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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Waltzes, watercolours, Westerns, whodunnits, witch house, woodwind sonatas, world music – we want wacky wails, waggish warbling, whiney walls of sound

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As winters wends its way, what whimsical wonders will wheedle onto the ‘W’ thread? Music, art, films, books – all welcome.

John William Waterhouse – KT Tunstall?

Here’s my first – my favourite Wobble – Soledad

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    • Whitesnake were a terrific band – rocking, bluesy, great playing, great vocals.
      And then something happened – they discovered hairspray. Godfathers of Hair Metal?
      1987 was a terrible album (I’m prepared to listen to reason on this, but it is unlikely to change my mind).
      From then, it really was a case of “channeling Alan Partridge and Colin Grigson”

  7. Remember that moment when you were watching Spectre or Tomorrowland or Terminator Genisys and you peeked at your watch and realised there was still over a half an hour of this crap left..?
    In that time you could have watched this film twice; the first time it would have blown your mind, the second time it would have broken your heart:

    (World Of Tomorrow)

  8. This is a lovely lilting piece of funky reggae from Uncle Donald’s other half, from the wonderful “Circus Money” album. Walt is not the world’s greatest singer, and he knows it, but the songs have a resigned doleful chunky beat to them. Co-produced by Larry Klein, Joni’s ex.

  19. Bugge Wesseltoft (and Henning Kraggerud)

    Here’s an exquisite duet for piano and violin. I’ve listened to this Norwegian ACT album (“Last Spring”) a lot in the late evenings.

  23. The Wildhearts – 29 x The Pain

    It’s basically a “list song” lumping together all their favourite bands including The Replacements, Husker Dd, Sex Pistols, Ramones and Stiff Little Fingers

  25. Paul Weller- Uh Huh Oh Yeah

    From the debut album – the first “proper” solo single *. The start of Career Phase 3 (aka The Modfather)

    * conveniently ignoring Into Tomorrow, which was released under the moniker The Paul Weller Movement

  41. I could be the driver in an articulated lorry
    I could be a poet, I wouldn’t need to worry
    I could be the teacher in a classroom full of scholars
    I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs

    I ended up as a Project Manager

    What a waste! What a waste!
    What a waste! What a waste!

  48. From the days when a hit song would get translated into Swedish and recorded by a local artist, here’s Östen Warnebring and his version of “Twenty-five minutes from Tulsa” – “Femton minuter från Eslöv” (“Fifteen minutes from Eslöv”). Very funny lyric, especially the description of the kiss…

  50. Popular Swedish entertainer Owe Thörnqvist wrote the song “Wilma” to cash in on the popularity of the Flintstones cartoon, and did indeed get a hit with it:

    The lawyers threatened to sue him for copyright infringement, but Owe’s response was that Wilma was a common Swedish name and “yabbadabbadoo” was an old viking cry. Mr Hanna and Mr Barbera was amused and invited Owe to record an English version to be performed in an episode of the show.

  56. The Werefrogs are one of those bands I sometime think I might’ve made up or hallucinated as nobody I speak to has ever heard of them, and the track I wanted to post (“Forest of Doves”) isn’t even on YouTube, but this is pretty good too.

    http://youtu.be/NwTgtI-BaoI

    (“Don’t Slip Away” – The Werefrogs)

  58. From English folk’s royal family, an old clip of Norma Waterson. Accompanied by husband Martin Carthy and their daughter Eliza.

    (Movin’ On Song)

    Also her late sister and brother, Lal and Mike. Here’s the title track from the frustratingly hard-to-get-hold-of album “Bright Phoebus”.

  59. Wareika Hill Sounds

    One of my favourite new-release reggae albums of the past ten years is “Wareika Hill Sounds” by Wareika Hill Sounds, led by Calvin Cameron’s monster trombone sound. Honest Jon’s Records put out the album in 2007, and if you like (mainly instrumental) reggae, you’ve got to hear it.

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