Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 "Paranoid Android"- Radiohead slightly strange lyrics, innovative sound - my favourite Radiohead song! and a very cool video too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Counting The Beat - The Swingers Listen here Were these previously known as "The Action Swingers" perchance? When I visited NZ in 1996 I heard The Action Swingers: the Kiwi Experience bus-driver played a tape of theirs...It was pretty good stuff. Thought they and The Swingers might be related? I hoped to bring home some albums by good NZ indie/new-wave type bands, but couldn't find anything in the shops there. The Action Swingers was impossible to find. In the end I bought a fairly good compilation CD (apart from Garageland I can't remember off the top of my head the names of the artists featured: Shihad? Super-8??) Garageland are really good, mind you. I might listen to that album tonight, now that I think of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 I don't think they have anything in common... The Swingers were as short-lived Kiwi group under Phil Judd. The Action Swingers were a 90's New Yorker Garage Rock band lead by Ned Hayden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 When I asked the Kiwi Experience bus-driver what the great music was that we were listening to he told me it was The Action Swingers, and that they were a top New Zealand band from the post-punk /new wave period. Maybe he was mistaken...about the music he was playing by one of his favourite bands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 I just posted what my friends Wik E. Pedia and Mr. Google told me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Tch...guess he must have been mistaken... He did mutter alot and talk funny. Maybe he said "The SWINGERS..(mutter mutter) New Zealand new-wave group...(mutter quietly "not to be confused with the current art-rock band THE ACTION SWINGERS (....muttering again..."from New York") I guess that might explain it. So in the end OSTTOS's nomination is the band I heard on the bus in NZ then. Cool. I've never seen hide nor hair of them since that day ten years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daslied Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren Joni Mitchell - River Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 At last a decent nomination. I was just considering giving voting a miss this time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 He did mutter alot and talk funny. Maybe he said "The SWINGERS..(mutter mutter) New Zealand new-wave group...(mutter quietly "not to be confused with the current art-rock band THE ACTION SWINGERS (....muttering again..."from New York") I guess that might explain it. that's gotta be it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daslied Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Ah, thanks. We've debated "the" version of "Song To The Siren" before, so I'm a little foggy as to which nomination you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Well I absolutlely adore This Mortal Coil's rendition, and have done for over twenty years. I didn't hear Tim Buckley's version until much more recently, within the last couple of years. It isn't likely to supplant This Mortal Coil's version from the very special place it has in my heart. But all the same, Buckley's "Siren" remains a moving piece, and far, far better than most of the sickly sludge one hears oozing from the sensitive singer/songwriter sewage-pipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 1. Sea of Love - Phil Phillips (is that right?) 2. Rock Around the clock - bill Haley and the Comets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 1. Sea of Love - Phil Phillips (is that right?) (according to Wikipedia) yes, it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 ... better than most of the sickly sludge one hears oozing from the sensitive singer/songwriter sewage-pipe. Hey, B-F. Have you considered that most writers ARE genuinely sensitive to the sewage pipe in which they reside? To term their visions "sickly sludge" is tatamount to an admission of a disability to interpret their attempts at enlightenment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 S2V: I haven't much idea what you're talking about, but my guess is you're probably quite right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 If there are still people who haven't nominated yet, don't worry you still have time to think of two great songs (or at least "good" songs - I won't accept anything less though ) Voting will start tomorrow at this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 I wanted to nominate a song by a New Zeland band called Hello Sailor, a song called Blue Lady, but I thought nobody here would know it, and I couldn't find a video, so I nominated Counting The Beat instead. Has anybody heard Blue Lady by Hello Sailor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted November 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 (according to Wikipedia) yes, it is! Phil Phillips With The Twilights (I have the 45 RPM record). And it's a better version than the one a quarter century later by The Honeydrippers, but you probably would have gotten more votes Ron if you'd nomianted their version, because......Robert Plant did the vocals (burp). (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock is of course the song which oficially marked the beginning of the ROCK ERA when it reached #1 on Billboard's Pop Charts on 9 July 1955, and the first 45 I ever owned. 10 Points for that from me RonJon, and Sea Of Love will be in there too. I haven't nominated it before, and a lot of other 50s Classics too, as I can't bear to see them "desecrated" by missing our Top Ten because many voters don't know them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted November 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Shadows, I hate to tell you, but I very much doubt that too many people in the U.S. will have heard of The Swingers, let alone that Group or song, which I don't know, I'm sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 my favourite Radiohead song! Mine too! And yeah, Radiohead has a lot of weird videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted November 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY FROM ALL THE TOP TENNERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakin Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Don't start without me! I've been away from the 'puter for a few days, but I'm thinkin of two songs! Be right back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Hope you enjoy your Birthday Jenny!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Shadows, I hate to tell you, but I very much doubt that too many people in the U.S. will have heard of The Swingers, let alone that Group or song, which I don't know, I'm sorry. To be honest, I didn't expect anyone to know any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Song for You - Ray Charles (video) Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra (video) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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