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2006 Part IV

Carty's Best O' 2006 nears completion. In the meantime, here's the front cover.




And, finally, here's the tracklisting;

Yo Ho Ho!

You saw it here first folks! Here's the first picture I've seen of our old friend Keith Richards on the set of 'Pirates of The Caribbean III", playing the part of Captain Jack's Da. One question, why did they think Keef needed make up to make him look MORE like a pirate?

2006 Part III

Movie of the year for me was, by a country mile, Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed', although I made the mistake of seeing the original 'Infernal Affairs' a few days before hand so I had a fair idea where the story was going. Fantastic performances all round although, needless to say, Nicholson acts everyone else off the screen. Now, you didn't hear it from me but some hero has put the whole thing on youtube although you can be sure it's just a matter of time before it's taken down. Go to the youtube site and search for the departed pt and you'll find it in 14 different segments. Now there are ways to download the whole thing but quality wise it's not worth it. Nothing stopping you looking at it though. I'm not putting a clip here but as usual with all Scorsese movies, the music is fantastic so instead here's a clip of a performance that I hadn't heard before of Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb' as done by Roger Waters, Van Morrison and various members of the Band. Although Pink Floyd as a band normally leave me feeling numb, this is fantastic and see if you can spot the late great Rick Danko who the Coff and I met when we were just little boys (HELLO!) and he was an absolute gent.

2006 Part II

Albums of the year (in no particular order)
Endless Wire - The Who
One Day It Will Please US to Remember Even This - The New York Dolls
The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Razorlight - Razorlight
Nashville - Solomon Burke

Reissues of a sort
Love - The Beatles
Nashville Rebel - Waylon Jennings
Complete Atlantic Recordings - Willie Nelson

and singles...
Herculean - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Live With Me - Massive Attack
Patience - Take That
Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae
Window In The Skies - U2
Dance Like A Monkey - The New York Dolls

and as they get two mentions, here they are;



The Dolls would also get a nod for one of the gigs of the year at the Village. Others include The Who and Paul Weller at Oxegen, despite the biblical rain. Springsteen at the Point twice, Glen Campbell at the midlands festival and a host of others.

Not hip enough for you? that's some tough shit.

More 2

That's something else. To quote the Coff; "Fantastic! The Bastards!"

Trippy!

Now normally, this site would not tolerate any of this brown rice eating, flower waving, hippy shite but it is the Beatles so check this out;



note: if you are going to buy "Love", and you should, make sure and get the double pack with the 5.1 mix. Whatever you have to pay, it's worth it.

2006 Part I

That time of year again when work has almost reached completion on the eagerly awaited compilation cd; "Carty's Best O' 2006", the third in a series. Trying to narrow down the year's music to 80 minutes is never easy but when the final track list is reached, it'll be up here. So far we've found room for tunes from Beyonce to Bruce Springsteen. Records and gigs of the year are also being mulled over. In the meantime, how about a song of the week? Let's go all the way back to 1953 for one of the first, and still one of the greatest, electric groups as we'd recognise them today. As recently featured on one of Bob Dylan's excellent radio shows (see last month's posts), here's "Blow Wind Blow" by Muddy Waters. If you want more, and you really should, I recommend Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Volume 2 1952-1958, which boasts the best sound of any Chess recording I've heard, although it's pretty bloody hard to get a hold of in this part of the world.

U2 Live in Japan

A couple of clips from Japanese TV

Keith & Willie

What a couple of raggedy looking bastards they are but a fine performance of an underrated song. Sheryl Crow is fairly 'easy on the eye'.