What are you listening to right now?

I saw this band in Canberra in the early 90s - stunning. Still in awe of how the bass player got that sound. A tiny chiquita bass with the strings slack, the pickups preamped up and barely touching the strings to get a note. FREAKY.

Amazed how long a one joke concept band lasted so long.

been on a KLF kick lately

It took me years to track down the White Room - it was namechecked as the first chillout album. Clearly it wasn't. The thing that I find particularly fascinating is Bill Drummond (one half of the KLF) - I had this track on the Creation Soup set - can you see any elements that would become KLF? I coudn't:

I **** you not:

Drummond clearly marches to his own drum, i've heard him interviewed a few times on the BBC he's pretty interesting fellow, one of my favourite stories from his early years

Drummond and another member David Balfe started Zoo Records, their first release being Big in Japan's posthumous EP, From Y To Z and Never Again. They went on to act as both producers and label managers, releasing the debut singles by Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically. This included sending Echo & The Bunnymen on a tour of "bizarre and apparently random sites, including the Northern Isles. "It's not random," said Drummond, speaking as the Bunnymen's manager. "If you look at a map of the world, the whole tour's in the shape of a rabbit's ears."

I thought only Dubuquers said that! haha

I'm listening to Jeff Buckley:

You just reminded me. I was listening to a Best Of The 80's compilation and Fixx came on with Red Skies At Night. The bass sounded like it was 4 piano strings.

I had a lot of time for the Fixx back then - all decent studio musicians, but unlike Toto didn't sellout (so I felt). I use to love 'Stand or Fall' which was released roughly the same time as Split Enz's 'Six months in a leaky boat' the latter was banned by the BBC (a certain member of the royal family was on a ship in the Falklands War), but 'Stand or Fall' was deemed OK - didn't they get the lyrics?




Crying parents tell their children
If you survive don't do as we did
A son exclaims there'll be nothing to do to
Her daughter says she'll be dead with you
While foreign affairs are screwing us rotten
Line morale has hit rock bottom
Dying embers stand forgotten
Talks of peace were being trodden

Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight

Is this the value of our existence
Should we proclaim with such persistence
Our destiny relies on conscience
Red or blue what's the difference

Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight

An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exaltation

Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre

Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight

Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre

PS I spent a lot of time trying to get that bass sound (very new strings, front pickup trebly, back pick up bassy but mixed just right).

Never really succeeded - bought a Korg DW3000 that did it better! Bum.

That said I'm actually listening to (and cataloguing) the George Thorogood Collection....

Watch the vid for the Albert Collins cameo!

This morning, I found out that Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road works much better acoustically---without the heavy electronic artillery on Springsteen's own album. It also benefits from the voice of a woman.

God I love this song

A bit of semi industrial angst

Great song...cheeky lyrics

My little portable is full of 300 best 80's tunes. I had forgotten "Under The Milky Way"...wow!
Steve Kilbey had a great voice and I love the bagpipe solo.
Altogether a brilliant piece of pop.

Definitely the best Church song ever - lovely little descending bassline under the chord progression.

Is there anything I don't have in MP3?