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Techno Commander
06-10-2010, 18:24
Despite denials by The Who, everybody knows that 'Pictures of Lily' is all about masturbation.
As is this little number by Pink. :)
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The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2010, 18:30
...............as is 'Pink Thing' by XTC
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OK enough of teenage onanism - let's try another Lily and another Pink:
'Lily the Pink' by The Scaffold
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(No links to Miles Davis, Chris!)
The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2010, 18:51
'Lilly the Pink'
"..........and she invented medicinal compound"
Would that be similar to Traffic's - 'Medicated Goo'?
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Techno Commander
06-10-2010, 18:56
Traffic is all about cars.
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The Cars 'Drive' was played over the film-footage of the awful scenes of famine in Ethiopia in 1995, a tragedy which sparked the Live Aid event.
I found the line: "you can't carry on thinking nothing is wrong", to be as pertinent now as it was then.
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I think you mean 1985 Barry, but no matter.
Cars - sometimes referred to as "motors" - wonder if they are recently acquired?
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I think you mean 1985 Barry, but no matter.
Yes you're quite right. I seem to always be making this sort of mistake these days. Should know better - it's coming up to the 25th anniversary of Live Aid.
Anyway back to the thread.
Alexie Sayle's parents were communists, not to be confused with The Communards.
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The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2010, 22:26
Jimmy Somerville of the Communards had a rather spooky physical resemblance to Tin-Tin
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Stephen Duffy had a rather spooky nomenclatural resemblance to Herge's creation.
Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy - Icing On The Cake
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Oh, too easy!
Duffy 'Rockferry'
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Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy's more famous hit was "Kiss Me" - which has the honour of being the last song played on the medium wave service of Radio 1 before it became an FM-only station on 1st July 1994.
"Kiss Me" was also the name of a hit for Sixpence None The Richer
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I wonder how many men wanted to kiss Leigh Nash "out of the bearded barley"? :eyebrows:
Took too long writing this post, and Barry beat me to it, so I will have to abandon this link and follow Duffy...
Does Duffy (real name Aimeé Ann Duffy) have any sisters, and is one of them is called Alice and did they appear together in that song? If so, maybe they were Sisters of Mercy?
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The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2010, 23:01
If so, maybe they were Sisters of Mercy?
Or 'Sweet Soul Sister(s)'
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..........and somewhat incredibly, the guitarist in The Cult was Billy Duffy!
OK I get it - the connections have to be as tenuous and as convoluted as possible. So, Duffy was one of the iconic photographers of the '60s. Sadly he died only recently, having only just got the recognition he so deserved. Owing to his individual approach, he was not an easy person to work with, and was always in the shadow of the triumvirate of David Bailey, Terance Langan and Patrick Litchfield.
Now you have a choice:
(1) Duffy photographed the cover for Bowie's 'Aladdin Sane'
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or
(2) David Bailey photographed Michael Caine
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the subject of the photograph made the self declaration in Madness's 'My name is Michael Caine'.
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You choose.
Rare Bird
06-10-2010, 23:34
I think i get it!
Michael Cain was in the movie 'Get Carter', The Human League did 'Get Carter' a track from the 'Dare' fuzzy
The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2010, 23:45
The Human League - Dare was called Dare! in the US.
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I suppose that exclamation mark must have made all the difference to sales over there. And this is an important consideration. After all what would the Mysterians have been without a question mark?
? & THE MYSTERIANS-96 TEARS
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The Mysterons were Captain Scarlet's nemesis. Scarlett Johansson appeared in the brilliant film 'Lost in Translation', the directorial debut of Sophie Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola.
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One of Francis Coppola's best known films is 'Apocalypse Now'. Apart from being one of the best anti-war films ever made it uses The Door's 'The End' in the music.
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No takers?
OK well then I'll have to do something.
The End has been performed by Nico, who of course was with the Velvet Underground. The cover of one of their LPs, designed by Andy Warhol, featured a banana:
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Bananarama made a track called 'Robert De Niro's Waiting'
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Robert De Niro appeared in the film 'The Deerhunter', the incidental music for which contained 'Midnight Train to Georgia' by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
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The Grand Wazoo
07-10-2010, 22:28
The End sounds rather like Robbie Krieger of The Doors had been listening to this one:
Sandy Bull - 'Blend'
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.....it's excellent by the way.
The Grand Wazoo
07-10-2010, 22:29
Dohhh!!
I wait all day for a bus........
...and the main theme to "The Deerhunter" is this rather amazing piece of music by Stanley Myers - Cavatina
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The Grand Wazoo
07-10-2010, 22:34
Cavatina is a solo acoustic guitar piece, just like:
Sandy Bull - 'Blend'
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.....it's excellent by the way (and sounds uncannily like The End by the Doors)
The Grand Wazoo
07-10-2010, 22:35
Hehehehe!
Cavatina is a solo acoustic guitar piece, just like:
Sandy Bull - 'Blend'
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.....it's excellent by the way (and sounds uncannily like The End by the Doors)
It really does sound uncannily like 'The End'.
Touché - that'll teach me to jump the gun.
Cavatina is a solo acoustic guitar piece, just like:
Sandy Bull - 'Blend'
LMAO! :D
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I wasn't sure how this thread would go when I started it, but going rather well, I feel? Would be nice if a few others could have a go, though - as has been shown an encyclopedic music knowledge really isn't needed (and anyway, google is your friend if you get stuck) - tenuous and humorous is equally the way to go, so come on fellas - stop being voyeurs and let's see a few more of you getting stuck in!
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As you were, Sandy Bull - 'Blend' is the track to follow (or any other old solo acoustic guitar piece will do!)
The Grand Wazoo
07-10-2010, 23:03
It really does sound uncannily like 'The End'.
Touché - that'll teach me to jump the gun.
Jump the gun, you did not. Quicker on the trigger, you were!
I thought a John Fahey man like yourself might like that.
Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo (1963)
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In linguistics, a 'blend' is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. This can be be done in a number of ways. For example: two words are blended around a common sequence of sounds - the word Californication, from a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a blend of California and fornication.
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The Grand Wazoo
08-10-2010, 06:51
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
This term was the subject of an unresolved legal spat between The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Showtime Networks, whose TV series used the same name. In their defence, Showtime Networks cited:
That the term appeared in Time Magazine in 1972, in an article called 'The Great Wild Californicated West' and
The Rheostatics released 'Whale Music' in 1992, with a song called 'California Dreamline'. The lyrics feature the words
"Californication, spooning in the dry sand"
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California Dreamin' (or Dreaming) was performed variously by The Mamas and Papas
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The Beach Boys
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and a valiant attempt by the very young (jung?) Korean Sungha Jung
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The Grand Wazoo
08-10-2010, 23:20
the very young (jung?) Korean Sungha Jung
Like the RHC-Peppers, these Jock-pop geniuses indulged in a bit of wordplay when they gave this song it's name. Check out the Neil-esque guitar solo at about 3'25"
Teenage Fanclub - 'Neil Jung'
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Sungha Jung (Seongha Jeong) has risen to fame due to his YouTube videos, and according to Wikepedia, he has been working with American rock group Mr. Big.
Mr. Big was also the title of an album by Little Richard - who had a cracking Rock'n'Roll hit with Tutti Frutti 54 years ago. And he played the piano without the need of sitting down. Respect.
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Oh bugger, I've caught the "taking too long to complete your post" disease - so ignore my link - Teenage Fanclub - 'Neil Jung' is what we're after...
The Grand Wazoo
08-10-2010, 23:38
Mr. Big was also the title of an album by Little Richard
Free - 'Mr Big'
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........in which Paul Kossoff demonstrated that you don't need to play hard or fast to be a great guitarist - sometimes the gaps between the notes say just as much as the notes themselves. This was also possibly the first hit single to have a bass solo!
The Grand Wazoo
08-10-2010, 23:41
Oh bugger, I've caught the "taking too long to complete your post" disease - so ignore my link - Teenage Fanclub - 'Neil Jung' is what we're after...
Nah, nuts, keep going!
Free - Mr Big
Free had a hit with 'All Right Now'
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Now one might have come away from a successful session with the Swiss psychoanalysist Carl Gustav Jung with a feeling of being 'all right now'. Two of Jung's ideas were that all of humanity possesed a 'collective unconsciousness' and that having such a collective unconsciousness, a 'synchronicity' could occur between humans.
I suspect that such phenomena exists within the community that is AoS, however that is a discussion best discussed in a different thread.
http://www.eupsychia.com/perspectives/defs/collective.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
Police produced an album called Synchronicity including a track of the same name.
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There you go, both posts brought together.
PS Paul Kossoff was a great guitarist who, sadly owing to his early death, has not been accorded with the reputation he rightly deserves.
DanJennings
09-10-2010, 07:23
Machine Head did a cover of Message in a Bottle
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sorry to do a boring one, but I was half asleep and somehow managed to miss the last page of this thread, and so my extremely tenuous linking of Little Richard and the Stranglers will have to wait ;)
Techno Commander
09-10-2010, 10:04
Machine head was one of Deep Purple's best albums and features this little ditty.
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The Grand Wazoo
09-10-2010, 10:23
Deep Purple - 'Highway Star'
Now we're going to have a little literary interlude..............
Highway Star (ハイウェイ・スター Haiuei Sutā?) is a book of short stories by Katsuhiro Otomo. Two of the characters from one of the stories (Ashita No Yakusoku) later appear in Otomo's book 'Domu (A Child's Dream)'.
'A Child's Dream of a Star' is another short story, this time by Charles Dickens. One of Dickens' evil villain characters was Uriah Heep.
Uriah Heep - 'Wizard'
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In the film 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy, her dog Toto, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion all follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City.
'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' was a title of an album by Elton John.
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Elton John's real name is Reg Dwight.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a five-star general during WW2.
Five Star are/were a British pop and R&B group, who loosly modelled themselves after the Jackson 5.
Keith Jackson was a member of the Nice who had a bit of a hit with their version of the Bernstein/Sondheim song 'America':
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The Grand Wazoo
09-10-2010, 17:55
The Nice - 'America'
........was a song from 'West Side Story'. Alice Cooper took elements of WSS and twisted them around just a little on the 'School's Out' album.
Alice Cooper - 'Gutter Cat vs The Jets'
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Top Cat was a street-wise cartoon alley cat
Top Cat!
The most effectual Top Cat!
Who's intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity.
Top Cat!
The indisputable leader of the gang.
He's the boss, he's a pip, he's the championship.
He's the most tip top,
Top Cat.
Yes he's a chief, he's a king,
But above everything,
He's the most tip top,
Top Cat.
Top Cat!
Tops Cat’s nemesis was Officer Dibble
There was a film called ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’. A ‘Flintstones - style’ parody of Star Trek is shown here.
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The Vulcan character Spock was played by Leonard Nimoy who did a toe-curlingly awful song called ‘The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins’:
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Probably the low-point of Nimoy’s career! (Fortunately it doesn't last long.)
(I get the impression you are rather enjoying this thread Barry! ;))
William Shatner also starred in Star Trek, as Captain James T. Kirk - and also had a few dalliances with a musical career, perhaps a little more successfully (and cooler) than Nimoy's - mostly in a spoken-word style - try this one - a cover of "Common People"
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The Grand Wazoo
09-10-2010, 22:00
William Shatner - 'Common People'
William Shatner (did he really?......the poor girl!) recorded 'Common People' with Joe Jackson. During their time together, I wonder if Captain Kirk took our Joe for a quick spin in the Enterprise to........
Joe Jackson - 'Another World'
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‘Common People’ was of course first performed by Pulp. Just very recently Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley of Pulp played with Duane Eddy, the ‘king of twang’.
One of Duane Eddy’s best-known tunes is the theme to ‘Peter Gunn':
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Gun were a late ‘60s pop group who had a hit with ‘Race with the Devil'
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Don’tcha just love that manic Arthur Brown style laugh? And yes Alex, I am enjoying this thread.
(Please don't follow this with Judas Priest!)
Bugger! - not quick enough!
Don't worry Barry, we can bring this back together... "Joe" Jackson was actually "David" Jackson, but earned the nickname "Joe" because of his resemblance to the Gerry Anderson creation - Joe 90 - the schoolboy-turned spy. The theme music to Joe 90 contained guitar by Vic Flick, who had also performed lead guitar on the original James Bond theme for Dr. No. James Bond was another famous spy, and he was of course noted as having a licence to kill - often with his favoured weapon, a Walther PPK - a compact pistol or gun.
Russian trance duo PPK produced a rather good track - Resurrection
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Techno Commander
10-10-2010, 00:57
Superb tune.:)
Another dance outfit whose name was also made from 3 letters is BBE who had an epic hit with Seven Days And A Week.
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The Grand Wazoo
10-10-2010, 19:15
BBE - Seven Days And A Week
Seven days and a week would be a fortnight then, wouldn't it? But a fought knight might be a battle weary Crusader.
From the album 'Those Southern Knights'...........The Crusaders - 'And Then There Was The Blues'
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Not blues at all, I wouldn't think, but anyway, I tried to find a link to the track 'Serenity' from that album which is just sublime, but this'll have to do.
Rare Bird
10-10-2010, 19:53
Can i just butt in & say if you like that particualr style Barry from GUN stick with the debut album..
The Crusaders performed 'Street Life' with Randy Crawford:
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Randy Crawford had a hit with 'Someday I'll Fly Away':
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The Grand Wazoo
11-10-2010, 22:42
Randy Crawford - 'Someday I'll Fly Away'
Randy Crawford's real name is Veronica Crawford.
Some geezer called McCartney co-wrote this song about his writing partner's grandmother and her Alzheimer’s disease.
Elvis Costello - 'Veronica'
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Elvis Costello is married to Diana Krall (yes, that Diana Krall - punches above his weight, doesn't he? :eyebrows:) Here she is singing Cry Me a River
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The Grand Wazoo
11-10-2010, 23:09
'Cry Me A River' was famously sung by Julie London.
Another singer with a capital city surname would be Mica Paris who, it turns out has released singles called:
'Tracks of My Tears' & 'South of the River' - pretty much the same as 'Cry me a River', I reckon!
'Tracks of My Tears' was a Smokey Robinson song, but Rod Stewart sang it when he was in a band called Steampacket (a kind of riverboat!!). Meanwhile, when he was in the Jeff Beck Group he sang 'Old Man River'.
But Sam Cooke sang it too................
Sam Cooke - 'Ol' Man River'
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A kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and South African English word for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within an African homestead or village surrounded by a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form.
Vivan Stanshall made one of his monologues about Sir Henry at Ndidi's Kraal
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In the absence of any You Tube clip, I'll just explain that in the 1970s Stanshall recorded numerous sessions for BBC Radio 1's John Peel show which elaborated, with a mixture of eloquence and irreverence, on the weird and wonderful adventures of the inebriated and blimpish Sir Henry Rawlinson, his dotty wife Great Aunt Florrie, his "unusual" brother Hubert (who, for speed, stature and far-seeing, habitually goes on stilts), old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer, Mrs E, the rambling and unhygienic cook, and many other inhabitants of the crumbly Rawlinson End, plus its environs.
Sir Henry is a character I am trying to model myself on. The Family motto is Omnes Blotto, and I have already parahrased one of Sir henry's expressions "I don't know what I want - but I want it now" (to which the cook would ask "fried or fried?")
Oh crap, I don't have a clue how we'll pull these two together this time! :lol:
The Grand Wazoo
11-10-2010, 23:16
I've got it!
Back in a mo'
Oooh - Oooh! "the cook would ask..." "Sam Cooke 'Ol' Man River'" - we have two cooks! Too many cooks spoil the broth, of course. Broth is a type of soup - which links us nicely to Bowling for Soup - The Girl All the Bad Guys Want
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But now I've seen Chris's "holding post" so I shall defer to his doubtless more creative solution!
The Grand Wazoo
11-10-2010, 23:23
Old Man River is about the Mississippi.
On that river, you used to find showboats.
'The Old Profanity Showboat' was a sea-going ship (called Thekla) that was used as a space for the arts to be displayed - music, theatre, poetry, art etc.
The idea was thought up by novelist Ki Longfellow, Vivian Stanshall's wife.
Together, they wrote, produced, and staged 'Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera' aboard the Thekla.
Stinkfoot is a track from Apostrophe by Frank Zappa
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Coldcut performed 'Autumn Leaves'
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A similarly named track appeared on Manfred Mann's album 'Mann Made Hits' and 'As Is':
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By the way does anyone know where the video for "Im Nin 'Alu" was shot - those ruins look Hellenic (rather than Nabatean)? Otherwise, Ofra Haza's version of Kashmir was unrecognisable.
Looking at the still (no you tube at work) I would say the video was shot at Petra in Jordan
Looking at the still (no you tube at work) I would say the video was shot at Petra in Jordan
Hi Steve,
Thanks, however as I said I don't think the ruins look Nabatean. I have visited both Petra and 'Little' Petra and don't remember seeing anything that looked like that shown in Ofra Haza's video.
Thanks for your interest
Regards
'Cry Me A River' was famously sung by Julie London.
Another singer with a capital city surname would be Mica Paris
Jazz singer Diana Washinton would be another. It is not uncommon for place names to be used as surnames. Frank Zappa was, as usual, way ahead of everyone in anticipating lunar settlement when he had the temerity to name his daughter 'Moon Unit 1'.
UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce or UNified Intelligence Taskforce,) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth.
The Who released an album called 'Who's Next?'
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This, as you can see, shows them walking away from an isolated concrete highway support column, having just urinated against it. The column looks as though it has just been chipped from out of a quarry; the sort of quarry where much of the action took place in the Doctor Who series under John Pertwee's tenure and where UNIT was formed.
There was a short lived and little known pop group of the '60s called 'Unit 4 + 2'. they had a minor hit with a song called 'Concrete and Clay'.
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Never let it be said that my replies are not perversely convoluted, if not incestious!
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 17:07
Never let it be said that my replies are not perversely convoluted, if not incestious!
That's as may be Squire. But what's it got to do with.............
Stinkfoot is a track from Apostrophe by Frank Zappa
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That's as may be Squire. But what's it got to do with.............
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'Stinkfoot' (by Frank Zappa) followed on from Vivian Stanshall (your connection). My connection followed on from Frank Zappa, via 'Unit', 'The Who' and 'concrete'.
Problem?
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 17:24
No, I'm sorry, I thought you were starting with Mica Paris and ambling by M.U. Zappa by way of a coincidence.
Apologies
I was overlapping replies. You're right, I did segué from Mica Paris to Frank Zappa by way of names taken from places.
So the connection to make now is to either 'unit' or 'concrete', or to 'clay'.
You can do it Chris, after connecting Vivian Stanshall with "ol' man river", it should be simple!
Regards
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 18:26
Nik Turner's Inner City Unit would be the ones then.
Nik Turner was in Hawkwind, whose artwork was often done by Barney Bubbles, who used the principles of 'Concrete Poetry' - where typographical arrangement is as important as the words in conveying meaning.
Inner City Unit - 'Brand New Cadillac'
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Reid Malenfant
12-10-2010, 18:31
Oooh an easy one & i don't even need to explain things :eyebrows:
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The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 18:45
...........and the original:
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David Bowie said that Vince Taylor was the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust
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The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (born Norman Carl Odam) is a rock and roll performer who invented an early example of the genre that came to be known as 'psychobilly' in the 1960s.
Odam was interested in space travel from early childhood, recalling that at kindergarten age he "used to look at the moon and told myself that some day man will go to the moon." As a teenager he combined his interests in outer space and the American west to create the name ‘Stardust Cowboy’ adding the word ‘legendary’ because “I am a legend in my own time”.
http://www.stardustcowboy.com/
One of the Stardust Cowboy’s compositions: ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship’ was covered by longtime fan David Bowie on his ‘Heathen’ album. Odam returned the compliment by recording his version of ‘Space Oddity’. Bowie himself has said that the term ‘stardust’ in ‘Ziggy Stardust’ is taken from The Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
The Cowboy’s recording of ‘Paralysed’ is claimed by many to be the “worse record ever made” – I’m inclined to agree, though both Frank Zappa and John Peel liked him.
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What do you think?
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 22:34
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - 'Paralysed'
This was produced by T-Bone Burnett, who also played drums. T-Bone Burnett has produced many artists including Counting Crows, Los Lobos, Tony Bennett, BoDeans, and K.D. Lang, The Wallflowers, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.
And not forgetting Freedy Johnson, who he made an album with called 'Blue Days Black Nights'.
That was also the name of Buddy Holly's first single.
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A good cowboy needs a Good Horse - as did members of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade in the Battle of Beersheba which took place on 31 October 1917. I doubt they needed many Cardigans though...
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Oh bugger, here we go again! :lol:
Um, Buddy Holly had an interesting collection of cardigans?
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 22:45
Buddy Holly............Cowboys............hmmmmm
Weezer - 'Buddy Holly/Cowboy Bebop'
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I've got it!
Buddy Holly was a song by Weezer - just look at their Cardigans!
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The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 22:47
Same track different reasons............nice!
The Grand Wazoo
12-10-2010, 22:48
The AoS telepathy strikes again.
The AoS telepathy strikes again.
I mentioned Jungian collective unconciousness and synchronicity a few posts back, and commented on its apparent effect here on AoS. Spooky!
One of Buddy Holly's songs is 'Honky Tonk'
The Urban dictionary defines a 'honky tonk' as
"A loud, rowdy bar that plays 'honky tonk' country music. Typically full of drunken hillbillies having a good ole' time. To go out 'honky tonkin' is to go out on the town to honky tonk bars and get drunk."
The origin of the term is not clear. Wiki states:
"The origin of the term honky tonk is unknown. The earliest source explaining the derivation of the term (spelled "honkatonk") was an article published in 1900 by the New York Sun and widely reprinted in other newspapers. It states that the term came from the sound of geese, which led an unsuspecting group of cowboys to the flock instead of to the variety show they expected."
If this is true then perhaps the Cowboys missed out on their Cowboy bebop? And to console them after their disappointment, their mums knitted some nice warm wooly cardigans for them to wear when it got chilly out on the range? :scratch:
Anyway, enough of these flights of fancy :mental: - the Rolling Stones did 'Honky Tonk Woman' (who may, or may not, have possessed and worn a cardigan).
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The Grand Wazoo
13-10-2010, 16:31
Honky Tonk Women (there were several of them Barry) got to the top of the charts on 23rd July 1969 and the record that it knocked off the number one position was:
Thunderclap Newman - 'Something in the Air'
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I don't know how or why I happen to know this piece of information, but its been stored away in some corner of my mind for years but it's kind of appropriate after all this talk of buttoned-up woolly clothing: Did you know that the Wild Man of the Cardigan Val Doonican knocked Sgt Pepper of the number one album position with 'Val Doonican Rocks.......But Gently'
Thunderclap Newton were a neophyte group whose patrons were The Who.
However rather than go back to The Who, I'll mention someone else who sang about something 'in the air' - Phil Collins
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A retrograde step you might think - but I'm a secret admirer of his 'Face Values' album. Things could be worse, I might listen to it wearing a cardigan - only a short step, I already listen to a 'pipe and slippers' system.
I'm a secret admirer of his 'Face Values' album.
I played it only last night...! Anyway... Phil Collins "starred" in the film Buster, which I rather enjoyed, actually. Several Phil Collins singles were released from the soundtrack, including "A Groovy Kind of Love" and "Two Hearts". Collins also co-wrote Loco in Acapulco which was performed by The Four Tops.
Founded as The Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs was a cousin of Jackie Wilson - who's first and biggest hit was Reet Petite, re-issued in 1986 after his death with a rather fab video featuring a plasticine Jackie...
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The Grand Wazoo
13-10-2010, 18:36
Reet Petite always sounds to me like something Slim Gaillard would have said. He was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist and sang in a made up language he called "Vout".
He became known in the late 1930's, then began opening shows for Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins. He also recorded with Parker. There's a description of a Gaillard Vout performance in Kerouac's book 'On The Road'.
Slim Gaillard - 'Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)'
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Hmmm... where to go now... Fatboy Slim? Parker to Thunderbirds (nah, already referenced a Gerry Anderson creation just the other day...) Sophie B Hawkins Perhaps (I love her, and not just because she is a lady that loves to love ladies...)
If in doubt, go the obvious - Club Foot - Kasabian what a choooooonnn! :)
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Reet Petite always sounds to me like something Slim Gaillard would have said. He was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist and sang in a made up language he called "Vout".
That was new to me. Here's a 'vout-english' lexicon: http://www.pocreations.com/vout.html
Not sure how one can follow a 'club foot' with any sense of tact, so how about 'The Club a Go-Go' by the Animals?
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The Animals "signature" hit is House of the Rising Sun. Sun Rising was a hit for "The Beloved" - who had a very interesting formation: According to Wikipedia:
In 1983, Jon Marsh placed an advertisement in the music press, which read as follows:
I am Jon Marsh, founder member of the Beloved. Should you too wish to do something gorgeous, meet me in exactly three year's time at exactly 11am in Diana's Diner, or site thereof, Covent Garden, London, WC2.
There are lots of songs about Gardens, though I can't think of any about Covent Garden, but Ralph McTell had a song about Kew Gardens - you'd have to walk a lot of the Streets of London to get there.
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The Grand Wazoo
14-10-2010, 19:23
Ralph McTell - 'Streets of London'
The second verse of 'Streets of London' goes like this:
Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
So that would be a bag lady then?
Erykah Badu - 'Bag Lady'
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DanJennings
16-10-2010, 08:44
this video by Madness haas a bag lady in it.
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DanJennings
16-10-2010, 08:50
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I've just sat and listened to that, and I'd forgotten how much I like that song....
Bag Lady was performed by 'Otis Lee Crenshaw'
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Otis Lee Crenshaw is none other than Rich Hall: Stand-up comedian, television guest/presenter, author and playwright. He is best known to us, here in the UK, from his appearances on the TV show 'QI', hosted by Stephen Fry.
Another Fry, is John Fry, saxophanist with the low-key pub band 'Big Chief'
http://www.bigchief.org.uk/
"Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s. It became a hit for Professor Longhair in 1964, featuring a whistled first chorus in a rollicking blues piano style and subsequent lyrics written in a Creole patois. The tune became very popular in New Orleans, frequently performed by local musicians such as Dr. John, and is now a staple of the repertory of most brass bands and musicians in the area.
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Dr John often plays at the New Orlean's club "Tipitina's", a club owned by the Neville Brothers who did a wonderful version of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on a Wire':
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Was it a blackbird?
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Blackbird on the Wire - The Beautiful South
Was it a blackbird?
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Blackbird on the Wire - The Beautiful South
Blackbird was a track on the Beatles' album "The Beatles", more commonly known as "The White Album." The working title for this was going to be "A Doll's House" but this was dropped after the release of Family's "Music in a Doll's House" (1968). The album was co-produced by Traffic's Dave Mason who shares a surname with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd's legendary producer Norman Smith (who coincidentally engineered many Beatles' tracks at Abbey Road), changed his forename to Hurricane and recorded this:
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The Grand Wazoo
16-10-2010, 22:58
Norman Smith produced S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things - the album that is supposed to have been the first rock opera.
My favourite Pretty Things track was recorded in those sessions, but never got onto the album.
The Pretty Things - 'Walking Through My Dreams'
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The start of the Pretty Things YouTube clip looks like part of something Klimt might have painted:
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The above is Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.
Ernest Bloch (1880 – 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. One of Bloch's composition was called Macbeth.
Third Ear Band composed the music for Roman Polanski's film Macbeth. Here is 'Mosaic' taken from their first LP Alchemy.
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Norman Smith produced S.F. Sorrow by the Pretty Things - the album that is supposed to have been the first rock opera.
My favourite Pretty Things track was recorded in those sessions, but never got onto the album.
The Pretty Things - 'Walking Through My Dreams'
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'Walking Through My Dreams' is a 'bonus track' on the CD remaster of S.F. Sorrow. ("And nobody knew what the 'F' stood for." :))
Pretty things, especially girls, need a theme: Eels gave us one:
Theme For A Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists
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DanJennings
17-10-2010, 11:15
Theme For A Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists
I don't think Everclear have met that girl
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The Grand Wazoo
17-10-2010, 11:31
Third Ear Band - 'Mosaic'
An anagram of Third Ear Band is Bad Hair Trend
Examples of such a thing in a musical context would be:
The white-afro
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It looks like that one can get you arrested
Beady nonsense
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Seagull
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Poodle
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........or just plain ill-advised.
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Slade - 'Thanks For The Memory'
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The Grand Wazoo
17-10-2010, 11:32
Doh!
I thought we'd done The Pretty Things
An anagram of Third Ear Band is Bad Hair Trend
........or just plain Hill-advised.
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Typo corrected.
Slade's previous incarnation was "Ambrose Slade." Ambrosia used to make both tinned custard and creamed rice (and probably still do). Clive Rice was a cricketer who played for both South Africa and Nottinghamshire. Nottingham was the abode of Robin Hood who was the subject of an ITV series many years ago, the music for which was produced by Clannad. Their album previous to the soundtrack for Robin of Sherwood contained another TV theme. but from which series?
Oh, all right then:
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Beechwoods
17-10-2010, 17:28
Clannad is gaelic for 'Family'... And the Nolans are another well known Irish family group. They had a big hit with 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing'.
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Whereas this lot aren't...
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The Grand Wazoo
17-10-2010, 18:05
Scissors allow you to Cut Slits
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Typical girls like smelly things and lying in bed on weekends. Maybe they need a Strawberry Alarm Clock
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The Grand Wazoo
17-10-2010, 18:53
Strawberry Alarm Clock
I don't know about Straw Berry Alarm Clocks, but I think Chuck Berry would prefer typical girls to wake up to his ding a ling.
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I don't know about Straw Berry Alarm Clocks, but I think Chuck Berry would prefer typical girls to wake up to his ding a ling.
You know, I think you're right:
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Beechwoods
17-10-2010, 22:23
Mark E Smith had a thing about Telephones, back in 1990. He wrote a pretty cool song about it!
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The Grand Wazoo
17-10-2010, 22:30
More telephonic shenanigans are to be had from:
The Kinks - 'Party Line'
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As well as Blondie - 'Hanging On The Telephone'
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Short 'n sweet from me tonight!
Rare Bird
17-10-2010, 22:39
Un Jade Warrior - Telephone Girl
Beechwoods
17-10-2010, 22:41
More telephonic shenanigans are to be had from:
The Kinks - 'Party Line'
Forget Party Line, there's a bunch of guys on the Fly Gang label who lay down a track called Panty Line which is way cool, sho' nuff.
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Un Jade Warrior - Telephone Girl
Can't find a YouTube clip for André's connection, so how about
Jade Warrior - 'Way of the Sun'?
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OOOhh - this is getting messy! :lol:
By the time I make a link to all 4 someone else will have posted!
Followers of the Way of the Sun are probably sun worshippers and are usually to be found on the beach. Female sun worshippers often worry about their 'bikini line', which I presume is the same as 'Panty Line'.
One group who also made a rather un-PC record about sun worshippers was The Stranglers with 'Peaches'
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Easy Alex
WELL DONE BARRY! Here was mine, though, as I went to the effort:
OK... A rather unflattering description of a "panty line" from the front is referred to as "Cameloe" "a slang term that refers to the outline of a human female's labia majora seen through tight clothes."
If you have mobile telephone but decide you want to change contracts, you would need to change to another provider, and this is sometimes called Migration. Migration was a track by Camel, but we've forgotten Barry's link, haven't we?
The Sun is part of the solar system, solar being a word that refers to the sun. Referring to the moon, the term "lunar" is often used. (Coincidentally, Camel also had an album called Moonmadness, which aptly describes this link!)
Whatever, we have the moon and an even-toed ungulate - a Lunar Camel - thank god (or other celestial being) for Siouxsie & The Banshees! (Phew!)
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But you don't want to be following that, you want to be following Barry's link -
The Stranglers - Peaches
Steven Severin (born Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, London), is an English musician, composer, bassist and founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. After dabbling with the names "Steve Spunker" and "Steve Havoc" he took the name "Severin", from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character that is the subject of the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs".
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However we're not done yet.
Marianne Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her father was a British military officer and college professor in psychology. Her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, was originally from Vienna, with aristocratic roots in the Habsburg Dynasty and Jewish ancestry on her maternal side. Faithfull's maternal great great uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word "masochism".
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There is an urban myth concerning Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and a certain chocolate confection. I don't believe it, despite the above library picture, Faithfull was a sweet innocent convent-educated girl
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who sang "As tears Go By".
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DanJennings
18-10-2010, 06:21
Marianne Faithful
we've all heard the stories
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The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 06:56
Mars bars seem to have shrunk over the years. Another type of shriveling confectionery is the Curly Wurly, as advertised by Terry Scott.
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They cost 3 pence then!!! The Curly Wurly advert refers to his friends & his brother:
Terry Scott - 'My Bruvver'
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OK here we go –
Marianne Faithfull sang ‘As Tears Go By’. Ian McColloch, one of the members of 'The Teardrop Explodes', went on to form the group ‘Echo and the Bunnymen’. Bunny is an infantile word for rabbit.
There are several sibling musical partnerships. Of those composing two brothers, are Sparks who made a record called ‘Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat’.
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Another group formed around two brothers is ‘The Psychedelic Furs’, who sang ‘Into You Like a Train’ (apologies for the unintentional Freudian symbolism; we've had enough of that for the moment ;)).
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The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 18:25
Ian McColloch, one of the members of 'The Teardrop Explodes', went on to form the group ‘Echo and the Bunnymen’.
I have to make a slight correction there Barry. Ian McCulloch wasn't in The Teardrop Explodes, but he was in a band called The Crucial Three with Pete Wylie and Julian Cope. Wylie formed The Mighty Wah!, Cope formed The Teardrop Explodes & McCulloch formed Echo & the Bunnymen.
I have to make a slight correction there Barry. Ian McCulloch wasn't in The Teardrop Explodes, but he was in a band called The Crucial Three with Pete Wylie and Julian Cope. Wylie formed The Mighty Wah!, Cope formed The Teardrop Explodes & McCulloch formed Echo & the Bunnymen.
Hi Chris
You're quite right. I should have read:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teardrop_Explodes more carefully. I don't think it has spoilt my circuitous 'degrees of connection' link.
Regards
The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 19:06
Hi Chris
You're quite right. I should have read:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teardrop_Explodes more carefully. I don't think it has spoilt my circuitous 'degrees of connection' link.
Regards
Nope, the circuit remains intact.
The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 19:26
Psychedelic Furs - 'Into You Like a Train'
Not psychedelic, but certainly fur, Mink DeVille used to be called Billy de Sade and the Marquis (harking back to previous connections above), but they changed their name because 'they could think of nothing more cool that a fur lined Cadillac.'
Mink DeVille - 'Cadillac Walk'
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I think it would have to be a Brand New Cadillac tough, otherwise there could be a Clash:
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The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 20:25
I think it would have to be a Brand New Cadillac tough, otherwise there could be a Clash:
We've already had a run on Brand New Cadillac Alex. Three different versions cited in two subsequent posts!!
What a dope! :doh: My excuse is that it was a test drive, and I was only allowed to go round and round the block...
Mink Deville certainly liked their ambulation - as well as a Cadillac Walk, they also enjoyed a more gentle Spanish Stroll
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Beechwoods
18-10-2010, 21:49
I'm not sure about a Spanish Stroll, but there are a bunch of hairy Finnish Trolls who sound fantastic!
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The Grand Wazoo
18-10-2010, 22:35
Trollhammeren I think refers to a Scandinavian legend. However, Hammeren is a place in Norway just down the road from Aga.
The Aga cooker was invented by Gustaf Dalén, a Swede. His company that he formed to produce his design was called Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator Translated as Joint Stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator.
Hawkwind had an accumulator too!
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Wiki tells us:
“Orgone is an idea which was proposed and promoted in the 1930s by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who originated the term to describe a universal life force.
Reich, originally part of Freud's Vienna circle, believed that Freud's concept of libido had an actual biological basis, and developed a therapeutic practice that was ostensibly designed to open up this bodily energy in the belief—following Freud—that healthy psychological state derived from uninhibited libidinal flow. This biophysical theory eventually developed into the concept of orgone (a word coined from the same root as "organism" and "orgasm"): which Reich saw as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to the luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with vital, living energy rather than inert matter. Orgone would coalesce and create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units—called bions in orgone theory—to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies. Reich's follower Charles R. Kelley went so far as to claim that orgone was the creative substratum in all of nature, comparable to Mesmer's animal magnetism, the Odic force of Carl Reichenbach and Henri Bergson's élan vital. Reich believed that many diseases, and particularly cancer, were caused by deficits or constrictions in the flow of orgone in the body, and developed specially designed "orgone accumulators" which supposedly charged the body with orgone collected from the atmosphere. These devices were distributed as devices to improve general health and increase sexual potency, and later were adopted into tools such as cloudbusters, devices intended to stimulate rainfall.”
Kate Bush has a hit with ‘Cloudbursting’. The song describes Reich's arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter. (source Wiki)
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Wiki goes on to say:
"William S. Burroughs was a major proponent of orgone research, who often included it as part of the surreal imagery in his novels. Orgone interested Burroughs particularly because he believed that it could be used to ease or alleviate "junk sickness"—a popular term for heroin withdrawal. This fit well in the context of his novels, which were usually narrative recreations of his own experiences with narcotics and the Beat life."
Burroughs was responsible for the terms: ‘steely dan’, meaning a dildo and ‘soft machine’, meaning the human body. Both terms were used as titles for groups.
Steely Dan played ‘Babylon Sisters’, off their album ‘Gaucho’.
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Soft Machine played ‘Moon in June’, off their album ‘Third’.
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Three for the price of one - you choose. Never let it be said that I don’t provide ‘value for money’.
Rare Bird
19-10-2010, 02:36
Can't find a YouTube clip for André's connection, so how about
Jade Warrior - 'Way of the Sun'?
O dear no Barry thats too late..You need the first self titled album for ''Telephone Girl''
Wiki tells us:
Three for the price of one - you choose. Never let it be said that I don’t provide ‘value for money’.
Thanks Barry
Ric Sanders was a member of Soft Machine, and before appearing in Fairport Convention, replacing Dave Swarbrick on fiddle, also was a one-time member of The albion Band with other Fairporters who produced this gem-like little album "Rise Up Like the Sun." The opening instrumental is called "Ampleforth" and it segues into "Lay me Low."
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Ampleforth is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. There are 2 pubs - the White Horse and the White Swan. Commonly, you would ride a white horse, but not very many people Ride a White Swan - T.Rex did...
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The Grand Wazoo
19-10-2010, 23:12
Ampleforth is a village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. There are 2 pubs - the White Horse and the White Swan. Commonly, you would ride a white horse, but not very many people Ride a White Swan - T.Rex did...
Ampleforth is also the home of a Catholic boarding school, Ampleforth College, which is run by Benedictene monks. It has several notable ex-pupils, among which are Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Prince Sebastian of Luxembourg.
Marc Bolan made some recordings at the Radio Luxembourg Studios, London, which ended up on album called 'You Scare Me To Death' (lyrics: 'You scare me to death with your horrible breath')
Also on that album were tracks by John's Children - the band Bolan was in before T Rex.
John's Children - 'Desdemona'
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Desdemona means 'unfortunate' in Greek. A song called 'Unfortunate' was sung by a performer called 'Trey Songz'
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'Trey Songz' real name is Aldon Navarone Tremane. During his sophomore year he made a record called 'Wonder Woman'
'Wonder Woman' was supposed to be an Amazon; a race of warrior females, who acording to legend, founded the city of Paphos.
Paphos was the son of Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled 'Pygmalion', which was made into a film starring Rex Harrison called 'My Fair Lady'. The provisional, working title for My Fair Lady was 'Fair Eliza'
'Fair Eliza' is phonetically similar to 'Für Elise' (For Elisa), a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven (or to give it its formal title: Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO [ Werke ohne Opuszahl, "Works without opus number"] 59) and Bia [The Biamonti Catalogue] 515, for solo piano).
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(Anything to get away from the grossly over-rated Marc Bolan!)
Elise is a name adopted by Norfolk car manufacturer Lotus for one of their sports cars. Lotus are also famous for tuning other manufacturers cars to "soup them up" including Lotus versions of the Ford Cortina, (so we could have had The Cortinas, but that would probably take us back to The Clash again...) the Vauxhall Carlton (nearly went with Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles, but no...) and the Talbot Sunbeam.
Mick Talbot was one half of The Style Council - their biggest hit in the UK was Long Hot Summer - reaching number 3 in 1983
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The Loving Spoonful sang 'Summer In The City'
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There is a conceptual link between The Loving Spoonful and the group 10cc. (The link is 'adult'; possibly both groups felt their influences had been seminal?)
10cc made a record called 'I'm Not In Love
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The Grand Wazoo
20-10-2010, 17:19
10cc - 'I'm Not In Love
If you had a 10cc motorbike, you'd probably have to take it easy.
Fairport Convention - 'The Ballad of Easy Rider'
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In the film ‘Easy Rider’, Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music, but was reluctant to use his own recording of ‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’, so a version performed by The Byrds’ frontman Roger McGuinn was used instead. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’ and told the filmmakers, “Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it.” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.
The Byrds made a number of iconic songs, one being the Dylan composition ‘Hey Mr. Tambourine Man’.
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David Crosby of The Byrds became the "Crosby" in Folk-Rock Supergroup Crosby Stills Nash & Young Whilst "Nash" was from The Hollies, 50% of the band consisted of ex-Buffalo Springfield members Stephen Stills and Neil Young.
(From Wikipedia) In November 1966 Stills composed his landmark song, "For What It's Worth", after witnessing police actions against the crowds of young people who had gathered on the Sunset Strip to protest the closing of a nightclub called Pandora's Box. The song was performed on Halloween night at the Whisky a Go Go
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The Grand Wazoo
21-10-2010, 23:20
Neil Young did a similar thing with his song 'Ohio' - recorded by CSNY - a protest against the deaths of students at Kent State University.
David Crosby said that Neil Young's decision to keep Nixon's name in the lyrics when it was recorded was "the bravest thing I ever heard."
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This kind of thing happened again during the Watts riots & Frank Zappa had something to say about the unrest and also the police & the reporters & photographers who were there documenting events.
From the sleeve notes of 'Freak Out!' (1966): " 'Trouble Every Day' is how I feel about racial unrest in general and the Watts situation in particular. It was written during the Watts riot as it developed. I shopped it briefly all over Hollywood but no one would touch it... everybody worries so much about not getting any air play. My, my."
Quote from the lyrics:
"I'm not black, but there's a whole lotta times I wish I could say I'm not white"
The Mothers of Invention - 'Trouble Every Day'
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Gordon Lightfoot did a similar thing with the track 'Black Day in July ', a song about the 1967 Detroit riots from his LP 'Did She Mention My Name?'
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From CBS Archive:
"Lightfoot banned in the U.S.A.
Broadcast Date: April 13, 1968
Black day in July
Motor city madness has touched the countryside
So begins Lightfoot's 'Black Day In July', a song Lightfoot wrote about the 1967 race riots in Detroit. But after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a week earlier – on April 4, 1968 – many top-40 radio stations in the U.S. refuse to play the song. They fear the lyrics will ignite violence. Lightfoot tells CBC Radio, he's not surprised by the decision."
Black Day in July
Motor City madness has touched the countryside
And through the smoke and cinders you can hear it far and wide
The door are quickly bolted and the children locked inside
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
And the soul of Motor City is feared across the land
As the book of law and order is taken in the hands
Of the sons of the fathers who were carried to this land
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
In the streets of Motor City there's a deadly silent sound
And the body of a dead youth lies stretched upon the ground
Upon the filthy pavements no reason can be found
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
Motor City madness has touched the countryside
And the people rise in anger and the streets begin to fill
And there's gunfire from the rooftops and the blood begins to spill
Black Day in July
In the mansion of the Governor there's nothing that is known for sure
The telephone is ringing and the pendulum is swinging
And the wonder how it happened and they really know the reason
And it wasn't just the temperature and it wasn't just the season
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
Motor City's burning and the flames are running wild
They reflect upon the waters of the river and the lake
And everyone is listening and everyone's awake
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
The printing press is turning and the news is quickly flashed
And you read your morning paper and you sip your cup of tea
And you wonder just in passing is it him or is it me
Black Day in July
In the Office of the President the deed is done the troops are sent
There's really not much choice you see it looks to us like anarchy
And then the tanks go rolling in patch things up as best they can
There is no time to hesitate the speech is made the dues can wait
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
The streets of Motor City now are are quiet and serene
But the shapes of gutted buildings strike terror to the heart
And you say how did it happen and you say how did it start
Why can't we all be brothers why can't we live in peace
But the hands of the the have-nots keep falling out of reach
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
Motor City madness has touched the countryside
And through the smoke and cinders you can hear it far and wide
The door are quickly bolted and the children locked inside
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
Black Day in July
What's all this go to do with Frank Zappa? Well in 1972, Jim Gordon was part of Frank Zappa's 20-piece "Grand Wazoo" big band tour, and he also played on Gordon Lightfoot's 1974 LP 'Sundown'.
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The Grand Wazoo
22-10-2010, 21:05
Apparently Gordon Lightfoot is referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter - I'd argue that Joni Mitchell or Neil Young would qualify for that title. Neil Young's first single with his first band, The Squires, was 'Aurora' b/w 'The Sultan'.
He also mentions the Aurora Borealis in his song 'Pocahontas':
Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man
To the fields of green
And the homeland
We've never seen.
Marcella Detroit & Aurora covered 'If you could read my mind' by Gordon Lightfoot in a distinctly non singer-songwritery style.
Aurora - If You Could Read My Mind
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Simple is sometimes best:
Bjork - Aurora
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DanJennings
23-10-2010, 07:05
Luca Turilli did a song called Princess Aurora
but that one's a bit boring, so here's a song from the same album.
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Rare Bird
23-10-2010, 09:28
Simple is sometimes best:
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Well sexy :stalks:
Luca Turilli did a song called Princess Aurora
but that one's a bit boring, so here's a song from the same album.
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If things are boring, Everyday can Drag-on. Everyday was a hit single for Buddy Holly, and I have a 1960s reissue with Heartbeat on the flip. The Buggles sent the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest in their single "The Plastic Age" which appeared on the same album as "Video Killed the Radio Star." "Video" was a single from the "Electric Dreams" album, which was performed by Jeff Lynne who produced "Full Moon Fever" by Tom Petty. Norman Petty was Buddy Holly's manager who had a writer's credit on the song "Everyday."
By which circuitous route...
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Just to tidy up some loose ends:
Apparently Gordon Lightfoot is referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter - I'd argue that Joni Mitchell or Neil Young would qualify for that title.
I would also add Leonard Cohen to the list of contestors.
In one of Frank Zappa's song's, 'Dinah-Moe Humm' there is the line: 'Kiss my Aura Dora'. Have to say that these lyrics are an example of Zappa at his infantile smuttyness worse (or best depending on your predeliction):
Kiss my aura, dora. mmm... it's a real angora... y'all wanta some more-a? Kiss my aura, dora. mmm... it's a real angora... y'all wanta some more-a, right here on the floora?...
Personally I found all the examples posted on Auroras (Aurorea ?) uninteresting. Aurorea are caused by the interaction of charged particles in the Solar wind interacting with the earth's magnetic field.
Charles Dodge wrote a piece called 'Earth's Magnetic Field'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dodge_(composer)
http://somerecords.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/charles-dodge-earths-magnetic-field-1970/
Unfortuately, I can't find a YouTube clip , and the mp3 excerpt included in the above web-site doesn't work for me, though it may do for you.
Sorry Grez,
Just realised I should be following on from Buddy Holly. Now that's 'an embarasment of riches' since Holly was unbelievably influencial on later recording artists - it's difficult to know where to begin.
Without wishing to appear excessivly morbid, the plane crash in which Buddy Holly died also claimed the lives of Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson (aka 'The Big Bopper'). Such a tragic loss has gone down in history as "The Day The Music Died", a line that appears in Don McLean 's 'American Pie'.
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Just to tidy up some loose ends:
I would also add Leoard Cohen to the list of contestors.
In one of Frank Zappa's song's, 'Dinah-Moe Humm' there is the line: 'Kiss my Aura Dora'. Have to say that these lyrics are an example of Zappa at his infantile smuttyness worse (or best depending on your predeliction):
Kiss my aura, dora. mmm... it's a real angora... y'all wanta some more-a? Kiss my aura, dora. mmm... it's a real angora... y'all wanta some more-a, right here on the floora?...
Personally I found all the examples posted on Auroras (Aurorea ?) uninteresting. Aurorea are caused by the interaction of charged particles in the Solar wind interacting with the earth's magnetic field.
Charles Dodge wrote a piece called 'Earth's Magnetic Field'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dodge_(composer)
http://somerecords.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/charles-dodge-earths-magnetic-field-1970/
Unfortuately, I can't find a YouTube clip , and the mp3 excerpt included in the above web-site doesn't work for me, though it may do for you.
The Aurora Borealis is known as the Northern Lights (that can't be seen Everyday!)
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Pete The Cat
23-10-2010, 18:29
And then there's Mad Richard before he went all AOR...
The Verve "A Northern Soul".
Pete
Verve Records Released "The Girl from Ipanema" with plaintive vocal from Astrud Gilberto, but the track was actually credited to Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz, Astrud appearing in small print as almost an afterthought. However, Stan Getz's sax playing was and is sublime. Here he is playing the jazz classic "Autumn Leaves"
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Do I get the job on radio 2?
The Grand Wazoo
24-10-2010, 22:33
Which tiny teeny weeny hatchback to buy? - It's a tricky decision:
Hyundai Getz?
Honda Jazz?
Suzuki Swift?
The Mooney Suzuki - 'Primitive Condition'
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.............weird video!
'Moonies' are followers of a cult 'religion' started by the Korean Sun Myang Moon.
Obviously there are many pop groups performing in Korea.
.............weird video!
Wierd, 'arty' but boring. This YouTube clip from the Korean version of the Spice Girls, 'Kara' is no better.
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The Grand Wazoo
25-10-2010, 20:34
A Kara is also a bracelet worn by Sikhs. It is one of the kakars which are external articles of faith or reminders to carry out what is seen as God's work.
Something similar, but perhaps not representational of such devout worship:
The Bangles - 'Hazy Shade of Winter'
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What a track, Chris. My favourite Winter though, is one spent with Tori Amos (I could certainly worship her - the sexiest red-head ever, in my book...:eyebrows:)
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What a track, Chris. My favourite Winter though, is one spent with Tori Amos (I could certainly worship her - the sexiest red-head ever, in my book...:eyebrows:)
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Amos Brearley was a character in the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale Farm" whos namesake Mike Brearley was England Cricket Captain in the late 1970s to early 1980s, round about the same time as this was released:
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Amos Brearley was a character in the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale Farm" whos namesake Mike Brearley was England Cricket Captain in the late 1970s to early 1980s, round about the same time as this was released:
They might not like cricket, but this lot do...
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The Grand Wazoo
26-10-2010, 21:15
10cc - 'Dreadlock Holiday'
Ten cubic centimetres (or cc) equals ten millilitres.
Or 00.338 US fluid oz
Or 0.0423 cups
Or 0.0211 US pints
Or 0.0106 US quarts
Or 0.00264 US gallons
Sadly, however, I don't have conversion factors for John Miles, Nine Inch Nails, The Meters, KT Tunstall, The Yardbirds, Gallon Drunk.
But there is something useful here because a cubic cm of water weighs a gramme.
Gram Parsons - 'Brass Buttons'
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.............no conversion available for Kilo Minogue either, but I have heard her referred to as a half-pint!!
You'd get brass buttons and more with this - ACEEED !
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The Grand Wazoo
26-10-2010, 22:08
Acid bras? That sounds like a recipe for joggers nipple.
But for your Deee-lite - Groove is in the Heart - I reckon that spandex catsuit would give you joggers nipples, too...
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The Grand Wazoo
26-10-2010, 22:49
Dee-lite........makes me think of:
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...........Angel Delight?
Angel Delight makes me think of Dave Angel - Eco Warrior
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.......whose theme music is:
Mike Oldfield - 'Moonlight Shadow'
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Moonlight Shadow was on the album Crises, which also featured Jon Anderson of Yes fame, who also released singles as part of this duo
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DanJennings
27-10-2010, 06:12
Vangelis was in Aphrodite's child, who did a song called The Four Horsemen.
Metallica also did a song called the Four Horsemen
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Dave Mustaine had a hand in writing that song before he was chucked out of the band to form Megadeth who appropriated the riff and tune to make the song as he originally intended. It was called Mechanix
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The Grand Wazoo
27-10-2010, 23:07
OK, how about this one then?
Megadeth - Mechanix
Mechanix was an American magazine that was first published in 1928. It had several names during it's life:
Home Mechanix, Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Modern Mechanix and finally, Mechanix Illustrated.
It was the kind of thing that loads of folks who're member of AoS would love to read - articles covering amazing stuff like the first 24" TV tube; a plastic bubble to be worn by combine-harvester drivers to keep chaff out of the eyes, ears and nose; an article on the world's best top spinners; a fast ice boat built With scraps and old Model T-Ford engine. This is serious stuff!
Take a look at:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
Anyway, there was often a feature where a young lady was featured dressed in skimpy (for the time) overalls, posing beside whatever technicological marvel was being featured in the journal that month. The young lady was called Mimi.............
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Another Mimi would be Joan Baez' sister Mimi Farina, who was married to Richard Farina, a Mexican physicist. The pair of them were recording artists and political activists during the 60's.
Richard & Mimi Farina - 'Reno, Nevada'
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Richard & Mimi Farina - 'Reno, Nevada'
Richard Farina put words to My Lagan Love, calling his new song The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood. He ain't Heavy, He's My Bother, was recorded by the Holies who also recorded "The Air that I Breathe" written by Mike Hazlewood and Albert Hammond. Hammond's Yorkshire Relish is a much nicer product on your bacon and eggs than HP sauce. Hence..
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The Grand Wazoo
28-10-2010, 20:11
Brown Sauce - 'I Wanna Be a Winner'
If you wanna be a winner you shouldn't worry, because Errol thinks 'Everyone's a Winner'. And Hot Chocolate is kind of a sauce - not for bacon & eggs though.
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I saw Brown Sauce in Norwich when I was about 12 at some summer holiday thing in the local cinema. I've had a "thing" for Maggie Philbin ever since, which is a lot better than most of the women I had a "thing" for in the early 80's! Anyway, back to the matter in hand...
Hot Chocolate were the only group, and one of just three acts, that scored a hit in every year of the 1970s in the UK charts - the other two being Elvis Presley and Diana Ross.
Elvis Presley was found unconscious on his bathroom floor in 1977, and subsequently died, at the age of just 42.
42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" according to Douglas Adams. Adam's himself didn't make it beyond his 40's, suffering a fatal heart attack aged 49.
The 49ers are an American "football" club based in San Francisco. If you're going to San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair), as Scott McKenzie would suggest:
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The Grand Wazoo
29-10-2010, 22:50
Last time I went to San Francisco, I stopped by the crossroads at the centre of all that was once freaky.
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(Not my picture - snaffed from canadiantexan.com)
I was a little concerned to find that the property on the corner was a bleedin' Ben & Jerry's, but then remembered that they had an ice cream flavour called Cherry Garcia. Of course as we all know, Cherry was the lead guitarist in a little band called 'The Grape Full .........' something or other. Cherry and the boys used to live at a house on 710 Ashbury (or was that Ash Berry?)
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And they sang a song about Raspberry Ripple.
The Grateful Dead - 'Ripple'
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Last time I went to San Francisco, I stopped by the crossroads at the centre of all that was once freaky.
http://canadiantexan.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ha-img_06251.jpg
(Not my picture - snaffed from canadiantexan.com)
I was a little concerned to find that the property on the corner was a bleedin' Ben & Jerry's, but then remembered that they had an ice cream flavour called Cherry Garcia. Of course as we all know, Cherry was the lead guitarist in a little band called 'The Grape Full .........' something or other. Cherry and the boys used to live at a house on 710 Ashbury (or was that Ash Berry?)
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And they sang a song about Raspberry Ripple.
The Grateful Dead - 'Ripple'
You seem to have struck an Ice Cream Theme. Ice Cream Theme was the B side of what is arguably the finest NWOBHM single ever: "War of the Ring" by Arc.
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(And as an aside, I'm in 2 bands with the drummer!)
"War of the Ring" by Arc
"Joan of Arc" is a song by Leonard Cohen which was covered by Jennifer Warnes on "Famous Blue Raincoat" - which inspired Monsieur Camembert's "Famous Blue Cheese"
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/fbcheese2.jpg
A variety of "Famous Blue Cheese" is Roquefort, a sheep milk blue cheese from the south of France. Roquefort is specifically mentioned in the opening lines of "Drinking in L.A." by Bran Van 3000
Hi, my name is Stereo Mike.
Yeah, we got three tickets to the Bran Van concert happening this Monday night at the Pacific Pallisades. You can all dial in if you want to answer a couple of questions, namely, what is Todd's favourite cheese. Jackie just called up and said it was a form of Roquefort. We'll see about that...
Give us a ring-ding-ding! It's a beautiful day.
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We never do find out if it is Todd's favourite cheese...
zygote23
31-10-2010, 09:17
Bran Van 3000 sang more shopping which was performed by Momus. Momus performed on a track 'as you turn to go' by The 6ths who also penned the track Volcana with a vocal by our very own goo guzzler Marc Almond. Marc performed on the track Guiltless by Psychic TV (scary bastards). Psychic TV had Peter (sleazy) Christopherson as a member who went on to form COIL.
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For some reason the YT tags wont work for me!!
Suitable frighty for this weekend.
The Grand Wazoo
31-10-2010, 10:49
Coil - 'Are You Shivering'
If you wanted to make a Coil, you'd need some Wire. Some of the best Wire is to be found on an album called 'Pink Flag'.
Wire - 'Strange'
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......as covered by REM.
Techno Commander
31-10-2010, 10:55
Some of the best Wire is to be found on an album called 'Pink Flag'.
As opposed to white flag. :)
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You might also need some glue. Strange Glue from Catatonia could do the trick
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The Grand Wazoo
31-10-2010, 11:34
Strange Glue from Catatonia
On the subject of strange sticky stuff
"If you don't watch out it'll stick to you
To you
What kind of fool are you?
Strange brew, killing what's inside of you."
Cream - 'Strange Brew'
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The Grand Wazoo
02-11-2010, 09:25
Cream - 'Strange Brew'
Cream's drummer Ginger Baker released an album in 1999 called 'Coward of the County', which 20 years before in 1979 was the name of a single by Kenny Rogers. The song is the story of a man's promise to his dying father not to fight and the choice he has to make when his wife is attacked by three brothers called the Gatlin boys - who perhaps could have been described as a Three Man Army.
Three Man Army was the name of a band formed by two brothers - Adrian Gurvitz and Paul Gurvitz, they may have been one man short in their army, because a bit later they formed a band called The Baker Gurvitz Army with the aforementioned Ginger Baker.
Just going back to the Gatlin boys for a moment, I'd think that the name must surely come from the same source as the name Gatling. Richard Jordan Gatling was the inventor of a famous gun, named after him. And if you were in a Three Man Army (or a Baker Gurvitz Army for that matter) one of the things you'd be needing is a gun.
Now, as luck would have it, the Gurvitz lads already had a gun because their band before Three Man Army was The Gun (previously known as The Knack, 1966-ish)
The Gun - 'Race With The Devil'
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How do you follow that with something that would please The Grand Wazoo... Maybe if it was a Shotgun, and taken from an album called Sunday at Devil Dirt?
Shotgun Blues - Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan
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(Guess what CD I'm playing next!)
The Grand Wazoo
02-11-2010, 19:40
Way hey!!!!
429 posts to get back where we started!
Do you think we should give up now then? ;)
The Grand Wazoo
02-11-2010, 21:40
Naaah, let's go round again!
Naaah, let's go round again!
(You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down! ;))
Well, I guess by the law of averages, if you keep going long enough it was bound to happen...
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The Grand Wazoo
02-11-2010, 23:42
The name Average White Band was an idea of Bonnie Bramlett's, she was one half of Delaney & Bonnie. D&B were championed by Eric Clapton who had been in a band called Cream with Ginger Baker - (See above). Clapton arranged for them to support Blind Faith, a band that had a drummer called Ginger Baker - (See above) on their tour in 1969.
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But that's not it............wait for it, wait for it!
Years later on his Money & Cigarettes tour, Clapton's support band was this one:
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One for DanJennings to follow methinks! ;)
DanJennings
03-11-2010, 18:57
much obliged!
The mighty Chas N Dave were session musicians on this track:
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which was famously sampled (around 2 minutes in if you haven't heard it before) in this track.
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The Grand Wazoo
06-11-2010, 08:57
I hate to see this thread stand still so I'll offer some diverse choices....
Eminem - 'My Name Is'
When I read the word eminem it always looks like something spelled backwards to me. If I try to read it that way, all I get though, is 'Me Nime' which (apart from being appropriate for someone who did a track called 'my name is') it sounds like someone introducing themselves in a dodgy Hollywood cockernee accent...........Gor luvaduck me 'ol china, me nime's Dick Van Dyke, don'tcha know up the old apple an' pears wiv' me trouble & strife loike.
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Anyway, Dick Van Dyke appeared in the 1990 film of Dick Tracy, as did Madonna, whose character was called Breathless Mahoney.
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Ronnie Wood & Ronnie Lane did an album together called 'Mahoney's Last Stand'
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Ronnie Lane also did album with Pete Townsend called 'Rough Mix'
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Well, we don't know which Street, but with a reference to Cambridge, we can assume that is the city. Cambridge is of course famous for its university, made up of 31 different colleges, the smallest of which is Clare Hall.
If I type Clare Hall into the search box of my itunes, I get just one result... (see screen shot attached for proof!) - I have no idea why!
Without Me - Eminem
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zygote23
06-11-2010, 13:24
http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/index
Makes it much easier!
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Makes it much easier!
That is amazing, but spoils all the fun! :ner:
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That is amazing, but spoils all the fun! :ner:
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...and appears to have killed the thread stone dead :(
So I suppose I'd better try and raise it from the ashes... (I'm guessing Chris TGW is on holiday or away at the mo, otherwise I'm sure he would have done it!)
If you viewed the Eminiem video above - you'd be watching You Tube - Without Me - Kate Bush - has this rather excellent track on her Hounds of Love album - Watching You Without Me
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"..but I'm not hearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
DanJennings
11-11-2010, 19:03
Bush did a great song called Glycerine...
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My goodness! What happened to Bush's helium-filled voice? Too many cigs perhaps. ;)
Typically wierd lyrics though:
It must be your skin I'm sinking in
Must be for real 'cause now I can feel
And I didn't mind, it's not my kind
It's not my time to wonder why
Every thing's gone white and every thing's gray
Now you're here, now you're away
I don't want this, remember that
I'll never forget where you're at
Don't let the days go by, Glycerine, Glycerine
I'm never alone, I'm alone all the time
Are you at one or do you lie
We live in a wheel where everyone steals
But when we rise, it's like strawberry fields
If I treated you bad, you bruise my face
Couldn't love you more, you got a beautiful taste
Don't let the days go by
Could have been easier on you
I couldn't change though I wanted to
Should have been easier by three
Our old friend 'Fear' and you and me
Glycerine, Glycerine
Don't let the days go by, Glycerine
Don't let the days go by, Glycerine, Glycerine
Glycerine, Glycerine
Bad mood whine again
Bad mood whine again
As she falls around me
I needed you more when we wanted us less
I could not kiss, just regress
It might just be clear, simple and plain
Well, that's just fine, that's just one of my names
Don't let the days go by
Could have been easier on you, you, you
Glycerine, Glycerine, Glycerine, Glycerine
On her album 'Never Forever', Bush sang a song about Delius who wrote 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring':
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Thanks goodness Barry is back! Where's Chris (TGW) though? Hols too? Anyway...
My immediate thought was "Your New Cuckoo" by "The Cardigans" but we've already done the button up knitwear thing, so I need to go a different route... How about the rather excellent Lissie - Cuckoo from her debut album "Catching a Tiger" (and that's sorted what I'm playing next!)
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... and after you'd caught your tiger, you'd have to tame it
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One of the tracks off 'Taming the Tiger' is called 'Man from Mars'. I wonder if Mitchell had David Bowie in mind - especially Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars?
We have, however, been there before, so how about the heavy metal band Tigers of Pan Tang?
But this is too obvious - so let's apply a little lateral thinking. The Tigers of Pan Tang hail from Whitley Bay in County Durham, England. This was the home of Bram Stoker who wrote the iconic vampire novel 'Dracula'. In the novel Count Dracula arranges to be conveyed by sea to England to take up residence at Carfax Abbey. When the ship arrives at Whitley bay all the crew are found to be dead and only Dracula in his coffin remains.
The Stoker family refused the screen rights to Fritz Murnau, however Murnau went ahead and made his own version of the vampire story: 'Nosferatu'.
There is much debate concerning the etymology of the word 'nosferatu'. it is generall thought to come from the Greek νοσο φόρος (nosophoros: 'plague carrier' or 'disease bearer') which morphed into the Old Slavonic 'nosufur-atu'. However very few Greek words appear in Roumanian (the story is set in Transylvania, Roumania). The nearest Roumanian words are nesuferitul ('insufferable) or necuratul ('the devil'), but these seem somewhat tenuous.
I like to think that nosferatu is a corruption of the Latin: nox ferens ('night bearer' or 'night bringer'), which at last brings me to 'Bring on the Night' by The Police
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Come along - why no follow on? Did my etymological musings put you off?
Keeping to the theme of night, Neil Diamond released a record in 1963 called 'The Night'. Diamond was a member of that fertile pop-song machine: The Brill Building. Several of the Monkees's hits were written for them by Diamond.
However I won't lower the high standards set by this illustrious forum by suggesting you follow anything by these simian performers, rather I present for your consideration one of the best versions ever made of 'Because the Night' (written by Bruce Springsteen) - that done by Patti Smith:
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Apologies for the lousy lip-sync. The YouTube clip was chosen for sound not the visuals.
Regards
The Grand Wazoo
17-11-2010, 09:20
Good morning!
Patti Smith - 'Because the Night'
Patti Smith's husband, Fred 'Sonic' Smith was a guitarist in The MC5. After that band dissolved, he formed Sonic's Rendezvous Band, toured & recorded almost nothing. This remains though - proper snotty rock music. Fab!
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - 'City Slang'
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DanJennings
17-11-2010, 09:35
Good morning!
Patti Smith's husband, Fred 'Sonic' Smith was a guitarist in The MC5. After that band dissolved, he formed Sonic's Rendezvous Band, toured & recorded almost nothing. This remains though - proper snotty rock music. Fab!
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - 'City Slang'
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Basement Jaxx did a song called Rendez vu
Jaxx was a character from the computer game Mortal Kombat
Fear Factory were on the soundtrack to the surprisingly ok Mortal Kombat the movie, doing an excellent song called Zero Signal
Members of Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad are in a newish band called City Of Fire, if you've not heard them I highly recommend them.
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Here's a charming song by Strapping Young Lad
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Man, that dude is one ugly bastard!! :stalks: :eyebrows:
Marco.
The Grand Wazoo
18-11-2010, 17:15
City Of Fire - 'Coitus Interuptus'
I'm a bit of a fan of anagrams, so I was interested to discover that if you chuck coitus interuptus up in the air, one of the letter combinations that might land at your feet is:
Scrutinise Output
The Central Scrutinizer featured in Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa. It scrutinised the illegal musical output of Joe & his band.
Sometimes when you're not looking he just sneaks up on you. He looks like a cheap sort of flying saucer about five feet across with a snout-like megaphone apparatus in the front with two big eyes mounted like Appletons with miniature motorized frowning chrome eyebrows over them. Along the side of his disc-like body are several sets of stupid-looking headers and exhaust hoses which apparently propel him and punctuate his dialogue with horrible smelling smoke rings. In the middle of his head we can see an airport wind sock and constantly twirling anemometer. The bottom of him has a landing light and three spoked wheels. In spite of all this, it is obvious that the way he really gets around is by being dangled from place to place by a union guy with a dark green shirt up in the roof who is eating a sandwich (pieces of which drop off every once in a while and lodge themselves near the hole where they put the oil in that makes the cheap smoke).
He hovers into view and speaks to us thusly...
Central Scrutinizer:
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to *The Death Penalty* (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!
Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE).
I bring you now a special presentation to show what can happen to you if you choose a career in MUSIC...The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading only...if you have to load or unload, go to the WHITE ZONE... you'll love it...it's a way of life...Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...Hi, it's me, I'm back. This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading only...If yah gotta load, or if yah gotta unload, go to the WHITE ZONE. You'll love it...it's a way of life. That's right, you'll love it, it's a way of life, that's right, you'll love it, it's a way of life, you'll love it. This, is, the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER!
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Man, that dude is one ugly bastard!! :stalks: :eyebrows:
Marco.
Come on Marco - you have to play the game: provide a link from either 'Strapping Young Lad' or 'Fucker'; unless, that is, there is a group of performers called 'One Ugly Bastard'?
There is, however, a group called The Casualties, who made a record called 'Ugly Bastard':
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Regards
The Grand Wazoo
18-11-2010, 17:56
Come on Marco - you have to play the game: provide a link from either 'Strapping Young Lad' or 'Fucker'; unless' that is, there is a group of performers called 'One Ugly Bastard'?
There is, however, a group called The Casualties, who made a record called 'Ugly Bastard':
Ahem..............http://theartofsound.net/forum/showpost.php?p=164882&postcount=452
I was only aware of your post Chris, after I composed mine. Marco's was the last post when I started my reply.
How about we compromise and settle for 'Idiot Bastard Son' by the inimitable FZ?
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The Grand Wazoo
18-11-2010, 18:35
Excellent choice!
There's actually an entire album's worth of cover versions of that one song.
It's called '20 Extraordinary Renditions - Idiot Bastard Son' (Cordelia Records)
One of the innumerable acts influenced by the late great Frank Zappa are the Dutch duo Lexolo. Here they are preforming a charming version of 'The Idiot bastard Son':
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Lexolo also did an equally charming version of 'Twenty Small Cigars':
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John-Luc Ponty did a version of 'Twenty Small Cigars' on his album 'King Kong', but here is a version by Malcolm Scarpa:
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The Grand Wazoo
19-11-2010, 00:54
Nice one there, Barry!
Twenty Small Cigars comes from the album Chungas Revenge (with is my other internet nom de plume).
This was the first Zappa album to feature Flo & Eddie.
Flo & Eddie were Mark Volman - "Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech & Howard Kaylan, "Eddie" and they were (to all intents & purposes) The Turtles. However due to contractual stuff, they could not perform as such. Nor were they even allowed to use their own names in the context of recorded music, so they adopted the nicknames of two of the roadies from the Mothers of Invention.
The Turtles - 'Elenore'
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Another 'Elenore' was the lonely Elenore Rigby, sung about by the Beatles.
However this will make it a bit too easy for everyone. So as an example of my 'grasshopper' thinking, how about The Damned with their song 'Eloise'.
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Don't cha just love that anthemic sound?
(Please don't morph Eloise into Elise; we've been there before in this thread!)
The Grand Wazoo
19-11-2010, 09:20
The Damned - 'Eloise'
Eloise was originally a hit in 1968 for Barry Ryan & was written by his twin brother Paul. The Damned version is brilliant, but you've just got to love this one too. One of my favourite films (Leningrad Cowboys Go America) comes to life and the imaginary band that is a real band from Finland called Sleepy Sleepers. Even more so than the film, this video is just brilliant in it's ridiculous camp nonsense - Cossack dancers, balalaika playing generals and all the rest of it.
I suggest you watch it all the way through......several times!
It's from a TV special called 'Global Balalaika Show' - a free concert in Helsinki.
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..........anyway, apart from Eloise, The Damned did several cover versions:
'Help!' by The Beatles was the B-side of their first single, 'New Rose'
'Wild Thing' by The Troggs
'We Love You' and 'Citadel' by The Rolling Stones
'Pretty Vacant' by the Sex Pistols
'Jet Boy' by Elton Motello
'Lust For Life' by Iggy Pop
'Looking At You' by The MC5
'I Walk The Line' by Johnny Cash
'Ballroom Blitz' by The Sweet
'Alone Again Or' by Love
and
'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane
.......which was also covered by Patti Smith
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DanJennings
20-11-2010, 08:55
Patti Smith did a song from her excellent Easter album called Rock N Roll Nigger...
which was covered by Marilyn Manson
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Marilyn Manson was well known for his numerous (and mostly very good) covers including:
I Put A Spell On You
Golden Years
Tainted Love
Down In The Park
Personal Jesus
The KKK Took My Baby Away
Highway To Hell
and...
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Sounds like a geat excuse for some sexy sax...
Sweet Dreams (are made of this) was originally a hit for Eurythmics - one half of which was Dave Stewart - who, in another (more temporary) duo had a hit as Dave Stewart & Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here
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I would suggest Lily The Pink by the Scaffold, but we've been there before. So too with Pictures of Lily by The Who.
So it has to be 'Not Fair' by Lily Allen:
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TOTP these American stations: the microphones for the vocals have no connecting leads! Good miming nonetheless.
So as we're in a country mood - the Lily Allen video is a recreation of the Porter Wagoner show, which aired in the US from the 60s till the 80s. Wagoner was instrumental in introducing this little lady to the world
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The Grand Wazoo
22-11-2010, 00:17
Dolly Parton - 'Jolene'
This was often played live by The Sisters of Mercy - strange, but true!
The Sisters of Mercy took their name from a Leonard Cohen song of that name after it was used in the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller. That song featured on Cohen's debut album on CBS records - 'Songs of Leonard Cohen'.
Many of the songs on that album were covered by various bands on an album called 'I'm Your Fan' (which I've often thought is perhaps the best Leonard Cohen album!!).
One of the tracks from 'I'm Your Fan' not from the 'Songs of.....' album, appeared on 'I'm Your Man'
The Pixies - 'I Can't Forget'
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Must remember to play this tomorrow - a really good record.
Oh you've done 2...
Ok I'll go from the mighty Pixies;
Who spawned (via 'Kim Deal') the 'Breeders', and their excellent 'Cannonball'
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Cannonball Adderley is one of the all-time great alto saxophonists, performing with Miles Davis as part of his "super sextet" with John Coltrane and having contributed to Milestones & Kind of Blue.
Another all-time great saxophonist is Kenny G (Sorry Will, I just couldn't resist! :D) Here's Songbird - Enjoy! ;)
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The Grand Wazoo
23-11-2010, 16:25
Kenny G eh? ..............hmmm OK.
I was rather astonished to discover that this man has sold over 75 million records and is a particularly big thing in China - jeeezus there really is no accounting for taste, still there you go it's nice that he brings his own special brand of joy into so many people's lives (......ahem).
Anyway it turns out that he was also one of the original investors in Starbucks, so he appears to have something of a talent for world domination.
So, in the absence of any personal inspiration arising from Mr Gorelick's musical efforts, I'm going to take the coffee bean & run with it!
One of the members of The Band did a song about coffee.
Rick Danko - 'Java Blues'
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A taste of Java, is like a volcanic rush
Nobody's gonna stop me from drinkin too much
Costs many more than you care to pay
But money is nothin, compared to a fired-up day
Don't try to cheat, it's impossible to beat
the only pick-me-up that's here to stay
Another all-time great saxophonist is Kenny G (Sorry Will, I just couldn't resist! :D) Here's Songbird - Enjoy! ;)
Yer a cruel man...my favourite part of Wayne's world is when they resort to having non-anaesthetised dental work at a Kenny G gig in order to distract them from the music.
...whereas this side of the Atlantic we like our tea (rubbish connection)
Tea for 1 - Zeppelin
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The Grand Wazoo
23-11-2010, 16:43
..rubbish connection
Possibly, but it's a great track!
Possibly, but it's a great track!
Indeed...
The Grand Wazoo
23-11-2010, 17:04
And this is the reason for the 'Trans-Atlantic Beverage Discrepancy'
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - 'Boston Tea Party'
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The king has said he's gonna put a tax on tea
And that's the reason you all Americans drink coffee
Are you going to the party?
Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?
DanJennings
23-11-2010, 19:30
the boston tea party was one of the contributory factors to the american revolutionary war
if you were a man, and you were in that war, you could be described as a Man'o'war... ;)
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OK, I may get shot down in flames for this, but it is a great track, even if he did steal the middle 8 from 'Bird of Paradise'
If you answered the above call, you'd be....
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DanJennings
25-11-2010, 19:01
I love that track and band, don't care if they're not particularly fashionable.
Metallica did a cover of that song believe it or not,
I have a copy of it if anyone would like to hear it, it's not great, but it's from an acoustic live concert in which they do a few unexpected covers such as:
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The Grand Wazoo
26-11-2010, 00:41
Garbage - 'I'm Only Happy When It Rains'
OK, so how about this then - one band, two tracks - both about rain:
Creedence Cleerwater Revival - 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain'
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Creedence Cleerwater Revival - 'Who'll Stop The Rain'
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.........ok so, it's one and a bit bands - CCR & John Fogerty
DanJennings
26-11-2010, 07:04
one of my favourite modern folky type bands is Babel
They did a song called Rain, which is the first track on their Ark EP
This is another excellent track by them:
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check 'em out, they're amazing live too
Well, tenuously (is there any other way?) the Tower of Babel was said to be in Mesopotamia, which sorta coincides with the Middle East today, and another place there is Beirut, which just so happens to be the name of a fabulous band. To confuse further, here they are singing about Nantes...
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Beirut (great band, I agree Jason) is the capital and biggest city of Lebanon - simple link - Human League - The Lebanon
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Gotta love the 80s fashion.
Well there's only one place we can go now isn't there, on our world tour of 80's pop songs about faraway places... turn the bombastometer up to 11!!!
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...and Vienna is the home town of Kruder & Dorfmeister
With their remix of Ronnie Size/Reprezent 'Speechless'
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The Grand Wazoo
30-11-2010, 20:40
Wicki tells me that 'Speechless' is a remix of a track by Count Basic rather than Roni Size.
A little bit of research tells me that's correct (not that I'd have a clue) and that Kruder & Dorfmeister did 'Heroes' by Roni Size.
That being the case, Count Basic is a bit of a play on the name of jazz band leader Count Basie. A great Basie album is E=MC2 - The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie - 'Lil' Darlin''
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Doh! That's on cd 2...There's a fine line between clever and stupid and I've jumped over it.
Apologetically...and E=MC2 was also a track by Big Audio Dynamite
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The equivalence between energy and mass, expressed by the equation E=mc2, was first derived by Albert Einstein in 1905.
'Einstein A Go Go' was a minor hit (only hit?) by '80s pop group Landscape
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Looks like I've lowered the impeccably high standards maintained here in one fell swoop! "Nice video, shame about the song"? Nah, they're both rubbish!
The Grand Wazoo
30-11-2010, 23:34
'Einstein A Go Go' - Landscape
One of the most famous English landscapers, apart from Capability Brown, was Humphrey Repton, who designed some of Britain's greatest gardens and parks. Repton lived near Romford in Essex in an area known as Gidea Park.
Gidea Park is the name of a rather flaky 80's tribute band who had a few healthy singles successes with medleys of Beach Boys and Frankie Valley & the Four Seasons cover versions.
Witness this procession of Four Seasons hits warmed up & served to the Top of the Pops audience (if you can bear it!):
Gidea Park - Seasons of Gold
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And another track that dogged my youthful viewing of TOTP was...
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
However as I'm not sadistically minded lets have
Seasons in the Sun - Nirvana
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Reid Malenfant
01-12-2010, 16:08
A few choices here :eyebrows: Could follow with something related to Nirvana but it'd be too easy. Seasons is a distinct possibility but i think it'll have to be related to the sun :)
Dark Side Of The Moog - The Heart Of Our Nearest Star. Which is of course the sun ;) If anyone happens to have seen the Danny Boyles' film "Sunshine" you might recognise certain samples :)
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And in the heart of our nearest star we find the nuclear process of fusion...Hydrogen into Helium
(another tenuous link)
As alluded to in the Van Der Graaf Generator album titled 'H to He, Who Am The Only One', a track from which is 'Lost';
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The Grand Wazoo
01-12-2010, 16:28
Haha!
Just a few degrees back there when we were flouncing around with chemical formulae, I was going to go with 'Killer' from that album!
Haha!
Just a few degrees back there when we were flouncing around with chemical formulae, I was going to go with 'Killer' from that album!
Always my favourite album title for a game of charades...:)
The Grand Wazoo
02-12-2010, 23:49
Van Der Graaf Generator - 'Lost'
Van der Valk was a TV detective series starring Barry Foster in the title role as a Dutch detective of that name. It was loosely based on the books of Nicolas Freeling.
The theme music was a Number One hit in 1973
The Simon Park Orchestra - 'Eye Level'
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...........and as a special treat, because I know you enjoyed that so very, very much, here's another version also a hit in 1973 with vocals by Matt Monro - 'And You Smiled'.
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Please don't thank me............
Matt Monro sang a version of 'The Windmills of Your Mind'
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but so did the divine Dusty Springfield
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Which can only lead to the mellifluous tones of Mr Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzos...
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The Grand Wazoo
03-12-2010, 23:37
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 'Canyons of Your Mind'
Canyon:
Pronunciation:/ˈkanjən/
noun
A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America.
.............errrr, that would be a valley then.............
The Skids - 'Into The Valley'
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I understand that it was seeing Richard Jobson dancing like that, that caused Michael Jackson to step up his game.
And let's not forget Stuart Adamson there, twangling on his Yamaha - he moved on to form Big Country, a band that many folks fondly remember. However I can only snigger when I think of them because I saw one of their very first gigs - as support band to Alice Cooper. They were really - I mean monumentally, awful and were thrown off the tour after the next show.
Valley of the Dolls, perhaps?
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...and ignoring the Who option, and by dropping the X we have;
'Generation' by the BRMC
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The Grand Wazoo
05-12-2010, 14:49
'Generation' by the BRMC
Another club...........
American Music Club - 'Johnny Mathis' Feet'
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...I'm not doing Jonny Mathis, no no no
So more club stuff with a parrot exit option...
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Parrot
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The Victorians were of course Victorian because they lived under the reign of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria's husband Albert was not the King, but titled Prince, as is our custom. A "Prince Albert" is also a type of male piercing in a sensitive area, which leads us "nicely" to Helmet - Unsung :lol:
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