Discovering Elbow...
 

Afraid to say that though I'd heard them mentioned on SKY news when they won the Mercury award, I'd never heard any of Elbow's music. They don't seem to have taken off in Italy.

Yesterday while visiting my Aunt and Uncle we watched a live concert of theirs with the Halle Youth Choir in Manchester Cathedral. Really enjoyed it so I plan to buy one of their CD's. The singer reminded me a little of a Peter Gabriel.

What would be a good CD to get as a first buy?

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The 'Seldom Seen Kid' album is a good place to start. The two singles from that; 'Grounds For Divorce' and 'One Day Like This' are the tracks most people have heard and probably their most popular material to date. Look them up on YouTube to try before you buy.

Elbow - Grounds For Divorce - YouTube

Elbow - One Day Like This - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xa...eature=related
(The full length live version)

'One Day Like This' is easily one of my favourite tracks ever.

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Build a Racket Boys........I recently stumbled on this band....... I had never heard of them before. I like their style.........and like Pudwoppa think that One Day Like This is superb.(the BBC used it as background music to William and Kates wedding)
I like Lippy Kids too.
Elbow - 'Lippy Kids' (Live at Blueprint Studios) - YouTube

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This one is my favourite so far -found loads on You tube to listen too!

Elbow - Open Arms - Liverpool Arena - 20/3/11 - YouTube

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I'm dead envious that you went to see them live. If I had not been away with Ma, I might just have gone to that concert.

Open Arms is on the CD 'Build a Rocket Boys'.

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This is another good one.
Elbow - Switching off - YouTube

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And this is one of my favourites too.
10 Elbow - Newborn - Amsterdam's Paradiso 25 June 2008 - YouTube

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Unfortunately didn't see them live -just on telly! It was a revelation though...

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Great band.followed them since first album.great bloke,meet him twice,new album bit wishy washy but good luck to them..anyone tried there mates 'i am kloot' ? another band to try out ;)

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whooooooo saturday night double post (well tripple now) due to wine tasting,but you'll get my gist
Anyway a 'kloot' video any of you elbow fans knows about anyway.produced by garvey..Then classic elbow video from 2002..

I Am Kloot - Northern Skies ft. Christopher Ecclestone - YouTube

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classic elbow video from 2001..YES A DECADE .HOW TIMES FLY BY

Elbow - asleep in the back - YouTube

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Kloot video much appreciated for the scene with Christopher Ecclestone -one of my favourite British actors! The song is not bad too...a bit melancholy though.

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Asleep in the back is a bit melancholy too -not what I want to hear at the moment!

Am back to Cold Play "Viva la Vida" and their latest single -preferably very loud!!!!:D

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I bought the new Coldplay CD while I was away with Ma.......the cheeky chappie in HMV asked if it was a present or if it was for me....I told him it was for me......just because I have a bit of grey doesn't mean I can't enjoy some 'young' music.

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Well done Margaret! I love Coldplay too ..it's great when you have major housework to do - gets the momentum going, I put it on really loud -don't know what the neighbours think! Luckily I live in an old house with thick walls. Have been known to dance as well as sing to certain songs...;):)

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This is my favourite from Viva la Vida -the one I always sing and dance to!!!:D

TO BE PLAYED VERY LOUD....

Coldplay - Cemeteries Of London (lyrics) - YouTube

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I have had t his album on my MP4 player since it was released(I have all of Coldplays Albums).......this one of my favourites too.
Coldplay-Viva la Vida - YouTube

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I like Coldplay - it became fashionable a few years back for 'music experts' to have a good dig at them, but I never understood why. Have most of their stuff and listen to it often - apart from Yellow, I truly despise that track. Favourite album has to be Rush Of Blood To The Head.

^^ I got one of I Am Kloot's albums a while back. Gods and Monsters - was good as a full listen through, but no real stand out tracks for me tbh. Any Kloot recommendations Spignific?

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Glad to see there are plenty of discerning music lovers on Accyweb - I like a wide spectrum of music and even some of the new Tekno, Trance, Goa and High Tech etc that my boys subject me too -have even grown to like Slipknot and Korn.

Was to be seen singing and dancing to "Cemetaries of London" again -3 times in a row this evening while making an Apple Strudel -turned out quite well considering...;):)

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What did...? the dancing or the strudel?
I can't dance......don't ask me........except.......awwww. I danced with my dad at my Prize giving night....when I qualified as a Nurse. I asked my dad to come with me, as himself was working on nights and couldn't get the night off.
Once the prizes had been given out, there was a dance and a buffet.
Now my dad couldn't dance....but he took me onto the floor and we shuffled around.
He whispered in my ear how proud he was of my achievments. He stood on my new suede shoes with his TUF shoes.......the black mark never came out. I was a little bit irritated at the time.
Now when I hear To Dance with My Father Again it brings it all back. I get a lump in my throat the size of the rock of Gibraltar. After he died I used to take those shoes out and look at where his foot had left a mark.......isn't it strange what little things like that can mean?

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Now it is me who's feeling maudlin.

Luther Van Dross-Dance With My Father Again - YouTube

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It's always the little things that mean the most Margaret not the big planned gestures... I have never danced with my dad so you are luckier than me, I may still be in time though...

My lone dancing is more akin to 1960's style -think the sillouettes at the beginning of James Bond films!!! The Strudel was pretty good! Dancing less so probably:D
Off now to prepare some wild mushroom sauce for Tagliatelle (sorry for the foreign word!) have son's veggie girlfriend coming for dinner!! Have invested in a Seitan burger too whatever that is... to be followed by Strudel and ice-cream - sucks to the diet...

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Yes.....you are right. I didn't dance with my dad at my wedding.......this was the one and only time......and I had bought the suede shoes to go with my dress and first time on he ruins them...or that was what I thought, at the time.
After he had gone, I saw things in a totally different light.......I only had to look at the shoes, and I was there at King Georges Hall shuffling awkwardly around the dance floor with my dad. Guess fate wanted to give me something to help me through those tough old times.

Don't apologise about the foreign word....it is what it is....there will be an english word for it, but not nearly so romantic or evocative.
I have never heard of a Sietan Burger...only a sedan chair and you wouldn't want to sink your fangs into one of those.
Himself has just polished off a plateful of my best Lancashire hotpot....no pud!

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Yum -haven't had it in years!

I think they call Tagliatelle Ribbon pasta in English -and it doesn't sound as nice somehow...
I believe the original recipe had Oysters in it -now I am rather greedy for Oysters (I have expensive tastes!) but can't quite imagine them in a Lanky Hotpot!

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Oh No! I couldn't eat them....they maybe the food of the rich now...but back in Victorian times they were the food of peasants and found their way into many dishes.
How did we get from Elbow to Oyster?
Maybe we should coin a new phrase 'you don't know your elbow from an oyster'.