Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Prefab Sprout
Let's Change The World With Music
(Kitchenware, 2009)
The Geordie Brian Wilson's God-shaped disco epiphany.
The "new" Prefab Sprout album is in fact an old one. Denied a release by Paddy McAloon's record label in 1992, resurrected for obscure reasons now, it is of its time in its infatuation with house music, a cousin of that other ginger stepchild, The Style Council's Modernism: A New Decade . It should sound hopelessly dated, and its subject matter - God - will certainly polarize. Yet its melodic riches and passionate, headlong rush are not to be denied, and McAloon's pudding-wine vocal has rarely sounded so persuasive as it does on the bonkers Let There Be Music ("Hey Jules and Jim, I wrote the hymn to ecstasy!"). In fact, ...Music's most incautious gambit - Ride's envious salute to those who "ride home to Jesus, heads held high" - is also its most exquisite, its jacking synth bass and chromatic gob-iron in heavenly harmony. In song, McAloon once called angels "hard-faced little bastards"; perhaps this is his penance.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 13/01/2010
Further Listening
Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz (Liberty, 2003)
The Style Council - Modernism: A New Decade (Polygram International, 1998)
Saint Etienne - So Tough (Heavenly, 1993)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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I think it's far too many praises for an album which sound has aged a lot.
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