My Gang Recos Of The Week

New thing - started last week when I went bananas over Paw Paw and their track Wired OK. Just had to tell the world how great they are so I put them in my sig.

Wired OK video on MySpaceTV. Group: Paw Paw.


So - I thought I'd open the floor for suggestions from the group.

Criteria:

* has to be worthy and deserve a nudge in the right direction
* if I'm putting my name to it, I have to like it (!!)

Other than that, doesn't matter if it's in Last.fm or not, as long as people can hear the whole track, that's the main thing. Video would be nice but not essential. Not fussed about content, but I draw the line at blood and gore.

Doesn't matter about genres, tempo, language, new release / re-release /
rarity, no. of listeners. Main thing is it has to be QUALITY, ie really, really, really good. :D

I will post here when I've decided what the next week's reco will be. If you see I haven't put anything there yet, get in there quick! lol! : )


Reco Of The Week changes every Tuesday.

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This week's reco is from Ian, who suggested Steel Pulse. They are playing Womad this weekend.


Ku Klux Clan
http://www.youTube.com/watch?v=9fU2yFsW9NI (Views: 10,694 at time of posting)...(11,292 after 7 days)
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsworth_Revolution

Womad UK 07 http://www.Last.FM/event/84204
http://www.Last.FM/listen/usertags/IanAR/Womad%20UK%2007%20Artists

Jambo234 said:
My reco of the week would have to be a song that songs so familar from the moment you first hear it. It's quite possibly my single of the year so far.
Taken from the forthcoming album 'Andorra', whether this is a standout track or not, 'Melody Day' will make anybody tempted to purchase the full record when it's released next month.




Done. This will be Reco of the Week next Tuesday, 31 July.

Thanks, Jamie. : )

note: 7,087 views of video at time of posting. 10,468 after 7 days.

that barefiles is back up and running. Some of the most inventive music being made, for free. Only problem is, a lot of the mixes are from pirate radio, so have annoying MCs on. I'm downloading loads, so I'll reco the good ones.

sorry, babs, the defectors aren't streamable yet (not that many listeners on last.fm at all .. yet!) i'll have a think next week and see what i can come up with..

oh right then, well my link to the whole album is in the last line of my original post there: it takes you to a music blog, were you have a download link, you just need to remember to use the p/w (given on the blog) to open it once the file is downloaded.

sorry it's not on site, they don't have any music videos on youtube or anything that i'm aware of (not a fan of music videos in general anyway). but the link still works as far as i know, no one's come back to me complaining that they can't get in.

might be a faff without direct instant access, but they are worth the effort, i promise you! :)

the whole album is golden(!!)
but if i had to pick just one track, probably "it's gonna take some time"..
this is fairly compact and does the job for opening most files you'd come across -- right click on the file once you've downloaded 7-zip (i'd recommend scanning anything with anti-virus first, but this file i can verify is safe), then choose 7-zip from the menu, choose extract files, then you will have a box for the password where you can cut and paste it in and the folder will be extracted to the same location as the original you opened with 7-zip.

hayden_is_a_go said:
My reco is Mr. Grieves by TV on the Radio. It's an A Cappella cover of an old Pixies song of the same name, which I consider to be quite dull in comparison.
The TV on the Radio version has enough atmosphere to drown a fish, it's incredibly eerie and dark, but I also find it to be über melodic and soothing.
The fact that it's A Cappella adds a lot to it, Tunde Adebimpe recorded 28 separate tracks of his own voice, so he's literally got a harmony going with himself.

Here's a link to download the song.

is this the right one?

i'd prefer to steer clear of downloads. If people click on a track to listen, it's a bit off-putting to then go through another process before they can. Instant is better!

Maps - You Don't Know Her Name is reco of the week this week.

3,369 views of the YouTube video right now, favourited 41 times. My sig tags have both the YouTube vid and the embedded vid in my review in NNME, so final viewing figures next week might be skewiff.


edit - 7 days later: 3,953 views, favourited 47 times.

Interesting to note which words were omitted. Hear the full version of Hip Hop Police on Chamillionaire's MySpace.

(embedding disabled, click on the screen to go straight to YouTube)




admin: stats as of now: 18,171 views, 136 comments, 313 x fav'ed, 192 ratings
... 7 days later: 273,989 views, 1,186 comments, 2,785 times x fav'ed, 1,741 ratings

Still sounding FRESH after 20 years...taken from new LP "HOW YOU SELL SOUL TO A SOULLESS PEOPLE WHO SOLD THEIR SOUL???"

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaah Booooooooy!

Suggestion for next week (Tues 18th).

Word Love

This week's reco is Sheffield band, Milburn and their debut single, What Will You Do (When The Money Goes)?






admin: Views: 8,683, Comments: 35, Favorited: 70 times, 46 ratings, 64 members in Milburn group.

Stats 7 days later: Views: 10,323, Comments: 40, Favorited: 80 times, 50 ratings, 64 members in Milburn group.