Friday, January 18, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Jethro Tull / club special edition
JETHRO TULL
LINK: Club special edition
1. Sweet Dream
2. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
3. Bouree
4. Fat Man
5. My Sunday Feeling
6. Reasons For Waiting
7. Witch's Promise
8. A New Day Yesterday
9. A Song For Jeffrey
10. Look Into The Sun
11. Nothing Is Easy .
RE-UPLOADED
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Orange juice /The best of orange juice
LINK:The best of orange juice
01 - falling and laughing
02 - consolation prize
03 - you old eccentric
04 - l.o.v.e. love
05 - felicity
06 - in a nutshell
07 - rip it up
08 - i can't help myself
09 - flesh of my flesh
10 - tenterhook
11 - bridge
12 - the day i went down to texas
13 - punch drunk
14 - a place in my heart
15 - a sad lament
16 - lean period
17 - i guess i am a little to sensitive
18 - scaremonger
19 - the artisans
20 - salmon fishing in new york
21 - what presence_
22 - out for the count
Orange Juice (band)
| Orange Juice | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Post-punk, New Wave, sophisti-pop |
| Years active | 1979–1985, 2008 |
| Labels | Postcard, Polydor, Domino |
| Past members | |
| Edwyn Collins James Kirk David McClymont Steven Daly |
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the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics (named after a cheap brand of guitar) with his
school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band
called The Machetes. The band became Orange Juice in 1979. They are best known for the hit "Rip It
Up", which reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1983, the band's only UK Top 40 hit.
Members
The original Orange Juice line-up was:- Edwyn Collins (born 23 August 1959, Edinburgh) – guitar / vocals / songwriting
- James Kirk – guitar / vocals / songwriting
- David McClymont – bass guitar
- Steven Daly – drums / percussion
Career
The band released their first singles during 1981 on the independent Postcard Records label founded byAlan Horne, along with fellow Scottish bands Josef K and Aztec Camera. Shortly afterwards this line-up
signed to Polydor Records and recorded their first album, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever. However,
internal tensions led to Kirk and Daly leaving in early 1982 (they would go on to form a short-lived band
called Memphis), and for the next two album releases the core line-up was: Collins and McClymont with
Malcolm Ross on guitar, vocals and keyboards, and Zeke Manyika on drums. By early 1984, Ross and
McClymont had left the band leaving a core line-up of Collins and Manyika who recorded Orange Juice's
final album, The Orange Juice, with Clare Kenny and Johnny Britten. It was produced by Dennis Bovell.
The band's only Top 40 hit, "Rip It Up" was achieved with the aid of the synthesizer – it was the first hit to use
the Roland TB-303.[5] While the group has long dispersed, members remain active in their separate and
diverse fields (including travel writing). At least two greatest hits albums are available. Domino Records have
recently gained the rights to the group's catalogue and was reissued in 2010.
The final touring line up was: Edwyn Collins (guitar and vocals), Zeke Manyika (drums and vocals), Paul
Heard (bass) and long time sound engineer Steve Skinner (guitar and vocals). Orange Juice's final gig was at a
Miner's Benefit concert at Brixton Academy in January 1985. It was at this show that Collins announced the
band was splitting up and performed "Rock and Roll I Gave You the Best Years of my Life".
Discography
Studio albums
- You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (UK No.21) – March 1982
- Rip It Up (UK No.39) – November 1982
- Texas Fever (UK No.34) – March 1984
- The Orange Juice – November 1984
Singles
- 1980 – "Falling and Laughing" (UK Indie Chart No.48)
- 1980 – "Blue Boy" (UK Indie Chart No.15)
- 1980 – "Simply Thrilled Honey" (UK Indie Chart No.5)
- 1981 – "Poor Old Soul" (UK Indie Chart No.5)
- 1981 – "Wan Light" (scheduled on Postcard Records but never released)
- 1981 – "L.O.V.E. Love" (UK No.65)
- 1982 – "Felicity" (UK No.63)
- 1982 – "Two Hearts Together" (UK No.60)
- 1982 – "I Can't Help Myself" (UK No.42)
- 1983 – "Rip It Up" (UK No.8)
- 1983 – "Flesh of My Flesh" (UK No.41)
- 1984 – "Bridge" (UK No.67)
- 1984 – "What Presence" (UK No.47)
- 1984 – "Lean Period" (UK No.74)
Compilations
- 1984 – In a Nutshell
- 1992 – The Esteemed – The Very Best of Orange Juice (featuring Edwyn Collins)
- 1992 – Ostrich Churchyard – the CD release of the previously unreleased debut Orange Juice album
- for Postcard Records ('The Sound of Young Scotland'), along with a John Peel Session, and, on the
- Japanese issue, a bonus BBC Radio 1 session track, "Wan Light".
- 1993 – The Heather's on Fire – the other CD release by Orange Juice on Postcard Records, this
- collection brings the first four singles together with some more radio sessions and, on the Scottish
- version, a NuSonics (pre-Orange Juice) cover of the New York Dolls song "Who Are The Mystery
- Girls?".
- 2005 – The Glasgow School – a compilation of Postcard-era tracks – named "Reissue of the Year"
- for 2005 by Britain's Uncut magazine.
- 2010 – Coals To Newcastle – an almost exhaustive box-set anthology of all Orange Juice's
- previously released and unreleased output, released through Domino Records.
The Specials
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LINK: The best of specials
Bit rate : 320 kps
A message to you Rudy
Blank expression
Concrete jungle
Do the dog
Enjoy yourself
I can't stand it
Little bitch
Maggie's farm
Man at C & A
Monkey man
Nite klub
Rat race
Rude boys outa jail
Too much too young
War crimes
Why
The Specials
| The Specials | |
|---|---|
The Specials performing at Brixton Academy, London, May 2009 as part of their 30th anniversary tour. |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Coventry, England |
| Genres | 2 Tone, ska, New Wave |
| Years active | 1977–1984, 1996–2001, 2008–present |
| Labels | 2 Tone, Chrysalis, Virgin, Kuff |
| Associated acts | Fun Boy Three, The Spatial AKA Orchestra, The Specials MK2, The Skabilly Rebels |
| Website | www.thespecials.com |
| Members | |
| Lynval Golding
Horace Panter
Terry Hall
Neville Staple
Roddy Radiation
John Bradbury Jon Read Adam Birch Tim Smart Drew Stansall Nik Torp |
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| Past members | |
| Jerry Dammers Silverton Hutchinson Tim Strickland Dick Cuthell Rhoda Dakar Garry McManus Stan Campbell Egidio Newton John Shipley Nigel Reeve Caron Wheeler Claudia Fontaine Aitch Bembridge Mark Adams |
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Afterwards, founder and songwriter Jerry Dammers dissolved the band and pursued political activism.
Contents |
Career
The group was formed in 1977 by songwriter/keyboardist Jerry Dammers, with Tim Strickland (vocals), Lynval Golding (guitar, vocals), Silverton Hutchinson (drums), and Horace Panter, a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman, (bass). Strickland was replaced by Terry Hall shortly after the band's formation. The band was first called The Automatics, then The Coventry Automatics. Vocalist Neville Staple and guitarist Roddy Byers, a.k.a. Roddy Radiation, joined the band the following year, and the band changed its name to The Special AKA, The Coventry Automatics, and then to The Special AKA. Joe Strummer of The Clash had attended one of their concerts, and invited The Special AKA to open for his band in their On Parole UK Tour. This performance gave The Special AKA a new level of national exposure, and they briefly shared The Clash's management.The Specials began at the same time as Rock Against Racism which first gathered in 1978. According to Dammers, anti-racism was intrinsic to the formation of The Specials, in that the band was formed with the goal of integrating black and white people. Many years later Dammers stated, "Music gets political when there are new ideas in music, ...punk was innovative, so was ska, and that was why bands such as The Specials and The Clash could be political."
In 1979 shortly after drummer Hutchinson left the band to be replaced by John Bradbury, Dammers formed the 2 Tone Records label and released the band's debut single "Gangsters", a reworking of Prince Buster's "Al Capone". The record became a Top 10 hit that summer. The band had begun wearing mod/rude boy/skinhead-style two-tone tonic suits, along with other elements of late 1960s teen fashions. Changing their name to The Specials, they recorded their debut LP The Specials in 1979, produced by Elvis Costello. The album lead off with Dandy Livingstone's "Rudy, A Message to You" (slightly altering the title to "A Message To You, Rudy") and also had covers of Prince Buster and Toots & the Maytals songs from the late 1960s. In 1980, the EP Too Much Too Young (credited to The Special AKA) was a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart,[2] despite controversy over the song's lyrics, which reference teen pregnancy and promote contraception.
Reverting once again to the moniker The Specials, the band's second album, More Specials was not as commercially successful and was recorded at a time when, according to Terry Hall, conflicts had developed in the band. Female backing vocalists on The Specials first two studio albums included: Chrissie Hynde, Rhoda Dakar (then of The Bodysnatchers and later of The Special AKA), Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey (of The Go-Go's). In the first few months of 1981 the band took a break from recording and touring, and then released "Ghost Town", a non-LP Specials single, which hit number one in 1981. However, shortly afterwards, Staple, Golding and Hall left the band to form Fun Boy Three.
Dammers then drastically revised the line-up of the band, adding vocalists Stan Campbell and Rhoda Dakar, and began working again under the group name The Special AKA. The resulting album from the new line-up, In the Studio, was less successful, although the song "Free Nelson Mandela" was a No. 9 UK hit. The latter contributed to making Mandela a cause célèbre in the United Kingdom, and became popular with anti-Apartheid activists in South Africa. Dammers then dissolved the band and pursued political activism.
Later developments
Since the breakup of the original line-up, various members of the band performed in other bands and have reformed several times to tour and record in Specials-related projects. However, there has never been a complete reunion of the original line-up. In the 1980s, Hall, Staple and Golding founded the pop band Fun Boy Three and enjoyed commercial success from 1981 to 1983 with hits such as "Tunnel of Love", "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)". From 1984 until 1987, Hall fronted The Colourfield, with some commercial success. After they disbanded, Hall pursued a solo career, working mostly in the New Wave genre. He co-wrote a number of early Lightning Seeds releases. He also performed some vocals for a Dub Pistols' album.Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers (a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers), Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers), Pauline Black (The Selecter), Bruce Foxton (The Jam), Dave Wakeling (The Beat, General Public) and Nick Welsh (Skaville UK). He also fronts The Skabilly Rebels, a band that mixes rockabilly with ska.
In the early 1990s, members of The Beat teamed up with members of The Specials to form Special Beat. The band toured and released some live albums. In 1996, with ska enjoying a resurgence in mainstream popularity on North American radio and MTV, several members of The Specials reunited to record Today's Specials, a studio album mostly of reggae and ska covers. This was followed in 1998 with an album of originals, Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!, featuring guest vocals by Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen of Rancid. The band toured heavily in support of both releases. These albums were followed by Skinhead Girl in 2000 and Conquering Ruler in 2001. Notably absent from these records and tours were Hall, Bradbury and Dammers.[5] In 1992, ex-Specials bassist Panter quit the music industry to train as a primary school teacher at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He later resumed his musical career.
In 2007, Hall teamed up with Golding for the first time in 24 years, to play Specials songs at two music festivals. At Glastonbury Festival they appeared on the Pyramid Stage with Lily Allen to perform "Gangsters". In May 2009 Golding claimed that Allen's reuniting him with Hall played a "massive part" in the groups later reformation. Later the same day they played on The Park Stage, with Damon Albarn of Blur on piano and with beatboxer Shlomo providing rhythm, to perform "A Message To You, Rudy". At GuilFest, Golding joined the Dub Pistols to again perform "Gangsters". In 2007, Golding regularly performed concerts and recorded with Pama International, a collective of musicians who were members of Special Beat.
Reunion
On 10 April 2009, the reactivated band guested on the BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland. The following month, Golding and Bradbury expressed their intentions to release further original Specials material at a later date. On 8 June 2009, it was announced that The Specials would embark on a 'second leg' of their 30th Anniversary Tour - taking in the locations and venues that they missed earlier in the year. In July and August 2009, The Specials toured Australia and Japan. In October the band picked up the Inspiration Award at the Q Awards. In 2010, they performed at the Dutch festival Lowlands.
In an interview at the Green Room in Manchester in November 2010, Terry Hall confirmed that there would be further Specials dates in the Autumn of 2011, and confessed to having enjoyed playing live again; "It's a celebration of something that happened in your life that was important, and we're going to do that again next year, but then maybe that'll be it."
The Specials performed at Hyde Park with Blur and New Order to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
In August 2012, The Specials release their brand new live album called More ... Or Less The Specials Live on CD and vinyl, featuring "the best of the best" performances from their 2011 European tour - selected by the band themselves.
Members
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Discography
Main article: The Specials discography
- The Specials (1979)
- More Specials (1980)
- In the Studio (1984)
- Today's Specials (1996)
- Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! (1998)
- Skinhead Girl (2000)
- Conquering Ruler (2001)
Willy
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