Best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede. English singer-songwriter Brett Anderson, celebrates his birthday on 29th September. So here are a few tunes courtesy of YouTube, Wow it really takes me back to my younger years hearing all these great tunes again.
Month: September 2011
R.E.M., PART LIES, PART HEART, PART TRUTH, PART GARBAGE, 1982 – 2011
To cap their 31-year recording career R.E.M. are releasing a definitive greatest hits Double CD album in November. It will be released by Warner Bros. and is due out on November 15th. The 40-song retrospective will be entitled:
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R.E.M., PART LIES, PART HEART, PART TRUTH, PART GARBAGE, 1982 – 2011
It will includes tracks from both the IRS and Warner years plus three brand-new songs. The Band have outlined details of their 40 song retrospective and The upcoming album gathers material from both IRS and Warner Bros eras. The album also contains material from each R.E.M. album, contributions from all three band members on the sleeve notes and three brand new tracks (‘A Month of Saturdays’, ‘We All Go Back To Where We Belong’, and ‘Hallelujah’) as a final farewell
R.E.M. recently confirmed the news of their split with a simple three way statement, allowing each member of the group to pay their respects to a career which has lasted almost thirty years. After this, news quickly broke of plans for a full scale retrospective. The album is due to be released on November 14th, and it contains forty tracks from the band’s entire back catalogue. Here is the track-listing for the new album.
Disc 1
- Gardening At Night’
- Radio Free Europe’
- Talk About The Passion’
- Sitting Still’
- So. Central Rain’
- (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville’
- Driver 8’
- Life And How To Live It’
- Begin The Begin’
- Fall On Me’
- Finest Worksong’
- It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- The One I Love’
- Stand’
- Pop Song 89’
- Get Up’
- Orange Crush’
- Losing My Religion’
- Country Feedback’
- Shiny Happy People’
Disc 2:
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’
- Everybody Hurts’
- Man On The Moon’
- Nightswimming’
- What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?’
- New Test Leper’
- Electrolite’
- At My Most Beautiful’
- The Great Beyond’
- Imitation Of Life’
- Bad Day’
- Leaving New York’
- Living Well Is The Best Revenge’
- Supernatural Superserious
- Überlin’
- Oh My Heart’
- Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter’
- A Month of Saturdays’
- We All Go Back To Where We Belong’
- Hallelujah’
Harvest Festival Service
On Tuesday 27th September there was a Harvest Festival Service conducted by the local vicar, With Hymns sung by the Local Church Choir. Afterwards there was also an auction of Local produce with all proceeds from the auction going to a local Charity. Light refreshments were also available afterwards (Such as Sausage Rolls, Vol-au-vents, Sandwhiches with various fillings, pork pies, crisps, cocktail sausages, Cakes, Fruit Salad…etc)….sadly non of it was alcoholic
Nirvana-Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition
Monday 26th September sees the release of the Remastered Nirvana – Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition on Double CD, to celebrate 20 years since this classic album was first released. Here is the Track-listing, plus four awesome tracks from the a;bum courtesy of YouTube
DISC 1
1. Smells Like Teen SpiritÂ
2. In BloomÂ
3. Come As You AreÂ
4. BreedÂ
5. LithiumÂ
6. PollyÂ
7. Territorial PissingsÂ
8. Drain YouÂ
9. Lounge ActÂ
10. Stay AwayÂ
11. On A PlainÂ
12. Something In The WayÂ
13. Even In His YouthÂ
14. AneurysmÂ
15. CurmudgeonÂ
16. D – 7 live at the BBCÂ
17. Been A Son (live)Â
18. School (live)Â
19. Drain You (live)Â
20. Sliver (live)Â
21. Polly (live)Â
DISC 2
1. In Bloom (Smart Studios previously unreleased)Â
2. Immodium (aka Breed Smart Studios previously unreleased)Â
3. Lithium (Smart Studios previously unreleased)Â
4. Polly (Smart Studios previously unreleased mix)Â
5. Pay To Play (Smart Studios)Â
6. Here She Comes Now (Smart Studios)Â
7. Dive (Smart Studios previously unreleased)Â
8. Sappy (Smart Studios previously unreleased)Â
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS)Â
10. Verse Chorus Verse (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
11. Territorial Pissings (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
12. Lounge Act (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
13. Come As You Are (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS)Â
14. Old Age (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
15. Something In The Way (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
16. On A Plain (THE BOOMBOX REHEARSALS previously unreleased)Â
17. Drain You (BBC SESSIONS previously unreleased)Â
18. Something In The Way (BBC SESSIONS previously unreleased)
Severn Valley Railway Autumn Steam Gala 2011
Ivatt Class 4 No 43106 A.K.A “The Flying Pig
“..It’s time to start the music…”
The late great Jim Henson would have celebrated his 75th Birthday on Saturday 24th September, had he not succumbed to the unpleasant effects of Streptococcus Pyrogenes on May 16th 1990.
He is best known as the creator of television programs like The Muppets, Sesame Street, Dinosaurs and Fraggle Rock, as well as his work on films like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar Nominated film director, Emmy Award winning Television Producer and founder of The Jim Henson Company, The Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson’s Creature shop. He was posthumously awarded The Disney Legends Award and also recieved the Courage Concious Award from the Peace Abbey.
I reckon they should do a Swedish Chef cookbook, that would be hilarious
RECIPE FOR COMPLETE CHAOS
- Use live ingredients
- Let the ingredients run amok in the Kitchen
- Chase the vegetables round the kitchen with a Blunderbus
- Shoot at the vegetables
- Let them escape into the theatre
Severn Valley Railway Autumn Steam Gala 2011
This years Annual Severn Valley Railway Autumn Steam Gala takes place between the 23rd 24th and 25th September 2011. Visiting Locomotives this year will be.
- The sole surviving Caledonian Railway, 0-6-0 Class 812 No. 828 Designed by John F McIntosh
- GWR Castle class 5029 Nunney Castle Was due to visit but has been withdrawn and will now be replaced by GWR 5101 clas No 4160 from the West Somerset Railway.
- Â British Rail 9f class 2-10-0 No 92212
- LNER A1 Class No 60163 Tornado in Brunswick Green
- GWR King class no 6024 King Edward
Whilst I was down there I trevelled behind 6024 King Edward going to Highley, and 60163 Tornado coming back. Which was an experience.  n addition The Book Shops at both Bridgnorth and Highley Station were open, a Miniature Railway Layout was running at Hampton Loade Station and the trains were running all Friday Night/Saturday Morning. The Workshop and Boiler Shop at Bridgnorth Station are also open to the public, so visitors had a rare opportunity to see Locomotives which are mid-way through being restored.
Representing the home fleet this year will be locomotives which may include:
- Recently restored GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 Freight locomotive No 2857
- GWR Large Prairie no 5164
- GWR Small Prairie no 4566
- GWR 7812 “Erlestoke Manor”
- Ivatt Class 2 no 46443
- Stanier Mogul no 42968
- Ivatt Class 4 no 43106 (AKA The Flying Pig).
The Engine House, Visitor & Education Centre will also be open at Highley, so visitors will also have a chance to see locomotives such as LMR 2-10-0 no 600 Gordon, GWR 4930 Hagley Hall and Stanier 8f no 48773
It’s the end of the World as we know it
The alternative rock band R.E.M have REcently announced that they are splitting up, which will come as a bit of a shock to many, including me. They first emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene. at first they were scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful, and the development of this sound would one day help them become bona-fide stadium-fillers later on in their their career.
The group – Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry – played their first gig in a church on 5 April 1980 under the name of Twisted Kites, they played a mixture of post-punk poise and jangly guitar which made them seem simultaneously cutting-edge and a romantic reminder of rock’s past and they soon became popular.
Their music was influenced by their small-town surroundings and is closer to real life stating that “It’s great just to bring out an emotion… better to make someone feel nostalgic or wistful or excited or sad.”
Commercially speaking, their breakthrough came when they released the single “The One I Love” which was taken from the 1987 Album “Document”. The next single “Freaks” saw REM outgrow the university centred underground music scene which had so-far sustained them, and they hit the big time, and Their next release 1988’s “Green” was released by a major label and was seen by many as their true peak.
Lyrically, the album saw the band dealing with a number of important issues – World leader Pretend is a deft criticism of the remote ruling classes, while Pop Song ’89 tackles claims the band had sold out by purporting to be, in Stipe’s words, “the prototype of, and hopefully the end of, a pop song”.
The next album “Out of Time” proved to be an even bigger hit. Featuring the career-defining singles Losing My Religion, which some regard to be the touchstone of alternative rock and Shiny Happy People, featuring fellow Athenian Kate Pierson from the B52’s. With this album it seems that The band were aiming to make a massively successful, mainstream record without embarrassing, or compromising, themselves – They certainly succeeded
Michael Stipe’s inner demons also came to the fore In the next album, 1992’s Automatic For The People, which is A more sombre, reflective album that features string arrangements by Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. This album was also to yeild some wonderful songs like “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight” and “Everybody Hurts”
Sidewinder Sleeps tonite
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The band’s next two albums Monster and New Adventures In Hi-Fi were largely recorded live – some tracks taken from soundchecks taken during the massive stadium tour, and featured some new classics, such as Let Me In, a tribute to the recently deceased Kurt Cobain.
Unfortunately drummer Bill Berry suffered a brain aneurysm and quit the band in 1997, and things never quite returned to the giddy heights of “Out of Time” and Moments of brilliance, such as The Great Beyond or Imitation Of Life, became less frequently. Leading some band members to pursue side-projects, Stipe increasingly pusued his film work,while Peter Buck concentrated more on his country supergroup Tired Pony.
Despite this REM continued to be unbeatable live performers to the end and their final album, Collapse Into Now, was hailed, like many of its predecessors, as a return to form. Certainly, the band sounded rejuvenated and a lot more energetic than on some of the previous work which was released in the mid-2000s. In addition They also recently re-released an earlier album “Lifes Rich Pageant” which is also a great album. REM will always remain one of the most influential bands of their generation
Mad ferret!
Liam Gallagher (Former front man of the band Oasis and now front man of Beady Eye) with his own clothing Range called “Pretty Green”, also celebrates his birthday on September 21st, so once more Courtesy of YouTube. (PS You can also find loasds of Oasis songs on this blog by typing Oasis in the search box on the left)
First we Take Manhattan
The Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen was born this day ( 21 September) in 1934 .
Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships.
Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, He possesses a persona frequently associated with mystique, (No not the X-Man character) he is extremely well regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career
To be honest I would rather listen to Leonard’s deep and meaningful lyrics deling with important issues, rather than any number of meaningless bouncy 3 minute bubblegum pop songs.
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