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- Exclusive: PJ Harvey live in Paris
Follow our link to hear PJ Harvey's 17-track live album, featuring songs from her acclaimed new record, Let England Shake
On Valentine's Day this year, Paris fell in love. The object of their affection was PJ Harvey, who played a stunning show at La Maroquinerie. Now we're offering you the chance to become similarly smitten with exclusive access to that event as well as a seven-day free Spotify trial too.
Listen to the exclusive PJ Harvey live album here
Featuring songs from Harvey's acclaimed album Let England Shake, as well as older classics such as Meet Ze Monsta, you can access the live tracks either by clicking on the link above or scanning the QR code in today's Film&Music from your smartphone. Let us know what you think of the album in the comments section below.
Full tracklisting
All and Everyone
Bitter Branches
C'mon Billy
Down By the Water
England
Hanging on the Wire
In the Dark Places
Let England Shake
Meet Ze Monsta
On Battleship Hill
Silence
The Colour of the Earth
The Glorious Land
The Guns Called Me Back
The Last Living Rose
The Words That Maketh Murder
Written on the Foreheadguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Readers recommend: songs about birthdays
Apparently, some bloke called Bob turned 70 this week. In honour, tell us your best songs about the passing of another year
I had considered asking for "Bob Dylan songs" this week because, as you may have noticed, it was the great man's birthday on Tuesday. But after Richard Williams beat me to it, I plumped instead for birthdays.
Birthdays are great when you're a kid. Even better than Christmas, in some ways. You get to be a year older! When you're actually old, less so. My great-grandmother lived until she was 103, which must have been interesting for her, but all her peers were long gone. So birthdays can be bittersweet.
What do songwriters make of it? Birthday parties provide work for plenty of musicians, but what about songs themselves?
Leave your suggestions below.
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* Previously on Readers Recommend.
* Guide to "donds", "zedded" and other strange words used by some of the RR regulars (courtesy of the Marconium).
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are "zedded").
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community).Please do:
* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.But please don't:
* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.
* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - The Music Power 100: the logic behind the list
An expert panel helped us to identify the music industry's biggest movers and shakers – but what do you think?
• Meet the Music Power 100 panel
• Interactive: The Music Power 100
• News: Team Adele top Guardian Music Power 100
• The full list at a glanceThe Music Power 100 is our attempt to navigate the currents of influence within the UK music industry. The remit was simple: which people have the greatest influence over what rock and pop music people in the UK listen to right now? That didn't mean everyone on the list had to be British, or even working in the UK: the importance of key figures in the US industry couldn't be ignored, and nor could the influence of key artists, songwriters and producers who have set trends that have been followed, or whose commercial success is undeniable.
Why no classical, or jazz, or folk? We felt those were separate worlds existing in parallel to rock and pop, and in an exercise that was, at times, like comparing the relative merits of apples and oranges (as our advisory panel member Geoff Travis put it), adding these other musics would complicate matters to the point of impossibility.
We tried to look across the range of the music industry, including artists, managers, labels, retailers, broadcasters, promoters and some of the other backroom jobs that never attract attention. That means we've concentrated on a very few figureheads at the labels, and we've often put people into teams.
In fact, the two things our panel stressed most forcefully were teamwork and the artist – "None of us would be here without the artists," they said. Hence the choice of No 1 – an artist served by a top-rate team. Another theme to emerge was the importance of organisations that mentor talent, be it formally – in the case of the Brit School – or informally, as in the case of Rinse FM, the de facto clearing house for UK urban music.
We know, however, that this list is far from perfect (and all its faults should be attributed to the Guardian, not to the expert advisers who gave up their time to offer their opinions). There will be people we've simply missed out; there will be others who are too high, and others who are too low. Maybe there are some who shouldn't be there at all.
What do you think? Who would you have put in the No 1 spot? Share your thoughts by posting a comment below.
The top 20 is listed below. Click here for the full 100..
1. Team Adele
Artist: Adele
Label executive: Richard Russell, founder XL Recordings
Manager: Jonathan Dickins
Publisher: Paul Connolly, European and UK president, Universal Music Publishing Group
Radio plugger: Brad Hunner, Radar Plugging
2. Lucian Grainge and David Joseph
Label executives: CEO, Universal Music Group, and chairman and CEO, Universal Music UK
3. Simon Cowell
Label executive: managing director, Syco
4. Nigel Harding
Broadcaster: Music policy executive, Radio 1
5. person or persons unknown
Retailer: iTunes UK
6. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
Digital media: founders, YouTube
7. George Ergoutadis
Broadcaster: head of music, BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra
8. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
Digital media: co-founders, Google, and their executive chairman
9. Simon Moran
Live music promoter: managing director, SJM Concerts
10. Jeff Bezos
Retailer: president and CEO, Amazon.com
11. will.i.am
Artist: Black Eyed Peas
Producer: Justin Timberlake, U2, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Cheryl Cole
12. Lyor Cohen
Label executive: chief executive, Warner Music US
13. Mark Zuckerberg
Digital media: founder, Facebook
14. Team Radiohead
Artists: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway
Managers: Chris Hufford, Bryce Edge and Brian Message
15. Ged Doherty
Label executive: chairman and CEO, Sony BMG UK and Ireland
16. Max Hole
Label executive: COO, Universal Music Group International
17. Jeff Smith
Broadcaster: head of music, Radio 2/6Music
18. Lady Gaga
Artist
19. Rob Stringer
Label executive: chairman, Sony Music Label Group
20. John Reid, Christian Tattersfield, Max Lousada
Label executives: CEO Warner Europe, CEO Warner Music UK, chairman of Atlantic Records UK
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - With Cheryl Cole available, does Nicola Roberts stand in the way of a Girls Aloud reunion?
After losing her US X Factor gig, Cheryl Cole could consider reuniting Girls Aloud – but her unloved former bandmate has now made a brilliant solo record
So Cheryl Cole has been booted off US X Factor and will surely face a public backlash if she risks a return to the UK after seeming to grow too big for her boots. One question surrounds whether she should start again as a judge on the UK version, but surely a better route back to the nation's heart would lie in reuniting Girls Aloud, for which surely there remains an appetite even now. Cole achieved huge success with her solo career, but with all the will in the world, none of her music constituted anything more than the kind of automated factory pop that British artists do so badly, and that her old group subverted so magically.
Strangely enough, the stumbling block to such an eventuality now appears to be The Mouse That Roared: Nicola Roberts. Her Diplo-produced debut single Beat of My Drum is a slice of jittery pop excellence, and its slogan of empowerment is certainly more effective than the one certain others have been hyping. Who'd have thought she would be picked as a new act to watch in 2011?
Roberts has been the source of abuse for her looks and seemingly mousey personality. Not only does Beat of My Drum brilliantly skewer that perception, it provides the next twist in what's turning into a compelling story. When they first started, a common complaint was that Girls Aloud were too similar to the Spice Girls. Yet as they developed, their personalities blossomed. Nadine was tipped as the one with The Voice, only to be eclipsed by Cheryl, before eventually releasing a weird mid-Atlantic soft-rock record that not even Tesco could flog. Now it looks like being Nicola's time in the sun.
Could it be that Cheryl's nation's sweetheart narrative was merely one arc in a story that's already confounded expectations of how long a pop group is supposed to last? Will Sarah make it as an actor after all? Is Kimberley going to have a future bigger than ITV2? This is where it gets complicated.
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