Hard News: Friday: A happier place
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Here's a one I love.
Four Tet, Smile Around the Face. The video doesn't add anything to a brilliant song, but it's not bad either.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
It’s Jeff Tweedy, not Tweedie. Which is important because then you can find this version of them doing it together:
Gah. Thanks, I'll fix that. I've also removed the unnecessary formatting that was breaking your embeds, so we're even ;-)
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Here's a pure expression of joy.
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This is my very favourite 'having a stink day' song ever (I know Russell likes it too). Part uplifting gospel tune, part club classic.
And this one helps quite a lot too:
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Russell Brown, in reply to
This is my very favourite ‘having a stink day’ song ever (I know Russell likes it too).
Ya know it.
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Cover recorded yesterday. Apologies for the incomplete clip.
ETA: Also apologies for not being able to understand why movie maker decided to play the clip 3 times. It's only 1:29 long.
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Thanks for the feel-good thread. I'm using these Friday music threads as a kind of very belated musical education after shutting it all out for decades. So much to discover, it's overwhelming. Loving lots of things here. Feeling good feels.
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silly happy;
happiest cuddliest video of all time;
happiest song by unhappy band;
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Hebe, in reply to
Althea and Donna “Uptown Top Ranking”
So that's what it's called! Always loved it, never quite caught the name. Thank you.
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Hebe,
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one of my fave upbeat tracks from a kinda downbeat dude
and these guys seem to be supremely unfashionable, but I reckon this ticks a whole bunch of pop boxes...
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This uptempo little number might just slot in amongst the others round here …
https://soundcloud.com/souleance/a-little-bit-of-love-souleance
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I'm utterly happy to be an atheist but can also dig the pure joy in this taut, springy song for Big Ol' Jesus by the Reverend Al Green. First heard it on a great Under The Influence compilation by Paul Heaton from the Beautiful South, who has impeccable taste.
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FletcherB, in reply to
Feeling good feels.
That's what it's all about....
So many good songs posted here I could make individual comments on...
But Feeling good feels, sums it up brilliantly...
P.S... loving the Aretha Soul Train vibe.... Introduced to her by Blues Brothers but loving the back catalogue....
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Biobbs, in reply to
Unhappy band? Yeh nah, I never thought so. They had lots of happy songs. Caterpillar? The whole Kiss Me Kiss Me album? Even 'Boys Don't Cry' had an upbeat, poppy feel to it. And wasn't this the best little pop song of the 80s:
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Saw Bob at Western Springs - an amazing touching life event - The Love Cats - a song so perfectly clever in its understated brilliance.
To me Tom Verlaine’s self titled album is uplifting - the other guitar player on Breaking in my Heart is Ricky Wilsdon (B52s) :
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I had thought Lorde's song 'Ribs' would sound great with a deep house remix.
And an hour or two ago, the Cousin Cole bootleg turned up on the internet.
Oh yeah.
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George Darroch, in reply to
I’m utterly happy to be an atheist but can also dig the pure joy in this taut, springy song for Big Ol’ Jesus by the Reverend Al Green. First heard it on a great Under The Influence compilation by Paul Heaton from the Beautiful South, who has impeccable taste.
How could I forget Al Green?
And an hour or two ago, the Cousin Cole bootleg turned up on the internet.Oh yeah.
I'd also been thinking those smoky vocals and heavy synths were waiting for a remix - they're big enough to fill out rather spacious beats. I'm glad it's Cousin Cole stepping up.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I’d also been thinking those smoky vocals and heavy synths were waiting for a remix – they’re big enough to fill out rather spacious beats. I’m glad it’s Cousin Cole stepping up.
I really like what he's done. I presume that if he's calling it a bootleg, he worked with the whole track rather than the stems, and you can hear where he's cut-and-pasted and layered and added things, while staying true to the original. It's very cool.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Seeing Al Green live at The Civic a couple of years ago is one of the highlights of my life. I reckon ‘Belle’ (1977) best captures the play between the sacred and the secular in his music…ie “It’s you that I want but it’s him that I need….’
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One for the Fossils :-)
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Had to post this: Lorde on Letterman !!
A very assured performance. She owns that stage. -
Ooh, this should be fun. If they can get Kraftwerk to be part of the lineup, it’ll be even more reason to go.
A new electronic music festival is sure to push a lot of people’s buttons.
Square Wave Festival is the new multiple city electronic music festival from A Low Hum, which also does the boutique indie music festival Camp A Low Hum.
This month, 36 shows featuring more than 70 acts will take place in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North. The acts are from Germany, United States, Australia and New Zealand.
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This might be a bit of a threadjack, however I thought readers here would be interested to see the maiden speech of the first ever Aboriginal woman, Nova Peris, elected to the Australian Parliament (in the Senate). It's made me very happy (and more than a bit teary too).
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Sacha, in reply to
So that's what it's called! Always loved it, never quite caught the name. Thank you.
+1
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