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Songs you love that maybe others haven’t heard. Part 2

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This time last year I started this thread and you added some great tracks. I have just been reminded by my diary that it was a year ago. I haven’t thought about it for long but ‘Little Star’ by Stina Nordenstam has come to mind. No doubt lots of you may know it but maybe some of you haven’t heard it.

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  1. Great idea. But you are setting the bar high by posting that gem from Sweden’s elusive and mysterious recluse Ms Nordenstam.

    Here’s a beautiful song that has been with me for many years now. I don’t understand a single word of what the late, great Pino Daniele is singing. Then again, I don’t think too many Italians do either as he often sung in Neapolitan.

    It’s exquisite anyway.

    Annare

  12. I may have posted this a year ago – I can’t remember? Then again, I can’t remember what I did last week, so anyway …

    John Wesley Harding – There’s A Starbucks Where The Starbucks Used To Be

  14. Harp and a Monkey – Serenade For A Winters Day. Wonderfully emotive song, represented here in this live version mainly because as Martin begins to say at the end it was included in the set at my request ( mithering)….. and on another occasion the band dedicated it to my wife on her birthday… so not only a wonderful wonderful song but one with lots of memories.

  15. I posted a couple earlier – Get Out, by Frightened Rabbit, and The Magic Kid by Hayes Carll.

    Most of my music lives in the 250 person concert kind of area. Stuff someone else, but not lots of people, will have heard.

  16. Basil Kirchin is a fairly recent discovery, courtesy of Paul Weller esq. and the Mojo coverdisc (June 2015) he curated. “Beyond Saturn”. I’ve only recently got round to giving it a proper listen. It’s very good.

    Here’s some of Basil’s soundtrack music for a 1965 film “Primitive London”. (CD currently available from Amazon for the princely sum of £4.99. BUY IT AT ONCE!).

    • Fascinating man – I’m sure somewhere I have an EP with him on the cover from his dance band days. As an ex-Hull resident I was surprised that he spent his latter years living modestly towards the top end of Hessle Road, the rather grim former fishing community in Hull.

      Full hour of sweeping soundtrack/jazzy racket here.

      • Superb.
        Unfortunately that album is £25 on CD from Amazon, which is outside my current price range.
        This one, however, is just £1.98 as an MP3 download (£19.99 on CD). It’s rather good IMO.

  19. Howzabout this Jonathan Richman track? He’s somewhat known but there are many of his albums that never came out on CD never mind iTunes or Spotify. This is one of my favourites from a hard to find album…a feelgood slice of old school rock’n’roll with some of the great man’s “naive” saxophone honkings…


  21. This was so ubiquitous in the goodfella house in the 70s and 80s that I’ve always assumed the song to be familiar to most. I still don’t know if it is, even amongst you lot (knowledgeable, smart, good looking etc..).
    But for those who have never heard Willy’s Me and Paul before enjoy this little slice of brilliance.

    • I’ve never heard it before. Thanks. I realised just a little while ago that I haven’t made the effort to listen to his back catalogue. I keep hearing tracks here and there and really liking them. I will have to make the effort. Cheers great track.

      • I love the way it builds slowly from strummed guitar to full on country band performance and every fill from slide guitar to honky tonk piano is beautifully played.

  23. This is Gary Farr & the T-Bones with the 12-stringtastic Won’t You Give Him (One More Chance) from 1965.

    It’s a cover of a Solomon Burke song.

    Gary Farr was the brother of Rikki Farr, the belligerent compère of the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival and their father was the heavyweight boxer Tommy Farr, nicknamed “the Tonypandy Terror” (he was from Wales, you see).

    What else can I tell you? Oh, yeah, Keith Emerson was also a member of the T-Bones, although I’m not sure if he was in the band for this single.

  26. Third, Optimism/Reject from Patrik Fitzgerald’s Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart ep. (The title song is also one of my faves).
    “Me got no brain. Me subject myself to you and all your philosophising. Me got no brain.”

  30. Thanks @ewenmac. Marvellous.

    Looked for it on Spotify and it’s there! His name is Chris Rainbow.

    Incidentally I found the playlist I did after last year’s thread. I see that I’m starting to post the same songs again! Ooops.

    Here’s something a little more modern from Taming Parlour.

  33. And something from last month that everyone in the Bisto household loves listening to, a rarity these days. A perfect summer song because it evokes every great summer you’ve known and still promises that the next one will be the best ever,

    Falqo – Across The Sea

    • What a corker! Everything just spot on.
      I flicked through the rest of the album on YouTube, & it was a great reminder of why I love Rock and Roll music ( dead corny, but dead true).
      THANKS for posting.

        • I couldn’t agree more.
          There’s no denying SRV’s ability, but for feel Jimmie wins hands down IMO.
          I get tired of the pyrotechnics that SRV fans adored him for pretty quickly but I can listen to The Fabulous Thunderbirds or Jimmie solo all night.
          He really understands the notion that less is more & has nailed that great Texas/ Louisianna sound &’tradition.

  40. There’s a lot to be said for an unusual stage name or memorable song titles. I’ve just spent 20 minutes looking for this gem. There are a lot of songs about southern skies and John Murry is not a name that stays with you. It was worth it. It’s a corker.

    Max Jury isn’t the most memorable name either. And there’s lots of black metal on the Tube. But this song is a soft, melodic, country and westernish doozy. Thanks to Bingo for posting it.

    • Nice track and the Largo album sounds a bit out of the ordinary!

      “Largo is a 1998 various-artists concept album inspired by classical composer Dvorak’s 9th symphony. The project was initiated, assembled, and produced by Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian.”

      • As a huge Hooters fan, (the band, stop sniggering) I bought it at the time, and it’s a real cracker, IMHO. Lots of guest appearances, lots of different styles, lots of great songs.

  47. Here’s “Let’s Dance”.
    No, not the David Bowie song of that name, but the title track of the new Per Oddvar Johansen album. Johansen is the drummer, with Helge Lien on piano and Torben Snekkestad on sax. There have been so many wonderful chamber jazz records that have come out of Norway in the past few years, but hell, there’s always room for one more…

  50. More pathos, this time from Daniel Romano. I’m a huge fan. Anyone who’s a fan of Sturgill should check him out. Wonderful live too. Great lyricist, with a nice touch o’ tongue in cheek occasionally, which points to a man who doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is fine by me.
    https://youtu.be/0DoiXoeW_40
    & another

  52. Surprised that I’ve never seen this guy get any love on here. The album version o’ this has Mary Margaret O’ Hara on bv, in her own inimitable way.
    Doug Paisley – What’s Up Is Down

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