― hank (hank s), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Also otm about old music - I've hardly bought anything new this year and it's totally down to hearing something on comps.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
srsy, "the trip" introduced some incredible songs to me.
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 11 November 2006 10:48 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs also compiled the two-disc Glen Campbell compilation The Capitol Years...anybody with a passing interest in Glen might consider this a one-stop shopping trip...also, Bob has compiled a number of girl-group collections, also for RPM...
― hank (hank s), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:14 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:53 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Michael B (Michael B), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:57 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 November 2006 14:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Link: http://www.saintetienne.com/eclipse1
― zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 12 November 2006 15:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― hank (hank s), Sunday, 12 November 2006 15:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― mikef (mfleming), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Is this the same Bob Stanley? He's a member of St. Etienne and wrote this article for the Guardian about an obscure movie doc about 60s London...
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 12 November 2006 18:56 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 12 November 2006 18:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink
this looks good too:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-So-Fine-Pye-Girls/dp/tracks/B0009HL0OO/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/202-3189635-6772613#disc_1
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:56 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Think harder. Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word, Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word, Vertigo Mixed, Welsh Rare Beat, Songs in the Key of Death, Music to Watch Girls Cry: unbeatable run there.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 13 November 2006 00:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 13 November 2006 00:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink
ps hiya arthur!
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I have to say, though, that the Finders Keepers releases I own do not get into the rotation as much as, say, The Trip or Velvet Tinmine...
― hank (hank s), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:25 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Mind you, I'm glad they do. The St Et The Trip comp is exceptional (will somebody tell me more about Mandy More?) and the Selda album which Votel's recently reissued is a thing of wonder.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:26 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:28 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Can't tell you anything about her, but here's a few titbits online about her LP:
- from a Q&A with Bob Stanley @ saintetienne.com:
"Ember Glance asks who the hell is Mandy More. Well, her mindblowing If Not By Fire appeared on The Trip. It's from an album called But That Is Me on Philips in 1972 (which includes a great cover of God Only Knows, an almost impossible feat!). I know she did a few equally intriguing non album singles including Coffee Cups which is very proto Kate Bush. Most of the album is, too."
- review @ the vinylvulture.co.uk forum:
"Mandy More – But that is me, Philips 1972A beautiful and moving album, one I know nothing about. On playing it through I discovered that ‘If Not by Fire’ was familiar – featured on St Etienne’s Trip compilation. This is one of the 2 tracks which features some great electronic / moogy effects (freaking out at the end) and is mighty fine. But the album is so not a 1-tracker, it is one of those perfectly formed complete albums. A little like Melanie’s earlier LPs, but IMHO so much better. Mandy More has a great voice and the arrangements are gloriously baroque – strings, harp, layers of voices, piano – and great songs too. Highlights, if I must pick them are: ‘But That is Me’ (almost a single – catchy uplifting song), ‘Listen Babe’ (gentle grooving number), ‘Come to me Jesus’ (lush complex orchestral, with a great twisting and swelling ending); ‘If I smiled on Saturdays’ (catchy uptempo number featuring congas and melodica). For me the best is the closing number – a fantastic cover of ‘God only Knows’ – the moog comes back (or it might be guitar through effects) and the drums are funky even has a harmonica solo from Mandy! Produced by a certain Tony Hall, if that means anything to anyone.... Find this album if you can, you need it!"
― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink
related to xposts: can anybody tell me more about Esther Williams (not the swimmer who turned up on the cover of the first Blur LP, but the soul singer whose "Last Night Changed It All" appears on The Trip)?
― hank (hank s), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I liked that Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word comp Votel did, and the welsh one he did with Gruff Rhys, but thought the prog one was just dreadful. Though I'd probably have dug the song selection if I was out at a club and those were the records a dj was playing. It didn't work so well as an at home listening experience for me.
― bastowe (bastowe), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:54 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:54 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:55 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:57 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:50 (eleven years ago) Permalink
those 2cd Virgin compilations were so beautiful.... i'm the only fan of "monster, robot and bugmen" compiled by simon hopkins and "jazz satellites" by kevin martin )and "kosmic kuruschi monster (vol.1, sigh....))? wish kevin martin would/could compile more...
― minerva estassi (minerva estassi), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:28 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― hank (hank s), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Was going to say a similar thing but wanted to articulate *how* and not sure i can right now.
― dh (djh), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:24 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:42 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I've been waiting for eons for Vol. 2. Jazz Satellites Vol. 1 was a life-changer. Some key person at Virgin must've got sacked, because it seems like all those amazing comps stopped issuing forth about 5 years ago.
Check out this lineup for the unreleased second volume: http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/adventures/articles/satellites.htm
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
talking of wire/tony harrington compiled comps, the wire 3cd box on Mute i think is really good, but have never seen reviewed or talked about. Check the tracklist: http://www.discogs.com/release/125213
― minerva estassi (minerva estassi), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:53 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Anyway bored that downloading will actually be a pain for little (or big) records companies that will decide so that to issue comps, and the problems about it (licensing), it's no long useful and profitable (even if of unavailable music).
― minerva estassi (minerva estassi), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
The Garbarek-Coltrane-23 Skidoo-Melle stretch on Jazz Satellites is one of my favorite sequences.
― Pamplaxico Polancobon (Andy_K), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:17 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:26 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:48 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Thanks, but I'm not too worried.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 November 2017 21:59 (eleven months ago) Permalink
I'm a bit confused about these. I figure Stanley's usual target audience will already own, say, Forever Changes, let alone "Dedicated To The One I Love" or "What A Fool Believes", but a more casual type would be lost at sea with some of these other selections?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 20 November 2017 22:01 (eleven months ago) Permalink
isn't the point that they'll be listening to similar sounding artists in the context of ones they know and like
― Number None, Monday, 20 November 2017 22:51 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I guess that makes sense, and is good.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:58 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i'm guessing a 15 year old gifted with these by an uncle wouldn't know any of it? or not much at least.
i wish he'd do 80s and 90s comps as i find the 60s and pre punk 70s dull as owt. a Bob Stanley 80s synth-pop/indie-pop comp would rock.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:29 (eleven months ago) Permalink
How many 15-year olds do you know with a turntable to play them on?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:52 (eleven months ago) Permalink
those crosley portable turntables were all tha rage a couple of years ago
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 14:04 (eleven months ago) Permalink
I don't know many 15 year olds but I'd guess half the teenagers I do know (NB: not many) have access to a turntable. Sample size: my friends' children. Other consideration: such children also have access to my friends' record collections, poor blighters.
― Tim, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 14:49 (eleven months ago) Permalink
yeah these are nice comps but i'm also wondering how 'useful' they are and who would want them, especially in the age of Spotify recommended playlists etc
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 14:58 (eleven months ago) Permalink
These look like v. good compilations full of stuff that will sound great on vinyl and a good balance of familiar and unfamiliar stuff. Obviously the really familar stuff will be in lots of people's collections (probably on CD) and virtually all of it will be available on streaming services but that's not really the point is it?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:02 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i guess it's a bigger question of what purpose compilations serve in the age of streaming. I like having things on vinyl for all the usual reasons, so that's one thing. The familiar stuff has obvs been included to hook shoppers in with the hope of introducing them to the other stuff, but still it's an interesting thing to market through a grocery supermarket. I hope it works.
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:09 (eleven months ago) Permalink
As a once-prolific buyer of physical-format music, I find that compilations are mainly what I look for these days, in the record store. (And lavishly-packaged box sets/reissues too, of course.) If I want to hear the latest album by, whoever, I can probably find it on Spotify, but the tracks on the more obscure comps (esp. the Stanley/Wiggs ones like English Weather, Tea & Symphony, Songs for Mario's Cafe, etc.), I'd be hard-pressed to find them all on any streaming service.
― henry s, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:20 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I think it's possible to over-think this. They're nice compilations - had the LA one on at the weekend, it's a good end-to-end listen with some unfamiliar stuff (to me) in there alongside the familiar classics - clearly not meant to be a Soul Jazz / Light In The Attic-style archival deep dive. The design's nice, and Stanley's essay inside ties it all together very pleasantly.
Sainsburys clearly shifts enough vinyl for this to be worthwhile for them - but given that I suspect they're mainly selling either Mumsnet fare like Rag & Bone Man and Adele or expensive reissues of very very overexposed classics, this is a surprising toe in slightly more adventurous waters.
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:21 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i like the cover designs.very library styled.
― mark e, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:21 (eleven months ago) Permalink
I guess the target market is people who have just got their first turntable and are in an enthusiastic early buying phase + older people who have just bought a turntable again after keeping all their vinyl in the loft for a decade. They'll sell enough to people who are doing the weekly shop and just buy them on the spur of the moment, I guess.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:25 (eleven months ago) Permalink
> yeah these are nice comps but i'm also wondering how 'useful' they are and who would want them, especially in the age of Spotify recommended playlists etc
Merry Christmas, i got you a spotify playlist...
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:47 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I don’t really buy the argument that the comp is redundant in the age of the Spotify playlist, given that Spotify also has *whole albums* too and no one (on this thread at least) is saying these are obsolete too. Don’t want to overstate the case for these Sainsbury’s albums, but a physical compilation can be a lovely thing.
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:39 (eleven months ago) Permalink
you guys have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME about 15 year olds not having access to turntables?
http://theday.co.uk/arts/teenagers-are-leading-the-vinyl-revivalhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/why-does-my-teenage-daughter-want-a-22-vinyl-record/https://www.seeker.com/are-teenagers-keeping-vinyl-records-alive-1862002918.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/21/crosley-generation-record-player-has-the-kids-spinninghttp://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-598-1200543http://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-496-1198503
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:13 (eleven months ago) Permalink
That somehow ties into my slightly snarky theory that a lot of teenagers will go crazy for vinyl until they actually have to move it all into/away from college.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:21 (eleven months ago) Permalink
So many Spotify playlists, even useful ones, are 250-tracks long with entire albums shunted in there and no thought to flow or confluence or anything else. Curation matters.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:35 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Spotify also has *whole albums* too and no one (on this thread at least) is saying these are obsolete too
*bursts in sweating*
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 14:06 (eleven months ago) Permalink
For those looking for more Stanley curation goodness, I'm listening to his Soho Radio show on mixcloud, and it's pretty fucking solid (though the discrepancies in volume between the songs and his voice can annoy).
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:05 (eleven months ago) Permalink
http://acerecords.co.uk/when-the-day-is-done-the-orchestrations-of-robert-kirby
New Robert Kirby comp compiled by Stanley.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:35 (eight months ago) Permalink
Must have!
― henry s, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:50 (eight months ago) Permalink
Love that Keith Christmas track. Had no idea Kirby was involved. Comp looks great.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:26 (eight months ago) Permalink
New Bob and Pete comp soon
A new project from @rocking_bob & @petewiggs due in May. More details shortly 👇 pic.twitter.com/7l7bAeIwXx— Ace Records (@AceRecordsLtd) March 20, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:50 (seven months ago) Permalink
Ooooh!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:09 (seven months ago) Permalink
wow at that sleeve.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:33 (seven months ago) Permalink
Fantastic sleeve and title, yeah -- we have details:
http://acerecords.co.uk/bob-stanley-pete-wiggs-present-paris-in-the-spring
The events of May '68 are seen as a turning point in France's social history - pictures of the barricades are still potent images. Lines were drawn politically, culturally, socially, and pop music was not exempt.“Paris In The Spring” is a collection of the new music, put together by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, that emerged from France between 1968 and the mid-seventies, an extraordinary blend of several previously independent strains – French chanson and yé -yé, American jazz and funk, British chamber pop - shot through with the era's underlying mixture of optimism, uncertainty and darkness. This is the first collection of its kind, released on the 50th anniversary of the Paris uprising.Serge Gainsbourg – a jazz pianist with a chanson past and a pop present – was in a position to play a key role in soundtracking France in flux over the next five years. His “Histoire de Melody Nelson”, with its heavily atmospheric arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier, was the acme of this new, unsettling French sound. “Paris In The Spring” includes other equally dazzling Vannier arrangements (for Léonie) and Gainsbourg compositions (for Jane Birkin and Mireille Darc).Prior to 1968, sixties French pop had been dominated by yé -yé, the country's unique brand of upbeat pop, a world of primary colours, mini-jupes and discotheques (a French invention, after all). Its stars either faded fast after May '68 or adapted to the new era: Jacques Dutronc (‘Le Métaphore’) and France Gall (‘Chanson Pour Que Tu M'aimes un Peu’) discovered a moody side that they had previously kept hidden, and Françoise Hardy released the Brazilian-influenced, after-hours classic “La Question”, from which we have picked ‘Viens’.New bands like Triangle emerged, influenced by Soft Machine and Gong who became regulars on the Paris club scene. French library music from Janko Nilovic and film soundtracks (François De Roubaix, Karl-Heinz Schäfer) reflected the era's edginess. All are represented on “Paris In The Spring”, making it a continental cousin to Stanley and Wiggs's 2017 Ace compilation “English Weather”.01 La Victime (Part 1) - Karl Heinz Schäfer02 Hélicoptère - Mireille Darc03 Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Un Billet De Banque - Bernard Lavilliers04 Roses And Revolvers - Janko Nilovic05 L'Élu - Ilous & Decuyper06 La Métaphore - Jacques Dutronc07 Dommage Que Tu Sois Mort - Brigitte Fontaine08 Les Gardes Volent Au Secours Du Roi (Alternate version) - Jean-Claude Vannier09 Looking For You - Nino Ferrer10 Chanson D'Un Jour D'Hiver - Cortex11 Viens - Françoise Hardy12 Couleurs - Léonie13 Leslie Simone - William Sheller14 Litanies - Triangle15 Baleines - François De Roubaix16 Encore Lui - Jane Birkin17 Evelyne - Serge Gainsbourg18 Le Bal Des Laze - Michel Polnareff19 Lilith - Léonie20 Ystor - Ys21 Chanson Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Un Peu - France Gall22 La Victime (Part 2) - Karl Heinz Schäfer23 La Chanson D'Hélène - Romy Schneider & Michel Piccoli
“Paris In The Spring” is a collection of the new music, put together by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, that emerged from France between 1968 and the mid-seventies, an extraordinary blend of several previously independent strains – French chanson and yé -yé, American jazz and funk, British chamber pop - shot through with the era's underlying mixture of optimism, uncertainty and darkness. This is the first collection of its kind, released on the 50th anniversary of the Paris uprising.
Serge Gainsbourg – a jazz pianist with a chanson past and a pop present – was in a position to play a key role in soundtracking France in flux over the next five years. His “Histoire de Melody Nelson”, with its heavily atmospheric arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier, was the acme of this new, unsettling French sound. “Paris In The Spring” includes other equally dazzling Vannier arrangements (for Léonie) and Gainsbourg compositions (for Jane Birkin and Mireille Darc).
Prior to 1968, sixties French pop had been dominated by yé -yé, the country's unique brand of upbeat pop, a world of primary colours, mini-jupes and discotheques (a French invention, after all). Its stars either faded fast after May '68 or adapted to the new era: Jacques Dutronc (‘Le Métaphore’) and France Gall (‘Chanson Pour Que Tu M'aimes un Peu’) discovered a moody side that they had previously kept hidden, and Françoise Hardy released the Brazilian-influenced, after-hours classic “La Question”, from which we have picked ‘Viens’.
New bands like Triangle emerged, influenced by Soft Machine and Gong who became regulars on the Paris club scene. French library music from Janko Nilovic and film soundtracks (François De Roubaix, Karl-Heinz Schäfer) reflected the era's edginess. All are represented on “Paris In The Spring”, making it a continental cousin to Stanley and Wiggs's 2017 Ace compilation “English Weather”.
01 La Victime (Part 1) - Karl Heinz Schäfer02 Hélicoptère - Mireille Darc03 Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Un Billet De Banque - Bernard Lavilliers04 Roses And Revolvers - Janko Nilovic05 L'Élu - Ilous & Decuyper06 La Métaphore - Jacques Dutronc07 Dommage Que Tu Sois Mort - Brigitte Fontaine08 Les Gardes Volent Au Secours Du Roi (Alternate version) - Jean-Claude Vannier09 Looking For You - Nino Ferrer10 Chanson D'Un Jour D'Hiver - Cortex11 Viens - Françoise Hardy12 Couleurs - Léonie13 Leslie Simone - William Sheller14 Litanies - Triangle15 Baleines - François De Roubaix16 Encore Lui - Jane Birkin17 Evelyne - Serge Gainsbourg18 Le Bal Des Laze - Michel Polnareff19 Lilith - Léonie20 Ystor - Ys21 Chanson Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Un Peu - France Gall22 La Victime (Part 2) - Karl Heinz Schäfer23 La Chanson D'Hélène - Romy Schneider & Michel Piccoli
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:17 (six months ago) Permalink
great cover, will buy
― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:22 (six months ago) Permalink
Awesone! I'd been picking up stray moments of this kinda stuff - that Nino Ferrer album that got spotlit in Aquarium Drunkyard, Léo Ferré's 1970 record w/ a rock group - and really welcome a curation of it. Roubaix is an all-time fave, too.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:31 (six months ago) Permalink
WANT
― Jeff W, Friday, 23 March 2018 19:20 (six months ago) Permalink
English Weather was really outstanding - it was probably my most played record of last year - so hopes are high.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:37 (six months ago) Permalink
There isn't a single song on English Weather that is any less than wonderful.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 March 2018 15:33 (six months ago) Permalink
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De7xjRYWkAAoAk8.jpg
New Bob 80s synth comp. He couldn't clear Kraftwerk or Depeche he says on Twitter
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 15:42 (four months ago) Permalink
Track list:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De6hOOrXkAEiDeI.jpg
All gold.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:35 (four months ago) Permalink
There's also a Shadows / Hank Marvin / Welch & Farrar comp if that's more your bag.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 17:37 (four months ago) Permalink
Good to see some 80's deep cuts there. And Phil Lynott? Whynott!
― henry s, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 18:22 (four months ago) Permalink
He's good when he's exploring genres most people don't know about - showcasing the best stuff that's often never been reissued or available on CD or whatever. But I don't get why he's compiling for Sainsburys like this which are largely tracks that everyone knows in genres that have been comped to death.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 18:28 (four months ago) Permalink
I kinda agree but otoh people under 30 do buy vinyl and many would probably also be into this sort of primer (somehow only heard 'Videotheque' for the first time last year myself)
― nashwan, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 19:35 (four months ago) Permalink
*puts now that's what i call music 1 on shuffle*
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 19:40 (four months ago) Permalink
No way anyone under 30 knows Lawn Chairs or Peter Schilling or Bill Nelson or B Movie or some forgotten China Crisis and Buggles singles. Comped to death, really?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 19:59 (four months ago) Permalink
I guarantee a huge % of under 30s know these, at least in Europe. I know lots of under 30s who know this stuff inside out and back to front; a 24 year old friend of mine is an uber Bill Nelson fan. Also, Peter Schilling had a massive revival last year.
Anyhow, Bob is a compilation compling god but come on, this one must have taken 15 mins max. I hope Sainsbury's paid him handsomely.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:50 (four months ago) Permalink
Like he needs the money.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:35 (four months ago) Permalink
I'll Stan up for the Hank one, mainly because I'd asked him yonks ago about "Other Shadows tracks that are as great as" Stingray", (album tracks tend towards MOR safety) and he'd suggested some. Trouble is, not that they are rare as in pricey, but rare as in hard-to-find, there's not that many of those singles out there.
So, yeah I'm quite pleased about that one.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:58 (four months ago) Permalink
Gave Paris In The Spring a cursory listen - CD player's in the repair shop so I succumbed and bought the vinyl. A lot of Gainsbourg-adjacent stuff, as was to be expected, I get to feel smug about having played stuff off of Les Gants Blancs Du Diable on my radio show before I knew Stanley's championing it - he's got three tracks from it on here!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 11 June 2018 12:41 (four months ago) Permalink
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/23/now-pop-compilation-100-that-s-what-i-call-music
Stanley's alternative 100th NOW compilation (with Spotify playlist)
― Number None, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:01 (two months ago) Permalink
Man, Stanley and Wiggs are on a roll with their late 60s themed comps:
https://acerecords.co.uk/bob-stanley-pete-wiggs-present-state-of-the-union-the-american-dream-in-crisis
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:43 (one month ago) Permalink
has "4th of july" ever appeared anywhere else since the "good vibrations" box set? that song really is underheard
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:53 (one month ago) Permalink
First time the Beach Boys' Fourth Of July has been on vinyl. Really happy with this one - hats off to @liz_buckley for making light of some very tricky licensing work! https://t.co/Iecrh6CUH9— bob stanley (@rocking_bob) September 10, 2018
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 09:56 (one month ago) Permalink