Around the Blogosphere: Teenage Fanclub, Billy Bragg, British Sea Power, Chromatics, Electric Light Orchestra, The Cars

We continue to make up for lost time. Two great blogs have some primo tunes. If you like British Sea Power, go to 17 Seconds immediately, as they appear to be near the deadline for removal. That ELO post at a Plague of Angels is pretty spectacular as well. Plague also has two excellent posts of The Cars here and here. Many thanks to the hosts.

Teenage Fanclub – The Concept – 17 Seconds
Billy Bragg – Greetings To The New Brunette – 17 Seconds
British Sea Power – Lights Out For Darker Skies & Power Down On The Ground – 17 Seconds

Chromatics – Night Drive & Healer – a Plague of Angels
Electric Light Orchestra – Do Ya & Turn to Stone & Sweet Talkin’ Woman & Don’t Bring Me Down & Calling America & So Serious – a Plague of Angels – A veritable gold mine; it’s great to see the possibly not-so-well-known “So Serious” included here; it’s one of my all-time favorites by ELO .

Around the Blogosphere: Beatles, Hives, Flop, Boomtown Rats, Sniff n the Tears, Stars, Ether Aura, Billy Bragg, Fathom 5, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I made a vow of sorts I would not put more than five songs from Retro Music Snob in any one post. How ludacris,*** but I've stuck to it so far. Anyway, there's a lot of groovy stuff out there right now just waiting to be "sampled." For example:

The Beatles - Help! - Retro Music Snob
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom (Ruisrock 07 live) - Retro Music Snob
Flop - A. Wylie - Retro Music Snob - Silly name, excellent group, from the several songs I've heard so far.
The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night - Retro Music Snob - Apt title
Sniff n the Tears - Drivers Seat - Retro Music Snob

Stars - Ageless Beauty - Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous - Absolutely pins me.
Ether Aura - Twist & Tell Me That I’m Nothing - Hits in the Car - I'll long be grateful to Morten for introducing me to these Detroiters, one of the treasures of the last year. . .and decade.
Billy Bragg - Take Down the Union Jack (Remix) - Songs: Illinois
Fathom 5 - And the Words - Coast is Clear - One word: shoegaze.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 10 x 10 - The Glorious Hum - Notice the first/last connection? I only just did.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion - Instrumental Analysis

Thanks, hostpersons.

***Please don't laugh, but at first I spelled it "ludakris!" Duh.