Thursday April 03, 2008

Two who should go...

Max and Mugabe Sling your hooks.

Polical correctness gone mad...

It seems the UK housebuilder Wimpey has told its builders in Bristol to stop Wolf Whistling to girls who pass them by. I must admit it is years since I heard of any builder doing this but it is a simple innocent complement. In any case the housebuilder's motivation is that it says sophisticated women customers are being put off by the whistling attentions of their workforce..

New CD's A to G

Since I stopped writing weblogs the stack of new CD's I have bought but not reviwed has built up.

Lily Allen - Alright Still. I had heard some of her tracks on the TV and recently downloaded a mp3 teaser from her website . The lyrics are very clever - a sort of female Jarvis Cocker perhaps. A second album is being recorded it will be interesting to see what that is like more of the same might get a bit boring. But this is a good CD.

Clapton/Cale - The Road to Escondido. This is a must buy CD if you like either artist. It has Billy Preston on it who has since died. The first track (Danger) has a brilliant keyboard line that is excellent and you know it is Billy playing. He played with the Stones and more recently was on the Concert for George organised by Clapton. With these two in charge you might think this is a late night CD to be played as you have that last glass of wine before retiring. Not so - it is an uplifting CD that gets your feet tapping but also has excellent blues numbers so you can get your breath back..

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris -All the road running. - All the songs are written by him - most of the tracks they sing together. The guitar has a very Dire Straits sound that is mistakable. I have found the cd has grown on me after repeated playing. In deference to her country roots there is a totally country track fun to listen too called Red Staggerwing.The title track All the Roadrunning is a nice ballad track but my favourite has to be the first track - Beachcombing. There is a DVD of both artists recorded in June of 2006, this collection includes a DVD of their concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.

Eagles - Long road out of Eden. Sorry folks but the title track is among the best tracks of an album that should have been a single cd only. The disc with that track on is the best of the two but not worth the investment I fear folks.

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball. Bought this on the strength of a documentary I saw on her charting her career. The title track is by Neil Young, Sweet old world is by Lucinda Williams track - more on her later on and Every grain of sand - a Dylan track. Don't think this is a pure country sound, I am not keen on that kind of music and if you like her Stumble into Grace CD this is for you.

Gorillaz - D Sides. On CD is remix of lots of tracks from Demon Days. The originals are fantastic these remixes not so good. I would dearly like to know when the unreleased tracks on the other cd were recorded. If I did not know better I would say they were recored after or during the time Damon/Hewlett where doing their Monkey opera. Lots of tracks have Chinese undertones and two tracks are called HongKongaton and Hong Kong to enforce the Chinese theme. We are Happy Landfill starts with a sound that sounds like the instrument Damon designed to remind him of the traffic noise horns etc in China when he went there to research for Monkey. Murdoc is God is a nice rowdy sound which might end up with a fatwa on him and the best is the last track, Stop the Dams with some very interesting words spoken in a gap between the vocals.

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