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

For want of a better name I'm calling this The Associated. The basic premise is artists associated with other bands who released solo or started other bands to release e.g. Noel/Liam will release more solo albums probably but always be associated with Oasis.

First up is Beach Boys drummer, heartthrob of the band and the only member who could surf who somewhat ironically drowned. As a big fan of post Pet Sounds Beach Boys I only can across this through reviews in Mojo/Uncut for this re-release a few years ago. He didn't write much for the band so must have saved them up for his only solo album the great Pacific Ocean Blue. This is the lead off track.

Dennis Wilson - River Song

Gene Clark was an original member of The Byrds who I'm a big fan of and wrote some of their early original songs including Eight Miles High. He left in 66 and went solo releasing a number of albums before releasing No Other in 74. The album was lambasted by critics and a commercial flop but was re-released and re-assessed over the years and is now regarded as a bit of a lost masterpiece. This one sums it up.

Gene Clark - Strength Of Strings

This next one is a bit of a stretch but wanted a female artist on. One time member of sixties inspired girl group The Pipettes (2 top 40 hits) Rose Elinor Dougall has done 3 solo albums but now plies here trade in The Waeve with her now partner Graham Coxon of Blue. They released a great album early last year. This is from her 2nd album Stellular

Rose Elinor Dougall - Closer

Steve Mason is probably my favourite male solo artist. When The Beta Band up 3 members formed The Aliens (3 good albums) and Mason went solo first as King Biscuit Time then a electronic album as Black Affair. He then had the confidence to release under his own name and he's done 4 top albums including last year's Brothers and Sisters. Think is from my favourite of his Monkey Minds In The Devils Mind

Steve Mason - Seen It All Before

Supergrass front man and Planet Of The Apes lookalike Gaz Coombes went solo when the band went on hiatus. He's also done 4 solo albums including last year's standout Turn The Car Around. This is from his previous one Worlds Strongest Man
Gaz Coombes - Wounded Egos

I will probably indulge myself a couple more times in the week and the playlist is on my lads Spotify and I will add as we go along. I'm at City from Tuesday afternoon so may have to update Wednesday.
Hope you enjoy and add

 
Very nice concept from @Out on blue 6, and should hopefully spawn some lesser known collaborations and tunes.

As I figured, I'm expectedly an 0/5 on the original list. ;-)

Since it's Sunday and I don't want to do much thinking today, my first will be both something easy and in deference to this week's contributor. This selection I know is very familiar to him and should be appreciated (unless he had future plans for these mates too :-).

In that spirit, during the dark years of Doves going their separate ways, fans were treated to 2/3 of Doves (and 3/4 counting the great Martin Rebelski prominently here on keys/synths), still making great music:

"The Ship" - Black Rivers

(and on the potential positive side, @RobMCFC may enjoy their non-mumbler singer ;-))
 
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Mancitydoogle said:
Sticking with the mellow theme, I was going to go for James Iha of The Smashing Pumkins ‘Sound Of Love’ but its not on Spotify .
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Just checked it out on YouTube, a very nice song. We always knew James had a nice voice in the Pumpkins ("Take Me Down"), he just never had the chances to shine as a vocalist more than a George Harrison sized piece as Corgan took both McCartney's and Lennon's share easy.

Not surprised you liked that song as it had a good vibe to it too.
 
Colin Hay - waiting for my real life to begin.

The dude from Men at Work, his solo material is mostly acoustic and downbeat, some really nice songs. Had an album out last year which had more production and a 'band' sound to it, and was quite good. But gone with this for its more basic stripped down sound. One for Rob's aussie-possie.
 
Many of the acts I follow haven't branched out into a solo career, so my initial thought was that this category might be a challenge for me. However, I think I have identified a handful, although most of them are well-known, so don't expect anything too obscure.

I loved John Fogerty's 2007 solo album, Revival. To be putting out stuff this good 40 years after being in one of the biggest bands in the world is impressive.

"Somebody Help Me" - John Fogerty
 
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