Your favourite new discovery this week?

[Willie Oleson]

^
A great song to play in your car, very loud and with the windows open.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Cicero - Love is Everywhere

I'm sure the soapchat members from the UK are familiar with this song, but I had never heard it before (or any other song by this artist).

 

[Ome]

A great song to play in your car, very loud and with the windows open.

I must admit I thought of you when I heard this one.

Cicero - Love is Everywhere

I recognise the name and this song, but I can't place him in any of the decades I've been listening to music.

Good find though, I really like it.

 

[Willie Oleson]

I must admit I thought of you when I heard this one

Touché!

 

[James from London]

This week, it's "The Love In Me" by Thomas Anders

I think it's very lovely.

I really like it! It's got the same euphoric early 90s feel as 'Independence' by Lulu. I'm gonna have to buy it.

My new jam is this little gem, a rare '60s track by David Essex:

 

[Willie Oleson]

Courtesy of the Standards thread, this is the one for me this week:

 

[Jessie]

Like A Storm -Never Surrender

 

[Jessie]

Shallow Side - Try To Fight it

 

[Willie Oleson]

Shallow Side - Try To Fight it

A new generation of rockers!

My favourite, since yesterday:

 

[James from London]

My favourite, since yesterday:

Like a stroppy Brotherhood of Man!

Speaking of stroppy, here's mine:

 

[Willie Oleson]

Speaking of stroppy

Which makes me wonder, are there any friendly punk (or post/neo/semi-) punk songs?
This is not hardcore punk of course, it sounds very (oops, almost wrote "nice") pleasant, and surprisingly familiar.
Lots of details that remind me of other songs. I like that sound starting at 1:37.

 

[James from London]

any friendly punk (or post/neo/semi-) punk songs?

Depends what you mean by punk, of course, but 'Teenage Kicks' by the Undertones is pretty life-affirming. So is 'Love You More' by the Buzzcocks --"until the razor cuts", anyway.

 

[Willie Oleson]

--"until the razor cuts", anyway

Haha.

Maybe I just assumed it was all "anti", and devoid of anything too romantic or positive.
"Fair-weather friend", such a funny expression. We call it "mooi-weer vriend", but I hadn't heard it in ages.
Probably too old-fashioned now.

 

[Willie Oleson]

This sounds like a very famous song (or a song that should be famous) but I had never heard it before.

And apparently I wasn't the only one.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Dana Gillespie - No, No, No

My gem of the month. I must have this!
(Saint Etienne's cover of the Polnareff song brought me "there". Ta!)

 

[Willie Oleson]

This week, it's a lovely version of Never Can Say Goodbye by Dennis Coffey

 

[Mel O'Drama]

From the new Evanescence album...

Never Go Back

(Imperfection is my favourite album track, but I first heard it over a week ago).​

 

[Jessie]

Daughtry-Bring Me To Life

 

[Willie Oleson]

I found one of her songs on a CD, and I thought - who is Laurie Styvers?

 

[Willie Oleson]

Daughtry-Bring Me To Life

Is the woman with the glasses his mother? She seems so supportive.

This week, a cover version of the Sugababes (Girls Aloud?) song "Overload".

I find it so sultry and seductive.