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Temporary secretary sounds so much like a Squeeze song! Hilarious

hutch wrote:
a Squeeze song! Hilarious

there's a band that has an incredible cannon, but they don't get lauded much at all.  Is it that the didn't influence anyone? Was it their 80s era?
I saw them headline a show at Nassau Coliseum and a few years later at the stone balloon in Delaware (slightly smaller than the black cat) and don't even think the filled the place. I thought the show at the club only a few years ago was fantastic

New order - waiting for the sirens call


I wrote this album off initially but over the years it’s become a favorite….now I like it more than get ready, and of course the putrid republic …with better sequencing it could have been a classic album…they had like 10 more songs from these sessions 8 of which are on lost sirens…Hellbent for example is a banger….

It’s a weird album culled from sessions with four different producers including big ones they had not worked with likw Stephen Street (smiths), John Leckie (roses)!!!!

It’s pretty clear they like Stuart Price best cause they used him on Music Complete and Stephen Street least cause the Lost Sirens stuff I think is mostly his… I forget what the autobiographical stuff from Sumner, Hooky and Morris says. And really Hooky does some great stuff on this album…stretches a bit. God I love this band. If they come back to the US I gotta follow them a bit

Fantastic

RYM: 4515

Fantastic

One of the great tango pianists with one of the great tango singers. I am not entirely clear when this was recorded but this particular lp which may be a padded reissue of music from the 50s was released in 1970.

On repeat

Saint Etienne x Confidence Man - Brand New Me

fantastic pop song along with fun Scooby-Doo inspired video, if it was a domestic 12" single I'd buy it for sure.

https://youtu.be/_HzZhhXzN48

Anyone heard the low military flyover about half an hour ago!?

hutch wrote:
Anyone heard the low military flyover about half an hour ago!?

Welcoming a prime minister and interrupting the Epstein conference

Nice one…glad they resissued the LP a few years a go.

Saint Etienne - International

:'(

Find of the week!

not only is it Bandcamp Friday which means countless recommendations on bluesky,  it's another fantastic day of new releases worthy of hearing for the first time via your streaming service of choice…

Saint Etienne, Curtis Harding, El Michels Affair, Red Rum Club, Suede and a bunch of others…

The  El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports album is sounding great lots of vintage keyboards and the like

kosmo wrote:
The  El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports album is sounding great lots of vintage keyboards and the like

can confirm

kosmo wrote:
Saint Etienne - International

:'(

if you are going to go out make sure it's a glorious pop music album! One reviewer said "But whatever happens, Saint Etienne want you to remember them not just the pop album of the year but with the pop album of all our lives.'"

this as well

Electropop’s best older brother Vince Clarke manages to showreel his entire career highlights package into the superb ‘Two Lovers’. The sort of genuinely perfect chart-topper-esque romper that Clarke knocks out in his sleep

for the hutch's of the world there are US retailers carrying it and I just found someone selling the Saint Etienne x Confidence domestically


https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/saint-etienne-international-review/

Besides the Confidence Man collaboration there is track done with Nick Heyward

Found the 12” for one of my favorite songs!!!


Kirsty never forgotten never equaled
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