Album: Nolan (Probe/ABC,1972) Chart pos:N/A
A while back when I went to see the documentary on Joy Division at the cinema there was a moment where the band described their attempts to get signed to a major label. The daftest moment was when some A&R guy from RCA tries to mould them into a soul band by making them play Nolan Porter's song Keep On Keeping On, a song which around this time was a popular song in Northern Soul circles. Bernard Sumner said the results were ridiculous as they tried to make Ian Curtis sound like James Brown. But it seems they took quite allot from this experience and the basis of the song Interzone from Unknown Pleasures is essentially the main riff of Keep on Keeping on.
The album Nolan has never been released on CD (hell there is even no allmusic listing) and vinyl copies are usually sold for over a hundred dollars and is usually snapped up by Zappa completests as the LP has the original members of the Mothers of Invention Jimmy Carl Black and Roy Estrada played on it. Its annoying that even the two cuts that he released from the album are non-existent on any in print northern soul compilation.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2AS0LHE1
Friday, 6 August 2010
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Eddie Kendricks - People Hold On
Album: People Hold On.. (Motown, 1972) Chart pos:N/A
Ex-Temptation Eddie Kendricks recorded output has always been difficult to obtain until recently as about 90% or so was unavailable on CD until fans badgered the record company for a limited release (which is out of print now, but available to download). The album People Hold On.. has had something of a cult following and is regarded as a lost 70's soul classic. I first heard this song on a cheap funk compilation that I had bought in France about 4 years ago. The mix of tribal drumming and Eddie Kendricks plea for unity among fellow African-Americans is possibly the best track on the album. Unfortunately while the albums good nothing sounds as out there as the title track although proto-disco classic Girl You Need a Change of Mind nearly reaches the same heights.
RIP Eddie Kendricks (1939-1992)
http://rapidshare.com/files/105331962/Eddie_Kendricks__-_People_..._Hold_On.rar.html
Ex-Temptation Eddie Kendricks recorded output has always been difficult to obtain until recently as about 90% or so was unavailable on CD until fans badgered the record company for a limited release (which is out of print now, but available to download). The album People Hold On.. has had something of a cult following and is regarded as a lost 70's soul classic. I first heard this song on a cheap funk compilation that I had bought in France about 4 years ago. The mix of tribal drumming and Eddie Kendricks plea for unity among fellow African-Americans is possibly the best track on the album. Unfortunately while the albums good nothing sounds as out there as the title track although proto-disco classic Girl You Need a Change of Mind nearly reaches the same heights.
RIP Eddie Kendricks (1939-1992)
http://rapidshare.com/files/105331962/Eddie_Kendricks__-_People_..._Hold_On.rar.html
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Dion - Only You Know
Album Born to be With You (Warner, 1975) Chart Pos: N/A
As much as I don't like the Arctic Monkeys thier one saving grace is the fact that they have managed to turn on thier youthful audience on to this song from Dion's album Born to be With You. In some quaters the album is regarded as the Pet Sounds of the seventies. Unlike Pet Sound this album was buried in obscurity (as it was only released in the UK) for nearly thirty years. Much of its rediscovery was down to the fact that Pete Townsend has been raving about it for years. On Only you Know Know Dion sounds like someone whose lived though hard times and is trying to find light at the end of the tunnel. Reading about his road to recovery from drug addiction puts this song into some kind of context.
Heres the Artic Monkeys cover
As much as I don't like the Arctic Monkeys thier one saving grace is the fact that they have managed to turn on thier youthful audience on to this song from Dion's album Born to be With You. In some quaters the album is regarded as the Pet Sounds of the seventies. Unlike Pet Sound this album was buried in obscurity (as it was only released in the UK) for nearly thirty years. Much of its rediscovery was down to the fact that Pete Townsend has been raving about it for years. On Only you Know Know Dion sounds like someone whose lived though hard times and is trying to find light at the end of the tunnel. Reading about his road to recovery from drug addiction puts this song into some kind of context.
Heres the Artic Monkeys cover
Saturday, 31 July 2010
The Pixies - I Can't Forget
Album: I'm Your Fan (Atlantic,1991) Chart Pos:N/A
The Leonard Cohen tribute album has two bona-fide classics which makes it better than 99% of tribute albums. The songs in question are John Cale's version of Halelujah (as featured on Shrek) which is probably the definitive version of the song, sorry Jeff Buckley fans. The other song being the Pixies version of I Can't Forget which transforms one of the weaker tracks from 1988's Im Your Man album into a wonderful uptempo rock song. as anyone whose heard thier wonderful version of Neil Young's Winterlong can attest The PIxies had a knack for making other peoples songs thier own.
http://rapidshare.com/files/376151975/Im_Your_Fan.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/376151595/Im_Your_Fan.part2.rar.html
The Leonard Cohen tribute album has two bona-fide classics which makes it better than 99% of tribute albums. The songs in question are John Cale's version of Halelujah (as featured on Shrek) which is probably the definitive version of the song, sorry Jeff Buckley fans. The other song being the Pixies version of I Can't Forget which transforms one of the weaker tracks from 1988's Im Your Man album into a wonderful uptempo rock song. as anyone whose heard thier wonderful version of Neil Young's Winterlong can attest The PIxies had a knack for making other peoples songs thier own.
http://rapidshare.com/files/376151975/Im_Your_Fan.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/376151595/Im_Your_Fan.part2.rar.html
Friday, 30 July 2010
Pete Laughner - Cinderella Backstreet
Album: Take the Guitar Player For a Ride (Tim/Kerr,1995) Chart pos:N/A
A few days back i did a piece on Pere Ubu so I thought i would be a good idea to do a short piece on their original guitarist Pete Laughner who died prematurely from alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 24. All though the only solo work he left behind was a few roughly recorded demo's. The material was far removed from the punk scene which he emerged from. The melancolie dylan-esque number Cinderella Backstreet is one of the standouts from the scratchy demo's he left behind. He remains one of the greatest what-ifs in music as much of his material has gain a cult following and later this year a box-set is rumored to be in the works.
RIP Pete Laughner (1952-1977)
A few days back i did a piece on Pere Ubu so I thought i would be a good idea to do a short piece on their original guitarist Pete Laughner who died prematurely from alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 24. All though the only solo work he left behind was a few roughly recorded demo's. The material was far removed from the punk scene which he emerged from. The melancolie dylan-esque number Cinderella Backstreet is one of the standouts from the scratchy demo's he left behind. He remains one of the greatest what-ifs in music as much of his material has gain a cult following and later this year a box-set is rumored to be in the works.
RIP Pete Laughner (1952-1977)
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Faith no More - Annie's Song
Album: Introduce Yourself (Slash, 1987) Chart Pos: N/A
Faith no More's original vocalist Chuck Mosley didnt lasted only two albums with the band. Granted the guy couldnt hold a candle (or a tune in a bucket) to Mike Patton's vocals. Yet Faith no More's first two albums ain't bad despite Chucks flat vocals. Annie's Song From thier second album is pretty much standard Funk Metal enlivened by Roddy Bottums atmospheric, airy keyboards. Its one of the better songs despite the fact that the flat, tuneless vocals take a little getting used to.
Faith no More's original vocalist Chuck Mosley didnt lasted only two albums with the band. Granted the guy couldnt hold a candle (or a tune in a bucket) to Mike Patton's vocals. Yet Faith no More's first two albums ain't bad despite Chucks flat vocals. Annie's Song From thier second album is pretty much standard Funk Metal enlivened by Roddy Bottums atmospheric, airy keyboards. Its one of the better songs despite the fact that the flat, tuneless vocals take a little getting used to.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Album: Sabotage (Vertigo,1975) Chart Pos:N/A
The period around Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage is what i call their prog era. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath had Rick Wakeman guesting on keyboards while 1975's Sabotage had multi-part song structures and songs clocking close to the ten minute mark. Symptom of the universe is split between a heavy first half and a acoustic second half. In the space of the songs six minutes they manage to help invent prog and thrash metal at the same time, talk about killing two birds with one stone.
The period around Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage is what i call their prog era. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath had Rick Wakeman guesting on keyboards while 1975's Sabotage had multi-part song structures and songs clocking close to the ten minute mark. Symptom of the universe is split between a heavy first half and a acoustic second half. In the space of the songs six minutes they manage to help invent prog and thrash metal at the same time, talk about killing two birds with one stone.
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