apologize in advance for the difficult navigation and lack of readability of this blog. The basic function of the online journal is not very suitable for the presentation of my work. However, for those who would venture into the pages of this blog, they will discover, by chance of their research, the scope of my work geosynthetics.
Most of the work that I present on this Card has never been published on this blog, except a solitary white and ardent opposition . I hope they can be part of a forthcoming exhibition.
Thank you in advance for your visit. Best wishes for this new year 2011.
Acquired by correspondence in Amoeba United States around 2008 Ref: west018 - Published by Western Vinyl in the U.S. in 2003 Support: CD 12 cm 9 tracks I listened to a
cassette compilations of my car when it happened that way I forgot, excel, more than seven minutes without a second too long. I thought it was an excellent title Bill Callahan of Smog or I could not remember. It's that got to a red light or at the end of my journey when I could look at the cover of the cassette, that I realized my mistake: I'd just listen and greatly appreciate new Tangent of Burd Early . But my mistake is understandable: if James Angelos, the New York behind the pseudo Burd Early, not a voice as deep as that of Callahan, construction and instrumentation Tangent , and even how to raise his voice and intonations, make me think a lot of recent work in the former lead singer of Smog. It Philip R. who put me first on the track Burd Early to 2002-2003 in giving me the link to the MP3 Dritfwood at Epitonic. Subsequently, I collected a few others, including Fertilizer Waiting To Happen , Phonecall Away and Tangent. Meanwhile before listening to this tape, I also gained one way or another two CDs Burd Early, Observatory and Mind and mother, but upon returning to home I was disappointed that neither contained Tangent. Never mind, just a few clicks this Leveler to cover more qu'insipide was ordered. The key of this record is that of slow songs, acoustic, with instrumental parts that make you think for example the work of Mick Turner . A comparison not chosen randomly, as Turner and Burd Early were label mates at Western Vinyl and the original edition of Observatory has even been taken out by King Crab, a label of Anchor and Hope, the label the Dirty Three. Of these songs calm, I remember most Phonecall away, lit on purpose by the voice of Rosario Garcia-Montero, and Desire asymptotic very successful with its pedal steel, which has a small side Leonard Cohen in song. The central portion of the disc is more energetic, with Tangent First, the battery pack by Tim Barnes and Here we go again, that reminds me a lot of instrumental tracks from Calexico (but those not taste Mexican).
After 2005, Burd Early took the tangent and James Angelos has launched a new project, And Ret , who released Album Gasworks in 2006.
Purchased at Virgin Megastore in London in spring 1984 Ref: CBS 84725 - Published by CBS in the Netherlands in 1980 Support: 33 tours 30 cm 14 tracks
Outside Holland, career discography of Nits started in 1979 with their debut album at CBS, Tent. We really did not know at the time that the group had released in 1977 at her first single, Yes or No , and even an album, printed in 1000 copies in 1978. Tent, which I found cheap at Gibert Jeune at one of my first trips to Paris, is the first of a trilogy of albums of new wave Nits to store next to those of ' Ultravox! of Wire or XTC. I bought Work, the third, which was released in 1981, but initially I had New flat, I've always considered more or less my favorite of the lot, that tape duplication. If, paradoxically, I found myself in London to buy at full price (£ 6.49) this disc Dutch well aired in France, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that I lived in London at the time, I had a little money, I found that the disk (of course) but I think my motivation was primarily to make sure that I had all my favorite records of Nits few months after purchasing the same place the mini-album Kilo, too slow and too jazzy, a huge and abrupt disappointment after the great success that had been pop album Omsk . is the reference in my column Nits disc Yes Yes that made me want to highlight their first records, I'm not so often. I was very pleasantly surprised by listening carefully New flat. This disc is less synthetic than I remembered and much more energetic and even electric. Some keyboards, for sure, but not that much. Just a few snippets of drum machine, a lot of electric guitar, but ultimately the two most value are the battery, which is also supported, and bass, huge. There is not a weakness of the fourteen tracks on the album. It speaks of places (apartments, office ), objects, people too, and even a guy who turns into an object (A statue ). Everything is covered in a tone as detached as the graphics of the cover is clean. The new apartment New flat which opens the album during its early B-side, cooking different Different kitchen. Both, like Uncle on Mars, I do not think badly Devo. It is even more blatant New flat in live recording in 1982 in Haarlem found, with 361 other new titles, in Files Nits. I do not want to multiply the comparisons because the disc has its intrinsic value, excellent, but the reference points are the most obvious XTC's Barry Andrews era, Wire ( Saragossa particular) and more rarely Kraftwerk ( His first object ). Singing on the chorus of Safety in numbers makes me strongly think about a title of the first Talking Heads but I have not taken the time to find which one. I'm not far from thinking that the group consider these first discs - wrongly - as simple short pieces of youth. In 1989, 33 laps on the triple / double live CD Urk , Then Work was barely represented and Tent and New flat completely absent. Same or substantially on most compilations released. These three books have been published on CD at a time, but as much of their music at CBS, they are long out of print and sold at prices prohibitive to occasion. Given that they are not available for download, the best is yet to buy the editions in 33 laps, yet affordable. These records are essential to any fan of new wave are well worth the effort.
Aloha drums! in concert during the tour Tent Udenhout to June 22, 1980, with real Hawaiian guitar in a rhythm reminiscent Battery clamps XTC.
Purchased at Record & Tape Exchange in Notting Hill Gate 18 November 2010 Ref: NPCDSP0002 - Published by Neapolitan England in 2009 - Promo use only not for resale Support: CD 12 cm Titles: punk spirit (radio edit) - Punk Spirit (Album Version) - Punk Spirit (Instrumental)
It is used to record that the bins at 10 pence: to bet pennies on disks that strangers would never buy on other occasions. Wavves I saw pass the name, The Wave Pictures I know a little, while Wave Machines I do not know anything but the cover and the title is catchy, so ... Wave Machines is a band from Liverpool and Punk spirit is her fourth single, released in 2009 a few weeks after their first album (the only date), Wave if you're really There . Apparently, the first titles were quite electro, but this one at all. We're in a pop-rock record of good quality, with the scale, a hook in "Ah ah ah ah ah" on the chorus, which is not frowned upon: "Where is my mind punk when I need? . This CD adds to my now long list of promo CD in unique trade: In this intermediate phase of launch of online sales, Punk spirit is released for download in 45 rounds (with a cover slightly different and another song on side B) but This CD was produced solely for the press and professionals, and AFAIK is the only place where you can find the instrumental version of Punk spirit.
Acquired at the show at any of Millésium in Epernay January 16, 2011 Ref: CVL. 55,013 - Edited by Coral in France circa 1957 Support: 33 tours 25 cm 8 tracks
A beautiful Sunday in winter, cold, dry and very clear, during a first exit off the year fishing finds recordings. I was not super optimistic because I knew what to expect at Millésium: a handful of booths outside and twenty others in the room, those flea market, expensive and with little discs. And indeed, only two out of the stands had a few records that could interest me. I found this disc in the first two, but this beautiful piece enough for me. In addition, I had the good surprise to hear me announce a unique price of 1 € for all the hard stand, which in this context to 25 cm in superb condition was totally unexpected and almost correct. So I caught this beautiful goldfish! The cover is a lot to the charm of this disc. It is signed Max Dufour. He made sure many others, including several for Benny to see in Rock Love Rock 'n' roll . Danny Stewart was born in Hawaii. Stewart, it's weird for a Hawaiian, but it explained very well because he finds that his father was Irish-écosso. Danny is also known under the name Kalauawa. addition to the texts on the back of his records, books The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian musican Lorene Ruymar gives us information on his biography: he was born in Honolulu and he left Hawaii in 1929 to accompany a performance by Johnny Noble. He moved to California where he worked extensively in film and radio. He recorded with Alfred Apaka George Kainapau and Bing Crosby. He returned to Hawaii in 1960 to host a radio show and he died there in 1962. Danny Stewart was considered at the time as a great steel guitar from the Hawaiian, but it seems forgotten now. I suspect that none of the albums released under his name has never been reissued on CD. These records, he has obviously made towards the end of his career in America in the 1950s. He sings on some, but not on the Hawaiian Reveries, which are entirely instrumental. Given the pedigree of man, we're not surprised to discover a very clean record, with American, not particularly "roots", tending towards the easy listening. The tempo, marked by the double bass is generally slow, and instrumentation makes great use of steel guitar, effectively supported by the electric guitar and a little ukulele. The directory is in keeping. It consists of popular tunes of the first third of the twentieth century ( Shine on harvest moon , By the Light of the Silvery Moon , Moonlight and roses , Among My Souvenirs , When Day Is Done ) and songs from Hollywood films whose framework the exotic Hawaii ( My isle of golden dreams , film Lake Placid Serenade and Ka-lu-a , the love song of the film Bird of Paradise ). Pagan Love Song the link between the two since it was originally a hit in 1929 that inspired a Hollywood film of the same title in 1950.
Acquired probably Little Shop Primitive Reims in 1990 Ref: 607 101 WMD - Edited by Justine in France in 1990 Support: 45 laps 17 cm Titles: My home (New formula, Radio Edit) - / - Bolide
This week I watched with pleasure Be Kind Rewind , the film by Michel Gondry, the former drummer and producer of videos Yes Yes. Suddenly, I was determined to do what I had long planned : Out one disk group to talk about here. If I bought his release in 1989 Everyone everyone , the debut album Yes Yes I bitterly regret not to have done the same for the stunning Formidable in 1992. Especially since there are surely almost ten years now, I replaced my cassette copy of the album with a CD-R (probably through Old Thorax with two bonus tracks on this single) that, like many of my first burned CDs, it almost does not pass anymore! Like what, a good old 45s well maintained, if we kept a plate in running, is sometimes more reliable. This applies to My house, a song that was originally included on each everyone . This new formula has been recorded specially for this single the following year in 1990. My house is a perfect example of the style Yes Yes. Musically, there often as a key new wave and, given the subject matter and the apparent indifference, I think particularly Nits first three albums, Tent at Work . In the lyrics, I especially like the phrase " Promiscuity cheese smells! Bolide , B side is an instrumental that was not on the album (There's a dub version on the maxi CD), but it's still a long-standing group title because Michel Gondry had achieved in 1988 an animated film on a first version of Bolide , with more guitar. It reminds me rather The Killers The Honeymoon , particularly J4 in its remix version Subtitled . With a name like that (I do not know how the owners of the brand character of Enid Blyton have missed that) and its false air of naive, Yes Yes had to be daunting one. They were not helped by the fact that the labels that have released their albums have both put the key under the door shortly after the release of records. Etienne Charry , guitarist, singer and songwriter of the group, continues its eclectic and original musical path, off the beaten track of the disc, shows illustrations sound through exhibitions of art music. On its website, adjusting the radio on Yes Yes can find full info about the group, as well as unreleased and video clips. We learn in passing that several projects emerged from the records, long out of print, were unsuccessful. Injury, especially a proposed anthology could have been called Yes Yes are the World!
The clip My house directed by Michel Gondry.
Yes Yes A very rock performer My home concert under the Eiffel Tower in 1992.
Acquired at Age Concern in Dover December 29, 2010 Ref: POP 753 - Published by His Master's Voice in England in 1960 Support: 45 laps 17 cm Titles: Shakin 'All Over - / - Yes Sir, That's My Baby
In the batch of discs purchased that day at Age Concern, here are definitely my best hoe, Lonnie Donegan with . Shakin 'All Over is a classic rock song, echoed by almost everyone, Vince Taylor, The Who, but I realize that before buying the 45 laps I had this version original disc in any home and I knew her very badly. Like many I believe, I too tend to start the history of British rock with the Beatles and the Stones, but before them was particularly Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Vince Taylor and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates , who reached the top of the charts in 1960 with this Shakin 'All Over , their fourth single. The May 13, 1960, the day of recording this album, the label had planned to register the group as side A Yes Sir, That's My Baby an American popular song from 1925, taken dozens times and in all styles, including, it is surely the only point of intersection of their discographies, by Georges Jouvin . The group had already recorded a version of this song a year earlier, wilder apparently that was not published. She might have remained completely new if it had not been put in place thereof in a reissue of the 45 laps in 1976. In any case, as there Yes Sir, That's My Baby rock is a nice, very poppy, not far in the spirit of Buddy Holly . It would surely have had some success, but eventually she found herself relegated to the B side of 45s. Why? Because the label had left the group's second choice title, the day before recording, Johnny Kidd had written in a few minutes a new song, Shakin 'All Over . The song has been canned with more than two times, with just a guitar overdub with a lighter using improvised bottleneck. The guitar solo on this classic is held by Joe Moretti , who was not a permanent member of the Pirates (but he also plays on the next single, Restless). This name is unknown to non-specialists, but the guy has quite a pedigree. This is particularly he who, in 1959, supplied the guitar solo Brand New Cadillac Vince Taylor ! On its website, Joe Moretti tells of how delusional and exciting meeting with Johnny Kidd and the registration of Shakin 'All Over . In my ears, who took things the wrong way from the years 1980, Shakin 'All Over sounds like a concentrate of all the rockabilly of the 1950s, rockabilly crazy revered and unearthed by Cramps, one with the guitar so wild Link Wray. If Brand new cadillac has sold just at the time, especially as the BBC, where advertising is prohibited, refused to broadcast it, Shakin 'All Over was a real success in 1960 (if it was not sold many copies, it was very unlikely that I unearthed one in a store of the English province fifty years later). Overseas, the song was a tube in 1965, after a recovery by Chad Allan / The Guess Who. This probably explains why Johnny Kidd recorded this year a new version, Shakin'all over '65, which gives pride to the organ. But Johnny did not take much longer for his classic, died the year since esy following a car accident.
Offered by Alig Fodder by correspondence in December 2010 Ref: CON147 - Published by State51 The Conspiracy in England in 2010 Support: CD 12 cm
11 titles in 2008, a group appointed Idol Fodder mini-album came out Babytalk . This limited edition disc, released confidentially to the United States, was part a collection entitled Pregnancy (Pregnancy ). Pregnancy has been a bit long, but Idol Fodder has finally delivered late 2010 an album completely successful, Classical music, the first exit disk State51 The Conspiracy , attributed this time to Family Fodder , the name used most often by Alig Fodder and his associates since 1979. The group name is different but it's the same project matured. First, the basic training is the same at Alig and Darlin Singh-Kaul (being a family affair, it is noted that the girl Darlin Dominique Levillain, the singer greatest hits Family Fodder). And most importantly, almost all major titles Babytalk are repeated here: The onliest thing , Strangest games, Death and the Maiden Analyze and my life? , renamed Be more wise . Not missing, and that's a shame that the excellent Infamy , perhaps because the title was first released in Germany on a 45 Alig Fodder assigned. because I hope you follow the genealogy of this disc is decidedly complicated. There is indeed fifth title Classical music we already knew, the equally excellent Greed and fear . On Babytalk , we found a short instrumental version entitled Full term, but among the unpublished compilation More great hits , it is the same version that was, except that s 'Hippy chick called ! But forget all that heavy a little family history, especially since most of those who will listen to Classical music discover such securities at that time. What matters most is that this album is a coherent project, resulting from recording sessions in Devon with a stable formation. From lullaby Primeval pony to rhyme Do Do What You Want To Do , the first part of the disc is marked by a great calm and great serenity. Even Whatever Happened to David Ze? and Ancestor's feet, the two titles inspired openly highlife or African rumba, slow and everything seems fluffy (and this is not a criticism). There are also parts and more psychedelic removed. Greed and fear , which opens with a creaking door and includes a kitchen sink (which may be the jacket art), includes a guitar part that reminds me Playing golf, the first 45 laps of Family Fodder. In the words of Do not get me high, Alig has even been helped by Ian Hill, a former member of the group at the time of the first album including Monkey banana kitchen . The baby Fodder grew well. More than thirty years, he kept all his qualities and his inventiveness and has become a contemporary classic. It's not too late to make his acquaintance, as one can expect a rare event in 2011: the announcement of Family Fodder Concert ...
Offered by Creation Records in late 1986 or early 1987 Offered by the Primitive Radio Big Primitive Sound System at the Apart Coffee Reims January 8, 2011 Ref: CRE LP 013 - Published by Creation England in 1987 Support: 33 laps 30 cm
11 tracks is a long story, but it is indeed a single copy of this disc that I got offered twice .. . twenty-four years apart! I organized a mini-tour with two concerts in France for Jasmine Minks in March 1987. The first was on March 6 Chez Paulette at Toul and the second the next day at the MJC Claudel, Reims. In between, we stopped at Nancy for a session in the studios of Radio France and we learned the catastrophe of the Herald of Free Enterprise in Zeebrugge (It seems to me that traveling by Minks Calais this weekend there but it was still shaken everyone). I do not know if Creation gave me one or more copies of this disc to promote the tour, still is it that I found myself giving my own copy Primitive Radio because I had none else. The disk was then integrated disco radio and stayed there until yesterday. I have often thought since, as Sunset, the title track of this compilation has been published on this disc, so it failed in my collection of Jasmine Minks all this time. Just yesterday, The Primitive organized a Big Sound System at the Apart Coffee with a scholarship to the discs, including an attempt to shore up the finances of the association. I expected to find as usual records donated or deposited by supporters of the radio, but I was surprised to discover that, for the second time (I missed the first because I was holiday), the radio also sold his own collection of vinyl records. Proportionately, there remained many records, but I had still had a few shots to the heart in rediscovering the best record I really went on the air, as Do not let's start , the maxi They Might Be Giants , which still bore the words "The darling of Ketchup" and has also provided one of the signs of my show Vivonzeureux! . I bought a small pack of discs, you will have the opportunity to speak, but when I came across Sunset , even with the cover on the pad Premature Surrender of the association up to organize the concerts, I've made the offer, since in this case it was more of a homecoming.
no question that I let the Jasmine Minks I just get even for a photo anthology of the last five presidents Primitive Radio. Boris is laughing the loudest and is surely the most courageous because he has accepted this responsibility in a difficult period.
The Jasmine Minks were really a group important in the early years Creation. With their first 45 Think! early 1984, they were the first band signed outside of the band of friends of the founders of the label. They were also the first to release an album on Creation, the six titles One Two Three Four Five Six Seven, all good preachers go to heaven in September 1984. And with this Sunset , they were also the first by 1986 to release a compilation of their recordings Creation. I do not know what motivated the release of this compilation after only two albums. The most plausible it was to mark the occasion and find a second wind after the departure of Adam Sanderson, one of two singers-songwriters-guitarists. Anyway, if it were to sell records, it was a bad start with a pocket as ugly and missed! There is nothing great, but I much prefer the back with a photo Coupon Minks smiling. It is stated in the credits that the titles were selected by Alan McGee himself. Okay, but we can not say that Alan was too complicated life, since the album offers, in chronological order, sides A and B of the four 45s released earlier by the Jasmine Minks, with intercalated front-end for the A title of the first album, the excellent Ghost of a young man , and unpublished Sunset (Quite in line with the group's productions at the time, with voices of both singers and choirs and "La la la " on the chorus that are reminiscent Television Personalities . It's still a bit below the other titles of the group and we understand that title has been excluded from previous releases.), and for the B title for the second album, Forces Network (which was also, in another version, B-side of the maxi Cold Heart). But after all, why make life difficult since there are only good here, with classic Think! and Where the traffic goes , my darling What's happening and superb Cold Heart. B-sides are the same barrel, including the energetic World's No. up with the refrain "The world's No. place for a romantic today.
This disc has never been reissued but there are eight of the eleven tracks on the compilation date of the last group, The revenge of ... The Jasmine Minks . The CD has yet to find (Charlie Dontsurf bought it a few months ago) but it is no longer in the catalog of Red Cherry, which distributes more Revol. For cons, the album is still available for download.
Jim Shepherd in session at Radio Radio France Nancy March 7, 1987, hours before the second concert of Jasmine Minks at the MJC Claudel, Reims.
Acquired from Indoor Market in Canterbury 28 December 2010 Ref: BZS 6 - Edited by Some Bizarre in England in 1981 Support: 45s 17cm Titles: Bedsitter - / - Facility Girls
Oh, they pranksters are the English with their peculiar logic. I knew that among them, the holiday of Christmas is followed by the holiday of Boxing Day, but I had not imagined that this year, both days fall on a weekend, they would be followed by a Bank Holiday Monday and a Bank Holiday Tuesday. Fortunately for me in this particular case, but unfortunately in a broader perspective, the Liberal England deregulated and the twenty-first century, where some stores are open all day Sunday and hypermarkets 7 days on 7 and 24 to 24, most buses were operating and more than half the stores were open on that Tuesday, especially in Canterbury , a city used to welcome tourists. So even if several charity shops were closed, I could do some shopping, especially at this record store, Indoor Market, which had several boxes of 45 rounds at 50 pence albums and even £ 1, I n ' have not taken the time to watch all. I will certainly have the opportunity to return, but Soft Cell for me it and it will remain primarily the maxi Tainted love with the sequence with Where Did Our Love Go then raging in booms and Persuasion opposite B. I even went to buy the maxi The soul inside to recovery, always disappointing to lose Born to B side and I got a few things here and there by the way since then, but looking their discography, I realize that there are only two songs that I really retain more Tainted love, the two singles that followed, Bedsitter and Say hello, wave goodbye. latter, I did not always. Bedsitter , I already had on the first album, but a day of scarcity as it is in good condition and with an unprecedented B-side, I finally take the plunge and buy it. Jon Savage in an article on Bedsitter for Guardian, Sparks speaks about Soft Cell. In their new wave generation, the formula duet with a singer and instrumentalist deleted exuberant I would rather think Suicide , even if musically the two groups have nothing to do, Soft Cell is more akin to their colleagues promoting English Depeche Mode. I'd still also a parallel with Associates, also based in a duet with a musician and a singer diva dark rather camp. Bedsitter tells the story of a bored guy alone in his room sublet a Sunday after leaving the previous day. To stay in England, but from Leeds, the home city of Soft Cell, Manchester, one could say that this song, very dark in tone from the early 80's, anticipates a cocktail of unlikely New Order dancing to the next student that explodes in box, and Smiths self-pity, for the next " Oh, I'm miserable now " the same the next day ("Waiting for a visitor , though no one knows I'm here I'm waiting (...) for something, I'm only passing time ). A like a This Is The Day of The The is not really gay and it looks the navel, but thirty years after that always pleases me. In style, Facility girl, I do not know anything and that is the portrait of a secretary is not all bad either.
Two 45 rpm to 50 pence. Not bad ...
The video Bedsitter , the first video directed by Tim Pope . It tells the story on its website.
Colleges participating in the Challenge 2011 HELICA
Hello,
Given the number of registered schools this year and to meet safety (number seating in the room VARET LOOS-EN-GOHELLE), we have to restrict the number of students to 20 max (24 initially provided!) and also the number of prototypes 6 max ! (Especially for appearance before the jury)
Note that the challenge this year takes place the day after a holiday (Ascension Thursday)!
(your facilities be open?)
The colleges are participating in the Challenge 2011 Hélica LOOS-EN-GOHELLE on June 3, 2011 are
COLLEGE ( Number of students / Number of prototypes )
College R. CASSIN LOOS-GOHELLE (20 / 6 )
College of Descartes-Montaigne LIEVIN ( 20 / 6 )
College St BERTULPHE Fruges (?? / ?? )
Lycée Ste Marie Fruges (students DP6) (?? / ?? )
College P. VERLAINE St Nicolas-LEZ-ARRAS (?? / ?? )
College A. SCHWEITZER LA BASSEE (?? / ?? )
Vocational College stands of Sallaumines (students DP6) (?? / ?? )
College G. RIEUX to RONCHIN (?? / ?? )
College G. Philips HENIN BEAUMONT (?? / ?? )
College PA MONSIGNY Fauquembergues (?? / ?? )
College H. WALLON of MERICOURT (20 / 6)
College of JJ Rousseau CARVIN (20 / 5)
College L. Lagrange LILLERS (20 / 6)
College J. JAURES of LOMME (abandonment)
College R. Salengro St POL ON TERNOISE (?? / ?? )
College J. JAURES LENS (?? / ?? )
College P. Langevin Sallaumines (20 / 6)
College P. LANGEVIN to AIRCRAFT (?? / ?? )
College J. PREVERT of Heuchin (20 / 6)
College Y. GAGARINE de Montigny in GOHELLE (?? / ?? )
LONNIE DONEGAN AND HIS SKIFFLE GROUP : Times are getting hard boys
Acquired at Age Concern in Dover December 29, 2010 Ref: 7N.15158 - Published by Pye in England in 1958 Support: 45s 17cm Securities Times are getting hard boys - / - Lonesome Traveller
In the same shop as where I found a bunch of 45s new wave last year, including Siouxsie and the Banshees , there was this time it much less of the 80 discs, but a lot of discs in the early '60s, beginning with Shakin 'All Over Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (!), and even the late 50's as this Lonnie Donegan single from . Lonnie Donegan is best known for popularizing the skiffle in England, but what defines the best, maybe the title of his first American album, An Englishman Sings American Folk Songs . Here it takes two titles with traditional lyrics were set and popularized by Lee Hays member including Weavers Pete Seeger with . The jewel on this disc is Times are getting hard boys . Early this year, I have no intention to make vows, but the title could well sum up the atmosphere. With four million registered job center and double the poor, a police minister sentenced twice but still in office, a president who is primarily interested in movement of aircraft, probably because it just offered a brand new just for him, the atmosphere is not gay and times are tough, as said Ferre. Certainly no more difficult and certainly less than at other times, but the barometer does not suggest happiness and pleasure ... The only fault I can do to Lonnie Donegan for his version of this song is precisely'en of having removed much of the political content and to lean toward the pop by making it primarily a song love. If kept the chorus of Lee Hays, "Times are getting hard , boys, money's getting scarce. If Things Do not Get No Better, boys, gonna leave this place ", references to the difficulties of the farmer (crop failure, refusal of credit: the time does not change ...) and his desire to emigrate to California where the grass would be more Green (dream and utopia, in addition to Governor Schwarzenegger is now!) disappeared to make room for only regret not having enough money to offer her beautiful jewelry in addition to his eternal love. But when the tip reading the key groove, it's pure emotion that comes out of speakers. Donegan sings in a soft voice and whistles, there is a delicate acoustic guitar and bass punctuations and everything is very strong and very addictive. A great moment. All discographies indicate that the (small) tube of this disc (No. 28 in England) is Lonesome Traveller . There is no explicit indication of the face on the label but the matrix numbers ending in A and B indicate, however, that Times are getting hard boys was supposed to be the main title. However, we understand why it Lonesome Traveller is the most spent in radio: This is a nice, any more, but fast and very much in the style skiffle. These included two songs in 1958 on the second English album, simply titled Lonnie . They are also on numerous compilations, and as these records are now over fifty years there are really cheap. For my part, I just order the 5 CD box set The Lonnie Donegan collection, released in 2010 from Spectrum Audio. More than a hundred titles, even if there are a few of the caliber of Times are getting hard boys , that which promises good times in 2011 and should help keep her spirits .. .
