I’ve had to crack open a beer. On a Monday night!
Posts by Rick Gofton
Good morning, here’s my #5DebutAlbums8589
1. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
2. Isn’t Anything - My Bloody Valentine
3. George Best - The Wedding Present
4. Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
5. Miss America - Mary Margaret O’Hara
Album cover of Daddy's Highway, the debut album by The Bats, released in 1987 on Flying Nun Records.
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The Bats - Daddy's Highway
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet and it probably won't make my top 5 but it's just fantastic - one of the quintessential albums of the early Flying Nun era.
Hi,
here’s my #5debutalbums0509
1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
4. Fleet Foxes - s/t
5. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Bubblers : LCD, Bloc Party, DM Stith, Frabbits, CYHSY, Band of Horses.
Such a great advert. And song obvs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib9...
Here’s my #5debutalbums9094
1. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
2. Ride - Nowhere
3. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
4. Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness
5. The Breeders - Pod
28 Weeks Later, Knives Out, The Girl With The Needle, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
That was quite an evening. Can’t believe it’s nearly 40 years ago.
Could've been any one of my top 10 really, but this one felt right. It's the quintessential R.E.M. song.
#REMtop30
#MusicChallenge
1. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
"The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uX0...
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#MusicChallenge
2. Driver 8
"Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5M...
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3. Gardening At Night
“The yard is nothing but a fence”
youtu.be/KStirqnmD6Y?...
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4. These Days
“We are young despite the years
We are concern, we are hope despite the times”
youtu.be/DLLibnwtEBI?...
#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge
5. You Are The Everything
"I look at her and I see the beauty of the light of music
The voices talking somewhere in the house, late spring"
The best R.E.M. lyric.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IphY...
#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge
6. Harborcoat
"There's a splinter in your eye and it reads 'react'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_5...
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7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
"Gentlemen, don't get caught"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmWW...
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8. Perfect Circle
"Eleven shadows way out of place"
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9. Find The River
“We’re closer now than light years to go”
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10. Radio Free Europe
“Radio station, decide yourself”
Saw R.E.M. about 20 times but never saw them play this.
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11. I Believe
"What do you do between the horns of the day?"
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12. Cuyahoga
"Let's put our heads together and start a new country up"
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13. Old Man Kensey
"Flags in his elbow, time to breathe"
11th Nov 1984, Whistle Test, BBC2
The first REM song I heard. Sat for an hour playing and rewinding the video, transfixed by this utterly beguiling piece of art. Changed my life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdz3...
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14. Oddfellows Local 151
“Firehoooooouuuuuuuuussssse”
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15. Good Advices
"A familiar face, foreign place, I'll forget your name"
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16. Nightswimming
"The photograph reflects every street light a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night"
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17. Life And How To Live It
“When you tire of one side the other serves you best”
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18. Pretty Persuasion
"Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong"