Monthly Archives: June 2011

Rod Stewart – Maggie May

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Paul Saxton

I had to include this. And rather than write about it again, I’ve lifted a post I wrote on our Maggie & Alice blog in November 2009 (which can be found here if you want to see the original). When … Continue reading →

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Yes – America

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Paul Saxton

Utterly ludicrous. Yet utterly brilliant. Similar to Bryan Ferry’s marvellous reworking of Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, this take on Simon & Garfunkel’s America seems as far away from the original as it’s possible to get. Yet it retains … Continue reading →

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Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Paul Saxton

A very pretty pop song that would be merely a very pretty pop song were it not for the glorious “la la las” and Andy Fairweather-Low’s naively soulful voice. (In recent years, Fairthweather-Low has been employed as a guitar player … Continue reading →

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Stereolab – Les Yper Yper Sound

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Paul Saxton

I used to love Stereolab. Early Stereolab, when they were in thrall to the likes of Neu! and did interesting things with the whole repetitive, metronomic, drone thing. I lost interest when they abandoned that for the drippy lounge Europop … Continue reading →

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