LIST 156 - 15/05/15 (The Many Guises Of... Tim Smith)
Hello there,
Seems like a long eight days since the That Music List Election Night Special (q.v.), doesn't it... The less said about the Election result the better, I think, other than to note that only the fact it's already been included on at least one previous List prevented the uploading of Jarvis Cocker's "Running the World" the following morning.
Still, where there's life, there's hope, so let's play some music for comfort and succour.
This week's List is the first of several I've put together which feature performances associated in some way with one artist or artiste, hence the "The many guises of..." strapline. This first choice is a poignant one, too, given that Tim Smith's near-fatal, and irrefutably life-changing, heart attack and stroke in 2008 have effectively terminated the playing and producing career of one of modern music's most fertile imaginations. A terrible, terrible shame.
Here's something celebratory by which to remember the big man at his best, then - 20 songs all either starring Tim (Cardiacs, Tim Smith, Sea Nymphs, Panixphere), originally by him (former Cardiac William D Drake's sublime cover), or else featuring him on production and/or instrumental duties (everything else). I couldn't not finish with the short film "Jim's Shame", featuring an archetypal Tim tantrum and eventual storming off - to return to the recording studio who knows when, if ever.
J xx
Seems like a long eight days since the That Music List Election Night Special (q.v.), doesn't it... The less said about the Election result the better, I think, other than to note that only the fact it's already been included on at least one previous List prevented the uploading of Jarvis Cocker's "Running the World" the following morning.
Still, where there's life, there's hope, so let's play some music for comfort and succour.
This week's List is the first of several I've put together which feature performances associated in some way with one artist or artiste, hence the "The many guises of..." strapline. This first choice is a poignant one, too, given that Tim Smith's near-fatal, and irrefutably life-changing, heart attack and stroke in 2008 have effectively terminated the playing and producing career of one of modern music's most fertile imaginations. A terrible, terrible shame.
Here's something celebratory by which to remember the big man at his best, then - 20 songs all either starring Tim (Cardiacs, Tim Smith, Sea Nymphs, Panixphere), originally by him (former Cardiac William D Drake's sublime cover), or else featuring him on production and/or instrumental duties (everything else). I couldn't not finish with the short film "Jim's Shame", featuring an archetypal Tim tantrum and eventual storming off - to return to the recording studio who knows when, if ever.
J xx
CARDIACS – Jibber and Twitch
(rehearsal) (2003)
TIM SMITH – Rat Mice Lice Time
(1990/1995)
SIDI BOU SAID – Wormee (1995)
THE SHRUBBIES – Carefree Clothes
(1997)
PANIXPHERE – To Go Off and Things
(1992)
ADRIAN BORLAND – I’m Your Freedom
(1997)
NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA – End of
Chimes (2006)
THE MONSOON BASSOON – The King of Evil
(1999)
PINHEAD NATION – Where’s Herne Bay?
(1993)
SPRATLEYS JAPS – Secret (1999)
GERTRUDE – Comes Around (1997)
WILLIAM D DRAKE – Savour (2010)
EAT – Double Bubble (1993)
THE TRUDY – Lost Summer of Love (2007)
LEVITATION – Cloud Shine (1992)
THE SCARAMANGA SIX – The Poison Pen
(2004)
FLINCH – Spoonz (1995)
STARS IN BATTLEDRESS – Secrets and
Signals (2003)
THE SEA NYMPHS – Shaping the River
(1992)
THE SOUND – Counting the Days (1986)
CARDIACS – Jim’s Shame (2003)
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