It’s gloomy out and it’s been a long week so let’s have some up tempo tracks to get us to the weekend in a buoyant mood! This my current earwig.
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This mornings earworm – meets the criteria methinks
Icicle Works – Understanding Jane
In the spirit of your video Twang it instantly put this in my head for the rest of the day
Sum 41 “Fat Lip”
Jungle’s Busy earing should do the trick.
As should Jorge Ben Jor’s Taj Mahal.
Taj Mahal, you say…
Uptempo, you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ViG4vNj-M
I feel the need…
Huzzah!
Also…
Top racket!
Have to say, as a youngster I’d have thought the notion of chaps that old doing a song about speed hilarious!
Toe taptastic.
Video unavailable here in Sweden @Martin Hairnet.
What did we miss?
How bizarre. It was The Feelies with Slipping (Into Something). Let’s try that again.
At last, another Hellecasters fan!
Count me in…so that’s three…
Four!
Five! Saw them live too.
enough of a fan to have a J Jorgensen signature Tele ….
I had a Jerry Donahue signature Tele…swapped it for a Jerry Donahue Omniac…sold that on to get a 175…
Kinda wish I’d kept the JD Tele…(sad and rueful emoji)…
Still got my JD Tele. I would never sell it!
No one to blame but myself…but that’s a cracker (jealous emoji)…
However, since you’ve shown me yours…
Well yes I can see the dilemma. I would probably have resolved it by having both of them. I mean, they occupy quite different bits of the guitar spectrum. Mind you I looked at jazz guitars and ended up with a Baja Tele with flats on it.
If I had my time again…I was trying to rationalise the number of guitars I had…now, I think WHY?
I like the sound of your Jim Mullen-style solution…I have a Baja Tele, but it’s set up for maximum twang (as it were…)
Ah well I have a JD Tele for that. LOL. There’s a fine tradition of jazz guys playing Teles though.
I have a John Jorgensen solo album. He plays clarinet on it throughout.
I know that JJ is a multi-instrumentalist, including bass, piano and sax/woodwind: however, I suspect that Fatima’s comment is gently satirising the guitar obsession on display just above…
This is so jaunty it almost gets me moving..
(Jon Batiste – I Need You)
Probably not your thing, but there was a snatch of this on the latest Back to NOW podcast and it brought it all flooding back… Inner City – Big Fun:
And from a similar era, The Sun Rising:
One of my enduring feel better songs.
Up-tempo…h’mmm…
…and, also…
…and, finally…
Take a 1960s pre-Woodstock Protest song, and play it at 100mph
Fired this up earlier. Still sounds great after 29 years*
(*29 years is not 30 which means I’m not old yet)
Rowdy Aussie surfrockers, the Chevelles should fit the bill
Up-tempo…oh, my…
The mysterious Goat from Gothenburg.
No standing still during their gigs.
M83 from France re very uplifting.
Uptempo?
OK.
.
Proper good that is.
My uptempo/uplifting barnstormer of choice, from NZ janglepop titans The Chills
(“The Oncoming Day”)
@deviant808
Excellent choice Sir/Madam!
Whole album is rather splendid (and doesn’t outstay its welcome being 36 minutes) but this particular track hurtles along very tunefully. Fun melodic baseline to play too.
New album on its way and all folks!
Why thank you. “Submarine bells” is indeed splendid and one of my absolute favourites.
The new one (“Scatterbrain”) came out last Friday and sounds great from a couple of listens so far.
Pah. I think my copy is on its way from the Tax Dodgers. Had an auto rip but it’s not the same is it?
Submarine Bells and the follow up Soft Bomb are my personal faves. Proper good pop rock records.
@deviant808
Scatterbrain arrived today, one play so far. Sounds old fashioned somehow. This is a good thing though.
Talking of Scatterbrain..