Last night mr_flippant and I were playing mp3 pingpong as we often do, and I didn’t listen to all of the stuff I got from him but left some on my desktop.
Today when I logged in to my account my computer decided entirely on its own that it was time to import “Bing Bang Bang Bong Kong” by Messer Chups into iTunes and immediately play it. I have no idea how this happened, since the thing started playing before I was actually all the way logged in.
Anyway I’m awake now.
The band I am going to see tonight isn’t normal. Normal bands do not send out email like this the day of the show:
One last thing: We are in dire need of a few extra 55 GALLON OIL DRUMS for our guest musicians tonight.
If you happen to have something like this in Los Angeles, or know where we can get some on a Saturday, PLEASE CALL US AT:
650 619-3695
We can pick it up. These are they same types of barrels used by folks to make Burn Barrels. We’re just going to beat on the edges, so the barrels will still be usable after the performance.
I direct your attention to Sondra Prill, the songbird of Tampa. Particularly to her interpretation of the classic Janet Jackson dance number “Nasty Boys“.
Bands, online brands win big with crafty contests
Same as it ever was; corporate sponsorship is a key to “indie” pop success. That’s not the new and horrible part. The new and horrible part is the smarmy business buzzword talk from the musicians.
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The Pogues are touring with Shane.
I just got two tickets for one of the L.A. shows. They’s goin fast.
via miss_geek, this pass-it-on-thing-not-meme: the ten bands that got me through high school. which were, roughly, those below. Please note that I’m not convinced I actually got through high school.
1. The Clash
2. Joy Division
3. Gang of Four
4. The Dream Syndicate
5. Pere Ubu
6. Devo
7. X
9. The Adolescents
10. Public Image, Ltd.
…i forgot what 8 was for
That Coldplay hit is just totally JACKED from this song.
Now that’s what I call a piece of music. Thanks, Maciej for the pointer. Prints are apparently for sale via faeriesaire.com
The 80s music video list that jwz posted today is, of course, a huge pile of crap, but there are some gems.
The Art of Noise’s Paranoimia reminds me how much I loved Max Headroom, and how much Max Headroom is like odradak after a few glasses of wine.
Being arty jerks, Bauhaus made great videos, and their cover of Ziggy Stardust is a lovely piece of desaturated aaaart. It was more impressive on a big screen in a nightclub in 1984 at midnight after some beers, though. Most other things wore, except the goddamn .38 Special video they kept showing at that place.
The big screen rule holds for Cabaret Voltaire’s wonderful Sensoria as well but if you haven’t seen it you must. I want to get a nice big hi-res of this one. The Poltergeist 2 preacher dancing Appalachian style witih the girl. That camera trick. Do right. Do do right.
Good live Gang of Four doing To Hell with Poverty on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Holy crap they’re young.
Invisible Touch was a shitty album, but the Spitting Image puppets in the video for Land of Confusion are wonderful.
There’s some real chestnuts in there, and by chestnuts I mean forgettable stuff that I wish I’d forgotten. Freur’s “Doot Doot”, Animotion’s “Obsession” (my candidate for most coked out insane 80s video), the Lambada…
cataptromancer has posted an improved version of the earlier Latin translation of Vanilla Ice. Please go read it now.
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