From the Walkman:

[caddyman]

As done from time-to-time, six songs played at random by my Network Walkman:

Stay Up Late: Talking Heads – classic New Wave goodness

Help Me: Joan Osborne – surprisingly bluesy number from one-hit wonder. This was not the hit (points if you can remember what it was without Googling).

Two Young Lovers (live): Dire Straits – straight forward Rock’n’Roll by now unfashionable 80s masters. Featuring the sublime Mel Collins on Sax.

First Breath: Richard Thompson - taken from his incredible The Old Kit Bag CD. The Times (I think) said that folk music is just not big enough for Richard Thompson. They were right.

Lost in Space: The Lighthouse Family - undemanding mellow pop tunefully sung, pretending to be contemporary soul.

Three of a Perfect Pair: The Crimson Jazz Trio - interesting jazz interpretation of (in my opinion) a lesser King Crimson track. Better than the sub-Talking Heads original, lacking the early Belew touch and all the better for it. Takes time to get into, but worth the effort.

The doubters out there should note that not a single one of these pieces is a prog arrangement, though the last one started life in that genre before Ian Wallace and chums launched into it.

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Joan Osborne did _One Of Us_, and the rest of the album's quite good as well (esp. _St Teresa_)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

And the stuffed toy goes to the lady at the front!

It is a good album, I never understood why she never had another hit. One of those things, I guess.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Cool video, and I'm pretty sure that "One of Us" was used as the title song for a quite interesting US tv show called Joan of Arcadia.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Yes it was, you're right. I saw a few episodes before I lost cable. OK, but not enough to be worth torrenting.

As well as Joan of Arcadia...

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

...it was famously (ish) featured on Party of Five as well.

I never knew what happened to her after that album (called "Relish" in case anyone cares), but I would like to... Wikipedia will be my friend. And it is, found this http://www.joanosborne.com/ and that she did have another album after "Relish" but that it was a critical failure, so oopSie!

Cheers, and by the way her version of "The Man in the Long Black Coat" can be found amongst other gems on Episode #1 of D'Oily Radio on the archive page...

Have a good weekend caddyman!

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

And the video to Saint Teresa was REALLY odd. Must give the CD another listen, I haven't played it in probably 5 years....

Another "one hit, great album" merchant from the same period was Marc Cohn. "Walking in Mephis" still gets lots of play. He was over in the UK a few weeks ago, promoting the new disc.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Didn't someone else cover Walking In Memphis? Um, come to think of it, Cher did, didn't she?

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, yes.

This brain will self-destruct in 5 seconds...

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

"One of Us" is of course (or at least IMODO) ruined by what I think is the final couplet, "No-one to talk to on the phone/ Except the Pope perhaps in Rome" (from memory, so please excuse), which is Pythonesque in its silliness.

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

The cover is saved, however, by the memory of Mulder and Scully sort-of-dancing to it before the X-Files went downhill fast.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, hmmm - Scully....


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Good Morning Little Inept Git

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

You cheeky chap! I actually don't know who did "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" first, but everyone who's anyone has murdered it over the decades, including a blues band I led in the late '90s.* My fave version is by Muddy Waters on one of his last elpees.

*The other guitarist in the band, a plonker named Ken, could never play the signature riff properly, though I showed it to him week after week. I eventually telephoned the pillock at 6:30 one morning and fired him. Served the bluesless buffoon right.

Re: Good Morning Little Inept Git

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Indeed, the blues is all about theft.

Re: Good Morning Little Inept Git

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! A back door man is the kind of blighter about whom several bluesmen have sung over the years, to the effect that when you get home to your low-down cheatin' wife (who always seems to be "studyin' doin' me wrong") and open your front door, "some body else be sneakin' out the back."

There's a jolly story that Big Bill Broonzy told, about when he was a kid and his father was often out with other women, much to Bill's mother's annoyance. One day, the dear lady "done had enough" and hitched up the buggy, grabbed a shotgun and told Bill to come along. They drove to the house where her husband was "gittin' his hambone boiled" and Bill's mother stood in the front yard and called her husband. All was quiet in the house, and then, abruptly, the lady of the establishment ran like a jackrabbit out of the back door, barely dressed, clothes hanging off her like an explosion in a launderette. Bill's mother shot at the retreating flooze, to no effect, other than that her husband didn't go there again. He emerged from the house looking somewhat sheepish, and the three of them drove home in the buggy. He sat beside her on the seat, put his head on her shoulder and said, "Well, I don't reckon I'll be doin' that again."

Re: Good Morning Little Inept Git

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you were being ironic, but I used it as an excuse to tell an anecdote. Not many blues songs written about "crafty butchers".

Re: Good Morning Little Inept Git

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

A lot of the mroe obscure euphemisms would be lost on the more innocent of my audience, though, should I ever explore this uncharted area.