2nd June 2013: Ride Into The Sun (Demo, with vocals), The Velvet Underground

New favourite song.

29th May 2013: The Band, The Last Waltz - full album

16th May 2013: Esther Ku

We played this at the end of Very Loose WOMEN

4th May 2013: Emmy the Great on soundcloud

29th April 2013: Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey

This was my Summer of Second year of university tape, and my Road Trip around Ireland with my Dad tape.

28th April 2013: Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate

24th April 2013: The Traveling Wilburys volume 1 and volume 2

23rd April 2013: George Harrison's Beatles songs.

I watched the Scorcese documentary yesterday.

18th April 2013: April March, Chick Habit

These are covers. She also does them in English.

15th April 2013: Cat Power, The Greatest

10th April 2013: Fog on the Tyne, Lindisfarne

7th April 2013: The Divine Comedy, The Secret History

6th April 2013: Jacques Brel, Grand Jacques

He's Belgian.

4th April 2013 : Two individual movie themed tracks tracks

From the Costes Etage 3 cd:


From the soundtrack of Project Nim:

2nd April 2013: Panic, the Smiths

1st April 2013: Bilingual '60's and '70's songs

This is a blog I wrote for my old job:



It's far from accurate to translate "runaway" as "Vanina," or "comme d'habitude" as "my way." There have been a number of bizarre transpositions like that in pop history, where a singer from abroad like a song and have just hung their own lyrics on it.
I recommend looking up the lyrics, and also comparing the visuals.

ONE

Runaway, Del Shannon, 1961.


versus

Vanina, Dave, 1974.


TWO

Comme D'Habitude, Claude François, 1967.


versus

My Way, Frank Sinatra, 1971.


THREE

The LocoMotion, Little Eva, 1962.

versus

Locomotion, Sylvie Vartan, 1962.


FOUR

Laisse Tomber les Filles, France Gall, 1964.


versus

Chick Habit, April March, 1995.


I'm putting aside single artists who decided to translate their songs to make themselves more marketable abroad.

30th March 2013: Marianne Faithfull's early days (before all the drugs)

29th March 2013: Some Nick Cave lovers from Soundcloud - "Siskinbrace"

28th March 2013: Jake Thackray

A guy at an open mic where I sang "Chicken Farm" said my lyrics reminded him of Jake Thackray.

Judge for yourself...

27th March 2013: Tuvan Throat Singers and Paul Pena

I'm posting this because of this documentary:





Here is Paul Pena's throat singing (the documentary is about him):





And here is more of Paul Pena's music, more bluesy for sure: