Here's a playlist of 40 Isley Brothers classics from four decades. Hard to think of another group that has excelled across so many different musical genres - rock'n'roll, R&B, soul, funk, disco, slow jams, pop, AOR, protest songs, folk rock...
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Happy birthday to Ernie Isley who wrote this evergreen gem
▶️ youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
#WeekendSingles
So, in 1969, the Isley Brothers held a legendary soul & gospel revue at Yankee Stadium, released in cinemas in 1970, after which it was never put on video or online and was something of a holy grail. This week, an HD copy surfaced: Part One. Highlight: Patti Austin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvl...
😍
It’s a new recording with Gillian on guitar and yes, it’s the version on substance
And here are New Order performing Ceremony in NYC later in 1981
youtu.be/tOuvg68oQPo
No - it's one of the other members of She Rockers
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Here are New Order performing Ceremony live in Manchester on 6 February 1981, exactly a month before the single was released (THREAD)
youtu.be/NAmyMqL1AkI
WE DON’T NEED THIS FASCIST GROOVE THANG RIGHT KIDS?
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Ceremony started as a Joy Division song, as captured on the recording of their last ever concert at Birmingham's High Hall. It was listed as "NEW ONE". Listen to that recording, plus early New Order demos and the two single versions on this playlist (THREAD)
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It's 45 years since New Order released their first record - the 7" of Ceremony, which was followed by the two 12" editions later in 1981 (THREAD)
Version 1: youtu.be/IxIoTBp22Sg
Version 2 with Gillian: youtu.be/eNdNxcWz-fE
Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)
In case you missed it, here's a comprehensive playlist of 100+ singles released by Rough Trade Records in its first five years. Features Stiff Little Fingers, The Feelies, Monochrome Set, Unknown Cases, Kleenex, Swell Maps, Blue Orchids, Aztec Camera, The Prefects
▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...
👍 looking forward to seeing them at the Roundhouse
They said it could never be done!
www.bewithrecords.com/dianaintheautumnwind
Looking forward to this next week...
Today's listening - 20 favourite tunes from the first 10 years of Rough Trade Records, starring The Fall, Subway Sect, Delta 5, Augustus Pablo, Scritti Politti, James Blood Ulmer, The Go-Betweens, Arthur Russell, Cabaret Voltaire, Johnathan Richman, The Raincoats...
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Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
Here's a new playlist of Rough Trade singles from 1978-1983. Features Subway Sect, Scritti Politti, The Smiths, Raincoats, Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire, Swell Maps, Essential Logic, Delta 5, The Slits, The Pop Group, The Fall, Wire, Robert Wyatt, Young Marble Giants etc
open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...
When Washington DC gave us good things. This is joyous
youtu.be/MSnj-kY5Mcs
Thanks! The soulful side of Little Richard deserves greater recognition. I put together this playlist when he died six years ago
open.spotify.com/playlist/4oU...
Manchester's Modernist Society is doing a bunch of events in London this year, starting next week with Bruce Peter, design history prof at Glasgow School of Art.
Lots of Cumbernauld mega-structures and everyone's favourite pub typology.
the-modernist.org/collections/...
Greetings. Half Pint with Sly & Robbie on The Tube 40 years ago
youtu.be/07wjODFDMm4
Ha! Coincidentally, today would have been his 84th birthday
I fancy a career as a Velvet Underground Researcher. Where do I send my CV?
It's great isn't it? Billy chats about the song in this interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social, promoting the highly recommended To Ease My Troubled Mind
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Medway Wheelers by The Buff Medways. Picked up the CD single yesterday and it contains this lovely video starring Billy Childish's mum, who is the subject of the song
youtu.be/zOo7DepCd9w
That's great to see and hear. Thanks for sharing
