A track for...(darkness fish)

[Charlie O.]

Mar 12, 2024 17:02:48 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

Chilliwack, the band they would morph into in the 70's were a pretty big deal up here for a while, and got lots of radio play. No idea if they broke in the US at all, but I somehow doubt it.

They did actually have some hits here - though to be honest, I can’t remember a one of them.

[fearlessfreap]

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

Mar 12, 2024 17:47:00 GMT Charlie O. said:

Mar 12, 2024 17:02:48 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

Chilliwack, the band they would morph into in the 70's were a pretty big deal up here for a while, and got lots of radio play. No idea if they broke in the US at all, but I somehow doubt it.

They did actually have some hits here - though to be honest, I can’t remember a one of them.

I don't know if I should take this as an invitation, but here you go... these two seemed to be their biggest hits radio-wise:

[loveless]

"My Girl" was in the Top 40 and briefly on the radio when I was 11/12.

[Stacy Heydon]

Mar 12, 2024 17:02:48 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

Here's Neil Merryweather from his 1974 album "Space Rangers" with 'Step In The Right Direction' for Stacy Heydon:

I'm developing quite a taste for this kind of languorous, slightly seedy mid 70s sound, kind of jaded cocaine funk!Bit like Steve Millar or mid 70s CSN. Liked those icy synth strings, the jazziness of the bass and the guitar solo. New name for me too, although I feel I should know him.
Cheers Harv, it went down well...

For Freap Moussa Doumbia 'Keleya'

[fearlessfreap]

Mar 13, 2024 9:15:53 GMT Stacy Heydon said:

Mar 12, 2024 17:02:48 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

Here's Neil Merryweather from his 1974 album "Space Rangers" with 'Step In The Right Direction' for Stacy Heydon:

I'm developing quite a taste for this kind of languorous, slightly seedy mid 70s sound, kind of jaded cocaine funk!Bit like Steve Millar or mid 70s CSN. Liked those icy synth strings, the jazziness of the bass and the guitar solo. New name for me too, although I feel I should know him.
Cheers Harv, it went down well...

For Freap Moussa Doumbia 'Keleya'

That's new to me.  I have a few African comp's and they're all great.  This is no exception.  I'm going to have to hunt this down.  Right up my alley.



For some reason, this popped into my head the other day.  It's not all that obscure, but I can't really come up with anything else, and once I start playing it, I can't stop.
Though I'm sure he's familiar with it , this one's for Sneelock



Jim Backus and Friend - Delicious

[Ollard]

You didn't ask me, but I LOVE that one. Mr. Magoo on his 'love vacation'!

[Sneelock]

LOVE IT! I grew up with a lot of "novelty records" but that one didn't enter my life until Dr. Demento was hitting his stride in the seventies.

I have a minor gift as a mimick but Jim Backus, no matter how hard I try, will always be one of the many that got away.

what a delightful and distinctive voice.

Here's some Bo Diddley from late in the day. Too late in the day? Let's ask DAVEY!

[Stacy Heydon]

I love that track, became a big favourite of mine when I discovered it, the women's a gas and Bo breaking out into opera is just fucking mad.

[davey]

I’ll come up with something for someone else later tonight. Meanwhile that track gets a big “FUCK YEAH” from me. Wish I’d realized how great Bo was while we still had the guy…

Thanks Snee!

[davey]

Okay…this is for toomanyhatz. I think it is just what your soul needs. Please listen all the way to the ending.

Jubilation - Paul Anka

[toomanyhatz]

I think I can probably only enjoy that on a kitsch level - it's pretty white sounding for something so clearly influenced by black gospel - though I guess it's to Paulie's credit that the structure of the actual song is all there. But it did lead me to the Edwin Hawkins Singers version, which is great - so I'm grateful for that. Soul in place of bombast. Just goes to show you how much of the impression music leaves is based on performance. Nothing wrong with the song at all. Just needed an appropriate arrangement to bring it off. There are probably other versions as well, so maybe it's one of those things where the original is the worst rather than the best.

Anyways, the loss of a few power pop legends lately made me think of the genre as a whole. There's still, in little towns all across America, kids discovering their grandparents' music, and coming up with their cute little Merseybeat soundalikes. 99.9% of them, of course, just ain't got the songs, so this is probably the opposite problem of the above. Listen to any recent comp and you'll learn to appreciate Mr. Anka.

Anyway, I digress. This is from a 1979 album by the Searchers, and it's a) a power-pop gem - Beatle harmonies and chimy guitars and all that done right, and b) it's a song co-written by another hero-to-the-popsters who passed away recently, John Wicks - by all accounts a lovely guy.

How does this one hold up? Let's ask Sneelock!

[Sneelock]

Power Pop? sounds more like those "I Would Walk 500 Miles" guys to me.
Consider the source - Power Pop-wise I'm the guy who likes most of the songs everybody else got good and sick of.
I don't MIND it but it doesn't get stuck to the roof of my mouth, youknowwhati'msayin'?

catchy can be both a good AND a bad thing with pop music. this one doesn't quite register enough to be good OR bad.
oops, I did it again - the dreaded "MEH"

so, who is the biggest Beatles fan I can think of? that would haff to be loveless! sharpen your steak knives and listen to THIS:

I wish I could say it's growing on ME. it's all been downhill since the Recess Monkeys!

[loveless]

Wow. That's dismal.

What have I done to deserve this?

There isn't much one can say about it - it seems to really aggressively fulfil the mandate of "lesser than the real thing", and to what purpose?

Anyhow - this one's for Darkness Fish.

[Charlie O.]

(Belated:) I had no idea that Recess Monkeys song was a cover! Neither of those Chiliwack songs sounded (otherwise) familiar to me. Which doesn't necessarily mean I never heard them before.