What is it about Zeppelin covers that makes them so awesome for action movie trailers?
What am I asking? They’re Zeppelin!
Category: Musical Snobbery
RIP Davy Jones
ACTOR and musician Davy Jones, who gained fame with the 1960s band The Monkees, has died in Florida at the age of 66.
A representative for Jones confirmed that he died on Wednesday morning of a heart attack in Indiantown, Florida.
The Head of Emily Kaye
The Dead Eyes Opened. The Dead Eyes Opened. The Dead Eyes Opened. The Dead Eyes Opened.
Ever since I first encountered the Severed Head’s classic proto-techno track Dead Eyes Opened as a teenager I’ve wondered if the narration was cut from the whole cloth or if it referred to a real murder…
Today, after many attempts over the years, I finally figured it out.
The spoken work component is from a radio broadcast of crime writer Edgar Lustgarten reading his account of what was known as the Crumbles Murder in which one Patrick Mahon murdered his mistress Emily Kaye in a beach cabin near Eastbourne, Sussex in 1924.
So there we go. One mystery down, so many to go…
Me China Mel Dancin’
My good friend Mel is dancing…
Doo-doo-doo-doo,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah-eah,
Yemen and his Igor photo me,
I’m on the phone, yous can each foresee,
Cool me down,
Rinse a mouse in front of me,
(front of me)
So that’s the way I felt then wa-ah-ah,
So we can eat a Hilton, la la la,
You’re so mean,
See there the melody,
Oh-wow-o-wow-ow,
Dance on the oars,
Cat fight in a handbag,
Yours, only yours,
A walrus tickle dance bed,
It’s no lie,
Lisa in the crown said,
Meh, anyhow,
Me china Mel dancin’
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow-ow-ow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow-ow-ow,
Me I’m flocking home giving up for stoats,
As I’m coming down I slip the ropes,
Cool me down,
The TARDIS taking over yeah,
(oh-wow-ow-wow-ow)
So that’s the way I felt then, wa-ah-ah,
So we can eat a Hilton, la-la-la,
You’re so mean,
See there the melody,
So come on,
Dance on the oars,
Cat fight in a handbag,
Yours, only yours,
A walrus tickle dance bed,
It’s no lie,
Lisa in the crown said,
Meh, anyhow,
Me china Mel dancin’
Dance on the oars,
Cat fight in a handbag,
Yours, only yours,
A walrus tickle dance bed,
It’s no lie,
Lisa in the crown said,
Meh, anyhow,
Me china Mel dancin’
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow-ow-ow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow,
Oo-oo-oo-wow-o-wow-ow-ow,
So come on,
Dance on the oars,
Cat fight in a handbag,
Yours, only yours,
A walrus tickle dance bed,
It’s no lie,
Lisa in the crown said,
Meh, anyhow,
Me china Mel dancin’
Dance on the oars,
Cat fight in a handbag,
Yours, only yours,
A walrus tickle dance bed,
It’s no lie,
Lisa in the crown said,
Meh, anyhow,
Me china Mel dancin’
Sarah, Say it Ain’t So
Currently there’s a thread up on a board I frequent where people are sharing music via the wonder of YouTube. While perusing said thread I came across this piece by Nick Drake (who’s Nick Drake? Shame on you!)
While listening to it I couldn’t help thinking it sounded familiar. Then I realised why…
Now, maybe it’s just my tin ear. And maybe it’s difficult to construct a melancholy song around a descending scale without sounding like every other melancholy song constructed around a descending scale. And maybe it’s a tribute from Sarah Blasko to Nick Drake. But it really does seem a bit too close to me.
Say it ain’t so Sarah!
Get Onto the Bus
Good lord! Powerhouse is 75 years old!
Well done Mr Scott!
Mock My Taste!
Every song marked with five stars in my iTunes…
3 A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.) – The KLF
All Along the Watchtower – Bear McCreary
America, What Time is Love? – The KLF
Ana Ng – They Might Be Giants
And God Created Brixton – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Angel of Harlem – U2
Annie Waits – Ben Folds
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) – Handel
At the Bottom of Everthing – Bright Eyes
Bomb the World (Armageddon Version) – Michael Franti and Spearhead
Bus to Beelzebub – Soul Coughing
Canon – Funtwo
Carribean Blue – Enya
Copperhead Road – Steve Earl
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Det Snurrar I Min Skalle – Familjen
Experimental Film – They Might Be Giants
Gimme Sympathy – Metric
Girl Anachronism – The Dresdon Dolls
Girl From Mars – Ash
Gloria in Excelsis Deo – Vivaldi
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Goodnight Moon – Shivaree
Heaven – DJ Sammy
Hold On – Tom Waits
How Soon is Now – The Smiths
Hymn to Her (7″) – Pretenders
Janie’s Got a Gun – Aerosmith
Last Train to Trancentral (LP Mix) – The KLF
Lock It (I Really Like You) – Falling Joys
Man it’s so Loud in Here – They Might Be Giants
Palaces of Montezuma – Grinderman
Read to Me – B(if)tek
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
Santa Monica – Everclear
Scrub – Shivaree
Serenity – David Newman
Shining Light – Ash
Something Dark is Coming – Bear McCreary
Stone Me Into the Groove – Atomic Swing
Summer Rain – Belinda Carlisle
Sweet Child o’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
Take on Me – A-Ha
Temple of Love (Touched by the Hand of Orfa Hazra) – Sisters of Mercy
Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity) – The Triffids
The Jeep Song – The Dresden Dolls
The Shape of Things to Come – Bear McCreary
The Winner Takes it All – The Black Sweden
This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home – Murray Gold
Throw Your Arms Around Me – Hunters and Collectors
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
True Dreams of Wichita (Live, Boston, 10-15-1996) – Soul Coughing
Walk Like a Man – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Waterloo – ABBA
What’s He Building in There – Tom Waits
What Time is Love? (LP Mix) – The KLF
Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard – The KLF
Wickerman – Pulp
Wide Open Road – The Triffids
Winter (Second Movement) – Vivaldi
There’s still about 90% of my music collection to be ranked…
My Chiffon is Wet!
Disco Stu likes Disco Music!
Have you ever wandered what that disco song they keep using in the Simpsons is? Well, wonder no more, for here you may behold the campy horrors of Disco Tex and his Sex-o-Lettes with 1975’s Get Dancin’
Disco Stu likes Disco Music!
What Rough Beast?
All I can hear out the window is the sound of angle grinders.
FADADES is coming to get me!!
The Ice of FADADES
Here we see another performance from the incomparable, castle-dwelling, laser-building, French master of metal, FADADES!!
Unlike some of his other more ‘abstract’ videos, this one has an easily comprehensible plot. The alien FADADES comes to Earth and lands his spaceship in Egypt. Here he discovers that his precious ice keeps melting in the desert heat. This angers him, and as lightning flashes across the sky (no doubt a result of the disturbance caused by his ship plunging through the atmosphere) he curses. “BAD ICE!! DIE ICE!!” he shrieks over and over again.
Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else…
