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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Let’s list lots of lovely Lambada, Laptronica, Latin jazz, Lo-fi, Lounge, Lovers rock, Low bap (?)

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The letter ‘L’ is the next stop on the leisurely lollop down alphabet lane, so load up any music, art, film, book or cultural artifact that looks like a long loved lodestone.

(Bill Fris-ell by Gary Larson)

We are approaching the heart of the compendium, so melt into the trance of L.S:G. – possibly my favourite sound ever

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  8. L is NOT for line dancing, oh no. But is for dancing the Laride, with an acute that isn’t on my keyboard, here in 6 time. I was teaching the 8 time Laride at Chester Folk Festival, I’ll have you know.
    The squall of sound at about 1:45 is the baby bagpipe known as the biniou. Fabulous stuff.

  14. FROM THE LAND OF LUCK & LOVE – For The Uninformed Australia –
    IF ANY OF YOU “UPLOADERS” CAN DO THE ” TUBE HONOURS”
    for I have ye t to know how & to master it
    LA-DE-DA’S “TOO POOPED TO POP” OR “GONNA SEE MY BABY TONIGHT”
    LIZARD “ROSALYN”
    LOTUS “ONE”
    LOBBY LOYDE “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC”
    LEVI SMITH’S CLEFS “LISA” – note the “L”
    LIME SPIDERS “WEIRDO LIBIDO” – note the “L”
    LIVING WITH ROBERT “PAINT IT BLUE”

    • It’s very easy @jack-Kelsey.

      Find your YT clip. Then place your cursor up on the toolbar and right click to Copy.

      Then return to the AW and right click again in the comment box, this time choosing Paste.

      Great list there of Ausssie artists I’ve never heard of.

  16. Lhasa de Sela, there is more than meet the eye in her life and experience. I thought first that she was so presomptuous for choosing the name of a long-lost city in Tibet, I was wrong.

  21. Do I get “sin-binned” for this – Firstly I’m Amazed that nobody has offered this up – especially the amount of time he spent on Pommy TV

    Awright Awright I’ll take me’s punishment & go quietly – Good Night Ya All.

  31. Llanfair…….

    Although technically, I’m not sure whether that ll is not a separate letter.

    May be I should have kept this for the end of our alphabetical explorations?

  37. Anita Lindblom’s Swedish version of “You Can Have Him” is almost an alternative national anthem here…sure to be sung enthusiastically by happy drunks at the drop of a hat.
    And why not, it’s irresistible!

  39. “La Linea” (or “Linus på linjen” as it was known in Sweden) was chucked in between other shows in the TV schedule in my childhood, whenever they needed to fill a few minutes, to the delight of children and adults alike.

    What was he called in Britain, I wonder?

  42. Later With Jools Holland generally gets a bad press hereabouts. Yes, a lot of unmemorable pap and downright crap gets aired on the show, he can’t interview for toffee and Jools’ tinkling is not always appropriate. The BBC’s TV sound engineers often seem to excel at making live performances sound utterly dead, but sometimes a Later guest comes along and does something really stunning.

    Where else on British TV would you first get to see the likes of Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, Mariza, Amadou & Mariam, Diana Krall, Portishead, Baaba Maal or Joanna Newsom? Or such veterans as Ibrahim Ferrer, Norma Waterson, Solomon Burke or BB King?

    • One of my favourite threads on the old board was “Favourite songs or pieces of music that you wouldn’t want Jools Holland to ruin by playing his boogie-woogie piano all over”. It was a hoot!

    • That is a splendidly beautiful noise, @declan, which I am now going to explore further. With links to Golden Palominos, Jim Jarmusch, Bill Frisell and Laurie Anderson, it is really right up my street. It’s always good to uncover new troves of great music. Thanks!

    • You know, I’m kind of beginning to warm to this King Crimson guy – the more he gets posted in the compendium, the more I look forward to listening to it. Please don’t say this is a gateway drug to prog.

  62. “The drummer’s solo project” isn’t always the most promising description for an album, unless that drummer is David Narcizo of Throwing Muses.

    (“Lemongrass” – Lakuna)

  76. The ever-reliable Richard Williams pointed me in the direction of the Weather Station on his blog. Handily, the Weather Station is known to her mother as Tamara Lindeman, so she fits in right here. Looking forward to getting to know her stuff better – I think she’s good.

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