WHERE IS DAVID STOUGHTON?
The other day I finally downloaded the obscure Elektra release by David Stoughton; “Transformer”. If you are heavily into 60’s psychedelia you definitely need this album… It is completely overlooked and is the only known release by Stoughton who just seemed to vanish, he produced and wrote the whole thing. He deserves more than a cult following. This album must be from space?
SIMPLE MINDS
Started life as an artsy Roxy musicesque group in the post punk/new wave landscape, but towards the end of the 80’s they gradually began morphing into U2. This video is great though…
Long before Van Morrison’s music sound tracked middle aged swinging parties in suburbia, he was responsible for some decent music…
The kids need records by The Association, Canned Heat and The Guess Who and they need ‘em cheap.
Technology is usually ridiculous.
I hope one day we look at the “I-pad” and “I-phone” laugh, however we probably won’t because they CAN BE quite useful. I still prefer the failed attempts…
I’d love one of these, those discs are mental.
OUR PRICE!
I don’t think Our Price ever changed their interior design because I remember them still looking like this in the mid 90’s until they eventually closed down. I really miss Our Price…
BRILLIANT.
My day off
I saw:
A man in his twenties wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt, browsing in Hotel Chocolat.
I bought:
The First Bee Gees album.
The previous owner was called “Barbara Webb”, she had taken the time to put her address on the sleeve. If you’re reading this Barbara, thanks for looking after it, it still sounds great 43 years later.
The Bee Gees early sound differed from their more widely known 70’s output. On this album they sound like a psychedelic chamber pop outfit and they do it well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAYDLh6Ee4
Taxmanesque?
Why do I bother…
Scars and Clouds by JOE PUBLIC AND THE GENERAL CONSENSUS
In the summer of 2006 me and my friend Robin set out to change the course of popular music. As It turned out we changed the course of our minds and this music was the result of this interesting period. We sat in the garden with acoustics eating broken biscuits purchased from the local convenience store and wrote “classic” after “classic”.
This is one of the first recordings of my band circa 2003. It was recorded in Fred’s shed on a Tascam 4 track and we felt it was a masterpiece.
