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Message 1.Β
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
Helpo,
Blast, there it is again.
August the 31st is a bank holiday where I am so to celebrate I'm inviting 1 million people to go and dance in the streets about half a mile from where I live.
I'm also proposing we do a Mainland Europe Music special where every record and possibly some of the sessions come from bands and artistes from countries on/in mainland europe. Don't ask me where this leaves Iceland but Sicily and Crete are definitely in. And Corsica. And the faroe Islands.
Anyway, for it to work we need your suggestions and you can leave them here.
Thanks as ever,
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Message 2
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
August the 31st is a bank holiday where I am so to celebrate I'm inviting 1 million people to go and dance in the streets about half a mile from where I live.Β so long as you don't post it on Facebook or elsewhere on the interrent...
From Germany, Rheingold's "Dreiklangsdimensionen" and La DΓΌsseldorf's "White Overalls".
From France, MC Solaar's "Le Nouveau Western" featuring a sample of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot!
From Finland, anything from the marvellous album "Mateli" by Liisa Matveinen and Tellu Virkkala.
For a little light relief, from the Netherlands, "Hocus Pocus" by Focus!Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
I'm also proposing we do a Mainland Europe Music special where every record and possibly some of the sessions come from bands and artistes from countries on/in mainland europe. Don't ask me where this leaves Iceland but Sicily and Crete are definitely in. And Corsica. And the faroe Islands.Β
Well as far as Iceland goes - I'm voting them in just because they're not that far away (and hey, we've probably got a bit of Icelandic blood in us from all the raids over the centuries).
And we have -
Sigur Ros
Bjork
Emiliana Torrini, and finally
Hafdis Huld (recently talking ten to the dozen on Mr Rileydjs show)
So you've just got to include Iceland
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Message 4
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
And they were using that "Hoppy Puddle" song to advertise the French(?) countryside!
Then there's Mezzoforte.
Everyone in Iceland must be in a band! I suppose that now the banks have crashed, there's only being in a band, fishing or being in Lazytown which are Iceland's main pursuits...
...I would love to be put right. I can't even spell ΓΓΎrΓ³ttaΓ‘lfurinn (Sportacus)...Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 5
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
So it's THE FINAL COUNTDOWN for suggesting songs from EUROPE is it?
I can't think of anything.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 6
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
I always preferred "Carrie" to be honest.
That said, if they played that song live it could prove to be a recipe for disaster...
Soft Metal ballad + audience with lighters + heavily lacquered poodle perms = the Towering Inferno.
Can you put me down for both versions of "First Aid Kit"? Both the Swedish and Spanish bands of the same name are well worth playing if you get the chance.
Also, would it be too obvious a choice if I asked you to play some Abba? I always loved "The Day Before You Came" and can't believe how under-played and under-appreciated it is.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 7
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
i'd like to hear stina nordenstam. not little star though, dig deep.
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Message 8
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
Ah, Sweden! The Stranglers sang it was the only country where the clouds are interesting, and the Rude Kids sang "if itΒ΄s quiet why donΒ΄t you play"...
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Message 9
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
And they were using that "Hoppy Puddle" song to advertise the French(?) countryside!Β It's the RSPB.
Quite ironic, being exhirted to save the British habitat by an Icelandic tune...Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 10
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
..exhirted? Too much Alpine Armstrong armchair action for me, I'm afraid...
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Message 11
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
I'd like to push the definition of this evening by suggesting a record from 'The Isis Project' as put together by Guy Chambers, Keren Ann and Sophie Hunter, it's in French.
Do you no longer wear green jerseys, Gideon, just t-shirts featuring winged insects these days? I'm sure we can rally round get you something knitted.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 12
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Thursday, 23rd July 2009
I'd like to push the definition of this evening by suggesting a record from 'The Isis Project' as put together by Guy Chambers, Keren Ann and Sophie Hunter, it's in French.Β
Using the same logic, let's have something from "OΓΉ est la maison de fromage?" by John Cooper Clarke. Is the "Daily Express" one too rude?
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Message 13
Posted by QuirkedOut (U13109566) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Bit of quality 80s German goth from Xmal Deutschland, please.
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Message 14
Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Friday, 24th July 2009
On a German tip, how about some DAF from the 80s and The Panacea or Cativo from the 90s?
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Message 15
Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Finland.....Laika & the Cosmonauts (surf music!), the Micragirls, Tik Tak (Heilutaan for choice), Leningrad Cowboys, Bitch Alert.
France...Les Negresses Vertes, Indochine, Telephone, Louise Attaque, Les Wangs (more surf)
Poland....Hey
Norway...Briskeby
I need to go and have a look at the "abroad" collection.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 16
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Bit of quality 80s German goth from Xmal Deutschland, please.Β Agreed, the best compromise beteween "total weirdo Germans from Hamburg" and "Fuzzbox-makeover English-singing pop tarts" being "Viva" - "Matador" being the stand-out track.
I make this choice because:
1) the compact disc is Japanese import only, I think, making this LP at Β£40 the second most expensive I have (after the gatefold Kraftwerk double album) so there's a challenge for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ;
2) when you get the vocal "Fortune is capricious" you can get all the dogs on the street to join in with Anja Huwe as she intones "Lau-ow-owww-nisch ist das GlΓΌck!"
I have never established where x-mal deutschland got their name. However, I do have the book X-mal Deutschland "Umpteen times Germany" by Rudolf Walter Leinhardt (EuropΓ€ischer Buchklub, 1963?) which mentions a series of travel books, "Panoramas of the modern world" with different sketches of life in different countries, e.g. "48 times America", "77 times England", "18 times Italy", "19 times Europe" and "3 times Scandinavia".
Hence "Umpteen times Germany" with endpapers showing Germany in her 1937 borders including East Germany and those parts now in Poland and Russia, though the chapters are based in West Germany.
I have just established that it was published in English as "This Germany: the story since the Third Reich."
sample:
"The Germans find themselves in the same position as the French, the English, cats, or tobacco," aphorises author Leonhardt. "To be hated for the right reasons is not always pleasant, but to be loved for the wrong ones can be downright embarrassing." (source: TIME magazine)
Did Anja Huwe have a copy of the book at home?
I must re-read it now!
Of course, the Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) marks the (only?) high point of German pop IMHO but, as it's old hat now, yet another future that's behind us.
"EisbΓ€r" (Polar Bear - as in I want to be one, then everything would be OK, bears don't cry) by Grauzone would be good...Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 17
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 24th July 2009
I do have the book X-mal Deutschland "Umpteen times Germany" by Rudolf Walter Leinhardt (EuropΓ€ischer Buchklub, 1963?)Β
that's LEONHARDT above...sorry...I reviewed that post six times. If I write them in Word first, Word has a tendency to crash!
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Message 18
Posted by QuirkedOut (U13109566) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Tolhurst - good to hear someone else remembers, though I'm more fond of the noisy 4AD stuff myself. Double points to gid if he can track down any of the pre-4AD German releases.
Did you spot that Bruce Dickinson played session versions of Sickle Moon & Ocean on last week's Classic Rock Sequence? It's at for a few more hours.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 19
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Did you spot that Bruce Dickinson played session versions of Sickle Moon & Ocean on last week's Classic Rock Sequence?Β No, I didn't.
Thanks. Listening to it now.
Incidentally, the Firefox spellcheck just involves downloading a dictionary off the interrent. All your post appeared misspelt because I was using a German dictionary! :doh:
Curiously enough, the spellcheck has none of the following words: Firefox, spellcheck, interrent!Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 20
Posted by jcafcwbb (U10391343) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Can we make sure we have Hotellounge by the wonderful Belgians dEUS?
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Message 21
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 24th July 2009
Thank you so much, QuirkedOut. (no spellcheck suggestions for you).
That one programme is packed with meaty morsels including Focus doing a Merry Christmas Hocus Pocus (see above Netherlands suggestion) together with "how to pronounce Thijs" (I used to think "Tidge-is" but, using more recent experience of reading Dutch, went for "Tice"). Like Bob Harris did. It being how you say it.
And Placebo's "Teenage Angst", the track resembling a bloke tuning up a bass guitar on a crashing Jumbo Jet, which once made me buy the entire back catalogue of Ride expecting it to be on there.
Listening again to "Ozean" (after 1'40" - available now for a few hours only) I realise why I hold this to be the best period of the band I love (since 6pm today) to call XMD. You couldn't sample or cover it and make any changes without spoiling it, e.g. after the rolling surge and ebb of "HΓΆ-ΓΆ-ΓΆ-ΓΆrst du, hΓΆ-ΓΆ-ΓΆ-ΓΆrst du, es in der Tie-fe? FΓΌr immer" you have just *got* to have "rat-tat-tat"...
(...whereas with My Bloody Valentine, "rat-tat-tat" is the sound of an album starting up, but you know you'll not hear anything as clear as that from them ever again...)
Ozean! what a track! Vocals, keyboard, and lead guitar each hammering out a separate, self-contained strand, harmonising and sometimes uniting. Like Magazine. Why don't we hear stuff this good from modern bands?
...incidentally, the words to "Ozean" are not fully available. Searching either for "lyrics" or for "Songtext" I find the same incomplete version ignoring the final "Ebb and Flow" moments...
"Ai rΓΆn aoueh ΓΆnde kΓΆwΓΆ ov se nait" - I'd forgotten the English lyrics on "Viva" TBH...
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Message 22
Posted by HerrLehmann (U13941393) on Wednesday, 29th July 2009
Hi thread,
Here are some of my suggestions:
Neigungsgruppe Sex, Gewalt und gute Laune (AUT) "Luada" - splendid cover of a song I cannot remember the original title. this great band brings back the austrian tradition of songs full of dejection and melancholy. hmmmm.
Ton Steine Scherben (GER) "Schritt fΓΌr Schritt ins Paradies" - Band during the squatter and student protest era in Berlin in the 70's.
Element of Crime (GER) "Kavallerie" - just good
Die Γrzte (GER) - "Junge" slowly ageing punk rock legends, but still heaps better than Die Toten Hosen.
Plus some french flavour:
Francoise Hardy, Jaques Dutronc, Air
Good timing of the show - will be my first day on european soil since almost a year.
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Message 23
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Wednesday, 29th July 2009
Ton Steine Scherben (GER) "Schritt fΓΌr Schritt ins Paradies" - Band during the squatter and student protest era in Berlin in the 70's.Β May I say, HerrLehmann, how much I appreciate a West Berlin suggestion from a famous inhabitant of Berlin SO36?
Berlin SO36:
Herr Lehmann:
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Message 24
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Wednesday, 29th July 2009
Sweden is well represented - Wannadies, Komeda, The Tiny, Cloudberry Jam and numerous others.
There is a band from Sicily called Samson & The Phillistines who do an (italian) cover of "talk about the passion"
Holland has Bettie Seveert and Daryll-Ann
are Mew Swedish or Norwegian? and who was that scando band who did a really good cover of "Annie's Song"?
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Message 25
Posted by snuffles_badger (U11106710) on Thursday, 30th July 2009
And Dungen please! Although by looks of things, Sweden look like they've plenty of representatives for this theme night already.
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Message 26
Posted by HerrLehmann (U13941393) on Thursday, 30th July 2009
yes indeed, tolhurst!
A movie with more wisdom and honest truth (and beer - is there a connection?) is hard to find these days. And great music too!Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 27
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Thursday, 30th July 2009
As for Austria, there must be more than Falco and Opus. Surely!
though DJ Γtzi (Oetzi), with "Hey Baby", has surely produced the Oktoberfest's greatest hit,
Slovenia give us Laibach (Ljubljana in German) but not, I fear, Orinoco Flo and the Ptuj Wombles from Hell...
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Message 28
Posted by NorthernLight27 (U14086993) on Thursday, 30th July 2009
Excellent theme for your show!
Sweden have already been mentioned as well represented. I'd like to add a few more good Swedish bands to the mix:
1. Sambassadeur
Anything from their 'Subtle Changes' album, or the gorgeous 'Between The Lines' from their debut album - or even better, the wonderful 'Marie' from their Coastal Affairs ep?
2. The Concretes/ Peter Bjorn and John
Anything from the Victoria-era Concretes
3. Air France
Collapsing at Your Doorstep - lovely summery dancey song
4. The Knife/ Fever Ray
Really, pretty much anything from the Knife or Karin would be great.
5. I'm From Barcelona
We're from Barcelona always a goodie
6. Jens Lekman
Black Cab or Your Arms Around me would be great - but again, anything would be good.
7. Those Dancing Days
Run Run a fun song..
A bit of Club8, The Radio Dept, Acid House Kings perhaps also. More well-known: Cardigans, Wannadies, The Hives.
Satying on the scandinavian front - Mew are Danish, as i think are the Raveonettes ('Love in a Trashcan' would get my vote if you were to play some of them!!)
Songs from other countries to follow. Won't be quite as many as for Sweden, but a few nonetheless..Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 29
Posted by NorthernLight27 (U14086993) on Thursday, 30th July 2009
Some German bands;
1. Lali Puna
Anything from the wonderful 'Faking the Books' would be fabulous ('Call 1-800 Fear', 'B-Movie, perhaps?)
2. Wir Sind Helden
Something from their 'Von Hier An Blind' album, perhaps?
3. Psapp
Anything from their wonderful album 'The camel's back' would be great. Or anything else from their back catalogue, for that matter.
4. Stereo Total
Everybody in Discotheque (I Hate) would be fun to play, perhaps?
5. Nico
Love, love, love 'These Days', but plenty to choose from there!
Maybe delve into older German bands, perhaps Krautrock (if so, then Hallogallo by Neu! please!), or even Kraftwerk?Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 30
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Friday, 31st July 2009
If Neu!, maybe "Negativland" (or can your modern self-balancing equipment cope with "Cassetto" without making it play at a uniform speed?)
The lyric to "Hero" says "Mother went to *Norway*" which may be appropriate for the show.
"Neuschnee" is a lovely tune, no wobbly cassette effects, and quite short.
Then there's Italy's Giorgio Moroder - "From Here to Eternity".
Or Vangelis from Greece (but without co-founder of his band (Aphrodite's Child) Demis Roussos, please!) "Chariots of Fire" or the less-obvious, but beautiful, "Long March"...Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 31
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Friday, 31st July 2009
From the Swedish contingent I was going to suggest The Tiny, but layaboutlaurence has beaten me to it. Now there's a band you never hear on the radio.
I've done some research - even more extensive than Gideon's recent investigations into the Pernice Brothers' doings, which is to say that I went to the extent of checking Myspace - and I've found that there's a new Tiny album in the offing. But in the meantime, it would be good to hear something from the last release.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 32
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Friday, 31st July 2009
The Tiny rock, in a very small way. i hope they come over and tour the new album. for those who don't know, Ellakari, the singer, did the backing vocals for Ed Harcourt's "loneliness". he returned the compliment for their "sorry".
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Message 33
Posted by Ade Brown (U9691169) on Sunday, 2nd August 2009
Northerners:
The Wannadies. The Cardigans. Aha. Mum.
Royksopp. Kings of Convenience (and perhaps some Oye Oye, Erland Oye)
As ever another vote for Leningrad Cowboys.
FriewilligeSelbtsKontrolle (aka FSK) recorded some splendid sessions, given the eurotheme, "I wish I could sprechen sie Deutsch" would suit.
Southerners:
Manu Chao. Mano Negra. Serge Gainsbourg.
SoKo's "I'll Kill Her" since it's after the watershed..
Amparanoia.
Fennesz. Air.
And of course, Bertrand, P.
Eastern:
Mahala Rai Banda, Fanfare Ciocarlina,
and of course something from the 4AD Bulgarian choir collection.
The band that got me interested in the Balkan sound is Gogol Bordello (perhaps technically american).
In a similar vein, German/Russian sorts Rotfront (Emigrantski Raggamuffin Kollektiv) are worth checking out. Not least as they seem to have covered "Those Were The Days" in a Two Tone fusion stylee.
And as Eurovision rules allow Israel, Balkan Beat Box would grace any European evening.
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Message 34
Posted by QuirkedOut (U13109566) on Sunday, 2nd August 2009
Eurovision rules, you say? Israeli entrants? In that case, Israel's HaMachshefot(The Witches)- and bend the rules further to allow one overseas player, and inlcude their cover of Boys Next Door's "Shivers", with Nick Cave on backing vocals.
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Message 35
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Sunday, 2nd August 2009
"I wish I could sprechen sie Deutsch"Β (from memory)"with your danke schΓΆn, bitte schΓΆn, Wiedersehen, noch ein Bier, kommen Sie hier, ein groΓer, ein kleiner, I nix verstehn, I wish I could sprechen sie deutsch!"
I bought an album by FSK in Trier once. Prophets and own country and all that stuff...
If we have Eurovision rules, that means anyone we like can sing for Luxembourg! or Norway will be represented by the inimitable Jahn Teigen... then Russia or Turkey will win...
Or can we all shout NO SUGAR! (bez secera) with Serbia's Riblja Corba and "Nemoj Sreco, Nemoj Danas"
I used to think "Nemoj Sreco, Nemoj Danas" meant "No Fun, No Future" but I was told it meant "No Sweet Lurving Today" (Please, I'm Serbian")
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Message 36
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Sunday, 2nd August 2009
Ade - Damn you! I'd totally forgotten about SoKo. Good call. I'd happily listen to just about anything she's recorded.
"The Dandy Cowboys" is also great but I have to agree with you that "I'll Kill Her" is pretty special. "I'll Never Love You More" might run it a close second.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 37
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Sunday, 2nd August 2009
Given the theme, how could I forget Jean Jacques Burnel's "Euroman Cometh?"
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Message 38
Posted by NorthernLight27 (U14086993) on Monday, 3rd August 2009
Probably Numerous Options from France:
1. Nouvelle Vague
Just Can't Get Enough, Guns of Brixton, The Forest
2. MC Solaar
Already mentioned, I think. My vote goes to Obsolet.
3. Autour De Lucie
Probably too obscure! 'L'Accord Parfait' is a nice one.
4. M83
Pretty popular, by all accounts
5. Sebastian Tellier
As Eurovision has already been mentioned, how about his Euro entry 'Divine'.?
6. Stereolab
Tenuous, but worth a punt!
7. Daft Punk/ Air
8. Keren Ann
Midi Dans le Salon.. gets my vote..
9 Yann Tiersen
Any of his film music - has also done good stuff with Neil Hannon.
10 Camille
Anything from her Le Fil/ Music Hole albums..
More mainstream stuff, but still cultish - the wonderful Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigite Bardot, Carla Bruni.
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Message 39
Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Monday, 3rd August 2009
Ooooo.....loved their Dead Kennedys cover. Gonnae play that?
Thought not.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 40
Posted by HerrLehmann (U13941393) on Tuesday, 4th August 2009
have we had Russia (or USSR) yet?
Would be great to hear Vladimir Vissotski on the show.
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Message 41
Posted by RichardW (U1168137) on Thursday, 6th August 2009
A French band called Les Valentino had a gorgeous jangly, Johnny Marr type guitar tune called 'Mon Etoile', from an album of the same name, back in '87 - well worth a dig out.....
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Message 42
Posted by Terry (U13723562) on Wednesday, 12th August 2009
Laibach Γ’β¬β Life is Life
Yello Γ’β¬β The Race
Paolo Conte Γ’β¬β Sparring Partner
anything by Manu Chao
regards,
Terence Baker
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Message 43
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Wednesday, 12th August 2009
Given Renato's recent sad demise, would it be a step too far to ask for RenΓ©e and Renato's classic "Save Your Love"?
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Message 44
Posted by steph1966 (U14100600) on Wednesday, 12th August 2009
Not sure I would add Carla Bruni to the list... unless this is about Eurotrash...
For France I would add Dominique A (le 22 bar or Dans un camion)
I haven't seen anything from the Netherlands: can I suggest the Nits: Adieu Sweet Bahnhof or Nescio
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Message 45
Posted by mattkitson (U13865143) on Thursday, 13th August 2009
I think someone mentioned Bob Hund on the show a week or so back; as top Swedish popsters they really should get an outing, if only to introduce the duffing massive to their wonders.
I can heartily recommend the "Jag rear ut min sjΓ€l! Allt skall bort!!!" album (I can lend it to you if you need as well), with 'Det Γ€r nu det bΓΆrjar' a particular favourite track.
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Message 46
Posted by NorthernLight27 (U14086993) on Thursday, 13th August 2009
What a mean-spirited and actually ill-informed comment about Carla Bruni.
If you think that Carla Bruni's music is Eurotrash, then you maybe haven't listened to her first album in particular. Regardless of your taste in music, and whether it is your cup of tea, Eurotrash it most categorically is not.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 47
Posted by SidewaysHeart (U14109055) on Thursday, 20th August 2009
Great idea for a show, mainland Europe is underrated as a source of musical goodness. Personal suggestions would be:
Belgium:
Anything by the fantastic Deus, but especially Instant Street (album not single version to include extended outro).
Failing that, Too Many DJ's (I heard a great session/live version of this on 6 music a year or so ago) or NY Excuse by Soulwax, or My Bond with you and your planet: Disco!, by Zita Swoon.
Denmark:
Anything by Mew, maybe Comforting Sounds or Zookeepers Boy.
Or, something by the Raveonettes (Beat City, that Great Love Sound)
Switzerland:
Don't think anyone's suggested Switzerland yet, but I'd go for something by The Young Gods, like Skinflowers.
Sweden:
Pretty well served here, personal preferences would be Fever Ray - When I grow Old (or anything else by Fever Ray/Knife) or the Comeback - Shout out Louds
Iceland:
Skip the obvious ones and go for Mugison - I Want You
Norway:
Motorpsycho - Custer's Last Stand
Spain:
As an alternative to Manu Chao - Na En La nevera by Ojos de Brujo
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Message 48
Posted by SolarSister (U11088749) on Thursday, 20th August 2009
Well, seconded to whoever mentioned Louise Attaque - the Breton Pogues. Never heard them on the radio and they are great. La Brune maybe? They were being played in a bar in Paris and I asked who they were, looked for their record for ages and finally found it in a charity shop in Parsons Green.
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Message 49
Posted by brownsauce (U2503657) on Monday, 24th August 2009
Now hang on there just a cotton pickin' minute, weren't we promised an hour of sixties ga-rahge on August Bank Holiday night?! and an hour of American Roots too? I'm all for the music of mainland Europe but feel a little disenfranchised by Gid's somewhat lacklustre ability to keep to his word. Sort it out Mr Coe or there'll be a letter to Roger Bolton dragging your name through the mud.
By way of small compensation can I suggest something by the very good sixties garage band The Monks, the members of which were all American but they were based in Germany.
If not how about something from one of the In K raut compilations? Body Building by The Orchestra Werner Muller springs to mind.
I'll also second the Jens Lekman tip, a much underplayed, undervalued artist, Night Falls Over Kortedala is a genius piece of work, anything from that album would do nicely.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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Message 50
Posted by brownsauce (U2503657) on Monday, 24th August 2009
PS, I had to leave a gap between the K and the Raut of K raut cos this message board don't allow that word.
PPS, Oh How To Do Now or There She Walks are good MOnks songs, like.Link to this forum: At last - the Mainland Europe Music Thread
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