I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Album cover art . . . . . .how many songs from the Basement can you spot?


 


Blind Connie Williams - 'Lead Me Home’ (sic)

Never what you might call a church goer! (confirmed Atheist! - ED) religious songs about the 'circle being unbroken' and 'going home' aways appealed, gospel and blues songs sharing the theme have always fascinated and this is no exception what a glorious song! For a Sunday!




Antoine Payen

Antoine says: "Yes I know, I posted this video a while ago, but whatever. Blind Connie Williams was a street musician in Philadelphia, he played from time to time with Reverend Gary Davis in New York. It's very little known today but I find it extremely moving, I can't get tired of watching and hearing him play and sing. He recorded about twenty tracks in 1961 that can be found on an excellent album just titled "Philadelphia Street Singer". Indispensable.”

he’s not wrong!

Two Bit Troubadours - Brown’s Ferry Blues

 I LIKE THESE TWO!





Kat [Dennings] first photoshoot!?

Kat commented on her first photoshoot but I still don’t get the joke!

My first photoshoot where they established me as a real BANANA WEIGHING SHOE TABLERIST”


What’s a banana weighing shoe tablerist?

 . . .and why do I find this funny?


Why IS she weighing bananas?


Why ARE the shoes on the table?


 

Saturday, June 27, 2026

Les Difficiles de Petion-Ville - Pou Youn Bon Zanmi (1972) | GUESS I’M DUMB

might sign off the day (still hot here tho’ below 30 degrees in the day for the first time in days! . . . . sheesh!)
Guess I’m Dumb does manage to find some great stuff huh?
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Les Difficiles de Petion-Ville Pou Youn Bon Zanmi (1972)

I" know very little about Haitian music - this is seemingly a style of Meringue known as Compas, and it absolutely smokes. “ GUESS I’M DUMB


White House playset - collectibles

 Some of you will know I collect action figures and they often have additional pieces of landscape buildings and back grounds so today I got this for my diorama of the White House



Eurythmics - A&E Live By Request - Sony Music Studios New York USA 2000 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 

Eurythmics - A&E Live By Request Sony Music Studios, NYC, NY, USA 19.01.2000

 An XRay  Special


Eurythmics 

A&E Live By Request

Sony Music Studios, NYC, NY, USA

19.01.2000


01. Missionary Man

02. Thorn In My Side

03. Walking On Broken Glass

04. 17 Again

05. Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

06. Here Comes The Rain Again

07. Would I Lie To You

08. There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

09. I Need A Man

10. I Saved The World Today

11. Miracle Of Love

12. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

13. Why

14. Power To The Meek


a favourite band and perhaps our greatest modern singer (IMHO)

Now I liked the Tourists but will never forget the appearance of Eurythmics 

on the Old Grey Whistle Test 

and blown away doesn’t really cover my reaction!


For the boys over at FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

EURYTHMICS - Belinda & Never Gone Cry Again OGWT

check out Clem Burke on drums ( a favourite drummer and sadly lost to us) also Holgar Czukay on French Horn on Never Gonna Cry Again
Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT), broadcast by BBC2, on 2nd June1981.

TURN IT UP - LOUD!
[So the neighbours notice!]

Television - Live San Francisco, CA. 1978 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 

Television - Live San Francisco, CA. 1978

Rebooted...
Originally posted January 30, 2023


A SILENT WAY re-boot


Television - The Old Waldorf
San Francisco, CA.
June 29, 1978

Soundboard @320
aka- Waldorf Moon



Drop by and listen download and comment!

If you listen to one track today make it this!

Television - The Dreamers Dream - Live at The Waldorf 1978


Television - MARQUEE MOON - Live at The Waldorf 1978

The keen eyed among you will recall that neighbour Diamond Dave shared the Uncut Archive of the top 500 albums of the 1970s and one album came first
Marquee Moon by Television! Now I said it wouldn’t make my top 30 but heck this live in SF in 1978 made me re-think and no mistake.

TURN IT UP especially Silent Ways choice - THE DREAMS’ DREAM


https://workupload.com/file/9ADdEZxvYeB




Wet Leg - Mangetout - selected by Chris Frantz (Facebook page)

 Chris Frantz (the Drumming Talking Head!?) likes Wet Leg!


we do too!

George and Paul (Simon that is!) sing Homeward Bound [SNL 1976]

Somebody played this on Flackkenahock and it is telling that I immediately wondered if it was AI [never having seen or heard this clip before] . . . . . . . I understand it is from Saturday Night Live and is genuine

It IS one thing . . . . undoubtedly lovely!

Paul Simon and George Harrison - "Homeward Bound” SNL 1976

said to be written on my hometown railway station on the banks of the Mersey River
[I wanted to get out too!]