date,artist,title,link,caption,plays,lovers,comments 2015-09-26,"The Clientele","Elm Grove Window",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87KR_G2l3Y,"I'm leaving with The Clientele & 'Elm Grove Window'A comp album by the band, #Alone&Unreal is now out",2,"roamin, PartyTearsFew, MadameZia, thisismymistake, ZenPyramid, simonp","alisonsghost: ""Last post. To quote 'Lacewings' - 'Goodbye, goodbye. goodbye' xxx""; simonp: ""I stand and salute your Last Post Jane. It's been fun eh?""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I'm so, so pleased for both of you. Come round if you're over here :-)xx""; thisismymistake: ""Who would've thought the Clientele are such a popular goodbye jam...?""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I didn't know they were - glad to hear it :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Thanks. It has, yes, brilliant fun.""" 2015-09-25,"Tashaki Miyaki","Get It Right",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0N6TEARTI,"#finaljamday Heard this yesterday & loved the noise. Tashaki Miyaki &'Get It Right'. Video Horse Warning!",30,"oded, PartyTearsFew, marissapicone, florencevibert, christineb, kemiladashdot, Cornishson73, BertrandRustles, MVD, simonp, MadameZia, BladeRunner, roamin, DavidAnderson, ZenPyramid, d0minic, debutch, Astromonkey, amortentia, Avante, shme, thisismymistake, savagetea, abigail.deeks","debutch: ""I was expecting The Clientele but this is just as good. Abrasive & harsh but somehow beautiful too. Remarkable. It's been terrific knowing you on here, Jane. You really are funny, entertaining & quite a character! :-) xx""; abigail.deeks: ""Ooo this is absolutely gorgeous! x x""; alisonsghost: ""Does ANYONE know how to get the yellow writing 'write a bio for yourself' off after you've written all you want to part with? I've noticed no-one else seems to have the same problem. This has been bothering me for a couple of years, really. And happy #finaljamday :-)x""; abigail.deeks: ""Ooo this is absolutely gorgeous! x x""; thisismymistake: ""@debutch Clientele is over at @A_Silvers' jam...""; thisismymistake: ""Antother TIMJ discovery thanks to @Savagetea and now you. It never ends...""; thisismymistake: ""And @melissapulo and @solveigo...""; Avante: ""Good thing you warned me about the horse.. ;)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch@thisismymistake this isn't my final final jam - I was hoping to jam a few things. Also, I've never retweeted anything & would quite like to do that at least once. As for The Clientele, they're a little hard to jam in this country now (except on Nusiki) but I hope to slip some in at the end before they seal the door of what will be this pyramid full of 'Wonderful things'! :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch You were doing well until you said 'quite a character' :-) Btw that piece you wrote on a jam fairly recently about being a teenager, plaid jacket with a furry collar & all rung so many bells with me -I knew a great many lads so like that. Good writing :-)""; savagetea: ""@thisismymistake us Ally's have all your Tashaki Miyaki needs covered!""; debutch: ""@alisonsghost "" doing well until"" ....I keep telling myself to quit while I'm ahead!! :-D Speak to you soon Jane! xx""; alisonsghost: ""@savagetea I'm a fake Ally but perhaps the Tashaki Miyaki meme doesn't realise :-). Although I think I was liking your comments on the epic @natyblooming question in my non-Ally skin, at the This Is My Jam site on FB yesterday... The longest I've spent there by miles!""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Just joking :-) Go and mingle!!""; savagetea: ""@alisonsghost haha! I will just pretend you are my ghost then. :) Do you mean the thread where we were discussing the mystery of Leedian? I still need answers! But the world may never know...""; d0minic: ""I love black and white videos and I love horses so win win for me with that Jam""; ZenPyramid: ""...did someone say 'pyramid'? XD""; BladeRunner: ""oh my... this video is stunning... just the video alone won me over... Wow!""; natyblooming: ""@alisonsghost you commented on that? will you send me a friend request? who are you!??? I am intrigued now!""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming On fb you mean??I thought you knew! I'm not there often,Its my 3rd go at having an account! Except since the TIMJ (& Labour party) shock, now I never escape. I'm Jane Wardale in real life, or Jane Elizabeth Wardale. That one :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@savagetea Leedian Yes :-(""; alisonsghost: ""@ZenPyramid I did :-) All your musical treasures will be sealed inside. A pyramid inside a pyramid - that's almost Zen :-)""; savagetea: ""@alisonsghost I snort-laughed at that reply. so simple, yet so perfect!""; alisonsghost: ""@savagetea :-) !""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner @d0minic Oh good.You didn't mind the horses, then :-)""; simonp: ""Just got round to playing this Jane. It's entirely brilliant. Will be investigating more at Jam closedown.""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming I should tell you that my fb page bear very little connection with my life, it just touches on it here and there :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Really pleased you think its brilliant. That makes me happy :-)""; Cornishson73: ""Absolutely love it! A fine final jam..:')""; kemiladashdot: ""Shoe gazing horse grazing wonderment. If that was the only song there ever was it might be enough. You peaked at the end. We've got plenty more laughs to come I know it. Thanks for sharing the TV with me from the witts riot:)""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Well,I know my taste in music isn't yours 'might be enough' sort of sums that up :-) So I absolve you from all guilt if you never listen again, truly. We'll just have the laughs instead while I listen to yours :-) Now we've just got to start the Witt's riot!""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante I missed you there! Yes, a proper horse warning is always a good thing. I went to a school full of terrible girls who did nothing but talk about ponies! Although sorry if you're a horse lover :-)""; marissapicone: ""Terrific :-)""; PartyTearsFew: ""Still discovering beautiful new sounds this morning. Love it.""; alisonsghost: ""@PartyTearsFew @marissapicone I'm really glad you liked it - I heard it for the 1st time 2 days ago and fell in love!""" 2015-09-20,"The B-52's","Rock Lobster",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh5J33KAaqw,"#Final jam & going out dancing 'Rocklobster'& Indie night in a Leicester 'niteclub' The only thing moving on the dance floor apart from me and my boyfriend was a cockroach",34,"thomasoshea, clementix, spitesprite, kompani101, BarneyRubble2, ElizaJane, patduin, roamin, jimbergson, Brownpants, mloup, AndyWilkinson, Rocklobster, DavidShepherd, lozarithm, MadameZia, abigail.deeks, marissapicone, crawtonleek, Section42L, BladeRunner, debutch, dutchbeeblebrox, stetroit, tpjdavies, thisismymistake, markhyson, jmmcleod, labracoon, scoda, Avante, shme, zombierust, MVD, Astromonkey, DavidAnderson","alisonsghost: ""This wasn't my !st choice for a dancing jam - that wouldn't play here but is on God's Jukebox. Sadly TIMJ wasn't allowed to play the pre Warners live footage either. I'm no longer jamming as I'm so tired and I need to get something done, but I'll be listening to yours :-) Also back for the 25th!""; alisonsghost: ""@shme Phew....I'm glad you cleared that up :-) I read it on my phone, and I thought you meant someone in The Radio Dept. Horrors!""; shme: ""@alisonsghost I know, I'm sorry -- I rewatched This Is Spinal Tap not long ago and that bit stuck with me for whatever reason!""; philipnareike: ""@alisonsghost @shme Yes, I just got that 'vomit' message.....I'd forgotten what it was relating to...uuurrgghhh!!""; philipnareike: ""@shme It's not #ThrowUpThursday yet you know!""; Avante: ""A cockroach!? Did it have as cool moves as this lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnh5QYnREsE""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Cooler. It was an indie-loving cockroach :-) Possibly just popped out from wherever the staff kept their sandwiches.""; debutch: ""I hope the cockroach had a ticket.........""; Rocklobster: ""I approve of this most heartily! :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Nearly 3 days late, just to confuse you - a ticket for what?""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Good:-)! It can do double duty as a dedication for all your wonderful music & the tons of information you've so patiently given me :-) Are you going to be on any of the hotly disputed sites afterwards ie Lets Loop/Nusiki/God's Jukebox?""; Beatnik_Boy: ""Aw, thank you very much! :-) I shall look into all of these sites next week and decide which to join. I'm usually a bit too busy to join more than one and do it justice, so I'll see which one suits me best and then hunt around and look for all the familiar faces from here. Then I'll have to decide which of my alter egos I shall be...anyway, I'm sure we'll bump into each other again sometime, somewhere in the digital ether.""; alisonsghost: ""@Beatnik_Boy For the sake of my musical knowledge among other things, I hope so :-)( Btw - LFM is doing strange things at the moment. I don't know if it bothers you? The home page suggestions have turned into a Spotify playlist, sadly as they were sometimes useful. Although it may be just me who objects.Oh well !)""; alisonsghost: ""@Beatnik_Boy Possibly just for the sake of my musical knowledge!! I hope you find somewhere that suits you even if it isn't any of those :-)""; debutch: ""Oh! I saw your notification & completely forgot what my comment was!....yes, a ticket for the club ! :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Oh. I thought you meant a cloak room ticket, although it is hard to tell when any sort of beetle has its coat on or off, really...""; debutch: ""HaHaHa xx""" 2015-09-16,"The Radio Dept.",Occupied,http://soundcloud.com/labrador-records/the-radio-dept-occupied-1,"'Occupied' 2015 Someone's given the Radio Dept. a drum machine.Was this wise? Not really, but lovely anyway.",24,"shme, MiaowMix, BarneyRubble2, MapRef31N106W, lukestevo26, markhyson, DavidShepherd, yugoseat, Section42L, simonp, carrotbourke, sammich, substandard, scoda, kemiladashdot, jovisgoesnuts, philipnareike, debutch, Astromonkey, BladeRunner","philipnareike: ""Having never heard of The Radio Dept. before, I think it was a nice birthday present to get""; philipnareike: ""Did their human drummer come to a sticky end?""; scoda: ""shaving accident?""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike I didn't know it was your Birthday! Hope you're having a brilliant one :-) Then again, if you mean it was a nice birthday present for the Radio Dept to be given a drum machine I feel unable to agree totally.....""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda A shaving accident?""; scoda: ""@alisonsghost thought we were heading down Spinal Tap road.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda Quite possibly, although I don't remember the shaving accident! A lot of other things though.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda Sorry, with you now. I haven't had much sleep for the last few nights!!""; scoda: ""@alisonsghost take no notice of me. it was a gardening accident in Spinal Tap. The shaving accident was Blackadder. Early onset dementia I think.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda I think that makes 2 of us!!""; scoda: ""@alisonsghost I'm getting no sleep either.""; philipnareike: ""@alisonsghost no it's not my birthday today. Mine is on 1st April...didn't a spinal tap drummer get electrocuted?""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike Errrrrmmm .....If he didn't, he should have done?""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost @philipnareike there was certainly a mysterious gardening accident""; lukestevo26: ""Thanks for sharing this @alisonsghost. Almost forgot to thank you for your kind words on my last jam, so glad that you liked it :)""; shme: ""@alisonsghost @philipnareike @simonp One of them choked on someone else's vomit.""" 2015-09-14,"Gary Numan","Love Hurt Bleed",http://vimeo.com/80932812,"Gary Numan'Love Hurt Bleed'from Splinter 2013(thanks to Loop user @Ender_Wiggin)",18,"Section42L, BladeRunner, MadameZia, debutch, marissapicone, roamin, christineb, kemiladashdot, scoda, Astromonkey, dutchbeeblebrox","alisonsghost: ""A word of visual warning - The code I had in my mouse was for the official, vevo one,a great cheap video, This is the so called 'Directors Cut' which b****s it up at the end so jump when you see the microphone appear!""; kemiladashdot: ""How did I miss the microphone, I was concentrating very very hard.""; christineb: ""Oh this is so cool....""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb I'm really glad you liked it. I love it, but I'm not sure the feelings universal :-) btw, the better video is on Gods Jukebox. For some reason it makes a big difference.""; christineb: ""@alisonsghost Thank you, I will check that out! Was telling my husband about this last night, can't wait to share with him""" 2015-09-10,Cruising,"You Made Me Do That",http://soundcloud.com/soft-power/cruising-you-made-me-do-that,"'Cruising', clearly the JD Sallinger(s) of Bandcamp, released this as a 'severely limited edition' last year. Please let me buy it! You know you can.",20,"bullu, dutchbeeblebrox, roamin, Owlsoup, MadameZia, BladeRunner, kemiladashdot, debutch, Brownpants, labracoon, AndyWilkinson","alisonsghost: ""Let me know if it isn't playing will you? ( It might sound a bit strange, but its meant to. I think)""; debutch: ""What a bizarre record!....but then I'm a sucker for all kinds of weirdness, so it's absolutely fine by me :-) ...btw, did you get to the bottom of that problem about finding my jam?""; scoda: ""thats great. Reminds me of Helios Creed.""; kemiladashdot: ""extra choppy raw metal riffing !""; scoda: ""@alisonsghost maybe not all rubbish., but ditching old tech a bit harsh. I am one, and I am average at best.""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot If there is a description, that should be it :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch The problem was only the time it took me to play everything in the list. I always forget to press the avatar box. Sorry to confuse you.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda Not just old tech but most of my furniture. But the poor lad had a truly dreadful childhood. RIP We're all average, male or female. Some of us are just more average than others,male or female :-) I haven't heard of Helios Creed, but will go and find them .""" 2015-09-08,"The Church","The Unguarded Moment",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-GQbX37o,"For the old friend  who introduced me to this. In an unguarded moment they found the perfect life, forever I hope",23,"DavidShepherd, BladeRunner, lozarithm, Section42L, thisismymistake, teen, dutchbeeblebrox, roamin, simonp, christineb, DVCwins, debutch, abigail.deeks, Avante, philipnareike, shme, MadameZia","MadameZia: ""I couldn't possibly 'unlike' and disrespect this :)""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia You're too nice :-) The lead singer is quite good looking, I hadn't noticed that before:-)""; debutch: ""Fabulous jam :-)""; scoda: ""another one of my growing up bands, and the inspiration some pretty horrendous shirts I have worn. Watched this video on VHS not that long ago.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda Flying Nun - la crème de la crème :-) Or was that someone else?? I can no longer watch my videos as player was taken to tip by some bloke I used to live with :-))""; scoda: ""@alisonsghost nope, that was me. Bummer about the videos. And blokes! sheesh. mostly they are rubbish.""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda Well that's 50 per cent of the population so possibly not all rubbish :-) Also, I'd hate to live with me!!""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch thanks duck :-) Where are you keeping your jams? I can't find them! Or have I? 3x music sites too much for me :-))""; debutch: ""I'm on four & it's driving me crazy! ' My old jams?... On the bottom of my profile page (I hope!!) Just click ""see all""""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch I meant your current one, if you're still jamming. But I keep getting stuck at at the top half of the music feed, list, whatever! Which is the 4th site? I signed up to 'Why'd' as well, but everyone was 12.... And Last fm looks as if a bomb has dropped :-))""; debutch: ""Sorry Jane , you've totally lost me there. I'm not really sure what you mean.Do you mean that you can't scrolll down the ""home"" list of 'people you follow'? Well, my present jam is by Beth Hart & you can always click my tagged name to find me...?""; debutch: ""My 4 sites are TIMJ, letsloop, nusiki & tumbir.....oh, five if you include the closed Facebook group of TIMJ!""" 2015-09-03,"The Auteurs","Married To A Lazy Lover",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5V6oMrkZP4,"The strange green glow that comes from Luke Haines' mind as it processes ideas. You can't beat it. The Auteurs & 'Married To A Lazy Lover'",20,"Rocklobster, altngo, labracoon, lozarithm, trailers, bullu, roamin, Section42L, kemiladashdot, christineb, AheadByEcho, BladeRunner, dutchbeeblebrox, AndyWilkinson, gloveofbones, shme, thesunneversets, nangeanarendra, debutch, tpjdavies","alisonsghost: ""Sack the maid - put her in chains until She says that its painless and I Couldn’t care less Twenty years Married to a lazy lover Twenty years Mixing alcohol and downers Sack the maid For dealing in state propaganda Sack the state""; alisonsghost: ""What would your common lover do Beat the daylights out of you? It’s a national threat Married to a lazy lover Against the west Married to a lazy lover I could teach him how to drink But he just threw up in the sink The man from the ministry Didn’t have to say That your lovers on the shelf Would he bite the bit Or split my lip? Anyway this marriage is annulled. Ideas? No me neither. I'll be working on these for ever...""; thesunneversets: ""One of my very favourites of his I think.""; AheadByEcho: ""Oh man, I've not heard this in a while. It certainly speaks to me a manner I don't necessarily wanna be spoken to! but that's Luke Haines for you. nice choice!""; alisonsghost: ""@thesunneversets I haven't found a favourite by the Auteurs yet. These are curious words though - what seems to be a straightforward account of a terrible relationship, but scattered with seemingly mysterious references, or maybe just jokes. I've had partners who seem to be a threat to the west,too :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@AheadByEcho I love that comment,'It certainly speaks to me a manner I don't necessarily wanna be spoken to! but that's Luke Haines for you'. It sums up quite a lot of his stuff, whichever name his band has :-)""; altngo: ""Coincidentally, I was thinking of Jamming this just the other day. After Murder Park is probably my favourite Auteurs album. Probably.""; alisonsghost: ""@altngo I like that one, too.Although apparently it wasn't that popular at the time. Probably, is about right though!""" 2015-08-26,"The Pink Tiles","Ordinary Girl",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng5Tz1-JeIA,"The Pink Tiles, bouncy & twangy! Thanks for the tip @Antipopdean",24,"Rocklobster, scoda, PeteLaberge, teen, stereoGrover, MadameZia, DavidShepherd, clickysounds, Salvadore, amortentia, roamin, dutchbeeblebrox, MiaowMix, markwakeley, shme, ingridwildeman, BladeRunner, debutch, savagetea","ingridwildeman: ""Fun! Fun! Fun!""; clickysounds: ""good way to kick off the end of the world party here on timj. ;-)""; PeteLaberge: ""In case someone hasn't heard, & sorry to be repetitive: When the party here is over, most of us are going here: http://www.letsloop.com It is not the fine toy Jam was, but they are young & growing! Also, there is a F/B page for X jammers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/229952510523950/ There is also this: http://bullfrogjams.tumblr.com/ Also trying out Nusiki -- huge library, amazing features, great app, lots of friends! www.nusiki.com See you there! LLAP! Spread the wor""" 2015-08-20,Momus,"In the Sanatorium",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ocsDS9p6M,"Creepy short story...In the Sanatorium by Momus",25,"altngo, shme, philipnareike, ZenPyramid, DavidShepherd, Star0fCCTV, roamin, debutch, BladeRunner, scoda, lindatee, thisismymistake, vincestclair, DavidAnderson","alisonsghost: ""10 x creepier without the video, which contradicts the song....""; thisismymistake: ""This might trigger an early Momus bender...""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I hope so :-)""" 2015-08-17,"Youth Lagoon","Highway Patrol Stun Gun",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQrO5xO8QQ,"This one comes courtesy of Loop. New album late September.",31,"MiaowMix, ZenPyramid, kemiladashdot, doqtor, Howl2046, vincestclair, Shaka, Beatlemaniacs, shme, Salvadore, Star0fCCTV, debutch, christineb, Axol, Section42L, staticstudios, DavidAnderson, DavidShepherd, edlweiss1, roamin, BladeRunner, lindatee, labracoon, abigail.deeks","abigail.deeks: ""Gorgeous!""; alisonsghost: ""@abigail.deeks I really loved the sound of 'Wondrous Bughouse', this album sounds far more stripped down. But it has still got his great strange-small-boy-little-old-man voice :-))""; lindatee: ""Oh this is lovely ! : )""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee :-))""" 2015-08-13,"Black Market Karma","Dirty Water",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5eq6zT2nA,"Black Market Karma, Dirty water. From 'Cocoon' free download from Flower Power Records. Plus new album on vinyl.",20,"trailers, MadameZia, DavidShepherd, vincestclair, kdd, roamin, scoda, DavidAnderson, kemiladashdot, BladeRunner, thesunneversets, teen, lukestevo26, debutch, ingridwildeman, thisismymistake, christineb","christineb: ""Thank you for the link :) this is great""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb I was addicted to it on spotify and when it vanished, I tried to buy it and couldn't.I'm not sure why they're giving away BMK's entire back catalogue when they've just got a new album out . Weird marketing :-)""; debutch: ""Oooh Fab! :-)""; kemiladashdot: ""Everything about this is marvelous.""; christineb: ""@alisonsghost really weird marketing strategy...""; scoda: ""nice track.""; kdd: ""@alisonsghost have lost track of you and your jams lately. No time to catch up now, ao sad! This is a great one.""; alisonsghost: ""@kdd Glad you like it :-) I haven't been here for about 3 months, and fairly patchily before that, this year. But I'll be here http://letsloop.com/alisonsghost along with a lot of other refugees from here. It is different but with a little lateral thinking you can use it to, a degree, in the same way as here. Sort of :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I'm pleased about that....You're a hard musical taskmaster :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@scoda I'm glad you think so :-) It's worth checking out the free downloads and really getting addicted!""; kdd: ""@alisonsghost I'll see you there on letsloop""; alisonsghost: ""@kdd Good!""" 2015-08-10,"Sex Pistols","God Save the Queen",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02D2T3wGCYg,"'And England's Dreaming....' As if George Osborne wasn't bad enough, TIMJ will be lost forever. That rat I saw in the garden was a bad omen......",21,"trailers, Shaka, roamin, mloup, AndyWilkinson, lozarithm, dutchbeeblebrox, florencevibert, christineb, laurafantyz, thefamilyghost, labracoon, teen, DavidAnderson, wmunn1, Rocklobster, Cranky, natyblooming, Salvadore, Section42L, Owlsoup, 1outside, BladeRunner, debutch, tpjdavies, crawtonleek, thesunneversets, shme, Richie3000","alisonsghost: ""Should say I don't blame the queen personally....""; debutch: ""You've only been back 5 minutes & you're making me laugh already. Please stay 'til the ship goes down, Jane :-) x""; BladeRunner: ""=D xx""; lucathequietone: ""Ciao!""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch What's really upsetting is that I just felt strong enough to get back to jamming and then , wham! It was like being jilted by email! But I'll do my best. Do the lights go out at the start or the end of September?""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Hello! Been missing you and your music ;-( Are you going to (if you haven't already) join the TIMJ facebook group? It's one way of jamming and staying in touch? Or did you start the TIMJ fb group ?? ;-)xxx""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Ciao! Sad news....""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost i was missing you too, i'm still getting out of the shock that this was for me yesterday (i've been here for exact 3 years...) still trying to make my mind on what to post... it's too emotional... I have just joined the FB group (i'm using my current avatar so i can be more easily recognized at 1st) I don't want to loose the gang! =) xxx""; debutch: ""@alisonsghost ...Early to mid September, I read.....yeh, I felt the same. I've had some seriously rough times recently & was looking forward to come back to TIMJ to cheer me up & then I saw the news.......""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Good! Really glad about that.;-)) x Its a good idea about the avatar, too. I'm a little confused about who is who. I was surprised I could feel so sad about anything on the internet disappearing. It shows how limited it is in a lot of ways. And if I stop commenting I might get to listen to some music! :-) xxx""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Sorry about the rough times :-( See you on fb though - and you can post music there, so its something, at least.""; laurafantyz: ""Miss you! Thanks for sharing songs!""; laurafantyz: ""@Enish is going to jam via Tumblr. I like the idea ;)""; florencevibert: ""Thanks for all your jams! Cheers :D""; mloup: ""thanks for all the jams - hope to see you on letsloop""; alisonsghost: ""@laurafantyz I don't have a tumblr account but I'm now here (as well as here) http://letsloop.com/alisonsghost""; laurafantyz: ""@alisonsghost I'm following you now! http://www.letsloop.com/es/laurafantyz""; alisonsghost: ""@laurafantyz I'll follow you back if I'm not already following you :-)""" 2015-05-20,"Magic Castles","Rebecca's World",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir4JTYL7_sU,"From their latest album, 2014,Magic Castles & Rebecca's World...",28,"trailers, DavidShepherd, lucathequietone, BladeRunner, roamin, MadameZia, mloup, lozarithm, DavidAnderson, thesunneversets, natyblooming, Avante, Beatlemaniacs, labracoon, debutch","debutch: ""Terrific dreamy soundscape here. Welcome back Jane. You've been missed :-) x""; debutch: ""......and err..yes, that IS me in the avatar! ( A long time ago...'73 in fact )""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Thanks for missing me. Ill as usual :-( I'll have to look at yr avatar on yr page...I thought it was your daughter! Don't take this personally, the lenses keep falling out of my glasses!""; simonp: ""Well, hello stranger. Great to have you back and hope you're feeling better. This is fab and entirely new to me.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Thanks ... Picked at first for album cover reasons. This often works surprisingly well.""; debutch: """"My daughter""??? Well, as you've been unwell & your glasses are broke, I'll let you off! ;-) Seriously, I hope you're better now Jane x""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost I've bought dozens of albums that way""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch It comes and goes - which is basically why I do. The glasses are driving me mad!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp That makes me feel slightly more normal...possibly:-)""; debutch: ""Contacts no good?....""; lucathequietone: ""Welcome back, keep well, stay strong and all that. No, really, I've been missing you and your jams and I do hope you're doing better now. Jam's fab as usual, btw. Abrasive guitars and lovely melodies, always a winning combination.""" 2015-04-20,Nirvana,"Been a Son",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT67Ln0OU-g,Yup.,23,"meddlingwitch, SeanTAllen, teaandbbc, laurafantyz, MadameZia, Section42L, christineb, debutch, roamin, zombierust, crawtonleek, DavidAnderson, AndyWilkinson, Rocklobster, RW104, Richie3000, Owlsoup, dutchbeeblebrox, bbionic, TomSchneitter","debutch: ""Aah, been a while..... :-)""; christineb: ""So good...""" 2015-04-10,"Northern Picture Library",Paris,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpqGxuZKGk,,22,"trailers, lukegodber, lozarithm, thisismymistake, Rocklobster, DavidShepherd, MadameZia, debutch, roamin, natyblooming, dutchbeeblebrox, lucathequietone, DavidAnderson, josh3, BladeRunner","BladeRunner: ""Yay =D It always makes me happy when you show up!!! Great jam!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner you are lovely :-) Wonderful surfboard weirdness on your page!""; lucathequietone: ""Beautiful tune!""; debutch: ""@alisonsghost You're back!!! C'mon Jane, me @BladeRunner & the boys are all goin' surfin'!! =D""; debutch: ""Sorry...true top jam choice by the way!""; MadameZia: ""Hello and I haven't forgotten - soooo busy x x""" 2015-02-28,Milburn,"Well Well Well",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXR8flIXXc,"Well Well Well/#Milburn The Arctic Monkeys used to be their support band, but The Arctic Monkeys have the sort of name that even Government Ministers remember. They both owe a debt to #The Wedding Present IMO....",28,"trailers, debutch, kemiladashdot, lukegodber, DavidShepherd, UncannyUK, lucathequietone, Madferrit, Section42L, DavidAnderson, newley, teen, BladeRunner, roamin, shme","UncannyUK: ""Excellent.""; alisonsghost: ""@ghostmoth I thought so. Glad someone agrees :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK The first Milburn album was excellent - this track was a bit of a lazy choice, but I love the fury in it. I'm not sure if it got played to death on the radio, or not played at all as I can't seem to break my Radio 4 habit. Feel this band had a bit of a rough deal, somehow.""; debutch: ""Excellent! I agree with you agreeing with @ghostmoth ...who agreed...""" 2015-02-17,"The Osborne Brothers","Ruby, Are You Mad",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7stFjnA1hM,"Local Music For Local People. I'm not at all sure what poor Ruby is being offered here....This should be The Osborne Bros & Red Allen but The Smoky Mt Bros get the credit from Google Music.",31,"trailers, MadameZia, lukegodber, teen, florencevibert, newley, DavidShepherd, UncannyUK, shme, DavidAnderson, debutch, roamin, Star0fCCTV, mrmarc, ingridwildeman, dutchbeeblebrox, BladeRunner, thisismymistake, kemiladashdot","kemiladashdot: ""I only know two songs about Ruby, & neither put her in a good light.""; thisismymistake: ""A message to you, Ruby...""; alisonsghost: ""Many thanks to @lozarithm, @AlicejustMay @ DeButch for comments and to @thisismymistake for your clarification re sponsorship thing. Who do TIMJ want to donate & why are the donors to be limited would be my other questions though. Will cath up with @Shme and her theme soon :-).........Sorry not to be around to answer comments and listen to music last week. Our dog has fractured his tail and his insomnia has been fuelling mine...""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I was thinking that. Those Mountain boys though, they will still go and get involved....No warning some people.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake That sounds like a truly odd speech impediment :-)""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost sorry to hear about your dogs taIL""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Thank you for your sympathy. He did it wagging his tail against a bookcase. ...I was more sympathetic to start with. Its worn off significantly now.""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost My dog has no nose.................""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost @thesunneversets can probably elaborate since he's recently become an expert on that topic (speech impediments not tail-wagging accidents, although it wouldn't surprise me if he turned out to be an expert on that topic too...)""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I'm sorry to hear that, it's Blimin' awful""; debutch: ""@kemiladashdot @alisonsghost So Ruby's mad AND she takes her love to town....that's a lethal combination....""; kemiladashdot: ""@debutch ...maybe for a ruby murray?""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot @debutch Mad human female...and don't forget the nalm bread...""; alisonsghost: ""@lozarithm - I meant to ask you, which Jesus & Mary Chain songs/albums does she contribute to? And is she the woman singing on Just Like Honey? It may be my eyesight but I've never found and credit for that on the CD!""; lozarithm: ""@alisonsghost Actually, she only seems to sing on Mo Tucker, on the Munki album, as far as I can tell. It was Karen Parker on JLH.""; alisonsghost: ""@lozarithm Many thanks. I do have Munki, so I'll listen. I have to say I've never hear of Karen P, but she did a great job. It always seems strange to me that 2 very young people wrote that song. One of those songs that arrives from nowhere....""; florencevibert: ""Catchy!""" 2015-02-10,"Sister Vanilla",Jamcolas,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Zk7RUUH-0,"The album the Reid Bros. made with their sister Linda in 2007. Alternating bubblegum and self pity. Not a bad album just an odd one. For me, 'Jamcolas' was almost the best track, but then somehow wasn't. The rest of the songs are more even.",33,"trailers, lozarithm, TreesjeB, teen, AlicejustMay, DavidAnderson, UncannyUK, debutch, thisismymistake, roamin, simonp, AndyWilkinson, MadameZia, njparry, savagetea, MVD, thesunneversets, lucathequietone, dutchbeeblebrox, DavidShepherd, BladeRunner","alisonsghost: ""@simonp - apparently there are 200,000 people on TIMJ. The millions thing was the number of jams.""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost that sounds more like it. I don't want to be part of the masses! Where'd you find out?""; lucathequietone: ""I almost didn't like it, then somehow did..""; MVD: "":)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I read it a while ago on the TIMJ blog on tumblr, but they sent the same stuff plus this and that as an email last night. BTW, the blog entry mentions introducing something like 'carefully selected sponsorships (sic)' which I presume means advertising. I'd prefer to pay!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I know what you mean!""; alisonsghost: ""@MVDeconstructed :-) back..... and I would also like to award 1/2 of you an honourable mention for reducing the world surplus of exclamation marks during the Grammies :-)) It really cheered me up while suffering from insomnia :-)) !!!!!""; thisismymistake: ""joint theme with @shme""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost i understood it that sponsorship means voluntary contributions...""; debutch: ""Well, I'm going to be different & say I liked it straight away......200,000 people?...I wonder who the first was?....and who did he jam to?....""; AlicejustMay: ""Not my type of track, but I love it...""; lozarithm: ""Heard her contributions to J&MC records but had missed out on this, another whole album *adds to Buy list*""" 2015-02-02,Low,Lullaby,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSVkb_XLt4,"Lullaby/Low. Sweetly sinister.",39,"7r0773r, DVCwins, dutchbeeblebrox, umaestrutura, Madferrit, Howl2046, thefamilyghost, staticstudios, DavidAnderson, MadameZia, roamin, marissapicone, thisismymistake, AndyWilkinson, scoda, edlweiss1, debutch, Section42L, tpjdavies, rduarte, thesunneversets, ingridwildeman, lucathequietone, RW104, njparry, BladeRunner, ccrosby37, kemiladashdot, Avante, labracoon","Avante: ""beautiful :)""; debutch: ""Love it!""; lucathequietone: ""really nice, and not sinister at all, at least for me..""; AndyWilkinson: ""One of the few Low albums I don't own. Need to rectify that.""; marissapicone: ""Lovely,,, :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante @marissapicone @debutch Really glad that you liked this :-) & @Avante Good to see you too, and I hope the tear filled Stroganoff wore a halo :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Possibly it isn't sinister, unless you're me ....Or it could be the odd nature of the rest of the album spreading everywhere....Possibly it is intense though, thinking about it :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@AndyWilkinson I've only properly,and frequently, listened to this Low album, although I have The Curtain Hits The Cast . For some reason, I thought it was their 1st""; Avante: ""@alisonsghost It always is! Thank you. :D""; Madferrit: ""Brilliant Jam! :-)""; umaestrutura: ""classic album""" 2015-01-26,"The Raveonettes","Aly, Walk With Me",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX-f1HZzCaQ,"The Raveonettes/Ally Walk With Me - Oddly, great washes of feedback and noise have the same soothing rush effect on my tiny mind as Mozart or Vivaldi. And this album in particular works like exciting Valium. Yum.",40,"BarneyRubble, lukegodber, edlweiss1, renzomazzolini, SeanTAllen, Section42L, kdd, debutch, DavidShepherd, Rocklobster, kuttowski, AndyWilkinson, simonp, Avante, christyvale, shme, ingridwildeman, thesunneversets, UncannyUK, lindatee, patduin, DavidAnderson, gumsworls, crawtonleek, marissapicone, MadameZia, tpjdavies, BladeRunner, laurafantyz, roamin","BladeRunner: ""Love it!""; kuttowski: ""Great song - haven't heard for long times.""; debutch: ""LOVE THIS!!!..... btw, I 've found that I'm not following you! What the F***? I know what it is...it's accessing TIMJ on my ipod Touch. My fingers are too bleedin' big & I've accidentally unfollowed others this way too....all corrected now!""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch I operate a 3 strikes and you're out policy on unfollowers :-)""; debutch: ""That's very generous of you! I'll have to watch my step ( and my fingers!) :-)""; lukegodber: ""Love this record - they played it live in London last November.""" 2015-01-19,"The Strange Death of Liberal England","Summer Gave us Sweets but Autumn Wrought Division",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad8aP13s4BQ,"TSDOLE/Summer Gave Us Sweets...This beautiful instrumental is the last track on their 1st album. Also used in an interesting looking Icelandic film directed by or starring Noi Albinoni. Need a side trip to Wikipedia to sort this out. Will try later! Play loud :)",29,"A_Silvers, woods44, DavidShepherd, dutchbeeblebrox, roamin, lukegodber, DavidAnderson, BladeRunner, tpjdavies, lucathequietone, RW104, lozarithm, thesunneversets, simonp, thisismymistake","DavidAnderson: ""Oh I like this....yes indeed.""; alisonsghost: ""@DavidAnderson I'm really glad you like this. It rounds off quite a noisy album beautifully ('Forward March!' ) Apparently they played all instrumentals to begin with before adding their interesting vocals .""" 2015-01-12,"Trash Kit","Beach Babe",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg9j5RVKAM8,"Trash Kit/Beach Babe...According to Last FM the members play in other bands too, such as The Madrigals, Ray Rumours and  Electrelane. But not all at once. Obviously.",36,"MikeHandshakes, lukegodber, teen, dutchbeeblebrox, Rocklobster, simonp, roamin, marissapicone, DavidAnderson, lozarithm, thesunneversets, AndyWilkinson, shme, lucathequietone","BladeRunner: ""again... same problem =/ is this the song? http://youtu.be/NR1KCSHQpeE""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Yes but I posted the album version, which sounds much much better! The sound on that is very poor :-( They're fine live, just not recorded on a phone in Bethnal Green Working Men's Social Club !!! Thanks for telling me. Wonder if it won't work for everyone?""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Sounds alright here so I suppose it's a country problem. They are very lo-fi so won't be loved by everyone, sadly. I'll let you off ;-) It's impossible to judge from your clip!!""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost yes, it's all about country restrictions. For some countries it will work, for others won't. I've noticed that sometimes, what doesn't play in Brazil, also won't play in Canada. Thank you for explaining about the band for me - I'll try to find some more about! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I wouldn't worry too much. They're fun and sort of retro, if you think of late 70's bands, but they don't wear lovely shiny boots :-)""" 2015-01-05,"The Zebras","Fire Fire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYv0tMhVpn8,"The Zebras take 2",38,"lukegodber, neil_jones, CallumPetch, dutchbeeblebrox, lucathequietone, lozarithm, natyblooming, Emilaylay11, pixoy, seaofheartbreak, ccrosby37, roamin, Rocklobster, jackattackme, lindatee, DavidAnderson, DavidShepherd, shme, BladeRunner","alisonsghost: ""@JimMcleod - a more typical song with the female vocalist, not sure about the drumming!""; BladeRunner: ""Oh I'm happy this one worked for me! The previous jam wouldn't run!!! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I didn't realise, sorry :-( I think this is a better song as well. When I pasted in the link,it came up as Firestarter/The Prodigy!!""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost oh, there's no way you can know, don't worry!!! Lately there are tons of videos on YouTube that are restricted - just by looking at the tumb I already know. Sometimes it gets almost embarassing, cause it's usually those songs that have only one video available, so, most times I don't even know if I've found the same song on Vimeo or Spotify... Prodigy's Firestarter?! hahahaha that's a way to desguise!!! ;)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Sorry! Late answer! You Tube is turning into a bit of a TIMJ desert for me, sadly - like you say, its always the song with one post that won't play, or in my case, no track on yt at all. Is it my imagination, or has Vimeo been taken over by people covering other people's songs? It seems to me like all this might be a long term threat to this site :(""" 2015-01-05,"The Zebras","High Art",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chbIHoYIgsk,"The Zebras/High Art...jangly, melodic,very stripy & reminiscent of something, somewhere,sometime....Especially the intro.",3,,"jmmcleod: ""Quite like it but the drumming annoys me for some reason - just a bit too robotic for the song.""; alisonsghost: ""@jmmcleod mmm know what you mean. I always listen to the words and chose a track that was the least characteristic, I think. It was an impulse buy in Dec from Bandcamp. I'll give it a quick flip....""" 2014-12-30,"The Carpenters","Close to You",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4,"The Carpenters sing Burt B's song. True'blue eyed soul' It also reminds me of 2 good Steve Martin films.....",34,"shme, TonySimsNovis, lynn200, MadameZia, seaofheartbreak, abigail.deeks, zombierust, newley, Pixaling, debutch, meddlingwitch, roamin, florencevibert, simonides, rduarte, dutchbeeblebrox, urmomchoselife, Brownpants, teen, gw371015, BladeRunner, AndyWilkinson, AndyDenton, tomdwilly, lozarithm, Olimite, Rocklobster, DavidAnderson, gogokrista","florencevibert: ""So true! Thanks and happy new year! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Thank you :) And a really Happy New Year to you too :)""; debutch: ""A sweet end to the year! :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch You too :)""; kdd: ""@alisonsghost Happy new year to you.""; lucathequietone: ""A wonderful song. I love Bacharach. Have a wonderful 2015 and be happy, @alisonsghost.""; alisonsghost: ""@kdd Oh yes! Forgot that bit - and a happy new year back :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thanks and you too. Fingers crossed for everyone :-)""; kdd: "":) @alisonsghost""; abigail.deeks: ""Absolutely gorgeous! Happy New Year to you x x""; florencevibert: ""@alisonsghost Thanks! :)""; MadameZia: ""Happy New Year x x""; lynn200: ""ooh,a perfect good morning song..healthy,happy new year to you...""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Hi Lynn! A very healthy, happy New Year to you too x""" 2014-12-24,"teardrop factory","Now We Shatter",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFF_sJvI68A,"Now we Shatter/ Teardrop Factory...A lot of lovely fuzz....",24,"UncannyUK, roamin, staticstudios, simonides, dutchbeeblebrox, clickysounds, florencevibert, lukegodber, debutch, DavidAnderson, BladeRunner, savagetea","debutch: ""Nothing like a Fuzzy Christmas!""; florencevibert: ""The best wishes for 2015!! :)""; clickysounds: ""knew I could rely on at least one or two people to mix it up in this playlist.""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch That's what I thought....""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Besr wishes to you, too :)""; alisonsghost: ""@clickysounds Is that a good thing?""" 2014-11-27,"Candy Claws",Catamaran,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOfyfbmmko,"Candy Claws... Apparently that's real Italian sea, acoustically bottled...",18,"PSYCHOACTIVE, Rocklobster, Hooch, florencevibert, lukegodber, Emilaylay11, natyblooming, DavidAnderson, lozarithm, AlicejustMay, debutch, roamin, MadameZia, Section42L, BladeRunner, lucathequietone","lucathequietone: ""can confirm""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thanks:)""; alisonsghost: ""This video isn't related to the band btw.""; BladeRunner: ""both song and video are adorable!""" 2014-11-20,"Bowery Electric",Lushlife,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5amNOmiBI,"Bowery Electric. More sinister haze...",33,"umaestrutura, florencevibert, pixoy, lukegodber, yugoseat, grumpy, neil_jones, DavidAnderson, zombierust, roamin, lucathequietone, DVCwins, christineb, savagetea, UncannyUK, DavidShepherd, edlweiss1, BladeRunner, lindatee, natyblooming, lukestevo26","alisonsghost: ""A few hours later than it was meant to be...""; natyblooming: ""This is great!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the comments on past jam...what are you reading now?""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Thanks :) I've just finished a really excellent book on Jimmy Saville -although I'm not sure he'll mean much to you. If you're lucky! The other thing is so shameful from a literary point of view, I'm not saying it aloud!!! What about you?""; BladeRunner: ""loved it!""; natyblooming: ""@alisonsghost oh! I read that (the one you did not want to mention but did on twitter) I enjoyed it! jajaja--- I am reading ""Look at the Birdie"" by Kurt Vonnegut ... enjoying it also! ;)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming I couldn't resist tweeting it! Like shouting in public!! And you got favourited for tweeting my jam !:) I've only read Slaughterhouse 5 by K.V, I'll look out for the one you're reading though.""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Thanks :) You obviously go for Sinister Haze too :)""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost I have check them out.. but let me tell you, I'm here for my second listening - really loved this!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner That's really good to know :) They are on Spotify over here and You Tube.""; lukestevo26: ""Spooky stuff..""; florencevibert: ""Impeccable! Thanks for posting :)""" 2014-11-13,"The Clientele","Falling Asleep",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9WkClyCb4,"The Clientele and love at first listen all over again....Can anyone tell me if this is from the Merge box set I'm too down and out to afford?",33,"Howl2046, labracoon, RW104, staticstudios, DavidShepherd, MiaowMix, UncannyUK, thisismymistake, roamin, florencevibert, carrotbourke, DavidAnderson, lindatee, BladeRunner, thesunneversets, natyblooming, lucathequietone, abigail.deeks, kemiladashdot, MadameZia, simonp","simonp: ""Yup http://www.popmatters.com/review/182561-the-clientele-or-thousands-of-prizes/""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Thanks. I'd never heard it before. Was watching clips of their recent gigs -I could be wrong but they look as though they are having a much better time and that the audience really wants to see them. Hope so.""; abigail.deeks: ""Ooo this is gorgeous!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost 'where do daemons dream the pligrim dreams' (I think) is my verse for the day :)""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost I really want to see them! I know they've been in hiatus but hope you're right. The world needs The Clientele.""; simonp: ""Ooh look @thisismymistake: http://www.koka36.de/the%20clientele_veranstaltung_61926.html""; natyblooming: ""This is fantastic! I love it!!!! I hope you are well :)""; florencevibert: ""Outstanding! Thanks for share it :)""; thisismymistake: ""@simonp Alas, I will be in London to see Julia Holter (and Kiasmos)...""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp With regard to the world needing the Clientele - it's worth spending 5 mins watching them on YT perform at a recent gig (about 3 weeks ago) at a venue I've forgotten. I played Lamplight at random and it was really strong, the audience weren't noisy until the end, as it should be...then they did things like clap and cheer. Not always as it has been! Thanks for review of this song. I thought he was talking about something different :)""; alisonsghost: ""@abigail.deeks It is gorgeous - like you in that new photo :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Re The Clientele jam, I didn't hear that line! But I only played it once before posting it!! I need to go back and listen again and again....What was your word again? I want to look it up. For some reason I thought it might mean 'drum machine' :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Sorry for late reply - I'm glad you liked The Clientele and thanks for that thingy you did on Twitter :) (I keep meaning to send you a message.) Like @abigail.deeks you have a gorgeous new picture!! Stop being so beautiful!! :) The front page of TIMJ was one of the things that stopped me jamming for ages after I joined because it looked as if everyone here was too good looking to be true - I'd be interested to know if they do this on purpose....""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Thanks for listening to The Clientele :) Very glad you liked them. Come back soon ! :)""; simonp: ""@natyblooming @abigail.deeks @alisonsghost personally, I'm every bit as good looking as my avatar""" 2014-11-07,"Alison's Halo","Always April",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AozvEp_Tw,"The lovely Alison's Halo...#Beautiful Noise Is apparently the category for this one. Makes more sense than #Shoegaze....",30,"alijoe, lukegodber, Salvadore, florencevibert, staticstudios, Avante, abigail.deeks, roamin, christineb, PSYCHOACTIVE, DavidAnderson, MiaowMix, BladeRunner, lucathequietone, DavidShepherd, debutch, pixoy, shme, MadameZia","MadameZia: ""Fabulous""; debutch: ""We haven't seen much of you around these parts lately. A pity..you've been missed. I hope you're well & happy. :-)""; debutch: ""....Lovely jam btw, definitely got a touch of 'Cocteau Twins' about it.""; lucathequietone: ""what @debutch said. Perfect song for winding down on a late Friday afternoon.""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch Thanks duck! I have to limit my TIMJ time otherwise I just stay on here all day:) Plus been having a Clentele binge!! True about the Cocteau Twins . AH recorded all their own stuff on 8 track in the 90's as far as I know...""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia Thanks :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Sort of like a less painful Cranes. BTW was that Momus track I jammed exactly the same as one of your jams? I heard two of your Momus tracks but can't remember which ones. If so, sorry. You got the credit, anyway :) He's such a superb writer of short stories.....""; abigail.deeks: ""Scrummy!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost about your question, frankly I have no idea. Plus I don't feel I should get credit for anything, what's good about TIMJ is that we're all scattered around the globe but we're still able to shout to all who's willing to listen: 'hey, I found this, it's great!' and the more we are the merrier. There's no need to be the first, and nobody shouldn't post something they love, or be sorry about it, just because somebody else already did it. So be cool about it..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Well, cool though TIMJ might be, I've come across a few people who do take pride in discovering things 'first' and they put time into doing so. No criticism,everyone's different. But in this case, I was interested to see if we'd picked the same thing. I also believe that it is good manners to acknowledge sources, and to say thank you. I was really pleased to get the introduction to Momus, especially since Creation didn't give him the publicity he deserved....""" 2014-10-10,"The Killers","Midnight Show",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bKLo5sz66U,"For #HitchcockWeek - The song's anti-hero could have walked out of a Patricia Highsmith novel and on into a Hitchcock film to murder the blonde; 'I took my baby's breath, Below the chandelier, Of stars and atmosphere, And watched her disappear, Into the Midnight Show....' ('Baby's breath' is a common name for gypsophilla (sp!) whose small white flowers are sometimes hung from light - fittings at weddings, so hopefully The Killers meant this as a play on words)",26,"A_mor, mpgabster, woods44, Beatlemaniacs, RW104, 1outside, roamin, CallumPetch, rduarte, kuttowski, lukegodber, tpjdavies, Olimite, kemiladashdot, staticstudios, jovisgoesnuts, MadameZia, Pixaling, DavidAnderson, BladeRunner, DavidShepherd","BladeRunner: ""oh, great take on it @alisonsghost ! loved the connection of ideas!!!! =D""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I've not been much of a Killers fan since their 1st album,( which seems to have a lot of murder songs on it! ) But this track was written by the re-incarnation of Patricia H.... Well, as far as I'm concerned!! :)""" 2014-10-03,Slowdive,"Golden Hair",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--drJofslw,"This was supposed to be the Syd Barrett version, but it's not allowable here. This is lovely, in it's own way, especially if played at 11 on the dial...",33,"kdd, savagetea, teen, teaandbbc, dutchbeeblebrox, PSYCHOACTIVE, DavidShepherd, rduarte, yugoseat, zombierust, debutch, natyblooming, RW104, alijoe, woods44, vincestclair, kemiladashdot, carrotbourke, lozarithm, abigail.deeks, AlicejustMay, Howl2046, DavidAnderson, Section42L, A_mor, roamin, DVCwins, staticstudios, BladeRunner, btener, tpjdavies, MadameZia","AlicejustMay: ""Glorious... love the ethereal start; like angels singing at 37,000ft""; abigail.deeks: ""*goosebumps* love this lot! Lots of nostalgia :)""; lozarithm: ""Both versions are great.""; debutch: ""Great version! You done well!""; dutchbeeblebrox: ""Good old Syd. He would have approved I think.""; natyblooming: ""Hello!!!!!!!! :)""" 2014-09-08,Momus,Bishonen,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVycPOh-Ec,"A fabulous teller of weird short stories. Kept in a cupboard by Creation for years...thank you @lucathequietone for the introduction.",31,"florencevibert, lozarithm, pixoy, RonObvious, alijoe, kemiladashdot, woods44, abigail.deeks, lukegodber, MVD, btener, Avante, A_mor, DavidAnderson, roamin, Salvadore, carrotbourke, debutch, BladeRunner, natyblooming, lucathequietone, thesunneversets, jovisgoesnuts, shme, philipnareike, thisismymistake, MadameZia","thisismymistake: ""One of the best albums of the 80s. This and his debut album...""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake definitely one of the best albums that I've listened to. I haven't played The Poison Boyfriend in detail yet, being so captivated by Tender Pervert. Bishonen is probably a little long for a jam but I love it :)""; lucathequietone: ""Glad you appreciated it.""; debutch: ""I played this to death when I first bought it. Great track!""; florencevibert: ""Splendid!!""" 2014-09-01,"Kate Tempest","'A Hammer'",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnC3Wz72FQ,"I Love Kate Tempest! Think this probably part of something, but it's a good part....",36,"debutch, lozarithm, vincestclair, yugoseat, newley, UncannyUK, A_mor, roamin, lukegodber, kemiladashdot, lucathequietone, DavidAnderson, BladeRunner, HaveACuppaTea, shme, njparry, lukestevo26, MadameZia, dutchbeeblebrox, thesunneversets", 2014-08-25,"The Damned","New Rose",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfyUqVqX-0,"My favourite love song. Thanks to @zombierust whose jam 'Public Image' could only be played on you tube, where I collided with this beautiful video.",41,"kuttowski, vanoccupanther, philbrummell, lukegodber, dutchbeeblebrox, SeanTAllen, Avante, AlicejustMay, lindatee, Kasper, Rocklobster, HaveACuppaTea, ih2502mk, woods44, btener, margir, Section42L, tomdwilly, nikkinikki, florencevibert, carrotbourke, crawtonleek, yugoseat, kdd, AndyWilkinson, zombierust, DavidAnderson, newley, mloup, roamin, pauseliveaction, staticstudios, simonp, njparry, abigail.deeks, Astromonkey, DavidShepherd, MadameZia, lozarithm, BladeRunner, philipnareike, debutch, tpjdavies","alisonsghost: ""Definitely a #dancejam""; tpjdavies: ""Great jam.""; debutch: ""Definitely!!""; DavidShepherd: ""You old romantic you.""; abigail.deeks: ""I adore this!!!!!!!!""; njparry: ""Damned good jam""..........""; DavidAnderson: ""Yeah....""; zombierust: ""That's a great jam and video, all time favourite as well.""; AndyWilkinson: ""One of the greatest songs of all time.""; fraserclaymore: ""The Damned......""A National Treasure!""....""; AlicejustMay: ""*Sighs nostalgically*""; dutchbeeblebrox: ""Classic Damned.""; vanoccupanther: ""a great single from their 2nd best album""; alisonsghost: ""@dutchbeeblebrox @AlicejustMay @DavidAnderson @njparry @abigail.deeks @debutch @tpjdavies Thanks for liking The Damned :)""; alisonsghost: ""@DavidShepherd I don't mind being called old, but not sure about romantic. Thought I detected irony though so that's ok :) Thanks for listening!""; alisonsghost: ""@zombierust I can't remember seeing a film of the Dammed before. That was a really good one...goes on my favourite cheap videos list...Thanks for the trail of breadcrumbs :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AndyWilkinson One of the greatest as far as I'm concerned, definitely :)""; alisonsghost: ""@fraserclaymore Not sure about National Treasures. They all keep being charged with heinous crimes:)""; alisonsghost: ""@vanoccupanther I'll have to work on that one :)""" 2014-08-23,"The Brunettes","'Umm Yeah (Dearest) Buddy Holly Cover",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twlriru-sLM,"It was supposed to be 'Structure and Cosmetics' a deeply unhinged song. But this is ok :)",21,"alijoe, DavidShepherd, UncannyUK, kdd, BladeRunner, debutch, newley, roamin, HaveACuppaTea, staticstudios, natyblooming, DavidAnderson, Avante, MadameZia","MadameZia: ""New to me so off to check out 'Structure and Cosmetics' now :)""; natyblooming: ""Hello...where were you??? I am happy to see you back here! :)""; UncannyUK: ""Hi there! The band you're after is Gulp, featuring (I think) the bassist from the Super Furry Animals.""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK Many thanks :) Will look for them.""" 2014-08-15,"Leonard Cohen","Famous Blue Raincoat",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aRKZFR5imM,"'Famous Blue Raincoat' for @BladeRunner. Solves my really bad riddle for you, hopefully :) x",27,"kdd, cbinseoul, woods44, melissapulo, meddlingwitch, vanoccupanther, yugoseat, btener, Olimite, 1outside, Section42L, roamin, kuttowski, lindatee, kemiladashdot, jmmcleod, newley, RonObvious, MadameZia, natyblooming, rduarte, teaandbbc, njparry, BladeRunner, debutch, carrotbourke, philipnareike, tpjdavies, DavidAnderson, shme","philipnareike: ""What riddle? I need to know........ also......just noticed .....this is your JamRoom 101....do you have a terrible fear of raincoats?""; debutch: ""WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???... Thought you'd run away to join a cult sect or something!....Brilliant jam btw.""; BladeRunner: ""ooooohhh!!! sweet, sweet =D ! And may I say... happy to have seen you again, Lady! (don't go away for too long!) =)x""; njparry: ""Great jam""; kuttowski: ""Didn't listen to this song for ages ... Thanks, very much. Awesome once again""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike Funnily enough, I really don't like raincoats, especially beige ones. Or any sensible outdoor wear. So yes , 101 the creatures""; alisonsghost: ""@debutch I'd be more likely to start a cult. I need the cash! I wasn't here because I was finding it difficult to listen to enough of other people's jams, among other things. Thanks for noticing I wasn't here! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Thanks, duck (as we say around here) :)x I just noticed my last jam was 'She's Not Here'!! Accidently!""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost subliminal ;)""; Rocklobster: ""I had the same problem about ""keeping up"" with all the jams on here, so I unfollowed a bunch of people. Harsh, but at least I have 8-10 new jams to listen to every 3 days or so, instead of the 20 or more I was getting. I can keep up now! Sorry to anyone I deleted, it was nothing personal :-/""; vanoccupanther: ""The most heartbreaking part of this song is that she cheated on him with a Scientologist.""; melissapulo: ""I loooove this song...""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster I'm quite bad at that, although it does get done very occasionally. The thing is, you know a lot more about music than I do. I've learnt quite a lot from being on here and bought quite a lot of stuff. So I never know what I'm missing. It would be wonderful if someone could build an app for the ipod so that it was possible to hear & like things as a playlist while working. Btw is Last FM working for you? It gave up scrobbling recently so have stopped paying.......""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster......what's really funny is that I think this matters. Years of indoctrination, obviously :)""; alisonsghost: ""@vanoccupanther You're the only other person I've come across who thinks that 'going clear' relates to Scientology. But LC did spend a brief period in the 60's messing around with it. I spent ages trying to think of an explanation for that word but I've only heard it in connection with the unpleasant L. Ron H. It may not have been quite so bad; 'did you ever go clear? holds out a tiny bit of hope :) People often get upset at the idea that LC was a scientologist though!""; Rocklobster: ""If I'm on Jam and don't have enough new songs in my playlist, I'll use the Explore function - if I fancy hearing something that sounds like The Magnetic Fields, I'll use them as a starting point - I've found new artists that way. I've bought quite a bit after hearing for the first time on here - e.g., Literature are on my purchase list at the moment. And I don't know more about music than anyone else, I've just been around a long time and my tastes change frequently. I binge on genres then stop.""; Rocklobster: ""Last FM's still working for me. Another place I've found lots of new artists (and friends) over the years. The playlist function on there (allied to Spotify) is excellent for discovery. I wouldn't worry about missing stuff, by the way - you'll hear worthwhile music sooner or later, and if it's later than other people, it really doesn't matter.""; vanoccupanther: ""@alisonsghost yeah a lot of respectable people dabbled in Scientology way back when it was first starting out, l Ron, for all his faults could definitely be a very suggestive dude. He even convinced other influential writers of the time including the beat cynical beat writers like William S. Burroughs and Ginsberg to try it. So considering his age it doesn't surprise me that LC does have a Scientology connection, but I think it was more so just scratching a curiosity more than anything.""" 2014-06-25,"The Zombies","She's Not There",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU,"Return of The Zombies. Poor film quality but very gentlemen's outfitting, like a sub-conscious memory of hundreds of adverts in early childhood...",34,"AndyWilkinson, surfingkitten, laurafantyz, christyvale, woods44, bugineed, DavidShepherd, lucathequietone, fsohail, junkycosmonaut, teen, debutch, UncannyUK, shiftingspanner, florencevibert, MVD, HaveACuppaTea, btener, newley, roamin, Section42L, MadameZia, RW104, roydesmet, guitarman, lozarithm, BladeRunner, cbinseoul, pauseliveaction, simonp, crawtonleek, abigail.deeks, zombierust, lindatee, Avante, tpjdavies","alisonsghost: ""Feel I should confess that I thought of The Zombies in the 1st place due to the drama about, well, Zombies, on TV for the Poor recently. Most intelligent BBC drama for ages. Seriously. If anyone can remember what it was called could you let me know? Want to get it on DVD for a friend's b'day.""; Avante: ""Lovely jam... unfortunatly I can't help you with the series. :/""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante I'd never put the words intelligent, sensitive & zombie together before :)""; Avante: ""@alisonsghost hahaha... Brilliantly done. :)""; simonp: ""Hey happy jamcentenial! Maybe she's not there but we're sure glad you're here on TIMJ""; crawtonleek: ""Google suggests that it was In The Flesh. Sound about right? On a similar topic, have you seen the film Colin? It's a microbudget zom flick with an oddly sympathetic undead central character. A must-watch for genre buffs.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Extremely gracious. Thanks duck, (as we say round here) :)""; alisonsghost: ""@crawtonleek That's the one! Big thanks. I'm not a zombie buff at all, that's what is so strange.(more into cinematic ghosts, the more subtle the better) But the gore bit was brilliantly handled in that series. 'Colin' sounds interesting. Anything with 'microbudget' in front of it is usually better, somehow.""; simonp: ""my pleasure luv""; pauseliveaction: ""<3""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp You speak like that too!""; alisonsghost: ""@pauseliveaction :)""; simonp: ""of course chuck""; clickysounds: ""Thanks for all the jams! Happy 100th!""; florencevibert: ""Oooooh, yes! Gorgeous :) Happy Jamiversary! ^^""; UncannyUK: ""So ahead of its time.""; debutch: ""Most refined & sensitive for a Zombie!""; alisonsghost: ""@clickysounds Thanks :)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Many thanks :) Glad you like Zombies :)""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK Do you think so? Not sure about this one, but the one of theirs I jammed last week about the 1st world war was pretty distinctive....""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter A zombie in a beautifully tailored suit - I can see that ending messily, but zombies have feelings too, bless them :)""; debutch: ""Yes.. sympathy for the Zombies, ..I can identify with that..""; teen: ""@simonp I totally agree, well said!!!!""; fsohail: ""Happy 100th!""; lucathequietone: ""Happy 100th from me too.""; MadameZia: ""Love this x""; florencevibert: ""@alisonsghost Indeed! :)""; debutch: ""OH! Sorry ( how rude of me).... Happy 100th!!!""; alisonsghost: ""@teen @lucathequietone @fsohail Thanks :) I thought I was feeling old :)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert @MadameZia I love it, although it was the obvious choice. Not too many films to choose from of The Zombies in that era as far as I could see. A bit surprised.""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter I wouldn't worry about being rude :) Being rude by mistake appears to be my speciality at the moment!!""" 2014-06-18,"The Zombies","Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVZzZP3bJg,"Not what you'd expect from The Zombies. So this will have to be week 1 of a short Zombie-thon. Chris White on vocals.",35,"alijoe, shitsterbauer, surfingkitten, laurafantyz, HaveACuppaTea, florencevibert, staticstudios, BladeRunner, stumbelina, newley, roamin, guitarman, mjgBZ32, Section42L, kdd, pauseliveaction, MadameZia, thesunneversets, Avante, abigail.deeks, simonp, tpjdavies, debutch","debutch: ""A thoughtful choice! Unusual, interesting and as you say, not what you'd expect from them. I believe that this LP is supposed to be a 'forgotten' classic from the 60s""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter I think it may have been unavailable but it was easy to download from iTunes yesterday! I'm not a great Zombies expert, tho'. This track was bloody creepy & so different I wondered if it was possibly a cover....What I hate about downloads is the total lack of information on writers/singers/musicians etc. Even some CD's are guilty in this way. Cloudberry Records & Sarah being 2 examples...""; debutch: ""Absolutely. Bring back vinyl!!! ( with their inner sleeves full of info, lyrics, photos etc...)""; gogokrista: ""Luckily in the circles I run in this is far from forgotten. I'm currently taking a class where we're playing the music of The Zombies & Friends. So far, we've done ""A Rose for Emily"" and ""Care of Cell 44"" from Odessey and Oracle. So good.""" 2014-06-10,"Colin Blunstone","Say You Don't Mind",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-wekAq-s34,"I was going to jam The Zombies, then I remembered this bloke my cousin used to listen to.So what are the odds on posting the lead singer of The Zombies? Weird. The Zombies next time:)...And the song is by Denny Laine as everyone but me knows.",41,"lozarithm, alijoe, pixoy, HaveACuppaTea, JBoxer, natyblooming, meddlingwitch, newley, lucathequietone, Avante, christineb, roberthiley, pauseliveaction, Salvadore, MadameZia, kuttowski, teen, roamin, RedStar, florencevibert, jnsvalente, Section42L, debutch, kemiladashdot, DavidShepherd, staticstudios, tpjdavies, philipnareike, lindatee, AndyWilkinson","lindatee: ""This was on my 'to jam' list too : )""; philipnareike: ""Lovely song""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee I think that often happens on here. Everyone thinks of the same thing at once. Sorry. :(""; tpjdavies: ""Denny Laine's original is great too.""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike It wasn't something I appreciated at the time but I love his voice now.""; alisonsghost: ""@tpjdavies I didn't have time to listen to that, but it's on youtube""; tpjdavies: ""He's not as good a singer as Bluntstone but he wrote it.""; philipnareike: ""@alisonsghost I remember hearing it when I was a kid....on Radio 2...it was my Mum's radio station of choice""; alisonsghost: ""@tpjdavies Yes. If you go to fullscreen I mention it. But like not knowing that CB was the lead singer of The Zombies, I didn't know that either beforeI went to get this.""; tpjdavies: ""It is an excellent choice!""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike I'm sure it was on TOTP's. My cousin was only about 20 when she had it in their family record rack :)""; alisonsghost: ""@tpjdavies :)""; debutch: ""Got a distinctive voice & very 'English' sounding, too ( as in 'village garden ' & cucumber sarnies lol!) As for your Zombies jam, I only know 2 songs ( both terrific) "" She's not there"" & ""Time of the season"" It HAS to be one of those two, yes?""; lindatee: ""@alisonsghost Don't be sorry - it does happen a lot - we all like to share a good choon!!""; teen: ""great choice...""; pauseliveaction: ""Ohhhhhh gorgeous! One of my all-time favourites. I'm in a swoon of happiness now hearing this :)""; Avante: ""Ohhhh... what a great pick. :D""; lucathequietone: ""Never heard this one before, really beautiful, like the string arrangement. Top pick @alisonsghost!""; natyblooming: ""oh!!!! :D""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter For years, I had the vague impression that the Zombies were a punk band!! A lot of English people dream about cucumber sarnies on the lawn, or at the Ritz, or possibly Fortnum & Masons but sadly this is as rare for most of us as England winning the World Cup :) Know what you mean, though...""; alisonsghost: ""@teen Thanks - feel it chose me, somehow. I was totally amazed that he CB had anything to do with The Zombies!""; alisonsghost: ""@pauseliveaction Really glad to help anyone swoon with happiness, even if it was by proxy :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Thanks - it's a rare occasion :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I'm not sure I could make it through a whole Colin Blunstone LP, but I know what you mean - for a couple of songs at least. I was quite young when I heard this & it has a lot of good memories of Hampshire & my cousins, associated with it :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Oooooh, indeed!! Thanks for passing it on, if you see what I mean :)""" 2014-06-04,"Alice Boman",What,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgvVoG4FjD4,"Alice Boman. .. A weird and lonely sound. (If it turns out to be Alice In Chains, let me know. The embedding code had been re-named. I did play it through, but just in case...!)",54,"woods44, clickysounds, BarneyRubble, yugoseat, Salvadore, oneeverytwo, pixoy, AlicejustMay, MiaowMix, UncannyUK, florencevibert, vincestclair, DVCwins, debutch, HaveACuppaTea, thesunneversets, roamin, altngo, natyblooming, lozarithm, DavidAnderson, simonp, BladeRunner, Beatlemaniacs, MadameZia, shme, DavidShepherd, thisismymistake","thisismymistake: ""It's Alice in Bo alright :) Also, <3""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I bought a decent radio with good sound that gives the track names so at last am listening to music stations.... When I jammed this, I did wonder if you might already have done so. Sorry if you have!""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost I believe being the first one to jam ABo is part of my very minor claim to fame on TIMJ, but I haven't jammed her in a while. So no worries. Plus the more ABo jams, the better :)""; simonp: ""Thanks for The Clientele tip earlier. Tis been safely ordered.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I didn't think she would have made it under your musical radar, somehow :) It might have been before I started jamming which was only summer last year, even though I joined in 2012. It's already made a huge difference to the amount of music I like though - I'm far more willing to listen to different things. So many thanks for the Sirens:)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Good news :) I started by listening to Strange Geometry, as well, and had difficulty with the first two. Now they are my favourite albums. I used to put tracks on mix playlists when I was trying to get used to a band and the Clientele was one of them. After that I went for the total immersion technique which worked so well I can't stop :) That's one of the reasons I'm not too sure about jamming them.""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost Wondefully ethereal - love the vid too""; clickysounds: ""yeah, I guess I ultimately do blame @thisismymistake for the introduction quite some time ago.""; alisonsghost: ""@clickysounds :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble She is lovely, and totally new to me.""" 2014-05-30,"The Clientele",Lacewings,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnvqG2sBQZc,"The Clientele & Lacewings as 'The Suburban Light' re-issue is pretty much all I've listened to since it arrived. Allegedly, the slide guitar solo was improvised live while supporting Damon & Naomi... So that's probably not true :)",24,"woods44, vincestclair, umaestrutura, simonp, lozarithm, fearson, kdd, RW104, Salvadore, staticstudios, lindatee, pixoy, MadameZia, DavidAnderson, florencevibert, christineb, roamin, debutch, Brownpants","alisonsghost: ""There is a really good review of The Suburban Light re-issue on Pitchfork, not just complimentary but a (readable!) analysis of what makes this album so special. I always feel slightly uneasy about posting their songs out of context & this explains why. An unusual degree of lucidity for a review :) http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19257-the-clientele-suburban-light-reissue/""; simonp: ""Sacrilegiously, I don't have this! Got into them at Strange Geometry but I have now ordered. Phew...""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Good news :) The Suburban Light reissue is definitely worth ordering the from Merge. They also throw in a download of the LP & the extra tracks which also come on Cd, so that you end up with 2 versions of 'Monday's Rain' the album version and the 8 track original (which sounds wonderful) plus other stuff which ranges from the interesting t the jaw-droppingly gorgeous!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Sorry about the typos above.""" 2014-05-23,"The Clientele","Dreams of Leaving",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDu37hhKVg,"Yes, it's The Clientele again...",39,"lukestevo26, yugoseat, woods44, lynn200, neil_jones, MadameZia, MiaowMix, Goony, vyansky, Rocklobster, staticstudios, teen, lozarithm, RW104, christineb, florencevibert, laurafantyz, debutch, mloup, carrotbourke, philbrummell, lucathequietone, nangeanarendra, kemiladashdot, DavidAnderson, Salvadore, roamin, BladeRunner","kemiladashdot: ""A song to swoon to:_""; carrotbourke: ""Great band""; debutch: ""New to me & I like it. Gonna check them out""; florencevibert: ""New to me too. I like it very much! Big thanks :)""; christineb: ""Same here.. love this..""; teen: ""love this dreamy jam...""; Rocklobster: ""Post as much Clientele as you like (and whilst Youtube still lets you...). It's always rather lovely :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot It certainly is :)""; alisonsghost: ""@carrotbourke They are a great band, definitely. Sad that they are so undervalued :(""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter If you like this, then check out this album. They recorded all their early stuff on an 8 track at home! This is their last but one studio album. I prefer a bit more fuzz and echo so I like the earliest stuff best :) But it's all wonderful.""; alisonsghost: ""@teen @christineb @florencevibert Really pleased you liked it :) (sorry to bundle you altogether but just realised that I'm writing and not listening again ! )""; lynn200: ""a first play. liked the voice,lyric...all of it.""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Happy to hear that :) They're an amazing band. I hope you're still playing 'Nightswimming'. Coming over to look :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Never say to me 'post as much Clientele as you like...I probably will:) At the moment can't stop listening to The Suburban Light reissue, the only time I've ever noticed re-mastering to have a good effect. Completely beautiful. Obviously this is irrelevant and childish but it was good to see it score 9.1 as one of Pitchfork's re-issues of the year when Oasis only got 8.1 :) Sadly, Merge don't seem to have put out a promo track, let alone a video, for it.""" 2014-05-21,"The Chainsmokers",#SELFIE,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9er1Y05R-0,"Hilarious and short.",33,"seaofheartbreak, Rocklobster, DavidAnderson, debutch, roamin, teen, HaveACuppaTea, MadameZia, UncannyUK","UncannyUK: ""Great fun.""; DavidAnderson: ""Brilliant!""; teen: ""HA, love it..""; debutch: ""HaHaHa! Yeah!""; DVCwins: ""It's funny one time, but it quickly becomes tremendously annoying. I know it's meant to be satirical but it suffers from the ""Chicken Song"" / ""Barbie Girl"" syndrome of becoming the very thing it mocks.""; alisonsghost: ""@DVCwins Yes, I can imagine if it's played in clubs/on the radio etc it must be torture. It's a really weird hybrid anyway; when I found it on Spotify I didn't think it was for real, it sounds like some sort of indie satire on certain (not always stupid) young girls and the music they are surrounded by. But I always analyze too much! I don't listen to music radio either so have little context for things. So you win, it's the Birdie Song :) !""; alisonsghost: ""@DVCwins ......only possibly more intelligent :)""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter @teen @DavidAnderson @UncannyUK I'm glad you found it funny too, although it's worth reading what @DVCwins says about it. Thanks for listening :)""; DavidAnderson: ""it was for listening to within the context of your intro - ""hilarious and short"" - job done. Its not for over-analysing IMHO.""; alisonsghost: ""@DavidAnderson Probably not!""; DavidAnderson: "":D""; DVCwins: ""The Birdie Song is terrible and brainless (see also: Agadoo, Mr Blobby, anything by Coldplay, etc), but I have a bit more time for novelty records that are trying to make a point. Spitting Image's ""Chicken Song"" was so popular that many forgot that it was meant to be crap. ""Barbie Girl"" is actually a critique of airheads, but the airheads made it into an anthem, compromising its integrity. The character in ""Selfie"" is meant to be annoying and stupid, but this soon infiltrates the song itself.""; DVCwins: ""@DavidAnderson Sorry to analyse, but isn't that partly what TIMJ is for?""; alisonsghost: ""@DVCwins I don't think the integrity of a genuinely meant satire/parody can be compromised. Don't people always adopt what threatens them in an effort to defuse it? Like politicians who claim that certain cartoons that lampoon them are wonderful. But a brilliant cartoon will get under their skin and alarm spin doctors before it appears framed on the wall of their toilet. TV is more complicated; if the victims can't adopt, (Yes Minister), they will try and silence ( Chris Morris). It works.""; alisonsghost: ""@DVCwins The people who found this funny were probably, like me, previously unaware of it and could respond naturally. In it's original state it is a funny, well observed (to an extent) parody. Would it be annoying if played endlessly? Yes. So is all music.( I still haven't recovered from the radio 1 playlists I was forced to listen to at work in my teens!) I get your point, but it's probably a discussion that can never be resolved. Except by leaving parody/satire to bands unheard by the target""; alisonsghost: ""Perhaps the question might be is music a suitable vehicle for parody/satire? Once stated this is obviously a ridiculous contention. I'd be interested to know how popular this is btw?""; Rocklobster: ""I'm about as disconnected from popular culture as I've ever been, so I had to ask my teenage daughter about this song. Apparently, it was top 10, ""possibly number one"". I had no idea and heard it for the first time on here. As one of the seven ""likers"", I was amused by it.""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Quite so :) I'm interested it was in the top 10 though. That means I wasted a hell of a lot of time listening to what claims to be 'the official uk chart' on whichever channel it appears on. Unless it was one of the songs that were skated over because it didn't have an 'official video'. They didn't seem to have names either! . But it may have been heavily sponsored by Calvin Harris's record company as he was name checked every few minutes.""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Just found this about You Tube. Everyone else probably knows but it would seem to make the future of THIMJ slightly in doubt. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/22/indie-labels-youtube-subscription-music""; ZenPyramid: ""@alisonsghost @DVCwins Hue! Yea, annoys the fuck outta me. Personally, i think it's a really tedious rip off off of 'Boring Bitches', which is even more apparent when you watch the videos for both. However, where 'Selfie' as @DVCwins points out, becomes the thing it seeks to satirise, 'Boring Bitches' maintains a sense of caustic distance from it's subjects, and as a result, keeps you coming back for more. One of my favourite anthems, as it goes. But i'm weird... http://youtu.be/dkABiq8RfiM""; alisonsghost: ""@ZenPyramid Better done, certainly - it really lets that misogony less hard to mistake. Even the repeated 'you could be dancing to this now' is a nod to the fact it is already part of what it claims to hate. This one is, I suppose, to put it at it's most elevated a record of how certain girls behave. Weirdly, the other one while being more intelligently put together is the more stupid. It drips hatred. Bring me two similar things about boring men will you? Jam change now, but replying ok :)""; alisonsghost: ""@ZenPyramid I saw your video but not one for this. I've only heard it 3 times! So will look for one.""" 2014-05-13,"Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions",Suzanne,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3eWPBScgCs,"A clothes-tearingly sexy song.... Thanks to everyone who left comments on 'Ignite'; sorry I wasn't around to reply to some of them.",44,"woods44, DavidShepherd, yugoseat, doqtor, MiaowMix, HaveACuppaTea, neil_jones, alijoe, zombierust, florencevibert, Hooch, debutch, Rocklobster, hughesrt, mloup, DavidAnderson, clickysounds, AndyWilkinson, thisismymistake, teen, Salvadore, roamin, albakirk, Floressas, lynn200, ccrosby37, RW104, shme, MadameZia, tpjdavies, kdd, natyblooming, BladeRunner, lucathequietone","lucathequietone: ""First!""; lucathequietone: ""wonderful song, btw""; natyblooming: ""Great Cover!!!!!!!!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Speedy :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming It's easily confused, but it's a song written by Hope Sandoval. Just checked the cd to see, because I've always wondered if it was :)""; natyblooming: ""@alisonsghost oh!!!!!!! Well, learn something new everyday! :)""; natyblooming: ""and guess I´ll have to listen to both (yours) and Cohen´s again :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Sorry. Have to say I went back to listen to LC again as they are both clothes-tearingly sexy songs!!:) There is a definite similarity towards the end, especially.""; lynn200: ""this sure has nothing to do with Lens song...this really is sexy sweet...no walking down to the river here. a beautiful play, yes the harp at the end...""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost @natyblooming There's also a wonderful original by Alela Diane called Suzanne (about her mom), if you want to add to your playlist...""; thisismymistake: ""--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCw_vrnDpLM""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Especially glad you liked this. Sexy sweet indeed :)""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake That's very nice. Seems a more complex song, after one listen anyway. Now have that album saved on spotify for future investigation. Thanks!""; debutch: ""Aaah..Hope Sandoval (ex Mazzy Star) With a voice like hers, she could look like Boris Johnson & I'd STILL fall in love with her!""; florencevibert: ""Beautiful - Thanks!""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter It does have that effect! Although I've found I can only listen to about 5 Mazzy Star tracks before I go weirdly numb. Slight gripe with her never trying anything different, vocally, but she's undoubtedly gorgeous in most respects :) As for Boris, its amazing how many affairs he has!!""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Thanks for listening :)""" 2014-05-06,"Sky Architects",Ignite,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZdmSqWGjDk,"Love this...",50,"chrishling, altngo, woods44, teen, kuttowski, DavidShepherd, lucathequietone, alijoe, christineb, florencevibert, shme, debutch, socam, Salvadore, pixoy, mloup, RW104, DavidAnderson, roamin, ccrosby37, Avante, BladeRunner","BladeRunner: ""Surprise jam - quite a challenge: listening only once and jamming it. To me you've done it very well! I like it!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner You are lovely:) I liked it,but I don't think 'doom pop' is a helpful tag. Probably a way of not saying 'shoegaze'.It's quite melodic, really.""; Avante: ""I'm with @BladeRunner well done. I really like it. :D""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Thanks! I must have done something right, then... possibly by mistake :)""; debutch: ""This music seemed to slot in perfectly with how I feel at the moment ( funny how that happens sometimes ...is that called 'serendipity' or something?) Wistful & lovely""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter Serendipity :) Each time I listen to it, it sounds different, for some reason. But it's really new to me.""; alisonsghost: ""For what it's worth, there seems to be a band called 'Sky Architect' too. Haven't had time to listen, yet.""; florencevibert: ""What a jam! Totally amazing. Thanks for share it! :)""; lucathequietone: ""Very intense.""; kuttowski: ""Can't find words to comment ... Amazing!""; teen: ""listening intently""" 2014-04-29,Television,"The Fire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREQLeFUcUc,"Birthday over, so time to watch the corners turn corners. For me, one moment of beauty transforms this completely. Thanks to @awildslimalien on http://backedwith.wordpress.com",47,"labracoon, CallumPetch, lozarithm, shme, alijoe, RonObvious, lynn200, lukegodber, yugoseat, HaveACuppaTea, MikeHandshakes, Avante, zombierust, Section42L, vincestclair, btener, rduarte, kdd, Salvadore, AndyWilkinson, kemiladashdot, BladeRunner, DavidAnderson, MadameZia, RW104, teen, roamin, pauseliveaction, tpjdavies, ccrosby37, natyblooming, simonp, christineb","teen: ""Happy Belated Birthday!""; juepucta: ""happy belated!""; btener: ""great jam! i'm sure some fans of marquee moon don't know this album that well, but the fact is, television would be a legendary and influential band even if adventure had been their only album. that said, marquee moon might be my favorite album of all time :)""; alisonsghost: ""@btener So far I like Adventure a lot. Hadn't listened to any of it for ages. It was a remark about a cover version of this that made me listen again. Glad I did and glad you liked it :)""; alisonsghost: ""@teen Thanks!""; alisonsghost: ""@juepucta Thank you :)""; debutch: ""Excellent jam. Often overlooked by ""Marquee Moon"" ( Oh, by the way , you didn't imagine my post yesterday. I didn't realise I accidently deleted it! Looking out for the postman for your Birthday badge!!)""; Avante: ""Happy belated birthday. Hurray! :D""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Belated thank you ! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter Hope the badge has turned up! I wasn't quite sure where the cyberpostbox was, to be honest :)""" 2014-04-28,R.E.M.,"Losing My Religion",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bKTqvWIo-c,"My birthday today. A song to celebrate that & the passing of bad things. Plus this song has a brilliant extended metaphor running through it. Jangly class.",34,"HaveACuppaTea, lynn200, abigail.deeks, cbinseoul, debutch, kemiladashdot, tomdwilly, lucathequietone, rumn8tr, kdd, pauseliveaction, Section42L, AndyWilkinson, Salvadore, guitarman, jovisgoesnuts, RW104, roamin, natyblooming, mloup, MadameZia, guyhamilton552, thesunneversets, christineb, BladeRunner, DavidAnderson, Astromonkey, crawtonleek, carrotbourke, pjcj, shme, philipnareike","philipnareike: ""Have a lovely day!""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike Will do :) Although I've been ordered to wear a One Direction badge...""; Astromonkey: ""Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good day with the 1D badge on :)""; BladeRunner: ""Wish you a beautiful new year @alisonsghost ! This song is full of meanings and feelings for me, great choice!""; christineb: ""Happy Birthday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofviL8chwk a little song for your day, hope its filled with family, friends and good tunes""; Owlsoup: ""Happy birthday!""; MadameZia: ""Happy Birthday :)""; natyblooming: ""HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are fabulous and fun! Hope you have a wonderful day! :)""; jovisgoesnuts: ""Happy happy birthday Alison, have a lovely day. :-)""; jovisgoesnuts: ""Great jam to do it to.""; lindatee: ""Love this - hope you are having a fabulous day!""; Salvadore: ""Cheerful jangling tune for the day, happy birthday :)""; pauseliveaction: ""Happy birthday! x""; kdd: ""Happy Birthday!""; lucathequietone: ""Happy birthday! And a great big (virtual) hug.""; simonp: ""Hey HB! And not a Clientele track to celebrate, that's restrained""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thank you :) And a cyber hug back.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I thought it was, too :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Astromonkey A very good day. The One Direction badge is still pinned to my jacket. I couldn't find a sticky label to change the band name to The Clientele!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Thankyou :) For me too, which is why I chose it in the end. It bears an eerie similarity to my life 3 yrs ago!""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb Thanks for the pressie :) I'm going to smoke cigars with Bjork! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Owlsoup Thanks, duck:) (As we say round here!)""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia Thanks :) x""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xx""; alisonsghost: ""@jovisgoesnuts Thanks :) Glad you like REM. Not the happiest song, but the show looked like a great place to be!""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee Thanks :) A great day:)""; alisonsghost: ""@Salvadore Thankyou!:)""; alisonsghost: ""@pauseliveaction Thanks for that :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel :)""; kemiladashdot: ""aw missed most of your birthday, hope you're having a great day""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Fabulous thanks :) Apart from having to wear the One Direction badge. The worst looking band since the Bay City Rollers....""; abigail.deeks: ""Belated Happy Birthday wishes. Hope you had a lovely day :) x x""; alisonsghost: ""@abigail.deeks A really good one thanks x""; alisonsghost: ""@decarter Did I imagine you ? If I didn't, of course you can have my 1 direction badge. Shall put it in the cyberpost immediately :)""" 2014-04-26,"The Crayon Fields","Mirror Ball",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ancPtPc1u4Y,"A love song for very tired people. Just right for Saturday.",26,"Star0fCCTV, HaveACuppaTea, yugoseat, kemiladashdot, abigail.deeks, BarneyRubble, alijoe, Salvadore, bullu, lynn200, teen, Axol, DavidShepherd, laurafantyz, MadameZia, christineb, debutch, roamin, DavidAnderson, Avante","Avante: ""I'm tired, this suited me perfectly. Great! :D""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Excellent :)""; christineb: ""Also very tired.. wonderful jam~""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb Until I jammed this, I thought it was Sunday. Still not entirely convinced it isn't.""; teen: ""Napped my way through the day...""; lynn200: ""this is lovely....thx..""; christineb: ""@teen It was a nap type day wasn't it? I did the same thing @alisonsghost Somewhere in the world its Sunday.. so you're safe!!""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb It is now, and I'm even more tired! And have a very low attention span which is driving me mad :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Thanks :)""; alisonsghost: ""@teen Sleeping is probably the best thing to do. I keep walking into rooms and forgetting why I'm there...""; kemiladashdot: ""played this yesterday,thought it was fab, don't know why i failed to press like. wonderful.!""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot :) Don't jump, your country needs you. It's not a great jam, but it's vaguely thoughtful and jangly.""" 2014-04-24,"Dolly Mixture","Been Teen",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXcWDv5elk,"Long before Sarah Records and even C86 there was Dolly Mixture, formed in 1978. While I was still at school, I saw them supporting The Damned. I couldn't believe they were all women...",33,"alijoe, staticstudios, BladeRunner, roamin, altngo, Rocklobster, Owlsoup, DVCwins, UncannyUK, thesunneversets, philipnareike, MadameZia, carrotbourke, tpjdavies, shme, Astromonkey","alisonsghost: ""They were a really lovely band live. None of their recorded material seems to reflect that, somehow. The quality of this video is poor but evocative - it's also short :)""; kemiladashdot: ""That's really good. I love the "" I couldn't believe they were all women...""""; Rocklobster: ""You probably won't be surprised to hear that I love this band :-)""; lozarithm: ""Captain Sensible of course married a Dolly Mixture, while the other became an honorary St Etienne tour member. Lovely to hear this.""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I couldn't . I'd never seen girls get their hands on the holy trinity before, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums plus amps. They weren't allowed - they had to stand at the front and look pretty. Even the terrifying Siouxie falls into that category - she's beautiful. Also Annie Lennox with the Tourists and so on. No make up . Frocks and Docs. Heaven :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Not immensely surprised, no :) A bit rough round the edges, but basically tuneful. Same here about indietracks, alas. Apart from the daughter :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lozarithm It was always said to be the case. I thing St Etienne employed one of the members of Dead Famous People too, another overlooked all women band.""; alijoe: ""Remember these times !""; alisonsghost: ""@alijoe :)""" 2014-04-19,"Black Box Recorder","Andrew Ridgley",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-T3encTg4,"I've been hitting the Luke Haines hard this week and am now reeling. A song about superficiality & greed...possibly.",29,"Star0fCCTV, alijoe, lukegodber, philipnareike, kuttowski, vilumallin, UncannyUK, Olimite, ccrosby37, MadameZia, Salvadore, Rocklobster, PeteLaberge, woods44, junkycosmonaut, debutch, AndyWilkinson, DavidAnderson, tomdwilly, umaestrutura, RW104, DVCwins, tpjdavies, roamin, DavidShepherd, kompani101, thisismymistake, Astromonkey, thesunneversets, Avante, BladeRunner","BladeRunner: """"I didn't do too well at school They said I couldn't concentrate"" (haha, my story!)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Me too, although nothing to do with any part of Wham! :)""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost huahuahua same here!!! =D""; PeteLaberge: ""Wonderful song and story! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!1""; alisonsghost: ""@PeteLaberge :)""; kuttowski: ""Wonderful combination of two great artists. Love it Davy. Thanks for it. Cheers,Walter""; lukegodber: ""There is no track on this whole album I don't love.""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber it was incredibly hard to choose, but the way Sarah Nixey says 'This is 'Sarah Nixey talking' swung it for me. I'm not sure why!""" 2014-04-16,Beaumont,"Hey Barbara",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYtZn0SNGLY,"It's the late 60's and the sun is shining -  An album that sounds great from start to finish. Not to be confused with the electronic Beaumont btw",52,"christineb, kompani101, BarneyRubble, crawtonleek, lynn200, Star0fCCTV, kuttowski, Salvadore, staticstudios, DavidShepherd, kemiladashdot, teen, cbinseoul, lonux, chrishling, Hooch, BladeRunner, kdd, umaestrutura, edlweiss1, HaveACuppaTea, roamin, debutch, natyblooming, MadameZia, thesunneversets, tpjdavies, newley, lindatee","lindatee: ""Lovely : )""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee Thanks. It sounds especially funny after listening to @ZenPyramid's jam, though :) You've gone all green, hope you're ok.""; natyblooming: ""<3""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming :) :)""; lucathequietone: ""Another beautiful song I've never heard before. Thanks.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thank you :) I think the words 'twee concept album' might possibly be having an adverse subconscious effect, though :)""; umaestrutura: ""great song""; alisonsghost: ""@umaestrutura I'm glad someone likes it :)""; teen: ""gentle jam, love it""; alisonsghost: ""@teen Thanks:) The whole album is designed to work as a whole, I think, and it made choosing a track quite hard.""; kuttowski: ""Never heard before - but is great. Thanks for introducing me to this""; alisonsghost: ""@kuttowski It's a pretty good pastiche with quite a sweet song in it - glad you liked it :)""; lynn200: ""a lovely introduction...""; crawtonleek: ""Mmm, yes. This does happy things in my ears.""; BarneyRubble: ""Fine song, feelgood stuff""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble @crawtonleek @lynn200 Thanks for liking this. I think it's pretty much designed to be a happy, feel good thing. It does it really well :)""" 2014-04-10,"The Clientele","Policeman Getting Lost",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxUERmOjlE,"To celebrate their new tour and the re-release of the vinyl version of 'Suburban Light'... Ok, Merge, can I have my fee now?",41,"Beatlemaniacs, lukegodber, teen, vilumallin, shme, kdd, woods44, thisismymistake, bullu, nangeanarendra, kompani101, lucathequietone, roamin, staticstudios, Avante, MiaowMix, MadameZia, christineb, debutch, Brownpants, kemiladashdot, RW104, lindatee, wmunn1","lindatee: ""Love this : D""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee It's short and sweet:) I can never work out if he's harmonizing with himself at the end""; kemiladashdot: ""Nice track, one for the bunker""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot People will be sacrificed so that I can get the whole of The Clientele back catalogue into that bunker...probably not very many people looked at realistically, but a couple at least""; kemiladashdot: ""Well maybe the back catalogue by itself won't be a problem, but a good stereo and TeasMade might be.""; Avante: ""Beautiful. Thank you. :D""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I haven't got a stereo, let alone a good one which is daft considering the amount of 7""(Clientele) singles I buy - not to mention the Merge re-release of something I've already bought 4 times already. Well, 5 including the copy of 'Samantha Fox's Greatest Hits' I was sent by mistake...But you're right, it's going to be a problem, especially now I've got my job in the butchery dept. lined up.""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Really glad you liked it :) I love the idea of a policeman getting lost!""; lucathequietone: ""Lovely as usual. Have a nice weekend @alisonsghost.""; kompani101: ""Etherial.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; teen: ""@alisonsghost hopefully the policeman won't get lost on the way to your house if you need him...""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thanks - I hope you had a good weekend, too.""; alisonsghost: ""@kompani101 It is ethereal, but sort of real at the same time. They're an odd band, really. Thanks for liking it.""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia - I believed you about the police force! Until the penny dropped :)""; alisonsghost: ""@teen Hopefully not :) But the idea is weird and wonderful.""" 2014-04-06,"The Clientele","Reflections After Jane",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cruxFoAHIpg,"The latest sighting of The Clientele and everyone seems happy :) Live at The Bell House 3/21/14. Part of something puzzlingly called 'The Chickfactor 22 Concert'... A pole-dancing club perhaps?",36,"florencevibert, christineb, pjcj, lynn200, Hooch, yugoseat, woods44, lucathequietone, pixoy, vincestclair, MiaowMix, RW104, RonObvious, lukegodber, natyblooming, simonp, lindatee, thisismymistake, lukestevo26, staticstudios, shme, roamin, MadameZia, BladeRunner, debutch, alisonsghost, nangeanarendra","BladeRunner: ""adorable!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I adore it :) Good to see the audience listening for once!""; simonp: ""C'mon Alasdair, letsby avenue""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp 'But officer, I was only touching her shadow fingers in the dark!'""; lynn200: ""pole dancing..the next olympics..gold? a lovely new one,concentration is often demanded.""; florencevibert: ""Wonderful jam! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert I'm glad you liked it :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 It wouldn't surprise me if Pole Dancing got into the Olympics! It looks quite difficult to do well :)""" 2014-03-29,"The Beatles","Paperback Writer",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9G5sIS62I,"#Dedicationjam For an old friend of mine who recently got a degree in Literature while in jail - the 1st time he ever did 'the right thing':)",48,"andypritchard, chrishling, bullu, roydesmet, teaandbbc, lukegodber, ilovepie, lucathequietone, nadi, nate_ltd, pixoy, florencevibert, cbinseoul, peterseno, laurafantyz, Star0fCCTV, laurellisidhe, Beatlemaniacs, rduarte, etudor6, lukestevo26, HaveACuppaTea, pauseliveaction, CallumPetch, BladeRunner, lynn200, karmaplane, nangeanarendra, surfingkitten, christineb, RonObvious, 1outside, lozarithm, zombierust, Astromonkey, Salvadore, lindatee, tpjdavies, AndyWilkinson, staticstudios, d0minic, kemiladashdot, roamin, Section42L, MadameZia, njparry, shme, natyblooming, alisonsghost, newley","kemiladashdot: ""Very nice tune, video and story. Obviously he did one other thing right, which was to have you as a friend.""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot That is a sensationally nice thing to say :) It is a great film, the alternative publicity film for the single. It's a true story, but a timely one really.""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost yes it truly fab, just took a cheeky second look as you had a few likes to plays to spare""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot There's a bit at around 1.14 where a slightly absent looking Ringo seems to be examining what exactly it is he's sitting on/surrounded by. A drum kit! Blink and you miss it, though :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; lynn200: ""fantastic..time to think/write...shame what i'm hearing bout UK prisons stopping books being sent in tho.""; BladeRunner: ""Great to read this @alisonsghost ! Agree with @kemiladashdot""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 That's the other reason I jammed it. Such a high proportion of inmates are illiterate, often with mental health problems and appalling family backgrounds. It's a vindictive piece of legislation, because the drugs will get in anyway. I don't know what's happening lately, frankly :( .... ( Although apologies to people who hold different views. )""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner It is good news - whether it'll help on the outside in a family of junkies is another question. Fingers crossed !!! Anyway, at least it's a lovely clip of the Beatles ....""; HaveACuppaTea: ""You can see this video was around the time Paul cracked his front tooth.""; alisonsghost: ""@HaveACuppaTea Yes, someone had mentioned that when I went to get the link. Although, I have to say I was too busy thinking about John's sunglasses and George's 'fine eyes' (to quote Mr Darcy) to notice :)""; HaveACuppaTea: ""@alisonsghost Well, I would use my own photo as my avatar but I'm pretty damn sexy, I don't want to distract the ladies from the music, it's just not fair Alison. @natyblooming is one of many that would agree :D""; alisonsghost: ""@HaveACuppaTea Boundless gratitude for your consideration! I can't speak for @natyblooming, but I'm sooo easily distracted....Although not always by the same things :)""; Beatlemaniacs: ""Great Jam and nice dedication - good for your old friend!!!""; florencevibert: ""Brilliant track! :)""; lucathequietone: ""One of my fave Beatles songs. Can't beat 'Eleanor Rigby', though. Congrats for your friends: that's truly a great thing.""" 2014-03-26,Cranes,"Particles & Waves",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGxTNrD1HY,"Got my jams in the wrong order. For French week, late-era Cranes singing in French not Crane-ish. I think.",25,"ingridwildeman, CallumPetch, RonObvious, lozarithm, UncannyUK, nangeanarendra, philipnareike, florencevibert, Hooch, Section42L, yugoseat, BarneyRubble, DavidShepherd, kdd, roamin, robmitchell, MadameZia, natyblooming, Salvadore, RW104","Rocklobster: ""I knew Cranes before they broke out of Pompey. The bassist called himself Mark Dogsbreath at that time. I wonder if he still does?""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster I forget to mention Portsmouth! I'll have to rewrite the my senseless blurb now. Also forgot to say she sounds less like a killer baby on this. I didn't know that about the bassist - was he yearning for the great days of punk, do you think?""; BarneyRubble: ""Bon!""; BarneyRubble: ""Or as they say in Portsmouth ""Beezer""""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble I never hear anyone say that down my road! What does it mean???""; lucathequietone: ""Beautiful song. Great choice as usual.""; philipnareike: ""Oui.....definately less killer baby on this one...heeheehee....she had some voice in her 'killer baby' phase though..""; philipnareike: ""I think I've got a thing about screeching female singers..""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost Means great jam!""; alisonsghost: ""@philipnareike I'm pretty fond of the killer baby sound too. I don't think she was too screechy, but thanks for outing your preference :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble As far as I can tell, most Portsmouth slang seems to be Romani. Apart from stuff about ships. I haven't caught up with Beezer yet, though :) Are you from Pompey, then?? I spend fruitless hours trying to work out ways to get back to Southsea :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I like this rather than love it...It came from me turning up very late for French week! It's an interesting progression for this band, though.""" 2014-03-26,"The Crayon Fields","Mirror Ball",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ancPtPc1u4Y,"What do you mean, 'Not more wet lads with guitars...' ?",1,, 2014-03-20,"Pale Saints","Language of Flowers",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCvdcu9vDiY,"I've been mainlining 'The Comforts of Madness' this week while awaiting the outbreak of WW3...",45,"lozarithm, BarneyRubble, nangeanarendra, Star0fCCTV, altngo, AndyWilkinson, doqtor, Rocklobster, lynn200, abigail.deeks, chrishling, kdd, lucathequietone, Hooch, DavidShepherd, cbinseoul, DVCwins, MadameZia, yugoseat, d0minic, dirtydoodad, Astromonkey, Salvadore, lindatee, roamin, RW104, kemiladashdot, BladeRunner, tpjdavies","yugoseat: ""I love this band.""; alisonsghost: ""@yugoseat They're great, aren't they? They don't seem so wonderful at first, but the more you listen the better they sound. I bought' In Ribbons' this week - just a few years late :)""; yugoseat: ""Its never 'late' when it comes to music. In Ribbons my favourite of their albums. But they have a pretty strong catalogue. Thats my next jam all sorted then, Half-Life Remembered, it being my favourite song of theirs.""; alisonsghost: ""@yugoseat I'll look forward to that :)""; lucathequietone: ""Lovely song.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I'm not sure they necessarily make a great jam - as I said to @yugoseat above, the more you play them the better they sound, for some reason.""; lynn200: ""think the war is 'on hold..so we can enjoy some more music..a really interesting new find..intend to find some more of their work..""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 I'm glad you liked them :) Funny about 'the war', I thought everyone would be twitchy about The Crimea - definitely seems a little bit Arch Duke Ferdinand and Sarajevo as far as I'm concerned!!""; lynn200: ""where i live there are Many Russians, Crimeans, E Europeans.they dont like the governments, but all get on very well...just contain the problem to one place ,it will be fine,it was voted on..:)""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Absolutely - a fine example of democracy in action :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jams""; BarneyRubble: ""vocals and guitar - lovely sound""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble It is - thanks for thinking so :)""" 2014-03-14,Sparks,"'Amateur Hour'",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4rg62Xk6c,"The song doesn't start till half way through due to a wind up. Either make tea or be enthralled :) BBC Radio 4's small but perfectly formed documentary about Sparks is their programme of the week and definitely worth a listen btw...",41,"bullu, kdd, lukegodber, Star0fCCTV, kompani101, staticstudios, CallumPetch, debutch, pixoy, AlicejustMay, BarneyRubble, christineb, RW104, Rocklobster, florencevibert, newley, mloup, meddlingwitch, Olimite, woods44, shme, Astromonkey, lucathequietone, Section42L, kemiladashdot, tpjdavies, pauseliveaction, MadameZia, roamin","alisonsghost: ""I watched so much of their stuff on YT I'm now limp with viewing. Ironic as this was meant to be Beat The Clock. Some great comments on there ranging from 'why would Ron want to sabotage his own band and career by looking like that' to 'O That Russell guy could/should have been the biggest rocker stud in the world if he'd only just ....I don't know.....grasped it.....He was more Robert Plant than Robert Plant ever was...yet he was too tight...not loose enough to pull it off, its a shame'""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster - Did you get the fabulous Part 1 of this when you jammed 'Something For The Girl With Everything'? I don't remember it.""; lucathequietone: ""Les Fleurs Du Mael again.. maybe it's just tiredness, but after seeing this video somehow I just can't help but think about Pinky and The Brain..""; DavidShepherd: ""Listened to the documentary the other day - I don't think they're fans of The Rubettes.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Baudelaire sunk in after I stopped thinking Maelfleur beads and tapestries but Pinky and The Brain has left me floundering :) Answer on a postcard, please, as they used to say...Know what you mean about being tired :(""; alisonsghost: ""@DavidShepherd No, I don't think they are! But then it would rankle being beaten to no 1 by a group with almost alien hats...I think they were quite nice about it, considering. What struck me as funny, was that both 'This Town...' and 'Sugar Baby Love' both featured men with high voices, as if Britain was thirsty for falsetto :)""; MadameZia: ""If I may interject - 'Pinky and the Brain' is a 'grown-up' cartoon which whilst I watched in my 'grown-up' years - I will not allow my daughter to watch (yet)""; florencevibert: ""Wonderful! :)""; Rocklobster: ""I think my Something For The Girl With Everything video was off of TotP - it certainly wasn't a live recording. Love this though! The first song is BC from the Propaganda album, the same as Something For..., but I expect you knew that :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone @MadameZia A cartoon sort of makes sense, although I'm now dying to find out what it's about!!""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert Thanks for watching! I don't know how far you got :)""; florencevibert: ""@alisonsghost A pleasure! From the beginning until the end :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster No, of course I didn't. I didn't even notice that 'Something For The Girl With Everything' wasn't on Kimono My House! I'm not entirely sure the audience did either :) It's worth having a look at part one of this, though, because of who seems to be introducing it plus a really great performance. It took me most of the afternoon to get out of their maze on YT.""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert You are nice :)""; florencevibert: ""@alisonsghost You more! :)""; AlicejustMay: ""Lovin the love here! Ron was the one I've always had a big pash on :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Me too! Sexy eyes""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2014-03-09,"The Radio Dept.",Ewan,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3XY7O4ZRh0,,43,"umaestrutura, bullu, neil_jones, florencevibert, lukegodber, shme, lucathequietone, DavidShepherd, Rocklobster, minttea, ingridwildeman, Star0fCCTV, woods44, natyblooming, stellakoto, soorajsoman, simonp, lozarithm, MiaowMix, UncannyUK, MadameZia, AttentionHorse, DVCwins, Section42L, christineb, BladeRunner, jovisgoesnuts, roamin, Salvadore, rduarte, Avante, yugoseat","lucathequietone: ""welcome back. you've been missed. is everything ok?""; BladeRunner: ""big like!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Not too well the last month or so and I'm trying to finish something so I'm having trouble keeping up with the rest of the world...Not totally unusual for me:) Thanks for asking :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner Glad you liked it:) I really love the whole of the album this is from""; AttentionHorse: ""Excellent.""; lucathequietone: ""a simple melody and a lot of sound. could be a recipe for disaster but they always manage to come out winning. those swedes..""; florencevibert: ""Marvellous - Thanks!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I didn't realise it was a simple melody, but you're probably right. The Radio Dept. are a lovely band though - intelligent lyrics, beautifully used noise. Quite melancholy :)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert I'm glad you liked it - thanks for your comment on the last one, too :)""" 2014-02-26,Blueboy,"Try Happiness",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clIGm62p7Tg,"Lush & beautiful (& possibly an NME single of the week on its release, but I need to confirm this).",45,"lukegodber, Star0fCCTV, florencevibert, melissapulo, umaestrutura, gary, christineb, MadameZia, pixoy, bullu, woods44, lucathequietone, DVCwins, newley, stereoGrover, mloup, soorajsoman, staticstudios, MiaowMix, roamin, thisismymistake, abigail.deeks, BertrandRustles, shme, kdd, DavidShepherd, kemiladashdot, simonp, natyblooming, vincestclair, Salvadore","natyblooming: ""lovely!""; simonp: ""This is far, far too good to be a NME single of the week. I mean, where are the whiny white boys with guitars and Converse?""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp In 1993 :) But NME singles of the week early on in a career tend to mean you're dust and ashes to them one release down the track, as with Kitchens Of Distinction, for instance. Then again, he's a boy and the line 'aaah, poor me' might be construed as whiney. I'm pretty sure it's ironic though.""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Thank you :) I think it's gorgeous, but not everyone would agree.""; lucathequietone: ""I like this song a lot, the ironically miserable lyrics notwistanding. Did they ever try to have a little.. erm, how it's called.. fun?""; christineb: ""@lucathequietone your last comment (on previous jam) was well spoken, thank you!""; lucathequietone: ""@christineb thank you!""; florencevibert: ""Fantastic jam!""" 2014-02-20,"Dark Horses",S.U.N,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAR8Pl4ZAow,"Late again...I've been listening to this band all week",44,"neil_jones, lucathequietone, AlicejustMay, natyblooming, kompani101, pixoy, soorajsoman, lozarithm, Avante, UncannyUK, kdd, bullu, Salvadore, MadameZia, yugoseat, BladeRunner, roamin, Clash_Presley, philipnareike, christineb, shme, jovisgoesnuts, kemiladashdot","kemiladashdot: ""This would make me late or stop altogether.""; jovisgoesnuts: ""Understandable really :)""; alisonsghost: ""@jovisgoesnuts @kemiladashdot I'm not quite sure whether that's good or bad but never mind :)""; christineb: ""New to me...made me stop in my tracks..""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost Don't you care??? I know you do. I think it's neutral I saw your comment somewhere about the war on the poor. . Can't find it now, but it was good to see your cwords. Famously frugal!!!!!!""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Exactly:)""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb I liked it, but I wasn't sure if I'd brainwashed myself. I'm not even sure sure I have a brain to wash :)""; natyblooming: ""Hello!!! Great jam! :)""; christineb: ""@alisonsghost I feel that way a lot! But since we have such good taste in music we must have some grey matter up there!""; lucathequietone: ""Beautiful song. Loved the dub influences.""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming Hello, back 3 days late! Sorry about that. You're looking particularly fabulous by the way :) :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Yes, I liked their sound. They take a few listens to get into. I picked this track slightly at random because I'd missed the deadline... again""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Heard someone talking about the 'undeserving poor' on Sunday...Have I missed something, like the invention of the time machine, because everything has got sort of creepily Victorian...I blame Steampunk. As for Dark Horses, they can look after themselves :)""; natyblooming: ""@alisonsghost thanks!!! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming ...pleasure :)""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb I'm not so convinced of my good taste, I'm afraid. There are quite a few people on here who have such perfect ears!! Or a sort of purity in what they like that I'm overawed by""; christineb: ""@alisonsghost I hear what you're saying about some people on TIMJ,(I am in awe also and a bit jealous of all the new tunes they find) but I still think we both have great taste also.""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb Yours is great but I'm always falling in love with things that are a bit dodgy :) Not everything though :)""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost @christineb if I may, nobody should be worried about their tastes in music, unless they want to land a job as a music critic. Listening to music is a pleasure and who would in their right mind devoid themselves of such an innocuous joy only for fear of having bad taste.""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost @christineb I for one am much more interested in what lies at the fringe of whatever's considered good by the musical cognoscenti and more often than not I happily ignore any kind of border and dive deep in the most trashy stuff you could possibly imagine BECAUSE IT IS FUN! RELEASE YOUR INNER BAD TASTE! FREE IT AND LET IT BREATHE!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Exactly!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone It's a term that makes me uneasy - although I do admire the purity (in the broadest sense of the term ) of certain people as stated above. I have trouble, because on TIMJ I like, or appreciate, a large range of the things people jam. I think they all have to be taken in the context of the person jamming them. I can really appreciate them while I'm listening, and out of those that I hear there will be some I go on to listen to in in private. As the saying goes 'it's all good' :)""" 2014-02-13,"The Photos",Irene,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yv-mG6cRbY,"Brand new in 1980. The long lost Photos, New Wave to the core. I love this song...",48,"lukegodber, pixoy, BladeRunner, shme, Rocklobster, natyblooming, soorajsoman, altngo, DavidShepherd, lucathequietone, CallumPetch, Star0fCCTV, UncannyUK, dutchbeeblebrox, MsSue, markRbowyer, seaofheartbreak, RW104, Avante, jmmcleod, BarneyRubble, newley, roamin, MadameZia, philipnareike, AndyWilkinson, tpjdavies, Astromonkey, simonp","simonp: ""Ooh, I don't know this lot...""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp They made one album in 1979. They were expected to do well but were pretty much, and probably unfairly, one hit wonders. Perfect 80's pop/alt pop. It took me years to remember the bands name.""; AndyWilkinson: ""I loved this album back in the day. I had a bit of a crush on Wendy Wu as well.""; alisonsghost: ""@AndyWilkinson We used to listen to it a lot. She does look lovely, too. I've been trying to work out what TV programme this was, as it doesn't say on YT. Don't think it's liv, but not sure.""; BarneyRubble: ""Great jam. Not heard this in ages. What ever happened to them? Google is calling""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble They just weren't that successful, apart from either this or another single. The album is on Spotify. I was really pleased to find it :)""; lucathequietone: ""Never heard this one before. Liked it. Quite upbeat. The singer is mostly expressionless or am I just being cynical?""; UncannyUK: ""Funny, I remember the name Wendy Wu but not The Photos nor this song. Good stuff, though!""; lozarithm: ""Very nice. I remember them, but not this, despite it being so catchy. A short lived career because they weren't developed? *gets coat*""; DavidShepherd: ""Like several people, this is stirring an ancient memory.""; Rocklobster: ""Big controversy at the time as the album went straight in to the charts at no4, despite them being complete unknowns. Suspicions of hyping by their label. My mate Eddie bought it though.""; lukegodber: ""This is fantastic!""" 2014-02-07,"Secret Shine",Loveblind,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_rpPjkHXPQ,"A bit late..",40,"florencevibert, RonObvious, yugoseat, lozarithm, nangeanarendra, lukegodber, kemiladashdot, AlicejustMay, neil_jones, Hooch, Avante, fearson, kompani101, lucathequietone, oded, soorajsoman, altngo, Star0fCCTV, MadameZia, dutchbeeblebrox, kdd, bullu, CaptainJam, njparry, shme, mloup, DavidShepherd, roamin","alisonsghost: ""About Sparks - Thanks @kuttowski for mentioning '40 years' @lucathequietone , Quite :) @DavidShepherd A really good choice. I can't remember what the 1st thing I bought was. Not properly. @AlicejustMay I love 'No 1 Song In Heaven! @kompani101 I don't know how they did in the US? The sort of off the wall band the British used to like..@lynn200 Thanks :) @Rocklobster I love the fact you bought the whole album when you were nine, not just the single. I also love the album!""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb glad you liked it. I don't remember big shoulder pads then, but I was probably wearing something my auntie had crocheted, bless her :) @BarneyRubble I like Ron's scary eyes :)@stellakoto Russ in his lady clothes was very fine, but I still fancy Ron more...which is quite worrying:) @mloup It seems to have worked it's way into everyone's head. .....Btw if anyone wants to know what their comments were to make sense of the answers, let me know!! Sorry to be so late.""; lucathequietone: ""..and the award for the most replies in a single comments session goes to.. @alisonsghost!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Thank you for the award :) It's only because I arrived late for my own jam.""; AlicejustMay: ""Great track... and loving the comment above. How ineffably cool is it to arrive late to your own jam?""; kemiladashdot: ""Nice track, don't know how it took me nearly 3 days to find it. Clearly lateness is the new black.""; alisonsghost: ""I need to buy a watch with big numbers. Although that probably won't help with the days.""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost I feel your pain, a friend recommended I but a Colander. It doesn;t help at all......""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot A Colander should always be worn on the head. It keeps out Universal Malice and Grey Aliens. Also the Government. (See the jam above by someone who has stolen your identity).""; alisonsghost: ""Although the daze still gets in through the holes""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost Ha! do you know how difficult it is to scroll back 4 days? Anyhow for you I did it, though our threads will be different??? I have Kingofmen above you. He has a tea pot in his skull, I try to emulate his madness but I think his comes far too naturally""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Very difficult, ditto forwards. I was going to say you can borrow the drill I used in my self trepanation experiment to remove your fillings. Sadly the guard has just confiscated it...I don't think I've noticed the teapot, which is worrying in itself...""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost You have guards.......... So you're like the Queen, I suspected as much Maam.""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot I predict a bright future for this bloke. He covered most of the important points with screeching aplomb. Although his car was too clean to be a real cab, overall, I feel cleansed and full of light. Nothing on YT has made me laugh out loud before except the comments and a handful of bands trying to play live. Nice one!""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot ....I hope he covers that nasty little phrase 'people who do the right thing' in another shriek.""; kemiladashdot: ""@alisonsghost Ha! I'm happy we're of one mind, albeit those minds are covered in foil.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2014-01-31,Sparks,"This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfA4FphZHbc,"This held me and my brother spellbound when we were young The TOTP 'bugger the miming' original Fabulous &, oh dear, even prophetic #dedicationjamforDav",65,"chrishling, kuttowski, CallumPetch, rvleonard, RonObvious, lozarithm, lucathequietone, renzomazzolini, soorajsoman, Bilbobraggins, DavidShepherd, AlicejustMay, kompani101, dutchbeeblebrox, jmmcleod, lynn200, myrtle, idiotcontrol, florencevibert, Star0fCCTV, Rocklobster, cassettesman, mikelowe, pauseliveaction, BarneyRubble, JanePlume, stellakoto, Section42L, natyblooming, zombierust, seaofheartbreak, newley, shme, mloup, staticstudios, Salvadore, AndyWilkinson, njparry, roamin, tpjdavies, gogokrista, abigail.deeks, simonp, kemiladashdot, pixoy, MVD, cbinseoul, Astromonkey, thisismymistake, Steve_Marshall, kdd, RW104, lukegodber","Owlsoup: ""Awesome song, but alas, I can't watch their TOTP performance cos there's a horrible advert stuck on top of it. Tut, Youtube!""; alisonsghost: ""@Owlsoup Thanks, I'll try and re-post. It was fine on YT needless to say!""; alisonsghost: ""@Owlsoup Just played it through and apart from an ad saying 'Your computer is running slow' which you could turn off easily, couldn't see any ad. What did yours say??""; Steve_Marshall: ""This is an amazing song. When my Dad used to play it at home when I was little I used to go bananna's :)""; thisismymistake: ""Pretty deferential cover by Siouxsie (which incidentally was the version I knew first). Both brilliant ... http://youtu.be/znsgPPlvgYo No viewing problems here btw (for a change)""; Astromonkey: ""I got my Mum to buy me the single.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Glad you could see it. I noticed the Siouxsie cover had been posted on YT but I have no memory of it so I'll have a look. I still find the Mael Brothers very cool - they seemed to exist in a slightly parallel 1974 universe, but no doubt someone can put me right on this. Those brown trouser suits looked grim, generally, I'm not sure if they were meant to worn by men, but Russel looks the biz. Although Ron will always be the main man :)""; alisonsghost: ""....musically, obviously!""; alisonsghost: ""@Astromonkey Gold stars for both of you :) @Steve_Marshall It's that sort of song. I've listened to the album quite a few times and I still don't know what it was about. Apparently they were/are an 'art band' whatever that is exactly :)""; mloup: ""I remember my eldest brother playing this when I was 6...has stuck with me ever since""; alisonsghost: ""@mloup It sort of does, somehow""; stellakoto: ""No record makes me happier when it comes on the radio. Best thing ever to shriek along to in the car. Agree Russ v fit in his lady garb. :)""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost Original and the best - Ron's scary eyes!!""; christineb: ""@alisonsghost pretty sure he borrowed my shoulder pads for his jacket. .. shoulder pads were big (and I mean big) back then. Enjoyed this so much, I could see how you were spellbound by it!""; Rocklobster: ""Kimono My House was the first album I ever bought, aged 9 (WH Smiths, Commercial Road, Pompey). I still listen to it!""; lynn200: ""oh my..remember this so well...loved it..fantastic share,thx.""; kompani101: ""Caused quite a stir when they first appeared on TOTP. Great track.""; AlicejustMay: ""I was spellbound by them when I heard The No1 Song in Heaven. Still an all-time fave of mne. :)""; DavidShepherd: ""One of the first singles I bought as a teenager.""; lucathequietone: ""Les Fleurs du Mael..""; kuttowski: ""How long is it ago ... 40 years??? Great song""" 2014-01-27,"Funeral Suits","We only attack ourselves",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfR00O_TZ8,"Their album Lily Of The Valley has just reached the top of my 'to buy' list...I didn't realise their song 'All Those Friendly' people was the one with the nastiest video ever, jammed by someone here but I don't know who",46,"shme, alfonsonocedal, doqtor, caroline1216, pixoy, soorajsoman, natyblooming, lonux, ZenPyramid, dutchbeeblebrox, lucathequietone, lukegodber, Steve_Marshall, tpjdavies, sarahbabbss, seaofheartbreak, lindatee, roamin, BladeRunner, Salvadore, AlicejustMay, RW104","AlicejustMay: ""Nope, wasn't jammed by me - just watched it and definitely didn't know it. Really like this video though (sorry, 'All Those Friendly People' just wasn't nasty enough for me... what does that say)! Love the album title, too... sounds nice and innocent, but just immediately makes me think of Breaking Bad and the time Walt used Lily of the Valley as a poison, giving a a darker side. Plus a terrific band name too. Hmm. I'm just sounding creepy here.""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Which is worrying, really, because I was agreeing with quite a lot of it. I was interested that you didn't find the 'friendly people' video disturbing enough, but then people often don't agree on which ghost stories are frightening...""; lindatee: ""Love it - and great vid . ..""; Steve_Marshall: ""Love the strings :)""; lucathequietone: ""Scary, almost too scary for me. I'm a lightweight, you see..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone That's the last thing you are!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost Ok, next sunday morning @lucathequietone the scariest horror story I've ever read.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Will that be an essay or an actual horror story??""; ZenPyramid: ""...typical man-bot, she ain't out the door five minutes and he's flirting with the TV...""; alisonsghost: ""@ZenPyramid Better than being slumped there, just watching it...possibly.""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost a very short horror story..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone You are worrying me, now!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost come on, not a TRUE story..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Somehow, you are still worrying me :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee Thanks - I love this video. Deeply sad :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Thank you. I think. I can't actually remember the strings... Unless it was bits of robot....""" 2014-01-22,"The Auteurs","The Rubettes",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8t39zjC2Q8,"On special: two bands for the price of one.",60,"stereoGrover, altngo, bullu, DVCwins, RonObvious, Kumar_Kartik, BarneyRubble, Hooch, jmmcleod, staticstudios, pixoy, UncannyUK, Avante, Steve_Marshall, AndyWilkinson, lucathequietone, CallumPetch, newley, kompani101, yugoseat, thisismymistake, mloup, Salvadore, soorajsoman, tpjdavies, natyblooming, kemiladashdot, thesunneversets, RW104, lozarithm, roamin, BladeRunner, shme, Olimite","thesunneversets: """"The future's made of coal, the past is made of gold..."" Such a great song!""; kemiladashdot: ""Ha! A credible way to listen to the Rubettes, Lovely jam!""; lucathequietone: ""Great song indeed!""; Steve_Marshall: ""Great jam :)""; Avante: ""Haha... this is great fun! :)""; Rocklobster: ""Getting back to your previous jam...the flat I had baths in the sink in was in Castle Road (I was two at the time, so it was fine - never done it since). So, yes, they were definitely on the corner of Castle Road at one point during the SDOLE video - I recognised that! And you're right, they did take a very round about route to meet up! In other news, Luke Haines grew up in Pompey, so I think you have a theme going on here. A reading from Charles Dickens next?""; strangelandic: ""Fantastic! I used to love this band! Great to revisit.""; BarneyRubble: ""Love this version - Luke Haines was a real non-conformist. I read ""Truth and Lies in Murder Park"" last year - well worth a view if you get a chance""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; alisonsghost: ""@thesunneversets Even more confusingly, the present is often iron pyrites...It's hard work down the music mines.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I really love this band/songwriter. Great indeed.""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot A great way to listen to the Rubettes without looking at the hats or listening to an entire song... :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante @Steve_Marshall I'm really glad you liked them, although it was about 5 days ago now, so you've probably forgotten :)""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble Is that a book he's written or one he appears in? Would love to know :) I thought that was the name of one of their albums, or songs....or something...?""; thesunneversets: ""All that glitters is not jam. But I'll probably ""like"" it anyway.""; alisonsghost: ""@thesunneversets That's the flaw in the jam making process. The context for each spoonful tasted is very different too.""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost It's a book about him - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-Lies-Murder-Park-Haines/dp/0955631947""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Castle Road was the next road along from mine (at the Common end!!) going from Palmerston Road towards the Common...Never did bath in the sink, though...Didn't know that about Luke Haines. It doesn't surprise me - so many writers were born there. And then left. In fact in the video he should've come out at the' Peter Seller's Chinese Takeaway' end, but I think he came out at the' Conan Doyle lived here before the slight trouble with the bombs' end. Not sure though.""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble Many thanks - when the bank send a new card (mine went astray on Saturday night) I'll plunder Amazon for that""; alisonsghost: ""@thesunneversets I think what I was trying to say was 'yes'.""" 2014-01-21,"Kitchens Of Distinction","Japan to Jupiter",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCIhpdVoac,"This has been jammed before, but without the photos the band put together to go with it.They grew up at the same time as me and every line of this resonates.",31,"dutchbeeblebrox, kompani101, zombierust, kemiladashdot, MVD, soorajsoman, Section42L, natyblooming, staticstudios, Steve_Marshall, abigail.deeks, DavidShepherd, seaofheartbreak, UncannyUK, Olimite, Salvadore, Astromonkey, bluetapes, shme, roamin","Astromonkey: ""I've been meaning to get their new album, I loved them back in early 90's.""; abigail.deeks: ""@Astromonkey Me too :)""; abigail.deeks: ""@alisonsghost Photos are marvellous; feeling hugely nostalgic!""; alisonsghost: ""@abigail.deeks This makes me cry ridiculously every time I listen to it! Very nostalgic indeed. I suppose Japan might be a reference to the band and Jupiter to David Bowie, so the title could be back to front:) @Astromonkey It's worth getting, I think. There are some fabulous tracks on it. For some reason they've chosen one of the less obviously appealing to be their 2nd single, but they manage to pull off the trick of being almost operatic and yet down to earth a few times. Good reviews, too.""; kompani101: ""Such a great track, love the video.""; alisonsghost: ""@kompani101 I'm glad you liked them:)""" 2014-01-19,"The Strange Death of Liberal England","Rising Sea",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4WMBDcwXvo,"Who killed The Strange Death Of Liberal England? Last seen touring with Editors in 2011, among other things...",40,"AbTrue, lozarithm, UncannyUK, pixoy, DavidShepherd, AlicejustMay, Avante, Steve_Marshall, will_george, sarahbabbss, nangeanarendra, DVCwins, lukegodber, Salvadore, dutchbeeblebrox, lindatee, simonp, thisismymistake, roamin","christineb: ""A mystery..did they break up? Last post of FB was in 2011, nothing on the web about them other than the wikipedia blip. ..One hopes they didn't and they are just quietly planning a new album?!?""; alisonsghost: ""@christineb I don't know. Think their website would still be there, and the Twitter account. This was the wrong track to pick, because they were very musical, did a lot of interesting stuff, had some interesting followers..musical people usually start something else if they break up. They sound like Arcade Fire, but started before them. Really odd.""; thisismymistake: ""I fear they went the way of liberal England :(""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I fear they did...""; lukegodber: ""This is great, never heard it before.""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber Thanks - although I think the listen to like ratio might perhaps hint at where they went, even if it was strangely sudden! I think a lot of their stuff is great :)""; lukegodber: ""Now downloaded!""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber Was it this you downloaded? My favourite is the 'Forward March' album. I put this up because it's shot in the place where I lived until recently . It mostly looked a good deal sunnier than that :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber Very pleased they got a download, anyway :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; Rocklobster: ""Some nice views of Gosport over the other side of Portsmouth Harbour there! I enjoyed trying to work out exactly where they were in Southsea at any given point during the video. At one point, they were just round the corner from the flat I lived in up until the age of two (plenty of baths in the sink in those days...). Hope they remembered to leave their mobiles and wallets somewhere safe when they ran in to the sea :-/""; AlicejustMay: ""@alisonsghost @christineb @thisismymistake never heard of them... evidently need to know more, including this intriguing disappearance.""; lucathequietone: ""Big Music, IMHO..""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay They played with the orchestra in Portsmouth as one of their projects. It occurred to me that they might have started off playing classical music - there is one really beautiful instrumental from their first album that was lifted whole and used in an Icelandic film. Perhaps they ran away from pop and went back to the orchestra.@lucathequietone I like it. It tends to be either political, depressive or both. A strong belief that the world is not what it should be.""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster If you followed the route that she took in order to get to him it would look very odd indeed! First of all she's walking down the pier, then she's tearing through the rose garden of all places and that seems to bring her out near the bandstand green...Meanwhile, he walks towards Clarence Pier, away from Clarence Pier and manages the impossible task of walking back from Old Portsmouth towards Clarence Pier (looking none the better for being exposed to water with that complexion)...""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster ...and before they so sweetly brush hands on the dog poo and plastic bottle side of the pier, one of they walks up Villiers Road away from the spot, while he walks up what is probably Castle road, or at a pinch, Suffolk Road...It was obviously pretty warm with a filter over the camera and whoever decided to make them all run down not much beach had been watching some rubbish films... Actually, though, I really *do* like that song...I've just listened to it 3x sorting that out...""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster So where were you bathed in a sink?""" 2014-01-13,"Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man","Funny Time of Year @ Paleo 2003",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmKkz5-lyA,"Beth Gibbons, always so wonderfully creepy",48,"kompani101, abigail.deeks, Olimite, tschnick, lozarithm, dutchbeeblebrox, shme, iainc, DVCwins, altngo, kuttowski, natyblooming, UncannyUK, slachs, lynn200, milesrumine, lukegodber, melissapulo, seaofheartbreak, Axol, CallumPetch, tpjdavies, soorajsoman, simonp, kadydjaalbuque, Steve_Marshall, Section42L, thesunneversets, MVD, lucathequietone, mloup, AndyWilkinson, kdd, pixoy, roamin","mloup: ""Would Portishead ever re-form?""; lucathequietone: ""Standing ovation.""; Steve_Marshall: ""Amazing :)""; kadydjaalbuque: ""This is awsome!!""; lynn200: ""wow..atmospheric..""; natyblooming: "";)""; kuttowski: ""I nearly forgot how good Beth Gibbons is. Ought to listen to her records later.""; alisonsghost: ""@mloup I think they are supposed to be 'on hiatus' - but as one of them said, it takes them so long to do anything, they perhaps should make the effort :) I really home they do.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Yes. She is strange but wonderful :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kadydjaalbuque @Steve_Marshall Yes to both of those things :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Beth Gibbons does have a strange atmosphere. I always find her quite creepy in a good way. Wow though :)""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kuttowski I suppose you have to be in the right mood for it. But worth it when you are :)""; abigail.deeks: ""Stunning!""; alisonsghost: ""@abigail.deeks She/they is/are...and so am I:)""; kompani101: ""Goose bumps!!""; alisonsghost: ""@kompani101 Definitely :)""" 2014-01-12,"Don McLean","American Pie",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ecvBaqHBk,"I've just heard this on a friend's radio. A heartfelt song about Buddy Holly that reminded me of Eddie Cochran and Patsy Cline, too...",23,"pixoy, leadbutterfly, Avante, laurellisidhe, dutchbeeblebrox, zombierust, AndyWilkinson, bullu, BarneyRubble, meredithdidit, HaveACuppaTea, lucathequietone, newley, Section42L, nangeanarendra, Salvadore, tpjdavies, Steve_Marshall, shme, roamin","BarneyRubble: ""Such a classic. Embarrassingly enough I seem to remember doing a karaoke version in a bar in San Antonio some years back :-(""; alisonsghost: ""I'm staying in a house where the broadband connection keeps vanishing. So it might take awhile to listen properly to other jams. Sorry!!""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble I'd love to have seen that - did you manage all the words??""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghostg Luckily the words were on screen but shoot, there were about 45 verses!""; BarneyRubble: ""@isaacna It was fun at the time but a tough gig due to the length of the song. I still smile when I hear it""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble Heroic!""" 2014-01-08,"Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra","Some Velvet Morning",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4,"This is a #requestjam for @Rocklobster The original version that sparked so many covers...",42,"1outside, shme, mlong3rdfl, Axol, stereoGrover, Matan, JBoxer, teaandbbc, CallumPetch, pixoy, nangeanarendra, ingridwildeman, Lateman, philipnareike, DVCwins, DavidShepherd, Section42L, vilumallin, Rocklobster, lucathequietone, kuttowski, Steve_Marshall, zombierust, newley, BarneyRubble, rvleonard, Salvadore, lindatee, AndyWilkinson, tpjdavies, teen, Astromonkey, kdd, seaofheartbreak, Olimite, roamin, lonux, natyblooming, simonp, abigail.deeks","abigail.deeks: ""Fabulous.""; simonp: ""Well, that 'tache alone gets a Like. Quite how this went top 20-ish is a mystery. Guess the great unwashed must get it right sometimes.""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost I think I prefer this version :-) close call though""; Steve_Marshall: ""It gives the Primal Scream version a good run for its money. :)""; kuttowski: ""The original can't be beaten ...""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble It's alright - I'll let you off with a caution :)""; Rocklobster: ""Brings back all the smells of a 1970s roast dinner for me. My dad used to play the Nancy & Lee album every Sunday morning whilst I was playing with Lego or something on my Portsmouth council house floor, waiting for my grandparents to come over and give me 10p and a hug. Happy days!""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster It sounds about as close to heaven as you can get, somehow. Happy days, indeed.""; Rocklobster: ""If only the rest of his record collection had been this good...James Last, The Boston Pops Play The Songs Of The Beatles (but no actual Beatles...), the flippin' Eagles and their bloomin' Hotel California...at least the dinners were good :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Well, alright, so it was a musical desert...although I did once have a copy of Hotel California. But it's not really country enough for me - big hair is necessary, yes, but only on the women. Our house had a lot of 78's and 2 Tom Lehrer long players. But we were very low on lego.""; alisonsghost: ""....Boston Pops reminds me of those Top Of The Pops records from Woolworths. I had one when very small and was a great admirer of the fake Marc Bolan and stand-in Cher...""; BarneyRubble: ""@alisonsghost Whew!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; Rocklobster: ""My grandparents had dozens of TotPops albums. Took me years to work out why they sounded so weedy. Although the session musicians' version of Kraftwerk's Autobahn was pretty nifty.""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Mine came from my grandma and I never had another. My parents still had a 50's record player in the 70's, but the sound had gone, so you had to lie down on the floor with your ear close to the loudspeaker in order to here Mr Woo or Poisoning Pigeons or the fake Marc Bolan. And possibly Dave Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch. Or did I invent them? I'd love to hear the Autobahn version. Perhaps it's on Spotify with The Silver Beatles....""; alisonsghost: ""@BarneyRubble You walk the line on this page, I'm afraid :)""" 2014-01-06,Slowdive,"Some Velvet Morning",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6z-XlkyYk8,"One of the best covers of what must be one of the most covered songs out there. The original is by Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra    ( & might appear sometime soon...)",55,"AlicejustMay, vilumallin, kdd, altngo, pixoy, BarneyRubble, Salvadore, CallumPetch, staticstudios, thesunneversets, pjcj, simonp, DavidShepherd, dutchbeeblebrox, kompani101, lucathequietone, rduarte, Steve_Marshall, zombierust, roamin, DVCwins, Hooch, yugoseat, thisismymistake, teaandbbc, stellakoto, lukegodber, lindatee, Section42L, seaofheartbreak, d0minic, melissapulo, AndyDenton, RW104","Rocklobster: ""Ooh, please post the original! One of my all-time faves! :-) This was a pretty good effort though.""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Seeing as you ask so nicely :) There's a really hilarious bit of film to go with it, though...""; Steve_Marshall: ""Nice cover. Have you heard the Primal Scream and Kate Moss take on this?""; lucathequietone: ""Intoxicating.""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall There are so many mostly horrible versions of this song! Kate Moss has eluded me - do you mean as in the skinny one??""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone But is it intoxicating enough to make babies fall from the sky in nine months time? :) Seriously though, love this, but it's quite a silly song, really. imo only :)""; Steve_Marshall: ""@alisonsghost yep the skinny one alright. It's my favourite of the versions I have heard http://youtu.be/iR7l__Florc""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Thanks :) I never know why this song is so loved by musicians -Tower of Song yes, this, no idea! It suits Slowdive because the words aren't that clear. (I love their version but @melissapulo has a better track) . My favourite for the wrong reasons is the Roland Howard/Lydia Lunch thing . Poor Roland!""; vilumallin: ""great band""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost I searched for the lyrics at songmeanings.com, and it's actually quite profound, a tale of lust, loss and mythology. To answer your question, yes, given the right circumstances it could have that effect..""; AlicejustMay: ""Didn't know the track let alone the plethora of covers that have spiralled from it... at least, I don't think I do. Lovely, though...""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I was referring to your comment on your last Acid Jazz track:) Just joking. Although with this version, I think it might too. It's an interesting point, how deep this song is - you can correct me here, but wasn't Phaedre a nymph of some kind? Wood or water? You'll be familiar with the Lee Hazlewood original. I feel a bit ambivalent about the depth of his sincerity. But maybe it's what the people who've covered it believe that give it depth. I'll look it up again :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay I do love this version :) There are an amazing amount of covers, so it obviously strikes a chord in people. So what @lucathequietone is no doubt true on some level. Strange, really.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I know the lyrics well, and the lush smudged quality of the Slowdive cover suits them. Phaedre isn't a wood nymph! As the wife of Theseus she has no place in the song. Lifeforce psychedelia was in the air at the time :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall It sounds good. But thought she was going to start advertising something every time there was a close up:)""; alisonsghost: ""@vilumallin They are :) Thanks for listening :)""; Steve_Marshall: ""@alisonsghost ha ha true :)""" 2014-01-05,"Casiotone for the Painfully Alone","I Love Creedence",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkhoUStoka4,"Owen Ashworth, who writes songs that are like very short stories. In this one, things aren't quite what they seem....",40,"alisonsghost, soorajsoman, natyblooming, Owlsoup, Salvadore, pixoy, shme, Rocklobster, thisismymistake, rduarte, newley, Avante, staticstudios","staticstudios: ""Love this album! Going to dig it out right now.""; alisonsghost: ""@staticstudios It's brilliant. Although I've just come back to change what I wrote underneath! I was in a rush!""; Avante: ""New to me and I like it!""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Thanks. Not many people are taking to it, but I love this this song and his/their other stuff :)""; alisonsghost: ""I love you, Creedence :)""" 2014-01-03,"Speck Mountain","Fidelity Shake",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkR3CI5NgdE,"They had a new album out in 2013, but this song from 2009 is one I love - the very last note is my favourite thing about this, for some reason.",34,"jmmcleod, nangeanarendra, dutchbeeblebrox, shme, teen, strangelandic, soorajsoman, DavidShepherd, Salvadore, lindatee, BladeRunner, stellakoto, lucathequietone, lonux, Steve_Marshall, pixoy, sarahbabbss, maledf, seaofheartbreak, Brownpants","Brownpants: ""Really love this, thanks! :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@Brownpants That seems to make me and you so far! Thanks for liking :)""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia I think it might be Mazzy Star?""; lucathequietone: ""New to me. I like it a lot, but for some reasons the very last two notes are my least favourite things about this. Hey, to agree on everything would be BOOORING!""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia Thanks. I'd be interested to know who they are. I've got to the stage where everything reminds me of everything else on certain days :)""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone It certainly would :) Sorry to hit you with two unlikeable notes :)""; strangelandic: ""@alisonsghost Cool tune. I like your style.""; alisonsghost: ""@strangelandic Thanks for thinking I have one :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2014-01-02,"Prince Buster","One Step Beyond",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DAHAPLaVI,"By mistake, this has turned out to be two steps beyond....but an interesting comparison",45,"kdd, DavidShepherd, HaveACuppaTea, philipnareike, stetroit, florencevibert, ingridwildeman, nangeanarendra, mloup, shme, BustaLimes, thisismymistake, tpjdavies, Owlsoup, AndyWilkinson, cbinseoul, pixoy, Salvadore, lynn200, lindatee, seaofheartbreak, UncannyUK, kemiladashdot, newley, lonux, Steve_Marshall, soorajsoman, Section42L","Steve_Marshall: ""Prince Buster was a real innovator!""; UncannyUK: ""I really like some of Prince Buster's stuff and the Madness segue was welcome, too.""; lynn200: ""this is ground breaking stuff,remember a video to this....in some distant past..:))""; lucathequietone: ""Love this.""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 There were some videos of ska dancing in Jamaica, but not to this. But I'll have another look. You maybe able to tell me if I'm wrong, but I think these records were first over here in the 60's and picked up by the Mods then, before falling into the hands of the boo hiss skinheads and ending in charity shops by the late 70's and bought by me - and Madness and a few others, of course:) They're just pure joy!""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK Yes, wasn't expecting that! Thought they sounded pretty good, though.""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall To be honest, I'm really ignorant about what was played before, or alongside, ska reggae. I know that some stuff called 'Lover's rock' or 'Lover's Reggae' was recorded here, in on-the-street studios in the 60's/70's and went backwards and forwards between England and Jamaica. Mostly young girls singing. I think I probably had some of that in my (stolen) collection. I was at school when I bought it. Would love to know more, perhaps someone can put me right.""; Rocklobster: ""Jamaican music post-independence goes something like...R&B, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall...I get a bit hazy after that because I like all the 60s stuff. Lovers' rock was indeed a British phenomenon. I got into Jamaican music via The Clash and 2-Tone, loved it ever since :-)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster Thanks for that! 2-tone and jumble sale records bought because they looked different, for me. I saw The Specials, The Selector and Madness (think that was the line-up?) on the 2-tone tour in Leics. And The Beat somewhere, too. The first was one of my all-time favourite gigs, I think :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster ...Now off to find out the precise difference between ska and rock steady,because they both seem to be mentioned by Madness...""; Rocklobster: ""Ska was popular in the summer of 1966 - fast and dancey. Rocksteady is a slowed down version, popular in the sweltering summer of '67, when everyone was too tired to skank. Both are tremendous!""; thisismymistake: ""Did you synchronize this with @philipnareike? Perfect segue...""; alisonsghost: ""@Rocklobster ""the sweltering summer of 67, when everyone was too tired to skank' is the sort of sentence that makes me nostalgic for somewhere I've never been...Thanks for the information:)""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake It was @stetroit 's jam with 'scarface' written on it that made me remember I wanted to jam Prince Buster' 'Al Capone' !""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake - got you. Listening again. Lee Perry!!!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for kind comment -yes his voice is different---as he is blind and does not get effected by -what is all around --his is pure spiritual voice--------------""; florencevibert: ""Great jam!""; lucathequietone: ""I'm not an expert on Jamaican music, but I think this one could be a good read: Dick Hebdige, Cut'n'Mix: culture, identity and caribbean music, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1987. About the birth of rock'n'roll, I couldn't recommend Charile Gillett's 'The Sound Of The City' highly enough.""; lucathequietone: ""..and another thing: I haven't read it, but Lloyd Bradley's 'Bass Culture' is considered one of the most important books on reggae music.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; josh3: ""won't play for me for some reason :(""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone They definitely sound worth looking at. I'd like to have a little context for these things. If you've found The Sound Of The City good, I'll edge it up to the top of the book list...There was a book that my brother had 'The Boy Looked At Johnny' which was either about punk, or as that sentence could apply to Morrissey, too, other music of the time. I've always meant to read it, if it's still in print. Thanks for jogging my memory :)""; alisonsghost: ""@josh3 I keep having that trouble. Trying later mostly works, but there's so much stuff here to listen to, I 'll survive if you don't have time :) It's on youtube. Somewhere.""; Steve_Marshall: ""Not sure if your on spotify @alisonsghost but I put together a History of Jamaican Music. One track by each significant artist in a roughly chronological order. It starts at Mento and takes in Calypso, Ska, Toasting, Reggae, Dub, Ragga, Dancehall etc. It can be found here http://playlists.net/history-of-Jamaican-music""; Steve_Marshall: ""Sorry I forgot to mention Rocksteady which also features. It's a decent starter kit. I have also done a beginners guide to dub if your interested @alisonsghost?""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall I use spotify nearly every day so that sounds brilliant. I presume if I click the link it'll take me there? (Stupid question but am going for the Insomnia Awards 2014!!)""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Yes to the dub guide too, please :)""; Steve_Marshall: ""No problem it's http://playlists.net/beginners-guide-to-dub :)""; Steve_Marshall: ""@alisonsghost yes if you follow the link it should take you straight to the playlist! I will look out for you on Spotify!""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Thanks :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Just before I change this jam - interested to see you've got Mad Professor Mazurani's 'Teardrop' instrumental. I listen to that more than the original! Also like him with Baba Zula, one of my 1st jams on here. Don't think anyone else liked it that much :)""" 2013-12-31,Erasure,"A Little Respect",http://vimeo.com/56232080,"For New Years Eve. One of my favourite chart pop songs complete with truly appalling 80's video. Happy and healthy 2014 to all, especially Andy Bell.",17,"seaofheartbreak, 1outside, pixoy, newley, Salvadore, Olimite, Katherinaminola, pauseliveaction, staticstudios, HaveACuppaTea, BladeRunner, Section42L, taniagarron, lindatee, kemiladashdot, Steve_Marshall, thisismymistake","clickysounds: ""sounds like you are gearing up for a dance party this evening.""; lindatee: ""Verry best wishes for 2014 Alison : ) x""; BladeRunner: ""Ohhh this is sounds like a party already! Have a beautiful 2014!""; Salvadore: ""Same to you, have a wonderful 2014!""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Your comment got lost in the gap as I changed my jam! Thanks for listening to Tullycraft and have a good 2014 :)""; alisonsghost: ""@MadameZia I love Erasure. For some reason this song always makes me cry! Happy2014 x @BladeRunner You too, good in every way:) @lindatee Have a great 2014:) @clickysounds Sort of! A great 2014 to you :)""" 2013-12-29,Tullycraft,Twee,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7PN3YTzuYM,"Tullycraft , a band with a sense of humour, helping me to 'just embrace' twee..thanks @MikeHandshakes :)",34,"newley, lynn200, kdd, lucathequietone, DVCwins, lozarithm, vilumallin, dutchbeeblebrox, lukegodber, bullu, florencevibert, Salvadore, MikeHandshakes, Avante, staticstudios, kemiladashdot, milearazvan, AlicejustMay, soorajsoman, shme, d0minic, nangeanarendra, lonux","alisonsghost: ""Although they don't do the the twee Mr Wimpy voice.... :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for wonderful comment it does one to think of movie--but this is the old original pirate""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra Maybe the designer from Pirates of The Carribean hadthis in mind, then. My dad used to sing in a lot of G&S operetta. I don't know if he was ever the pirate :)""; AlicejustMay: ""I like it!""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay The words are great, really funny. Don't know if you could catch them properly :)""; Salvadore: ""Sounds great, new to me!""; florencevibert: ""New to me too! Good stuff, thanks :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for kind comment--your dad might be singing either this pirate music or from from HMS PINAFORA---both were very much known for fun-a long time-""; lukegodber: ""Love Tullycraft!""; lozarithm: ""Happy new year!""; lucathequietone: ""Happy new year. Nice song!""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber I hadn't listened properly till recently The trouble I have, esp. on the new album, is that their satire is directed at v.US targets (which is understandable) but I can't get the references This track was easier,Sarah Records, Black Tambourine etc The girl in the song has a Slumberland guitar case (I think!) & yest I bought a 7"" split from Slumberland Records Made me laugh when I listened again! They sound great though:)""; alisonsghost: ""@florencevibert @Salvadore @lucathequietone @lozarithm Thanks! Well, to Tullycraft anyway :) Happy New Year to everyone, too!""; lukegodber: ""@alisonsghost Go and have a listen to 'One Essex Girl' on Every Scene Needs a Centre. It's a brilliantly unusual American take on the 'Essex Girl' idea. Actually, the whole album is great.""; alisonsghost: ""@lukegodber Yes, I was listening to that album yesterday, but got a bit Tullycrafted out! Will do that, with pleasure :)""; lynn200: ""an interesting new find...thanks for some good ,different music.happy new year :)""" 2013-12-23,"The Clientele","Reflections After Jane",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RweztawAnls,"A Christmas present for me & anyone staggering past. One of the most perfect of their early songs, sounds as if it fell from a parallel universe",45,"alisonsghost, CallumPetch, kdd, lucathequietone, kemiladashdot, MVD, mikelowe, RezOneCI, AlicejustMay, labracoon, lozarithm, vilumallin, Salvadore, pixoy, teen, natyblooming, RonObvious, lynn200, roamin, lonux, thisismymistake, RW104, soorajsoman, dutchbeeblebrox, Sid_Bonkers, nangeanarendra, newley, simonp, Steve_Marshall","Steve_Marshall: ""It's so lovely :)""; simonp: ""No words necessary""; alisonsghost: ""I saw these lyrics written somewhere and thought they were fairly reasonable poetry. Which is unusual for lyrics.""; lindatee: ""Wonderful!! paging @Pixie""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee Thanks :) And really hope Pixie likes this one.""; thisismymistake: ""just staggering by to say happy holidaze, @alisonsghost!""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake To you, too - have a fabulous time, dazed or otherwise:)Many thanks for the things you've jammed. They've been fabulous...( Btw I buy MP3's and CDs. Didn't realise the former were old-fashioned)! .""; lynn200: ""precious..""; RonObvious: ""New to me... Love it! :)""; natyblooming: ""Love this! thanks!!!!!! :)""; Steve_Marshall: ""Just listened again, amazing!""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 pleased you liked it - The Clentele could do with some love! timj def. a learning curve! I went for yrs with nothing to play music on except an old Sony Walkman & the only tapes I could afford were classical and country and western from Woolworths & tapes from friends. The iPod saved my life! Good discovery of yrs about Tim Buckley, I've never heard of him - not that that means much :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall @natyblooming @RonObvious Thanks for liking this! Happy Christmas too.""; lozarithm: ""Thanks for introducing me to this band. Merry Xmas!""; alisonsghost: ""@lozarithm Thanks and a very merry Christmas to you too :)""; lynn200: ""we have a lot in common..didnt know Jeff Buckley,then i found out Tim Buckley was his father...i spend time on the Tube,look things up on Wiki..i enjoy to see things for the first time..so its fun.. happy xmas..))""; AlicejustMay: ""A beautiful Jam, @alisonsghost - new to me, so thank you. Feeling absolutely fine today, so thanks for your kind words too - hope you have a terrific Christmas! xx""; mikelowe: ""Think I agree with everything that's been said. So I'll shut up!!""; lucathequietone: ""one of the most beautiful songs..""; lucathequietone: ""one of the most beautiful songs..""; lucathequietone: ""so good somehow I said it twice, don't know how it happened..""; kemiladashdot: ""Merry Christmas day ❅ ❄ ❆""; MsSue: ""Merry Christmas Alison!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Maybe because you were jamming 'A Fairy Tale Of New York' at the time? That's New York for you, so good they named it twice....Yes that is a rubbish joke :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Happy Boxing Day to you!....No, it just doesn't have the same ring to it, somehow...""; alisonsghost: ""@MsSue_ And you too :)""; alisonsghost: ""@mikelowe Thanks - but always feel free not to shut up :) If I've already said this forgive me - it's chocolate poisoning.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Did you pinch my joke or did I pinch yours? Or was it a simultaneous joke collision :)""" 2013-12-22,"'The Strange Death Of Liberal England'","Portsmouth (par Francoiz Breut)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQSI5pFJIE,"The wonderful Portsmouth band, TSDOLE covering a song about Portsmouth by Belgian singer Francoiz Breut in French!",20,"nangeanarendra, sarahbabbss, tomdwilly, lindatee, newley, thisismymistake, tschnick, roamin, Avante","Avante: ""Åhååå.. svenska! Franska låter iofs himlans fint det med. :)""; alisonsghost: ""I thought so :)""; thisismymistake: ""They sound a bit like Francoiz when she sings My Wedding Man, but lovely effort. Put a smile on my face... :)""; thisismymistake: ""(She's from Cherbourg btw, right across the Channel from Portsmouth)""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I've only recently stopped living in Portsmouth and I think one of the ferries was called Pride Of Cherbourg - bet you really wanted to know that :) They are normally a pretty dynamic and political band tho' have a horrible feeling they've split up :( I don't speak French - do they sound very Dick Van Dyke ??""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake And what exactly *has* she written about Portsmouth?!""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost About a ferry ride to Portsmouth, from Cherbourg presumably (maybe on the Pride of Cherbourg?), and the singer waiting that her lover will break up with her. Nothing political. I think they're doing a pretty decent job, but I'm not a native French speaker...""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost (rough translation) ah when we finish the crossing to portsmouth my heart will be pierced i'm sure of it i see his nervous fidgeting i know the words that he will deliver i know them well (...) portsmouth finally here we docked everything is so gray as i imagined streets awaken, repel sleep they open an eye and everything is the same i was wrong to worry you did not tell me announced anything, renounced nothing you destroyed nothing""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Well, they didn't sound like the Queen or Tony Blair so I thought I'd take the risk as to hear anyone from the UK try to speak another language is rare.I'll jam something else by them sometime. Thanks for the lyrics! It was always gorgeous and sunny when I lived there, tho' it's beauty isn't conventional:)""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost Francoiz is a goddess which may only be spoken of in hushed tones in my household, so no, I would not take a cover of this by Tony Blair lightly.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I'm glad I didn't Blairize your goddess - I'll have to listen to her properly. Those lyrics are rather lovely. The slight worry left hanging in the air...""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2013-12-21,"Isaac Hayes","Ike's Rap 2",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVbrPoLc3w,"Probably the place where both Portishead and Tricky found the music used on GloryBox/Hell Is Round The Corner. Although there is something earlier that sounds similar.",25,"pixoy, Section42L, staticstudios, lucathequietone, zombierust, soorajsoman, bullu, tpjdavies, newley, natyblooming, RonObvious, DavidShepherd, kemiladashdot, lozarithm, roamin, janice, HvanDoorne, Avante, BladeRunner, Salvadore, lonux, Steve_Marshall","Steve_Marshall: ""New one to me. Brilliant, it is the strings for Glory Box. I love it!""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Yes, quite spooky :) Tricky had recycled his own rap from a Massive Attack track on HIRTC, too.""; Avante: ""Even though everybody likes Isaac I still find him under rated. Super talented guy. Great Jam!""; natyblooming: ""Great jam!!!! How is the book coming along? I haven´t started mine yet (must finish 2 before that) but will...let me know if you are enjoying it!""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante You're probably right. I've always known he was there, but have never properly listened before.""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming About at the same stage as yours, so far! Did you get hold of one with the same man doing the preface? Probably American? Because he has taken over and really annoyed me so far! I'll let you know his name, it might help :)""; lucathequietone: ""I'll always love Chef!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Oh yes! Meatballs!""" 2013-12-19,Tricky,"Hell Is Round the Corner",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3R_3h6zQEs,"I love Tricky and Martina Toply Bird. He builds up layers, and layers on layers, but this is one of the more immediate tracks. Last but one for trip hop...",41,"MyBlueElephant, bullu, cbinseoul, abigail.deeks, RonObvious, Steve_Marshall, nangeanarendra, DVCwins, oded, stellakoto, newley, zombierust, MVD, soorajsoman, shme, lucathequietone, Avante, mloup, pixoy, natyblooming, roamin, AndyWilkinson, vyansky, UncannyUK, tpjdavies, BladeRunner, thisismymistake","thisismymistake: ""Top of his game on this one. Martina too.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I think she gets better and better, on her own or working with others. Haven't got into 'Knowle West Boy', yet - but that's because his first albums are so rich. Allegedly he hates the phrase 'trip hop'. Must be the 'hop' bit :-)""; mloup: ""Superb choice :)""; Avante: ""@alisonsghost I'm fine with calling it trip.""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante It's usually more trip than hop anyway, if it's any good. Another of those tags that tell you nothing, like 'shoegaze'!""; Avante: ""Agreed. We should make up new, better names for them, like ""crunk""! No, I see that one's already taken. :/""; Avante: ""I like your new avatar by the way. :)""; lucathequietone: ""All those are just labels, we know that music is music..""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante I think my love of bright colour underlines that I talk too much, so I've gone back to being a ghost :) @lucathequietone True, but human beings have to give things labels, it's how our brains work.Especially the brains of music journalists!""; stellakoto: ""Ooh I haven't listened to this album for ages. Must look it out.""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost I was cheating again.. That phrase was taken from Primal Scream's 'Come Together'.. sorry..""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for comment----------------yes still there---immersed in chtistmas markets,music&great food all over the place----will fly back home on21dec----usa--portland oregon""; Steve_Marshall: ""Trip hop is like my perfect genre, only there is not enough of it around. I love this track :D I call for a trip hop revival""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone !! You forced me to write a whole, and really quite pompous sentence! I'm not tuned in enough to Primal Scream's lyrics to recognise a quote - especially one like that! :):)""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra Maybe you could move there, It sounds as if it suits you :) And Christmas markets seem like a far better thing than shopping malls. And all the music, too.""; alisonsghost: ""@Smarsha5 I've been trying to find new stuff, but even though it's labelled trip hop it doesn't resemble it, so I think you're right:)""; Steve_Marshall: ""I know, once your past Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky you are scrapping the barrel. You can head towards Bjork and Thom Yorke but its not really trip-hop. The Herbaliser and Roots Manuva also flirt with trip hop but once again are not quite the same. Its a shame!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost sometimes I turn into lucathemischievousone, especially 'round Christmas.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; abigail.deeks: ""Fabulous album! Have goose bumps :)""; nangeanarendra: ""home is home----however i love vienna forever for music&opera""; alisonsghost: ""@Smarsha5 I've never heard of The Herbaliser,( sounds like a food processor) I suppose some dub seems to be good for a musical high, but often without any intellectual content. AKA, songs ;)""; Steve_Marshall: ""You mentioned the lyrics. Try the blend by Herbaliser and What? What? Not a great story but clever rapping if your into that kind of thing.""; alisonsghost: ""@Steve_Marshall Will do. Thanks.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for kind comments""" 2013-12-15,"Massive Attack","""Teardrop""",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOy8kz7aE,"Trip Hop 3. It may be obvious but it's one of my favourites. I couldn't post the original video but this is the best of what was available.",42,"sirswithin, meddlingwitch, MakinBacon, slachs, pmarwood, teaandbbc, MVD, altngo, rduarte, MyBlueElephant, tpjdavies, CallumPetch, mloup, natyblooming, pauseliveaction, occ, thisismymistake, UncannyUK, kdd, philipnareike, enrico_gec71_VI, bugineed, zombierust, Section42L, bullu, Salvadore, RonObvious, simonp, newley, DVCwins, pixoy, AndyWilkinson, soorajsoman, Olimite, bluetapes, lucathequietone, tschnick, BladeRunner, roamin, Astromonkey","lucathequietone: ""One of the best ever. And it was Dr. House's theme song. Loved it.""; Olimite: ""The original video is something quite special. One of my all-time favourite songs.""; nangeanarendra: ""vienna is a wonderland now a days-----blissful chroal. /chants---------------- music---------------all over""; kuttowski: ""This is one of my favorite songs throughout the years. Thx. allsonsghost""; Avante: ""Trip hop doesn't get much better than this. Great pick!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Do you mean Hugh Laurie? I've never seen that...I thought you meant some deeply cool DJ. Then again, perhaps you do!""; alisonsghost: ""@Olimite Yes, I tried to post that but it wouldn't let me, very sadly. Unless the original did have a singing baby??""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost an instrumental version was used for House's opening titles sequence. Hugh Laurie is one of my favourite actors/singers/writers. Look for him in the Kate Bush 'Experiment 4' video!""; MyBlueElephant: ""got no word to discribe what this marvellous track does to me""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone There's a particular instrumental dub re-mix of Teardrop that I love and have played almost as much as the original (probably sacrilege, but then Massive Attack put it out along with various other re-mixes). It shows the music has a really strong pull all of its own, I suppose. Hugh Laurie is well known here for his comedy partnership with Stephen Fry - they made a fabulous 'Jeeves and Wooster' in an adaptation of the PG Wodehouse stories. Great musician, too.""; alisonsghost: ""@MyBlueElephant I know - it's very odd what a huge effect it has on so many different sorts of people. The list of bands who've covered it is pretty long, too - I didn't realise until trying to check something about the original video just now.""; sirswithin: ""Remember seeing the original singing fetus video when this first came out and videos were still shown on TV. This song (along with Hugh Laurie) is what got me interested in ""House"".""; alisonsghost: ""@sirswithin When I watched it a couple of weeks ago , I didn't see the baby sing. When I came to put it on here, all I could find were singing babies!! I'm still confused by this :-) The baby is a brilliant piece of work, singing or not...(Elizabeth Frazer was adamant it had nothing to do with abortion, as claimed by certain groups.) I don't know if House was available on terrestrial TV in the UK? Might find it on DVD...I miss seeing videos, YT not the same :(""" 2013-12-13,Adorable,Sunburnt,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEcCMvK1ao,"Trip hop interruption 2. To mark the arrival of the 'Footnotes 92-94' CD by Adorable, a track from the French 'Sunshine Smile' EP. Shoegaze? I don't think so....",22,"bullu, abigail.deeks, nangeanarendra, DVCwins, RW104, kemiladashdot, BladeRunner, Salvadore, pixoy, roamin","alisonsghost: ""At least one, possibly 2 other people have posted this band to TIMJ. I'll see if I can find your names, in order to say thanks!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks i am back on web--but still at vienna for christmas----------------getting fat on chocolates and coffee+red wine""; lucathequietone: ""a big rush of a song!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I can sort of see why they didn't make a third album, frankly. If I can't get hold of anything by a band I always assume they must be brilliant. I'm not at all sure why!!""; kuttowski: ""Gigantic. A monster of a song. Thanks for it allsonsghost. Cheers, Walter""; alisonsghost: ""@kuttowski I think 'a monster of a song' might be a bit harsh!! :)""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra Your Christmas in Vienna sounds like heaven :)""" 2013-12-12,Portishead,"Glory Box",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-GvT8Clnk,"In a trip hop mood lately, and love the videos - only, horror, I'd forgotten to give Amor de Dias a 'best of' tag. So this is trip hop track 2...",28,"Matan, RonObvious, newley, shme, mloup, AndyWilkinson, rduarte, MVD, btener, MakinBacon, kemiladashdot, yugoseat, zombierust, njparry, simonp, Section42L, lucathequietone, staticstudios, Olimite, UncannyUK, soorajsoman, BladeRunner, vincestclair, natyblooming, roamin, Astromonkey, Jazzam, lukegodber, thesunneversets, crawtonleek, lindatee, lonux, bullu, RW104","lucathequietone: ""Loved that Portishead album. I haven't found the time to listen to Amor De Dias. Off to http://thatwasmyjam.sharpshooterlabs.com/user/alisonsghost to repent.""; lucathequietone: ""Back from http://thatwasmyjam.sharpshooterlabs.com/user/alisonsghost. Thank God for that. I was missing a beautiful song!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone It's the lead singer of the Clientele and his new group, which you probably know. I'm not too sure about them yet, but I'm hoping I'll grow into them. They got a bit of a pre-emptive 'best of' tag, to be honest. Many thanks for taking the time to listen! (Didn't even know I was filed at sharp shooter labs !)""; lucathequietone: ""We are all filed somewhere (said lucatheparanoidone)..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Google have started to make me slightly paranoid .The way they trail after me, advertising things I've looked at elsewhere....And Amazon, too. Offering albums by bands I've listened to on here or on iTunes. But of course, it's all a big coincidence - Isn't it :-) ??""" 2013-12-10,"Amor de Días","Jean's Waving",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPd7bv4R-A,"#Bestof2013 There are only two tracks from this album available, neither of them the one I wanted but it's a sweet song :) The Merge video is so criminally poor, the album cover was preferable.",36,"bullu, Rocklobster, yugoseat, simonp, natyblooming, DavidShepherd, kdd, CallumPetch, UncannyUK, Owlsoup, thisismymistake, oded, RonObvious, gogokrista, mloup, pixoy, Salvadore, soorajsoman, A_Silvers, lindatee, roamin, neil_jones, RW104","yugoseat: ""Thats nice.""; alisonsghost: ""@yugoseat Thanks. Or rather, thanks to Amor de Dias as they did all the hard work :-)""" 2013-12-08,Portishead,"Sour Times",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gutsi1uT4,,32,"Happy_Ears, matttugwell, HaveACuppaTea, mloup, Matan, MVD, kdd, lucathequietone, memilianaranjo, lynn200, shme, Astromonkey, thisismymistake, DavidShepherd, RW104, lonux, jubaloo, Section42L, tschnick, timcw, RonObvious, AlicejustMay, rduarte, zombierust, markhdz, pixoy, sirswithin, BladeRunner, AndyWilkinson, natyblooming, lozarithm, dutchbeeblebrox, lindatee, roamin","AlicejustMay: ""Oh, wow... this album... a 3am-er if ever there was one. Conjures up the sense of being trapped in Oldham; drinking being the only way to get out.""; AlicejustMay: ""Bloody hell, that makes me sound like an alkie.""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Everyone over a certain age would qualify as an alkie at some time in their life, nowadays, they keep changing the goalposts!! I *think* I know what you mean about being trapped in Oldham - but perhaps it's just my own awful past I'm thinking of...""; lynn200: ""brilliant group,enjoy all their work..superb lyrics.ch.""; alisonsghost: ""@lynn200 Agreed. And Beth Gibbons is a better actress than most singers in videos, too.""; lucathequietone: ""I remember watching 'To Kill A Dead Man' late at night many, many years ago. Strange but interesting. Still, I cannot understand why Portishead were never asked to do a Bond theme song.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone That's a really interesting thought - maybe they were thought a bit too weird, or not quite mainstream enough. I'm not sure how they choose, really.""" 2013-12-07,Blueboy,"Marble Arch",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7GuCL0aTA,"The lovely, and sadly late, Keith Girdler",14,"lucathequietone, lindatee, cbinseoul, DavidShepherd, CallumPetch, dutchbeeblebrox, soorajsoman, roamin","lucathequietone: ""So sad, so beautiful.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Yes :)""" 2013-12-06,LaBelle,"Lady Marmalade",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86g4mvJT_c,"This is the nearest I get to #funkyfriday ! I also have a theory that the 'lady' was probably male. But then, I would :)",20,"teen, lucathequietone, bullu, Astromonkey, tpjdavies, BladeRunner, AndyWilkinson, mloup, kemiladashdot, Salvadore, newley, dutchbeeblebrox, Section42L, roamin", 2013-12-04,"The Clientele","When She's Tired of Dancing",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRylKVRrf9M,"I love this a lot. Please, The Clientele, would you release this as a proper EP ? (From material recorded c.1991-98.Given away to those who went to gigs in c. 2005 )",28,"Axol, alfonsonocedal, natyblooming, AlicejustMay, soorajsoman, simonp, BladeRunner, staticstudios, stetroit, thisismymistake, lucathequietone, RonObvious, A_Silvers, yugoseat, Salvadore, lindatee, RW104, roamin, pixoy","alisonsghost: ""Double helpings of The Clientele...Not very Brit Pop. Just very British :)""; thisismymistake: ""Just very brilliant...""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake They are - this is one of the things they didn't think was good enough:)""; kemiladashdot: ""Neveer heard before, wonderful""; alisonsghost: ""@kemiladashdot Try 'Suburban Light'....It is better than this. Mind you, if someone says 'try this' it has a reverse effect, so you'll probably hate it :)""; simonp: ""@kemiladashdot @alisonsghost try anything of theirs. My favourite though was their last (hopefully not last ever but looking likely) Bonfires on the Heath. Very mellow. Very autumnal.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp My favourites are the first things - but I love them all. 'God Save The Clientele' is good too. Hope 'Bonfires on The Heath' isn't the very last, well 'The Minotaur', anyway.""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost There's only so much banging your head against a brick wall a guy can do. One day the rest of the world will wise-up.""; AlicejustMay: ""Ooh, loving this.... @alisonsghost, I like your style!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Yes, poor soul. How talented do you have to be?? Up until Strange Geometry they were recording everything they made themselves on collapsing and ancient studio equipment. Here, I should magically insert a You Tube clip that touches on the subject, but I'll spare you :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Thanks for liking it. They are a prodigiously talented band :)""; natyblooming: "":)""; Axol: ""Enjoyed this - thanks""" 2013-12-03,"The Clientele","That Night, a Forest Grew",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBCZBbibc6Y,"'I went to the garage, I was hunted by dogs' The Clientele drop a smiley faced paper high.",19,"CallumPetch, simonp, BladeRunner, lindatee, staticstudios, Salvadore, kadydjaalbuque, kdd, shme, teen, roamin, thisismymistake","thisismymistake: ""The Clientele go Morricone...""; thisismymistake: ""Or maybe rather Mancini...""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake It sounds great at the end of the EP its on, though - but I was looking for 'Driving South' and it wasn't there. You're making me laugh and I'm in a hurry!!!!""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost Ha! Ok ok, I will try to time my comments better in the future...""; lindatee: ""and I like this picture too - it's a bit creepy though""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee I don't know if it's one by the lead singer, but whoever did it, I like it too :)""; BladeRunner: ""Liked the song, liked the picture! They're both very raw! ;)""; simonp: ""Always like their talking songs""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner If by 'raw' you mean 'undercooked', I'll forgive you :)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I get this mixed up with 'The Garden at Night' from 'God Save The Clientele' - Please God, do save 'The Clientele', go on God, you know you want to really....""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost hauhauhahuahauahu! yeah!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner :)""" 2013-11-30,"Yo La Tengo","Tom Courtenay",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XO7mgCTFAw,"I love this song so much. Clever, sad, and funny.",34,"fladriss, yugoseat, lindatee, BladeRunner, staticstudios, dutchbeeblebrox, Owlsoup, Olimite, Matan, natyblooming, MikeHandshakes, shme, AndyDenton, pixoy, AndyWilkinson, Section42L, nangeanarendra, teen, d0minic, RonObvious, bullu, Salvadore, jmmcleod, roamin, soorajsoman","alisonsghost: ""To the 2 people who listened to 'Sea Sick' by Love Is All; thanks for your courage:)""; thisismymistake: ""I didn't get this album until one day it played during my afternoon nap. After that everything was obvious.""; alisonsghost: ""I'm not sure which album it was on originally. I've got it on Electropura. But I love this song with its mention of so many 60's English fimstars...I'm not sure there are many that mention Eleanor Bron!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; alisonsghost: ""@andrewsjason They are a band I avoided because the name convinced me they would be earnest Spanish guitar players - tho' I'm not sure now why this would have been a bad thing! It's totally down to @freemorphene jamming 'Blue Line Swinger' that I love them now. Glad you liked them, too :)""; alisonsghost: ""That's @freemorpheme btw!!""; natyblooming: ""@thisismymistake jajaja :)""; AlicejustMay: ""I keep telling myself I need to hear more of them because I love what I've listened to so far.""; Matan: ""@AlicejustMay You won't regret it. Brilliant live too.""; Matan: ""@alisonsghost The video to this is cute too.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Rudeness!! Well it might have been :) That's the way I feel about more than 4 tracks of Mazzy Star :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay It really helps to run one on the lyrics sites at the same time - I thought they were sort of cheerful surf music before I did :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Matan I'm afraid I was in a hurry and just went for the first track that worked! I was also glad to see so much of their stuff on youtube.""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost Oh I didn't mean to say this put me to sleep, I was already napping when Electropura came on (CD changer, I guess, we're talking mid-Nineties here), and in my semi-sombulant state the album suddenly opened up to me when before it was too hermetic and austere.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake That's what I thought you meant, but then doubt crept in...:)""; freemorpheme: ""aw, lol at YLT being earnest Spanish guitar players :) when this album came out i remember wondering who eleanor bron was but there was no GIS in those days. had to go to the library!""; lucathequietone: ""Finally found some time to listen to your jam properly. And I'm REEEAAALLYYY glad I did. That's great. Loved the bah-bahs in the background expecially!""; alisonsghost: ""@freemorpheme This band were always being touted as similar to The Clientele, as was Camera Obscura who are a bit floppy for me. Add imaginary Spanish guitars and it was never going to happen!! Thanks to you it did :) The irony is that Amor de Dias the group that now contains half The Clientele is full of Spanish guitars and very floppy :)""; alisonsghost: ""@freemorpheme ....Eleanor Bron is in A Clockwork Orange. Love what they did to Beethoven in that film.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I'm glad you liked it. Find a track called 'Blue Line Swinger' by them, it's on Spotify. It's sensational. That was the track that got me into them. It was jammed by the person just above you :)""; lindatee: ""I was put off by their name too - but the stuff I've heard ahas bben really good!!!""; alisonsghost: ""@lindatee I'm either put off by names or buy things I've never heard because they've got great cd covers, and then find I hate them :)""; lindatee: ""@alisonsghost It's quite a good way of getting new music though - I'm likely to play an interesting title""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for wonderful comment""" 2013-11-30,"Love Is All","Sea Sick",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmf8jsAFpY,"It's just one of those days....",3,, 2013-11-28,Doves,"Break Me Gently",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ct3Ia7HwPc,"Hairy Shoegaze.",24,"vincestclair, teen, pixoy, UncannyUK, AndyWilkinson, Salvadore, soorajsoman, thisismymistake, meddlingwitch, RW104, Astromonkey, lucathequietone, shme, nangeanarendra, roamin, simonp","lucathequietone: ""Why hairy?""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; Salvadore: ""Great song!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Apologies, I was in a rush and it was a slightly flippant comment, although Doves are hairy! You probably know this, but with their first album, they seemed to be unsure about whether to go down the so-called 'shoegaze' route; instead they chose rock and were successful. The press 1st invented this label, then used it to disparage the work of various bands. IMO a new tag is needed to replace shoegaze. Neither dreampop, nor noisepop etc suit a lot of these bands......""; alisonsghost: ""@Salvadore I really love it. But they don't seem to include either this or a similar song in their live sets. 'Lost Souls' is a good album. After that, I lost interest a bit.""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost thanks for the explanation. I was aware of the 'shoegaze' tag, but still I was curious whether 'hairy' was to be referred to the genre or to Doves themselves..""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Sorry!! Very long-winded explanation of something you already know! There may be a 'hairy shoegaze' genre...I'm always laughing at things like that, only to find they are real :) Perhaps I just invented it :)""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost don't apologize, your caption and your comments were interesting and fun!""" 2013-11-26,Slowdive,Alison,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2NB41QUIdU,"Does anyone know which video this was shown with originally....?",28,"teaandbbc, Sponster, dutchbeeblebrox, UncannyUK, MikeHandshakes, RW104, Salvadore, nangeanarendra, spergers, Section42L, lucathequietone, staticstudios, TomSchneitter, jmmcleod, Jazzam, pixoy, soorajsoman, d0minic, slachs, roamin","TomSchneitter: ""beauty of a ballad!""; lucathequietone: ""sweet""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone It is, very :) @TomSchneitter It's the only song that makes (lyrical) sense on the album. But then shoegaze space stations are strange places :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for the comment""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra Always a big pleasure :) Thans for the music.""" 2013-11-25,"Led Zeppelin","Rock And Roll (Live 1973)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Hb9ABpyts,"I once owned a copy of Led Zep IV, although not in 1971, and 'Rock and Roll' was my favourite track. I'm not sure the song remains the same, though....",16,"tomdwilly, soorajsoman, UncannyUK, pixoy, newley, teaandbbc, nangeanarendra, simonp, roamin, AndyWilkinson, AlicejustMay","simonp: ""I was always a Led Zep II boy in my youth but Physical Graffiti has long since replaced it as my fave. But they didn't really make a poor album did they.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I can't claim to know much about them, except for 1 or 2 albums. I was dragged screaming into the cinema to watch 'The Song Remains The Same' and came out comatose. Too hobbity for me, sadly. But I do admire Jimmy Page in spite of his clothes in this video. Top totty, normally :)""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost oh yeah, I never could watch all of Song Remains. They do like their hobbits but somehow they seem to get away with it.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Not sure anyone gets away with the poisonous touch of a hobbit. Or any elf stuff. Was so relieved that TLOTR's is only about 3/4 of the physical length of the book, the rest being a glossary of elfish languages or something. Yelped with happiness realising I didn't have to read anymore.... A bit like this post, really...""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost Another good thing about your last post. No Tom Bombadil.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Was he that bloke fairly near the beginning who walked about and sang a lot and was very wise and at one with nature. And possibly referred to himself in the 3rd person? Or someone.He wasn't in the films?""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Did things with moss....""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost that's the bloke. Totally tedious; page after page of verse and meandering mutterings. Even in a nine hour epic series, Peter Jackson knew he couldn't stretch the moviegoer's patience that thin.""; UncannyUK: ""Bam!""" 2013-11-23,"Mazzy Star",Roseblood,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tTFq47pRwc,Creepy.,26,"AndyWilkinson, stetroit, pixoy, MikeHandshakes, Avante, Axol, dutchbeeblebrox, soorajsoman, nangeanarendra, cbinseoul, deerylew, kemiladashdot, Section42L, staticstudios, CallumPetch, Salvadore, roamin, RW104, Rocklobster, AlicejustMay","AlicejustMay: ""oooh... lovely - and dreamy-creepy. Must be sending out the same vibe this morning :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Oh yes:} ( btw was that Mr J Vegas?}""; AlicejustMay: ""Where? Are you referring to a certain V StClair?""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Yup. Character actor or real?""; AlicejustMay: ""Bit of both if you ask me! But in a fun way.""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay That's good:)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; Axol: ""@alisonsghost thanks for the lovely comments regarding #juliancopeweek - excellent jam btw""; alisonsghost: ""@Axol :)""; Avante: ""Creepy but good!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for your comment""; nangeanarendra: ""you can see it if missed on youtube.com --just type the name of this opera""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra Thank you :)""; alisonsghost: ""@Avante Thanks :)""" 2013-11-22,"The Airfields","red fox",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO3MpQ68esg,"To celebrate finally managing to find the laneways cd. I think the drummer might have put the video together. I couldn't find the track I wanted, as usual, but this is wonderful.",16,"nangeanarendra, Kumar_Kartik, MikeHandshakes, bullu, roamin, kdd, soorajsoman, alisonsghost","alisonsghost: ""Inside the cover is a note saying this song is 'dedicated to the memory of Jennifer Mary Fortino [or Portino] 1859-2001' So it is here,too. And to the fabulous disappearing band, The Airfields.""; soorajsoman: ""Lovely! The video is a bit patchy....and why do they keep disappearing?""; alisonsghost: ""@soorajsoman They made 1 cd and 1 album. Both are gorgeous and have more emotional weight than the average band that gets labelled twee (which they aren't)! Then they disappeared. You can hear them for free on spotify and LFM and buy the tracks from i-tunes still. But the cds are very hard to find. Sad.""; alisonsghost: ""Also that should be 1959 - 2001. I think this site has typo gremlins :)""; soorajsoman: ""Thanks for the info. Definitely worth checking out if you so highly recommend it.....that disappearance is intriguing. Anyway its great you come up with stuff like this :-) cheers""; alisonsghost: ""@soorajsoman I see what you mean about the video. Very odd. Also the sound quality is pretty poor :(""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for great comment""" 2013-11-21,"Codeine Velvet Club","Little Sister",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHa7I6wFsZo,"A lovely loud noise. Live in Glasgow.",13,"lucathequietone, dutchbeeblebrox, Jazzam, roamin, alisonsghost","yugoseat: ""is that the guy from the Fratellis?""; lucathequietone: ""A much needed energy fix. Thanks for this and also for the good wishes, btw.""; alisonsghost: ""@yugoseat Yes. It's Jon Lawler. He got someone from Belle and Sebastian to write the orchestra score for the album. It's pretty good. Not the sort of thing I usually like :)""; yugoseat: ""nice.""" 2013-11-19,Curve,"Chinese Burn",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V5EybsXDQI,"This song could be the prospectus for a girls' school. Uniform list; gymslip, panama hat, tongue like a whip and a satchel full of sharp little knives...What relevance this video has escapes me.",28,"nangeanarendra, dutchbeeblebrox, BladeRunner, bullu, mloup, Engztrom, soorajsoman, thesunneversets, staticstudios, Avante, thisismymistake, lucathequietone, kdd, roamin, simonp, alisonsghost","simonp: ""Loved this song/band. Saw them just after their second ep came out. Like many indie kids I was rather in love with Toni Halliday.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp She's a bit gorgeous definitely. I was reading somewhere that she was looked down on for not being 'a real singer'. Weird.""; lucathequietone: ""Inspirational. I'm going to post something by Toni Halliday soon.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Dean Garcia rules a band called SPC ECO, at the moment I think, and is doing various other things as well. I've got an album by them and they are OK but Curve are more interesting, Well, In my opinion :)""; BladeRunner: ""ooohh liked it a lot!""; alisonsghost: ""@BladeRunner I don't think I chose the best version. I was in a hurry and didn't play it through.""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost I'll look out for other versions, but still, i liked this one a lot!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2013-11-18,"Crow Road","Panda Season",http://soundcloud.com/ua-edinburgh/crow-road-panda-season,"A beautiful, melancholy song from a very Scottish Band. Probably they took their name from the expression 'to take the crow road..' rather than from the book. But as a tribute to Iain (M) Banks this is #bookjam 4.",21,"PeteLaberge, Axol, soorajsoman, AlicejustMay, Jazzam, kdd, meddlingwitch, roamin, alisonsghost","alisonsghost: ""Note; This didn't work properly when I pasted in the soundcloud link. But TIMJ found it when I typed in the band name and track. Just in case that's useful for anyone. ...This song is also for the late 'Black Craw' Maizie W and for Lord W too.""; d0minic: ""great #BookJam choice :_""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic Thanks. I really love this song. 'Panda Season' is a great phrase for describing wanting to be on your own and not ain a collapsing relationship,""; simonp: ""Mmm, I'm a bit conflicted about this one. Love the music and the melody but his John Martyn slurred-singing style is a bit jarring""; d0minic: ""@alisonsghost yeah those Pandas have it easy! ;)""; kdd: ""I'm curious. What's the expression 'to take the crow road..' mean?""; AlicejustMay: ""@kddaniel I went down the Crow Road last Friday to pick up our takeaway. Yes, THAT Crow Road. Maybe that's what it means - the irresistible urge to visit Sims Garden.""; AlicejustMay: ""Lovely track, too!""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel It means to die. @AlicejustMay Do you mean in Glasgow? Or is it Edinburgh? Visiting the takeaways round here could quite possibly lead to the Crow Road!!""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay This is so irrelevant - but what sort of takeaway does Sims Garden do??""; AlicejustMay: ""@alisonsghost ha! Really good Chinese food.""; AlicejustMay: ""@alisonsghost Oh, missed your previous comment - it's in Glasgow - we're just outside, so it's about a half hour drive. Me and the eldest use the time to listen to new music.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Well it is annoying if you think a vocalist is modelling themselves on someone else. I was listening to The House of Love last night and I've heard so much Lou Reed and Nick Drake on here they were driving me mad because that was all I could hear!""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Oh! A good way to make time to listen:) Chinese is my favourite. Very hungry. It's been another sandwich only week :)""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic Yes. For pandas life is all peace and bamboo.""; kdd: ""@alisonsghost Thanks, that's a new one to me.""; AlicejustMay: ""Ah, The House of Love! So long since I've listened to them I couldn't tell you what they sound like. Though I remember The Charlatans.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Now that I've googled John Martyn I can see why you would find him irritating. Tuneful though. They don't seem that similar. The bloke from Crow Road just seems to have a strong accent. Then again, Spotify now only reccomends bands to me if they have less than 300 followers so I'm not greatly surprised you're conflicted :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel I only know from reading The Crow Road, I think. And about the real Crow Road. Although I don't think it mentioned The Chinese restaurant :)""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay I always mix The Charlatans up with The Libertines and The Raconteurs. My brain is turning into band-name porridge.""; AlicejustMay: ""Tell me about it... Auteurs, Stone Roses, Mock Turtles... what a porridge, though!""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Soup glorious soup :) Or porridge. I made a terrible band name blunder earlier in the week but I'm waiting until it's 'terrible musical mistake' week before revealing it!""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost Martyn could be a pretty cantankerous old soak (and it was drink that killed him in the end) but he did produce some incredible music. For some reason though, after about his third or fourth album in the mid-70s he adopted this slurring vocal style (which I don't think was entirely due to his imbibing) and I found it difficult to get past it. I'm pretty sure yer man from Crow Road isn't trying to imitate him, it's just that I find his voice similarly offputting""; AlicejustMay: ""Well thanks for that, @alisonsghost - I'm going to be wondering indefinitely now!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Which is completely fair enough :) I'll try to listen to Martyn before the slurry stage, because in the You Tube clip he was definitely doing that. He didn't seem drunk though. He was pretty young when he died by the look of it :(""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay The blunder or the Fox/Wolf trouble? If the first I'm bound to give myself away:)""; AlicejustMay: ""Blunder! Blunder!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp It's a bit like the mystery of why the lead singer of The Killers turned into a wobbly Bruce Springstein by the second record....""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost Bless the Weather is the album I keep going back to. Beautiful. You can see why him and Nick Drake had a mutual admiration (even if they were poles apart in personality)""; simonp: ""Never liked The Killers and (even though it's sacrilege to say round these parts) I've never been a Brucey fan neither""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay Let's just say the link is Nick Drake :) Which in fact means I've made 2 blunders as I meant Nick Cave re The House of Love!!""; simonp: ""Which is my way of saying I'm not qualified to make call on that!""; simonp: ""Ooh we must have been typing nick drake at the same time. Guess that shouldn't be too much of a surprise on here""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I liked 'Hot Fuss' but ditto on that other bloke. Loathe him. Big God complex on stage too. Well, not being qualified has unfortunately never stopped me :) Definitely right about 'Nick Drake' being omnipresent at the moment :)""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp ...although Nick Drake is mainly a good thing, I should add!""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay In fact that's a tripple blunder as the link was Julian Cope!! Sandwich time :)""; Axol: ""@alisonsghost Lovely song - dig the accent but then I'm biased - book is worth reading too.""; alisonsghost: ""@Axol Thank you. I thought it was beautiful :) Does that mean you're Scottish? I've read The Crow Road and I think it's probably one of Iain Banks' best books. And Iain M Bainks has a different one :) Unless you mean a different book with a similar title, which would be interesting...Hope you're having a good Julian Cope week !""; Axol: ""I love the book. Read lots of ian banks but shamefully no iam m banks. What would you recommend? Need to shoot the craw (meaning to leave) as opposed to travelling the crow road (kicking the bucket) !""; Axol: ""Ps. Yeh really enjoying listening to lots of Julian Cope. Not everyone's cup of tea I know. I didn't get into him until very recently.""; alisonsghost: ""@Axol I'm definitely shooting the craw! All music-ed out for today. Will let you know a good Iain M Banks on another occasion.""; PeteLaberge: ""This is a very nice tune. Good rhythm and beat. Thanks. great jam.""" 2013-11-18,"Crow Road","Panda Season",http://soundcloud.com/crow-road/panda-season-1,"A sweetly melancholy track from a very Scottish band. I don't know if they named themselves after the book, or after the expression 'to take the crow road...' I suspect the latter. But this is #bookjam 4 in memory of Iain (M) Banks.",2,, 2013-11-15,"Kitchens of Distinction","Oak Tree",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av1tdqZ1HK4,"I've been waiting to jam the 1st track from Folly because it blew me away completely. The words have been changed in this version to protect the ignorant, and it doesn't have the same anger. It's beautiful, but go and download the song.",24,"alisonsghost, AndyDenton, Section42L, PartyTearsFew, stellakoto, lucathequietone, stetroit, thisismymistake, roamin, UncannyUK, soorajsoman, shme, RW104","UncannyUK: ""Very moving. Long time since I've heard Kitchens of Distinction.""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK Their new album is extraordinary. A bitch patchy, but the first thing it does is slam you in the guts with that song in the unexpurgated version. I was still crying by the last track!!""; alisonsghost: ""That's a bit patchy, not a bitch patty...""; thisismymistake: ""Kitchens of Distinction Appreciation Society report!""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Is that good or bad? At my school if you got 2 reports you ended up in detention!""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost Apparently good because the band faved my retweet of this jam... https://twitter.com/thisismymistake/status/401460190173605888""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Good:) I never think to do things like that :)""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake In fact that has made me hilariously proud.""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake Was tired last night and forgot to say 'thank you'. This band is one that deserves to know they are appreciated.""; lucathequietone: ""This is absolutely great. And in 6/8 time, if I'm not mistaken.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone On the album it sounded quite complex, but I was concentrating on the scansion. I'll try and tap it out the way we did in music lessons!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost well, I was cheating. I searched for the lyrics at songmeanings.com and I found a comment from Patrick, who submitted the lyrics himself btw, about the time signature of this song.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone I've never found a decent song meaning/lyrics site, so I'll bookmark that one. Do you know what 6/8 time is?? All I can think of is 2 waltzes stuck together! At least if they are 3/4 time. I've forgotten now :)""; thisismymistake: ""@alisonsghost :) You have every right to be hilariously proud... And thanks to you!""; lucathequietone: ""@alisonsghost definitely I am not an expert about tempos. According to Wikipedia the 6/8 time signature is a compound double time signature used for jigs, polkas, barcarolles etc.""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone That's interesting - the song doesn't really have a polka or jig subject, somehow. He does count in at the beginning of this version so I'll listen with more attention next time. I love oddments of information like this :)""; PeteLaberge: ""interesting jam! Thanks.""; alisonsghost: ""@PeteLaberge The word 'interesting' can be so damning :) Thanks for listening, though.""" 2013-11-12,"The Clientele","What Goes Up",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upOptQbVO40,"#bookjam 3, An early song, which has the whole of Ralph Hodgson's poem 'Stupidity Street' from the 1913 book 'The Mystery and Other Poems' thrown in. The recording is probably from'It's Art Dad', full of older material that any other band would have made into an ep . Big sigh - it was given to people lucky enough to find a Clientele gig to go to in 2004 :(",29,"CallumPetch, fsohail, AlicejustMay, soorajsoman, simonp, neil_jones, staticstudios, d0minic, HaveACuppaTea, RW104, stetroit, UncannyUK, kadydjaalbuque, thisismymistake, nangeanarendra, roamin, alisonsghost","alisonsghost: ""'Stupidity Street' 'I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.' (And if anyone's copy of Suburban Light has this track on it , could they let me know?}""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for your wonderful comment-- president obama gave the medal of freedom to legendary singer bob dylan for championing the cause of civil rights for all in the world""; d0minic: ""brilliantly inventive book Jam.""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic Verucca Salt were truly amazing. Still stunned :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; neil_jones: ""Wow, love The Clientele but never even heard this. I gather it was their first single. Lovely lovely stuff.""; simonp: ""Love, love this band but don't have this. Have they ever released anything less than totally wonderful?""; alisonsghost: ""@neil_jones I didn't know it was their first single. Lovely stuff indeed. And I've just tracked down where you can find it. It's on the US version of Suburban Light, hiding in the open, along with a couple of other tracks that aren't on the UK version :)""; alisonsghost: ""@neil_jones btw, you were right about The Clientele/ Amor de Dias sounding very similar - they even used the song 'Harvest Time' in slightly different versions, on both 'Street of The Love of Days' and 'Bonfires on The Heath', which is a a bit odd!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp With most bands, there are some tracks I do like from each recording. With the Clientele, out of everything they've done, I can only thing of one track that I really don't think makes the grade, plus another that I don't like that much, mainly because of the way it has been produced. Oh yes, and one word from a line that I think is mildly irritating....""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost There you go. Rubbish band.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Couldn't agree more.""; AlicejustMay: ""I feel very lucky that it's new to me and so I can have the pleasure of discovering it... thank you.""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay I'm not sure this track is the very best place to start, but then, I fell in love with them after hearing the off-the-studio-floor song donated to 'Country Music Songs For Keith Girdler' - a collection put together in memory of the late Blue Boy'singer/writer. I still have no idea why.""; alisonsghost: ""@AlicejustMay No idea why I fell for that, not no idea why they put together an album etc....""" 2013-11-10,"Door Marked Summer","A1 We Are The Lies",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RibMzb7MOHk,"#bookjam two. This late 80s/90's band took their name from 'The Door Marked Summer' by the late comedian Michael Bentine. If you  find a door marked Summer, don't open it.",7,"lukegodber, UncannyUK, d0minic, roamin","alisonsghost: ""I have a feeling that this line might have been picked up from elsewhere by M.B. This band, a legend in Kent, had two drummers. I really like this track so if there's anyone out there from Kent, could you let me know where I can find anything else by them? They morphed into the psychedelic band Crow, who might be the Crow on i tunes....""; UncannyUK: ""I've read the book but somehow missed this band, despite the heavy psych vibe which I like. Thanks for jamming. I shall explore more!""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK I think the band were easy to miss, unless you were in Kent :) I tripped over them on you tube while looking for something else but I'd like to hear more.""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK A lot of people seem to have adopted the line 'A door marked summer' as their own. If it didn't come from a poem, I wonder if it was a fairly typical sceance room pronouncement from one of the experiments his father conducted. It's been ages since I read the book though.""" 2013-11-08,"Gary Numan and Tubeway Army","Are Friends Electric",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6MDdxBork,"From The Old Grey Whistle Test 1979, #bookjam Based on 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Phillip K Dick, about as roughly as 'Blade Runner' is. A favourite author, and a favourite film meet in a great song.",23,"nangeanarendra, staticstudios, CallumPetch, RW104, Axol, lukegodber, meddlingwitch, kdd, d0minic, AndyWilkinson, shme, simonp, lucathequietone, pauseliveaction, dutchbeeblebrox, roamin, kadydjaalbuque, thisismymistake","alisonsghost: ""In a documentary about synth pop recently, someone from the Human League described how it dawned on them that Gary Numan was just as much a synth pioneer as they were. And a pop star. They wanted to be pop stars too so they formed Heaven17. Really funny.""; thisismymistake: ""Just played this twice...""; lucathequietone: ""I like Gary Numan. I love Philip K. Dick.""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost And ironically, those they left behind in Human League went onto to become far bigger pop stars""; nangeanarendra: ""LOVED YOUR COMMENT""; alisonsghost: ""@thisismymistake I watched five or six videos as I was putting this up!""; alisonsghost: ""@lucathequietone Absolutely. Phillip K Dick is sensational, There's a book of his called 'A Maze Of Death' that I love. And 'The Man In The High Castle' used to seem like a prophecy. Can't read 'Valis' though it starts to have a strange effect!""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I think it was Phil Oakey (sp?) who took the band and scarpered! That part made my least loved track ever. It isn't even in tune. IMO, obviously :)""; simonp: ""oh come on @alisonsghost, don't you want me...""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp ....baby, sort of no :)""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost well, that's just the kind of reaction I'd expect from someone who was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp It toughens you up, I'm afraid. But the tips are good.""; d0minic: ""Great Jam! glad to see the #BookJam baton is being passed around. I also love PKD, my top 5 of his are 'VALIS', 'The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch' and 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep', 'Confessions Of A Crap Artist' and 'A Scanner Darkly'. Have got 'We Can Build You' sitting on my shelf waiting to be read too. :-)))""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic I don't know who started it. I stole it from @kddaniel who has a great one. Glad you managed Valis without starting to go mad. Wasn't it semi-autobiographical? Love 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep', especially the religious figure always pushing the boulder up the hill, if I've got the right book. Ridley Scott didn't read it before he made 'Blade Runner'. Would love to read 'Flow My Tears The Policeman Said' and 'Puttering About In A Small Land'!! :)""; kdd: ""Listening to Gary Numan, reading a conversation about PKD...that's great. Great jam!""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel :)""; d0minic: ""@alisonsghost yes it was. I'd recommend you read 'I am alive and you are dead' a biography of PKD that gives more insight into what happened to him, the drugs, his mental breakdown, the 'divine invasion' of his mind which 'VALIS'. 'Radio Free Albemuth', 'The Divine Invasion' and 'The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer' grew out of.""; d0minic: ""'Flow My Tears The Policeman Said' is outstanding""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic Will do that with pleasure.I'm not sure how many are still in print, but I'll track them down. Do you remember the author of the biography by any chance?""; d0minic: ""http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jun/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview15 :)""; d0minic: ""nearly forgot 'UBIK' the first PKD I read when I was 14 and the one that got me hooked on him for life!""; kdd: ""@d0minic @alisonsghost Have you all seen this story about PKD? It could have been written by him: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/27/losing-head-philip-k-dick-david-dufty-review""; d0minic: ""@kddaniel very mysterious.... will have to investigate further.""; alisonsghost: ""@d0minic Thanks for the link and the suggestions. I gave my brother a lot of PKD books as presents when we had a sort of communal library. Now I live nearby again I'll go and make him find them:)""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel Thanks. I'll go and look now :)""; alisonsghost: ""@kddaniel Thanks. Brilliant and horrible true story. His poor daughter. 'Your robot father's head seems to have wandered off...'""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2013-11-07,"Black Casino and the Ghost","Son of the Dust",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of2P4SjTNfU,"One of the three songs salvaged from a mix cd that the Dog collected from the postman. I really liked this one.",16,"dutchbeeblebrox, nangeanarendra, clickysounds, Rocklobster, Floressas, yugoseat, AlicejustMay, kdd, roamin, thisismymistake","thisismymistake: ""Good Lord!""; thisismymistake: ""@clickysounds, listen to this!""; AlicejustMay: ""rather lovely... can see what you like so much, @thisismymistake.""; clickysounds: ""@thisismymistake thanks for the page! into a crazy work week, continued hound-dog favors appreciated!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""" 2013-11-06,"The Ventures","WIPE OUT(Live version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM,"We used to listen to the Surfaris version lots.This is apparently the original. Compare and contrast!",17,"neil_jones, nangeanarendra, newley, meddlingwitch, Owlsoup, UncannyUK, kadydjaalbuque, CallumPetch, fsrlabel, PeteLaberge, roamin, dutchbeeblebrox","dutchbeeblebrox: ""Great stuff!""; alisonsghost: ""@dutchbeeblebrox The drums on this are amazing. Show you what men in suits can do!""; PeteLaberge: ""I remember this. THANKS!""; UncannyUK: ""Wow! That's a lot of noise out of one small drumkit.""; Owlsoup: ""Excellent! I've just started learning the drums, so I will aim to play like this one day!""; alisonsghost: ""@UncannyUK That's what I thought! Classy.""; alisonsghost: ""@Owlsoup The drums seem to be one of the hardest things to learn. Hope you get there:)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; nangeanarendra: ""THANKS FOR LIKING MY JAM""" 2013-11-03,"The Revolving Paint Dream","Stop The World",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEHxMg7e6s,"Half of Primal Scream painting the world semi-psychedelic c. 1983-5. I really wanted the title track but it doesn't exist in jammable form.",26,"CallumPetch, lucathequietone, UncannyUK, dutchbeeblebrox, Kumar_Kartik, thisismymistake, kadydjaalbuque, MsSue, nangeanarendra, staticstudios, roamin","MsSue: ""Excellent""; alisonsghost: ""@MsSue_ Thank you. I'm not sure how many psychedelic influenced bands there were in the early 80's. I've just dragged the Small Faces out of the vaults on Spotify thanks to your jam btw. Really loved that.""; simonp: ""In the Afternoon was one of my favourite indie tracks of the 80s. Used to play it over and over again. Just Jammed something very indie myself.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp, I think I just played it and liked it! At least if it's the one with the book mention. Their 2nd album verges on the twee, but love the first one. Really frustrated there weren't more tracks on youtube.""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost I was such a Creation kid in the mid- to late-80s""; simonp: ""@alisonsghost btw, just noticed your eternal jam. The Clientele have got to be one of the most criminally under-heard bands going at the moment. I just love them.""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp Loads of great bands on Creation, like The Jesus and Mary Chain. As for The Clientele, it's puzzling. Although I did wonder if it had anything to do with never playing North of London or South of Brighton :) Personally, I'm a hopeless junkie and listen to them most days.""; MsSue: ""@alisonsghost Really glad you found them. Hope you enjoy your exploration :)""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for your comment""; PeteLaberge: ""interesting jam!""; alisonsghost: ""@PeteLaberge That's one way of looking at it:)""" 2013-11-01,Placebo,"‘Placebo - Burger Queen @ Portsmouth 1997’",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2J2iSJCbRM,"A postcard to my favourite place, from exile.",4,"stetroit, RW104, roamin, stellakoto, nangeanarendra","nangeanarendra: ""thanks for wonderful comment--you are right but this one is a story of venus&adonis who dies in her arms""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for the great comment""" 2013-10-29,"The Clientele",Lamplight,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5320TeToY,"This should be the long version of one of the loveliest of their songs. Poignant and amazing. Live in San Diego and enhanced by Tunnelvision.",30,"TragicBeauty, shme, teen, Star0fCCTV, Hooch, RW104, yugoseat, kdd, thesunneversets, staticstudios, dutchbeeblebrox, nangeanarendra, Kumar_Kartik, roamin","alisonsghost: ""The real star of the show is Alasdair Maclean's brown jumper. Offhand, I can't think of anyone else who would turn up on stage wearing something so heroically horrible.""; RW104: ""@alisonsghost Awesome, great version!!!""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for your wonderful comment""; alisonsghost: ""@RW104 Thanks. I really love this. It shows how good they are. For the vocals, probably the record is better, but hearing him fight to get them out is awesome too :)""; alisonsghost: ""@nangeanarendra My pleasure :) A wonderful jam.""; BladeRunner: ""@alisonsghost hey there!!! I've been missing you around, hope everything is ok! :) x""; natyblooming: ""Hey! I am reading the third one on him...this time this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VMHIHA/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o03_?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I am liking it!""; alisonsghost: ""@natyblooming I'm impressed. I haven't got through the first 2 I bought. I'm going on to 'Hangover Square' by Patrick Hamilton next though (I think!) Many apologies for extreme lateness x""" 2013-10-28,"Youth Lagoon",Dropla,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XpNwKPTA8,,8,"dutchbeeblebrox, kdd, josh3, roamin", 2013-10-25,"Lene Lovich","Insect Eater",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD43-MkjPBw,"'Insects in my fridge at midnight put me in a dancing mood...!' #Halloween, #Goth Week. #Literary",16,"stetroit, staticstudios, jmmcleod, dutchbeeblebrox, shme, kdd, roamin","alisonsghost: ""From her late 90's album, 'Shadows and Dust', Funny on purpose. Well, presumably.""; jmmcleod: ""Well that's the strangest thing I've heard for a while! - (Is it not ""Earwigs"" rather than ""Insects""""; alisonsghost: ""@jmmcleod Did I get the quote wrong? It's funny, because It's one of those lines I sometimes get going round in my head and I always remember it as insects :) It's a very daft song, definitely!""" 2013-10-24,July,"The Way",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8cL3BAp-Q,"There are a few versions of this, all claiming to be by July. The others have a male singer/singers. This one might be female. Love it though.",8,"dutchbeeblebrox, roamin, gogokrista, kdd, thisismymistake", 2013-10-21,"Comet Gain","Jack Nance Hair",http://catsaregrey.files.wordpress.com,"This is supposed to be 'Jack Nance Rising' but it isn't anywhere.",9,"yugoseat, Axol, staticstudios, nangeanarendra, Owlsoup", 2013-10-15,"Kitchens Of Distinction","Mad As Snow",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx_4xbuB74k,"Another Tescotown Winter is snarling on the horizon. This is to cheer myself up.",17,"dutchbeeblebrox, yugoseat, staticstudios, thisismymistake, thesunneversets, Axol, kdd, RW104","thisismymistake: ""Hi @MadameZia :) I'm sure I did but the distinction really belongs to @neil_jones...""; neil_jones: ""@thisismymistake @MadameZia Great song. They're all great songs -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mFZCjln10""" 2013-10-07,"Dead Famous People","Life Said To The Boy",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twIgBtxuiTI,"A favourite track from Dead Famous people, an NZ indie band, Their first and only LP is a curious mixture of melody and lyrics about death and fate. Recorded in 1991 in England.",11,"staticstudios, simonp, nangeanarendra, Axol, thesunneversets, yugoseat, kdd","nangeanarendra: ""THANKS FOR FOLLOWING ME--WILL SHARE GREAT JAMS""; alisonsghost: ""Thank you for thanking me @nangeanarendra :)""; simonp: ""I'm sure I have a track by this lot buried somewhere in my collection - probably on a Flying Nun compilation""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking my jam""; alisonsghost: ""@simonp I think they did an EP called Barlow's House for Flying Nun. If they'd stayed in NZ maybe this would have been taken up by that label too and available now. I bought it 2nd hand about 5 yrs ago. Really hard to get hold of, sadly.""; nangeanarendra: ""thanks for liking the jam""" 2013-10-03,"Rob Dickinson","Black Metallic",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRZWZd2Bdc,"A great live performance by Rob Dickinson whose voice has magically improved since the original recording. I'd never even heard of them  two weeks ago and they've cost me money since then!",9,"lukegodber, RW104, staticstudios", 2013-10-03,"Catherine Wheel",Texture,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmEylWQQNUI,"Found something live from 'Ferment', finally. Took ages to dig this out, considering amount of touring they've done. And Shoegaze is the laziest category ever invented.",0,, 2013-10-03,"Catherine Wheel","I Want To Touch You",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcMWFLlPyc,"Couldn't find more interesting visuals which is odd as they toured so much. Ended up buying 'Black Metallic' EP and 'Ferment' LP, neither available as a download. An Epic journey to put up what was already on You Tube in the 1st place.",0,, 2013-09-23,"Catherine Wheel","Fripp (Live)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOvnEt7vu0,"Don't think this You Tube video is very reliable but even 2 min 30 is worth it. Nothing from 'Chrome' will embed. But will leave this to save the seat until I can find something else from them that will.",10,"thesunneversets, dutchbeeblebrox, staticstudios","staticstudios: ""For about 2 1/2 albums they were as good as any band in the 90's. Come back, Rob Dickinson!""" 2013-09-15,"The Jesus and Mary Chain","In A Hole",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dal8_QylUMg,"Great Old Grey Whistle Test clip of the poor old Jesus and Mary Chain still not getting the fact that bands only get away with being annoying at the end of their career, not the start.",12,"Axol, staticstudios, fsrlabel, AndyWilkinson, lukegodber","Axol: ""great clip""" 2013-09-06,"Trembling Blue Stars","Abba On The Jukebox",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9B_reAdP1U,"What becomes of the broken- hearted? They lock themselves in with a box of tissues and a stack of TBS albums. Not that keen on Robert Wratten vocals but love 'Abba On The Jukebox'.  Apparently from a John Peel session.",3,, 2013-08-29,"The Clientele","Never Anyone But You",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omqFCgeIMLs,"Nil by Ear for 10 days but the Clientele. So that's who it has to be. Live and audible at a US radio station.",9,"dgaddy, fsrlabel, 7r0773r, Axol, thesunneversets, staticstudios","dgaddy: ""Oh, wow, this is a cool song. I guess I'll check out more of their stuff.""" 2013-08-17,"The Gun Club","She's Like Heroin to Me",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVYhQ4Rj1I,"About the dreariest of subjects, but with fabulous lyrics. There's  a whole story  in there. Although when I first heard it I thought the chorus was 'She's like Carol-Anne To Me,'. Yes, that is quite sad....",3,, 2013-08-12,"The Silents","Things To Learn",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR6sNxnCXso,"Love this band. Been going since 20002/3 but started recording later. Thought they might be from Clapham, but apparently they come from somewhere called Perth.",5,"staticstudios, thesunneversets", 2013-08-04,"Even as We Speak","Beautiful Day",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEWtznQAIk,"Have a mild crush on Even As We Speak at the moment. A throw-away collage effect applied to (apparently) straightforward pop songs can make you a bit jumpy at 4 am.",6,"lukegodber, thesunneversets", 2013-08-02,"The Relict","Time Spent With You",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP8jX0HS3VU,"The Relict was the band formed by Innes Phillips when he left the Clientele early on. The similarity makes me suspect the only reason he went was to be deeply unsuccessful instead of just not that successful. Sweet sound though.",2,, 2013-07-25,"The Clientele","Bookshop Casanova",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo5gbXzrV0A,"Reminds me of a bookshop chancer I once knew. An almost happy song from The Clientele and a great example of how to make a video on a very short shoe string",12,"lukegodber, staticstudios, thesunneversets, AndyDenton", 2013-07-20,"The Orchids","Tiny Words",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fejQlZSDjlM,"A creepy little song. Not sure that the video is the right one, or just a mistake . Suggest listening but not looking!",8,"staticstudios, thesunneversets, jmmcleod", 2013-07-13,"Youth Lagoon","Attic Doctor",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRSOx6zyQ0,"'The doctor conceals a grin to tell her she couldn't have babies...' Fabulously dark and addictive. Have bought'Wondrous Bughouse' on download and am just about to order the Cd. Rehab beckons! (Thanks to @laurafantyz for posting 'Dropla' and getting me hooked.)",2,staticstudios, 2013-07-07,"The Lover Speaks","No More ""I Love You's"" - The Lover Speaks",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwnXp1Zb4Q,"Once I became mildly obsessed with tracking down the original of the Annie Lennox cover. It turned out to be a horribly over-produced piece of 80's power pop - but, there's just something about it. Don't know what. The Lover Speaks were a very unlucky band - apart from touring with The Eurythmics, that is...",1,,"alisonsghost: ""Poor old The Lover Speaks :)""" 2013-06-26,"The Airfields","Nowhere Left To Go",http://chromewaves.net,"A band that got lumped in with Twee Music but have a very distinct and haunting sound all their own. Sadly vanished after a great EP and one album.",9,"dgaddy, staticstudios", 2013-06-19,"Billy Bragg","Greetings to the New Brunette",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIZxqCNwHM,"One of the few love songs with real life in its veins.",0,, 2013-06-10,"Baba Zula","ser ver sır ver",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaxjlVKo9LU,"From 'Psyche-Belly Dance Music, Baba Zula and Mad Professor. Gets trippier with repeated plays.",1,Axol,"Axol: ""Wow!""" 2013-05-31,Low,Words,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1nRXc3qYV4,"The wonderfully lugubrious Low....An Ink Blot song: what does anyone else think its about? Weirdly it always sounds like a torture session involving water boarding to me. Nothing else makes sense...worrying:)",3,, 2013-05-24,"The Clientele","The Violet Hour",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIikiRLupmE,"'Exhaust fumes, magnolia and flies....' who ever sung words like that at the top of their vocal range before? Class.",3,staticstudios,