Quote from: word_on_a_wing on May 14, 2021, 14:32:48...i didn't realise she has been in Twin Peaks and will now have to find the episode and rewatch it!

Apparently it was part 6 of that particular season.

Great song and performance! It feels perfect for the mood of Twin Peaks.

The song that made me notice The Church as a teenager - and I still can't help but sing the harmonies when I hear this song, they're so compelling:


Not bad for a track off a first album, is it?

Saw a great live version of that on Friday night!  So glad I went! 

...what's that you're playing, @MeltingMan?  It's "not avaiable in your country" for me...

Quote from: SueC on May 16, 2021, 14:05:28...what's that you're playing, @MeltingMan?  It's "not avaiable in your country" for me...

Sometimes I have such sudden inspiration, I hear a melody, and this time it was: Alles,
was ich brauche, bist du from Hoffmann & Hoffmann. 😉

Quote from: SueC on May 16, 2021, 14:05:28It's "not avaiable in your country" for me...

It's the same with yours...

QuoteI felt your hair across my skin
I didn't know where to begin
A shallow promise in my ear
No thoughts, no dreams, no wishes, and no fear

Quote from: MeltingMan on May 17, 2021, 11:21:54

Quote from: SueC on May 16, 2021, 14:05:28...what's that you're playing, @MeltingMan?  It's "not avaiable in your country" for me...

Sometimes I have such sudden inspiration, I hear a melody, and this time it was: Alles,
was ich brauche, bist du from Hoffmann & Hoffmann. 😉

It seems that there is an abundance of Musical Hoffmans about!   

Wild stabbing in the dark:  Are they doing a U2 cover here?  On the other hand that's All I Want Is You and not All I Need Is You... Aha, they're not - I just found it on YT!

Quote from: Ulrich on May 17, 2021, 15:12:50It's the same with yours...

Let's try again:


...and in case that official channel doesn't work - the audio on this one isn't great and the footage is from 40 years ago...

"I had no advantage over you
There was troubles and I had 'em too
Just 'cause you're so strung out
Don't mean it can't work out

Ba-ba-banana, this ain't Havana
Do you like bananas, ba-ba-bananas"

For my Australian friends, to mark the exhumation of the body of the "Somerton Man" which is a case that fascinates me having had the pleasure of strolling along the seafront at Glenelg and Somerton Park on my visit to Adelaide in 1985:

Tamam Shud - 'Sea The Swells':

https://youtu.be/S1ptCIhveiY

Tamam Shud were an Australian band from Newcastle and Sydney and I paid a small fortune a few years back for a CD of their 1970 psych classic album Goolutionites And The Real People, which I had to source from the US.

Anyone who knows about the Somerton Man case will be familiar with the connotations of the phrase "Tamam Shud".  At the risk of stirring up another hornet's nest, to quote the end of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam':

"LXXII

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!

LXXIII

Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

LXXIV

Ah, Moon of my Delight, who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me—in vain!

LXXV

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass
Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,
And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot
Where I made one—turn down an empty Glass!

TAMÁM SHUD"


I suppose one could object to this on the grounds of "orientalism" or "cultural appropriation".

For my German friends, from one of my favourite "Kosmische" albums - I have the original 1972 green German Brain Metronome label LP which is worth quite a bit of money these days - Neu! - 'Hallogallo':

https://youtu.be/EAXYMOgHQI4

I'm an old hippie prog rock fan at heart.

Well, I needed a good dirge - still do. The words to this don't fit what I need it for, and that Salman Rushdie wrote them is an interesting diversion - the music, however, came closest to expressing my sadness.


For Kills 225, 226, 227, Harvey, 20/5/2021.

I hope this doesn't come out region-locked for anyone.  The official songs seem to, so here's an unofficial one with the wrong album cover... it's actually off Sometime Anywhere.


Another off the same album, interesting sound, lots of energy (but if I was called Angelica I wouldn't like this at all, and it's a bit "too much information"):