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RolloTreadway · @RolloTreadway
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The this week is: songs by !

Oh, wait, that's not right. Fortunate, really, I'm not that big a fan of The Shadows. Apologies to Hank Marvin. Songs about shadows it is.

Barbara Stant - Shadow In Your Footsteps
youtube.com/watch?v=-zOqd9JuIT
(Majestic soul epic that segues into proto-disco. Should've been a massive hit. Wasn't.)

Tubeway Army - My Shadow In Vain
youtube.com/watch?v=L1XohGWRQS
(Very interesting early Numan song. Feels like the point at which he stepped over from their punk origins to the electronic sound that brought him fame and fortune.)

The Magnetic Fields - Love In The Shadows
youtube.com/watch?v=9AcThp9nlw
(One of the most chilled and dreamy of all the 69 Love Songs, downbeat even. I love the line 'don't smile - we don't do that here'.)

LaBelle - Moon Shadow
youtube.com/watch?v=Q-emBAcQJH
(LaBelle nowadays are almost exclusively known for Lady Marmalade, but they made some very fine funk back in the early 70s.)

The Shadows - Apache
youtube.com/watch?v=7TwULx_wDi
(Okay, go on then. And this connects back to the hiphop history theme we had on Friday, as The Incredible Bongo Band's cover of Apache had a break which was central to early hiphop, widely used by Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa amongst others.)

#thursdayfivelist #theshadows #music #hankmarvin #labelle #themagneticfields #garynuman #barbarastant #funk #soul #newwave

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RolloTreadway · @RolloTreadway
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The theme is , the worst song from a favourite album.

69 Love Songs is a towering achievement, an extraordinary mix of genres and times, full of humour and pathos, cynicism and affection

And yet there must always be a track, especially amongst so many songs, which is a bit of a duffer. To my mind, that's Queen Of The Savages. It has always felt to me a misjudgement, a nod to and wry arched eyebrow at theatrical songwriting either side of the war, that falls rather flat.

None of this takes away from the genius of Stephin Merritt's masterpiece. It's just a misstep.

The Magnetic Fields - Queen Of The Savages
youtu.be/HuXPAAgmFmI

#tunetuesday #bangersandfiller #music #themagneticfields

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I just discovered a new cover version of ’ ‘Long-Forgotten Fairytale’ by Avalon Emerson: avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/tra
It doesn’t add a whole lot to the original, but is worth a repeated listening anyway. Also check out her other stuff.

#themagneticfields

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RolloTreadway · @RolloTreadway
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One more , and a good place to end.

Like many people of a certain age, my first encounter with music on the internet was Napster, way back when. I tried looking for something, I'd recently read about the Magnetic Fields' new 69 Love Songs in the Melody Maker and decided to see if I could find any tracks.

And this is what I found. All these years later, I still listen to the 69 Love Songs more than pretty much any other album.

Plus, I'm kind of chuffed that my first internet song was something so gloriously queer.

youtube.com/watch?v=amy7LoYNIZ

#JukeboxFridayNight #thatfirsttime #music #themagneticfields #69lovesongs

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The Magnetic Fields - I Have the Moon
I Have the Moon - The Magnetic Fields -
soundcloud.com/themagneticfiel

#soundcloud #music #themagneticfields

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Let's go to the 3DBB. · @Dbregernyc
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:

and , Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
, Your Hands (Together)
, Virgo
, What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
, We All Fall Down
, , , Op. 24, TH 5, Act III, Scene 1: Lyubvi vsye vozrasti pokorni (All Ages Succumb to Love)
, Little 18
, Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
, Infatuation (With Your Gyration)

#themagneticfields #chuckwillis #ericmatthews #EugeneOnegin #tchaikovsky #sergeialeksashkin #trolley #jrwalkerandtheallstars #thecourtneys #thenewpornographers #theband #bobdylan #TheMorningLine

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