Bought a few cds this week...a mixed bag.
Monday was pretty exciting as the new Alabama 3 record was released. The new stuff they played live in July had sounded great, but the record is underwhelming. I did say that about the last few albums, and they inevitable grew on me, so I hope the same will happen with M.O.R. A lot of it sounds like very mediocre Rolling Stones, there's less wit and too much of Larry Love's 60 B&H a day growling vocals. I'll stick with it, might improve when I am disequilibriated.
About as far removed from Alabama 3 as it would be possible to imagine are Amiina, who are four Icelandic ladies who, judging by their LP sleeve, are very keen on knitting. They've played previously with Sigur Ros, about whom I know very little, but this record is terrific - a late night listen.
Then there's the recent Ted Chippington box set, on a recommendation from Graham...four CDs of walking down the road meeting blokes. I remember Ted being played on the Peel show in the 80's, and his single 'Rockin With Rita', which as far as I can tell isn't on this box...Taking deadpan mundanity to new levels...
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Rockin with Rita is on YouTube I found this on the Nightingales site -
Rockin' With Rita by 'The Vindaloo Summer Special', (The 'Gales/Ted Chippington and Fuzzbox) The idea being that WEA could get Fuzzbox and Ted popular anyhow but didn't know how to get the 'Gales 'anywhere'. We did a Cramps style 'Rita' on a Peel session and Rob Dickens at WEA heard it, made some comment at how my guitar playing reminded him of his own low standard and hit upon the idea of a novelty record. All backfired nicely. We made a video on Blackpool pleasure beach on a day off from the Vindaloo tour. (Made by The comic Strip team, i think, and starring/scarring the then Chelsea player Pat Nevin). The subsequent industrial dispute from TV technicians, meant no videos were shown at all on TV for a while in the summer of 86. So that put paid to that.
But I also found this - href= "http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-EFwScMEU&mode=related&search=">She Loves You - Ted on Pebble Mill.
thanks for that!
splendid clip of Rockin With Rita - I had quite forgotten that it wasn't cedited to Ted on his own, but was a shared release with Fuzzbox and the Nightingales.
Just the thing to come home to after a tedious day at work.
You've probably spotted it by now, but there's a live Rockin with Rita half way through side 2 of Man In A Suitcase (disc 3).
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