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Post by acidmintz on Sept 22, 2013 8:07:07 GMT
Another Quintessence tune for me an' Grumpy to dig An' mmike
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Post by acidmintz on Sept 23, 2013 21:16:47 GMT
Holloway by James Bulley - a sound recording made in South Dorset earlier this year Holloway
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Post by acidmintz on Sept 28, 2013 13:02:25 GMT
Two minutes of the Soul Stirrers
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Post by mmike56 on Sept 29, 2013 16:16:56 GMT
Never has a set of lyrics be SO succinct ...
John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
Far from crazy pavements - the taste of silver spoons A clinical arrangement on a dirty afternoon Where the fecal germs of Mr Freud are rendered obsolete The legal term is null and void In the case of Beasley Street
In the cheap seats where murder breeds Somebody is out of breath Sleep is a luxury they don't need - a sneak preview of death Belladonna is your flower Manslaughter your meat Spend a year in a couple of hours On the edge of Beasley Street
Where the action isn't That's where it is State your position Vacancies exist In an X-certificate exercise Ex-servicemen excrete Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies In a box on Beasley Street
From the boarding houses and the bedsits Full of accidents and fleas Somebody gets it Where the missing persons freeze Wearing dead men's overcoats You can't see their feet A riff joint shuts - opens up Right down on Beasley Street
Cars collide, colours clash disaster movie stuff For a man with a Fu Manchu moustache Revenge is not enough There's a dead canary on a swivel seat There's a rainbow in the road Meanwhile on Beasley Street Silence is the code
Hot beneath the collar an inspector calls Where the perishing stink of squalor impregnates the walls the rats have all got rickets they spit through broken teeth The name of the game is not cricket Caught out on Beasley Street
The hipster and his hired hat Drive a borrowed car Yellow socks and a pink cravat Nothing La-di-dah OAP, mother to be Watch the three-piece suite When shit-stoppered drains and crocodile skis are seen on Beasley Street
The kingdom of the blind a one-eyed man is king Beauty problems are redefined the doorbells do not ring A lightbulb bursts like a blister the only form of heat here a fellow sells his sister down the river on Beasley Street
The boys are on the wagon The girls are on the shelf Their common problem is that they're not someone else The dirt blows out The dust blows in You can't keep it neat It's a fully furnished dustbin, Sixteen Beasley Street
Vince the ageing savage Betrays no kind of life but the smell of yesterday's cabbage and the ghost of last year's wife through a constant haze of deodorant sprays he says retreat Alsations dog the dirty days down the middle of Beasley Street
People turn to poison Quick as lager turns to piss Sweethearts are physically sick every time they kiss. It's a sociologist's paradise each day repeats On easy, cheesy, greasy, queasy beastly Beasley Street
Eyes dead as vicious fish Look around for laughs If I could have just one wish I would be a photograph on a permanent Monday morning Get lost or fall asleep When the yellow cats are yawning Around the back of Beasley Street
Brilliant, love the build up - NEVER tire of listening to this...
Peace m x
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Post by grumpy on Oct 2, 2013 20:06:41 GMT
Ah, the good old days when a group could get away with a name like Quintessence and Whispering Bob Harris would announce them with reverence.
Thanks for that, Richard. A joyful memory and even the flute solo is almost forgiveable!
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 6, 2013 8:26:50 GMT
One to blow away the Sunday morning cobwebs
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 7, 2013 19:44:06 GMT
Saw this lot on Later - pretty good. The drummer's a star
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 10, 2013 20:22:58 GMT
The fourth best record yet made (I think I've posted this before, but it was a bit mp3-y) 2:27...
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 16, 2013 19:03:15 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 21, 2013 21:46:38 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 22, 2013 18:31:49 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 27, 2013 16:48:16 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Oct 28, 2013 21:39:41 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 2, 2013 19:30:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2013 20:03:43 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 3, 2013 18:22:59 GMT
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Post by grumpy on Nov 4, 2013 22:02:43 GMT
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Post by rockstone on Nov 5, 2013 11:57:53 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 5, 2013 13:26:30 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 6, 2013 20:14:27 GMT
Bought after hearing a record of the same name on the radio. Didn't sound the same when I played it though. Turns out I'd heard the Iron Maiden version
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 20:40:37 GMT
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 7, 2013 20:44:30 GMT
A friend sent me this great clip today - this surely must be where Malcolm got the idea from?
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 8, 2013 15:10:59 GMT
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Post by mmike56 on Nov 8, 2013 21:05:12 GMT
NO way, Reading Uni. was there, there was no seating at the Uni. apart/standing and bums on floor, no way Reading Uni. unless I was on the ceiling, dubious..
peace m
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Post by grumpy on Nov 9, 2013 9:44:54 GMT
I feel your pain, Mike. Console yourself with Franco and the boys, "Takoma Ba Camarade Pamba"
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Post by mmike56 on Nov 9, 2013 19:21:21 GMT
Grump meister, sir
Agree, ashamedly not spun much Afrique tunes of late, have a back catalogue of tunes to listen to, time, it's frickin' time to listen to the stuff, I have so many *ear worms* i'm rotting inside, especially the Angolan, Mali,Guinee, material.
Today, rotational wise,
After Quintessence - The Complete Kala Recordings - 1973 - CD - want a copy? Laughing Lenny Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man - CD
Peace, sir
m x
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 9, 2013 19:23:48 GMT
Today is Grizzly Bear day
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2013 1:37:51 GMT
oh do keep up
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 10, 2013 10:57:49 GMT
Nope - I checked - it was definitely Grizzly Bear day yesterday. Today though, it's robots playing Motorhead
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Post by acidmintz on Nov 12, 2013 19:45:56 GMT
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