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How to make a Beck song part 2
Author: Raincoat Optimist Last year I penned a blog post called How to make a Beck song which pieced together the four songs that Beck sampled in order to create his song Where it’s at. This time I will look at the three songs he used to make Sissyneck, from his album Odelay. First he […]
Underrated: Bobby Darin
[This post is a stolen guest post by the great Jim Denham, of Shiraz Socialist – stolen from the comments here, with audio-visual added by me. – B.] Bobby Darin would be my suggestion for an “underrrated” artist. Not entirely forgotten, obviously: his hard-swinging, key-changing ‘Mack The Knife’ still tuns up on pub juke boxes, […]
I dream of love
From the secret lead-lined vault of bootleg demo reel to reels and wax cylinders, here is John Dog singing one of the hits of tomorrowyear, I dream of love. More John Dog songs at raymondbutler.bandcamp.com, and on this YouTube playlist. The Festival of Britain images are from the short film Brief City, 1952, available at […]
Pretty Little Thing
John Dog sings Pretty Little Thing. You’ll find more songs at raymondbutler.bandcamp.com. Written and arranged by Raymond Butler and performed by John Dog. © All rights reserved. The vintage Camay soap ad images are from archive.org, with a little added Zest.
School’s out for summer and forever, our childhood dream came true..
Some summertime blues: John Dog singing The River Corrib. You can listen to and download more John Dog songs from Raymond Butler’s Bandcamp page, including another dark summer number here.
On the Manic Street Preachers’ song Empty Souls
The album Lifeblood by Manic Street Preachers is 8 years old this year. For me this is hard to believe, it really doesn’t feel that long, but the album is little known, and largely ignored by all save for the hardcore MSP fans. I can understand this. There are stand out songs on there, and […]
What happens if songs become offensive over time?
What we need, so Blue Mink tell us, is one great big melting pot. And do you know – I agree with them. I’m sure if I’d been around in 1969 I’d have agreed with what was meant by the song all the way through, but I can’t say I’d stick their lyrics up on […]
First and Last CDs: Rusty Fruit-Juice
I’m sure I’d have been a relatively early adopter of CDs had the Tories not screwed the economy and the bank reclaimed our house at the same time as my father left my mother with colossal debts and two boys to bring up. So, as it happens I was pretty late onto the CD scene, […]
First and Last LPs: From Slayed? to the Burning World
I know that this is a bit late but personal issues have gotten in the way of sitting down and writing this. Cast your mind back to the year of our lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Two- a time when colours did not just clash but fought pitched battles on the tank tops […]
Bob's Beats 