Hi Brian, very I impressed by you off the cuff commentary, you are a natural at this. It’s Immaterial were from Liverpool and the song sings/ talks about heading down the M62 to Manchester. I’ve always loved the song. The M62 is my favourite motorway (yes I’m sad enough to have a favourite motorway). When I was up younger listening to the song on the radio (it got a lot of airplay in the UK ) I never imagined later in life I would spend 15 years driving 5 days a week from Manchester to Liverpool and back 😢. Not sure how I managed to stick that for 15yrs. Andy
I may appear to be a natural, but I will be stumped some day, and that is a guarantee! I can't say that I have a favourite motorway. I love to drive, but I imagine having to drive daily would degrade my love of being behind the wheel. It's amazing that you did that drive for 15 years.
Around the 3:10 mark you were out of breath. This random selection format is aerobic! I love that song “Driving away from home” and hadn’t heard it mentioned in a while, until now! Nash The Slash! April Wine! I’m a fan!
Fun video Brian. Your magic pulling records from that green screen blew my mind 😅. Kool music as always and the Gabriel sounds interesting. Not aware of it. Good 👍 stuff
Hello Brian. One of the first albums I randomly pulled to play in my new record room was that XTC album. That was sent to me after the flood, love that album! April Wine, I know they had a hit in the US but I can’t place it. I saw a few of their albums quite a bit but the music was not what I listened to. They are a Canadian institution!
To pull and speak from such a vast collection shows some fantastic knowledge Brian. Love Nonsuch and that Peter Gabriel double sounds great. I’ve always loved PG’s version of Book of Love. I haven’t heard those covers of PG album tracks. Lou Reed doing Solsbury Hill, I’m intrigued. Must hear it after your great appraisal. Mike
The good news is that if I pull 5 records that I can't say anything about, I would probably just kill it and redo the video. That might be cheating, although that hasn't happened yet 🙂 Just avoid that Randy Newman track!
Nash the Slash and Gary Numan would be a great show! I havent seen that Nash album you showed around. April Wine woah thats some classic canadian rock! Cheers Brian
I misread the title of the video and thought you were showing 15 random records. So, when you stopped at 5, I got mad for second. I love that XTC album, but I've only ever had it on CD. One of the first tapes I ever bought as a kid in the early 80s was from April Wine. "Just Between You and Me" was a huge enough hit that 10 year old me had to have it. That Peter Gabriel thing was...interesting. You're right about the Lou Reed track. It was cool.
Maybe I should do 15 records some day! April Wine were very popular her in Canada, but I am still surprised that they are known outside of Canada. Some Canadian bands make it big elsewhere, and some toil in obscurity 😔
I urge you to sit down and listen to that It's Immaterial album again late at night. One of my favorites. My UK original I've been playing for nearly 40 years is getting a bit worn so was happy to find a US copy in great condition for just a buck recently.
I've listened to it a couple of more times recently. I guess I was so impressed by the opening track that the others didn't make as much of an impact. But, I would say that it is growing on me 😀
Nice selection Brian. I always see Nash The Slash records at record fairs and kinda assumed it was punk. Love XTC… Andy Partridge was such a master storyteller! I don’t have Nonsuch, so another for the wantlist!.
Great video Brian. I enjoy these random pulls and you have a very nice collection to pull from. I'm not familiar with that XTC or that particular Peter Gabriel LP both sound very interesting to and I will have to explore them. As for April Wine I like them and have all there early stuff up to mid 80's. They were played a lot on my radio station that I grew up with and even made it on a king biscuit flower hour broadcast live in 82. You may already know this but one of there big hits here in the states was sign of a gypsy queen which is a cover by another Canadian artist Lorence Hud. I like how you show Canadian artists and have exposed me to a lot I was not aware of. I knew of Nash from the FM band but never explored his solo stuff I'll have to remedy that :) Well have a great weekend and look forward to the next video. Bye for now. John
I hadn't heard Lorence Hud's original Sign of a Gypsy Queen until many many years after I heard April Wine do that track. They picked a very good track to cover, but it must have been irritating for Hud, even if it made him some cash. It reminds me of 'I Go Blind' by Hootie and the Blowfish, which is, as you might know, a cover of a 54-40 song. I have head that 54-40 made a ton of money from the Hootie cover version, so that must have been rewarding $$$.
@@EmbryonicRobot That is so true Brian. I'm glad that 54-50 made money as I prefer there version. It is strange how some artists write a great song only not to be discovered until someone else does it. Thanks for the reply :)
I still have a couple of XTC albums to get including Nonsuch. I knew that some songs were played on the radio by April Wine here, but I never ended up buying any of their albums.
We believe HP...we believe!! I reckon those XTC reissues sound pretty good. "Life's Hard And Then You Die" Jeebuz 😲I have never heard April Wine and had never heard of them at all before the VC thing. Gabriel's version of My Body Is A Cage is brilliant. I've heard that lots of OG reggae and ska records the hole isn't even centred so you can imagine how great that would sound. I used to work with a bloke that was older than me and used to collect that stuff & re-drilled the holes into the correct spot. He said early on he trashed a few records but later got it down to a fine art.
I have learned that April Wine is really popular in Chicago and Boston. I had no idea! My Body is a Cage is an awesome track, both Gabriel's version and the original. I have a funny reggae story that I might fit into a video one day. It always make me chuckle. The off-centre hole is a new one to me. I had no idea!
I picked up the Nash the Slash album because of Michael Waite (the producer) because I wanted to interview him for my TH-cam channel. Coved kind of kiboshed that. Michael's "Cosmic Wave" album is pretty good. April Wine was my very first concert - the "Stand Back" tour. Myles Goodwyn was also my last concert. I was invited by Bob Segarini to a club appearance in Toronto for Myles' second blues album performance. Actually got to meet him. I love Lou Reed, but I'm going to have to listen to his Solsbury Hill a few more times to figure out if I like it.
Too bad the interview didn't pan out. Covid messed up a lot of things, obviously 🙂 Even being in Canada, I never managed to see April Wine. Very cool that you met Myles!
Hi Brian. Nice XTC album. I wish I came across more XTC. I really enjoy their music. I too have more than a few rather underwhelming albums in my collection that I keep for one song and one song only lol. Cool clown 🤡 cover unless of course one has a fear of clowns. In that case it’s creepy cool. Nice cover picks in the Nash The Slash lp. April wine really takes me back. My cousin loved them so I learned about them from him. Never seen that PG album. Great grabs!
I often see Nash the Slash records, but never the one that came up. I need to find Hammersmith Holocaust by Nash the Slash. The original 1980 pressing is really rare, and I missed the 2016 reissue. I feel the need to go shopping. . .
I love these random pull videos. Cool XTC title. A best of April Wine compilation would be more than enough for me. I would love to find a copy of "Scratch My Back". There are several artists that I adore on that release. I would expect the Randy Newman cover to suck. He's awful. Quality control strikes (out) again! Some interesting pulls, Brian. Cheers.
The only April Wine record is the compilation in this video, so I guess that is enough for me too! Randy Newman is mentioned a lot in videos I have seen, but I don't own any records and that cover version is not going to convince me to seek out his records 🙂
Your collection is incredible. Approximately how many records do you have in your collection?!? What I find amazing is that you can randomly pull an album and talk (in extreme detail) about the album and artist. You’re very knowledgeable. It blows my mind re: how much you know. My mother took me to see April Wine at the CNE when I was a kid. One of my first concerts. Never heard of that Peter Gabriel record. I’ll have to check that out..
Hey PtP - I have maybe 2500 CDs and perhaps 3000 LPs, or thereabouts. I lucked out this time. I am always nervous that I will pull out something and have nothing to say about it. In all honestly, I would probably can the video at that point and start over! That would be cheating, I guess. I'll see what I do when that happens!
@@EmbryonicRobot Love your videos. And what a collection! WOW! My worry with living in a condo is my space! My place is starting to look like Play De Record on Spadina. HAHA. I keep tripping over my vinyl storage cases. VERY jealous of your collection. Incredible.
_Life's Hard and Then You Die_ is an absolute masterpiece of an album, and bizarrely underrated. Seriously, give it another try, and spend some time with it.
@@EmbryonicRobot It's worth it, I swear ! 😄 Coincidentally enough, I always thought of It's Immaterial as being the urbane cousins of the more pastoral/suburban XTC. A little more travelled, perhaps, although both bands share a lot of similarities - a deeply English sense of place, and a lyrical worldview that's combination of both resigned cynicism _and_ optimistic wonder.
I remember a friend in junior high had that American Band-ages album, and the cover turned me off right away. I thought it was just some American chest-thumping, flag-saluting album, and I was not interested in the least. But I never forgot his name, so it really surprised me when I picked up FM’s debut some ten years ago and saw that Nash the Slash was in the band and a Canadian!
You definitely followed CanCon rules on this one Brian. I just got my first April Wine record and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’ve never seen that Gabriel record. I’m with Richie on the talking on records. Ruins the record in the wrong run. Cheers.
Hi Scott - That is a really tough question since their sound shifted a bit over the years. For the 1970s, I would pick Drums and Wires. From the 80s, either English Settlement or Skylarking. Others may have differing opinions 🙂
My ignorance is showing...I had no idea they went back to the 70s. My entire knowledge of them is Dave Gregory guesting at Marillion Weekends and doing an XTC song or two. Thanks for the recommendations!
I am a huge fan of the lead off track on the It's Immaterial record. It got a lot of radio airplay way back when on a station I really loved. For some reason, the album didn't appeal to as much as that song, or maybe that song was just way better? Anyway, the VC has spoken, and I am re-evaluating it. I think it is better than I thought. I will keep spinning it, as may people encouraged me to do 🙂
Come to Canada and you will hear April Wine and the Guess Who every day. 🙂 It's the same Canadian bands over and over. Or, maybe I need to change the station in the car...
Hi Brian, very I impressed by you off the cuff commentary, you are a natural at this. It’s Immaterial were from Liverpool and the song sings/ talks about heading down the M62 to Manchester. I’ve always loved the song. The M62 is my favourite motorway (yes I’m sad enough to have a favourite motorway). When I was up younger listening to the song on the radio (it got a lot of airplay in the UK ) I never imagined later in life I would spend 15 years driving 5 days a week from Manchester to Liverpool and back 😢. Not sure how I managed to stick that for 15yrs. Andy
I may appear to be a natural, but I will be stumped some day, and that is a guarantee! I can't say that I have a favourite motorway. I love to drive, but I imagine having to drive daily would degrade my love of being behind the wheel. It's amazing that you did that drive for 15 years.
I never knew that April Wine was from Canada: another fun fact! Thanks Brian! Nice sampling...😎🎶🎸
Well, now you know! 🙂🙊👍
Around the 3:10 mark you were out of breath. This random selection format is aerobic! I love that song “Driving away from home” and hadn’t heard it mentioned in a while, until now! Nash The Slash! April Wine! I’m a fan!
I must be out of shape if I was out of breath! Maybe I should do 10 records next time to see if I can handle it physically 🙃
@@EmbryonicRobot 😂😂😂
Fun video Brian. Your magic pulling records from that green screen blew my mind 😅. Kool music as always and the Gabriel sounds interesting. Not aware of it. Good 👍 stuff
I should do everything on a green screen 🙂
Hello Brian. One of the first albums I randomly pulled to play in my new record room was that XTC album. That was sent to me after the flood, love that album! April Wine, I know they had a hit in the US but I can’t place it. I saw a few of their albums quite a bit but the music was not what I listened to. They are a Canadian institution!
XTC! I've always loved them, since I first heard hem in 1979 👍
To pull and speak from such a vast collection shows some fantastic knowledge Brian. Love Nonsuch and that Peter Gabriel double sounds great. I’ve always loved PG’s version of Book of Love. I haven’t heard those covers of PG album tracks. Lou Reed doing Solsbury Hill, I’m intrigued. Must hear it after your great appraisal. Mike
The good news is that if I pull 5 records that I can't say anything about, I would probably just kill it and redo the video. That might be cheating, although that hasn't happened yet 🙂 Just avoid that Randy Newman track!
First few April Wine albums are my favorites but I can never find them in the wild lol
Ii agree. I rarely see them anywhere 😣
Nash the Slash and Gary Numan would be a great show! I havent seen that Nash album you showed around. April Wine woah thats some classic canadian rock! Cheers Brian
Gary and Nash together would have been awesome. I missed it! Oh well...
I misread the title of the video and thought you were showing 15 random records. So, when you stopped at 5, I got mad for second. I love that XTC album, but I've only ever had it on CD. One of the first tapes I ever bought as a kid in the early 80s was from April Wine. "Just Between You and Me" was a huge enough hit that 10 year old me had to have it. That Peter Gabriel thing was...interesting. You're right about the Lou Reed track. It was cool.
Maybe I should do 15 records some day! April Wine were very popular her in Canada, but I am still surprised that they are known outside of Canada. Some Canadian bands make it big elsewhere, and some toil in obscurity 😔
I urge you to sit down and listen to that It's Immaterial album again late at night. One of my favorites. My UK original I've been playing for nearly 40 years is getting a bit worn so was happy to find a US copy in great condition for just a buck recently.
I've listened to it a couple of more times recently. I guess I was so impressed by the opening track that the others didn't make as much of an impact. But, I would say that it is growing on me 😀
Life's Hard and Then You Die is good, but that opening single is superb. Love the talking in it. Mentioning my hometown helps, I suppose.
Driving Away From Home! Yes, it is awesome. No song has ever mentioned my hometown, as far as I know, so it will remain a mystery 🙃
Nice selection Brian. I always see Nash The Slash records at record fairs and kinda assumed it was punk. Love XTC… Andy Partridge was such a master storyteller! I don’t have Nonsuch, so another for the wantlist!.
I'm sorry if this video causes you to spend some money, but Nonsuch is worth it!
Great video Brian. I enjoy these random pulls and you have a very nice collection to pull from. I'm not familiar with that XTC or that particular Peter Gabriel LP both sound very interesting to and I will have to explore them. As for April Wine I like them and have all there early stuff up to mid 80's. They were played a lot on my radio station that I grew up with and even made it on a king biscuit flower hour broadcast live in 82. You may already know this but one of there big hits here in the states was sign of a gypsy queen which is a cover by another Canadian artist Lorence Hud. I like how you show Canadian artists and have exposed me to a lot I was not aware of. I knew of Nash from the FM band but never explored his solo stuff I'll have to remedy that :) Well have a great weekend and look forward to the next video. Bye for now. John
I hadn't heard Lorence Hud's original Sign of a Gypsy Queen until many many years after I heard April Wine do that track. They picked a very good track to cover, but it must have been irritating for Hud, even if it made him some cash. It reminds me of 'I Go Blind' by Hootie and the Blowfish, which is, as you might know, a cover of a 54-40 song. I have head that 54-40 made a ton of money from the Hootie cover version, so that must have been rewarding $$$.
@@EmbryonicRobot That is so true Brian. I'm glad that 54-50 made money as I prefer there version. It is strange how some artists write a great song only not to be discovered until someone else does it. Thanks for the reply :)
I still have a couple of XTC albums to get including Nonsuch. I knew that some songs were played on the radio by April Wine here, but I never ended up buying any of their albums.
The truth is that the Greatest Hits record is my only April Wine album! And I call myself a Canadian...
Great picks. It's Immaterial are an interesting band from Liverpool. Their album 'Song' is amazing. A bit of Blue Nile melancholia.
I do love the Blue Nile. I will try to stream some tracks from Song if I get a chance today 🙃
We believe HP...we believe!! I reckon those XTC reissues sound pretty good. "Life's Hard And Then You Die" Jeebuz 😲I have never heard April Wine and had never heard of them at all before the VC thing. Gabriel's version of My Body Is A Cage is brilliant. I've heard that lots of OG reggae and ska records the hole isn't even centred so you can imagine how great that would sound. I used to work with a bloke that was older than me and used to collect that stuff & re-drilled the holes into the correct spot. He said early on he trashed a few records but later got it down to a fine art.
I have learned that April Wine is really popular in Chicago and Boston. I had no idea! My Body is a Cage is an awesome track, both Gabriel's version and the original. I have a funny reggae story that I might fit into a video one day. It always make me chuckle. The off-centre hole is a new one to me. I had no idea!
I picked up the Nash the Slash album because of Michael Waite (the producer) because I wanted to interview him for my TH-cam channel. Coved kind of kiboshed that. Michael's "Cosmic Wave" album is pretty good. April Wine was my very first concert - the "Stand Back" tour. Myles Goodwyn was also my last concert. I was invited by Bob Segarini to a club appearance in Toronto for Myles' second blues album performance. Actually got to meet him. I love Lou Reed, but I'm going to have to listen to his Solsbury Hill a few more times to figure out if I like it.
Too bad the interview didn't pan out. Covid messed up a lot of things, obviously 🙂 Even being in Canada, I never managed to see April Wine. Very cool that you met Myles!
Hi Brian. Nice XTC album. I wish I came across more XTC. I really enjoy their music. I too have more than a few rather underwhelming albums in my collection that I keep for one song and one song only lol. Cool clown 🤡 cover unless of course one has a fear of clowns. In that case it’s creepy cool. Nice cover picks in the Nash The Slash lp. April wine really takes me back. My cousin loved them so I learned about them from him. Never seen that PG album. Great grabs!
I hate clowns! It must take a certain psychology to dress like a clown and I have a suspicion that any clown could instantly become a serial killer.
@@EmbryonicRobot You’ve made great strides by facing your fear with that album cover.
I've made great strides 🤡
The "Peter Pumpkinhead" remake was by Crash Test Dummies - and they didn't change it much at all!
That's it! I can't believe I forgot about the Dummies. I was bored by their version 🤭
Brian, my version of Nonesuch is still a CD. I have a few Nash the Slash (and FM) albums, but I haven't seen that Nash album you showed. Thanks, Chris
I often see Nash the Slash records, but never the one that came up. I need to find Hammersmith Holocaust by Nash the Slash. The original 1980 pressing is really rare, and I missed the 2016 reissue. I feel the need to go shopping. . .
Sorry, I did not mean to trigger a shopping response.
Ha ha. This isn't the first time and it won't be the last!
I love these random pull videos. Cool XTC title. A best of April Wine compilation would be more than enough for me. I would love to find a copy of "Scratch My Back". There are several artists that I adore on that release. I would expect the Randy Newman cover to suck. He's awful. Quality control strikes (out) again! Some interesting pulls, Brian. Cheers.
The only April Wine record is the compilation in this video, so I guess that is enough for me too! Randy Newman is mentioned a lot in videos I have seen, but I don't own any records and that cover version is not going to convince me to seek out his records 🙂
Nonsuch is one of my favourite XTC albums, certainly top 5. Not sure I've ever heard April Wine...
April Wine were popular in the USA, but I am not sure if they had any traction outside of North America. Maybe not...
Your collection is incredible. Approximately how many records do you have in your collection?!? What I find amazing is that you can randomly pull an album and talk (in extreme detail) about the album and artist. You’re very knowledgeable. It blows my mind re: how much you know. My mother took me to see April Wine at the CNE when I was a kid. One of my first concerts. Never heard of that Peter Gabriel record. I’ll have to check that out..
Hey PtP - I have maybe 2500 CDs and perhaps 3000 LPs, or thereabouts. I lucked out this time. I am always nervous that I will pull out something and have nothing to say about it. In all honestly, I would probably can the video at that point and start over! That would be cheating, I guess. I'll see what I do when that happens!
@@EmbryonicRobot Love your videos. And what a collection! WOW! My worry with living in a condo is my space! My place is starting to look like Play De Record on Spadina. HAHA. I keep tripping over my vinyl storage cases. VERY jealous of your collection. Incredible.
@@presstoplay2314 If your place ends up looking like Play De Record, I will schedule an intervention 🙂
_Life's Hard and Then You Die_ is an absolute masterpiece of an album, and bizarrely underrated. Seriously, give it another try, and spend some time with it.
This might be a case when I loved the opening track so much, the others just didn't grab me. I will certainly listen to it a few more times!
@@EmbryonicRobot It's worth it, I swear ! 😄
Coincidentally enough, I always thought of It's Immaterial as being the urbane cousins of the more pastoral/suburban XTC. A little more travelled, perhaps, although both bands share a lot of similarities - a deeply English sense of place, and a lyrical worldview that's combination of both resigned cynicism _and_ optimistic wonder.
The comparison with XTC gives me a lot to think about! I am going to put Life's Hard on the turntable right now 🙃
I remember a friend in junior high had that American Band-ages album, and the cover turned me off right away. I thought it was just some American chest-thumping, flag-saluting album, and I was not interested in the least. But I never forgot his name, so it really surprised me when I picked up FM’s debut some ten years ago and saw that Nash the Slash was in the band and a Canadian!
I can see why you thought that about American Band-ages. It certainly looks like it came out of America! That FM debut is awesome 🙃
@@EmbryonicRobot Oh, yes, it is!
You definitely followed CanCon rules on this one Brian. I just got my first April Wine record and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’ve never seen that Gabriel record. I’m with Richie on the talking on records. Ruins the record in the wrong run. Cheers.
Hi Jack - It's amazing that CanCon follows me even in random videos! April Wine was a really solid band, and maybe should have been bigger 👍
What would be your recommendation for a first XTC album? I enjoy the random pulls. Cheers Brian!
Hi Scott - That is a really tough question since their sound shifted a bit over the years. For the 1970s, I would pick Drums and Wires. From the 80s, either English Settlement or Skylarking. Others may have differing opinions 🙂
My ignorance is showing...I had no idea they went back to the 70s. My entire knowledge of them is Dave Gregory guesting at Marillion Weekends and doing an XTC song or two. Thanks for the recommendations!
Hey Brian, the cover of that Its Immaterial album is as creepy as all get out. What are your thoughts on the album?
I am a huge fan of the lead off track on the It's Immaterial record. It got a lot of radio airplay way back when on a station I really loved. For some reason, the album didn't appeal to as much as that song, or maybe that song was just way better? Anyway, the VC has spoken, and I am re-evaluating it. I think it is better than I thought. I will keep spinning it, as may people encouraged me to do 🙂
I’m not a fan of albums with too talking. I don’t think I’ve ever heard April Wine on the radio.
Come to Canada and you will hear April Wine and the Guess Who every day. 🙂 It's the same Canadian bands over and over. Or, maybe I need to change the station in the car...