tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70312083464321151222024-02-07T02:02:51.878-08:00The Lloyd Cole PagesThe Lloyd Cole Pages maps the career path of singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole, with news updates, touring info, links to Cole's official site and merchandise and an open forum for commotions obsessives, young idealists and any one else with the good taste and integrity to appreciate this enviable body of work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-28450981251492013092013-07-03T14:25:00.002-07:002013-07-03T14:32:53.241-07:00back from the dead !!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's get this out the way first, I have been shit with this Blog for the past.. god knows how long. I could make a series of valid excuses, but then this blog isn't about me , so I won't !</div>
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by Lloyd Cole now in the shops or already in your home if you were one of the 600 who pre-ordered this and helped to fund the project. I am aware that I have yet to grapple with Cole's recent instrumental piece -Selected Studies 1 and have jumped straight to the 'Mainstream' offering but I will come to the other piece later on. </div>
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Standards, do I have any? Yes and they are very high where music is involved. Broken Record has kept me satisfied since it's release and there has been so much more revealed on every listen, the gift that keeps on giving, and all that. Standards, what did I expect? Play it safe, build on Broken Record in terms of it's critical reception, this wouldn't have been a bad thing . Teaming up with Fred Maher & Matthew Sweet, who we last encountered on Bad Vibes (20 years ago already?) no I didn't see that coming. It seems that Cole has also been on a little rant about being 'niche' and 'cult' and having to pander to industry expectations, media PR circuits and the like, but it is hard to imagine a singer/songwriter who comes across as very restrained, considered and pre-meditated exploding out of the speakers possessed by some latent demonic vitriol. That's not to say Cole causing a commotion would be something unwelcome, I for one would be very interested to hear the rage against something, anything-unleashed against the post ironic ennui. </div>
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And Standards, Cole has also set himself against the Dylan benchmark referring to Dylan's Tempest and his general <em>Fuck the audience </em>stance. This comes as something of a relief , as I was working my way through recent interviews and features an overriding sense of 'jacking it in' was beginning to take hold, none of us want that, and as for the audience 'having enough Lloyd Cole records' I'm not sure you could make enough, in the same way that I have yet to be bored by Cohen or John Cale for that matter. L.C's comment about the new Bowie L.P being the best since '82 but he would only listen to it the once is very telling, but only about an artist of that sort of stature, it's a bit like going to see a Stones concert now, more about the spectacle of something historic than the quality of what that band are producing artistically at that moment, a kind of Rock National Trust concert. Thankfully L.C is anything but this type of artist , even if financially he wouldn't mind too much, and the fact that he is still crafting and honing records rather than banging them out so that the next tour can have a nice 'theme' goes to show how much he really does still care about what he is doing , despite the fact that he is struggling to win any new listeners. It should also be remembered that Dylan himself struggled for sometime as the songwriters songwriter with covers of his records far outselling his own versions, and once again Tim Hardin and also Cohen wasn't really setting the charts alight between Suzanne and First we take Manhattan, granted record sales counted for a lot more in terms of income at that point, but all the same we got to enjoy some amazing work from some hugely underrated artists for a sizable period of their careers. </div>
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Standards then, what an arresting piece of work . <em>California Earthquake</em> , beautifully re imagined and typically off kilter cover choice, and now costing me money ordering John Hartford's back catalogue as I am now hooked, cheers. <em>Women's Studies </em>thankfully didn't hurt my wallet anywhere near as much as Josef K has been on the shelf for some time, nice nods towards Kafka and the Scottish post punk scene , fast product from Prague, nice. Would be interested to find out if the great wall of china reference is the Kafka short story or the Dead Kennedys track, as both sort of fit. Anyway nice jigsaw! I like the fact that the 'Young and Stupid' line ties in nicely with Josef K as well , had a lot of wry smiling listening to this record. The Howard Zinn/Springsteen juxtaposition early on works beautifully also, this song reminds me of checking through references on Rattlesnakes and easy pieces as cod-intellectual teenager, and I thoroughly enjoyed reliving the sensation. I struggled a little with 'Monday Morning Quarters' but had to make the assumption that this is an American sporting idiom referring to making a judgement in hindsight, after the event ? Music is absolutely addictive, I am a little confused by the 'media' trend that this is L.C's first time working with a band for x amount of years or sentiments to that tune, surely there was a band involved in the creation of Broken Record or am I missing something here? <em>Period Piece - </em>this is what L.C is all about , extended metaphor, dualism, clinical statistics- all made human by incorporating them into his personal experience . The idea of the <em>Geisterbahnhofe </em>flickering into life as the old order passes is as beautiful an Image as Cole has laid down anywhere for my money and weaves cinematically throughout the song conjuring Scott Walker's Stalin, the legendary Bowie/Iggy associations with Hansa , not to mention the mythology behind the Formers 'Heroes'. The dualism invoked by referencing Dickens' Tale of two cities , strikes me as a theme that runs trough the entire album, the pairs in opposite studies, the myrtle and the rose, 'bipartisan consensus' in women's studies . Stunning video also, Cole mentioned in an interview once that he and the commotions had kind of missed a trick with the video age, I don't think I have ever been more delighted by a collection of videos from Jennifer through Baby, So you'd like to save the world is particularly fantastic, and Period Piece is subtle, beautiful film making extending the Wall metaphor as a division with his past and the generational divide.</div>
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<em>Myrtle and Rose -</em>I have been struggling with the title, I am no doubt missing something blatantly obvious but then , if I am honest, this reminds me of the lure of buying Lloyd Cole albums in the first place. For me they were something to unravel, explore, a sphinx like quality always drew me back again and again. Also I am somewhat stupid. I did find that also I might be trying to hard and when the refrain <em>The longer you were gone the less the longing </em>kicked in I found my feet. During my research I did come across some lines by a German Poet that were rather interesting " with myrtles and roses...I would decorate this book like a coffin and bury my songs inside it" which I found quite relevant considering L.C's recent musings on his lot. Also this song had echoes of work from Music in a foreign language , which is a win win situation from my point of view.</div>
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<em>No Truck </em>all I can say is I love this! The music reminds me of a composite of undressed and trigger happy which are two of my favourite songs, the sentiment is like a slight change in perspective on Dylan's <em>Don't think twice it's alright</em> , as if shot from a different angle, you're the reason I been travelin' on/for I'm leaving here today. </div>
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<em>Blue like Mars, </em>this initially was and is (for now my favourite track) it sounds remarkably like it should live on L.C's debut solo album, but then evolves sonically into some amazing guitar work and sonic effects. Lyrically I will refer back to my early comments about a Sphinx like quality! I hold my hands up to not being able to penetrate these lyrics, the best I can offer here is an overriding sense of someone that has had their day, run their coarse, in a kind of sunset boulevard meets Wim Wenders films sort of a way ! oh where am I going with this.... what I do know is that I am listening to this album a lot and this track in particular is resonating with my current reading material Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters, there you go make sense of that! or stuck inside the future with those Martian blues again.</div>
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Musically, when <em>Opposites Day </em>began I moved from being reminded of the call and response guitars of the libertines to Elastica and then to Morrisey's the first of the gang to die, and that's before anyone started singing! Great song , very refreshing musically and nice pay off lines also ties in with earlier themes in the album. Also nod to Bowie's Candidate 'jump into the river holding hands'.</div>
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Cole has said in the past that he was trying to become the Raymond Carver of song writing, I believe he reached that pinnacle on many of the tracks from Music in a foreign language, here though, on <em>Silver Lake,</em> we surely have a Bukowski piece set to music 'If we get lucky we'll go top shelf</div>
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<em>It's Late, </em>loving this musically and the lyrics suggest that the 'Lateness'' alludes to the protagonists time of life, that this encounter is a last chance to prove himself and also give in to a weakness, temptation in 'lips as red as hellfire' 'I went looking for the devils daughter' , also some nice echoes of <em>Perfect Blue-'I could be blue tonight' </em></div>
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<em>Kids Today, </em>Funny , pitched in the grumpy old men tones but really listing a string of repetitive generation gap clichés and youth envy, I like the pay off line illustrating the fickle nature of father/son conversations perhaps? this works considering Will Coles presence on the record. </div>
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The last lines of <em>Diminished Ex </em>appear to me to address not only the character in the song but also perhaps the press and media that Cole has had to endure and maybe even some of his fan base.</div>
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'<em>So in light of these diminished expectations</em></div>
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Picking up from an earlier point regarding Cole moving forward to make the kind of albums he wants to make and not creating for the market, the best example of this I can think of in recent times is perhaps Nick Cave's foray into the realms of Grinderman. I enjoyed this mid life crisis, car crash, (dare I say it) Lost weekend beano, but more importantly the recent Bad Seeds offering <em>Push the Sky Away </em>brought with it a fresh new perspective and began a new chapter for a band that were in danger of becoming slightly formulaic. I am certainly not suggesting a rendering of <em>No Pussy Blues </em>but maybe , where we witnessed the brimming of the inner L.C back on Bad Vibes, we could knock the glass over and see what kind of choice poison spills out. </div>
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Oh and yes, anyone shed any light on <em>Three Volcanoes and a rose bush, soon to be nothing, soon enough, Seven of diamonds to the eight of spades. </em>If not I am sure it will keep me busy until the next album.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-31491902686325016522011-11-27T12:41:00.000-08:002011-11-27T12:48:38.221-08:00Mr.Anderton will lead me to it.......perhapsRE: LC's reference posts,<br />
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The only thing I can imagine LC was referring to here, given the context of this song and the social climate in the UK at that point, would be a certain Chief Constable James Anderton, who at the time had slammed AIDS suffers as "swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making" and adding to the mass paranoia surrounding the condition at this point in time. I understand that Polydor had some issues with the band's inclusion of this song on Mainstream because of its standpoint, but that LC had stuck to his guns and the LP was issued with it on, to be honest it would be very hard to imagine Mainstream without this closing track. Any how that's the best I can offer on this one.<br />
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Jules et Jim directed by Francois Truffaut 1962 -see LC's speedboat "Jules said to Jim why don't we jump in, while the water's clean and we are still friends?"<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">LC sang on Tell your sister <em>from Don't get weird on me babe</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">"why don't you come down</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">soil your pretty feet on the dirty</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ground of rue morgue avenue"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Rue Morgue is generally considered to first appear in Edgar Allan-Poe's work</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The Murders in Rue Morgue and Poe appears elsewhere in Dylan's work as well as the beatles</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I am the Walrus</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCAwBfDQvug4SC-_cYOSYZUkL9FwMksHa75wOpVoD26h58Tmumn-mEq-lW6KvcuNuP09NRKz_ddALW9GYR2WSzBpTm-a-nhqEvoTNZqe1zIrH2uBlS7A0fizFCzN3McvIC7wBc49mGzSX/s1600/51jtds1h2gl-_sl500_aa300_%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCAwBfDQvug4SC-_cYOSYZUkL9FwMksHa75wOpVoD26h58Tmumn-mEq-lW6KvcuNuP09NRKz_ddALW9GYR2WSzBpTm-a-nhqEvoTNZqe1zIrH2uBlS7A0fizFCzN3McvIC7wBc49mGzSX/s1600/51jtds1h2gl-_sl500_aa300_%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Hey sean could you mosey on down to our gala ball</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It reads mister maddonna kicks some beat poetry"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">LC from Sean Penn Blues <em>from Mainstream</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>LC had reportedly read an article where Penn had revisted one of his old Educational facilities</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and had been heckled whilst reading his poetry.</span></em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Incendently LC visted one of his old schools recently during his UK tour</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">details of which can be found at this link: <a href="http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/index.php?p=6495&c=1">Back to school</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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David Crosby, Graham Nash, Devo, Jackson Browne, Yo Le Tengo, The Guthrie Family and Micheal Moore have all signed up to the project supporting the protest against the financial world's irresponsible management of western economies. |The movement has seen protests grow in London, New York's occupy wall street and various other sites across the USA and Europe. <br />
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The movement started in New York when Canadian activist group Adbusters issued a campaign which began on September 17th in Zuccotti Park in the financial district of the city. <br />
The "We are the 99%" campaign is in reference to U.S statistics illustrating the country's wealthiest 1% standing well above the rest of the population.<br />
Greece and Spain's anti-austerity protests and the Occupy St.Pauls Movement add weight to this global backlash.<br />
<a href="http://occupywallst.org/">to lend support or find out more click here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-62895422783601814052011-11-24T10:14:00.000-08:002011-11-24T10:14:06.170-08:00Don't know how I missed this one<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqfL6ZnGVmVgTUWLNgX-skMNZvesz0GCRKqKPnIAHFXxKvL_kmNl7-Xry3p_zn1Q-srOKhlXlmrie_vhi-EqNkd8fbUFGRXWb__7j4a40YIsN-hbbk07VCQDfs_zxiEenoZaYbpqL-T1M/s1600/love_77_45%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqfL6ZnGVmVgTUWLNgX-skMNZvesz0GCRKqKPnIAHFXxKvL_kmNl7-Xry3p_zn1Q-srOKhlXlmrie_vhi-EqNkd8fbUFGRXWb__7j4a40YIsN-hbbk07VCQDfs_zxiEenoZaYbpqL-T1M/s320/love_77_45%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Not really sure how I managed to miss this one.<br />
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Heartbroken again, " Listening to Arthur Lee records"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-36017585770249021762011-11-23T09:15:00.000-08:002011-11-24T10:03:54.904-08:00"Now, the older I get the more I'm convinced that the idea of a great piece of art without humour is an oxymoron."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8FPJmGMupR9Wh5hYZWQTdTcgpLgDVcCE9lSEr0CxZkoztodFTbsOnAwzBNr4Gnhrl-cisHWnHFpZdtQaoBO01xvgPDAym50WHNGBeqmI-JmcjLjBb8HzJX8fLJX2eMvSGuXEe2j1pEnc/s1600/ps_antidep_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8FPJmGMupR9Wh5hYZWQTdTcgpLgDVcCE9lSEr0CxZkoztodFTbsOnAwzBNr4Gnhrl-cisHWnHFpZdtQaoBO01xvgPDAym50WHNGBeqmI-JmcjLjBb8HzJX8fLJX2eMvSGuXEe2j1pEnc/s320/ps_antidep_03.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><br />
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This quote from Lloyd came from a recent interview, all of which can be found at Lloyd Cole.com, but got me to thinking about the various influences and references that appear in his work and how some of it has shaped my own reading preferences. This post delves into the references that appear in Cole's work and presents key works by those who are name dropped, quoted and works that are referred to in their own right. In no particular order.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxqk_K60IA-QyO2mepAgqaFuh4PYt67kpN0ln_OUG-4jzZoFBIA6UHiJhClhyphenhyphen8sG6JG7S24hBIdSwys88n_SlqXIszIRyRu4bT5fG30yb_Cx8e6iirymet6MI_HyzC3k23RTvsWr6OY81/s1600/RV1291-15%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxqk_K60IA-QyO2mepAgqaFuh4PYt67kpN0ln_OUG-4jzZoFBIA6UHiJhClhyphenhyphen8sG6JG7S24hBIdSwys88n_SlqXIszIRyRu4bT5fG30yb_Cx8e6iirymet6MI_HyzC3k23RTvsWr6OY81/s320/RV1291-15%255B1%255D.jpg" width="241" /></a>Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">was part of the french philosophical existentialist movement and had a long relationship with its founder Jean Paul Satre during which they enjoyed an 'imaginery' married life. Her existential feminist treaty 'The second sex' helped pave the way for the feminist movement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A provided reading material for Cole's protagonist in 'Rattlesnakes'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Citroen 2CV "She drove her mother's car it was a Deux Cheavaux" and one fantastic record.<br />
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Truman Capote our first star of "Four Flights up" author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and the 'new journalism' offering in Cold Blood. Capote shares the new journalism label with other authors Cole refers to such as Joan Didion and Norman Mailer below who have all been 'slotted' into the movement. Mailer was the author of 'The Naked and the dead' and 'The Deer Park' "Read Norman Mailer, or get a new tailor" was perhaps not the best rhyme ever but the song its lifted from remains one of Cole's classics. Find it "Are you ready to be Heartbroken?" <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Author ( born Sacramento 1934)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Whose novel 'play it as it lays' 1972 was the main inspiration</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">for Cole's 'Rattlesnakes'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main character is forced to have an abortion after which she becomes traumatised and takes to driving around the freeways and west coasts dessert roads, looking for a way out of her problems, she gives herself up to various sexual encounters and experiences in order to break free of her stagnation. During the novel she periodically has dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">of dead children and foetus body parts "Her never born child still haunts her as she speeds down the freeway" .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rattlesnakes appear at various places within the novel, and appear to act as a motif for danger, or dangerous males.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main character is also told to read a passage about rattlesnake bites from a red cross handbook. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Cole has cited this and the book of common prayer by Didion amongst his favorite novels. Didion was famous for her journalism as well as her novels and worked in the style of new journalism which looked to inject a personal narrative and response into pieces , the tone then lending itself more to fiction than factual reporting. Her use of sentence structure and minimal delivery was heavily influenced by Hemingway.</span><br />
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A film based on a series of articles about corruption and mob influence<br />
over union workers in the new jersey docks in the late 40's early 50's.<br />
Directed by Elia Kazan in 1954. Eva Marie Saint played opposite<br />
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And you can go back to your Five Leaves Left<br />
And you can call me when you get over yourself"<br />
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<div class="western">Lloyd Cole comments on this album: "12 songs recorded live in the studio the day after our debut 2010 performance. Is this an album or not? I’m not sure, it was recorded so that we would have something by the small ensemble to sell at our January 2010 concerts; a souvenir, but it turned out better than we expected, and folk who weren’t at the shows expressed interest in getting their hands on it. So, here it is.<br />
Lloyd, guitar, banjo Matt Cullen – guitar, banjo Mark Schwaber – guitar, mandolin Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Alan Miller. <br />
No overdubs.</div><br />
<div class="western">Tracklisting - <br />
My Alibi <br />
If I were a song <br />
Why I love Country Music <br />
Margo’s Waltz <br />
Perfect Skin <br />
Broken Record <br />
Four Flights Up <br />
My Other Life <br />
Trigger Happy <br />
Undressed <br />
No More Love Songs <br />
Are you ready to be heartbroken?</div><br />
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1. Like Lovers Do <br />
2. Music In A Foreign Language <br />
3. Why I Love Country Music <br />
4. Trigger Happy <br />
5. No Blue Skies <br />
6. Butterfly <br />
7. Famous Blue Raincoat <br />
8. No More Love Songs <br />
9. NYC Sunshine <br />
10. What's Wrong With This Picture? <br />
11. The Young Idealists <br />
12. Love Like This Can't Last <br />
13. Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? <br />
14. Four Flights Up <br />
15. Forest Fire</div><br />
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1. Woman In A Bar <br />
2. My Other Life <br />
3. Don't Look Back <br />
4. Cut Me Down <br />
5. The Lady Came From Baltimore <br />
6. Rattlesnakes <br />
7. Vin Ordinaire <br />
8. Butterfly <br />
9. Late Night, Early Town <br />
10. Old Enough To Know Better <br />
11. That Boy <br />
12. No More Love Songs <br />
13. I'm Gone <br />
14. Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends <br />
15. 2 CV <br />
16. Pay For It <br />
17. Music In A Foreign Language <br />
18. Undressed <br />
19. Impossible Girl <br />
20. Lost Weekend <br />
21. Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? <br />
22. Perfect Skin <br />
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Thu 10th - Edinburgh, Pleasance Theatre <br />
Price: £18.50 (+£2.50 booking fee) <br />
Address: Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ <br />
Tel 0131 650 4673<br />
<a href="http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/www.eusalive.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/www.eusalive.co.uk</a> <br />
Tickets: <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/</a><br />
Fri 11th - Glasgow, Oran Mor SOLD OUT <br />
Sat 12th - Glasgow, Oran Mor SOLD OUT <br />
Price: £18.50 (+£2.50 booking fee) <br />
Address: Top of Byres Road, <br />
731-735 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 8QX <br />
Box Office: 0141 357 6200 <br />
Website: <a href="http://www.oran-mor.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.oran-mor.co.uk/</a> <br />
Tickets: <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/</a><br />
Sun 13th - Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree <br />
Price: £17.50 (plus booking fee) <br />
Address: 5 West North Street, City Centre, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT <br />
Box Office: 01224 641122 <br />
Website: <a href="http://www.boxofficeaberdeen.com/" target="_blank">http://www.boxofficeaberdeen.com/</a><br />
Tue 15th - Morecambe, Platform <br />
Price: £20 <br />
Address: Station Buildings, Marine Road West, Morecambe LA4 4DB <br />
Box Office: 01524 582803 <br />
Website: <a href="http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/platformanddome" target="_blank">http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/platformanddome</a> <br />
Tickets: <a href="http://www.seetickets.com/" target="_blank">http://www.seetickets.com/</a><br />
Wed 16th - Hebden Bridge, Picturehouse <br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-27877980076568286152011-01-25T00:13:00.000-08:002011-01-25T00:13:44.684-08:00Stop! the Lloyd Cole Press!! My addiction to Lucky strike explained, my dad's Tanita Tikaram theory is given some kudos and why Daniel Lanois is not the right man!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">January's artist of the month Lloyd Cole interview from BBC2's RAPIDO.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We mentioned in our review of Lloyd Cole's first solo album an interview that we couldn't place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well we have tracked it down and its cheered us up no end. The feature presents Cole's new image and mindset in terms of his musical direction in 1990 and maps out some of his earlier influences. The narrator of the piece also mentions Tanita Tikaram, which will undoubtedly please my father, who would try to wind me up at the time by claiming both artists were the same person and had I ever seen them together in the same place to disprove this ? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The mixing desk scene that I recalled hearing Sweetheart on for the first time is here and was probably the most well worn VHS strip on the planet until it finally gave way. The roots of the addiction that I had to Lucky Strikes during my twenties has also been revealed to me during this exercise, I knew it must have come from somewhere. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cole's revelation that he and Fred Maher were pitching to produce the next Dylan album is fantastic, with Cole declaring "Lanois is not the right man", I for one would have been fascinated to see the outcome of that collaboration, and it would have been interesting to see how it may have altered Dylan's path. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a look and enjoy this snippet from BBC archives, marking a new chapter in Cole's career and the beginning of his solo work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>Pretty Gone (Clark/cole)</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"<em>Won't you put on your dress and come down to magazine avenue" </em>still can't get this refrain out of my head for weeks when I re listen to this album. I know that this is a shallow reason to include this track- but hey -try it and see for yourself. I showed the lyrics of this song to my English teacher at the time and she told me it was pretentious piffle, I felt a little defensive and did my best to slate Emily Dickinson in the essay she had set. I would like to apologise to Emily but I still listen to this a lot more than I read her. I am not sure what that makes me. I still love the idea of the girl with a '<em>head full of my cigarettes wrapped up in needle cord and coincidence.' </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>Trigger Happy (cole)</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The album opens with this and you just know that if what follows is as good as this, then you're on to a winner. I saw Cole at The Union Chapel and he mentioned that this was a favourite of his wife's, he also took great pleasure in swearing in church, very rock and roll ! A flawless tune with some sublime guitar playing. If we are talking lists, then this is up in the top 3.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Cole & The Commotions </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Live at the BBC vol.1(2007 Polydor/BBC)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Cole & The Commotions</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Live at the BBC vol.2 (2007 Polydor/BBC)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lloyd Cole</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Live at the BBC (2007 Mercury/BBC)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next few records are compilations of rarerities, outakes, radio sessions and live performances and are great companion pieces to the studio albums listed above.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to these , there are a number of albums in Cole's 'Folksinger' series, but as I do not yet own them (Guilty, as charged) I can't really review them! Obviously I will endeavour to do this when I have aquired them. All these releases are easily available at Lloyd Cole's online store which there is a link for at the end of this article, and is well worth a visit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;">A bit of an unexpected treat these, obviously a lot of artists have radio session releases, but three in one go ! and over 5 discs.The first album covers three radio sessions from 1984 and the highlights from a gig at Hammersmith Palais of the same year. Mainly Rattlesnakes material. The second instalment has two radio sessions from 1985 showcasing work from Easy Pieces and the second disc is from The Glastonbury festival 1986.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;">The third L.P is from Cole's solo period and includes a radio session from 1990 and a live recording from the Hammersmith Odeon in 1995.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;">These releases provide an insightful picture into a certain place and time which is handy if you missed out the first time around as I did. The photographs are fantastic and the sleeve notes accompanying each album by Cole and Clark are worth the entry price alone.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;">Glastonbury performance is a testament to how good the band were live and the speed driven cover of <i>Mystery Train</i> is a real gem.</span></div><div align="center"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Collected b-sides and rarities 1989-2006</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This remains my all time favourite birthday present. Although I already own 90% of Cole's singles, they are mainly all on vinyl so it was nice to have them collected in one place on a slightly more convenient format.The box is broken up into four themed discs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">CD1 RED WINE GLASS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">CD2 REMAKE/REMODEL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">CD3 DANGEROUS MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">CD4 DIFFICULT PIECES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each disc has copious notes accompanying it in the booklet, setting the scene around each period and explaining the logistics of making the recordings. Cole's prose is as captivating as his songs, so this never gets boring and is an absolute godsend from an enthusiasts point of view. What Cole does by providing us with this information is a unique in so much as we never have to worry about a distorted press depiction of his persona, he cultivates his own mythology and does it very well with subtlety and skill.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stand out pieces here:</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blame Mary Jane(Cole)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brand New Baby Blues (Cole)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Steady Slowing Down Of the Heart (Cole)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Si Tu Dois Partir (Dylan)</span></div></div><i></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is one of the most carefully put together rarities collections I think any artist has assembled, so don't imagine this is a scraping the barrel exercise, its really a joy to own and provides a good bench mark for any other artist thinking of putting a collection of odds and sods together.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So there you have it, Moodswing's Guide to the Records of Lloyd Cole, the finest songwriter of his generation, whatever Mark.E.Smith says. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/">www.lloydcole.com/weblog/</a></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">enjoy</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7031208346432115122.post-61004306651806508432011-01-09T07:55:00.000-08:002011-01-09T08:10:18.435-08:00Track of the Year: 2010 Lloyd Cole's That's Alright<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrVkt5F60cnY6FXGs4tzZY-3qhJ5-ZVkuDxvy_7F6U2_CdfdwDgxX0qdvnzmzrSe47c774TujnL_qHEy3E6iShqMM54_TmjsUpY_bqOAp0sRbm-kojR6X2ZwhTvByI6icJVsLWEJME1PL/s1600/album_shoot_08_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrVkt5F60cnY6FXGs4tzZY-3qhJ5-ZVkuDxvy_7F6U2_CdfdwDgxX0qdvnzmzrSe47c774TujnL_qHEy3E6iShqMM54_TmjsUpY_bqOAp0sRbm-kojR6X2ZwhTvByI6icJVsLWEJME1PL/s320/album_shoot_08_11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;">MOODSWING ANNOUNCES TRACK OF THE YEAR<br />
LLOYD COLE'S THAT'S ALRIGHT<br />
The criteria for track of the year was relatively simple; which record has not left the player, Ipod,Laptop for a good few months and is still going strong into the new year, which track has got so far under the skin that now everybody in the house/work place is singing along whether they like it or not and which track still sounds fresh after umpteen repeat listens.<br />
Hands down then <i>That's alright </i>is moodswing's track of the year.<br />
Fantastic lyrics echoing the first two solo albums with their sharp wit fused with some fairly down and dirty guitar playing, this was the sound of the Lloyd Cole for me the first time round having been a little bit too young for the commotions (I only came in at Mainstream on my 15 birthday, but it still remains in my top five long players of all time). I stood waiting in my local record shop for them to unpack the newly delivered Lloyd cole (X) L.P.The staff there took advantage of my youth and naivety and conned me into buying them all Pukka Pies and chips from the chippie two doors down before they would unpack the day's deliveries. To add insult to injury I got pulled for skipping school to pick this record up an wasn't allowed it back for a week! <br />
The L.P from which <i>That's alright </i>is taken is <i>Broken record </i>( see our albums of the year)<br />
which hears Lloyd cole recording with a band again for the first time in about twelve years. The project was funded by avid Cole fans being encouraged to lay out $45 to pre-order the album, including his 'young idealist' fan collective, who also help sell and promote his work at his gigs. Musicians include Fred Maher who has played with Cole on his first few solo outings and also has the added Kudos of being Lou Reed's Drummer, Joan as Policewoman - Joan Wasser on various instruments and vocals and contributions, including a co -write on <i>Oh Genevieve, </i>by ex- Commotions member Blair Cowan. Bob Hoffnar a pedal steel guitar player who worked with cole on <i>Bad Vibes </i>in 1993 also features, adding a country tinge to the proceedings. The album was recorded within a few days early in the year at the Magic shop in Manhattan N.Y<br />
with all overdubs taking place in Cole's current home state Massachusetts. The self depreciating title track lured me into a false sense of security in a kind of 'business as usual' Lloyd Cole outing until <i>Writers Retreat! </i>kicks in with a Harmonica, Pedal Steel and banjo and a chorus hook that evokes Gram Parsons' era Byrds. <i>Flipside</i> has possibly one of the most emotive vocal performances that Cole has committed to tape, it is perhaps not often enough we get to hear Cole without his wry and satirical armour in place, "<i>We'll play Sister Morphine and dance to the end of the evening" </i>ticked all the boxes for my money.<i> Westchester County Jail</i> begins "<i>I look like a million bucks, sure I'm not worth quite that much" </i>delivers us back into Cole's comfort zone setting himself and his characters up for the fall over an up beat bar room stomp. Cole has said that like Bryan Ferry he only has two songs- Fast or Slow, but he likes to push and pull them into as many different shapes as possible and like one of his idols- Raymond Carver- its generally in the stories he tells that cole achieves this. The Genius of <i>That's Alright </i>can be seen in the twist of its simple "<i>Hey Mama, That's Alright" , </i>at one point in his career Cole was dubbed 'Elvis for intellectuals "<i>That's Alright,Mama" </i>the song provides a fitting retort. The amusing "<i>There's no depression in France, Their too busy with the romance." </i>smashes through the cultural zeitgeist in exactly the way <i>So you'd like to save the world? </i>did back in '93 "<i>You can call it ultra violet radiation, but it's only sunlight" </i>swimming upstream and laughing all the way. <i>Oh Genevieve </i>finds Cole teaming up with old Commotions band mate Blair Cowan who also adds accordion to this track echoing the sound of <i>Easy Pieces </i>album and provides the same catchy hooks that album had in abundance. <i>Rhinestones</i> was a close contender for our track of the year delivering some beautiful guitar playing and pay off lyrics "<i>I say X and you say Y when you know I'm not a mathematical guy" "I wasn't looking for trouble, its just a lazy eye" </i>bringing to mind the tempo and wry humour of <em>Undressed.Double Happiness </em>closes the record with a variety of different guitar parts that sees Cole flex his musical muscles that I for one hope to hear more of in the future, '<i>Tried to rock' </i>please-no more apologies.<br />
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To accompany this track of the year article there follows :<br />
January's Featured Artist <i>A Steady Slowing Down Of The Heart</i>: <i>A Guide to the records of Lloyd Cole.</i></span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0