The Endless Note Vox 2008-03-18T15:46:58Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd972dc0e24cd5/2008/03/ Music enthusiast Helpless Dancer shares thoughts and recollections Goodbye tag:vox.com,2008-03-18:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48d0431010001 2008-03-18T12:18:57Z 2008-03-18T15:46:58Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Just The Two Of Us Club Badge 1-08 Helpless Dancer

When I started this Blog I didn't realise how compulsive even addictive it would become, guilt crept in when a day went by without posting and suddenly it appeared to become an obligation rather than a pleasure. Like most people sometimes you nee...

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]]> Blast From The Past - Pub Rock tag:vox.com,2008-03-14:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48ce438ae0002 2008-03-14T14:43:42Z 2008-03-14T15:08:52Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Islington Hope and Anchor Ian Dury - Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do Dr. Feelgood "She Does It Right" (1975) John Otway and Wild Willy Barratt - Really Free 12 Don't Ask Me Questions 04 Whole Wide World

The "Pub Rock" scene of the early to mid 1970's was very much London orientated and pre-dated punk as the first rebellion against the pomp of music early 70's progressive rock. This limited scene was as good as it's word "pub rock" lived and play...

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]]> New Music - The B-52's tag:vox.com,2008-03-14:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48ce437a00002 2008-03-14T14:27:10Z 2008-03-14T14:48:27Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The B-52's 01 Funplex B-52's Rock Lobster

The B-52's are back with a new album after a gap of 16 years! Here is the fun filled power pop of the title track.

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]]> Cover Story - All The Young Dudes tag:vox.com,2008-03-13:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48ce3f07c0002 2008-03-13T16:43:53Z 2008-03-14T07:37:23Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Mott The Hoople 03 All The Young Dudes David Bowie - All the young dudes (live) 03 All The Young Dudes (Kid Jensen S 15 All The Young Dudes

Despite it being a David Bowie composition "All The Young Dudes" is perhaps best know via the hit single by Mott The Hoople. I suppose it will depend upon how fanatical you are about Bowie when you consider which is the best version, well for m...

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]]> The Music Weeklies tag:vox.com,2008-03-12:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500e398e539690004 2008-03-12T15:30:06Z 2008-03-12T16:38:10Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

NME New Musical Express May 1970 Sounds May 1976 Who Put The Boot In Poster New Musical Express June 1976 Melody Maker September 1977 New Musical Express August 1978 Melody Maker October 1978 Melody Maker January 1979 Record Mirror August 1979 Melody Maker May 1979 Melody Maker October 1980 NME April 1980 Melody Maker January 1981 04 You Better You Bet

"Last week's biggest-ever New Musical Express awards show at London's O2 Arena should have been a triumph for Britain's longest-serving rock weekly. It was, says the Editor, Conor McNicholas, “one of the greatest nights on my life” watching Kl...

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]]> New Music - Portishead tag:vox.com,2008-03-12:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48d0255960001 2008-03-12T14:15:42Z 2008-03-12T14:25:18Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Portishead 11 Threads 09 Small

Portishead have finally recorded and are releasing shortly their third studio album imaginatively titled "Third" This follows "Dummy" in 1994, and "Portishead" in 1997 which is a work rate that almost makes The Blue Nile look prolific. Has the wa...

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]]> New News - Leonard Cohen tag:vox.com,2008-03-11:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48ce347150002 2008-03-11T14:36:44Z 2008-03-11T15:05:02Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Uncut Apr '08 Edinburgh Catle Famous Blue Raincoat

Legendary singer and poet Leonard Cohen has announced his first world tour dates in fifteen years, to start in June. Following his induction into the US Music Hall of Fame yesterday (March 10), the reclusive singer has announced a mammoth...

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]]> Dead Flowers tag:vox.com,2008-03-11:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500f48ce350200003 2008-03-11T12:19:03Z 2008-03-11T12:19:03Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sticky Fingers 14 Dead Flowers Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

The Stones "Dead Flowers" must surely be the best country song written and performed by a British ROCK band. I was always convinced that it had been plagurised from some american roots song but despite research I can find no known writer other th...

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]]> KT Tunstall tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500e398e490a50004 2008-03-10T16:42:29Z 2008-03-10T16:46:22Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

KT Tunstall KT Tunstall "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" on Jools 08 Saving my face

Friday nights "Later With Jools..."as a compilation of debut performances from all the shows, the best of the evening was KT Tunstall who was completely unknown at the time of the initial broadcast and put on a performance which guaranteed her...

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]]> John Stewart tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00cd972dc0e24cd500e398e481090004 2008-03-10T13:32:12Z 2008-03-10T14:03:26Z Helpless Dancer http://helplessdancer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

John Stewart Daydream Believer 12 Never Goin' Back Gold (feat Stevie Nicks) JOHN STEWART AT FC8-DAYDREAM BELIEVER John Stewart - Gold.(1979).

John Stewart passed away in January, he was a an American folk maverick who pushed the boundaries of folk and was a major influence on the likes of Dylan as a result of his work with The Kingston Trio. An irony is that his biggest royalty chec...

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