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Reid Malenfant
06-12-2010, 17:00
I'll leave you lot to work out the connection :lolsign:
Judge Dread
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The Grand Wazoo
06-12-2010, 17:15
Judge Dread - 'Up With The Cock'
In other words - a cock up.
.........which is an accident
.........and they do tend to occur, don't they?
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - 'Accidents Will Happen'
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The single came in a picture sleeve, but it was assembled inside out, so you couldn't see the picture.
DanJennings
06-12-2010, 19:13
In other words - a cock up.
.........which is an accident
.........and they do tend to occur, don't they?
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - 'Accidents Will Happen'
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The single came in a picture sleeve, but it was assembled inside out, so you couldn't see the picture.
David Byrne did a great song called The Accident which REALLY irritatingly isn't on Youtube, but seriously check it out, it's on his 'Look Into The Eyeball' album which is just fantastic from start to finish.
But since it isn't on youtube, that strikes me as a great excuse to go tenuous.
David Byrne obviously was best known for being in Talking Heads.
Talking Heads without David Byrne were simple called 'The Heads' who made an album using nothing but guest singers, including Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, Shaun Rider and more importantly ;) Andy Partridge of XTC
Now, as I have just infuriatingly discovered, The Heads feat Andy Partridge - Paper Snow isn't on youtube either, so I will have to settle for this:
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The theme tune for not a bad TV show that was cancelled.
The Grand Wazoo
07-12-2010, 00:05
Andy Partridge - 'Wonder Why The Wonderfalls'
Whaoah, steady there! You're almost begging for something by David Cassidy &/or the Partridge family.
But I couldn't do that to you, so we'll do it this way:
The Partridge is a very tasty game bird. The Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is also within that class of creature, though God only knows why because they taste of turpentine. This is because their winter diet is mainly the needles of conifer trees. In order to digest these, and because the birds don't have teeth, they also eat small stones (gastroliths), which act as grinding stones within the stomach.
Capercaillie is also the name of a Scottish folk band, who sometimes sing about stones.
Capercaillie - 'Four Stone Walls'
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The Grand Wazoo
10-12-2010, 20:12
So as not to let the ball drop, I'll stick another one in here:
Capercaillie - 'Four Stone Walls'
Four stone walls are useful if they're connected together in some way. Then you can stick a roof on & call it a house. So whoever thought of a way to do that was pretty clever, really.
What they came up with was brilliant corners.....
Thelonious Monk - 'Brilliant Corners'
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Commonly held to be one of the best jazz albums ever, this one. the band qualified as a bona-fide supergroup - Thelonious Monk (piano), Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Ernie Henry (alto sax), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Max Roach (percussion) & Clark Terry (trumpet).
DanJennings
10-12-2010, 22:51
while not monks, here's a song by a couple of priests:
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Now of course that song is by The Divine Comedy....
The Divine Comedy is a fellow called Neil Hannon, and here he is doing a duet with Duke Special
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...which brings us nicely to another of Neil Hannon's projects
The Duckworth Lewis Method - Meeting Mr Miandad
Anyone who can write a song about Javed Miandad deserves some respect I think...
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The Grand Wazoo
12-12-2010, 00:44
The Duckworth Lewis Method - 'Meeting Mr Miandad'
The Duckworth Lewis Method is a means of overcoming a problem caused by the fact that the game of cricket is sometimes played over a period of several days, but in single day games, that are sometimes buggered up by things like the weather and unexpected things like wars beginning, the teams don't have the luxury of waiting to see if 'tomorrow will be a bit brighter' . It was the brainchild of two English (of course!) statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Anthony Lewis and it superseded the use of the run rate ratio.
So, how about sparing a few minutes to listen to a beautiful song by Roy Harper?
Roy Harper - 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease'
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From the Wicki..........
British DJ John Peel made an agreement with his producer, John Walters, that in the event of Peel's death, Walters would play the song on air. Walters died in 2001, three years before Peel, so the request could not be fulfilled. Peel, however, played it at the end of his show when he announced the news of Walters' death, and the song was played by fellow DJ Andy Kershaw at the end of his tribute to Peel on BBC Radio 3 (broadcast on 31 October 2004).
Peel's stand-in on his Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song, at the start of the final show before Peel's funeral.
The song mentions two England cricketers in its lyrics - "And it could be Geoff and it could be John" refers to Geoff Boycott and John Snow. The song is dedicated to them.
This is on the album HQ - which also has what I feel is his best track ever, 'Hallucinating Light'.
On Roy Harper’s album Unknown Soldier, Kate Bush guests on backing vocal as does Dave Gilmour on guitar.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/The_Unknown_Soldier.JPG/220px-The_Unknown_Soldier.JPG
Kate Bush performed a track called ‘Breathing’ on her album Never Forever about ‘public information advice’ during and after a nuclear attack, which fits in nicely with Harpers 1994 release of Garden of Uranium.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Garden_of_Uranium.jpg/220px-Garden_of_Uranium.jpg
I would like to suggest a link to Buffy Sainte Marie’s composition Universal Soldier’. However I don’t want to suggest this track, rather the bitter-sweet track ‘Until It’s Time For You To Go’:
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In fact the lyrics are so achingly poignant, I’ll show them here:
You're not a dream
You're not an angel
You're a woman
I'm not a king,
I'm a man,
Take my hand
We'll make a space
In the lives that we planned
And here we'll stay
Until it's time for you to go
Yes, we're diff'rent worlds apart
We're not the same
We laughed and played
At the start like in a game
You could have stayed
Outside my heart
But in you came
And here you'll stay
Until it's time for you to go
Don't ask why,
Don't ask how
Don't ask forever,
Love me now
This love of mine
Had no beginning
It has no end
I was an oak,
Now I'm a willow
Now I can bend
And tho' I'll never
In my life see you again
I still stay
Until it's time for you to go
The Grand Wazoo
14-12-2010, 01:08
Buffy Sainte Marie - ‘Until It’s Time For You To Go’
The quote lyrics refer to the singer in terms of tree species.
"I was an oak,
Now I'm a willow
Now I can bend"
I'm not sure what the correct term for this is - It's kind of an opposite state to anthropomorphism and a quick Google offers no real help in this direction, so I'm going to coin a word:
How about Silvomorphism ?
A twist on describing people as trees would be A Nation State as a tree: Gensilvomorphism perhaps?
A concept embodied in this song where England is represented as The Oaks & Canada as The Maples:
Rush - 'The Trees'
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Although not quite following Chris's dendropomorhic linkage - I'll suggests Trees 'Garden of Jane Delawney'
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Which in turn, maintaining a silvine theme, how about a horticultural link to Donovan's 'Gift From a Flower to a Garden'? And from that album I'll select 'The Tinker and the Crab'.
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You may not like the 'dippy hippy trippy' aspect of Donovan's work - but you have to admire his impeccable diction.
Now one has to provide a crustacean-like link!
Reid Malenfant
14-12-2010, 19:58
As Barry brought up a few types of plants & mentioned gardens this one will fit in quite nicely & it grows just about anywhere :eyebrows:
By a chap called Mark Van Hoen in his "Locust" alias we have here a track called Moist Moss from his album Weathered Well ;)
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The Grand Wazoo
15-12-2010, 00:18
Locust - 'Moist Moss'
.........& it grows just about anywhere
Well, not quite anywhere.........
Muddy Waters - 'Rollin' Stone'
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Muddy Waters real name is McKinley Morganfield.
Mount McKinley in Alaska is the highest mountain in the USA. At 20,320 feet, it is about 1000 feet taller than Kilimanjaro, a mountain mentioned in Toto's 'Africa'.
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...moving swiftly on from Toto, on an Africa theme we have;
Afrika Shox - LEFTFIELD & AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, this video was directed by Chris Cunningham, possibly the best video director of all time...IMHO
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...also by Mr Cunningham
aphex twin - come to daddy
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and again...
aphex twin - windowlicker
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Have a look at 'rubber jonney' if you enjoyed these...not for the nervous
Probably the weirdest, pointless and most self-indulgent set of videos I've seen for a long time. The third is also one of the most tasteless. All in all, a total waste of the earth's resources!
To continue the theme of tastelessness, Aphex, of Aphex Aural Exciter 'fame' also produce another sound-mangling device to work on the lower frequencies called the 'Big Bottom Processor'.
Here is Dave Gilmour playing with Spinal Tap on their track "Big Bottom".
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The Grand Wazoo
16-12-2010, 00:05
Spinal Tap - "Big Bottom".
If you had a big bottom, I suppose that people would be worried if you were to 'Break Like The Wind'
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At about 1' 40" there's a snippet of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, which is played, I think by Jeff Beck.
Here's part of the real thing. The Second Movement where there are some great parts for cor anglais.
Paco de Lucia - Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez'
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Probably the weirdest, pointless and most self-indulgent set of videos I've seen for a long time. The third is also one of the most tasteless. All in all, a total waste of the earth's resources!
Good to see that satire and irony are alive and well in Essex...;)
Still what do WARP know about art?
The Grand Wazoo
16-12-2010, 23:46
OK, I'll go again.
Paco de Lucia - Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez'
This music was one of the pieces played by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band in the film 'Brassed Off' in which Ewan McGreggor starred. Also on the soundtrack of that film was a piece called 'Death or Glory' which was also the title of a track on 'London Calling'
The Clash - 'Death or Glory'
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...who covered the old reggae classic armagideon time (I think it was the b side of White man in Hammersmith Palais, I stand to be corrected)
Here's the original...
Willie Williams armagideon time
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Ah, The Clash again - so we'd better look for something a bit more obtuse I think...
Instead of Death or Glory, if you were a member of the military and you experienced both, it is just possible you might be awarded a posthumous medal. (which reminds me, I've got some out-of-date humous in the fridge I need to chuck out...)
The highest order available in the British military is the Victoria Cross, of which 1,356 have been awarded in total, the last in 2006. They are highly prized by collectors, and over 10% of all the VC's ever awarded (162) are owned by a single person - Michael Ashcroft, or Lord Ashcroft, who is a Conservative sitting in the House of Lords and worth an estimated £1.1 Billion - lucky man.
Another Ashcroft - Richard, was a founder member of The Verve - but we've been there before too... Drummer with The Verve was Peter Salisbury, who has filled in as drummer for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2002 when their original drummer was unable to get a working visa for their UK/EU tour, and is currently also serving as a locum, this time for The Charlatans - after their incumbent drummer Jon Brookes collapsed on stage in Philadelphia and was subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour, from which he is now recovering.
Here is The Charlatans' first hit, and one of my favourites from the 90's Manchester scene - The Only One I Know
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EDIT: I composed this email and then got embroiled in something, and posted without realising Will had beaten me to it - so please ignore me - the one to follow is Willie Williams armagideon time
The Grand Wazoo
17-12-2010, 23:04
Willie Williams - 'Armagideon Time'
From the Wikki:
Gideons International (also known as Gideon's Bible) is an evangelical Christian organization dedicated to distributing copies of the Bible in over 92 languages and 192 countries of the world, most famously in hotel and motel rooms.
Nearly 76.9 million bibles were given out in 2007.
Close to 1.5 billion have been distributed since 1908.
Does that make them the planet's biggest litter lout?
Anyway, The Bible was the name of a band featuring a geezer called Boo Hewardine, who is rather a good songwriter. Several songs he wrote were covered by Eddi Reader (one of which 'Bell, Book & Candle' has featured in the soundtrack of 3 Hollywood movies - all as the setting to death scenes - one of his more chirpy songs!)
Anyway, Eddi Reader also sang this one, which is spookily connected in terms of nomenclature to the artist who did the original 'Armagideon Time'
Eddie Reader - 'Willie Stewart'
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The Grand Wazoo
20-12-2010, 00:18
Come on now, guys, you're slacking a bit.
Don't leave it all to me - I hate it when I have to follow one of mine with another!
Come on now, guys, you're slacking a bit.
Don't leave it all to me - I hate it when I have to follow one of mine with another!
It's me and thee then...
The last time I saw Eddie Reader was on last year's Gang of 4 tour where she joined them on stage for an excellent rendition of (unfortunately no videos of that tour)...
Gang of Four - I love a man in a Uniform (yeah yeah yeahs remix)
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...whilst we're on the subject I'm going to take this opportunity to have a moan, for a band who became famous for their anti capitalist stance to sell out to ducking microsoft takes the proverbial...this is way beyond Jon Lydon selling butter...Booo!!! Gill & King you should be ashamed...
Gang of 4 - Natural's Not In It
Lyrics first;
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Ideal love a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
Ideal love a new purchase
A market of the senses
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the bourgeois life
This heaven gives me migraine
Coercion of the senses
We are not so gullible
We all have goo intentions
But all with strings attatched
Fornication makes you happy
No escape from society
Natural is not in it
Your relations are of power
We all have good intentions
But all with strings attached
The problem if leisure
What to do for pleasure
Repackaged sex, your interest
Repackaged sex, your interest
Repackaged sex, your interest
Repackaged sex, your interest
Repackaged sex, your interest
Repackaged sex, your interest
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
Ideal love a new purchase
A market of the senses
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the bourgeois life
This heaven gives me migraine
This heaven gives me migraine
This heaven gives me migraine
Oh the irony...
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The Grand Wazoo
22-12-2010, 23:49
Gang of Four - 'I Love a Man in a Uniform'
Andy Gill from The Gang of Four was a guitarist with a bit of a similar style to Wilko Johnson. Wilco's band Dr. Feelgood had a single in 1981 called 'Violent Love' which was a cover of a Willie Dixon song. I reckon the best version of this track was by Otis Rush (1956) but here's one by:
Ingrid Lucia & The Flying Neutrinos - 'Violent Love'
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....who sounds a little like she's been listening to Billie Holiday.
Well I was convinced I'd posted a 4Hero link to follow Will, but I obviously c*cked it up...
Can only be Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) - #1 UK hit from 2000 which "famously" samples the theme music from the BBC show Casualty :rolleyes:
"Ahh I've been shot. I don't believe this"...? I don't believe I actually bought this sh!t - I should be shot...!
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The Grand Wazoo
24-12-2010, 00:09
Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload
"Ahh I've been shot. I don't believe this".
Pretty vague this one, but I like the track so yah boo sucks!
Peter Bruntnell made his third album in 1999 - you know those albums that you evangelistically tell everyone you meet about because they hit all your buttons & flip all your switches simultaneously? Well 'Normal For Bridgwater' is one of mine. Everyone should hear it at least once.
Anyway, there's a track on it called 'Shot From A Spring'
I can't find a You Tube video for it, but for those folks who use The Spod, here's a link to the track:
http://open.spotify.com/track/47LesIXr3OsW8M5syKY6th
....and the album:
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ahmK1Wu7AyBaAKcydOcv7
For those folks who don't use Spotify, here's a video with slightly dodgy sound of Brunters doing Neil Young........
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.....but the track to follow is:
Peter Bruntnell - 'Shot From A Spring'
The Grand Wazoo
28-12-2010, 19:56
OK then....
Peter Bruntnell - 'Shot From A Spring'
You get new shoots in spring & they're usually green. In the USA green is also the colour of money......and pool tables. There was a Martin Scorsese film starring Paul Newman & Tom Cruise called The Color of Money. The soundtrck was scored by Robbie Robertson of The Band, but there was also a Warren Zevon track on it.
Warren Zevon - 'Werewolves of London'
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Well if you want to get rid of a pesky werewolf, you are going to need a silver bullet...
Also featuring on a movie soundtrack - Armageddon - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Roll Me Away
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The Grand Wazoo
29-12-2010, 09:01
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - 'Roll Me Away'
Ah yes, silver bullets!
Vowing to fight for justice and never to shoot to kill, a masked Texas Ranger called the Lone Ranger and Tonto wander the Old American West, helping people and fighting injustice wherever they find it.
Our trusty hero only ever used silver bullets—the precious and valuable metal serving to remind the masked man that life, too, is precious and valuable and, like his silver bullets, not to be wasted or thrown away.
And of course, as we all know, his horse was called Silver. Funnily enough the actor who played Tonto, his Indian Boy Wonder equivalent, was called Jay Silverheels.
Quantum Jump - 'The Lone Ranger'
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"Find him, scalp him, eat him up for breakfast", indeed!
Apparently this single was banned by the BBC in '76, but Kenny Everett kept playing it & it got re-released three years later.
Ok a bit of a tenuous one here...
Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he called his "relative state" formulation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III
His son is Mark Oliver Everett (or E), frontman of the band Eels
and here they are with EELS - Fresh Blood - from HOMBRE LOBO
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Well if your after Fresh Blood you're either a mosquito, a leech or a vampire. (I'm sure there are other things, so not an exhaustive list!) Anyway, here's the track - Vampire Weekend - Giving up the Gun
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The Grand Wazoo
30-12-2010, 20:56
Vampire Weekend - Giving up the Gun
Which brings us nicely back to where we just were because a good way to kill a vampire is to shoot him with a silver bullet.
Anyway a 'weak end' is the opposite to what the West Pier at Brighton had because the middle bit fell down!
The other pier in Brighton (the Palace Pier) was featured in the film Quadrophenia.
The Who - 'Love Reign O'er Me'
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P.S. I will admit the the end was weakened when it caught fire later!
O dear, this thread seems not to have been followed up for at least a week! That won’t do, won’t do at all.
The albums title: Quadrophenia is a modification of schizophrenia (‘split mind’) reflecting the four distinct personalities of the opera's protagonist, Jimmy. It's possible that the four personalities implied are those of the band members themselves.
A previous album by the Who was entitled The Who Sell Out, the cover of which shows the four band members ‘endorsing’ various products: Pete Townshend using an underarm deodorant; Roger Daltry sat in a bath of Heinz baked beans; Keith Moon using acne cream and John Entwistle promoting the Charles Atlas bodybuilding programme.
http://www.thewho.com/images/media/albums_large/03-67-the_who_sell_out.jpg
(image: thewho.com)
Heinz themselves were most unhappy with the cover, claiming the representation of the Heinz logo on the ‘tin’ breached copyright and were going to force the record company to change the cover, until it was pointed out to them that the record cover would provide a lot of free advertising!
Heinz (Burt) was a member of The Tornados, famous for their ‘60s hit Telstar. Heinz had a solo hit with his tribute to Eddie Cochran: Just Like Eddie.
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Well done for bringing this back from the dead Barry.
There are many "Eddies" in the music world - but perhaps the most recognized (and sticking with the back from the dead theme) is an Eddie who doesn't make any music at all, even though he has appeared on countless record covers. "Eddie the Head" to give him his full name is the mascot for Iron Maiden.
http://static.gigwise.com/artists/Image/200eddie-mascot.jpg
Apparently Eddie was an only child, and also has a single child of his own - the wryly named "Edison" - which brings us neatly to the next track -
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
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And don't anyone dare follow it with the Lighthouse Family!
The Grand Wazoo
08-01-2011, 10:09
Edison Lighthouse - 'Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)'
Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor and businessman - he registered 1,093 patents in America, founded one of the largest companies in the world (General Electric) and was somewhat influential in the development of recorded music.
His interest in electrical transmission came about as a result of an early job as a telegraph operator. This happened in an unusual way, rather different from the usual job interview process:
Edison was on the platform of the station at Mount Clemens in Michigan when he saved a 3 yr old boy called Jimmie MacKenzie from being killed by a runaway train. Lucky little Jimmie's father was the station agent and was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator.
Edison's first telegraphy job away from home was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.
Grand Trunk?
Close enough!
Grand Funk Railroad - 'The Locomotion'
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Techno Commander
08-01-2011, 10:38
Just remember, it you're going to play with trains. make sure you have a............
Ticket To Ride. :)
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There are a number of interpretations of the title Ticket to Ride.
One is that it is a 'Lennonism' for a prostitute who has just been given a clean bill of health (a 'ticket') allowing her to continue with her profession.
Another, is that it is about the breakup of a relationship and the girl is leaving, having bought herself a ticket to Ryde.
Ryde is sometimes known as the 'Gateway to the Isle of Wight'. The Isle of Wight is, or was, well known for the music festivals of the mid '70s. At one of the last, Bob Dylan played, preceded by a little known group called The Liverpool Scene. This was loose association of Liverpool poets and musicians, including such as Adrian Henri and Andy Roberts.
Andy Roberts made a couple of LPs, including 'Nina and Dream Tree' and 'Home Grown'. The following YouTube clip shows him doing Leonard Cohen's Midnight Lady
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Techno Commander
09-01-2011, 01:00
Charlotte The Harlot was a Midnight Lady. :)
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The Grand Wazoo
10-01-2011, 20:19
Iron Maiden - 'Charlotte The Harlot'
Margaret Thatcher was known by some as the iron maiden. A thatcher is someone who makes roofs out of straw, sedges, rushes, reeds or heather. The chosen material is traditionally the most abundantly available of this type in the local area.
A fairly recently introduced farm crop is Miscanthus, grown for biomass fuel. I'd think it would make good thatch.
http://envplan240.pbworks.com/f/miscanthus_harvesting.jpg
It's a type of grass - A Supergrass?
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'Gentlemen of the Road', or tramps to give them a more prosaic title, often spend their time sleeping rough in fields of grass. Perhaps there is a now a new breed of Supertramp who prefer to sleep in fields of Supergrass.
Here is a collection of, admittedly 'comfortably off', Supertramps praising Breakfast in America (sadly without writer Roger Hodgeson):
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or this version by Roger Hodgeson:
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Regarding Margaret Thatcher getting her surname from an ancestor's profession, I often wonder what David Dickinson's ancestor's did... :eek:!
Anyway, let's be a bit more specific - America is a big place - how about Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (loved this track when it was out - 16 YEARS AGO!)
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Going out a bit on a limb here - but I can't think of Breakfast at Tiffanys, without hearing the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer composition Moon River as sung by Andy Williams:
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DanJennings
11-01-2011, 19:35
REM did a cracking version of moon river:
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that particular performance eventually becomes their own song 'Pretty Persuasion'
not quite as pretty, but here is a great Richard Thompson song called 'Persuasion' this one sung by him and his son Teddy. (and a beautiful performance it is too)
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The Grand Wazoo
12-01-2011, 23:54
Richard Thompson - 'Persuasion'
"The best bad series ever made... absolute hokum" was how the TV series 'The Persuaders' was described. It was an action adventure programme starring Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde and Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair. The music was composed by John Barry and much use was made of split screen techniques to tell the parallel stories of the two main characters.
John Barry - 'The Persuaders!'
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John Barry wrote some great music scores for film and TV. One of my favourites is for the British film The IPCRESS file.
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The film's main character is Harry Palmer, played by Michael Cain, a low grade operative working for MI5.
Carl Palmer was the drummer in Emerson Lake and Palmer, a 'supergroup' of the early '70s. One of the more listenable of their bombastic works was their take on Aaron Copland's Fanfair for the Common Man. This is the short 'n' sweet 3 minute version (the original is 10 minutes long!)
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A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin that is surrounded by land.
The largest lake (ignoring Michigan-Huron, which is really two lakes) is Lake Superior.
A Mother Superior is an abbess or other nun in charge of a Christian religious order or congregation, a convent or house of women under vows
"Mother Superior" is also the nickname of the heroin drug-dealer Johnny Swann in Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, and the film of the same name.
The soundtrack to Trainspotting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(soundtrack)) features some rather wonderful music, and many of them could be chosen, but I don't want to give you something too easy to follow now do I? ;)
PF Project Featuring Ewan McGregor - Choose Life
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If your not waving your arms in the air with your eyes closed after listening to that then there's something wrong with you... or maybe it was just me, it was the mid 90's after all! :)
The Grand Wazoo
14-01-2011, 00:20
PF Project Featuring Ewan McGregor - Choose Life
A quote from the Bible:
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."
(Book of Deuteronomy 30:19)
So what does Deuteronomy mean then?
Well, Deuteronomion in Greek and Deuteronomium in Latin both mean "the second law"
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a principle defined in physics which places constraints upon the direction of heat transfer between bodies of different relative temperatures. For example that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cold object to a hot object.
This principle was neatly laid out by those esteemed scientists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Flanders & Swann - 'First and Second Law'
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Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
You can try it if you like but you far better notter
'Cos the cold in the cooler with get hotter as a ruler
'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
Sorry about the video!
HaHa - At last, I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time! The obvious follow-on to Chris's post must of course be Flanders and Swan's Song of Reproduction.
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Flanders: This is a song of reproduction.
Both: I had a little gramophone,
I'd wind it round and round.
And with a sharpish needle,
It made a cheerful sound.
And then they amplified it,
It was much louder then.
And used sharpened fibre needles,
To make it soft again.
Today for reproduction,
I'm as eager as can be.
Count me among the faithful fans,
Of high fidelity.
High fidelity,
Hi-Fi's the thing for me.
With an LP disk and an FM set,
And a corner reflex cabinet.
High frequency range,
Complete with auto-change.
Flanders: All the highest notes neither sharp nor flat,
Swann: The ear can't hear as high as that.
Flanders: Still, I ought to please any passing bat,
Swann: With my high fidelity.
Flanders: Who made this circuit up for you, anyway? Bought it in a shop? Oooh, what a horrible shoddy job they fobbed you off with with.
Surprised they let you have it in this room anyway, the acoustics are all wrong. If you raise the ceiling four feet... put the fireplace from that wall to that wall... you'll still only get the stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard.
I see... I see you've got your negative feedback coupled in with your push-pull-input-output. Take that across through your redded pickup to your tweeter, if you're modding more than eight, you're going to get wow on your top. Try to bring that down through your pre-amp rumble filter to your woofer, what'll you get? Flutter on your bottom!
Both: High fidelity,
Flanders: FFRR for me.
Both: I've an opera here that you shan't escape,
On miles and miles of recording tape.
High decimal gain,
Is easy to obtain.
Flanders: With the tone control at a single touch,
Swann: Bel canto sounds like double Dutch.
Both: But I never did care for music much,
It's the high fidelity!
Flanders: This is perhaps a good moment to explain that we don't normally have these things standing around here, but tonight they are recording this - stereophonically, in fact - for posterity. So wherever you're sitting now, that's where you'll be on the record.
Sit up nice and straight. Any of you feel like rolling in the aisles or being carried out helpless with mirth, this is a jolly good night to do it! Do you want to say hello to posterity?
Swann: Hello!
Flanders: Hello, Posterity! If we sort of move around a bit, they'll use it for demonstration purposes.
...which moves us nicely to
Elvis Costello's High Fidelity;
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Bought this album on vinyl in the Barnardo's shop yesterday... What can I say, I was 13 when it was on TV, and loved it... :eyebrows:
The Kids From Fame - High Fidelity
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Spot the connection... as a clue it's no. 1 on p 147...
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The Grand Wazoo
19-01-2011, 00:20
I'm not too sure if we should be following Alex or Jason here, so because Jason hasn't actually defined the degree of separation, I'm going to favour Alex (even though I know a bloody sight more about The Clash than I do about The Kids From Fame!).
The Kids From Fame - 'High Fidelity'
Hmmmmm .....Fame - well, the big Wikki tells me that it was based heavily on the activities at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York.
Another LaGuardia in New York is the airport where the singer from Incubus Brandon Boyd was arrested a knife was found in his hand luggage.
Other musicians who have been arrested at airports are:
Jimi Hendrix - Arrested at Toronto airport for possession of hashish & heroin - aquitted.
Kanye West - Arrested for vandalism, Los Angeles International Airport.
Jim Morrison, Arrested for drunken behaviour, Phoenix, Arizona airport (November 11, 1969)
Courtney Love, Arrested for endangering an aircraft and disruptive behaviour, Heathrow.
Johnny Cash - Arrested for possession of pills, El Paso, Texas Airport (October 4 1965)
Johnny was no cream puff!
Johnny Cash - 'The Man Who Couldn't Cry'
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Clearly 'The Man Who Couldn't Cry' was not Dave Berry, who had a hit with 'The Crying Game'.
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The Grand Wazoo
19-01-2011, 23:44
Dave Berry - 'The Crying Game'
'The Crying Game' was a hit record for Dave Berry in 1964 but the next year he released a single called 'This Strange Effect' which got to number 37 in the UK but was a massive hit in Holland and Belgium. The song was written by Ray Davies of The Kinks but never appeared on any of their official albums. It was later on a compilation of Kinks BBC Sessions.
'This Strange Effect' was covered by a band from Belgium called Hooverphonic, and was featured in the American Motorola TV advert but it was also covered by Bill Wyman - known to his parents as William George Perks. Presumably, our Bill's dad was known by some as Mr Perks.
Mr Perks was the name of the station porter in 'The Railway Children'. In the film, Perks was played by Bernard Cribbins (who incidentally went to school with my Dad).
Bernard Cribbins - 'Right Said Fred'
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Gahh, you lot don't relish a challenge obviously! Mind you it was a bit obscure. The link for anyone wondering was the book High Fidelity - on P147 is the main character's top five 'side one track ones'...
Hmmm, that's a good idea for a thread!
Jason
Fairly obvious one I guess...(!) Bernard Cribbins was the narrator of the children's TV legend that is "The Wombles".
Mike Batt (current Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, don't you know - and we wonder why the record business is in such a mess...) created the pop-act version of The Wombles, as well as writing the chart-topping "Bright Eyes," and "discovering" Katie Melua.
Katie Melua's last album The House was the first of her 4 albums not to be produced by Batt, instead seeing William Orbit doing the production. As well as producing his own material, Orbit has also done the twiddly bits for Madonna (Ray of Light) and Blur - 13.
Which nicely links us to one of the best pop videos ever (well I think its cute) taken from 13 - Blur - Coffee & TV
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The Grand Wazoo
25-01-2011, 00:01
Blur - 'Coffee & TV'
Do you think Blur paid attention to Squeeze & put their TV in the bedroom?
Squeeze - 'Black Coffee In Bed'
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I prefer to have my coffee in a cup, and so does André Herman Düne
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Herman's Hermits had a hit with No Milk Today
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Milk is a benign and safe beverage, as Captain Beefheart concurs on his Safe as Milk album
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Hermann Hesse wrote a novel called Steppenwolf, also the name of a late '60 US band who had a hit with Born to be Wild - no doubt the late and sadly missed Captain Beefheart would have taken that as a maxim for life!
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No takers? Or have I mucked things up by suggesting two connections? :(
Captain Beefheart or Steppenwolf, you choose.
The Grand Wazoo
28-01-2011, 20:45
OK then here's a quickie:
Captain Beefheart's 1967 album 'Safe as Milk' featured a young and unknown guitarist called Ry Cooder.
Who went on to other things, one of which was 'Chavez Ravine'. An album that comes with the highest recommendation from me - a true tale of political corruption & downright foul play.
Ry Cooder - 'Muy Fifi'
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Ry Cooder did the music for Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas.
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Mica Paris, gave rather pedestrian rendition of Summertime; done so much better (in my opinion) by the late, great Janis Joplin:
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The Grand Wazoo
31-01-2011, 16:02
Janis Joplin - 'Summertime'
There are literally hundreds & hundreds of cover versions of this song by George Gershwin, one of which was by Love Sculpture, a band that featured Dave Edmunds.
.........who's on this track by Nick Lowe
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.........who was, for a while Johnny Cash's son in-law
.........who did this Nick Lowe song:
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Nick Lowe's version was used in the soundtrack to the TV series 'The Soprano's, which had this as the title music:
Alabama 3 - 'Woke Up This Morning'
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Larry Byrom, guitarist with Steppenwolf came from Alabama, but lets not go back there again! Of all the musical Alabamians, perhaps Nat King Cole is the most famous. Perhaps the most famous contemporary Cole is Cheryl Cole, but lets not go there either... I'd much prefer a Cole of the Lloyd variety - so, esteemed forum, I give you Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Lost Weekend
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The Grand Wazoo
04-02-2011, 00:42
Oh God, I hate to do this, but sometimes things just have to be said:
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Lost Weekend
All coming from Glasgow, Lloyd Cole is big mates with members of Del Amitri & there's much cross pollination between the two bands, but here's a blatant bit of 'Lloyd-love' from Del Amitri.
'So You'd Like to Save the World' is a track from Cole's 'Bad Vibes' album.
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First 3 lines of the opening verse:
So you'd like to save the world
I suggest you take one person at a time
And start with me
The chorus of Start With Me by Del Amitri from their album Twisted:
Yeah, you can try to save the world
And baby, that's fine
But is it such a hateful crime to start with me?
Del Amitri - 'Start With Me'
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......by the way, someone here mentioned The Sweet just today or yesterday - listen to the guitar solo on the Del Amitri track (2' 21") and tell me they didn't listen to Ballroom Blitz when they were wee nippers!
Bit quiet in here... So, where were we... Ah yes, Del Amitri:
According to Wikipedia "Speculation about the name's origins have included the Greek for "from the womb",[3] and a handbag brandname. At the very end of the band's 1996 tour diary video release, titled Let's Go Home, Currie reads an entry from a children's encyclopaedia, which supposedly refers to a false god from Greek mythology called Delama Tree, largest of all false gods, 458 feet (140 m) tall and made entirely of gold. It was built on sand, and collapsed, killing the entire population of the town that built it. He ends the reading saying, "There you have it: false gods built on stupidity."
A Google search of "delama" reveals a company who manufacture equipment for hospital use, notably sterilisers and autoclaves.
A non-autoclave would just be a clave - or more accurately, claves - "a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in), thick dowels. Traditionally they were made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla."
The claves are featured prominently in The Beatles track - And I Love Her
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Must be one of my favourite Beatles tracks - beautiful. (And what a great quality video!)
The Grand Wazoo
15-02-2011, 23:09
Blimey: DoS is back with a bang!
Glad you revived it Alex, I was beginning to miss it. I'd have done another but I really hate to do two in a row though!
I'll be back shortly.........
First of all the derivation of the name Del Amitri from the Greek for ‘from the womb’, is at best tenuous. The Greek phrase would be από τη μήτρα (apo te metra), but I digress.
That YouTube clip comes from the film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. The title is said to have come from a malapropism uttered by Ringo. Having worked in the studio all day and into the night, as the Beatles were leaving to go home, Ringo started to say “Well it’s been a hard day…”, then realising it was dark outside completed the sentence with “night”.
The expression ‘day for night’ is used for the cinematographic technique, whereby a film is shot in daylight, yet looks as though it had been shot at night.
‘Day for Night’ was used as the title of a film made by François Truffaut, the music for which was written by Georges Delerue. Georges Delerue won an ‘Oscar’ in 1973 for his scoring for the film ‘The Day of the Dolphin’.
The Dolphins is a wonderfully evocative song by Tim Buckley
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and covered by others, most noticeably by Linda Ronstadt.
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A very simple one this time - as you all know, "chillout" is my thang - and this is a great (and funny) chillout track:
Dolphin Box - wham, bam, thank you, ma'am - If you ever see a copy of the album Gateaux Youth, snap it up!
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The Grand Wazoo
17-02-2011, 00:19
Dolphin Box - 'Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am
That title was also used in a Dean Martin song from 1950.
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The phrase "Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am" may be a reference to ejaculatio praecox, but it has other musical precidents.
The "Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am" lyric was the title of one of the tracks on Charles Mingus's 1961 Oh Yeah album. According to Mingus it was also a phrase that his drummer, Max Roach, used when he was "unable to express his inner feelings", and most likely one which Bowie was aware of, being a jazz lover himself.
It is also uttered (at 2:49 min) on the track 'Suffragette City' taken from David Bowie's 'The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust'.
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The Grand Wazoo
17-02-2011, 08:18
David Bowie - 'Suffragette City'
Before Ziggy Stardust was released in 1972, Bowie had a conversation with Pete 'Overend' Watts, who was the bassist in Mott The Hoople, and he learnt that Mott were on the verge of a break-up. As part of the effort he made to persuade them to stay together, Bowie offered to give them Suffragette City as a single. The band turned down his offer, so Bowie wrote and produced another song for them.
Mott The Hoople - 'All The Young Dudes'
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Mott the Hoople were a crap band! However in 1973, their lead guitarist Mick Ralphs left the band to form Bad Company, a group consisting of members from Free along with King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell.
The vocalist in both Free and Bad Company was 'The Voice' Paul Rogers.
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The Grand Wazoo
17-02-2011, 15:58
On the first Bad Company album, on which 'Feel Like Makin' Love' appears, is a track called 'Seagull'.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC are also known as The Seagulls. This video was filmed at the Goldstone Ground - several school mates of mine are in the crowd.
Slade - 'Give Us A Goal'
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.........as an aside, after Mick Ralphs left Mott the Hoople, he was replaced by Luther Grosvenor (from Spooky Tooth), who at the suggestion of Lynsey De Paul changed his name to Ariel Bender. However, he was later replaced by Mick Ronson, who had been in Bowie's Spiders From Mars & therefore had played on the Suffragette City from Barry's earlier post.
DanJennings
17-02-2011, 18:49
I was going to lower the tone and go on to one of Chas & Dave's many football songs for their beloved Tottenham Hotspur, but I shall resist.
Instead, I refer you to the excellent and sadly completely unreleased album (apart from the single 'Diary Of A Wimp') by the excellent 90s band Space. 'Love You More Than Football'.
I urge you to check out the whole album, but I'll pick one I can find on youtube.
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Love You More Than Football is an unreleased Space album from 2000. Originally scheduled for release in July 2000, the album was to be a follow up to 1998’s Tin Planet. The album, briefly known as Bulletproof, was later reschedule for December 4, 2001, but was never released.
'Bulletproof Monk' was the title of an appallingly bad film starring Chow Yun Fat. Chow Yun Fat starred in the better film 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'.
Tigers reminds me of the dreadful Tygers of Pan Tang . Here they are performing the equally awful 'Love Potion No.9'.
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The Grand Wazoo
18-02-2011, 20:47
'Love Potion No. 9' was written by Lieber & Stoller and was originally a hit for The Clovers
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It's essentially a song about an early version of Viagra, apparently it makes you try to snog anything in sight including policemen. In the song, the potion comes from a gypsy woman. But I suppose it could just as easily come from:
Screaming Jay Hawkins - 'I Put A Spell On You'
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..............hilarious video!
I prefer Nina Simone's version:
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In fact I love just about anything Nina Simone sang - what a voice.
Here she is performing 'Feeling Good' (Now that makes for one obvious connection.)
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Goodness I just love Nina! Can't believe she died seven years ago.
[Having, with Chris's help reversed the near rock-bottom level of musical sophistication with my last post, please don't undo it, or display a lack of respect for the divine Nina, by suggesting Muse's vapid-sounding cover version. Thank you]
The Grand Wazoo
22-02-2011, 21:18
Nina Simone - 'Feeling Good'
'Feeling Good' was written by and also recorded by Anthony Newley, who was married at one time to Joan Collins.
Going swiftly into reverse gear, back to what Barry described as a 'near rock-bottom level of musical sophistication', we can see what she did to John Lennon (and so soon after the poor man died!)
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However, that's not why I'm here. She also appeared in the video for:
Badly Drawn Boy - 'Pissing in the Wind'
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Badly Drawn Boy is the stage name of Damon Gough. Another Gough, or rather the 'son of', is the performance poet Roger McGough.
Roger McGough was, along with Mike McGear (the stage name of Peter Michael McCartney; the brother of Beatle Paul McCartney) and John Gorman, a member of The Scaffold. They had a hit with "Lily the Pink" and with "Thank you very much".
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Roger McGough was responsible (but un-credited) for for much of the script of the Beatles's "Yellow Submarine".
Yello are Swiss electronica group, who had a 'hit' with the track "Oh Yeah".
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[Apologies for the rather pointless video accompanying the YouTube clip]
The Grand Wazoo
26-02-2011, 00:00
Yello - "Oh Yeah"
Famously released on 'Kamikaze Yellow' vinyl was Cheap Trick's live album 'At Budokan'
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The Nippon Budokan is a large arena in the centre of Tokyo & the word means something like 'hall of martial arts' in English because Budokan was built as the venue for the judo events at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. It is still used for martial art competitions but it has also been an important music venue for the city.
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As it's first concert, it hosted the first Japanese appearance of the Beatles in 1966 and since then, several live albums (apart from the 1978 Cheap Trick one mentioned above) have been recorded there:
Bob Dylan - At Budokan (1979)
Eric Clapton - 'Just One Night' (1980)
Deep Purple - 'Made in Japan' (in part)
Tin Machine - 'Live: Oy Vey, Baby'
Quincy Jones - Live At Budokan (1981)
Dream Theater - 'Live at Budokan'
Ozzy Osbourne - 'Live at Budokan'
Michael Schenker Group - 'One Night at Budokan' (1982)
Oasis - 'Three Nights in a Judo Arena' (1998)
Blur - 'Live at the Budokan'
Judas Priest - 'Rising in the East' (2005)
..........and last and almost certainly least:
Bay City Rollers - Rollerworld, Live at the Budokan' (1977)
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DanJennings
26-02-2011, 07:16
That was a terrible cover of a Bowie song
other terrible covers of Bowie songs include:
Oasis - Heroes
Robbie Williams - Kooks
Jedward - Under Pressure
Here's a good one: (IMO)
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He also covered THIS
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To restore the “taste quotient”
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The name Eurythmics is a derivation of the Greek eurythmy, itself steming from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm; the term was used by Greek and Roman architects to refer to the harmonious proportions of a design or building.
Rhythm is of course the ‘R’ in R&B, however since that expresion has been expropriated by modern exponents of an excrescent musical genre, one which betrays and insults the true nature of R&B music – I’ll make amends by linking to the excellent:
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
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Nurse, charge to 2000... CLEAR! - yep, we've got a pulse. Phew!
"Blockheads" is a colloquialism for fans of the American "boy band" New Kids on the Block.
Member of the band, Donnie Wahlberg has followed in the footsteps of his brother Mark Wahlberg, forging a career in acting and appeared in movies such as Ransom (1996), Southie (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dreamcatcher (2003), the Saw film series, and the critically acclaimed mini-series Band of Brothers. He has starred in two short-lived television series: Boomtown and Runaway.
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.
Geldof's long-term partner and later wife was Paula Yates. In 1995, Yates left Geldof for Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS - which rather nicely (and eventually) links us to the 1987 classic - Need You Tonight
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The Grand Wazoo
09-03-2011, 23:48
INXS - 'Need You Tonight'
INXS eh?
Well, my highly paid team of researchers (Windsor branch) tell me that there's a hairdressers shop in Goswell Hill, Windsor called 'Hair In Excess'
'Hair' was a hippy musical that was first staged in New York in 1967 and outraged all sorts of folks with nudity. There was a song in the show called 'Frank Mills'
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.........which was later covered by The Lemonheads
.........who also did this:
The Lemonheads - 'Mrs Robinson'
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The Grand Wazoo
17-03-2011, 01:03
No takers?
OK then I'll have another go.
Evan Dando, of the Lemonheads appeared on an album by Mike Watt called 'Ball-Hog or Tugboat?'
There was a cover of the Funkadelic track 'Maggot Brain' on it.
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There were a huge number of guests also on that album apart from Evan Dando, including some of the ex-members of The Screaming Trees.
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The singer in The Screaming Trees was called Mark Lanegan. Mark Lanegan made some albums with Isobel Campbell
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - 'Ramblin' Man'
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............& that brings us right back round to the beginning once again!
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............& that brings us right back round to the beginning once again!
Bloody Hell Chris, what have you done? By ‘closing the loop’ you risk the entire Universe disappearing up its own backside!
The only solution is to ‘reverse the polarity’ and quick. That is, we have to consider:
Mark Campbell and Isobel Lanegan.
Mark Campbell are motor dealers, based in Breston Derby.
(The Motors were a British pub rock/punk band, formed in London in 1977 by former Ducks Deluxe members Nick Garvey and Andy McMaster together with guitarist Rob Hendry (who was replaced in May 1977 by Bram Tchaikovsky) and drummer Ricky Slaughter. Their biggest success was with the McMaster penned song "Airport", a number 4 UK hit single in 1978.)
Isobel (or Ysobel) is the famous ‘table dancer’ in Charles Mingus’s ‘Ysobel’s Table Dance’. Perhaps an act that might be seen at Langan’s (close enough) Brasserie in London, an eaterie co-owned by Micheal Caine. The man himself speaks the word “I am Michael Caine” on the Madness recording ‘NW7’. Madness also recorded ‘Driving my Car’.
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And car is the British term for an automobile or motor. And both Malcom and Donald Campbell established world land speed records in 'cars'.
Phew! And with that the Universe was saved….
But "Who will save the World?" Why "The Mighty Groundhogs":
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The Grand Wazoo
18-03-2011, 07:39
Hahaha, it's OK Barry - the world is safe. This will be the third time around the block.
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7365&page=43
See post 429.
But it's nice to see someone remembers The Groundhogs
According to Wikipedia, Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end. If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.
A notable birth on "Groundhog Day" was Eva Cassidy, who was born in 1963. Her life was tragically cut short due to melanoma. In her final public performance in September 1996, at the Bayou, she closed the set with "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, fans and family.
The original version of "What a Wonderful World" was originally performed and recorded by Louis Armstrong, (and will at some point be an entry of mine under the "Tracks of Emotional Significance") but let's not dwell on sadness. An amazing amount of versions of the song have been recorded over the years since the original in 1968, including a version by Katie Melua in 2007 to raise money for the Red Cross, which reached number one in the UK. I could go on - but let's "hold that thought" with Katie - someone fitting to follow Barry's post, as I know he is a fan - but which track?
Well this should give someone plenty of scope - from her debut album Call Off the Search - here's Lilac Wine:
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The Grand Wazoo
19-03-2011, 00:13
Well, I feel it should be known that part of the Groundhog Day nonsense is something to do with a place called 'Gobbler's Knob', the double entendre potential of which, the American population don't quite seem to have grasped.
I visited a place called Gobbler's Knob in Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington State. I wouldn't remember this, except for the fact that it was one of the most surreal days of my life, walking around & climbing in some of the most beautiful surroundings of trees & mountains I had ever been in, yet not being able to take it all in because something much bigger had just happened. The date was Sept 11th 2001.
...........anyway, back to Ms Melua & the lilac flavoured juice of the zarzleberry tree.
Katy Melua - 'Lilac Wine'
Lilac Wine was written in 1950 for a musical revue show. Since then it has been recorded by several people.
Eartha Kitt did it in 1953,
Judy Henske 1963,
Nina Simone on 'Wild Is The Wind' 1966,
Panza in 2007
And of course Ms Melua.
And then there were the two Jeffs - Beck & Buckley:
Jeff Buckley on 'Grace'
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Jeff Beck on 'Emotion & Commotion' with vocals by Imelda May.
According to an interview, Jeff Beck felt that this track as sung by Jeff Buckley was a gift to him to interpret on the guitar and that he wanted to be able to express the power of Buckley's voice with his instrument. He also used the track to try to introduce a vocalist that he thought the world ought to know a bit better.......
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But in an effort to exploit Alex' comment about this track giving us plenty of options, we perhaps ought to consider for a moment, the version that achieved most success in the singles chart - Elkie Brooks 1978.
She also had another hit called 'Pearl's a Singer' which was about Janis Joplin. If you watch this track by Vinegar Joe, you'll see that the younger Elkie had definitely been listening to Janis.
Anyone know who the other singer is?
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... not being able to take it all in because something much bigger had just happened. The date was Sept 11th 2001.
Like on hearing of the assassination of JFK, 9/11 was one of those eidetic moments: you will always be able to remember exactly when and where you were when you heard the news.
Anyway to Elkie Brooks and Vinegar Joe - the other singer may not look like Robert Palmer, yet Palmer is credited as singing along with Elkie Brooks. On close examination (difficult with Brooks wearing that dress!), I think it is a young Robert Palmer.
So how about Palmer doing “Addicted to Love”
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OMG! I never knew Robert Palmer was dead! ("he died of a sudden heart attack on 26 September 2003. He was 54 years old.") In my defence, that was a period of my life where I didn't have a TV, never bought a newspaper and otherwise avoided most types of media...
Best keep this simple - Palmer was a member of Power Station - this is probably their most famous hit: (and a fabulous "80s as you like" video!) - Some Like It Hot
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The Grand Wazoo
22-03-2011, 00:00
Power Station - 'Some Like It Hot'
The largest coal fired power station in Europe is Drax, which is named because of the village which is close by. Drax is an old Viking word which, roughly translated, means 'evil villain from the Ian Fleming book Moonraker'.
The music for the film was going to be sung by Johnny Mathis, but he decided to dip out during recording. Other alternative choices were Kate Bush & Frank Sinatra, but in the end at the last minute, they got Shirley Bassey. She's already done two themes for James Bond films, but much better aligned to my sense of humour, was this one she did for the 1965 spoof spy film - I think it's about making smoothies or something.
Shirley Bassey - The Liquidator
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.........oh, & you really must watch the trailer
"You're known by the slightly ridiculous &, if you don't mind me saying so, rather effeminate nickname of Boysie. Your special security code letter is 'L' - your occupation: hired assassin......."
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To make a smoothie not only do you need a liquidator but it helps if you are a bit of a 'Smooth Operator'.
Normally I eschew this sort of cool 'dinner jazz' but I have a soft spot for Sade (pronounced Shar-day as in Chardonnay wine, but in this house she is known affectionately as Say-dee).
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The Grand Wazoo
22-03-2011, 23:42
Sade - 'Smooth Operator'
An operator would be someone or something that conducts an operation..........
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In the game of operation (which I have never played) the players have to remove objects from a cavity without touching the sides. One of the objects is a wish bone and luckily it is a solid object rather than a pile of ashes (which would be a little tricky to pick up.
Conversely, Wishbone Ash picked up a new vocalist for a short while in the early 1980's. Her name was Claire Hammill, & she'd released some records of folk rock type warbling on Ray Davies' Konk label in the 70's.
Claire Hammill - 'Moss'
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........I have a very vivid (& not exactly unpleasant) memory of seeing Wishbone Ash at the Brighton Dome with her wearing an incredibly short leather skirt with 'Sha-Na-Na' spelled out in chrome studs across the bum.
Claire Hamill wrote the song 'You Take my Breath Away' made famous by the late, and sadly missed' Eva Cassidy.
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This of course should not be confused with Berlin's power ballad: 'Take my Breath Away'
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(It almost seems an insult to Eva's memory to mention this in the same breath! :doh:)
Beechwoods
23-03-2011, 18:45
Irving Berlin wrote many standards amongst which rate 'White Christmas' and my favourite, 'There's No Business Like Show Business' - the latter being an influence on Gil Scott-Heron who wrote the number 'Show Bizness' for his 1978 album 'Secrets'. Cameoing the melody and lyrical theme of Berlin's song.
Herbie Hancock had an album called ‘Secrets’
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whereas Carly Simon had an album called ‘No Secrets’.
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On that album is the track 'You're so Vain'
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Incidentally Simon has at last revealed the identity of the source of inspiration of the song ‘You’re So Vain’. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/02/youre_so_vain_carly_simon_reve.html. So it was David Geffen after all.
Geffen and Goffin are similar phonetically. Gerry Goffin was the former husband and other half of the very successful song-writing team of Goffin and King.
Carol King's first, and in my opinion the best, album ‘Tapestry’, has the excellent track ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ Here she is performing the song with her one-time boyfriend James Taylor.
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The Grand Wazoo
25-03-2011, 12:30
Carol King - ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’
Before 'Tapestry', Goffin & King were part of the 'Brill Building' songwriting mini-industry. Although they weren't actually to be found in the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway, they were a short distance away in number 1650.
There's an excellent book on the subject by Ken Emerson - 'Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp & Brilliance of the Brill Building Era'. Neil Sedaka, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Cynthia Weill, Howie Greenberg, Barry Mann, Jeff Barry, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector & Paul Simon among others were all employed to sit in tiny cubicles with a piano & churn out hit songs. This was the place that produced songs like:
Jailhouse Rock
Hound Dog by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Take Good Care of My Baby
The Loco-Motion by Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Walk on By
I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
I Say a Little Prayer by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Oh! Carol
Calendar Girl
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Neil Sedaka (both with and without) Howard Greenfield
.....the list goes on and on.
But one day in 1958 a Liverpudlian guy called Paul was skiving from The Liverpool Institute and started writing a song. He didn't know how to finish it, so he showed it to his mate John, who helped him out.
The Beatles - 'Love Me Do'
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It didn't get released as a single until 1962, but The Beatles practically killed off the Tin Pan Alley industry by starting the trend of artists writing and recording their own songs.
The Grand Wazoo
31-03-2011, 20:11
I can't believe no-one can think of something to connect to 'Love Me Do'!
In the meantime, I'll tell you something you don't really need to know about 'Love Me Do'.
The Beatles had several attempts at recording it, the first being part of their audition at the EMI Studios (Abbey Road) on the 6th June 1962, in the lineup that included Pete Best as drummer. You can hear that version on the 'Anthology' album.
When Ringo replaced Pete Best they re-recorded the track but George Martin didn't like Ringo's performance so when they came to a third attempt, they gave him a tambourine & stuck a session drummer (Andrew White) on the stool. That was the version that ended up on the album. The Ringo drumming version with no tambourine was used on the first issues of the single, though.
So, back to business guys:
The Beatles - 'Love Me Do'
Maybe one last try at a resurrection - after all, Easter isn't that far away...
Interesting reading on Wikipedia, regarding the master tape for The Beatles first single:
No original master tapes of the 4 September version of "Love Me Do" are known to exist. Standard procedure at Abbey Road Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been "mixed down" to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of two Beatles singles (four songs): "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "She Loves You", and "I'll Get You". However, at some point the mixdown master tape for this song was also lost, and apparently no backup copies had been made. Thus, for many years the only extant recorded copies were the red label Parlophone 45 rpm vinyl records pressed in 1962. This version was also issued in Canada as Capitol 72076.[45]
By the time the tapes had disappeared, the song's 11 September 1962 remake featuring Andy White had been released. EMI would not have been too concerned about the loss of the 4 September take, therefore, as it was now considered obsolete, and they may not have anticipated ever having any use for it again anyway.
Around 1980, a reasonably clean, original 45 from EMI's archives was used as the "best available source" for the track's inclusion on the Capitol compilation LP Rarities. A few years later, a new master tape was struck, this time using another, better-sounding 45 supplied by a record collector, and this has served as the official EMI master tape for the original "Love Me Do" ever since.
So, the "official release" (Andy White drumming) version was recorded on September 11th, 1962.
Exactly 39 years later, on September 11th 2001 (or "9/11" as it has become known) an al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the USA was a momentous moment in history, if not World-changing. Our generation will never forget that day.
Generation Terrorists was the debut album by The Manic Street Preachers. The opening track, and fourth single, inspired from U.S. Army policy during the Vietnam War, and an absolute cracker, IMO, was Slash 'n' Burn
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I’m glad you broke through the ‘log jam’ Alex. ‘Love Me Do’ was just too big a last link.
Now where were we? Ah yes, The Manic Street Preachers.
The band were originally a quartet: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards disappearedon 1 February 1995. In November 2008, thirteen years after his disappearance, he was officially declared presumed deceased.
The Manics released their debut album, Generation Terrorists in 1992. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery, outspoken invective and songs about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a leftist politicisation and intellectual lyrical style, while adopting a broader alternative sound. Enigmatic lyricist Richey Edwards gained early notoriety by carving the words "4REAL" into his arm with a razor blade (narrowly missing an artery and requiring seventeen stitches) in response to the suggestion that the band were less than authentic. The dark nature of 1994's The Holy Bible reflected the culmination of Edwards' instability.
Another Edward was Principal Edward and his ‘Magic Theatre’, a 14-member communal performance art collective in the United Kingdom made up of musicians, poets, dancers, and sound and lighting technicians. (Yes, I know I’m playing fast and loose with the possessive apostrophe: Lynn Trump would have a fit!)
Here is an example of their work: ‘The Death of Don Quixote’
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The Grand Wazoo
09-04-2011, 00:16
...........ah, so there's life in the old girl yet. Well done Alex!
The Grand Wazoo
09-04-2011, 23:18
Principle Edwards' Magic Theatre - ‘The Death of Don Quixote’
Principle Edwards' Magic Theatre's first single was 'The Ballad of a Big Girl Now'. I wonder if she was called Emma?
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Emma, you say? Well Hot Chocolate certainly did, in 1974, reaching the lofty position of #3 in the UK charts. Bit of a dirge IMO, but apparently the Sisters of Mercy performed a live cover of the song in their sets, and it was also covered by Urge Overkill
Urge Overkill's version of Girl You'll be a Woman Soon is probably their most famous recording, having been included in the soundtrack for the rather excellent 1994 Quentin Tarantino film, Pulp Fiction
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What a track! And isn't Uma Thurman one of the sexiest women ever...?
The Grand Wazoo
12-04-2011, 23:28
Urge Overkill - 'Girl You'll be a Woman Soon'
This song was written by Neil Diamond. Diamond is his real name, unlike the assumed name of a certain Danish fella who's parents knew best when they gave him the name Kim Bendix Petersen. Trouble is, young Kim was a bit of a rebellious soul, by the looks of it & decided to rename himself King Diamond & formed a band called Mercyful Fate - who are apparently master practitioners of Barry's favourite music of the moment(!)
Mercyful Fate - 'Come to the Sabbath'
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I'm particularly taken with the lyrics from the 2nd verse (starting at about 18 seconds in) which appear to say:
Come, come to the Sabbath
Down by the ruined bridge
Leaning on the rusty vaginas
Called from the heart of Hell
Please note - the music described in this post does not necessarily reflect the taste of the author!
This song was written by Neil Diamond. Diamond is his real name, unlike the assumed name of a certain Danish fella who's parents knew best when they gave him the name Kim Bendix Petersen. Trouble is, young Kim was a bit of a rebellious soul, by the looks of it & decided to rename himself King Diamond & formed a band called Mercyful Fate - who are apparently master practitioners of Barry's favourite music of the moment(!)
Mercyful Fate - 'Come to the Sabbath'
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I'm particularly taken with the lyrics from the 2nd verse (starting at about 18 seconds in) which appear to say:
Come, come to the Sabbath
Down by the ruined bridge
Leaning on the rusty vaginas
Called from the heart of Hell
Please note - the music described in this post does not necessarily reflect the taste of the author!
How do we know what you get up to late at night, deep in those forests Chris?
The term "Sabbath" derives from the Hebrew Shabbat (שַׁבָּת), "to cease", which was first used in the Biblical account of the seventh day of Creation (Genesis 2:2-3). Observation and remembrance of Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments (the fourth in the original Jewish, the Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestant traditions, the third in Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions). Most people who observe Biblical Sabbath regard it as having been instituted as a "perpetual covenant [for] the people of Israel" (Exodus 31:13-17), a sign in respect for the day during which God rested after having completed the Creation in six days (Exodus 20:8-11), and for God's deliverance from the Egyptian seven-day workweek (Deuteronomy 5:12-15); Isaiah extends the term to include even corrupted rest-day traditions (Isaiah 1:13). Sabbath desecration was originally officially punishable by death (Exodus 31:15). Observance in Hebrew Scriptures was universally from sixth-day evening to seventh-day evening (Nehemiah 13:19, cf. Leviticus 23:32) on a seven-day week.
Wiccans have their own ‘sabbaths’ or sabbats. The annual cycle of the Earth's seasons is called the Wheel of the Year in Wicca and neopaganism. Eight sabbats (occasionally "sabbaths", or "Sun sabbats") are spaced at approximately even intervals throughout the year. Samhain, which coincides with halloween, is considered first sabbat of the year.
An esbat is a ritual observance of the full moon in Wicca and neopaganism. Some groups extend the esbat to include the dark moon and the first and last quarters. "Esbat" and "sabbat" are distinct, although an esbat is also called "moon sabbat".
European records from the Middle Ages to the 17th century or later also place Witches' Sabbaths on similar dates to sabbats in modern Wicca, but with some disagreement; medieval reports of sabbat activity are generally not firsthand and may be imaginative, but many persons were accused of, or tried for, taking part in sabbats
Hearing groups such as 'Black Sabbath' and the afore-mentioned 'Mercyful Fate', make we wish they would follow all the original Hebrew imperative Shabbat, and “cease”!
Having mentioned the word Black, and having no wish to further promulgate this "genre" (despite Chris’s disclaimer!), I’ll move onto a favourite of Mums in the early ‘90s: Black
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One of my "guilty pleasures" is this cover version of Wonderful Life - not a "mum's" favourite, (I understand she's actually a bit of a gay icon (:stalks:)) - but one of my favourites - Tina Cousins
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The Grand Wazoo
13-04-2011, 16:19
Am I the only one who's astounded at the above reference to 'rusty vaginas'? - You folks seem to have taken it in your stride - have I lived a sheltered life or something?
Am I the only one who's astounded at the above reference to 'rusty vaginas'? - You folks seem to have taken it in your stride - have I lived a sheltered life or something?
John (Welder) made a post about an album the other week, and I kind of hoped he might pop in here and link it to your post... Puscifer - V is for Vagina (http://open.spotify.com/user/alex_steel1969/playlist/4tW8Gy7tzM8VjzCBqOPaDW) (although I think only you, Barry and I ever come into this little dusty corner of AoS anymore!) - after seeing that album title, a rusty one didn't phase me! :lol:
Am I the only one who's astounded at the above reference to 'rusty vaginas'? - You folks seem to have taken it in your stride - have I lived a sheltered life or something?
It didn't phase me Chris, though for a moment I was confused by the adjective 'rusty'. Rusty? - I think it is meant in the sense of 'not having been used for a long time'. Quite how that fits in with the lyrics and general theme is not clear to me. But then that's heavy metal for you!
Regards
The Grand Wazoo
13-04-2011, 18:45
A little light Googling confirms that the words are actually:
"Later on the master will join us"
The Grand Wazoo
13-04-2011, 18:46
A little light Googling confirms that the words are actually:
"Later on the master will join us"
Now that does make more sense - if any sense is needed for heavy metal.
I think we may have been "had" there Barry! :lol:
I think we may have been "had" there Barry! :lol:
But it could be the makings of a new thread: "Mistaken and misheard lyrics".
In fact I think I'll start one! (Who cares if one already exist: http://www.kissthisguy.com/? This is AoS; we do things differently here.)
Regards
The Grand Wazoo
13-04-2011, 23:04
But it could be the makings of a new thread: "Mistaken and misheard lyrics".
In fact I think I'll start one! (Who cares if one already exist: http://www.kissthisguy.com/? This is AoS; we do things differently here.)
Regards
We've already got one Barry!
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2031&highlight=mangled+lyrics
And what's more: The only known Wazoo use of smileys exists right there on the first post!!!!
We've already got one Barry!
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2031&highlight=mangled+lyrics
And what's more: The only known Wazoo use of smileys exists right there on the first post!!!!
Oh yes - you started one, and I made a couple of posts to it! :doh:
Why don't you resurrect it with your "rusty vaginas". Knowing the humour of several members here on AoS (including myself), it will be well received.
The Grand Wazoo
13-04-2011, 23:50
Done!
The Grand Wazoo
15-04-2011, 23:07
Keeping pretty much as far away from death metal as possible
Tina Cousins - 'Wonderful Life'
'It's a Wonderful Life' was a 1946 film starring James Stewart & Donna Reed. It was produced and directed by Frank Capra & was based on a short story called 'The Greatest Gift' which was written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
One of the characters in the film was played by Lionel Barrymore, a slum landlord called Henry F. Potter. Now, we all know that a nickname for Henry is Harry, but I hardly think this film was the inspiration for J.K. Rowlings character, but let's suppose for a moment it was.
John Williams wrote the music for the first three Harry Potter films, but he also did a few others. In fact the list of nominations and prizes that he's gathered at Grammys, Emmys and Golden Globes is incredible!
So, on we go to more dribbling trivia: John Williams son, Joseph, is a singer in the band Toto. Toto is the name of the dog that belongs to Dorothy in the film 'The Wizard of Oz', a film which also features a yellow brick road.
Now most folks would think that this would be the perfect link to a funny little guy with glasses & a piano.
But, oh no, not on The Art of Sound!
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - 'Yellow Brick Road'
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Well, this thread has had the best part of a month off, and I'm nothing if not a trier - all my teachers told my mum & dad at parent evenings I was very trying...
We could say goodbye to this thread, and indeed, we could say "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - couldn't we, Elton? But of course, something more oblique is called for on AoS!
The Yellow Brick Road is featured in the the film The Wizard of Oz (although in the original novel it was actually called "The Road of Yellow Brick".)
Now: Urban Legend, or not? I've read and heard many times, that Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd can be played along to the movie simultaneously, with an interesting juxtaposition that suggests the album may have been an alternative soundtrack to the film. Anyone tried it? Anyway, so that leads us nicely on to Pink Floyd - nah, it doesn't - shouldn't be that simple should it, for the great renaissance of this thread!? :lol:
Pink Floyd went through various names before settling on something allegedly derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose records Syd Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Prior to embracing the blues, Pink Anderson had a rather different career - in 1914 he was entertaining the crowds whilst Dr. Frank "Smiley" Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities. In short, he was part of a "Medicine Show."
Which finally, and mercifully moves this post to it's conclusion - now whether this heals this thread, or gives it an overdose and puts it out of it's misery is anyone's guess - but ladies(?) & gentleman, I give you Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show
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The Grand Wazoo
14-05-2011, 00:25
Nice one Alex - I'm really glad to see this one going again.
But.........I'm not going to reply to it, because I reckon we should have some new folks visiting here any moment with all sorts of ideas.
Actually no, I reckon not one single person on AoS other than you, me, Barry & one or two others has got the balls to think of (or Google up) the name of a song or band with a connection to the words:
Big or
Audio or
Dynamite or
Medicine or
Show
.....or a connection to any of the following people:
Big Audio Dynamite (1984–1990, 2011–present)
Mick Jones - vocals and guitar
Don Letts - sound effects and vocals
Dan Donovan - keyboards
Leo Williams - bass
Greg Roberts - drums and background vocals
Big Audio Dynamite II (1990–1993)
Mick Jones - vocals and guitar
Nick Hawkins - guitar and background vocals
Gary Stonadge - bass and background vocals
Chris Kavanagh - drums and background vocals
Big Audio (1994–1995)
Mick Jones - vocals and guitar
Nick Hawkins - guitar and background vocals
Gary Stonadge - bass and background vocals
Chris Kavanagh - drums and background vocals
Andre Shapps - keyboards
Michael 'Zonka' Custance - DJ, percussion and background vocals
Big Audio Dynamite (1996–1998)
Mick Jones - vocals and guitar
Nick Hawkins - guitar
Andre Shapps - keyboards
Michael 'Zonka' Custance - Dj
Darryl Fulstow - bass
Bob Wond - drums
Joe Attard - Mc vocals
Ranking Roger - vocals
So, given that they're all a bunch of wimps, I'll give it a go...................
................in a while
..........once I'm sure no-one else is going to.............
Yes I'll think I'll sit this one out - for the same reasons.
Anyway, I'm still wrestling with "AdamsDylanNashCohenKaukonen"! It's driving me round the bend; which is just as it should.
Don't lock the thread Alex: if nobody else joins in, I still enjoy running with it.
Cheers
The Grand Wazoo
15-05-2011, 22:37
From The Grave
Ok I'll give it a go...
And a very tenuous one this is, apologies in advance
About a month or so ago I was in a pub called 'the castle' in Holland Park, in walks the immediately recognisable, if slightly dishevelled figure of Mick Jones, apparently it's his local.
A lovely fellow and was not at all bothered by an old clash fan bending his ear, he even announced that BAD are doing some festivals this summer with the original lineup.
He even accepted a beer from me, I told him my mates would never speak to me again if I'd not bough Mick Jones a beer...his choice was Kronenbourg
And from the old Kronenbourg advert
Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable
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Hi Will
Welcome to this dark little corner of AoS, as yet only frequented by those having an encyclopaedic knowledge of music, trivia and an almost psychotic obsession to see connections in everything (I speak for myself here!)
Your post is the perfect example of what we seek here – well done.
So to continue this thread: Kinobe – ‘Slip into Something More Comfortable’. Well without wishing to give Alex (UK) the opportunity to tell us about what he wears during his leisure time (and hence get into a fashion war with Marco), I’ll take another course.
Obi-Wan Kinobe was the Jedi knight in Star Wars, played by Alec Guinness. Guinness are world renowned for the advertising they use, especially those on TV. The later ones have verged on pretension, but of those, this is my favourite:
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The theme and indeed the CGI ‘white horses’ remind me of the poem ‘Horse Latitudes’ by Jim Morrison; a track on the excellent ‘Strange Days’ album.
"When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over."
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It would be tempting fate to follow this with ‘The End’, from the same album; so I’ll choose instead the Kurt Weil – like track ‘Alabama Song’, taken from the Doors’s first album:
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The Grand Wazoo
17-05-2011, 17:43
Three Cheers for Will - well done that man!!!!
Tenuous is far more entertaining - we love tenuous!!
Three Cheers for Will - well done that man!!!!
Tenuous is far more entertaining - we love tenuous!!
Why than you sir...:cool:
Now if only Barry had stopped at Leftfield 'Phat Planet' I'd have been in business...must do some doors research :)
Sod it I'll go with the obvious...from Alabama Song to the Alabama 3
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The next one just needs a tap in...;)
Well yes, bravo to Will for joining in!
Contrary to Barry's statement "as yet only frequented by those having an encyclopaedic knowledge of music, trivia and an almost psychotic obsession to see connections in everything (I speak for myself here!)" - I can't claim to have that same encyclopaedic knowledge, but I do know how to use Google and Wikipedia! (And yes, tenuous rules!)
So, Alabama 3... According to Wikipedia "The group achieved international fame when the producers of hit TV series The Sopranos chose their track "Woke Up This Morning" for the show's opening credits." Also, "Each episode's closing credits sequence features a unique piece of previously recorded music, with few exceptions."
Let's stick with the "3" from Alabama 3 - the 3rd Episode of the 3rd Season closed with the song ""Where's the Money?" by Dan Hicks... No, I've never heard it either... However the title of the 3rd Episode from the 3rd Season of the Sopranos is "Fortunate Son" - now, as "Billy & Johnny" used to say, "we know a song about that, don't we?"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
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(What a tune!)
The Grand Wazoo
17-05-2011, 21:21
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Fortunate Son'
This track was used to advertise Wranglers jeans & John Fogerty was asked in an interview what he felt about this (as he didn't actually own the publishing rights to his song).
Quote from Wikki:
Yes, the people that owned Fantasy Records also owned all my early songs, and they would do all kinds of stuff I really hated in a commercial way with my songs. ... Then one day somebody from the L.A. Times actually bothered to call me up and ask me how I felt, and I finally had a chance to talk about it. And I said I'm very much against my song being used to sell pants. ... So my position got stated very well in the newspaper, and lo and behold, Wrangler to their credit said, "Wow, even though we made our agreement with the publisher, the owner of the song, we can see now that John Fogerty really hates the idea," so they stopped doing it.
Wranglers rivals Levi Strauss also used classic singles as advert soundtracks for their 501 jeans:
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Ben E. King - Stand by Me
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody
B.B. King - Ain't Nobody Home
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
Probably the best remembered advert used a track which Creedence Clearwater Revival covered on their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory
Marvin Gaye - 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'
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Ok the Levis jeans featured in the advert were indeed 501's
Which also happens to be the area code for Arkansas USA...
Wiki;
Area code 501 is a telephone area code in Arkansas. It originally covered all of the state of Arkansas. It is one of the original 86 North American Numbering Plan areas assigned in 1947. As a result of population growth, area code 501 now covers only central Arkansas, including the capital Little Rock. The coverage area includes most communities in Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski, Saline and White counties.
Arkansas's original area code has been split twice. Area code 870 was introduced during the first split to cover areas in north-central, northeast, eastern and southern Arkansas. Areas of northwest Arkansas were assigned to area code 479 in a second split of the numbers assigned to 501.
Major cities in area code 501 include:
Benton
Cabot
Conway
Hot Springs
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Malvern
Morrilton
North Little Rock
Searcy
Sherwood
As we all know Adrian Sherwood is a Bristolian dub producer & remixer of some repute, so here he is with a remix of 'easy star all stars' interpretation of Brain Damage by pink floyd (that's 2 degrees of separation in itself!)...from Dubber Side of the Moon.
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The Grand Wazoo
23-05-2011, 23:22
Adrian Sherwood - 'Brain Damage'
Deep in Sherwood forest you might have once found a geezer in tights dressed in green going by the name of Robin.
Can't resist the chance to stick in a bit of Zappa folklore in here:
Another geezer, similarly garbed and also called Robin was Burt Ward, who fought the forces of evil alongside Batman (apparently).
One day in 1966, he asked Frank Zappa to help him out with a record. Several of the Mothers of Invention appeared on:
Burt Ward - 'Boy Wonder, I Love You'
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............surely an overlooked classic!?!
DanJennings
26-05-2011, 18:11
The Jam did a cover version of the Batman Theme!
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And then of course, Batman's arch nemesis:
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Presumably Catwoman was one of the Cat People...
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...And then there was the alter ego of DA Harvey Dent
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Richard Thompson played with the bassist Danny Thompson (but there again, who hasn’t? Danny Thompson seems to be the de facto and resident folk bassist for so many!).
Danny Thompson had a long-term residency playing with the late great John Martyn.
One of the tracks that the two of them might have played together was ‘May you never’ (get into a bar room fight) – the latter they apparently did. In fact there was an anecdote that when the two of them went into a bar they would put a £50 note on the bar and inform the barman “That’s for the damage”. “What damage?” the barman would reply, to which Martyn and Thompson would say: “For the damage that’s to come”, and come it would.
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The Grand Wazoo
26-05-2011, 21:17
John Martyn - 'May You Never'
Well, 'may you never' is one point of view, but Ian McNabb took the opposite one in what sounds like his version of Dylan's 'Forever Young'
Ian McNabb - 'May You Always'
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Ian McNabb was in The Icicle Works, a band named after the science fiction short story 'The Day the Icicle Works Closed' by Frederik Pohl. In 1965, Pohl wrote a novel called 'The Age of the Pussyfoot'.
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno took the opposite view to that when they released their, some might say, tedious 1973 album.
Fripp & Eno - 'No Pussyfooting'
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Robert Fripp... should have been a juicy worm for someone to latch onto!? Oh well... ;)
Robert Fripp is the one constant member of King Crimson. However, he has had masses of side-projects and collaborations, including playing guitar on the 1977 David Bowie album - Heroes, an album to which Eno also contributed.
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Well actually Alex, we were being polite and waiting to give you a turn.
On Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, there is a track called ‘V-2 Schneider’ named in recognition of Kraftwerks’ Florian Scheider who name checked Bowie on their album Trans Europe Express.
Trans Europe Express was the name of an art house movie made by the late French film director Alain Robbe-Grillet. Robbe-Grillet wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais’s film ‘Last Year in Marienbad’; a film I’ve cited on the “Greatest Sci-Fi Movies of All Time” thread as a possible candidate (well Brian Aldiss said he thought it was probably one of the best sci-fi films made!).
Marienbad is “the international brainchild of electronic music producers Martin Mclaughlin and Benjamin Gibson. The two musicians began working together between extended stays in Amsterdam and Paris while travelling Europe in search of cultural enlightenment. While roaming the streets of each city, Gibson and McLaughlin conducted endless sound experiments in an attempt to express the moods and visual aromas of such urban landscapes. Inspired as much by non-musical art forms, the beginnings of Marienbad had come to fruition.
After two years of working and travelling abroad, Gibson and McLaughlin returned to their native Canada with an arsenal of new sounds and ideas. Named after the 1961 French New Wave film, Marienbad have developed a unique blend of 80’s acid house and avant-garde disco by fusing together analogue synthesizers, drum machines and organic instruments.
Having crept through the underground of Toronto’s indie dance scene for several years, Marienbad are now ready to rise up with the new waves of electronic music sweeping the nation. Boasting a heavily armoured concert performance including live bass guitars, synthesizers and melodic brass sections, Marienbad have solidified their place in the live electronic community in Toronto.”
Goodness how you will follow that?
The Grand Wazoo
04-06-2011, 22:48
Martin Mclaughlin and Benjamin Gibson - 'Marienbad'
Goodness, how will you follow that?
.............like this:
The easy way would be to mention John Mclaughlin, who is famous for using a double-necked Gibson guitar.
But that's too easy.
Pat Mcluaghlin uses a Fender though!
Pat Mclaughlin - Wrong Number
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'Wrong Number' is a song by Allen Toussaint, New Orleans songwriter, producer & musician, who wrote songs that have been covered by all sorts of folks.
Including this one:
Little Feat - 'On Your Way Down'
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Dag nam it! That pesky Wazoo has done it again.
So ever onwards and upwards:
Little Feat were formed by George Lowell and Frank Estrada, two former Mothers of Invention. Both were sacked by Zappa: in Lowell George’s case it was possibly because Zappa was jealous of Lowell’s talent, or the fact George played a 20 minute guitar solo without switching his amp on.
Anyway Little Feat went on to produce a series of fine albums. One of which is the live album ‘Waiting For Columbus’
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and in particular the track ‘Willin’’ (supposedly containing drug references and again possibly the reason why Zappa fired Lowell George from the Mothers.)
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One of Little Feats albums Sailin’ Shoes featured a cover that was a parody of Fragonard’s The Swing (sometimes, but erroneously, known as Girl on a Swing)
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Girl on a Swing is a the name of a song by Kevin Ayres
She's got a feeling for the spring
I've got another song to sing
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing,
On a swing
Such a pretty thing
She's not a victim of despair
She's just a feeling in the air
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing,
On a swing
Such a pretty thing
She sways, silently she sings
Her song gives my body wings
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing
Girl on a swing,
In a swing
Such a pretty thing
Taken from Kevin Ayres’s album ‘Best of Kevin Ayres’
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In 1974 Kevin Ayres, Brian Eno, Nico and John Cale collaborated on an album ‘June 1 1974’
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One track is 'The End', a Jim Morrison composition as performed on The Doors’s first (eponymous) album.
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Oh dear I had no idea that my last contribution to this thread would put the Ol’ Girl back into coma. Should have known better – it was bad karma to finish with a track entitled ‘The End’: tempting fate really!
Whilst it is probably bad form to follow one’s post with another, I have to do something for two reasons:
1. it’s too good a thread to be allowed to fade away; I enjoy it,
2. I’ve become bored and slightly irritated with the Forum lately: especially with two threads that have become bogged down with much ill-mannered ‘debate’.
So ‘The End’, well lets add +1, or rather an “I” and rearrange the letters slightly to form The Enid.
The Enid were proponents of what is often called ‘symphonic rock’; a sub-genre of ‘progressive rock’ taking classical music as their inspiration. The Enid enjoyed limited success in their genre but also played most of the music on Kim Wilde’s eponymous first album.
Kim Wilde herself has a major US hit with her cover version of The Supreme’s ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’.
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Don’t you just love the ‘80s? Big sound, Big and Bad hair!
The Grand Wazoo
22-06-2011, 23:56
Kim Wilde - 'You Keep Me Hanging On'
As Barry points out, this was a hit for The Supremes. The Supremes were one of the biggest influences on PP Arnold, according to an interview with her which is to be found on rogerwaters.org (http://www.rogerwaters.org/interviews-new/pparnoldint.html)
Funnily enough Roger Waters was in a band who did a song about washing that didn't keep hanging on and the main character was also an Arnold
Pink Floyd - 'Arnold Layne'
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.....unfortunately, EMI take exception to it being on YouTube, so you'll have to put up with David Bowie instead of Syd.
Hurray! The Old Girl lives to fight another day.
I'll give Alex or anybody else a chance to have a go.
Shouldn't be too difficult to follow on from a song about a kleptomaniac transvestite!
Beechwoods
23-06-2011, 15:05
This is easy. Bowie's first flirtation with the Floyd was on his 1973 album 'Pin-Ups' where he did 'See Emily Play' in distinctive style. Another 'Pin-Up' back in the day was Vera Lynn, who Pink Floyd later name checked in the song 'Bring The Boys Back Home' off The Wall.
Vera famously sang The White Cliffs of Dover, but my favourite Cliff is more of a tan colour, though same vintage ;)
Now could we be talking about the nation’s favourite ‘Bachelor Boy’?
Cliff Richard, though having phenomenal success in the UK, has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, three of which peaked in the Top 10, including the million-selling "Devil Woman".
Devil Woman is one of the ideosyncratic creations of the cartoonist Robert Crumb.
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Crumb is of course better known for his cover for Big Brother & The Holding Company (with Janis Joplin) ‘Cheap Thrills’
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Here is the divine Janis, live in Stockholm singing the Gershwin composition ‘Summertime’, taken from the above-cited album.
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(There is an anecdote to the effect that Joplin visited the Chelsea Hotel to meet Kris Kristofferson, hoping that he might be able to help her in her career. She didn't see him, but in the lift bumped into Leonard Cohen and got chatting. One thing is said to have lead to another - which gave rise to the line:
"We may be ugly but we had the music."
If I change my 'tag', I may just use that.)
The Grand Wazoo
23-06-2011, 23:31
(There is an anecdote to the effect that Joplin visited the Chelsea Hotel to meet Kris Kristofferson, hoping that he might be able to help her in her career. She didn't see him, but in the lift bumped into Leonard Cohen and got chatting. One thing is said to have lead to another - which gave rise to the line:
"We may be ugly but we had the music."
If I change my 'tag', I may just use that.)
Hahaha..........interesting all that stuff about the Chelsea Hotel! That's the sort of stuff that I might like to put into my 'name' one of these days!
The quote about being ugly reminds me of something from Zappa -
"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY Mo********ers than you are, hey-y, so watch out".
From 'Dance Contest' on 'Tinseltown Rebellion'
Here's a different version of the Dance Contest that he used to host at his gigs. This time it was done to a track which got it's name from the complexity of the drum and percussion parts............all the notes on the score made the page go black.
Frank Zappa - 'The Black Page'
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hmmm... So no one can think of anything to follow "Black" or "Page" - not exactly rocket science, is it? ;)
It's not even that hard to combine the two - Jimmy Page performs his usual axe antics on this Led Zeppelin Classic - Black Dog. :)
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Beechwoods
29-06-2011, 19:37
Black Dog Productions were early techno pioneers signed to the Warp label. Warp's original offices were in Sheffield which is a city in Northern England...
Nick Drake was inspired by his melancholia to write a song called Black Eyed Dog. Truly one of the scariest tracks ever to be recorded. It was released posthumously on 'Time Of No Reply'. In happier times he recorded the sublime song 'Northern Sky' released on his second LP, Bryter Layter.
The Grand Wazoo
03-07-2011, 14:44
Nick Drake's sister, Gabrielle is an actress who appeared in the film 'There's a Girl in my Soup' along with Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors and Peter Sellers. Peter Sellers also starred in a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, 'The Millionairess' with Sophia Loren.
A record which made the Top 5 was released of the song that featured in the film.
Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren - 'Goodness Gracious Me'
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Taking inspiration from this song and adopting the same title, was Goodness Gracious Me a BBC comedy show originally on BBC Radio 4 and later televised on BBC Two. Many of the sketches explored the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life, and there were many parodies by the 4 Asia starts included in the show, including "Hindi People" which was based on Pulp's Common People.
My favourite version of Common People though is this one, by William Shatner
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The Grand Wazoo
11-07-2011, 23:14
William Shatner - 'Common People'
My instant reaction to that man's name is always "Did he really? Oh the poor girl"
Anyway, our Bill did quite a lot before he started acting in that role. One performance that he did was to appear in an episode of the TV series 'Route 66', a serial where the two main characters spent their lives pootling around the place in a convertible Corvette. Shatner's episode was in 1963 and was called "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea".
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Route 66, also fondly known as 'The Mother Road', ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. It was the subject of a song by Bobby Troup
If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, the highway that's the best.
Bobby Troup - 'Route 66'
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My instant reaction to that man's name is always "Did he really? Oh the poor girl"
:lol: My instant reaction is always to say "handbag"
Sorry, back to Route 66 "everyone" ;)
The Grand Wazoo
11-07-2011, 23:23
..........yes.................err................. ..everyone!
The Grand Wazoo
11-07-2011, 23:24
................BARRY!!!!
No need to shout! I’ve had other things to do, so have had only the briefest of on-line forum sessions. Anyway the intention was that I would be taking a break from the forum, though strange to say I haven’t managed it yet. :scratch:
OK – to the task in hand: Route 66
Route 66 no longer exists today, but apart from being immortalised in the popular imagination, features heavily in John Steinbeck’s 1940 novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’: chronicalling the migration of thousands of farmers leaving the Dust Bowl of Kansas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
I don’t know of any music group calling themselves ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, the nearest being ‘Moby Grape’.
Moby Grape was/is (they still perform occasionally) an American rock group from the 1960s; unusually having all five members contributing to the singing and songwriting. Moby Grape collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music.
The band name, judicially determined to have been chosen by bassist Bob Mosley and Skip Spence (drums, then guitar), came from the punch line of the joke: "What's big and purple and lives in the ocean?" :rolleyes:
One of the singles Moby Grape made was titled “It’s a Beautiful Day Today” – which nicely reminds us of another ‘60’s LA hippy band ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ and the lovely track (taken from their eponymous first album): ‘White Bird’.
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DanJennings
13-07-2011, 07:01
The Levellers celebrated a Beautiful Day:
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The Levellers are often compared to, and in fact last year even went on tour with The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff are a band from Stourbridge, and their current drummer is Fuzz Townsend, formerly of another band from Stourbridge, Pop Will Eat Itself.
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The Grand Wazoo
13-07-2011, 23:15
Pop Will Eat Itself - 'Ich Bin Ein Auslander'
I'd guess this is about immigration - what Bob Marley called 'Movement of Jah People'
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In about 1985, my Mum & Dad changed their telephone number after receiving a load of crank calls. I devised an easy way of remembering it, by finding notable deaths in 3 years of the 20th century corresponding to 3 sets of the 2 digits in the 6 figure number. The last of the 3 pairs was the year Bob Marley died. (Actually, it wasn't! Having just checked Wikipedia, I was a year out! No internet in those days, and I always thought it was '80, when in fact it transpires it was '81!)
One of the other notable deaths in my overly convoluted telephony reminder was that of JFK - '63. Which could lead us on to The Dead Kennedys - but actually, all this silliness could have been avoided if I had just written the number on the back of my hand! :doh:
The Jags - Back of My Hand
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The Grand Wazoo
17-07-2011, 09:14
The Jags - Back of My Hand
A band named after a bit of broken glass? Or maybe a classic British car?
They may have considered using the name of a classic American fire engine, though, I suppose that's rather unlikely. However, had they done so they may have discovered that someone had already beaten them to it.
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REO Speedwagon - 'Back On The Road Again'
From their ninth album, the last one before they turned into the FM friendly soft rock nightmare that so many people know & love!
REO Speedwagon - 'Back On The Road Again'
From their ninth album, the last one before they turned into the FM friendly soft rock nightmare that so many people know & love!
Given that the appallingly titled 'You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish' came out before this, how much of a soft rock nightmare did they become?...they were a pretty bad one beforehand ;)
In an effort to purge myself from the sickly REO goo, I give you another American sports vehicle, the hotrod...with a little help from the Lord! ;)
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
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DanJennings
20-07-2011, 18:34
Now yer talking.
Before Ministry disbanded, they went on a farewell tour. For this, Al Jourgensen recruited Tommy Viktor of Prong, and Tony Campos of Static-X and (also recently of) Prong.
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vinylspinner
20-07-2011, 19:29
route 66 on page 66
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20-07-2011, 19:29
but now on page 67 :lol:
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Hmmmm... well the only sort of "prong" I know much about is the prongs of a fork. A fork is of course an implement for eating - generically called "cutlery." Other types of cutlery include knives, and indeed spoons.
Which brings us to German trance pioneers - Jam & Spoon with their 1993 "hit" Right in the Night
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What a chooon!
The Grand Wazoo
22-07-2011, 22:53
Jam & Spoon - 'Right in the Night'
OK, so you're going to have to bear with me on this one.
Jam and Spoon sound like it should be Cockney Rhyming slang for something but I don't know what that might be. Except that I do know that a spoon is known as 'the man in the moon' and a 'jam jar' is a car.
So this led me to wonder what sort of car a man in the moon might have. Silly me! NASA already did that stuff, didn't they? We call it a moon buggy, but they didn't like that because they thought the US taxpayers might cotton on to the fact that the huge budget had been spent on putting some fancy tyres & trim on a golf buggy. Of course we finally caught them out a year or two later when the paparazzi took this shot:
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/52500/Moon-Golf-52606.jpg
Anyway, in the meantime, the official name of the car was 'The Lunar Rover'. We all know that Rover is a dog, which bring us neatly to Moondog, the wannabe Viking poet who used to roam the streets of New York.
Here's a track from his second album:
Moondog - 'Pastoral'
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Pastoral - What's that then? It sounds a bit like vicars n' stuff - better look it up.
Here's a dictionary definition of the word pastoral:
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–adjective
1. - Having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
2. - Pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic.
3. - Portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music: pastoral poetry; a pastoral symphony.
So that would be a perfectly seamless link to a symphony by a fairly famous composer?
Ah right, that'd be this then:
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The Wurzels’ song Combine Harvester was a parody of ‘Brand New Key’ by Melanie Safka.
Melanie’s signature song was 'Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)'
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(An interesting reminder of what happened during three days of “The Age of Aquarius”)
In this song there is the, possibly, oxymoronic line:
“Man can live as brothers – candles in the rain”
A surprisingly pessimistic line in what was supposed a period of hope, love and peace. Perhaps Melanie was being realistic – but I digress.
‘Candles in the Rain’ is a fairly evocative line and reminds me of Elton John’s ‘Candle in the Wind’, but don’t worry I’m not going there. Rather I am reminded of the replicant Roy Batty’s soliloquy in the film ‘Blade Runner’:
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“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion;
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.”
Vangelis wrote the music for Blade Runner.
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Vangelis’s first album was entitled Albedo 0.39.
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And that, pop-pickers, is what you have to follow: Albedo 0.39. Shouldn’t be too difficult, there are plenty of hints in the video.
The Grand Wazoo
29-07-2011, 18:18
Vangelis - 'Albedo 0.39'
An anagram of 'albedo three nine' is:
Beneath Deer Lion
.........it just so happens that the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan has a deer and a lion on it - like this:
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Underneath these beasties is the motto Multis e Gentibus Vires - Latin for 'From Many Peoples Strength' which is intended to reflect Saskatchewan's multicultural heritage. The motto is above a row of Western Red Lilies (Saskatchewan's Provincial flower)
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The Western Red Lily is known among the scientific community as Lilium philadelphicum. If musical genres were given Latin names, then Anima philadelphicum would be the one for Philly Soul. The Big Wikki tells me that Hall and Oates are a notable Philly Soul act.
........and as if by some miracle!
Hall & Oates - 'Lilly Are You Happy?'
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Come on folks - it doesn't have to be that complicated... :)
One of Hall & Oates most famous hits was Private Eyes - and of course Private Eyes, carry out Private Investigations
IMHO - the best track Dire Straits ever did, best sampled on 10" vinyl, but YouTube will have to do for here:
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
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The Grand Wazoo
23-08-2011, 22:29
Nice one Alex - funnily enough, I was just thinking earlier tonight that I might have to commit the cardinal sin of following one of my own posts with another. Glad you could make it!
Who's next?
DanJennings
24-08-2011, 18:47
that Dire Straits song was once featured on an advert campaign for BT.
BT is a DJ/electronic musician who made this track from a cracking album.
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which of course leads us inexorably to this un:
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The Grand Wazoo
24-08-2011, 20:26
Bloodhound Gang - 'Fire Water Burn'
Ah yes - Bloodhounds!
They're a breed of dog that were originally used to track down wild boar and deer in France & Belgium. When I was a kid, I used to call them 'floppy faces'.
Back in the mid-1960's a bloodhound was recruited to advertise Minced Morsels dog food and then Chunky Meat. His name was Henry and his companion was a bloke who looked remarkably like a bloodhound - celebrity chef Clement Freud.
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Clement Freud didn't make too much of an impact on the music business, but he was featured on the sleeve of an album by Wings apparently had voice part on one of the tracks.
Wings - 'Band on the Run'
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DanJennings
25-08-2011, 18:50
McCartney Paul was in a little known band called The Beatles.
Harmonia axyridis is a kind of beetle also known as the Ladybird.
XTC did a song called Ladybird from their comparatively weak album Mummer.
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That song was written (and sung) by Colin Moulding.
Colin Moulding (backed by most of XTC) did a single under the pseudonym The Colonel
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Paul McCartney wrote ‘Mull of Kintyre’ and performed it with his post-Beatles group: Wings. The 'Mull of Kintyre' is a sugary, syrupy ‘tribute’ to a phallic-shaped peninsular off the southwestern coast of Scotland.
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In fact, this unfortunately shaped piece of land has often been used by censors as a guideline to what was acceptable when it came to the depiction of the male nude: anything showing the penis at an angle to the horizontal greater than that of the Mull of Kintyre was deemed indecent. But again, I digress (largely for the prurience and titillation of our largely male membership).
The Mull of Kintyre reminds me of the Mull Historical Society – ‘This is Hope’
Mull Historical Society were a Scottish indie band, active between 2001 and 2005. The band consisted of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Colin MacIntyre, bassist Alan Malloy, drummer Tony Soave, and keyboardist Colin MacPherson, although the group has been described as a "one-man band".
Still writing and recording music, Colin Macintyre now performs under his own name, rather than that of the Mull Historical Society.
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[Chris, you are not allowed to follow this! You'll have to sit this one out. ;)]
Bugger! - I've been 'leap-frogged'.
Oh, I let someone else sort it out! :rolleyes:
The Grand Wazoo
27-08-2011, 13:17
Bugger! - I've been 'leap-frogged'.
Oh, I let someone else sort it out! :rolleyes:
Not to worry, I'll try to bring it all together.
Right then.
Colin Moulding - 'Colonel'
Paul McCartney/Wings - 'Mull of Kintyre'
Must leave us with:
Mull Historical Society - 'This is Hope'
Colonel is a military rank, but so is Sergeant. A notable Sergeant was Sgt. Pepper (I don't think he ever made it to the rank of Colonel - his involvement with The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton probably scuppered all chances of promotion)
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Anyway, Paul McCartney had something or other to do with Sgt Pepper, not sure what.
Pepper is a well known spice:
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It is sometimes used along with other spices, such as Cloves Cinnamon & Nutmeg
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...........to make Mulled Wine
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..........which in my opinion is a bloody waste of good wine.
Mulled wine is drunk in many places.
In Germany, it's called Glühwein
In the Czech Republic it is called svařené víno (boiled wine)
In Russia, Глинтвейн ("Glintwein") is a popular drink during winters[citation needed] and has same recipe as the German Glühwein.
In Poland, grzane wino ("heated wine") is very similar to the Czech variant, especially in the southern regions. There is also a similar method for preparing mulled beer or "Grzaniec" which is popular with Belgian beers because of the sweet flavor of that particular type of beer, which uses the same spices as mulled wine and is heated.
In Serbia, kuvano vino ("boiled wine") is made of red wine, sugar, cloves, nutmeg and served with a slice of lemon or orange.
In Croatia, kuhano vino ("cooked wine"), is made from red wine, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar and orange zest.
In Romania, it is called vin fiert ("boiled wine"), and can be made using either red or white wine, sometimes adding sugar and cinnamon.
In Bulgaria, it is called greyano vino ("heated wine"), and consists of red wine, honey and peppercorn. Sometimes apples and/or citrus fruits, such as lemon or oranges, can be added.
In Moldova, the izvar is made from red wine with black pepper and honey.
In Italy, mulled wine is typical in the northern part of the country and is called vin brulé ("burned wine").
In Latvia, it is called karstvīns ("hot wine"). When out of wine, it is prepared using grape (or currant) juice and Riga Black Balsam.
In Hungary, forralt bor ("hot wine") is typically made from a cheap version of the country's popular Egri Bikavér.
In the Nordic countries it s called Glögg & in Chile, it's called Navegado
.........but I don't know whether it's historically particularly favoured on the Isle of Mull. Perhaps we could consult The Mull Historical Society, who have now changed their name to:
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......to avoid confusion with the records released by Colin McIntyre.
(I've just realised that we could have gone with 'Colin' - Moulding and McIntyre - as the connection, but this has been more fun!)
One of the tracks on the album 'This Is Hope' by The Mull Historical Society is called 'Treescavengers'
An anagram of Treescavengers is Secret Avengers.
Dr Cathy Gale was a secret Avenger & she wore kinky boots.
Patrick Macnee & Honor Blackman – Kinky Boots
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Well that just has to be followed by:
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are made for Walkin'
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Dont'cha just love the tacky video! :doh:
Oh Barry, that video made me come over all necessary - I have a bit of a "thing" for white boots (my wife even wore them under her wedding dress when we got married... :eyebrows:)
I think we need something from Nancy's dad - and as I need a cold shower now, or otherwise segregating, perhaps I should run off and join the French Foreign Legion!
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(Great post Chris, btw - agree with you on mulled wine, too - what a waste! ;))
The Grand Wazoo
28-08-2011, 14:33
Frank Sinatra - 'French Foreign Legion'
If you joined the Foreign Legion, you could be classed in the same category as this guy's ladyfriend:
Joe Ely - 'My Baby Thinks She's French'
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This guy tried to convince us that he was French too!
Bill Wyman - '(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star'
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Did you know that Bill Wyman designed and sells a metal detector? Oh yes indeed! - The Bill Wyman Signature Metal Detector!!!!
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http://www.billwymandetector.com/
A dinosaur looking for old metal relics?
Here's an old metal relic by a dinosaur.
T-Rex - 'Metal Guru'
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T-Rex started life as a folk-rock band Tyrannosaurus Rex, named after an extinct dinosaur of the Upper Cretaceous period.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Tyrannosauridae
In reducing the name of Bolan’s new band to T-Rex, Bolan largely determined, in my opinion, the thick dense, ‘lardy’ sound (Trex is the brand name of a butter substitute used in baking) he was to promulgate for the next eight years.
One of T-Rex’s hits was Jeepster. Jeep was (and is still) a generic term for a military and general-purpose (GP becoming corrupted phonetically into “Jeep”) four-wheel drive utility vehicle. Originally designed for the US military by Willys-Overland, Willys were granted sole rights to the name "Jeep".
Other suggested derivations of the name Jeep are that soldiers who were so impressed with the vehicle called it 'Eugene the Jeep', after a character appearing in the Popeye television cartoon series.
There was a ‘60s pop group called Jeep who had a minor hit with the parody song “Feep Feep”.
The Strawberry Alarm Clock is an Irish breakfast radio programme broadcast from Dublin, known for the numerous parody songs, which have become instant hits.
Strawberry Alarm Clock (without the definite article) was a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, instrumental in the development of what became known as 'bubble gum pop'.
Named after the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever", Strawberry Alarm Clock had a hit with a track titled "Incense and Peppermints".
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The Grand Wazoo
10-09-2011, 11:41
Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermints"
If you had a strawberry alarm clock, you would probably wake up every morning to something a little bit fruity...............
Ian Dury - 'Wake Up & Make Love With Me'
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Ian Dury's band were the "Blockheads" - a colloquialism for "idiots" - but if we separate the word, we have some parts of an engine - the block and the heads. Given that their are more than one head - it would be likely to assume that an engine with more than one would be a "V" configuration.
American cars in particular often feature eight cylinder engines in a "V" - in other words, a "V8" - and most American "muscle cars" feature engines of this type, notable not only for their power, but their musical engine note.
Mylo released a rather good track reeling off the names of several well known Muscle Cars - though sadly none of them feature in the video :) - the ending though contradicts rather nicely with "Wake Up & Make Love With Me." :)
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It you have a car (it needn't be a 'muscle' car) you will most certainly Drive it, and you might offer to take someone home. Here are The Cars playing ‘Who’s Gonna Take You Home Tonight?’ (http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?&p=%27take+you+home+tonight%27&vid=1075560055034&dt=1250903603&l=232&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumb nail.aspx%3Fq%3D1075560055034%26id%3D69f2c866fed3d 6f2d531c9ca9a071cca%26bid%3DO0WbxDLYTby2hg%26bn%3D Thumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%2 52fwatch%253fv%253dCkZ__DQusFM&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2FCkZ__DQusF M%26autoplay%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autoplay%3D1&tit=The+Cars++Drive++Whos++Gonna++Take+You++Home++ Tonight...&sigr=11v72v20d&newfp=1&surl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCk Z__DQusFM&sigs=11ahefr7k)
Who's gonna tell you when
It's too late
Who's gonna tell you things
Aren't so great
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong, but bye
Who's gonna drive you home tonight
Who's gonna pick you up
When you fall
Who's gonna hang it up
When you call
Who's gonna pay attention
To your dreams
Who's gonna plug their ears
When you scream
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight
Who's gonna hold you down
When you shake
Who's gonna come around
When you break
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight
Oh you know you can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?
The Grand Wazoo
12-09-2011, 17:21
The Cars - 'Drive'
Thanks to Live Aid, I've heard this song now rather more times than I would have expected to. This could be described as suffering from a case of overdrive.
A Sheffield company called Laycock de Normanville produced overdrive units for many car manufacturers including Triumph, MG, Ford, Sunbeam, Reliant and Volvo. They made several different designs including the A-Type Overdrive, D-Type Overdrive , J-Type Overdrive , LH-Type Overdrive and P-Type Overdrive, but as far as I'm aware, they never produced an Interstellar Overdrive:
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So Syd and the others must have got theirs from somewhere else. They got their 'Floyd' from Floyd Council
Floyd Council - 'Runaway Man Blues'
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............and they got their 'Pink' from Pink Anderson
Pink Anderson - 'She Knows How To Stretch It'
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(Crackin' lyrics Pinky!)
Thanks to Live Aid, I've heard this song now rather more times than I would have expected to. This could be described as suffering from a case of overdrive.
I did run that risk in mentioning it! However despite the now "cliché'd" association, I have to say the combination of the television images with the Car's 'Drive' being played in the background is one of those eidetic moments and caused me to get involved in the famine relief appeal, before Live Aid came along.
Anyway, to return to Pink Floyd, just as the group took their name from Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, so the numerous Pink Floyd tribute groups have chosen to name themselves 'Anderson Council'. I was surprised to realise just how many there were; mostly hailing from the US: New Orleans; New Jersey; Richmond VA, but also from Italy and Eindhoven (Netherlands).
There is also a Mexican heavy metal band called Anderson Council - but there always has to be an exception.
I particularly like the name of the Welsh Floyd tribute band: 'Pinc Ffloyd'. :)
So to a follow-on link, well mention of Floyd Council, reminds me of Pretty Boy Floyd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Boy_Floyd) and of Woody Guthrie’s song ‘The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd’; performed my many including Bob Dylan and the Byrds.
Here’s Woody Guthrie’s version:
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The Grand Wazoo
28-09-2011, 07:54
Woody Guthrie - 'Pretty Boy Floyd'
Woody had a great pile of song lyrics written unpublished and unsung when he died. His daughter, Nora, contacted Billy Bragg and asked him if he would be interested in setting some of them to music. She wanted them to be interpreted in a way that might be relevant to young musicians so that her fathers work might inspire a new generation in the same way as it had inspired Bob Dylan and others. So Billy Bragg asked Wilco if they might also be interested in contributing. What resulted from this was two CD's - Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Volume II (both brilliant albums).
Billy Bragg & Wilco - 'Black Wind Blowing'
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The title of the YouTube clip is wrong!
The word 'Wilco' is part of the recognised international radio communication voice procedure. It is made up of the first syllables of the words 'Will Comply'. This is what you would say after you have received an instruction and just before you carry out what has been requested - or do it.
The Pink Fairies - 'Do It'
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The Pink Fairies were originally supposed to be called The Pink Fairies Motorcycle Club and All-Star Rock and Roll Band, but that was a bit of a mouthful, not to mention a misnomer at the time.
However, there are other music related bike clubs such as The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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or:
Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening/Morning
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Well, Katie Melua reckons there are "Nine Million Bicycles" in Beijing. I have no idea as to the authenticity of the statistic, but I'm sure as hell not going to go over there and count them. Anyway, I digress...
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The music video to "Nine Million Bicycles" was directed by Kevin Godley - who as it turns out, has done quite a lot of music videos since he split from long-term working partner, Lol Creme. But in the beginning, there was 10cc, and their first number one was Rubber Bullets
But that's not it - I'd much rather have a "Bullet in the Gun" - one of the best Trance anthems ever, IMHO, by Planet Perfecto
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DanJennings
21-10-2011, 17:56
"Bullet in the Gun"
Rage Against The Machine sang of having a bullet in the head
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if you had a bullet in the head, you would most likely be Dead
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aquapiranha
21-10-2011, 18:08
Indeed you might be dead. Or, you could be alive. so, dead or alive?
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Couldn't resist, and I actually used to think this was great when I was a kid!
DanJennings
21-10-2011, 18:12
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
here's a song about being spun around, and I have 1 or 2 records by this band
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aquapiranha
21-10-2011, 18:38
From spinning top to ZZ Top, and one of their popular ones..
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The Grand Wazoo
21-10-2011, 18:45
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
If you had a collection of ZZ Top albums, you might have four of them. In 1969, The Four Tops made an album called 'Soul Spin' & in keeping with the twirly theme, there was a track on it called:
The Four Tops - 'Stop The World'
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The chorus went 'Stop the world and let me off'
Which might be what Todd Rundgren said just after realising he was mistaken in his choice of environment.
Utopia - 'Trapped' (from the album 'Oops! Wrong Planet')
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Bringing us neatly round full circle so that Dan can have another go with his fave band, our Todd also produced XTC's album Skylarking. Here's an old one of theirs (not from that album though)
XTC - 'Making Plans For Nigel'
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Goodness, this thread is a bit like the proverbial bus stop: nothing happens for days, even weeks, then four come along together!
So to XTC, well this is an obvious homophonic abbreviation for ecstasy. In the case of the group XTC, “ecstasy” refers to the drug MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine).
Ecstasy does of course also refer to a patalogically morbid state of mind characterised by unconciousness, swoon, trance or catalepsy. Or a nervious state in which the mind is absorbed in a dominant idea, and becomes insensible to surrounding objects. In mystical writers (e.g. William Blake), the state of rapture in which the soul, liberated from the body, was engaged in the contemplation of divine things: a state of trance accompanying prophetic inspiration.
The word is derived from the Greek ἔκστασις from ἐκστα, a stem of ἐξισάναι (to ‘put out of place’) itself derived from ἐκ (out) + ἱστάναι (to place).
A few artists have sung songs entitled ‘Ecstasy’: from The Ohio Players to Lou Reed; a man who is eminently qualified to sing about such a condition.
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I still think Reed’s best track is the wonderfully sleazy “Walk on the Wild Side”:
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Taken from his second solo album, ‘Transformer’. This song was highly controversial to say the least when it came out, considering it is about transvestites who come to New York City for prostitution. They would say to their potential customers, "Take a walk on the wild side!" Lou Reed once said about the song: "I always thought it would be fun to introduce people to characters they maybe hadn't met before, or hadn't wanted to meet.".
The Grand Wazoo
22-10-2011, 18:01
Lou Reed - 'Walk on the Wild Side'
The album Transformer was produced by David Bowie & Mick Ronson. Mick Ronson also played most of the instruments on the album. He had previously been in a Hull band called The Rats. I think they'd been listening to Syd Barrett sometime before they recorded this one.
The Rats - 'The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone'
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Were they in the kitchen?
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Now if the kitchen in question is The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, the name of Frank Zappa’s digital home recording studio, then we are led to Zappa’s first LP, post The Mothers: 'Hot Rats'. On this is the song ‘Willy the Pimp’ sung by the inestimable Captain Beefheart.
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However if the rat(s) in question are the common or brown rat (Rattus Novegicus), then we are led to the album of the same name by The Stranglers. They too did a delightfully un-PC and slightly misogynistic track called ‘Peaches’; displaying dubious taste similar to that of Zappa.
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The Grand Wazoo
22-10-2011, 19:29
The Stranglers - 'Peaches'
One of my favourite Stranglers tracks is the wonderfully Doorsy sounding cover of Hal David & Burt Bacharach's song.
The Stranglers - 'Walk on By'
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........a hit for Dionne Warwick in 1964. Isaac Hayes also did a 12 minute long version of this as the opening track for his album 'Hot Buttered Soul'. A bit different from the aforementioned efforts.
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The backing band on Hot Buttered Soul was the Bar-Kays (Willie Hall, drums; James Alexander, bass; Michael Toles, guitar) who had hits in their own right.
The Bar Kays - 'Soul Finger'
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Slightly ‘ducking out’ here, The Bar-Kays hailed from Memphis Tennessee.
Memphis Tennessee is the destination Chuck Berry asks the long distance telephone operator to connect him with, in the song ‘Memphis, Tennessee’.
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Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall.
Help me, information; get in touch with my Marie
She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis Tennessee
Her home is on the south side, high up on a ridge,
Just a half a mile from the Mississippi Bridge.
Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee.
Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye
With hurry-home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only six years old, information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee.
The Grand Wazoo
27-10-2011, 23:33
Chuck Berry - ‘Memphis, Tennessee’
If Chuck Berry were to be visited by a certain clergyman called the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, we might end up with:
Buckcherry - 'Highway Star'
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That track is a cover version of a Deep Purple song from their 1972 album 'Machine Head'. That is perhaps best known for a song which documents a fire which occurred during a Mothers of Invention concert in th Montreux Casino. At the time it happened, the band were performing 'King Kong' - this is how it went (despite the on-stage comment, Arthur Brown was not performing that night!)
The Mothers of Invention - 'King Kong'
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King Kong was performed by Jean Luc Ponty, who also played ‘Imaginary Voyage’:
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Others who wrote for ‘imaginary’ subjects were Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, with their ‘Theme for an Imaginary Western’:
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also performed by Mountain
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The Grand Wazoo
17-11-2011, 01:04
Mountain - 'Theme For an Imaginary Western'
The bassist in Mountain was Felix Pappalardi, who apart from producing several notable albums by among others, Cream co-wrote one of their best known songs 'Nantucket Sleighride'
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.....which refers to the towing of the whaling boat by a whale after it's just been harpooned. A segment of this track was used as the theme tune to the old Sunday lunchtime ITV political news programme 'Weekend World' (right at the end of the above clip at 5'41" - ish).
One of the hosts of the programme was ex-Labour Party MP, Brian Walden, who shares a name with Narada Michael Walden (or Michael to his mother).
NMW has been a prolific harvester of gold & platinum records, Grammy's and all sorts of other awards, mainly as a writer of film scores & soundtracks, but also as a collaborator on number one hit singles with the likes of
Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin (both with & without George Michael), Diana Ross, Starship & Al Jarreau.
More to my taste, however, he played drums for John McLaughlin, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, and...........
Tommy Bolin - 'Marching Powder'
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Marching Powder is a book by Rusty Young and tells the biographical story of Thomas McFadden who was a minor drugs dealer in Bolivia who was summarily arrested and thrown into jail - the notorious San Pedro Prison.
There are a awful lot of San Pedros in the World - what with it being the Spanish form of St Peter, St Peter of course being the gatekeeper to heaven, sitting at the Pearly Gates.
Pearly Gates, also known as "Miss Pearly Gates" or simply "Pearly," is the 1959 Gibson Les Paul owned by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top - which brings us nicely to ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man :)
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The Grand Wazoo
27-01-2012, 00:19
Degrees of Separation reheated.....
ZZ Top - 'Sharp Dressed Man'
Billy Gibbons was in a band called The Moving Sidewalks, who opened some gigs for The Jimi Hendrix Experience (the other supporting act on the tour was The Soft Machine). They released one album called 'Flash', some of which is great, some of which is highly derivative. As this attempt at out-Jimi-ing Hendrix clearly shows!
The Moving Sidewalks - 'Pluto-Sept. 31st'
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As well as opening for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Moving Sidewalks also opened for The Doors.
On December 9, 1967, The Doors performed a now infamous concert at New Haven Arena in New Haven, Connecticut, which ended abruptly when lead singer Jim Morrison was arrested by local police. Morrison became the first rock artist ever to be arrested onstage during a concert performance.
Coincidentally, The Moving Sidewalks opened for the 13th Floor Elevators at the Houston, psychedelic venue, Love Street Light Circus. The Elevators set was stopped after only a few songs by the Houston police department, who arrested the band's lead singer Roky Erickson.
I guess you could call that an Arrested Development - here they are with their 1992 hit Mr Wendal
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The Grand Wazoo
14-08-2012, 18:24
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Thank God someone's resuscitated the patient!! - I was going to put this on 'From the Grave' this weekend...........
Anyway, back to Arrested Development and 'Mr Wendal'.........someone.......anyone?
:lol:
I was checking it out for grave digging treatment Chris, but as you were the last to post in January, I changed my mind and put my Red Cross training into action - all those hours spent with "Ressusi Annie" weren't wasted, after all!
Hoepfully some of our newer members will accept the baton and join in the fun?! :)
It's very simple - you just have to link to the last track or artist mentioned - we love tenuous and winding links, but they can be very straightforward and obvious, too. Go on - give it a go, you might like it!
Beechwoods
14-08-2012, 19:26
Arrested Development are fronted by rapper Speech who is married to choreographer and dancer Yolande Thomas. One of the many highlights of Yolande's career was as understudy for Dannii Minogue in the musical Grease - A Stadium Spectacular. Dannii's career highlight was being born after Kylie. Kylie is famous for her duet with worldwide vocal superstar and libel litigant Jason Donovan. Jason, so it goes, is noted by many for reprising Philip Schofield's masterstroke performance as Joseph (of the Multi-Coloured Dreamcoat). Philip Schofield started his career as sidekick to a puppet called Roland Rat who had a breakthrough hit in 1983 called 'Rat Rapping' which is something of an audiophile classic.
I could go on, this is a rich seam to mine!
Beechwoods
15-08-2012, 06:57
I do hope I haven't killed this again!
The Grand Wazoo
15-08-2012, 07:12
We need to be able to have the opportunity to enjoy your musical selection before we can go on, Nick!
In fact, I'm so eager to hear it that I'll do it for you............
Roland Rat - 'Rat Rapping'
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DanJennings
16-08-2012, 21:11
The Stranglers did an album called Rattus Norvegicus and mentioned lots of interesting goings on in the sewers.... but I'm not going with that, or even rat trap by the boomtown rats.... instead I'll go with this ditty about some rats who can turn guinness to gold:
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The Grand Wazoo
02-09-2012, 23:42
Dropkick Murphys - 'Good Rats'
As someone who doesn't really prefer a salad by choice, I'd tend to steer away from the 'Rat Salad' as depicted by Black Sabbath.
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.......to me the perfect rat would be one that's been cooked a bit.
A Hot Rat, in fact.
Frank Zappa's album of that name had a track called Peaches en Regalia (connecting neatly back to the Stranglers, in fact)
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Tempting though it is to go for UB40's Rat in Mi Kitchen...
According to Wikipedia, "Regalia is Latin plurale tantum for the privileges and the insignia characteristic of a sovereign."
A sovereign is a type of gold coin - money.
Money (That's What I want) said The Flying Lizards - back in 1979...
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The Grand Wazoo
23-10-2012, 23:03
Oooooooooooooh, I like this one!
The Flying Lizards - 'Money (That's What I Want)'
'Money (That's What I Want)' was a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong & was co-written by Berry Gordy of Tamla Motown. It was also covered by The Beatles, The Kingsmen (of 'Louie Louie' fame) and also the Stones (hold that thought).
It was used by Taco Bell in their TV adverts for pseudo-Mexican food. One of the (ahem) nutritious and delicious options on offer at said fast food chain might well be something like a burrito.
I understand that some airlines are thinking of introducing this wonderful delicacy into their in-flight food services and that, curiously, it is the favourite food of many male siblings.
Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Flying Burrito Brothers!
The Flying Burrito Brothers - 'Wild Horses'
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Now then, Gram Parsons co-wrote 'Wild Horses' with Keith Richards and the Stones recorded it for their album 'Sticky Fingers'.
Sticky Fingers is what you might get if you don't eat your Burrito carefully. However, it's also the name of a restaurant in London, which is owned by Bill Wyman.
You know where I'm going with this, don't you?
That's right! Hey hey, I've just checked the menus of our Bill's place (http://www.stickyfingers.co.uk/pdf/a-la-carte.pdf) and he sells Burritos!!!!
Burritos
Slow roasted pork OR chicken with mixed peppers wrapped in a flour tortilla, grilled and served with a spicy bean rice, guacamole, salsa and sour cream
Pulled Pork £13.65 // Cajun Chicken £13.45
He also does a 'Beggar's Banquet', which is a 20 quid ribs & chicken monster plate (rather than a place in the queue at the soup kitchen down the street!) Sadly, there is no 'Goat's Head Soup' on offer though.
One intriguing, dish on the menu is the Cajun Blackened Salmon, which sort of reminds me of:
The Doobie Brothers - 'Dark Eyed Cajun Woman'
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Cajuns (les Cadiens or les Acadiens), are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes). Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.
Should you wish to make Cajun Blackened Salmon for yourself (and avoid paying London prices), here is the recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/blackened-salmon-fillets/
Fairport Convention sang about a Cajun Woman on their album “Unhalfbricking”. On this album there is a beautiful track titled ‘A Sailor’s Life’, that finishes with a superb piece of drum playing by Martin Lamble.
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“A Sailor's Life starts as a plaintive lament on the fickleness of sailors and the agonised waiting endured by their sweethearts until their return. The terrible irony of her rather bitter condemnation of the sailor's life as 'merry' is brought home by the subsequent tragedy. The singer extols her beloved's virtues before she sets off to find him. She hails a passing ship and is told that he is feared drowned. Beside herself with grief and despair, she runs her boat against a rock. This could be seen as a metaphor for another tragedy as she takes her own life.
The song then echoes the stormy course of the bereaved woman's grief, as it takes off into a passage of terrific ensemble playing, all instruments interweaving, building to an overwhelming intensity, before settling to a sombre resolution. There are echoes of everything from dirges to hornpipes in an extraordinary composition.”
I have been told that this was done in a single take, and for me, whenever I hear the track I think of it as a testament and tribute to Lamble who died shortly afterwards; killed in a traffic accident whilst the Farports were en route to a gig.
Sailors need entertaining during their long spells at sea, so The Smashing Pumpkins thoughtfully produced a whole EP called Songs for a Sailor (Volume 3 of Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, a project inspired by the Tarot)
I would have liked to have cited their track ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’, dedicated to Jeff Buckley, but the “blue meanies” at EMI have prevented You Tube from hosting the clip, so I’ll leave you with ‘My Love is Winter’ from their album “Oceania” (as close as I can get to a nautical theme).
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DanJennings
05-11-2012, 18:43
Leonard Cohen sang of a Winter Lady on his debut album which also contained a song called Suzanne.
Suzanne was the name of the orangutan in the 2001 film 'Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back' which contained cameos from Star Wars actors Mark Hammil and Carrie Fisher.
The Star Wars trilogy is a franchise with 3 good films and ever diminishing credibility and quality. Until recently, much the same could be said of the albums of the band 'Foo Fighters', who have recently redeemed themselves with the excellent album 'Wasting Light' (Lets see if the same can be said of Star Wars, I doubt it.)
Wasting Light contains the single 'White Limo' which involves the band being driven around in a limosine by Lemmy, with disastrous results.
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The Grand Wazoo
12-11-2012, 00:41
From The Grave
AoS has grown a lot since this thread was started, but it still seems to be the same few people playing this brilliant game that Alex devised. It's not an exclusive club - anyone can have a go. In fact it should be a rule that your second post on AoS after the Welcome thread is in this one!
Just in case you've missed the rules of the game here, I'll let Alex explain (from his original post in this thread):
"........and like a lot of artists, it occurred to me that that there are lots of links between both these artists and others - so, the idea of this thread is to follow the previous post with another track, artist or album, with some sort of link (let's see how spurious they get!) - and explain why. Could be a "proper" link like X used to be in Y or something a bit more oblique".
So just find something that's connected in some way to 'White Limo' by The Foo Fighters. It doesn't have to be about the Foo Fighters - it could be about Limo's, or the colour white, or something like it.
We like tenuous links - we positively encourage them. But a simple, direct one is fine too. Be creative.....invent stuff....use the web to glean little nuggets of info, think in tangents. Have fun!
OK....so Foo Fighters sing about a "White Limo" that is driven in their music video by Ian Kilmister aka Lemmy.
Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve.
Hank Williams died on New Years Eve (or early New Years Day) in the back of a Limousine.......
His son Hank Williams jr sang a song called "Long Black Limousine" (as did Elvis)....did I have to link to a good song?
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The Grand Wazoo
12-11-2012, 08:57
Very neat, John - thanks for joining in.
Hank Williams Jr - 'Long Black Limousine'
That song was first released in 1961 by Vern Stovall but it was written in 1968. The next year, Vince Taylor, thinking about limousines, recorded 'Brand New Cadillac' for a B-side, a song which is widely regarded as one of the first examples of British rock & roll.
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The A-side of 'Brand New Cadillac' was called 'Pledgin' My Love'. Apparently this was not about applying furniture polish to his girlfriend. However, there is a musical connection to such household cleaning products. Here's part of an interview with Billy Joel:
Q: Is it true that after the failure of Attila you tried to kill yourself by drinking a bottle of furniture polish?
A: That’s true. Yeah, I was suicidal. I was 21. It’s a tough age. Things hit you really hard. A relationship with a girl had ended and I was devastated, and then it didn’t work out with the recording we did, and I just figured the world didn’t need another failed musician. You take yourself so seriously—you’ve got your head so far up your ass you can’t see straight.
Q: But why did you use furniture polish?
A: I was just lookin’ for poison. I looked in my mother’s closet and there was bleach, and it had the skull and crossbones, and then there was furniture polish. And at the time I thought, Well, the furniture polish will probably taste better than the bleach, so I’ll drink the furniture polish. And all I ended up doing was farting furniture polish for a couple of days and polishing my mother’s chairs.
The aforementioned Attila was a heavy rock band that our Billy had been in.
Now, I'm not saying he was obsessed with household cleaning products or anything, but it must be more than just coincidence that one of the tracks from their (truly awful) album was named after one.
Attila - 'California Flash'
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Not much take up in this rather splendid thread....so to keep it going I take the risk of linking the mighty "California Flash" with "The Cillit Bang Techno Mix"....enjoy, and come back with a connection.
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I'll try again......
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soooooo... Cillit Bang, hey... an anagram of Cillit Bang is Acting Bill.
The Bill was a TV drama about the police (don't worry, not going there!) that lasted for 26 years, being canned in 2010. The pilot episode from 1984 was called Woodentop.
The Woodentops are a crtitically acclaimed British band, who emerged around the same time as The Bill, with their debut release in 1984. In 1987 Alice Thompson left the band to be replaced by Anne Stephenson of The Communards (no, not there either! ;))
Alice Thompson subsequently became a writer, with 5 novels published - the second of which was Pandora's Box - a name which was also used as the title for an Aerosmith box set (nope!) but also a single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
In 1997 OMD founding member and lead singer Andy McKluskey also founded the girl group Atomic Kitten (yes really!) and co-wrote several of their singles, including their biggest hit, "Whole Again" But we can't have that - I'm enjoying the cleaning product link... :lol:
Atomic Kitten murdered various songs by covering them, including The Tide is High - a song which was also covered by Blondie in 1980. And of course, Tide is the name of a famous detergent. :)
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So, in a roundabout way that could have been so much easier direct - but a lot less fun - I give you for your delectation Blondie - The Tide Is High
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The Grand Wazoo
15-11-2012, 19:05
OK, just a quickie then......
If Blondie thought 'The Tide Is High', I suppose that would mean:
The Beach Boys - 'Surf's Up'
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Beach Boys – ‘Surf’s Up’
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"A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino
Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumperter swan
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?
Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die
A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song"
Some have interpreted the lyrics and made comments as follows:
…. It is about death and rebirth.
It is such a sad song, a very sad song, but the "child is the father of man" section lifts it out of the mire and brings rebirth
Yet others have commented:
I think one important point to make is that Beach Boys' albums had long been obsessed with surfing, as metaphors or literally: I mean, this was a band whose albums were, in order, Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA and Surfer Girl. Therefore, saying "Surf's up" is more than just an idle comment, especially since this was long after the band had fallen on hard times, were on the brink of collapse and the early "surfing" days seemed a long, long way away.
Of course, the song is far more transcendental than just a song about a band breaking up and it would belittle the song a lot to assume that. But I think that it plays an interesting part in the central theme of the song, which is that things will always end and that will cause other things to begin.
A lot of the lyrics are highly stylised and there's it's difficult to analyse them at the best of times (I'm not sure the first 3 lines really "mean" anything in the traditional sense), but there's a lot of lines that suggest this sense of there being a circle.
The major turning point arrives around "the laughs come hard in auld lang syne". Auld Lang Syne is famously a song about old aquaintances, ancient experience and remembering the past fondly. But Surf's Up subverts the idea by claiming that the past is cold and humourless. As the song goes on, this feeling gets stronger; "adieu or die" is obviously a statement of giving up or falling into this obsession with the past, and the much-reviled line "columnated ruins domino" is another example of this: columnated ruins refers to the ancient Graeco-Roman architecture that lies scattered around the mediterranean, and invoking a domino effect here puts it into the song's meaning; when one gets old, so do all the others, when one crumbles, so do all the others.
This section ends with the lines "grief heart hardened". The emotion of grief has a strong connotation of death, and so this ends the aging process that has existed for the first half of the song.
The next section changes tone completely: just look at the words used: "young", "spring"- here we have a sense of birth and growth, it's exactly the opposite of the death at the end of the last movement. The final movement of the song, the "children's song", is another symbol of youth, and movement. Claiming that the youth and renewal knows the way, rather than the old and dying ways, ends the song on a very optimistic note.
And so I think this song is very stylised and rather than referring to anything specific try and evoke the long cycle of life and death. However, this song's interesting placement at the end of a band's career- hell, the album it was on CAUSED the death of the The Beach Boys- marks this as an interesting piece in moving on.
(Lyrics and quotations taken from http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/80399/)
All this makes me think I’m reading something out of ‘Pseud’s Corner’, a one-time column in that most excellent satyrical magazine: ‘Private Eye’.
Private Eye – ‘Private Investigator’ by Dire Straits.
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The rather lovely sound of the marimba on Private Investigations comes courtesy of Mike Manieri - here he is playing the Vibraphone with Buddy Rich on Fascinating Rhythm from the 1961 album Playtime
Sorry - can't find a video:
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The Grand Wazoo
08-12-2012, 11:02
Aha!
'Fascinating Rhythm' was a George Gershwin song, also performed by Fred Astaire, Tony Bennett, The Carpenters and all sots of other folks. One person who performed it was Judy Garland in the 1943 Busby Berkeley film 'Girl Crazy'.
Garland also starred in 'The Wizard of Oz' and perhaps her most famous song is 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'. It was, in turn covered by all sorts of people. I suppose my favourite would be Jeff Beck's instrumental interpretation.
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The lyrics of the song include some words that I've always struggled to understand - the song describes the need to determine the mass of of a baked savory product:
"Somewhere over the rainbow - weigh a pie
In the land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby"
Now, why it should be necessary to weigh a pie, I'm not sure. However, once you have obtained your pie, whatever it's weight, you'll certainly need to have something to go with it.
A classic pastry based combo would be pie and mash.
Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - 'The Monster Mash'
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“…weigh a pie”? Methinks a case of misheard lyrics – “way up high”; along the lines of the Jam’s “Eating trifles’?
But there are other strange food-related song lines. Richard Harris sang about “someone left the cake out in the rain” in MacArthur Park.
General Douglas McArthur during the Phillipines’ campaign said “I shall return” – some forty years before Arnold Schwarzenegger said “I’ll be back” in the film ‘Terminator’.
There were a number of sequels to Terminator, one obviously titled ‘The Terminators’ is about a small band of resistance fighters who battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet. This sort of film is part of a horror genre that includes zombies, vampires and other various ‘un-dead’ threats.
Which conveniently brings us back to ‘Monster Mash’ by Bobby Boris and the Crypt Kickers. This was covered by The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band in their album 'Tadpoles', a track from which is ‘Hunting Tigers out in Indiah’:
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‘Hunting Tigers out in Indiah’:
Manic Street Preachers track 'Send Away The Tigers' was based on a phrase said by Tony Hancock; tigers being his word for the booze demons.
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Gosh, this thread keeps slipping back into a comatose state! It needs some tender loving care.
Manic Street Preachers reminds me of the voices heard at the beginning of track 4 (‘A Soapbox Opera’) of Supertramp’s ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ (A sentiment held by today’s bankers. But I digress.)
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A famous supertramp, was of course Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’.
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Aqualung was the original English name of the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or SCUBA) to reach worldwide popularity and commercial success. This class of equipment is now commonly referred to as a diving regulator or demand valve. The Aqua-Lung was invented in Paris during the winter of 1942–1943 by the engineer Émile Gagnan and the lieutenant de vaisseau (ship-of-the-line lieutenant) Jacques Cousteau both of France.
Jacques Cousteau was a famous underwater diver. Such divers tend to simply jump into the water, or fall into the water backwards from the gunwhales of a boat. However high divers use a sprung cantelever diving board and describe a graceful arc when diving into the water, which leads us to ‘Arc of a Diver’ by Steve Winwood.
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The Grand Wazoo
01-02-2013, 00:28
Steve Winwood - ‘Arc of a Diver’
I find it a coincidence that you should get to this album via Jacques Cousteau, Barry as I once mixed up the names of Jacques Cousteau and Jean Cocteau, much to the hilarity of all those present at the time and I've always though the artwork on the cover of 'Arc of a Diver' looked a little like something Cocteau might have done.
Anyway, onto the connections......
The artwork for 'Arc of a Diver' was by Tony Wright, who did a lot of work for the artists on Island Records and others including Traffic, Black Uhuru, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The B52's and Marianne Faithful.
The Marianne Faithful album 'Broken English' had a great Tony Wright sleeve and contained some excellent music including, for Australian consumers, a section of totally smooth, grooveless vinyl, where the track 'Why'd Ya Do It?' should have been. The reason for this was that the track had several naughty words in it and was deemed too extreme for the delicate souls of Aus, many of whom had never, ever, ever heard any form of swearing or mention of sexual acts at all.
Another track on the album was 'The Ballad of Lucy Jordan',
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.........which had originally been performed by Dr Hook and the Medicine Show. This band had posters announcing their early shows which proclaimed "Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for the Soul"
The Boomtown Rats released an album called 'Tonic for the Troops' which had a big 1978 hit single on it:
The Boomtown Rats - 'Rat Trap'
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.....back on rats, I'm afraid!
Rare Bird
01-02-2013, 00:30
Nice one with the 'Aqualung' Barry, not a fuzzy id i thought you'd entertain tbh!
The Grand Wazoo
01-02-2013, 00:31
It's got nothing to do with what you like Andre - it just has to exist!
Rare Bird
01-02-2013, 00:36
The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band
Ive asked before but i guess you didnt notice, do you have the present Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' DVD set which is worth while for the documentary ? you should honestly.. Anyhoots as you know Bonzo's performing 'Death Cab for Cutie' from their 'Gorilla' fuzzy
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Nice one with the 'Aqualung' Barry, not a fuzzy id i thought you'd entertain tbh!
Have to confess it's not my favourite Tull album.
Chris - not thinking anyone was going to 'follow on', I had thought up another convoluted set of links to get from Steve Winwood to Kate Bush, via Jimi Hendrix, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Dave Brubeck.
Drat! Now I'll have to think of something else. André do want to join in and have a go?
Rare Bird
01-02-2013, 00:39
It's got nothing to do with what you like Andre - it just has to exist!
Buta lot doan loike it..looking at Barry's past fuzzy blast you get a picture in your headipoo!
André do want to join in and have a go?
Nay beener pub on way home i'm off to mi pit :lol:
Ive asked before but I guess you didnt notice, do you have the present Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' DVD set which is worth while for the documentary ? you should honestly.. Anyhoots as you know Bonzo's performing 'Death Cab for Cutie' from their 'Gorilla' fuzzy
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No I don't, though I do have MMT on vinyl (gate-fold sleeve with story book). Sorry, now that you mention it you did ask me, but I forgot and never replied. Apologies for my neglect. ;)
The Boomtown Rats did not like Mondays (‘I don’t like Mondays’), whereas one assumes the Happy Mondays did.
The Happy Mondays were managed by Tony Wilson and recorded on his label: Factory Records.
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The Factory was the name Andy Warhol gave to his workshop/studio. One of Warhol’s projects was the organising a series of multi-media events called ‘The Exploding Plastic Inevitable’, which would include musical performances by The Velvet Underground.
Their first album was entitled ‘The Velvet Underground with Nico’.
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Nico was the pseudonym of the German born artist, Christa Päffgen, who before joining the Velvets was a model and sometime film actress. Nico went on to have a successful solo career, making her debut album ‘The Marble Index’.
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Nico was unfortunately deaf in one ear. Perhaps she could have been helped if The Third Ear Band had donated their surplus. Or maybe used a little Alchemy?
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Several acts have also had albums with Alchemy in the title most notably the Live album by Dire Straits, and also David Sylvian for his second solo album in 1985 (initially released on cassette only, incidentally) - "Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities."
Sylvian was of course first associated with the band Japan. Probably their most famous single is this masterpiece - best played loud in total darkness - Ghosts
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The Grand Wazoo
03-02-2013, 01:29
Japan - 'Ghosts'
There are a couple of bands called Ghost. One is a Swedish heavy metal band who, apart from the singer, are a bit shy and won't tell anyone their names or show their faces, preferring instead to be known as 'The Nameless Ghouls'..........which may be Swedish for 'tossers'!
The other band called Ghost is, funnily enough, from Japan and their singer released this as a solo work in 1995.
Masaki Batoh - 'A Ghost From the Darkened Sea'
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By definition, to be a ghost you must be dead. That gives us plenty to work with - not least this thread! :lol:
How about the Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
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When I had a 'Holiday in Cambodia' (way back in 1994) I remember visiting the Killing Fields. This was quite a traumatic experience, but strange to say, at the time I thought "This is nothing like it is portrayed in the film".
Despite that the film is very good and well worth watching (if difficult viewing!) The music soundtrack is by Mike Oldfield, who of course came to fame through his toure de force of overdubbing Tubular Bells. (It didn't do Richard Branson any harm either!)
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Persevere until the end to hear the late, great, Vivian Stanshall introducing the instruments:
"…………Plus TUBULAR BELLS!"
(It didn't do Chris Branson any harm either!)
Is he Richard's Brother? ;)
Vivian Stanshall was of course a member of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - from Wikipedia: "The name of the band came from a word game which Stanshall played with art school peer and future Bonzo member Rodney Slater, involving cutting up sentences and juxtaposing the fragments to form new ones. One of the combinations that came out of this exercise was "Bonzo Dog/Dada". The band initially performed under this name, but soon grew tired of explaining what Dada meant. Thus they became the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band—later abbreviated to The Bonzo Dog Band, or just The Bonzos.
According to the band's manager Gerry Bron (brother of the actress Eleanor Bron), Vivian Stanshall was given several weeks to produce songs for the new professional Bonzo Dog Band. When people arrived at his studio they found he had not written a single thing, focusing instead on building a variety of rabbit hutches."
Rabbit, rabbit, you say? We know a song about that, don't we, Chas 'n' Dave? ;)
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The Grand Wazoo
06-05-2013, 22:13
Chas Hodges is one half of Chas and Dave. He was once in a band called The Outlaws along with several other luminaries:
Bobby Graham - the drummer who turned down a job in The Beatles (they settled for some bloke called Ringo instead)
Mick Underwood - another drummer, this one turned down a job with a new band that was being formed out of the ashes of The Yardbirds (they got some bloke called Bonham instead)
There was also a geezer called Ricky Blackmore who played guitar and went on to play in some other bands.
One of their singles was:
The Outlaws '- Sioux Serenade'
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There was also a geezer called Ricky Blackmore who played guitar and went on to play in some other bands.
Was he Ritchie's brother? ;)
Rare Bird
06-05-2013, 22:30
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The Grand Wazoo
06-05-2013, 23:23
No spelling error there Alex, he called himself Ricky in those days.....that's what any self respecting rockabilly would have done in his (blue seude) shoes.
Check out the guy on the left with the semi-acoustic.....
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Well in that case, apologies -I sit corrected, in my blue suede slippers! ;)
The Grand Wazoo
06-05-2013, 23:54
Oooh, you hunka, hunka burnin' moderator, you!
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Rare Bird
06-05-2013, 23:57
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Blue suede shoes? – well that has to be the late great Carl Perkins. Taken from Wikipedia :
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is “Blue Suede Shoes”.
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According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." Perkins' songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash, which further cemented his place in the history of popular music. Paul McCarteny even claimed that “If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles”.
One Carl Perkins song covered by The Beatles was “Honey Don’t” (sung by Ringo on the album ‘Beatles for Sale’)
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The Beatles also did some other songs with “honey” in the title:
“A Taste of Honey” - is a pop standard written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow in 1960. It was first performed by Scott, and its title may have been inspired by the 1958 British play 'A Taste of Honey', which reached Broadway in 1960.
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and “Honey Pie”. The song is a direct homage to the British music hall style. It concerns a famed actress, called only by the term of endearment "Honey Pie", who becomes famous in the United States (referred to as 'the U.S.A.' in the song), and her old lover, who wishes for her to rejoin him in England. The premise - a humble admirer yearning for the return of his lover - is not unlike a typical music hall plot. In order to establish an appropriate, old-time sound 'crackles', taken from a old 78rpm record, were added to the third line, "Now she's hit the big time!".
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[Extra special care taken with names!]
We like tenuous here, don’t we?
Well, between making the two films involving the Beatles: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Help’, film director Richard Lester made ‘The Knack … and How to Get It’, based on the play by Ann Jellicoe. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. It also received the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.
The film depicts the sexual competition among three roommates — the aggressive, womanizing drummer Tolen (Ray Brooks), the shy, paranoid schoolteacher Colin (Michael Crawford), and the neutral artist Tom (Donal Donnelly) — when a young woman from out of town, Nancy (Rita Tushingham), enters their London world.
What has all this to do with Honey? The connection is that Rita Tushingham starred in the film adaptation of 'A Taste of Honey' as well as starring in 'The Knack ...'
To return to 'The Knack ...', as part of his seduction attempt, Tolen plays some Thelonious Monk to Nancy: “You’ll like Monk – he’s relaxing, very relaxing”. (I love the anecdote made by Bill Clinton of the ‘malapropism’: “The Loneliest Monk”.)
Not sure if I would approve of this ‘device’, but it does make a splendid excuse to bring up Monk’s ‘Straight, No Chaser’:
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If you have 1 hour 29 minutes to kill, have a look at this Clint Eastwood film of Monk:
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Enjoy!
The Grand Wazoo
25-05-2013, 23:35
Excellent - nice bit of Monk there!
There was a band called The Monks that contained several members of The Strawbs and they had a fantastically PC single called 'Nice Legs Shame About Her Face'. However, there was also a rather lesser known American band, also called The Monks, who were serving US soldiers, based in Germany during the 1960s. They only released one album, in 1966: 'Black Monk Time'
The Monks - 'Monk Time'
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I'm sure there must be umpteen ways to go with the word "Time", but having seen all there is to see in Santorini I took the ferry to Crete this afternoon and after the equivalent of a whole bottle of half-decent Greek white wine and several strong beers, my brain is running a bit slow.
So my "time" is the track called 'Time (has Come Today)' by the Chamber Brothers, which was a bit of a hit in the late sixties.
Sorry, I'll try to add the appropriate YouTube link tomorrow.
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