M sans M Liveblogging!!!!

But first...

THE NEWS!!!!!

Post Offices are being closed!

Damage to communities?

Well, I think they could have saved a few of them

The McCanns are getting their due

"Bad day for British journalism"

'regurgitation'

that's one way of putting it

False rumors about banks - hmm

The Iraq War is almost old enough for kindergarten

Mark Spade - dead girlfriend - not his fault - St.
John's Wood - poshville - Spate?

Previously - lots of Wheatley rock and other things

The first song...

PETER FRAMPTON!!!!

Oh the untrammeled joys of talking guitars

A long way from The Herd, or maybe not

The poor man, he didn't get his money, did he?

This reminds me of being a little girl in Oakville,
out behind the apartment building in the pool, with
the radio blasting and lots of kids and teenagers in
the summer

doing belly-flops which were painful, but that was
part of the fun of doing them

"I can't believe this is happening to me" - sums up
the mid-70s pretty well

Does anyone really *understand* 1976?

He sounds so innocent

Guilty pleasure - not according to Stuart - HIGH FIVE
Stuart

The Black Keys - unavailable - hmmm - Easter's come
early!

Steve Lillywhite is in Vegas and they hope to talk to
him

The La's - deluxe remastering

I am ignorant about them save for the one song

massively influential?

And this is...

Goldfrapp!!!!

This does sound like Saint Etienne, for sure

It also sounds like Feist a bit

This is so good - I am getting goosebumps!

LOVE - REAAAAL LOVE

Schaffel pop from outer space

collides with a girl group

ECHOES!!!

Syd would love this

SSSSOOOOOOO GOOOOOD

I want this at #1 not Duffy

Easter on R2 - R.E.M. and Simply Red...Aled Jones,
Petula Clark - Lulu has a show! I will try to listen
to that

GO AWAY BOB

THE CHAIN!!!!!!

From "Take The Skinheads Bowling" to...

"Young, Gifted and Black"

I don't know this

YES, WE CAN

I didn't know it was a song!

Reggae with strings - Soul II Soul did have a
precedent!

WELL NOW

This is great!!!!!!

How I long to know the truth

Haunted by my youth...

Is where it's at! Late 60s?

Far more upbeat than Wayne McGhie

Why have I never heard this before?

Bob and Marcia

Untainted by far right - loved Jamaican music -
anti-hippie

Elizabethan Reggae?

MUST HEAR

Elbow - turn down...

SO let's talk Coldplay instead, shall we?

Their new album is called Viva La Vida

I hope Chris's Spanish accent is better than okay

Better than this anyway - clunky mcclunkerson lyrics

you just want to give them a thesaurus

hmm, maybe not

God, this reminds me of someone, who, who?

British Sea Power are so much better, it's not even
funny

OMG they are trying to be the Bunnymen & it's so not
happening

Oh dear, Mr. Hawley - well, he got paid, anyway

Interview - Girlfriend in a Coma from Young, Gifted &
Black - I'll have to think about that one

Odyssey?

Um, this is 70s right?

Goin' Back to My Roots!!!!!!

OH THEY DID SOUP FOR ONE RIGHT???????

WWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is so elegant

Related to Chic, produced by them???

:-))))))))

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA

YEAH

Right down to earth

This is what Simply Red would like to be

But the singing is so tough! A whole generation
sings...

FUNKY psychedelic guitar

And now they're singing in an African language!

Back to Africa...

Lamont Dozier????

WHOA

THIS JUST IN!!!

Stamping on a bag of maltesers?

Tickertape machine goin' non-stop

Dinky Alan-Ball voiced sensitive services soul - says
he was happier in the army - easier in NATO than being
posh - soldiers are non-judgmental - no one called him
posh

4th - Most Annoying Things in Life - Lacto-Free survey
- 'it's not relevant'

Buxom peaches & cream connection supermodel Sophie
Dahl - boyfriend jazz hobbit Jamie Cullum - height
difference means nothing - I'm almost as tall as
Stuart??

Craggy affable Bryan has written a song about Amy
Winehouse? (No one here calls him 'groover from
Vancouver' by the way)

shortly after she stayed with him in the Caribbean -
why did she do that?

amid the stars and bars, etc

Winehouse will sing this crap?

SIGH

Song of the week proves psychfolk is harder than it
seems

Charles gave me a wolf calendar once

That's about all I have to say here

Lo-fi superstars - about men finding the courage to
say hello - Matlock Bath? Derbyshire - life must be
dull there

Kids tv tune?

RUBBISH???????????

WHAT THE FUCK???

IT'S GENIUS

Okay, for once and for all, let me clear up any
misunderstandings

Depeche Mode are fine with me - I never bought them,
but I rarely if ever turn them off, either

"Spanking Nazi Beats" is a household term I used ONCE
for "Personal Jesus" and it has stuck to me ever since

NOT MY FAULT, OKAY?

SHEESH

This is a good song but can I please point out the
IRONY in singing a song with a lot of words that talks
about SILENCE and how 'unnecessary' words are

THANK YOU

I will always remember 1990 as being a lot of things +
Depeche Mode wherever I went...they were on CFNY all
through the 80s & then EXPLODED with this album - it
was quite something

The NME sent him to see The La's - pizzeria in
Bloomsbury

Seminal?

And this is...

The La's??

I guess so

I literally only know the one song, so I've got a lot
to learn

Not sure if The La's influence is as good as
advertised

Does he mean Britpop?

This came out in 1988?

I was too busy listening to The Weddoes and The Prims

"Timeless Melody"

Steve from the city of sin

LIVE

He's there to go to a gig

Hmmm

A whole book could be written about Lee Mathers

Yeah, we know boxing terms

Better than anyone acoustic guitar singer - intensity
- he can't let things go

They rejected lots of producers before he got involved

Went down to London - wait, weren't they from
Liverpool?

La - hm, why do Liverpool people say that?

Didn't want to realize he had an album out

Unique, one-off character

Like Syd?

The goalposts are wider for the home team?

Lee believes that

I don't get it

The first album - the biggest album - antique gear?
Dirty strings?

Maybe he wanted a time machine, guys

Steve can help bands, but he feels he failed them a
bit

Maybe it was never gonna really work

Ah, "the test of time"

MGMT - GOOD LORD MAN, YOU ARE DEAF

More from the La's

Don't Go Down To...where?

I think my time machine theory is right

Ah, Doldrums

I'm hearing more Oasis in this than anything else

Is Lee Mathers the Noel Gallagher of Liverpool?

He sounds it

"Doldrum"

Snake with a broken back - so he says

Lad rock - God Save Me

R2 has R.E.M. live at the Royal Albert!
I wish I was more excited about this

But No

THE CHAIN!!!!!!

From "Young, Gifted and Black" to....

Clive in Cheedle! Wherever that is

It's dark, not pleasant

spring is on its way, but not for Cheedle

:-(

NORTHWEST - one of a thousand villages

Moira - hello!

At home from work - teachers - well, they're nice
anyway

"Harlem Shuffle"

Bob and Earl

YEAH!!!

Let Us Groove!!!
Hey!

That was sampled by House of Pain!!

So much better than the Rolling Stones

SO MUCH BETTER

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAH

COOOOOOL man

How low can you go?

Good question...

Is this British? I don't think it is

Northern Soul?

It sounds SO BIG

Rude, almost

Hitchhike across the floor - Whoa whoa whoa

I am dancing!!!!

aw fade out!

THE NEWS!!!!!

The government has seen its majority slashed?

Huh?

Rebellious Labour MPs are not getting Hallmark ecards
like they should

Gordon Brown's got to wake up

The Express and The Star - crap crappity crap

Print the facts - is that really so f*cking hard?

Bridgend - home of doom

Gordon's meeting the Dalai Lama and there's nothing
anyone can do about it

Gurkha? Indian soldiers?

Queen - The Cosmos Rocks - oh dear, this does not
sound promising

part of his Ph.D thesis?

Gang members abandon James Bondish car

And we are BACK!

MOTOWN!!!!!!!!!!!

1966!!!!

Diana Ross and the Supremes throw it down

FUNK BROTHERS!!!!!!!

Oh for a Billie Davis cover of this

YAY guitar!

More girl group wisdom

Amy has to be as good & lively as this to really get
my attention

Mark Ronson, listen up

NO HORNS

SO TOUGH, SO LOVELY

it swings, as my father would have said

Bauhaus? Supremes pwn Bauhaus

Patrick from The Black Keys

"So He Won't Break"

I think I've heard this before

It certainly *sounds* familiar

Nope, can't get into this

Not like The Afghan Whigs, exactly, yet much like them
anyway

Soulful white boys from Ohio, pt. 88

This is about as exciting as milk chocolate

Attack and Release, yes, ILX has talked about them

Tom Waits - well, case closed

They made this record in an actual studio, not a
basement

Danger Mouse - Ike Turner? Huh, so not gonna happen
now I guess

Dude, he produced The Shortwave Set who are SO MUCH
BETTER than you

SIGH

Stuart's interviewing the wrong band

We'll have to wait

The Black Lips are better

the backwoods of Ohio is terrifying, full of Clinton
supporters

and dirty studios

Akron, home of Devo & Chrissie Hynde - Jane Eyre & the
Belvederes??????

WHAT?

The Waitresses are better than you!

Rubber City Rebels, you guys

Painsville? Truth in advertising

Danger Mouse tries his best, and yet it's still
underwhelming

Ah, hello The Cult

yep, I was right!

Circa "The Witch"

Go buy Ampgrave and think it out, kids

There are ways and ways to do this

I mean The James Gang is better you guys!

God talk about music hipsters could only love

Show and Tell - I'm scared, Marcello, hold me

Devo - okay, not so scared (but you can still hold me
if you want to, my baby)...

I've never been a huge Devo fan, must say

"Satisfaction"

AH well, I was hoping it would be an original song

not sure what to say about this, but I'd still like to
hear their cover of "Ohio"

factory music made in a factory town

life as machinery?

Reminds me of that song about the "escalator of life"

Non Request Thur-Wednesday - no Leo Sayer - Windows of
Your Mind - Steamy Windows - double-glazing men all
over - not to mention the windmill salesmen, they are
the worst

The La's - 20 years - not quite 20 - late 89 - hmm,
that's what I thought

New Van Morrison!

Ah, now I know who Amy reminds me of - VAN

but only slightly

Entrainment

look it up, kids

I know what it means, but I'm having a hard time
seeing Van dancing or hollering

good ol' Celtic soul

This is kind of petrified in a way

Pandolino?

Van at SXSW - put your mobile phones away, you guys

'spherical and grumpy'

"Hey Moon" WAS NOT LOVELY

Pick and Mix

Neon Neon "I Lust You"

New Romantic, so he says

Ruffles and sad clowns ahoy

Hmmm.....

Well, it's as irritating as the original New Romantics

but not as vapid

where's the doom guys?

not sad enough

Terrific? I think Dragonette crap all over that

Sorry to be blunt, but it is true

Stainless Style - still not sad enough

Ah Mr. Brand, he should endorse a conditioner

does he own a comb?

THE CHAIN!!!!!!

From "Harlem Shuffle" to....

Tom in Derbyshire - Stanley - a village - quiet place
tree surgeon! Well that's a first - ham and what?
cakes? damn cell phone - tree surgery - does it have
an emergency ward? no not really...

were you into trees? no, farming and things like that
- but he still gets to work outdoors

good for him

"Angel of Harlem" by U2

possibly their worst ever single, methinks

And Mark Sinker leaves the NME building in how many
seconds? 3, 2...

Cliche count

"Tonight this city belongs to me"

"Birdland - John Coltrane and the Love Supreme" -
makes it sound like a soul singing group or something

"Diamond eyes, truth behind the lie"

"Oooooooohhhhhooooooohhhhhhooooohh she says
HHHHHHEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAART AND
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLL"

"Yeah yeah yeah yeah"

"God knows they got to you - eyes swollen like a bee's
sting"

"Angel in the devil's shoes, SALVATION IN THE BLUES"

for the win

that's it, it IS their worst single EVER

a good enough reason to hate everyone mentioned,
unfortunately

STOP STOP STOP

Tree surgeons don't really know music well

Not HIM anyway

The only way is up from this song, British public,
please don't mess up

Radiohead!!!!!!!!!!

WHEW!!!!!

"Nude"

this is real soul, in case anyone was wondering

Coldplay have *quite* the ways to go before they can
even reach the edges of this

(((((((((((HHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS))))))))

Reminds me of Kraftwerk and 10cc while still being
utterly itself

Is this what I was thinking of back when Elbow was on?

Not quite, but close enough

As pure and complex and beautiful as nature itself

Non-Requests - not Barry White, no "Ebony and Ivory",
no Cud, no M&W

MGMT - OH JESUS

Understating the case?

get out your polyester pillows, it's MGMT

Disco in the conversation pit

UGH

This is not what made the 70s great

This isn't even as good as "Born To Be Alive" which
even then I thought was a bit much

I realize I have been rather whiny this episode, but I
can't help it if he plays bad music, sorry about that

this is the future of nothing besides the basement of
MVE

They are trying for Boz Scaggs???

The Stylistics????

And end up being the new Boney M

Good luck guys

Ah it's ending, good

No IT IS not LIKE PRINCE

UGH

COME ON

And here's Duffy to remind us of the existence of the
Brit School ONE MORE TIME

After today's BiA I just want to listen to Billie

yes, she is like Bros!!!

And I looked up Bros yesterday and one of 'em is
supposed to have a new album out this year!

WHERE IS PORTISHEAD?

WHERE????

Duffy sounds like a 13-year-old

You took her doll and hid it and now she's angry

Then you said she was ugly & her mother dressed her
funny

Hollow, so hollow

UGH

Terrific???

JAMES!!!!

Just a question? Why do they always end with James?

To wake people up I suppose

Still, very very happy to hear them

THEY'RE AWAKE

YAY MANCHESTER

Is the white boy Cameron? I hope so

Why is he all mashed up? Is he in hospital? Is that
the story here?

AAAAAAAAAH

Now I get it

Plath would understand this

1938 yacht afloat - I should hope so!

Tomorrow - Nod and maybe some better music?