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  1. I really can't agree that Blondie's version of TheTide Is High is in any way superior to the original, apart from having a prettier vocalist. But what do I know? Anyway,I popped in to post a cover of Kraftwerk's "Das Model", which isn't better than the original, but still pretty fab: "Model" ~ Balanescu Quartet In fact, I've just discovered that Balanescu Quartet have done an album of Kraftwerk covers: "Possessed" "Autobahn"
  2. I thought of this: Camper Van Beethoven "Good Guys & Bad Guys" Well there are good guys and there are bad guys And there are crooks and criminals There are doctors and there are lawyers And there are folks like you and me So let's get high while the radio's on Just relax and sing a song Drive your car up on the lawn Let me play your guitar Well, this here verse is for the people in Russia Though it is a long long ways away They couldn't hear this song in Russia But couldn't understand the words anyway So let's get high while the radio's on Just relax and sing a song Drive your car up on the lawn Let me play your guitar So just be glad you live in America Just relax and be yourself Cuz if you didn't live here in America You'd probably live somewhere else So let's get high while the radio's on Just relax and sing a song Drive your car up on the lawn Let me play your guitar Link to vid for "Good Guys & Bad Guys"
  3. Video for new St Vincent track "Cruel" debuted today in the Huffington Post: HERE
  4. It is, isn't it? However, it should be handled with care. There are some who'll suspect you're calling them gay, and give you a kicking for it.
  5. I'm wondering just how much you drink to become so unnecessarily nasty, rude and offensive to people who really don't deserve your juvenile sarcasm? Maybe you don't drink at all, but I'd hate to think that someone could achieve this state of boorish unpleasantness in times of sobriety. You reckon I'm in good company? How right you are. I've no idea why you might have any axe to grind towards Kari and Shawna, but after 5 years frequenting SongFacts - which has afforded plenty of opportunity to size up the clientele - heaven knows, I find their company far more entertaining, enlightening and convivial than I could ever find yours. However, somehow you are still free to roam these boards, spreading your peculiar brand of fork-tongued bonhomie hither and thither, so I guess the rest of us must learn to like it or lump it.
  6. If ever I required a depressing reminder why I seldom bother to participate in SF any more, this thread really does the trick.
  7. There might be some truth in what Mike Stock says, but to put this article into context; it's from the Daily Mail, which is a conservative newspaper of the prudish, middle-class Tory curtain-twitcher variety, beloved by the kind of people who hate the working classes and enjoy nothing more than casting a judgemental eye over the habits of ordinary people and telling them how they should live more respectable lives. So the Daily Mail may have an axe to grind. They're always on the look-out for signs of falling standards; it's part of their psyche. Furthermore, I'm not sure what your follow-up point is. "There seem to be so many female singers around now, Diana Vickers, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen,Taylor Swift. The female names go on and on". So what? An abundance of female singers is a bad thing? A sure sign that pornography is on the rise? Female singer = porn artist? If you have a point to make, you have a peculiar way of making it. Yes, there are plenty of female singers around these days, many of whom are intelligent people making great music - I won't list them, there are too many - the vast majority of whom are not selling sex, sleaze, depravity, etc. You list four female artists, as if they were indicative of a spiralling descent into squalid amorality. Lily Allen??? Although her lyrics are occasionally punctuated with profanities, which might displease some, she is by no means an example of a female singer "selling sex and sleaze". Far from it. If you took the trouble to listen to and understand her lyrics, you might appreciate this. "The Fear", for example, is an intelligent, insightful critique of superficial celebrity culture and the insecurities it breeds. As a parent of a 12 year old girl, I give some thought to the "over-sexualisation of pop" issue. Some female performing artists make more positive role-models than others, that's for sure, and I'm a bit disappointed that some seem to adopt the flawed "lap-dancing is empowerment" position, which merely plays into the hands of the pimps and misogynists who run everything. However, it is highly dubious to suggest, as you do, that female artists being overtly sexual in their performances is akin to porn, (and "more female artists = more porn") unless you apply the same standards to the legions of male performers who have placed their sexual prowess at the centre of their performance; the list, again, is almost endless, but includes Mick Jagger, Prince, Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley, etc. etc. As for your final comment: the dramatic fall in global record sales can be attributed to many factors - not least of which, the sheer diversity of media through which people consume their music, and so much of it for free - but almost certainly not to the increased use of sex in pop performance. In the context of their falling revenues, it might well be true though, that the major stake-holders in the global music biz are resorting to ever more desperate ways to keep the dollars rolling in, of which "pushing the sexual boundaries" is merely the least imaginative.
  8. Nerve Rack ~ "Guns" See that guitarist? That's me, that is. In 1988. Nerve-racking.
  9. You've got Wikipedia; look him up. You'll need to spell his name correctly, though.
  10. Link to relevant news item As if he wasn't in enough bother already. Link to an article about his "involvement" (or not) in another mysterious death Makes this look like small beer: Link to another recent article implicating Doherty in criminal activity As if it wasn't bad enough that he's a talentless charlatan, the guy's also a jinx, evidently. We in the UK seem to be gradually coming round to the idea that Doherty is bad news. However, I gather he has a willing alternative audience in France. Link to relevant article. Presumably, they're attracted to his ragged, bohemian "romantic poet" image. Too bad they don't understand English well enough to realise his poetry's actually pretty sh*t. Maybe once they realise what low-down scum he is, even the French will reject him, all in good time.
  11. The Temptations ~ "Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down" The Temptations ~ "You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth" The Temptations ~ "Runaway Child, Running Wild"
  12. "Fold Your Hands, Child. You Walk Like A Peasant" ~ Belle & Sebastian Charity shop bargain, yesterday. I'm really enjoying it.
  13. Just out of interest - cos it's a total mystery to me - what does the verb to "dougie" mean?
  14. Cheers,mate. You've brought some cheer to what has been an otherwise kinda sad day. (I learnt of the death last evening of Poly Styrene of X Ray Spex, whose "Germ Free Adolescents" album has had a special place in my affections ever since I first got into punk rock as an impressionable teenager in the late 70s.)
  15. Whatever. I think the SF public maybe switched off after the fourth word of my blurb, and didn't bother with the rest.
  16. Whatever. I think the SF public maybe switched off after the fourth word of my blurb, and didn't bother reading the rest.
  17. "Echoes Of A Songbird" (2 CDs) ~ Lee Morse Idiosyncratic, characterful jazz vocalist of the 1920s. Loving this.
  18. ^^^^ Oddly, "Killing Joke" is the title of more than one of Killing Joke's albums. But, if (as I suspect), you've procured their debut album ("Requiem", "Wardance" et al), then I can only say, "Congratulations!" ; that's one of my favourite albums of all time, you got there. "Night Time", I'm less keen on, though it certainly has its moments ("Kings And Queens", "Eighties", "Love Like Blood"). Two classic Damned albums as well. A good haul!
  19. I can tell you were all suitably impressed.
  20. Mogwai ~ "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" I went down to London to see Mogwai in concert a couple of weeks ago. Splendid show.
  21. 1) Sure Shot - Beastie Boys (1994) 2) Desire - Anna Calvi (2011) 3) Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down - The Temptations (1969) 4) Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) - James (2001) 5) Buttercup - Lucinda Williams (2011) 6) I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus (1970) 7) Month of May - Arcade Fire (2010) 8) Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin (1969) 9) Universal, The - Blur (1995) 10) Down In It - Nine Inch Nails (1989)
  22. Grandmaster Flash. The Furious Five. Melle Mel. "Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel: back to the old school" 3 CD set, all original Sugarhill recordings, over 3 hours worth. £1.49* @ St Gemma's Hospice Shop in Chapel Allerton. *that's less than the cost of a bottle of beer. What a find.
  23. "Desire" ~ Anna Calvi (2011) "Don't Let The Jones's Get You Down" - The Temptations (1969)
  24. 1) (They Long to Be)Close To You - The Carpenters 2) Beautiful People, The - Marilyn Manson 3) Feels Like I'm In Love - Kelly Marie 4) Ma Baker - Boney M 5) Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez 6) Take A Chance On Me - Abba 7) Boogie Nights - Heatwave 8) Sugar, Sugar - The Archies 9) Mickey - Toni Basil 10) Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
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