Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[BimboBob]

Blancmange- Blind Vision 12"

A lovely piece of extended nonsense from my other favourite 80's band. Just love the bass in this, it drives the song.

 

[Coatigan]

Next batch of songs up until noon today, will try update same time tomorrow for adding to spotify playlist (on page 271)

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order - Sunrise
Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Around The World
The Clash ‘The Magnificent Seven
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Peaks and Troughs
Wild cherry - play that funky music
The Fish
N.i.b - black sabbath
Queen - dragon attack
Thank You - Sly and Family Stone
High Fade - Burnt toast and coffee
Paolo Nutini - Through the Echoes
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Public Image Limited - Poptones
Blancmange- Blind Vision 12"

 

[threespires]

I was looking to go with a change of pace today and it crossed my mind to go for something cello based. After all, in basic form both instruments have four strings and music is typically written in the bass clef and in a string quartet in particular the cello serves a similar purpose to that of a bass in a band especially now we see bass players not just providing the bottom end but also counterpoint melodies. But there are differences too, not the least of which are tuning and though there is overlap in their range, cellos are an octave up. So, it felt like I was just trying to shoehorn a bit of Yo-Yo Ma in and I wouldn’t play fast and lose with the thread like that.

On that basis I’m going with the double bass, I’ve already got a sort of jazz piece in mind for another day and the problem is the double-bass in orchestras has historically been relegated to providing the bottom end harmonics and not much else. However, a bit like when bass players started to emerge from the shadows, there are now a few double bassists coming front and centre one of whom is my nomination today. There isn’t a shedload of repertoire for them yet, though that is improving and there is a great champion from the 19th century to fall back on.

Giovanni Bottesini became known as ‘the Paganini of the Double Bass’ and was the earliest and greatest advocate of it as a solo instrument. His most well-known piece is his Gran Duo Concertante but I’m going for his Elegy No 1 in D, it’s shorter and no less beautiful. It’s played by a young Korean woman called Mikyung Sung who is at the forefront of making the double-bass a solo instrument. She’s quite slight and it’s remarkable to see her manipulate this great big instrument and coax these beautiful tones out of it from sonorous whale song like depth to beautiful trills at both ends of the neck. She makes it look quite effortless, but I’m told it’s stunningly difficult. I nearly binned her off because in one of her videos she’s performing a beautiful Henry Eccles sonata but in a bleeding Spurs baseball cap, I suppose that is the Son effect in Korea. It’s a shame her name isn’t Kim as women called Kim who play bass are generally pretty cool. Anyway…

Mikyung Sung – Bottesini: Elegy No 1 in D Major

 

[Coatigan]

I was looking to go with a change of pace today and it crossed my mind to go for something cello based. After all, in basic form both instruments have four strings and music is typically written in the bass clef and in a string quartet in particular the cello serves a similar purpose to that of a bass in a band especially now we see bass players not just providing the bottom end but also counterpoint melodies. But there are differences too, not the least of which are tuning and though there is overlap in their range, cellos are an octave up. So, it felt like I was just trying to shoehorn a bit of Yo-Yo Ma in and I wouldn’t play fast and lose with the thread like that.

On that basis I’m going with the double bass, I’ve already got a sort of jazz piece in mind for another day and the problem is the double-bass in orchestras has historically been relegated to providing the bottom end harmonics and not much else. However, a bit like when bass players started to emerge from the shadows, there are now a few double bassists coming front and centre one of whom is my nomination today. There isn’t a shedload of repertoire for them yet, though that is improving and there is a great champion from the 19th century to fall back on.

Giovanni Bottesini became known as ‘the Paganini of the Double Bass’ and was the earliest and greatest advocate of it as a solo instrument. His most well-known piece is his Gran Duo Concertante but I’m going for his Elegy No 1 in D, it’s shorter and no less beautiful. It’s played by a young Korean woman called Mikyung Sung who is at the forefront of making the double-bass a solo instrument. She’s quite slight and it’s remarkable to see her manipulate this great big instrument and coax these beautiful tones out of it from sonorous whale song like depth to beautiful to trills at both ends of the neck. She makes it look quite effortless, but I’m told it’s stunningly difficult. I nearly binned her off because in one of her videos she’s performing a beautiful Henry Eccles sonata but in a bleeding Spurs baseball cap, I suppose that is the Son effect in Korea. It’s a shame her name isn’t Kim as women called Kim who play bass are generally pretty cool. Anyway…

Mikyung Sung – Bottesini: Elegy No 1 in D Major

Having at one point mulled over whether 'contrabass' would count, with a bit of avi cohen (remember Remembering?), I've come to the conclusion that a)if two people thought it independently, must be something there, and b)rules are a bit boring. A bit of a curveball mixes it up nicely.

 

[threespires]

Blancmange- Blind Vision 12"

A lovely piece of extended nonsense from my other favourite 80's band. Just love the bass in this, it drives the song.

That's my lunchtime listening sorted out thank you.. Mange Tout it is.

(I've never been able to decide if their cover of The Day Before You Came qualifies as a guilty pleasure or just 5 mins of brilliance).

 

[threespires]

From @NotThreeSpireshonest who is busy excavating all day and doesn't want to get his phone earthy.

High Fade - Burnt toast and coffee.

He seems to like his Scottish bands!

Daft sod is probably too busy buggering about with his tripod leg to realise he's PM'd us both separately with different tunes. Doesn't understand the rules either - wanted to nominate the whole of Pieces of a Man '"cause the bass on at least 8 of the songs is brilliant". Told him to piss off and if Rob doesn't come back with one from that album, he should post or PM one of us tomorrow.

 

[Coatigan]

Daft sod is probably too busy buggering about with his tripod leg to realise he's PM'd us both separately with different tunes. Doesn't understand the rules either - wanted to nominate the whole of Pieces of a Man '"cause the bass on at least 8 of the songs is brilliant". Told him to piss off and if Rob doesn't come back with one from that album, he should post or PM one of us tomorrow.

I'm still not convinced he's not a rag!

 

[Coatigan]

Daft sod is probably too busy buggering about with his tripod leg to realise he's PM'd us both separately with different tunes. Doesn't understand the rules either - wanted to nominate the whole of Pieces of a Man '"cause the bass on at least 8 of the songs is brilliant". Told him to piss off and if Rob doesn't come back with one from that album, he should post or PM one of us tomorrow.

He said the same aboutg High Fade, could have picked any or all of their songs for the bass alone.

Come to think of it, the same could be said for most of Paolo Nutini's Last Night in the Bittersweet album. Probably for a lot of artists in this round too.

Edit. Recon if Julianne off that album had been released as a long lost Beatles track this year, could have been a no.1.in the charts? A part of me thiks if he was better known, there would be a song in there for our Julian.

 

[threespires]

I'm still not convinced he's not a rag!

Nah, he'll be one of those decrepit 'football's lost it's soul' twats who supports a non league side like Tamworth FC, but now they're in danger of getting into the National League he'll sack them off for someone like Walsall Wood in the NPL so he can wallow in mid-table misery and cause mischief when they play in annoying places like Sutton Coldfield.
You know the type.

On a more positive note, I've updated the spotify playlist.

 

[BimboBob]

That's my lunchtime listening sorted out thank you.. Mange Tout it is.

(I've never been able to decide if their cover of The Day Before You Came qualifies as a guilty pleasure or just 5 mins of brilliance).

The first ever ABBA song they allowed anyone to cover, got a higher chart position and the blonde one is in the video. 5 mins of brilliance.