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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Paul McCartney - Beautiful Junk, Paul McCartney Deep Cuts (A Butterboy Compilation)



"Its so easy to miss a lot of Paul McCartney's great tracks as he has been so prolific and has had many bigger hits throughout his career either solo or with Wings.  Here are my favorite deep cuts from his catalogue presented in somewhat chronological order. Tracklist 1 & 2 are predominately solo McCartney with a few exceptions and Tracklist 3 are only Paul McCartney & Wings deep cut tracks. Hope you enjoy a closer look at some of these deeper cuts.” Butterboy says

Track lists

CD1

01    Junk    :01:56    1970

02    That Would Be Something    :02:42    1970

03    Dear Boy    :02:15    1971

04    Eat at Home    :03:22    1971

05    Oh Woman, Oh Why    :04:35    1971

06    Too Many People    :04:12    1971

07    Waterfalls    :04:46    1971

08    When the Wind is Blowing    :03:52    1971

09    Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five    :05:32    1973

10    I'll Give You a Ring    :03:09    1974

11    You Gave Me the Answer    :02:06    1974

12    Beware My Love    :06:22    1976

13    Warm and Beautiful    :03:15    1976

14    Arrow Through Me    :03:39    1979

15    Winter Rose - Love Awake    :04:59    1979

16    Check My Machine    :05:53    1980

17    Secret Friend    :10:31    1980

18    Dress Me Up as a Robber , Robber Riff    :03:42    1982

19    Here Today    :02:29    1982

20    Rainclouds    :03:14    1982

21    The Pound is Sinking    :02:55    1982

22    Wanderlust    :03:51    1982

23    Footprints    :04:32    1986

24    However Absurd    :04:59    1986

25    Move Over Busker    :04:06    1986

26    Lindiana    :05:50    1987

27    We All Stand Together    :04:24    1987

28    Distractions    :04:41    1989

29    Flying to My Home    :04:15    1989

30    Loveliest Thing    :03:59    1989

31    My Brave Face    :03:19    1989

32    Back on My Feet    :04:24    1989


CD2

33    This One    :04:10    1989

34    Down to the River    :03:31    1993

35    I Can't Imagine    :04:37    1993

36    Kicked Around No More    :05:24    1993

37    Long Leather Coat    :03:35    1993

38    Style Style    :06:00    1993

39    Sweet Sweet Memories    :04:04    1993

40    The Lovers That Never Were    :03:43    1993

41    Calico Skies    :02:32    1997

42    Great Day    :02:10    1997

43    Somedays    :04:15    1997

44    Souvenir    :03:42    1997

45    Young Boy    :03:54    1997

46    Freedom    :03:34    2001

47    Riding Into Jaipur    :04:08    2001

48    Fine Line    :03:05    2005

49    Friends to Go    :02:43    2005

50    Jenny Wren    :03:49    2005

51    Riding to Vanity Fair    :05:07    2005

52    This Never Happened Before    :03:24    2005

53    Too Much Rain    :03:26    2005

54    Mr. Bellamy    :03:40    2007

55    The End of the End    :02:57    2007

56    You Tell Me    :03:16    2007

57    Alligator    :03:27    2013

58    One of These Days    :03:33    2013

59    Cafe on the Left Bank    :03:07    2015

60    Get on the Right Thing    :04:11    2015

61    No Words    :02:35    2015

62    Confidante    :03:05    2018

63    Despite Repeated Warnings    :06:58    2018

64    Happy With You    :03:34    2018


CD3 (With Wings)

01    Bip Bop    :04:09    1971

02    Mama's Little Girl    :03:42    1971

03    Some People Never Know    :06:37    1971

04    Tomorrow    :03:27    1971

05    No Words    :02:36    1973

06    Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)    :05:49    1973

07    1882 (Live)    :06:35    1973

08    Little Lamb Dragonfly    :06:20    1973

09    Single Pigeon    :01:53    1973

10    The Mess    :04:59    1973

11    Letting Go    :04:33    1975

12    Love in Song    :03:09    1975

13    Treat Her Gently - Lonely Old People    :04:21    1975

14    Bridge on the River Suite    :03:14    1976

15    Sally G    :03:39    1976

16    Don't Let it Bring You Down    :04:35    1978

17    I'm Carrying    :02:44    1978

18    After the Ball - Million Miles    :04:01    1979

19    Again and Again and Again    :03:34    1979

20    Baby's Request    :02:59    1979

21    Daytime Nighttime Suffering    :03:23    1979

22    Getting Closer    :03:23    1979

23    Girls' School    :04:38    1979

24    Old Siam, Sir    :04:11    1979

25    So Glad to See You Here    :03:21    1979

26    To You    :03:12    1979

27    We're Open Tonight    :01:28    1979



Note : Butterboy may have shared this compilation before but it IS lovely, really well curated and can’t fault his choices. Superb stuff!
Enjoy on Macca’s 83rd

Florence Pugh! she's local you know! | ‘Midnight' - Tony Sebastian featt. Florence Pugh

 


filmed at The Kazbar on the Cowley Road, Oxford
her Dad’s incredibly popular restaurant ( an old favourite haunt) 

Directed by Mike Palmer
Cast: Josh Taylor & Virginia Del Sol 
Focus Puller: Gabriel Jones 
Gaffer: Joe Dabbs
Location: The Kazbar, Oxford

Enquiries: louise@tobysebastian.co.uk
www.tobysebastian.co.uk


we love Flo

FP 

Lou Reed - Live in New York 1977 - soundaboard (Rippin Frog)


Lou Reed LIVE . NY. 1977-05-11


  
N.Y. City
1977

"Sound is 70s quality
The show is Lou doing his thing 
like he always did” Rippin’ Frog


SET LIST

01  Sweet Jane.mp3
02  I'm Waiting For The Man.mp3
03  Rock & Roll Heart.mp3
04  Heroin.mp3
05  Rock & Roll.mp3
06  Walk On The Wild Side.mp3
07  Shooting Star.mp3
08  You Better Get Up and Dance.mp3
09  Lisa Says.mp3
10  Satellite Of Love.mp3
11  Leave Me Alone.mp3
12  Coney Island Baby.mp3
13  Vicious.mp3
14  Berlin.mp3
15  Banging On My Drum.mp3



The Sir Douglas Quintet - If She’d Only Come To Me | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/786598405186125824/sir-douglas-quintet-if-shed-only-come-to-me

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (alternate take) [The Bootleg Series Vol 7] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/786641154610528256/bob-dylan-desolation-row-alt

Jack Bruce - Theme From An Imaginary Western ( BBC Broadcast Sessions 1970 -2001) | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/786639126252421120/jack-bruce-theme-from-an-imaginary-western

Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff (1971) | Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives (well sort of . . . . )

 Jean Knight - Mr Big Stuff! (Soul Train)


different video

The Banshees Split . . . . .Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon facebook page

 Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon


“Siouxsie tried out her newfound kung fu on me and barged me in the back. That was enough – I walked out and Kenny came with me”: A brawl ended John McKay’s tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, but not his influence on a generation of playe

Birthdays : Sir Macca of Macca!

Macca and Martha (my dear) . . . . 

 Happy birthday to Paul McCartney, born as James Paul McCartney in Liverpool on this day in 1942



Paul McCartney on June 18, 1967 at St John's Wood Daily Herald/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images

Advert Break - Amy says

 "So excited to reveal my new single 'Can you hear me?' This song is kind of a call to arms for the amazing younger generations.

🙌 Can't wait to hear what you think! Listen here: https://amymacdonald.lnk.to/CanYouHearMe


AMY MaCDONALD

Cara Dillon & Sam Lakeman ‘Flow’ (BBC Radio2 21stC Folk)

 


Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman perform ‘Flow’ to Jeff Allen, the man who inspired it.

They wrote the song as part of 21st Century Folk, Radio 2’s series that sees five people have songs written about their lives.

Cara and Sam met Jeff to hear about his life as an expedition sea kayaker. Jeff was drawn to a life on the water after serving in the British Army.

To hear Jeff’s full story, find 21st Century Folk on BBC Sounds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002...

Recorded at The Flavel in Dartmouth. Produced by 7digital for the BBC.

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) Art photographer

I have been fascinated by the work of photographer Francesca Woodman and how prolific she was before taking her own life at a mere 22 after trying to get subsidy and patronage to her work ever since discovering her extraordinary work documenting her inner life 
Hugely autobiographical almost seemingly documenting every day (or minute?) she seemed so prolific 
 
Francesca Woodman in her dorm room at Abbot Academy, Andover, MA, c.1972-73.

I stopped playing the piano

Francesca Woodman, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977


I am absolutely convinced she would have gone on to bigger and better things and in the school of self exploration a la Duane Michals, her untimely death left us bereft of a true artist. 

The Woodman Foundation


Big Bill Broonzy - family man!

Big Bill and family
Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy with son Michael van Isveldt and girlfriend Pim van Isveldt

1956 Amsterdam

Kevin D. Greene

"In Holland, he met a young Dutch theatre costume designer with whom he fell in love and produced a son. From the early 1950s to his death in 1958, Big Bill would try to maintain his relationship with Pim van Isveldt while balancing the significant changes in his career and a wife back home . . . . "


 

R.E.M. - Good Advices (Fables of the Reconstruction) |jt1674

 #home is a long way away

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/786509549857374208/rem-good-advices

State of The Nation . . . . . . . Merkin News from a Broad! (sic!?)

mostly for Brother Jobe 

a little AI can be fun!

For Bert Jansch: Cara Dillon & Sam Lakeman (Frome) play BlackWaterSide

 For Bert Jansch: Cara Dillon & Sam Lakeman (Frome) play BlackWaterSide

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Speaking of Irish connections | RORY GALLAGHER ‘ Pistol Slapper Blues (Beat Club Germany)

Someone posted on Facebook a particularly poor vid of Rory at the Marquee Club playing Pistol Slapper Blues and I thought it deserved better . . . . . here he is at Beat Club in 1972 recorded better 

Just the sudden realisation we no longer have either David or Lou . . . . . . .this at their peak!

 David Bowie 50th Birthday with Lou Reed 

QUEEN BITCH / I’M WAITING FOR THE MAN 1997

This will start the day well . . . . . . . Colm Broderick, Niamh Dalton and Caoimhín Ó Fearghail

 Having got both Scottish and Irish roots people often wonder which I prefer . . . .Scottish bagpipes or Irish? Now Scottish pipes are loud and Irish pipes very haunting but which is the BEST? There’s only one way to find out . . . . . . FFFIIIIIIIIGHT!


Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí  Ceoltóir Óg na Bliana - Colm Broderick
Slán le Maigh’, ‘The Devils of Dublin’ agus ‘The Hut in the Bog’ in éineacht le Niamh Dalton agus Caoimhín Ó Fearghail 




Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter on Guitars | Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon

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