Saturday, June 2, 2012

Weekend diversions (which I think you may need after a Friday in the markets like that...)

You know you are getting old when the librarian at your child's school (Amanda Brown) was in a band you idolized when young.

I give you the Go Betweens (still my all time favourite Australian band with the Triffids a close second).






And for something more recent (Lissie and one of the best covers of a Bob Dylan song done on a single guitar I have ever seen):









John
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8 comments:

  1. Robert in ChicagoJune 3, 2012 at 1:53 AM

    You know you're old when you talk about seeing Billy Bragg in 1987. I did too, in 1987, in NYC.

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  2. AnonymousJune 3, 2012 at 12:43 PM

    The Go Between were the "most over-rated" of the "most under rated" bands of the 1980s. I preferred The Hoodoo Gurus, until about 1992. I also saw Billy Bragg during that 1987 tour in 1987, appropriately, at the Canberra Workers Club - the only time I ever went there.

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  3. John HemptonJune 3, 2012 at 2:17 PM

    I don't know how you can say that about the Go Betweens after 16 Lovers Lane...

    The other albums are up-and-down but that one is all good.

    The collection album is also all good.

    But of that collection of the "underrated bands" I have retained my love of only two - the Go Betweens and the Triffids.

    J

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  4. AnonymousJune 3, 2012 at 4:23 PM

    What about The Loved Ones?

    Or were they before your time?

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  5. AnonymousJune 3, 2012 at 5:13 PM

    For a quite good version of Dylan covered, I like the Tallest man on earth version.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Twcp46kT4&feature=related

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  6. AnonymousJune 5, 2012 at 6:27 AM

    The Church circa 1980-1987... great stuff.

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  7. Alderon ShareholderJune 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM

    I count myself fortunate to have seen The Go-Betweens play live three times.

    If I had to pick my favorite album would be Liberty Belle.

    The song "Apology Accepted" is a thing of beauty. It has the remarkable line "More used to naked men / You said leave the light on / Don't be frightened."

    How many male songwriters have the guts to expose that kind of vulnerability?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WLwroOYFg0

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  8. John HemptonJune 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM

    I note Alderon Shareholder and I keep a few things in common (Go Betweens).

    I am not really an Alderon short - I covered much against my will (buy-backs) albeit at a profit.

    A new and smaller magnetite business in the cold north is hardly going to be great in the cost-curve... but as I say - I have no position that matters in this game... the big position is closed.

    Whatever: the association (which may be involuntary) with penny stock promoters amuses me... just google alderon penny stock...

    John

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