The Roches

Hello, does anybody know of the meaning of the Hammond Song? Also was there really a Mr. Sellack?

if you go down to Hammond…

Holy shit, that's an awesome performance.

i just heard "hammond song" for the first time. what a remarkable song. the odd lyrics and those harmonies playing around with the guitar Frippery. yum

Amazing song, definitely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84PS-CQ6ag

Basically what Michael B posted in the last revive... I like the hip camp counsellor vibe. The harmonies are weird, unexpected, super-polished in places and clashy in others. Sometimes the girls sing the same notes, sometimes two drop out quite suddenly to leave just one. Other times they scatter and make the most beautiful sound. And yeah, Fripp just turns up and does his thing and it's like the future being beamed into a 1970s American kitchen.

"Hammond Song" is just the best. A magical song.

This song cannot be invoked without me listening to it like 3 or 4 times in a row.

Also a jam: "The Married Men"

Distinct Roche-harmonies vibes from London-based act The Drink (esp notable about 30 seconds in here):

http://youtu.be/EjMK6hMIFuo

thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIogcMAXSQ

xp oh! I played a gig with The Drink once. Glad to see they're doing well.

To the original poster...you only need to sit through two and a half minutes and you get to one of the most beautiful transitions/songs in recorded music!

https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/07/11/the-roches-the-roches-round-91-toms-selection/

RIP Maggie

ah, shit. I really need to pick up some more Roches records beyond the debut.

love them but she was always my favorite, amazing songwriter. very sad to hear this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqhigRvplo

https://youtu.be/oh9nlTTygmQ

love them but she was always my favorite, amazing songwriter. very sad to hear this.
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Also, embedded link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9nlTTygmQ&feature=youtu.be

I was too pat and dismissive in my earlier posts on this thread, although yeah, I still think they were too cutesy at times. Maybe it's just another example of the self-indulgence that you sometimes have to indulge (at least to the extent of setting it aside) in artists you enjoy.

Anyway, she was a great songwriter, overall.

RIP. My favorite of her songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MyJIQkdruo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQSJLRb-mw

My favorite of hers, written from the point of view of her father who was in the late stages of Alzheimer's; the "she" in the song is her mother.

Thanks, and good to know that kid sister Suzzy is still active, touring in '16 w daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche, who also works solo and with Martha as The Wainwright Sisters. Mom and daughter did this song and video, re Suzzy's novel Wayward Saints:
http://www.roches.com/suzzy/

So sorry to hear this, I grew up listening to the first two Roches albums - the first is covered very well upthread, but the 'Nurds' is also absolutely worth checking out. The title track starts off sort of MOR and almost gets like Roches do Kleenex/LiLiPUT after a bit which is pretty unexpected if you're going through their LPs in order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWnAxwLriig

Does anyone know the story behind the stuff they shout it in "Nurds?" I'm guessing some of it might be actual school girl taunts.

My pal Steve just uploaded this, it's apparently an off air copy and has a Q&A that was never broadcasted, the second part is uploading as we speak I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRB0xH55P4&feature=youtu.be

Dang, one more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsRB0xH55P4

the prince was confused, so he asked the magician

i just heard "hammond song" for the first time. what a remarkable song. the odd lyrics and those harmonies playing around with the guitar Frippery. yum

― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:35 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ Me right now.

absolutely love Hammond Song. Go-to drinking song tbh

Don't know if the Roches have any true heiresses, but The Unthanks come to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyAPZaey7PQ

Soz, meant this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Folk evolving into British Sea Power-esque proggy bliss where stakes are honestly high.

I am probably half of the dedicated Unthanks thread at this point

Suzzy & Lucy got a new alb out Oct. 30, details here (didn't know this site, got a lot of Roche-Wainwright-and-otherwise-relateds/compatibles):http://storysoundrecords.com/news

Nice. I've been meaning to check out the others they've done, or really any of the various solo and duo Roche albums. So much stuff released between A Dove and Moonswept, in particular, and those are both great.

oops, just saw this:
hello from NYC!
just wanted to let you know that my mom and I will be doing an online show from my apartment - tonight at 7:30 eastern!

don't worry - if you can't make that time, the concert will remain up and watchable for a few days. if you CAN make it, YAY!
Here's how to find us tonight:

Suzzy and Lucy
Songs From Home - November 18 - 7:30pm

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWH0NNf98hY
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/lucy.w.roche

Instagram :
@lucywainwrightroche

Sending love from Brooklyn!
xo Lucy (and Suzzy!)

Maggie Roche wrote an 8-minute song about how much she loves her winter coat, and it's utterly delightful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3SBuAqbxz4

So charming! I'm not familiar with much of their stuff beyond the first few albums (and Seductive Reasoning), but I came across this song at some point and it's been a favorite of mine ever since.

Roches' Christmas album is a longtime favorite.

That was, indeed, charming.

Don't always like that first song they play on that Song From Home concert, but they got through to me.

Okay, “My Winter Coat” is great.

Mountain Stage recently re-broadcast Suzzy & Lucy's December set from home, and it's pretty involving,in some unexpected ways, like when voices infiltrate the big acoustic guitar---not boomy guitar, just something about the home recording plus the typically quirky Mountain Stage sound, at least on radio---haven't listened to the archived set yet, though incl. songs that didn't make the broadcast time constraints, from a very strong, variegated, cohesive li'l trip through originals and covers (Connie Converse, from the 50s, I think they said, comes across like a Roche, Suzzy's hip youngest aunt maybe), also "Factory Girl," not the Stones alas, but a vivid British folk song: Audio and playlist are herehttps://www.mountainstage.org/archives/Pages/playlist.aspx?playlistid=212

"when voices infilrate" that's mainly a passage in one song, I think; voices are up front most of the time.

Mother's Day show ov Lucy & Suzzy will be up for a while; if this link don't work check their Facebook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExW86ZJ7b5U

Wow. Sounds incredible. Thank you

Oh, hi. Probably not quite the time or the place, butch thinking of doing a poll in Lucy’s dad in the near future, if there is any interest. Happy Mother’s Day!

Butch = been.

in=on

I wish you were butch until...sorry