March | 2016 | Every Moment Has A Song

10 Hours that Changed EVERYTHING

12 Mar 2016 1 Comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: george martin, the beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnuNvzyfI4

(via CultureSonar)

by Al Cattabiani

It was a slow song, in the style of a plaintive Roy Orbison ballad. The band started to record it; but the producer wasn’t feeling it. He advised the band to pick up the tempo, and to add a hooky instrumental bit at the beginning.

Fortunately, the band listened to the grownup in the room.

John Lennon grabbed his harmonica. Ringo kicked up the tempo. “Please Please Me,” The Beatles’ first #1 single (in the UK) was born – and a bond between the band and George Martin was forged.

What would have happened if the lads insisted on doing it their way?

Songs You May Have Missed #575

11 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: karen o, sing 2 me, walter martin

Walter Martin feat. Karen O: “Sing 2 Me” (2014)

Ex-Walkmen singer-songwriter Walter Martin’s We’re All Young Together isn’t necessarily a children’s album per se–more a record inspired by his becoming a father. But its songs can be appreciated by any very young child–or anyone whose inner child is still alive and well.

“Sing 2 Me” is a duet with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O whose lyric typifies the playful tone of the album, marrying it with the fragile, magical twee of acts like the Weepies.

Songs You May Have Missed #574

09 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: porcupine tree, shesmovedon

Porcupine Tree: “Shesmovedon” (2005)

Originally released on the Lightbulb Sun album in 2000, the single version of “Shesmovedon” actually reached #4 on New Music Express‘ Independent chart across the pond that year.

The band later re-recorded the song during the sessions for 2005’s Deadwing LP and it is included as an unlisted bonus track on the American version of that record.

It’s this slightly punchier, guitars-to-the-fore version we present here, and it’s one more example (of the many throughout this blog) of Steven Wilson’s songwriting and production prowess.

Johnny Duncan & The Blue Grass Boys – “Last Train To San Fernando” –

09 Mar 2016 1 Comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: last train to san fernando

In a recent article titled 10 Records That Changed My Life, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson named “Last Train to San Fernando” by Johnny Duncan & his Bluegrass Boys, saying:

“Around this time, I heard a song on the radio and I really liked it, and I convinced my parents to let me buy a copy with my pocket money. It was folky and it had something of a skiffle beat, which was becoming the rage in England. It was Last Train to San Fernando, by Johnny Duncan and his Bluegrass Boys. It was an incredible piece of Americana music, but interestingly, it’s really a calypso song but done in a skiffle kind of way.”