A track for...(darkness fish)

[Stacy Heydon]

On the track I posted - I like it's hypnotic, slightly mystical quality. But what elevates it, for me, beyond its 'trad' stylings is that vivid string arrangement which gives it a widescreen quality...but fair enough, trad stuff like this is always going to be a bit marmite!

[adamcoan]

Dec 9, 2023 13:41:17 GMT DarknessFish said:

Dec 8, 2023 10:51:46 GMT Stacy Heydon said:

Next one's for Darkness Fish.
From about 1970. Archie Fisher 'Orfeo'

It's not as bad as Jimmy makes out, but it doesn't set the pulse racing either. It's too one note, this type of thing really lives and dies by the fire the musicians bring, the passion of the vocals, and this seems to lack any of that.

It's actually just one note D.F.

This is why we all drink so much.

[loveless]

I very much appreciate the thought.

The musicality of the opening piss was a nice touch.

[loveless]

For fange:

[fange]

Dec 10, 2023 11:50:03 GMT loveless said:

For fange:

Oh interesting, cheers for that mate!

I'm not sure where to start; it's clearly called 'Live Like A Lady' (which somehow seems like a great follow-up choice to my track chosen for you ), but i can't pick the group off the top of my head, and none of those words in the pic ring a bell.

It has a lot that i like in my music - it sounds like a 60s British singer and group, but it's possible it could be a very well done patiche, because all the constituent parts are done just so perfectly, if that makes sense. The singer has a unique tonal delivery, somewhere in between Phil May, Ray Davies and Steve Marriott, again if that makes any sense. There's the driving R&B feel in parts, but also the whimsical UK-psychedilia touches as well; there's almost too much in there, too many bases being tried to be covered, and yet it's the sort of thing that will always have me tapping my toes and popping my fingers.


Interested in the reveal!

[adamcoan]

It's the Remo four, only the 16th biggest band in Liverpool. It does sound like a Mish mash, bit of this and a bit of that. Unusual vocal style.

[loveless]

Dec 12, 2023 1:37:06 GMT fange said:

Dec 10, 2023 11:50:03 GMT loveless said:

For fange:

Oh interesting, cheers for that mate!

I'm not sure where to start; it's clearly called 'Live Like A Lady' (which somehow seems like a great follow-up choice to my track chosen for you ), but i can't pick the group off the top of my head, and none of those words in the pic ring a bell.

It has a lot that i like in my music - it sounds like a 60s British singer and group, but it's possible it could be a very well done patiche, because all the constituent parts are done just so perfectly, if that makes sense. The singer has a unique tonal delivery, somewhere in between Phil May, Ray Davies and Steve Marriott, again if that makes any sense. There's the driving R&B feel in parts, but also the whimsical UK-psychedilia touches as well; there's almost too much in there, too many bases being tried to be covered, and yet it's the sort of thing that will always have me tapping my toes and popping my fingers.


Interested in the reveal!

I will say, despite the fact that I'd sort of had it on my mind for a few days before posting, and had always loved it...THIS time around (and this was the cleanest audio I could find - the Remo Four were actually named on every other clip) my feeling was "This really does go on for a bit, doesn't it...".

[fange]

Sorry for halting the thread.

This one is being sent out to the earholes of SNEE.

The Master's Apprentices - Catty

[Sneelock]

my earholes enjoyed that.
verdict > Most Slade < Most Deep Purple.
not much of a tune but the Riff keeps things sea-worthy.

the guitar solo kicks it up a big notch.

I wish I liked the singer better.

[Sneelock]

This one is for rayge!

[rayge]

Dec 18, 2023 17:09:07 GMT Sneelock said:

This one is for rayge!

Well, thank 'ee, Snee, most kind.

As it happens, I own(ed) a copy of this record, and the couple that came before, The Nitty Gritty and The Name Game. She wrote them all. Despite the daft lyrics, all three were pretty big with me when I was at high school - among many others - but I haven't even thought about them, or her, for a quarter century.

But imma come back later to say more because I can't actually play anything at the moment and I can't really rely on memory...

[Sneelock]

meanwhile, I guess I need to listen to "the Nitty Gritty". The Name Game was pretty big in my life. I'd never heard "the clapping song" until after "Rain Dogs" came out. I remember kids singing the "..a rubber dolly" thing while playing a clapping game. hearing the single for the first time was pretty weird and exciting. I think I like it even better than the Name Game.

[fange]

Dec 18, 2023 16:56:06 GMT Sneelock said:

I wish I liked the singer better.

Same. 

Not sure why some of the vocals on some of their songs from this period seem... lacking, because in both their earlier stuff and others from this time, they had very fine vocals, with full presence and snarl and attitude.

Here are a couple of examples -





Anyways, a fine Aussie band with some great music in their catalogue.

[rayge]

Whoops, dropped the ball on this one, sorry.

This one is for loveless



Steve Miro And The Eyes – Dreams Of Desire
Just the first track - although the other side is worth a listen

[loveless]

I've listened to both songs twice now. There's something about it that I like (nothing as obvious as the songwriting or singing)...and it feels like a series of things - the overall uniqueness, the sort of spazzy dry drums, the lightness of touch, and absolutely the echoed melodica (and then sax on the second number).

For Snee: