too!) this came into my head – my only excuse is it’s very late and the last 4 days have been extremely full-on workwise!

It’s the fabulously bonkers Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs from 1966 with a decidedly surreal Betty Boop cartoon  – the kind of thing OGWT used to excel at.  Made me smile anyway, and thanks for reminding me of it. (Allegedly written by the Big Bopper (for all you 50s rockers out there)

 

@whisht – thanks for the Lips n lyrics – great stuff

[Anonymous @]

Utterly shocked and saddened by the death of Lou Reed. In tribute, ‘Coney Island Baby’

[Miapatrick @miapatrick]

@FatManInABox- just came on here to post about the same thing.

He really was one of the most gifted and interesting people in the music industry. (Hence Leister Bangs’ obsession with him.) There are very few people who can switch between being very dry and cynical and violent in their imagery, to being so sweet and tender. I think what first drew me to him was on the first VU album, where he had Nico sing ‘Femme fatal’ and ‘I’ll be your mirror’, and thinking how the same person could have written both songs about the same person.

 

[Craig @craig Emperor]

@fatmaninabox @miapatrick

Was just out for dinner with an ex and she checked her Facebook and I just couldn’t believe it. Have most of the Velvet’s and his solo work on vinyl. Even got to see him live a few times.

I think I love White Light/White Heat most (especially with the huge rock intro), but this seems kinda Doctor Who…

[Anonymous @]

@miapatrick – couldn’t agree more. I’ve got MediaPlayer playing various Lou Reed albums on shuffle at the mo’. Got a bit teary eyed during ‘Hello, It’s Me’ from ‘Songs For Drella’.

[Anonymous @]

@craig

Although I’m a bit of a rocker (the LOUDER the better), with Lou, it’s his quieter songs that I love the most, Berlin, Caroline Says II and the afore linked Coney Island Baby to name but a few. I was a bit too young for VU but quickly became a fan after I first heard ‘Walk On The Wild Side’.

There’s an ‘interesting’ cover of ‘White Light’ by Gary Numan on You Tube. The audio quality’s pretty bad as it was recorded by a fan on a little mono cassette recorder during a pub gig back in 1978. The album it’s taken from was one of Numan’s most highly sought bootlegs until it was officially released it a few years ago on the re-packaged ‘Tubeway Army’ CD.

[Miapatrick @miapatrick]

@Craig- that is very Doctor Who. (though some areas of fandom would feel the need to insist, that it is a satellite of platonic love, and nothing whatsoever to do with River…) It is hard to choose a song from an artist who was so versatile in style, yet so consistently himself in whatever he did.

@FatManInABox- heh, he’d probably disapprove of that, electronic recordings… But then, I came to him through cassette tapes, in a cheap Walkman with built in speakers. He probably wouldn’t have cared for that either… (much as I love vinyl, my record player, into which you can plug MP3 players distorts them and CD’s charmingly.)

[Anonymous @]

@miapatrick – I miss the size of album covers (CD covers, as well as being to small, get damaged so easily) and the smell of vinyl but that’s about it. Certain audiophiles will tell you ‘vinyl sounds warmer’ and ‘you’re hearing it the way the artist wanted you to’ but I’ve yet to encounter any musician who wanted us to hear crackles and hisses 🙂 And if we’re hearing it the way they wanted, why are so many long-established artists remixing, re-mastering and, in some cases, re-recording their earlier works?

[Anonymous @]

I’m ‘acquiring’ some Mike Oldfield at the mo’. There’s a hell of a lot of people ‘acquiring’ my Lou Reed collection. 🙂

[ScaryB @scaryb]

@fatmaninabox @miapatrick @craig

In transit with a very small squeak of WIFi last night – and Lou’s death was the news that sneaked in 🙁   I’d’ve been late teens when I first encountered them (late to the party!). The Underground blew my ears off with tales of New York’s dark, dark seedy underbelly – fascinating and terrifying all in equal parts!  And as others have pointed out above , he could go from the dark grunge of something like Heroin to sweet soulfulness of Sunday Morning.  I love the story that only 10,000 people bought their first album – but every one of them formed a band!

This is for Lou – it’s one from the dark side – play it LOUD!

[ScaryB @scaryb]

@fatmaninabox – I’m with you on the smell and feel of vinyl – not to mention the joys of the gatefold sleeve (of which The Velvet Underground & Nico is a great example – if you ever come across a copy of the original “Banana” sleeve – snap it up!)  I spent 2 years trying to track down a copy of White Light White Heat back in the 70s. (and the excitement of discovering that the vocals for The Gift were all on 1 channel – so if you turned down the left speaker you could (finally) make out the words of whole dark tale!).

Now you can  google and thousands of options come up, of things you’d never have found in 1m years way back then. Both have their attractions, but I must admit there was something great about tracking down an obscure (but often legendary) indie record shop in a dark corner of a new town and rummaging thorught hteir shelves) but there is definitely a difference in the quality of the sound – like watching unprocessed Hartnell or Troughton stories on HD.

Then there’s the little “compact cassette” – the great grandparent of the mp3

This is slightly Dr-themed for the title – Run Run Run   And again, it needs to be played loud! 😉

 

PS I did think about adding Venus in Furs on here, but maybe just a tad dark for a Mon morning 😉  (And I’ve lost count of the number of Sunday mornings, waking up to VU’s Sunday Morning)

[Anonymous @]

@scaryb – It’s never to early for a bit of ‘darkness’ 🙂

And a cover by the late Paul Gardiner (former Tubeway Army bass player)

[ScaryB @scaryb]

@fatmaninabox You’re right! it’s funny tho – to my ears the VU version still sounds genuinely “fresh”, atmospheric and “out there”. the more recent cover sounds more dated (but thanks for posting, good to hear it)

For @craig As White Light/White Heat is basically an acid trip – I think that fits in pretty well with Dr Who and a site for bonkers theorising!  Dedicated to the white light/white heat of the time vortex –

[Anonymous @]

@fatmaninabox @miapatrick @craig @scaryb

There have been a lot of tributes from you re the sad passing of Lou Reed on this thread today.  Neil Gaiman has also expressed his thoughts (via the Guardian):

Neil Gaiman on Lou Reed: ‘His songs were the soundtrack to my life’

Sandman would not have happened without Lou Reed – and I named my daughter after Warhol’s Holly Woodlawn, from Walk on the Wild Side. I am sad today

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/28/neil-gaiman-lou-reed-sandman

[Anonymous @]

@shazzbot – Thanks for the Neil Gaiman link. Loved his daughter’s reaction to being told she was named after a drag queen 🙂

[ScaryB @scaryb]

@fatmaninabox @Shazzbot

Ditto from me.

And the quote from Lou – been much-quoted today – “There’s a bit of magic in everything.  And then some loss to even things out.” (Tho sometimes the losses seem to overcompensate a bit)

[Anonymous @]

This one’s for the deleted DrTennant…

[Anonymous @]

OK, so it’s almost Halloween (yep, here in deepest darkest Yorkshire the littlees are mad keen on trick-or-treating), and this is quite the background music for the night … (well, at least for the adults!).

Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs – Little Red Riding Hood

[Anonymous @]

… And because every American (in fact, a fair few ‘soft southerners’ in the UK as well) thinks this is what all Yorkshire pubs are like:

But again ’cause it’s Halloween, and again because ‘An American Werewolf in London’ is just so bloody good, here’s a musical frightener for the evening:

[Anonymous @]

Some more ‘Musical Frighteners’™ * for Halloween…

Gary Numan’s ‘Asylum’

and John Foxx’s ‘Film One’ (B-side of ‘Underpass’ or, as we used to call it, ‘Under Pants’)

Shortly before midnight, I’ll post what is probably the scariest song ever written 😈

* TM @Shazzbot 2013

[Anonymous @]

@fatmaninabox – just caught your Queen tribute to the (not sadly) departed one.  And I just had to counter with Weird Al Yankovic.  He got SO much more sophisticated over the years, but this is still his first, and most gloriously loopy, hit.

Another One Rides The Bus

EDIT:  FMIAB – ooh, I just can’t wait.  looking forward to it …

[Craig @craig Emperor]

I love this one. Ahooooooooooooooo

[Anonymous @]

A couple of tracks from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Murder Ballads’…

The hauntingly beautiful ‘Henry Lee’

and the equally hauntingly beautiful ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’

[Anonymous @]

Surely it has to be….

[wolfweed @wolfweed]

[PhaseShift @phaseshift Time Lord]

Ooh Halloween. Surely:

Only pop music can save us now!

[Anonymous @]

There have been some wonderfully loopy and eclectic Halloween musical choices tonight.  Thank you all so much, not least because the heavens opened up after only a few small groups of trick-or-treaters arrived at my door tonight.  (I have a still-full bowl of lollies on sticks and various other sweets if anyone’s in the neighbourhood … 🙂  )

@fatmaninabox – can’t ensure I’ll be up until your promised

Shortly before midnight, I’ll post what is probably the scariest song ever written

thingy, but I’ll get it first thing tomorrow.  Guaranteed.  It will still be scary, I’m sure, on The Day of the Dead. **

** Hmmm, ‘The Day of the Doctor’ … ‘The Day of the Daleks’ … ‘The Day of the Dead’ …

… and … Doris Day … 😀

[Anonymous @]

@shazzbot –

I’ll be going to bed shortly myself – v.tired – so here it is…

The scariest song ever!

 

Sweet dreams everybody 😈

[Whisht @whisht]

he he – I’ve got this on 45 believe it or not (ok ok my elder brother’s probably!)

and there was me thinking you were talking about this equally scary choon

[Anonymous @]

@whisht  @fatmaninabox –

N0, you’re both wrong.  THIS is the scariest thing ever. **

** it’s the 10 hour version.  @craig, take note.  😆

[Whisht @whisht]

and @jimthefish – that’s the second time we’ve had that ditty by the Fall!

Also, I was lucky enough to have John Foxx as a tutor on my degree course (Illustration).

nice guy. No lurid tales (i don’t have any) but non-lurid thoughts for the pub methinks (maybe The Felton, should he happen to be reading this in the most bizarre of coincidences!).

[Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip]

@fatmaninabox – now, that brought back happy memories of Return To The Forbidden Planet. 🙂

[TardisBlue @tardisblue]

ETA @bluesqueakpip,

Guess the earlier time zone gets the worm — or, the ghost of Bobby Pickett. Great minds think alike, eh?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It’s still daylight out here by the Pacific Pond, so Halloween happenings are still to come.

To set the mood I thought I’d share one of our “traditional” Halloween melodies: Bobby Pickett’s “The Monster Mash”

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=groovie+goolies+monster+mash

and its 21st century urban uptempo remix

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remix+da+2010++monster+mash

Remember: Don’t blink! Look out of the corner of your eye to see what’s always been there, hidden in plain sight, but whatever you do, don’t blink!

TardisBlue

[Anonymous @]

@whisht @Shazzbot @bluesqueakpip @all

Well I thought we could all do with a bit of chuckle before bedtime. Speaking of which, nighty night everyone.

[Whisht @whisht]

indeed @fatmaninabox – you’re quite right.

and @shazzbot – lo lo lo lo lol!!!
that truly made me laugh (which I needed) and I’m now going to spam it to ten thousand of my closest friends (as they say).

thank you!

(oh and @jimthefish – in case it sounded wrong, I was actually congratulating your choice. The Fall are always the right choice!)

[wolfweed @wolfweed]

And since we’re talking about Scottish Highland Bagpipes…….

 

[Anonymous @]

OK, @wolfweed, that really wasn’t entirely fair.  🙂

Try this one, a flash mob of bagpipes at a shopping mall ‘in the Valley’ (San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles, where the original Valley Girl was from)

(EDIT:  In the interests of full disclosure, I lived ‘in the Valley’ for many years.   ‘Like, TOTALLY, Dude!!‘)

[stevethewhistle @steve-thorp]

Wasn’t Jamie McCrimmon a piper?

[wolfweed @wolfweed]

@steve-thorp – He was – He joined the TARDIS so that he could teach the Dr to play the pipes!

@Shazzbot – A proper Flash Mob – they ‘melted away’ at the end…

[wolfweed @wolfweed]

[Anonymous @]

@wolfweed – in the spirit of @craig who always tries to turn troublesome posters toward the warmth of our site (whereas me?  I’m reaching for my shotgun, axe, or, simply running at full tilt with an awkwardly-held pair of scissors) :

Bring Him Home

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