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Hooray, I've wanted to post this topic all weekend but feared I was the only football-watching pleb on the board. I too have gone from the 'wow, this is the perfect combination of my two passions' reaction to the 'fuck, this is really irritating' in about 30 minutes each match. Some South Africans a...

Hooray, this is what I was actually searching Youtube for. Paint it Black by the Mo-dettes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InaOrzn ... xt_from=ML

They were Slits/Raincoats-related Peel favourites, best known for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0JCoMYpiA0

Probably not what you're looking for but Eric Burdon couldn't leave Paint it Black alone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLN6RJh ... re=related

Talking about the classic singer songwriter canon, one of my very favourite albums by a name I think not mentioned so far is Victor Jara's self-titled solo debut from 1967.

Having started this thread, I'm a bit embarassed that I've not contributed to it in three weeks. I'd like to say I've been busy exploring loads of new names, but actually I've been listening pretty much non-stop to Blood on the Tracks. I meant to say earlier that I'm in my mid-40s and considered mys...

Hi, unexpectedly offline for two days. Just wanted to say thanks, these are great suggestions, which are going to keep me busy for a while!

Actually, I generally do hate singer-songwriters. However, recent changes in my life have kind of, er, 'socialized' my musical tastes, leaving less opportunity to cocoon myself with hour-long droning, clicking, clattering, buzzing things, and I've found myself spending a lot of time listening to Ala...

Seriously, I know a couple whose wedding song was Meatloaf's 'Two out of three ain't bad' (as in 'I I want you, I need you / But there aint no way Im ever gonna love you / Now dont be sad /cause two out of three aint bad'). Yes, they are an ex-couple.

Not very IHM, and blindingly obvious, but nothing beats Roy Orbison's 'It's Over'. (Honourable mention for 'I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better' by the Byrds.)

Valerio Cosi's Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock that's some good shit right there Yeah, moving slighly off topic, what I've listened to most this year is his three volumes of Freedom Meditation Music. I'm a constitutionally glum middle-aged Northern Englishman, and this is a totally unfamiliar concept...

Due to a very protracted house move and related expenses, I bought very little new music after spring this year and am curious to hear people's recommendations in the nebulous area of the psych/noise/drone/freefolk cassette/cdr DIY scene. It may be just my imagination but I thought it featured more ...

Thanks again. Definitely some cool ideas here.

Thanks again, these are really good suggestions too. And, Will, you've put your finger on what worries me here: arriving at some kind of polite or quirky indie/experimental crossover which doesn't really work on either level. My suspicion is that if you were seriously attempting to convert a neophyt...

Thanks, these are all really good suggestions and include a number of things I've meant to investigate a bit further myself (esp. Grouper, Fursaxa, Espers). I'd already been toying with the idea of getting some Islaja, and Lau Nau, and Kuupuu, but I've a feeling lyrics are important and all of those...

Thanks, Bjork is a really good idea. Actually, this has involved a very pleasant reacquantaince with some of the more tuneful parts of my own record collection (including some stuff like Tindersticks that I barely listened to in the first place since I was just beginning to get into more improvised ...

Feel free to shoot me down if this is an abuse of the board, but it's a question that interests me in the abstract as well as in an urgent concrete sense, and I imagine it might at times have exercised other IHMers. Say, for the sake of argument, you were looking for gifts for someone whose current ...

It doesn't exactly answer Stevo's question but a lot of my favourite Thompson work is on other people's albums. I'm thinking, in particular, of Sandy Denny's The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens (practically a duo Denny/Thompson album), where his playing on Blackwaterside is, for me, possibly *the*...

No, I think that some of the earlier posts indicate that the same arguments about punk as 'genre' vs punk as 'movement' pertain to the UK as well. There were discussions earlier in the thread as to whether The Jam were too mod/R'n'B or the Fall too 'arty' to be considered punk. As I remember it, tho...

Okay, so I've got a totally UK perspective on punk, but I don't think anyone's mentioned the first Buzzcocks EP 'Spiral Scratch', with Howard Devoto on lead vocals. Probably my favourite punk record and not, unless I'm mistaken, on 'Singles Going Steady'. I don't know if it's punk exactly but, way b...

I might be shooting myself in the foot here as I like to buy this stuff too, but could I add another couple of mailorders which regularly stock James Ferraro/Skater-related releases: Second Layer (http://www.secondlayer.co.uk" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;) Boa Melody Bar (http://ww...