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gotta love wikipedia
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Here is the anonymous superauthority of the interwebs, talking about the new Girls Aloud video:
The futuristic video was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.[2] Girls Aloud appear in “sci-fi inspired PVC leotards”,[13] travelling through space and approaching Earth in illuminated glass spheres (resembling meteorites). After the second verse, the [...]
wallpaper music of the day
Saturday, November 29th, 2008This is a 1978 disco version of the Dr Who theme, recommended by my son. It gets repetitive around the 2:20 mark, which is what 70’s disco 12 inch records were supposed to do. These days you’d probably mix it yourself with a bunch of other records to come up with something more interesting at [...]
“im in a musical called copacobanna its all barry mannilow music and i have to sing this song until i fart the words”
Friday, October 10th, 2008How I love those youtube comments! So, today’s Song of the Day: Copacobana by Barry Manilow
Compare and contrast with Tom Jones’ Delilah, which is basically the same idea. But Barry’s song is flawlessly made, like one of those posh nouveau baby-pink cupcakes with a little raspberry nipple on top (a cupacabana cake!), whereas Tom’s song [...]
birthday video of the day
Thursday, September 25th, 2008It’s Gogol Bordello with I never want to be young again.
Here are the lyrics as they’re not that easy to make out and I think rather lovely and poetic.
By the desperate ‘n’ confused
Emotion of the youth
I was brought to crisis land
Where after getting checked for fleas
And barricades of embassies
I was sculpted to be [...]
evening entertainments
Thursday, August 28th, 2008This is Santa Barbara beach at dusk. We stayed there the other week, and apparently it’s a bit different now than it used to be when Husband lived there for a while as a young child with his father, after the latter kidnapped him. Much more smart and chi-chi. Daughter and I gazed at the [...]
a punk rock song for the weekend
Friday, July 18th, 2008NB This post has been drastically re-written, and may have been up here in its original form in the meantime (?) Not sure. Anyway, it wasn’t supposed to be, so that’s what was going on, just in case.
When I first heard the title “Generation X”, it was about a shocking new minority trend of youth [...]
tragic diva video of the day
Monday, July 14th, 2008This is Nancy Sinatra with Bang Bang. She’s singing it herself and it’s really, really good: watch! (Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black funeral came in a close second.)
video of the day
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I’ve been trying to blogpost today, but everything just spins out of control and turns into a nightmare can-o’-worms. So here’s Girls Aloud. It’s Sexy No No No, which I may or may not have posted before. If you’re not into hard boiled Euro girlpop, give this one a miss. And if you are, welcome [...]
gypsy music
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008At one point in the Eugene Hutz documentary, the musician and crew (and annoying filmmaker) go to a gypsy camp in Carpathia, to share the music. Everyone apparently lives in a yard on a pile of ripped-up mattresses and blankets, with almost no visible possessions at all. Most of the children just wear pants. Everyone [...]
Gogol Bordello
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Gogol Bordello play gypsy music with a twist of anything and everything they like, and a punk attitude, but it’s the gypsy beat that really gets the audience pogo-dancing. Fascinating. I think Gogol Bordello’s new spin on it is the tip of an iceberg about to happen. Folk music from all around the world has [...]
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