DarloRich
Veteran Member
When they started out they were just Jefferson Pushbike.
i thought they were just Jefferson
When they started out they were just Jefferson Pushbike.
Same here - absolutely cracking song!I don't know much about them except the brilliant Echo Beach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k
I only ever organised one gig, and that was for a new band called Ashtrays Provided, two of whose members were twin younger brothers of Jools Holland (whatever happened to him?)
Speaking of whimsical names, how could a band with the naff name of the Beatles ever become famous?
The Electric Prunes were mentioned in a thread above - my favourite track of theirs was 'I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night', an all-time favourite title too: must be thirty years since I heard it, but I can still run it through my head.
If your computer has speakers, you can hear it again here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kVFfKezVo
(Just search Youtube for band / song name - I use it not to get free music, but to help decide whether or not to locate / buy a few CDs.)
Python Lee Jackson
Sounds a bit like two Class 47 names that got rolled into one by some clerical error, doesn't it?
Their most famous (only?) hit came from using a plastic Scotsman session vocalist who they hired in because their own man was somehow incapacitated. As they didn't have any money, they gave him something ridiculous for the job, but I forget what it was. It was of the order of a second-hand pair of jeans.
Despite being a fantastic single (one of my all time favourites) the record got nowhere first time around, but made it in 72 after the plastic Scot had hit the bigtime in the late summer of 71.
Strawberry Switchblade
This Mortal Coil
Kajagoogoo
The The
Aztec Camera
Men They Couldn't Hang
Jesus & Mary Chain
Camper Van Beethoven
In A Broken Dream - absolutely fantastic.
Who are This Mortal Coil? That is the name of a song by a mates band.
You could call them the 'house band' of Ivo Watts Russel. whose label was 4AD and whose principal artists were the Cocteau Twins. Darker, moodier, slower and more minimalist than the Cocteaus.Who are This Mortal Coil? That is the name of a song by a mates band.
i thought they were just Jefferson
You could call them the 'house band' of Ivo Watts Russel. whose label was 4AD and whose principal artists were the Cocteau Twins. Darker, moodier, slower and more minimalist than the Cocteaus.
As you probably already know, the phrase 'this mortal coil' is a crucial element in Hamlet's suicidal thoughts in his 'to be or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Surprised no-one's mentioned Neds Atomic Dustbin yet
another incarnation of the Cocteau Twins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Mortal_Coil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM&index=81&list=PLSlKlIJXX46mPeB92l7yhoZX8ensvvn0k
Elizabeth Fraser also duetted with Jeff Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPvnIKCJYA&index=82&list=PLSlKlIJXX46mPeB92l7yhoZX8ensvvn0k
Massive attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
Not to be confused with this different, Liz Fraser - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Fraser
Liz Fraser did more than "duet" with Jeff Buckley... thankfully there's no YouTube link for that!
Flock of Seagulls
and the appallingly named "Scraping Foetus off the Wheel" (Google if you think I'm making it up!)
have you looked on redtube? All i know is, i won't be going swimming with him, sadly..
We`ve Got A Fuzzbox And We`re Gonna Use It.
Gay Bikers on Acid.
And Fine Young Cannibals were named after a film.Of course Mott The Hoople took their name from a novel and Death Cab For Cutie were named after a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song.
Wasn't it Gaye Bikers on Acid?