Nice segue, pop-pickers

mark_in_manchester

I recently set up my stereo again and have been enjoying digging through my records and CDs. I am so enthused I might even start digging back into the cassettes. I wonder if I can try a different kind of music thread. Something like 'what are you listening to' might rapidly degenerate into 'I like x' followed by 'we prefer y'...which might die a death pretty quick. What about something like @Firenze 's (I think) memorable poetry threads of years gone by, where one post has to lead on from its predecessor?

Some starting ideas for links - same tune done by different artist; same artist and similar (or wildly different) style tune, or another favourite off the same album; same tune but re-interpreted in a different genre / with different instrumentation; some thematic link in the idea behind the two songs - I'm sure we could take it in various directions. I'd like to see if I can get to hear some things that otherwise I would remain unaware of.

If you want to provide a Youtube link to a tune you really like - go for it. If you want to say what your song means to you - by all means, it'll make it more interesting.

A well-known one to start - on side 4 of the Decca double LP 'Rolled Gold' so scratched I only want to risk my knackered needle on it - 'Gimme Shelter'. I used to sing this with a bunch of service users at a music project based in a homeless centre, which was kind-of funny.

If you kill it by suggesting something so weird that no-one can link to it, there ought to be a forfeit

Roseofsharon

Sounds a bit like Add To Playlist, which used to be hosted by Cerys Matthews & Jeffrey Boakye on Radio 4.
They & their guests covered an eclectic range of music, including Pop, Jazz, Classical & World, with interesting, and sometimes convoluted, connections between each one.

Gill H

The programme is still going (lots of episodes still available on the BBC Sounds app) though it's now Anna Phoebe instead of Cerys Matthews. I love the programme, it's incredibly inclusive and you learn so much about genres you might never encounter.

mark_in_manchester

I caught one or two of those in the car, and I did enjoy them (though characteristically had forgotten all about it). I'll have to have a look through the BBC Sounds collection. Meanwhile, someone needs to come up with a suggestion for somewhere new to go that preferably isn't Abba - although, if you really must...

Sandemaniac

I'm not sure I'm having the same idea as you here, but let's see how it goes.

This is a band that covered "Gimme Shelter", which appeared on the same compilation as this tune. The Sisters of Mercy (singer Andrew Eldritch, if you need an A), covering the Stooges "1969":

https://youtu.be/L4Jpm36oqaE?si=V6m1P4nKe7_OQM6s

mark_in_manchester

Sandemaniac wrote: »

(singer Andrew Eldritch, if you need an A)

No, no need for anything alphabetical - I was just hoping we wouldn't immediately move to 'Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight' :-) - so the Sisters 1969 it is!

Anna_Baptist

Moving from The Sisters of Mercy to the singular Sister of Mercy from the Thompson Twins

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1O_Voa3rLU

Gill H

The Thompson Twins had three members who weren’t related to each other at all.

Hence my link is the Barenaked Ladies, who consist of fully clothed men.

A friend who spent time in Canada introduced me to their album “Gordon” in the early 90s and I saw them live in London - they put on a great show.

I’ll choose the classic “If I Had A Million Dollars”.

mark_in_manchester

...which reminds me of the Green on Red song 'Cool Million'. That's a good song, and someone might want to look it up, but it's not as good as 16 ways

(Thanks for playing folks. I'm making a point of listening to all the submissions, and I'm really enjoying it!).

ChastMastr

mark_in_manchester wrote: »

I caught one or two of those in the car, and I did enjoy them (though characteristically had forgotten all about it). I'll have to have a look through the BBC Sounds collection. Meanwhile, someone needs to come up with a suggestion for somewhere new to go that preferably isn't Abba - although, if you really must...

Their final album, The Visitors, was very different than everything else... it was quite interesting!

ChastMastr

mark_in_manchester wrote: »

...which reminds me of the Green on Red song 'Cool Million'. That's a good song, and someone might want to look it up, but it's not as good as 16 ways

(Thanks for playing folks. I'm making a point of listening to all the submissions, and I'm really enjoying it!).

For Cool Million, what about "1,000,000 Watts of Love" by Information Society, vastly more relevant now to basically everyone than when it came out in 1992.

youtube.com/watch?v=8762fLbTywI&list=PLK9R8P1ev0VI0gO5J1iLlGAltP6il4eDg&index=6&pp=iAQB8AUB

mark_in_manchester

Wow, I can see you at the disco! Turn up the _Power_ ... from every _Tower_ ... a song more relevant today than when it was recorded (in this case 51 years ago) ... watch out Venezuela, and watch out Iran, 'cos there is only so much oil in the ground!

(Who said you had to be a folkie yoghurt weaver to save the planet?)

mark_in_manchester

(Missed the edit. A slightly pukey anecdote - but when I had a real job, I went to conferences in the US three times, twice in NYC. As well as being fun to stay at the (westside) YMCA - please don't go there - a postgrad got us tickets to see ToP at BB King's club. This was almost 25 years ago, and they were getting on a bit. They played the kind of high energy set suggested by the tune above, all the brass including the bari sax player standing up and dancing throughout, for about 70 mins. Then they kicked us out, had a quick break, got the crowd in for the next show, and did it all again. Goodness.)