I've no favourite KOL track. Great live, lame on disc, imo. Being pedantic, my favourite Nick Heyward track is Whistle Down The Wind, a beautiful Geoff Emerick co-production with Nick. Get the the 2001 UK re-issue of North of a Miracle which
has the full 12" version.
Now maybe someone could come up with a Kings Of Leon track.
I expected oily slick to run with this, so I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU MR. SLICK.
Kings of Leon: I'm going with The Bucket because it's got a good 'woo!' at the beginning and the chorus is killer (18, balding, star/golden, falling, heart). Off the new one, Black Thumbnail and again because of the chorus (don't leave no smell on me - which is good advice, really) and the bass player (who has bee-you-tiful blue eyes). I don't think they've made a GREAT record yet, but damn, they have a lot of great songs.
This is probably the first Smithereens song I have ever heard.
It was on MTV Unplugged some 15-16 years ago, and as far as I recall they performed it with Graham Parker.
It instantly took my attention with these great lines : She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965
She had legs that never ended, I was halfway paralyzed
The Pogues
If you don't know what is wrong with me
Then you don't know what you've missed
There are loads and loads of Pogues songs I adore, but lately I've been really drawn to 'Thousands are Sailing'. The lines in the chorus about the land of opportunity that some of them will never see just capture something amazing.
Great Pogues choice. I well remember seeing Phil singing it with The Pogues at the Point Christmas 1987 when literally thousands were leaving the country. Very moving, I nearly joined them, thankfully I didn't.
Dinosaur Jr? Has to Dont. Always a blissfull endurance listening to it at full volume, 11 all the way.
He has made so many albums that I don't know but I am enjoying this album from 1974, it's awesome. Lots of cool moments, clearly JLH is in a great mood and they've included some of his casual studio banter. It's not so much that you think "wow these are awesome songs" moreso that you are drawn in by the overall coolness. I hear plenty of New Orleans in there and it gets kind of James Brown funky, super casual drums and bass, a funky very 1974 sounding moog organ, horns, even a flute, and of course his wonderful guitar licks and phrasing.
So, because I'm listening to this album and it doesn't get better than the epic closing track that morphs from one pace and mood to the next -
(You Never Amount to Anything If You Don't Go To) Collage (A ...)
A Heavy Sigh. It's on the latest Word freebie, from his new LP out tomorrow. It's very lovely. Classic Edwyn, with some quite Lloyd-eque aspects. I heard him on the radio today, together with Grace, saying how singing helps him to regain the power of speech, and he can sing A Girl Like You, etc. Will he perform again? The speech is slow and somewhat disjointed, but it's so great to have him around. Everyone comments how amazing it is that the LP was recorded before his brain trouble as a lot of the lyrics seems like a response to it. Eerily prophetic.
Nick Cave
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
"Red Right Hand," from Let Love In. I love the spooky organ riff, that clanging bell, and the way Nick really digs into the lyrics with gusto. Terrific stuff.
Copperhead Road. because he's 'headed down to knoxville with the weekly load...' and the way it just spirals out of control in a redneck manner towards the end.
Moody - is Sublime the name of a group or your description of the song? If it is not the name of a group then can you put one up so that we can play. Or is this just another way of padding your posts?