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Posted: 01-06-2013 01:14 Post subject:

Elf Call, another great Steeleye Span song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvYYVjzy_Qg

Posted: 03-06-2013 19:00 Post subject:

On the subject of the new Daft Punk album, that clip of an astronaut seeing a UFO on the last track - that's made up, isn't it? Just wondering.

Posted: 03-06-2013 19:06 Post subject:

I've been listening to various bits and pieces by The Waterboys - and it's like time is flowing backwards.

Posted: 08-06-2013 22:52 Post subject:

First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar. I suppose you'd call it Swedish country music, if you can imagine such a thing. You don't need to imagine it, of course, here's an example of the sisters trilling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC57z-oDPLs

The harmonies are really quite startling, it's a very addictive album just to hear those melodies. Probably more of a winter album, but this weather's too hot for me anyway.

Posted: 08-06-2013 23:10 Post subject:

Posted: 08-06-2013 23:26 Post subject:

That's right, the Soderberg sisters (Johanna and Klara) from Stockholm as referred to in that song I linked to. Some call them folk or psychedelic indie, but they sound like eerie Nashville tunes to me.

Posted: 09-06-2013 02:43 Post subject:

Today I have mainly been listening to Cats in the Lavatory

A response, so it says, to the growing problem of toilet felines.

The version on Youtube is a remix and lasts only two and a half minutes

I don't think the original version ends at all. Shocked

Mr Weebl was responsible for the famous Badger-Mushroom-Snake song as well as the thrilling Look at My Horse, which I play to annoy the neighbours.

He seems to be mightily prolific.

When I am not listening to Cats in the Lavatory, I am usually enjoying Narwhals or Somalia which is much the same as Kenya, it seems.

Owls is really best avoided at bedtime Shocked

Posted: 30-06-2013 08:50 Post subject:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036pjjy/Glastonbury_2013_The_Rolling_Stones/

(Starts 14 min. in)

Need I say more? Wink

Posted: 09-07-2013 12:46 Post subject:

Nice to see someone else picking up on Swedish and other scandinavian music. First Aid Kit make very enjoyable music, influenced, as is much contemporary swedish music by north american country-rock music.

check out their "Emmylou"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC57z-oDPLs

Our Own Pretty Ways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlEfErAJxk

To A Poet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Yrit1Da1I

Posted: 09-07-2013 18:02 Post subject:

The only thing wrong with the FAK Lion's Roar album is when the bloke starts singing in the penultimate track, it's a bit jarring. Apart from that, wonderful melodies.

Posted: 11-07-2013 20:00 Post subject:

call me sick but this has kept me amused all week and i love the song, i bought the song from amazon but its not the same....meh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

Posted: 11-07-2013 20:35 Post subject:

Posted: 12-07-2013 11:20 Post subject:

Some nice classic pop stuff from Sweden's Tove Lo

"Habits"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-EIvEiSHs

"Love Ballad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_t7zOKQd-M

and dancefloor

(Lucas Nord ft Tove Lo)
"Run on Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqS1nXbqR5c

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an intro to other current female scandinavian acts here :

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/lists/iconic-pop-the-ten-singers-and-bands-leading-the-female-fronted-nordic-music-revolution-129096

- these are breaking acts, not established singers such as Ane Brun, Rebekka Karijord, Anna Ternheim and Nina Kinert. All worth checking out.

Posted: 12-07-2013 23:42 Post subject:

Posted: 13-07-2013 18:20 Post subject:

Excellent, glad you enjoyed it!