Cats – it’s New Year’s Eve 2022.
Let’s have some celebratory tunes. Preferably songs we may not have heard during the course of this most infuriating year.
Here’s hoping that 2022 is better than 2020 and 2021.
An idle hope, it may be.
However, we can still bring in the New Year with a burst of optimism, misplaced or otherwise.
Bonus points for those nominating their favourite track of 2021 and why.
No prizes for guessing mine! 🙂
Rabz
Peoples! 🙂
Let’s get those tunes a’ happenin’!
Roll on, Twenty Twenty TOO!
If this doesn’t get peoples dancing, nothing will …
Shiny new thread you have here Rabz. Needs bling but.
The nuttiest sound around …
Rabz,
Do you mind if I make a shoutout to our rough, tough salt-of-the-Earth Queensssslanders, as have been gracing us with their presence today?
It’s cheerful, kinda catchy, and it also goes out as a shoutout to all non-metropolitan, non-metropolitan-derived and non-metropolitan-identifying Cats… 🙂
Sorry, Rabz. Us old boomers gotta boom.
Smoke ’em if ya got ’em.
Oops.
Darn it! Can’t link.
‘Twas Procul Harum. Ya’ll prolly didn’t want to hear it, anyway.
And Shake The Room…
Delta – I’m presuming you meant this …
A very touching scene, “he nicked it from Bach” … 🙂
Dunno why it didn’t come up Delta – I put the same url into YT search and it now does.
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Songs about prostitutes please, to thank our taxpayer funded GPs following the ever changing science, our ever loyal presstitutes…and Jack Cuck Murphy.
Island Girl (a gay white guy talks about a big black hooker)
Girls on the Avenue (maybe not)
Sex is on Fire (a tale of woe and STIs shared around an office)
Centrefold (not quite, but from posing to being an IG “model”)
I’m on a Boat (give boat cake their due respect)
Maxine
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (it’s implied)
Call Me (obvious)
Lady Marmalade (modern version, that was produced much better)
Bad Girl (maybe)
Ain’t talkin about Love (it’s like calling someone a whore)
I’d like to dedicate TISM – you’re a wanker to all of our political “leaders” and wish them a 2022 of festering disease in the most intimate places.
James Hird or James Joyce?
Whatareya?
Will Smith is one of those overachievers, like the Coppolas. He and Charlize Theron didn’t get on well.
Still Worth Fighting For (2010)
The best (and as far as I know only) ever Prince pisstake … 🙂
“You won’t see me down the disco, mamma
The music’s always played too loud …”
I spent quite some time in 2020 trying to find various patriotic American songs ready in case Trump won.
Waste of friggin time that was.
Here ya instead go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZlniYWyKGE
In light of the last Test how can I not go with The Parable Of Glenn McGrath’s Haircut.
Oh ah Glen McGrath!
Thanks, Pol – see if you can track back how I ended up at this li’l ditty …
Hint – the first step is in one of your songs above …
Chicago …
Another awesome album by a bunch of guys from Randwick, iirc..
I have it. Here’s another track from Unit:
Regurgitator – Black Bugs (1998)
Whataryeeew?
Sorry Rabz, but don’t you ever let a chance go by…
#OhLord
Might resemble that. Also might resemble this.
I love NASA (not the space agency).
Some Who:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
The Lenster, Rockin’ out … 🙂
In deference to our host here’s some Kanye. Off the planet!
Remember, nothing good is associated with the word “progressive”. Progressive politics, progressive dementia, progressive diseases of the groinoidal regions, and progressive rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
Sadly a WHW. I wish he’d had more good stuff. Lady drummer smokes.
Guy who has done more in that space is Ben Harper.
Burn to Shine
One of my all time favouritesPete at his best
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-lS_Gryk
Aussie band, pretty unsung.
Single Gun Theory – I Am What I See (1992)
..
Can’t believe how much he looks like Nicolas Cage in that.
Hard to believe 49 yo. Different version. Play from the 2.50 min mark for those feeling a bit lost. Wish I’d heard it all that time ago.Bonnie
BoN – Good choice, I still have the album.
Terrible audio version in youtube, unfortunately.
Right Arky, put Cage in a gold suit. I only ever liked Cage in 8mm and that was real good.
Such a good album. I had it and used to play it on cassette in my car. I so wish he hadn’t faceplanted like he did.
Give Blood
Seriously eleven-worthy. The whole album is just wonderful.
Miss PJ Harvey – Nick’s “West Country Girl” …
What a clip – love the Black and White contrasts, right down to the Tele*
*Which of course, didn’t inspire Miss Ellie’s choice of her own beloved guitar.
Bluddee hell – what a woman … 😕
Yah, Rabz, I usually try three or four versions to get somethig that sounds like wasn’t recorded at the bottom of a well. The file size is tiny these days, why can’t they have decent sound?
Ok on that note I have to go find something. What will I find?
Cornflake Girl
Ok, that’s what popped into my head. Go figure. Superb piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
Nico. Remember her? Sang with the Velvet Underground on their first album because Andy Warhol thought it would be a good idea. It was. Anyhoo, Jackson Browne who was a teenage songwriter in the mid-sixties, hang around the Velvets at the time. Who knew?
Nico released this Jackson Browne song on her solo album – Chelsea Girl – in 1967. Beautiful 1960s pop if somewhat melancholy. These days.
Here’s Browne murdering his own song.
Happy New Year everyone.
A bit premature, but maybe one to play come 3-4AM in whatever part of Oz you might be in…
Turbo Knight- Dawn:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJeeDxiPXY
She burns. Amazing lady.
Bruce — that drummer is Cindy Blackman.
I still do BoN travelling up and down to my beach house. Blondie too, so many great songs. Debbie could certainly work her voice.
Ok, let’s not wander off towards P J Harvey (although that would be siren-song easy), instead let’s continue with 11/11 hot/crazy matrix Tori Amos.
Yes, Anastasia
Superb. I have magpie problems too.
Last week while discussing the Velvet Underground on the Cat, Rabz (or was it me?) noted that at their worst, they were unlistenable. Nowhere is this more true than on their 1968 song Sister Ray. Starts well but quickly degenerates into noise. Literally. Just shit.
Well the other day I was surfing the internet, as the cool kids say, and lo and behold, I came across this live 36 minute version of Sister Ray. I had a listen and while, no doubt, many people will still find it unlistenable, it is a vast improvement on the original and has some beautiful melodic parts.
Enjoy. Or not.
Here’s John doing one a bit different, he had some good help. Don’t know how I missed this one growing up.
As much as I used to have a bit of time for poor ol’ Oasis, they were never any match for Blur, given the latter could always effortlessly outclass them (and I identified more with their inner urban London dandy milieu than non working class Manchester yobs and their ‘orrible football teams) …
Parklife (featuring Phil “Jimmy”* Daniels)
Country ‘ouse (featuring Lily Allen’s ol’ man, Keith, Matt Lucas and a bevy of super hot dolly birds)
*Greyranga – have you seen “Quadrophenia”?
The definitive Oasis song. Forget all their other bombast, this is just rock ‘n’ roll, pure and simple.
Prefer the other guys.
Sorry.
Bruce – “13” would be well up in my top ten albums of all time.
Oops, you’re on the other guys. Sorry^2.
I’ll have to do some Gorillaz then.
Beck – “Sound and Vision” live …
I was a Who fan from the 3rd form, mates older brother was sound tech for the local TV channel, had miles of recordings on tape. He had stuff from everywhere. Traded them with other techs, stuff from the warmup sessions before a studio tv so called live session. I listened to all off them. A lot were better than the public session. Think I was 20 when Quadrophenia came out, couldn’t get soon enough. Saw the movie when it came out, think a lot of muso’s ended up funding it. Dave Gilmore put a bit in and George Harrison too.
Oh wow. I like Beck, but that is over the top and beyond orbit. He has a whole tribe of backing singers! Sheesh.
He’s a loser
Chick Corea, ?Return to Forever. Though most of you are probably not old enough.
That’s it for me, see you next year.
Hope it’s better than this year.
Which I doubt it will be, sadly.
Finis
Was going to play the original, but blundered onto this version instead. Who said goils can’t rock out …
From 1:08 onwards, if you don’t want to hear her spoken intro about why she loves the song.
Thanks, Bruce – see you next year …
It’s an epic and people will have very mixed opinions of it (if they can get through it).
Always found it to be a fantastic driving song, especially when traversing spectacular landscapes – e.g. the Snowy Mountains National Park in a blizzard in a convertible with the roof down …
Some choice tunes so far.
La Rita
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZRVGlGZ6A
Tom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWh4xHeFMIQ
I’m scared that if I put up a music clip, Missy Higgins won’t come and abduct me come midnight.
another new years in vain
After a very trying year, we need to feel it …
Let’s dance! 🙂
Happy new year.
she didn’t show … plush
What this thread needs is a little Pussycat
And here is the link.
My favourite l’il Pussycat, in the performance of the year … 🙂
Did someone say they fancied the pipes? Here’s a chanter at least with a tin whistle and more. Good beat and you can dance to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA7QG_5oFTY&list=OLAK5uy_mcu71O06xI60jA91l7y3rfeIbdNBIcK30
Happy New Year, cats.
The perfect song for about 2am, when the flush of youth is still upon one’s cheeks, rowdy company is in attendance and and all are inclined to join in the chorus. Black 47’s Like a Rolling Stone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8ydF_TimU&list=OLAK5uy_mcu71O06xI60jA91l7y3rfeIbdNBIcK30&index=124
Some 12 year old joy to re-set the mood – Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & the psalmist –
Paul Simon – Proof (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Oh-GDikis
Pretty much any Australian music from the late 60s, early 70s:
Eagle Rock
I’ll Be Gone
Friday On My Mind
And now for something completely different ….
(Hope it works.). Happy new year everyone.
https://youtu.be/a_0FHyF3Pyk
@Dot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3asfWImBg
Dotsays:
December 31, 2021 at 7:37 pm
Songs about prostitutes please,
A bit late.
Along the same theme…
Them – Gloria (1965)
or my favourite
Gloria – Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker
I dedicate the misremembered chorus of Bodyjar’s “Not the Same” to the dismembered corpse of my country:
“You’re not the same
You’ve changed,
I don’t need you anyway.
You’re not the same (thing?)
That I grew up with yesterday.”
(The less-polite alternative to the above was reworking the lyrics of Metallica’s “Last Caress.”)
Late-night driving song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NW3qLcUlA
Two drummers; David Teagarden going around twice in the studio.:
Also two drummers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWF_o-MnIAY
Jim Gordon and Jim Keltner. HUGE lineup on this album; recorded LIVE, DIRECT TO DISK, NO overdubs.
I have the original vinyl and the later CD re-release. The Vinyl sounds “better”, if you have the right gear; (Rega Planar 3, JH Formula 4 arm, Audio Technica 15SE, Phase Linear 3300 Series 2 re-amp, hot-rodded Rotel 1412 (power-stage) and home-brew KEF bass-reflex boxes with SEAS tweeters.)
Something odd happened when they dragged out the original “safety” 2-track analogue tapes and produced a new digital master for the CD.
OLD school; works OK for an old bloke like me.
https://youtu.be/gsk6WyYAjp8
Ex UWA architecture student and near neighbour in Belmont WA.
OK Pol, here’s the six degrees …
Sex is on Fire
Caleb Followill
His wife
Her father
The artwork for the Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
This song, advertising the Sydney stage production … 😕
More on the degeneracy of the “Opinion-shapers” of the LSM.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/daughter-of-ted-cruz-falls-prey-to-media-vultures/
From the schoolyard to home
On the streets that we roam
I catch myself in a mirror
See a pathetic little boy
Who’s come to get you down …
Lana del Ray driving a John Deere tractor (as sultry brunettes have been known to do).
Presumably, various agrarian Cats might have an opinion on this phenomenon …
Radio X’s top ten Paul Wallee Tracks:
You do something to me
The changingman
Broken stones
You’re the best thing
Wild wood
From the floorboards up
English Rose
A Town Called Malice
That’s Entertainment
Going Underground
Rabz’ top ten Paul Wallee Tracks:
That’s Entertainment
The Bitterest Pill
Time Passes
Start
A Town Called Malice
Going Underground
Precious
Wings of speed
The Eton Rifles
Whirlpool’s end
Speaking of Richard Burton…
The Eve of the War (1978)
I had the double album on on vinyl, sapphire needle. Awesome.
Ok that gets one too.
Ultravox – Vienna (1980)
Just up the road.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=seekers+world+of+our+own&view=detail&mid=307CE2F6C940E26A459E307CE2F6C940E26A459E&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fFORM%3dPISBRL%26PC%3dPI04%26q%3dseekers%2bworld%2bof%2bour%2bown
One for those in lockdown or isolating, with the best singer of all time.
That’s not her
That’s just the light
It’s only an image of her
It’s just a trick of the light …
Not especially busty (especially after the cancer) but a fine Oz soap graduate none the less:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Sc_rsAaf0 (30 Dec 2021)
What’s the matter now, loverboy …
Has the cat run off with your tongue?
Are you drinking to get maudlin …
Or drinking to get numb?
On ancient Australian rock history from last millenium I’ll contribute one from an Oz band which is so unsung I could only find one complete music video for them. Saw them in a gig once, they were excellent. At the Opera House I think.
Paddy’s Leather Breeches – Sirocco
That’s the only video of theirs I can find out of fifteen albums. Amazing how stuff gets forgotten.
@ Bruce- I got to see them live in Tamworth as a younger fellow. Circa 2002-3.
Not half bad.