Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.
No news to report this week. I finished Skagboys and I've decided to read Trainspotting and then Porno again, so it will be like an Irvine Welsh shindig for a while around here
Lots of new stuff this week music-wise though, starting with albums from The Vaccines and The Bamboos on recommendation from friends; another recommendation, also new, from The Thousands blog was Leure, which is downtempo beats I was surprised I liked the sound of; for a rap fix there's more new stuff from Arrested Development and I Self Devine; there's old stuff too from Pink Floyd, The National and Billy Bragg; a new Fleetwood Mac tribute and one of fifteen live sets from Ryan Adams' Live After Deaf box top it all off.
Check it out:
No news to report this week. I finished Skagboys and I've decided to read Trainspotting and then Porno again, so it will be like an Irvine Welsh shindig for a while around here
Lots of new stuff this week music-wise though, starting with albums from The Vaccines and The Bamboos on recommendation from friends; another recommendation, also new, from The Thousands blog was Leure, which is downtempo beats I was surprised I liked the sound of; for a rap fix there's more new stuff from Arrested Development and I Self Devine; there's old stuff too from Pink Floyd, The National and Billy Bragg; a new Fleetwood Mac tribute and one of fifteen live sets from Ryan Adams' Live After Deaf box top it all off.
Check it out:
- The Vaccines - Come Of Age
- The Bamboos - Medicine Man
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- VA - Just Tell Me That You Want Me - Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
- The National - The National
- Ryan Adams - Live After Deaf (Copenhagen)
- Arrested Development - Standing At The Crossroads
- I Self Divine - The Sound of Low Class Amerika
- Billy Bragg - Back To Basics
- Leure - Holland Sky
Top Five Artists Last Week
- Brand Nubian
- Elton John
- Concrete Blonde
- Ice-T
- De La Soul
Song of the Week : Elton John - This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
Over the last couple of weeks, I have had each disk of an Elton John Best Of in my playlists. I have been a fan of Elton since I was a kid, but we all know that sometime in the late 80s, he kind of started sucking and he never fully recovered. Except, in my humble opinion, for the Songs From The West Coast album, from which this song This Train Don't Stop There Anymore, comes.
Do you know what gave Mr John (not his real name) his inspiration to make a decent album? He heard a little record called Heartbreaker by one Mr Ryan Adams. I've heard Elton interviewed about it and he says he heard Heartbreaker and he was embarrassed. He said he was hearing honesty and a real love of songwriting in Adams that he had lost himself.
So this song is all about the loss of inspiration, the dying spark inside Elton to write real soSengs - which ironically is one of the best songs he's ever put out for mine.
"I used to be the Mid Express / All steam and whistles heading West / Picking up my pain from door to door / Riding on the storyline, furnace burning overtime / But this train don't stop there anymore."
Bon Voyage
Thanks for stopping by. If you like a bit of electronica; which, it has to be said, I don't usually, check out Leure via the link and throw a tenner down on it. The Arrested Development album is free via the link, so grab that if you're a fan.
That's all from me this week. I'll be back next week with another set of tunes to get me through the working week, and hopefully turn you onto something you haven't heard.
And speaking of what you haven't heard, if you don't know about #Clay5 and you're on Twitter, you're missing out. Check it out via the blog over at clay5.blogspot.com.au or just follow @Clay5.
Go Eagles. Hasala malakim.
That's all from me this week. I'll be back next week with another set of tunes to get me through the working week, and hopefully turn you onto something you haven't heard.
And speaking of what you haven't heard, if you don't know about #Clay5 and you're on Twitter, you're missing out. Check it out via the blog over at clay5.blogspot.com.au or just follow @Clay5.
Go Eagles. Hasala malakim.
