The OG:
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Since I missed this on the counting thread…
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I still have that album! And another one from the same vintage…
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Damn you, @AcerPlatanoides!!! I’m never going to get off the computer now. As the memories flood back…
And for a slightly different definition of “awesome” song…
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MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
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ONE HUNDRED PERCENT Heavy Bongo Vibes.
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This is one hell of a mix tape
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I feel like I keep posting stuff that’s too recent, but whatever. Not enough Welsh stuff on here yet for my liking. Loved this band for a little while (despite the novelty breakout single) then they broke up mid-tour, a week before I could see them.
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One of my favourite bands ever.
So much venom, so much spite, so lovely:
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#getting caught up on the thread today
like a modern-day ESG, except japanese
yes. emphatically, I say yes.
RE: Memphis Minnie, oh, hell yeah. an old friend was a big Memphis Minnie fan, haven’t heard any in a looooong time. Was it you that posted some Washboard Sam in a thread a few years back? I listen to him all the time because of that post.
@catgrin, @sam, @anon61221983
I don’t dig on Disney, haven’t seen Frozen, and have zero desire to have a schmaltzy Disney pop song become yet another annoying earworm, so I have not clicked any of y’all’s LIG embeds. BUT, for a legit awesome song that has that same title, look no further than Prince. it was a single from the Come LP, but no youtube because Prince : (
it’s good! puts me in the mind of Tori Amos’s semi-recent Night of Hunters LP, which works for me.
RE: birdhouse in your soul, Flood is an album for the ages, IMO. It’s hard to compare it to, say Darkside of the Moon or Kind of Blue because they’re so serious and “advanced,” but I truly feel it has that same “perfect album” quality. (guess I’ll @sam here, too)
RE: PacificUV and Miagres, I’ve been really impressed with ONUINU’s Mirror Gazer LP since I first heard this single about a year ago, it’s similar to those
RE: Julio, I kinda dig the band arrangement, but his voice is so cheezy. I sang the English-language version in a Bobby D stylee for karaoke once at a rock-n-roll bar and actually managed to hit all the notes right. The host, somewhat taken aback, said “I… I think my mom would fuck you!”
RE: Stiff Little Fingers, that song was my gateway to them from when a friend put it on a comp for me. got curious and DL’d the LP a few years back, I listen to it at work all the time. an incredibly slept-on band, at least in the US.
RE: Catatonia, this is of mid-90’s vintage? really dig it.
that cover art is wonderful. as is that Waits tune 
@anon61221983, I’m sure you know this, but In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up: Live was shot right down the road at the Masquerade. A friend would drive me down to see Pigface shows there when I still lived in Knoxville. I don’t really follow industrial music at all, but those were easily among the best, most off-the-hook shows I’ve ever seen.
@anon67050589 my grade-school music class used to sing “Love is Blue”! other than that, I only ever knew the Dells version. it sounds corny for a few bars, but it turns into a soul explosion
I also love MacArthur Park, but my favorite version (Soulful Strings) is not on the tubes.
you’ll probably hate it, but there is an awesome Ghostface song built out of the Dells version of LIB–sort of a lyrical version of The French Connection if it had an all-black cast ( @AcerPlatanoides here we go with the rabbit hole again)
OK, so I’m caught up now. Here’s the one I was actually planning to contribute
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I used to have this on 78. A spider climbed onto me, I jumped off the sofa, and stepped on this record (a better version, I think), and an obscure one from Raymond Scott:
And I didn’t play it on no danged electric contraption – hand-cranked plus steel needles. You wusses with your electrical thungummyfobbers. How do you play that stuff, anyway, when the power goes out?
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Here’s one for cricket fans (and Divine Comedy fans…)
Edit: speaking of which…
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It’s a rather specific thing, but I always like to break this one out for people who only know Phil Collins drumming from his '80’s pop stuff:
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If the jazz fusion left a bad taste in your mouth, wash it out with this:
It’s worth a spin either way.
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I wasn’t planning on putting any MSP songs on here, but as it is the 20th anniversary of the Holy Bible being released…
I have a lot of good memories associated with this.
I always loved going to see Pigface. It was always a good time. I think the In Case You Didn’t Feel like Showing up was slightly before my time, but I saw the next 3 tours, I think. It was certainly of a time and place… I’m not even sure what’s going on with Invisible Records. Last I heard Martin Atkins wrote a book and was promoting it, but that was several years ago.
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