A Music Thread

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Staring out in space.... like a kangaroo.

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Better chill out- and Take Five.

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Chirpy guitars give me fever. So do Eno and The Winkies.

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Pills and thrills- June Tabor gets in touch with Alice:

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One of the covers of his work of which Mr. Reed approves:

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No moss gathering allowed.

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John Shaft- but not as you know him. Given the Sheffield steel make over:

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No colours any more ! demand the Mo-dettes...

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A beautiful Scott Walker song given the Mambas treatment...

she's a haunted house.

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Here she comes, watch your step...

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Some people slagged this off when it came out, but as someone who bought the original, I still enjoyed this take on it. And of course it has the luscious Roland Gift singing it. I'd have drunk his bathwater....

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Grace Jones does an intriguing Franco-reggae blend...

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And another favourite. It has to be the full length version, because the slow burn intro. is essential for the full power impact of the impassioned ending... this album was so astonishing when I heard it, as good in its own way as 'Horses', 'Low', 'For Your Pleasure' or any of the other albums that meant so very much to me when I was growing up.

The late, the very great, Isaac Hayes:

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A four track promotional c.d. bought on a whim at a record fair in Victoria was the start of a long and rewarding relationship with Mary Chapin Carpenter's music... one of my favourite covers, too. Lucinda Williams was well served in that regard...

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From one end of the Big Country to t'other... Anchorage.