JemsMusic A-Z

26 days in April - 26 bands - 26 tunes

A - Apollo 440 - Krupa

B - Bad Company - She brings me love

C - Camel - Sahara

D - Death in Vegas - All that glitters

E - Evanescence - Whisper

F - Franz Ferdinand - Michael

G - Gov't Mule - Brighter Day

H - Hawkwind - You shouldn't do that

I - I am Kloot - From your favourite sky

J - Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

K - Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light

L - Little River Band - It's a long way there

M - Mika - Grace Kelly

N - New Order - Blue Monday

O - One Minute Silence - I wear my skin

P - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a found harmonium

Q - Quantic Soul Orchestra - Hold it down

R - Red Snapper - Some kind of fink

S - Sad Cafe - My oh My (see vid above)

T - Ten Years After - I'm going home

U - Underworld - Pearl's Girl

V - Vinegar Joe - Never met a dog

W - Walking Papers - Already Dead

X - XTC - Mechanic Dancing

Y - Yello - Oh Yeah

Z - ZZ Top - Fuzzbox Voodoo



31 days, 31 genres, 31 songs: Part III

OK - here's the final part of this series and the song choices for days 17 through 31.

[17] 2-TONE: The Beat's 'Twist & Crawl' [18] MOTOWN: Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' [19] GRUNGE: Nirvana's 'Smells like teen spirit' [20] AMERICANA: Shovels & Rope's 'Hail Hail [21] BRITISH INVASION (1st wave): Rolling Stones 'Get off of my cloud' [22] CHRISTIAN ROCK: Delirious? 'My Glorious' [23] CLASSIC ROCK: Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the water' [24] SOUL: Marvin Gaye's 'I heard it through the grapevine' [25] ROCK N ROLL: Little Richard's 'Good Golly Miss Molly' [26] RAP/INDIE: Mok's 'Rufio' (released 26.3.13) [Mok Shop pic above from their merc store at the Haunt - 28.3.13] [27] FUNK/SOUL: James Brown's 'Get up offa dat thing' [28] GARAGE ROCK (1st wave): The Troggs 'Wild Thing' [29] GLAM ROCK: The Sweet's 'Ballroom Blitz' [30] SAMBA: Carlinhos de Cuica's 'Tia Doca' and [31] ZYDECO: Clifton Chenier's 'Louisiana Blues'

 

Stop press - starting on 5 April only on Facebook (and here) 'JemsMusic A-Z'. 26 songs from 26 bands over 26 letters in 26 days

31 days, 31 genres. 31 songs. Part II

Those of you following Facebook will have seen all these already from my daily posts. But, in case you missed them - here's the song choices for days two through sixteen.

 

[2] BLUES - Elmore James' 'Dust my broom' [3] DANCE - Underworld's 'Born Slippy' [4] JAZZ - Chris Barber's 'When the saints go marching in' [5] METAL - Iron Maiden's 'Run to the hills' [6] AOR - Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' [7] THRASH -One Minute Silence's 'I wear my skin' (see vid above) [8] ELECTRONIC - Leftfield's 'Phat Planet [9] BLUES ROCK - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' 'All your love' [10] R&B (the original version) - Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill' [11] CLASSICAL - King Henry VIII's 'Greensleeves' [12] FOLK - Steelye Span's 'Thomas the Rhymer' [13] PROG ROCK - Yes' 'Yours is no disgrace' [14] PUNK - The Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy in the UK' [15] DUBSTEP - 2562's 'Walkover', and [16] FUSION - Herbie Hancock's 'Chameleon'

 

Part III sometime around the end of the month together with something about the theme that'll follow for April 2013. 

Stiff Little Fingers - Brighton - 8.3.13

Whether or not Ed Tudor Pole is actually related to King Henry VIII is neither here nor there - I've never really been that sure about him. However, support over, Stiff Little Fingers delivered a blistering set with two encores at Brighton's Concorde II on 8 March. The angst is still there even if with the onslaught of middle age. And the latter was a predominant feature of the very appreciative audience - punks one and all even 35 years on! Excellent stuff.

R.I.P. Alvin Lee (1945-2013)

Alvin Lee - one of my all-time guitar heroes has passed on.

This song sums it up.

R.I.P.

31 days - 31 genres - 31 songs

So here it is then - the new JemsMusic theme for March - 31 songs covering 31 genres over 31 days. There's loads to choose from so here's what's in store between now and the end of the month.

 

Rock - Blues - Dance - Jazz - Metal - AOR - Thrash - Electronic - Blues Rock - R&B - Classical - Folk - Prog - Punk - Dubstep - Fusion - 2 tone - Acoustic - Alternative rock - Americana - British Invasion - Christian - Classic Rock - Soul - Rock n Roll - Funk - Garage Rock - Rap/Indie - Glam Rock - Samba - Zydeco.

 

And to kick things off, the very excellent 'Rock Bottom' from UFO (1975). More song choices later in the month. Enjoy. 

The 20 albums you've probably never heard of challenge - Part VI

Ok, here's the final instalment of the 20 albums you've probably never heard of with the lowdown on days 15 through 20.

 

Day 15: Pale Face Baby from Dogbreath. Now disbanded but hailed from Stockholm. Released just the one superlative album in 2009. Footage above is the sole survivor from YouTube.

 

Day 16: The self titled Mina Tindle from 2012. We saw Mina supporting Camille on her last tour of the UK. Her debut album is out on Sauvage Records.

 

Day 17: Up from System 7 is the band's 10th studio album. This electronic dance band is fronted by Steve Hillage (ex Gong/The Orb).

 

Day 18: Memento Mori from The Bastard Fairies. Formed in LA in 2005 and falling loosely into the anti-folk genre, their debut album was self-released on the band's website as a means of 'spreading the word'.

 

Day 19: Little Notes from Tiny Ruins. This is the project of Bristol born, New Zealand raised singer/songwriter Hollie Fulbrook based in Wellington, NZ. Little Notes is her debut album released in December 2010 on Australia's Spunk Records.

 

Day 20: We are the tide from Blind Pilot. American indie-folk band from Oregan. Signed to Expunged Records, We are the tide was released in 2011

 

And there endeth the lesson.

 

New theme starts tomorrow - the Jems Music 'genre' songs. 31 genres, 31 songs, 31 days. More about this later.