Level 42 Digest for Saturday, January 06, 2007

Saturday, January 06, 2007

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Topics for Saturday, January 06, 2007

    1.  FIVES - for Mike ... - Fred Simpson
    2.  Anyone got a favourite Level 42 lyric? - Richard Smith
    3.  Desert Island Bollocks - Gareth Donovan

1. FIVES - for Mike ...
From:	Fred Simpson <fred.simpson @ tiscali.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:13:38 +0000	[top]
Ok Mike, I accept the challenge and can't resist compiling lists Five Desert island CD?s Aja ? Steely Dan Early Tapes ? L42 True Colours ? L42 Greatest Hits ? Incognito Live at Alexander Palace ? Faithless Five L42 songs Turn It On Love Games Play me All Over You Last Chance Five Dinner Guests Michelle Pfeiffer George Michael Donald Fagen Martin Johnson Maxi Jazz Five things I should have done Played Rugby for the British Lions Learned a musical instrument Been world XC MTB champion Not waited until now to take up Golf There are only four things I should have done, I'm happy with the rest of my performance! Five things I?d like to get my hands on (for various reasons) A bottle of Ardbeg 1974 A CD of a band called Airwaves (Let me be the one ?et al) A Cove Handjob dripping in XTR/Mavic/Fox etc Osama Bin Laden Michelle Pfeiffer Five things I want to do in Australia during April this year Visit the Blue Mountains Catch up with my mates Play a couple of games for Mosman RFC Sample a bottle of Cricket Pitch Have a beer with Mikethepom :-) Happy New Year everyone. Be Healthy and Happy. Fred ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband only 9.99 a month for your first 3 months! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/

2. Anyone got a favourite Level 42 lyric?
From:	Richard Smith <trickiedickie @ hotmail.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:49:36 +0000	[top]
My personal favourite: Cold sun in a wet rocky sky A broken beach where the waves come to die I walk alone with fear in my heart Still I deny we're falling apart Not strictly Level 42 I know but brilliantly sets a scene. Richard

3. Desert Island Bollocks
From:	Gareth Donovan <girthdevon @ ntlworld.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:48:51 -0000	[top]
Level 42 - self titled would always feature in my top five albums.....but for this exercise i'll exclude it...... Being a 70s soul & jazz nut, all my selection's hail from the that golden era - and they'd have to have a record player on this island, cos I bloody hate CDs..... Leroy Hutson - Hutson 1 - Curtom 1975 (or the super rare orig UK WB issue) One time member of The Impressions (post Curtis Mayfield) who recorded a string of solo LPs through the 70s & early 80s - this is the best of the bunch.....also co-wrote 'The Ghetto' while rooming at Uni with the late Donny Hathaway.....reissued & readily available on CD. James Mason - The Rhythm Of Life - Chiaroscuro 1977 (reissued on CD by Soul Brother Records in 1999) Quite simply one of the most solid jazz funk / fusion albums of all time - check also the two Tarika Blue LPs on the same label, also reissued by Soul Brother. Randy Brown - Welcome To My Room - Parachute 1978 (reissued in the 80s by UK label Threeway - not sure if available on CD) Produced by Stax legends Homer Banks & Carl Hampton - of his 5 solo albums this is by far his best and one of the first LPs of this style that I bought. The Blackbyrds - 1st Album - Fantasy 1974 (reissued by BGP on CD in the 90s) Group formed by, but not including, Blue Note legend Donald Byrd in 1973.....ghetto funk. And in the absence of Level 42's 1st I can sneak in........ J.R. Bailey - Just Me 'N You - MAM 1974 (reissued on CD very recently by Soul Brother Records) Self penned solo album - as smooth as you like and easily on par with anything Marvin Gaye did from this same period - check his original take Love Love Love, as covered by Donny Hathaway on Extensions Of A Man. Original copies fetch anything up to Ł200, depending on condition. Level 42 were my first love and their style led me towards the soul & funk...if you like the earlier albums then i'm sure you'd have no trouble getting your ears round any of these........and Light Of The World mentioned, their best IMO is 'Round Trip' from 1980 - altho' all have their plus's...... Cheers Gareth GIRTH DEVON MUSIC

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