The Smashing Tunes Thread (Part 1)

Balbec on fire yet again.

U2 - Mysterious Ways Live at Slane 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfewnnmLTY

Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BNpK01eww

Squeeze - Is that love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4RKwGyOV0

A great pop song - Travis - Baby one more time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NwqN-xj9Xs

Bacharach and David?

Hugh and the boys did them justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

Another great Pop song - Pet Shop Boys - So Hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHYKjFD4Ow

[quote=“Thrawneen, post: 740087, member: 129”]Bacharach and David?

Hugh and the boys did them justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c
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You should invest in a Burt Bacharach compilation Thraw, you won’t be disappointed.

Again? He must look worse than Simon Weston at this stage.

Elbow - Mirrorball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMD7FIpq11Q

Wahey!

Any particular compilation you’d recommend? I’m familiar with their most popular songs, Bacharach being one of the holy Bs for a Beach Boys fan like me, along with the Byrds and Big Star. The Beatles would usually be mentioned there too but I think they’re shite for the most part.

For those of you who haven’t heard it yet, the new Nick Cave and Bad Seeds album, Push the Sky Away, is fucking brilliant.

very good.

This is a pale shadow of the Alternative thread

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GPN1XT5FL.jpg

Got this one a few years back,

I’ll give it a whirl so. A bit silly that I never explored his repertoire more thus far.

I’m a big fan of those kind of songwriters…the Tin Pan Alley crowd and people like Laura Nyro. Ever hear that song “Wedding Bell Blues” that she wrote and the 5th Dimension had a hit with? It’s pretty much as perfect as a song can be.

This is a smashing tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34I2dCO8U8A

one for the celtic bhoys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdGMkYFTTrg

recorded in the H-BLock long kesh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWxfTQq0Ig