GENE How Can You Ask For More? Part Two

Please note:

This post will be the last one for some weeks. I have no idea when the internet access will work in our new home - so be patient, please!

...and this is part two - some of the songs really bring tears to my eyes.

GENE - Best Of (CD2)
20 Save Me, I'm Yours
21 Sick, Sober And Sorry
22 Sleep Well Tonight
23 Something In The Water
24 Somewhere In The World
25 Speak To Me Someone
26 Still Can't Find The Phone
27 Stop
28 Supermarket Bombscare
29 The Ship Song
30 Truth, Rest Your Head
31 Walking In The Shallows
32 We Could Be Kings
33 We'll Find Our Own Way
34 Where Are They Now?
35 Who Said This Was The End?
36 You
37 You'll Never Walk Again
38 Yours For The Taking

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Enjoy! And stay SEMPER FIDELIS!

GENE How Can You Ask For More? Part One

This here is part one of my personal 2CD-"BEST OF"-compilation - in alphabetical order to release the songs of the "album-predefined-chronology-setting-emotions".

I really loved GENE and still do. But they definitely had their downs (in terms of songwriting).

I have been to a concert once and it was funny to see Martin Rossiter there as he looks quite like me. (Or the other way round - but I think I was here first!)

GENE - Best Of (CD1)

01 Angel

02 As Good As It Gets

03 Common As Air

04 Drawn To The Deep End

05 Fighting fit

06 For The Dead

07 Her Fifteen Years

08 I Can't Help Myself

09 Is It Over?

10 Let Me Move On

11 Little Child

12 London Can You Wait?

13 Long Sleeves for The Summer

14 Love Won't Work

15 Man On Earth

16 Nightswimming

17 O Lover

18 Olympian

19 Pass On To Me

JACK Pioneer Soundtracks (1996)

This one is a record the massively inspired me especially during the recording of our album back in 1996. I used to sing in a band and I usually listened to JACK on the way to the sessions.

Heavy stuff and incredibly innovative.

Hats off!!!

JACK - Pioneer Soundtracks (1996)

01 ...Of Lights

02 Wintercomessummer

03 White Jazz

04 Biography of a First Son

05 Filthy Names

06 I Didn't Mean It Marie

07 F.U.

08 Dress You in Mourning

09 Hope Is a Liar

Enjoy this and take your time for it!

REDSKINS Live (1994)

I found this one in Edinburgh again, desperately looking for "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" that wasn't even released on cd then.

REDSKINS - Live (1994)

during their Anti-Apartheid Tour 1985/1986.

01 Lean On Me

02 Red's Strike The Blues

03 Hold On

04 Unionise

05 Kick Over The Statues

06 Ninety Nine And A Half Won't Do

07 Take No Heroes

08 Let's Make It Work

09 Keep On Keepin' On

10 It Can Be Done

11 Turnin Loose

12 Plateful Of Hateful

13 Bring It Down

14 Don't Talk To Me About The Weather

15 The Power Is Yours

"A Blogful of Popful!"

THE PEARLFISHERS (with the Tallpop Sinfonia) – Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow – January 1999

Happy New Year, all.

Although I'm quite busy at the moment (about to be moving house very soon) I cannot stand to see my blog lay waste like this although the number of visitors didn't change much without new stuff to be posted.

Funny...

Now this is a rarity and was made possible by MIKE and (in the first place) DAVID SCOTT of course.

Here we go - 2012:

THE PEARLFISHERS (with the Tallpop Sinfonia) – Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow – January 1999

01 Basking Shark

02 Cherry Sky

03 Strawberries in the Snow

04 Everyday Storms

05 An Ordinary Day in the Suburbs

06 Stella Painted Joy

07 Panto Horse

LOVE AND MONEY SPECIAL SHOW

LOVE AND MONEY

The Devil's Debt

Love and Money would like to invite our longstanding fans to an intimate show at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut on Saturday May 5th 2012.

The band will be performing new album The Devil's Debt in it's entirety and will then play some old favourites.. Everyone will then be invited to an aftershow party with the band downstairs in the venue until 1am.

We will be available for photos, the signing of albums, anorak guitar questions, snake charming, tattoos etc.

This is a heartfelt thank you to our most loyal fans who have supported the band for aeons. There are only 300 tickets, procurable from 9am on Saturday 10th December to those of you on the mailing list, James Grant Facebook page and those who log in to jamesgrantsongbook.com. until Monday 12th December.

If you would like to join us, you can secure a ticket by logging on to

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/360047899AC58FD3?did=ukdfc1ps

Tickets are £25(plus whatever ticket agency charges as booking fee..)

LET US ROCK

DOT DASH

My new favourite band and it will be yours too, soon.

To me they do sound very much like BIFF BANG POW only more contemporary. And I think there is nothing that can be more CREATION-like than this - considering that ALAN McGEE, Mr. BIFF BANG POW, founded the CREATION label. (Which is my favourite label besides FONTANA.)

DOT DASH is a post punk pop band from Washington D.C.

If this bio had one of those “RIYL/Recommended If You Like” sections, it might drop names like THE JAM, JOY DIVISION, or THE BYRDS… or perhaps it would bring up an apparent appreciation by Dot Dash for the ancient sounds of the POSTCARD, WHAAM and early CREATION labels…
But those kinds of judgments can really only be made by you, the listener.
As is often the case, Dot Dash has a whole “they are ex-members of” thing going on:
Guitarist/singer Terry Banks and bassist Hunter Bennett were in punky power poppers JULIE OCEAN.
Before that, Terry was in a bunch of jangly guitar bands, including THE SATURDAY PEOPLE, TREE FORT ANGST, GLO-WORM and ST. CHRISTOPHER.Guitarist Bill Crandall was in the mod/pop band MODEST PROPOSAL.
Drummer Danny Ingram began musical life in Dischord-label punks YOUTH BRIGADE before moving on to STRANGE BOUTIQUE and, later, U.K. guitar-wranglers SWERVEDRIVER.
Dot Dash plays shows, mostly around D.C., but occasionally out of town, whenever they can. In the recent past they’ve opened for Urge Overkill, The Godfathers, The Trash Can Sinatras, and The Capstan Shafts, among others.

SPARK>FLAME>EMBER>ASH is released by Canadian indie label The Beautiful Music.

Have a listen and love DOT DASH with me:

I'm Going Home.m4a

Check them on YouTube:

DOT DASH - There And Back Again Lane

Check out their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/dotdashdc

BURT BACHARACH Prince Of Melodies Pt.2

Yes I know.
It was obvious. There was a part 1, there has to be AT LEAST a part 2.
Oh you profound thinkers...
And to cut a long story short... here is

BURT BACHARACH CD2
01 The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
02 Do You Know The Way To San Jose? - Dionne Warwick
03 Something Big - Burt Bacharach
04 South American Getaway - Burt Bacharach
05 Promises, Promises - Burt Bacharach
06 Pacific Coast Highway - Burt Bacharach
07 The Girl's In Love With You - Dionne Warwick
08 Alfie - Dionne Warwick
09 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - B.J. Thomas
10 The Sundance Kid - Burt Bacharach
11 Long Ago Tomorrow - Burt Bacharach
12 I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick
13 Close To You - The Carpenters
14 Make It Easy On Yourself - Burt Bacharach
15 One Less Bell To Answer - Burt Bacharach
16 Living Together, Growing Together - Burt Bacharach
17 Knowing When To Leave - Burt Bacharach
18 Odds And Ends - Dionne Warwick
19 Hasbrook Heights - Burt Bacharach
20 God Gave Me Strength - Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello

When I got this compilation there was hardly anything else I wanted to listen to.
Enjoy as much as I do!