I'm pretty sure this was the first single my brother ever purchased for himself. (He bought it in 1984: some EEJUT has disabled embedding on the original mix, but this is the same promovid...) The first record we ever bought was by Alexi Sayle... we got it for Mumzy on Mother's Day... if it's there it'll be hereabove... For the Thompson Twins wikipedia article click here...
Monday, April 07, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mamas and Papas: Creeque Alley
This is absolutely classic 1960s over-coloured tv... dunno why but American stuff from this era of telly survives far better, is far more watchable than British. American TV at this era had more lines (the current 525/whatever in non-HD) whereas British was the old 425 lines (it's now 625 and HD is 1080. wow you really wanted to know all that yeah I know the numbers are out but I'm not a TV technician am i?... right here goes. Full Technicolor!
Mamas and the Papas: Creeque Alley Matt Mix
This is quite a good renewed version (original vocals). Sorry nothing to watch however...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Scott McKenzie: San Fransisco
I really used to believe all this crap with all my heart. Peace and love and chemical dreams. If you've ever tripped out high upon higher and sublime upon sublime there is no way of bringing the beauty of the experience back with you... I once had a friend down who brought some cocaine. I did some lines and was soon stuck to the ceiling. I had tickets for a rave in south London. He was too wasted to go. So I had to negotiate an hour and a half nightbus ride all the way down. By Trafalgar Square I was eeing out on 2 pills as well and my eyes such massive discs I couldn't read the bus time tables and had to tell passers-by I'd "forgotten my reading glasses" (how embarrassing)... then I arrived around 3pm. Security let me straight in I'd obviously taken all my drugs (indeed I had: felt like I was flying by this point)... first person I encountered was a middle-aged woman in a ball gown swaying back and forth in the foyer (Brixton Academy: a venue for 5000) I told her: "you are so cool". We subsequently made friends. Watching this video and seeing how stuck in the neverending moment of bliss some "flower kids" are I remember this lady having to tell me: "there's the party. Then the party's over. You have to accept that." But I never could. I wanted happiness to last for ever...
Mamas and the Papas: California Dreaming
Not sure who first released the tune but this is the best version in my opinion. Also massive Mama Cass is well funky
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Taffy: I Love My Radio...
She wasn't Welsh, as far as I know, but an Italian model who'd always wanted to put out a record. And this was her first and only attempt and a top five hit. Radio Luxembourg played it regularly, but the BBC's Radio 1, which, in the 1980s was the single most powerful force in British pop, refused to playlist it unless she rerecorded, altering the line "my midnight radio" to "my DJ's radio". Why? Because Radio One switched off at midnight! Those were the days! When people listened on AM (Radio Luxembourg had the most powerful transmitter in the world: a million kilowatts of power blasting music all over Europe, but most specifically to the United Kingdom)... yes and Radio One used to shut down at 00:00 hrs!
The Specials: Ghost Town...
This is another absolute classic of the 1980s... utterly no idea what chart position it got to, but this was around for ages and ages...
Robbie Neville: C'est La Vie
Anyone else remember this from the late 80s? Robbie Neville was a record producer; this was the one single he released (just for the heck of it, so the story goes...) it got to number 2 in the UK...
Friday, March 21, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Madonna: Who's That Girl?
There's a saying, that most people have forgotten more about Madonna's life than is worth remembering of their own ("yeah: speak for yourself, mate," I can hear you retort)... well who remembers this? From 1987... soundtrack from her flop movie of the same title... (I always thought when she writes her autobiography (I'll ghostwrite for her! For a 60% cut...) she should call it I'M THAT GIRL ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Dolly Parton: Jolene
This is absolute classic. Not only the song but the "patter" before it... most amusing... if this was part of a TV special she did over here in the 1980s I'm sure I saw it all 1st time round...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Gabriella Cilmi: Sweet About Me
EXCELLENT STUFF! This has been wafting out everywhere... from kebab shops, sandwich stalls, grocers, laundrettes etc etc... Sweet About Me... if you're reading this on foreign shores and it's not come your way yet, take my word: it will!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Captain Sensible: Glad It's All Over
This one I remember from the time I used to see my Mum every other weekend and go driving back on Sunday night with the Bruno Brookes Top 40 (surely the top-rated radio show in British history... you could wander about and everybody'd have it on, late Sunday afternoons)... I presumed this song was about the aftermath of nuclear war. Seems to have been filmed in Camden Town (or does anyone know any better..?) It's a really good tune ...
Monday, March 03, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Staxx: Joy
A chart "miss" this is hailed nowadays as a "1994 UK club classic" (in other words, an "underground" hit ~ haha)... Audrey's latest post reminded me of this as "Carol" (the singer) was a friend of a friend (never even met her she came from Leicester)... all we all wanted this to go zooming up the charts but it never happened... As I was saying to Audrey only today I have known so many singers, actors and other creatives in my time... some really did have "something"... but that "something" the talent is only the 1% of success... the other 99% is what hard work, a good management team and a clued-up record company do for you!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Liza Minelli: Losing My Mind
This is the only Liza Minelli track I know... but it is quite good: (been going round my head for several days...)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Michael Jackson: Stranger in Moscow
This is a pretty good performance of one of Jackson's very best new (as in post Bad/Thriller/etc) songs.... have a good watch... and boy can he move...!
Monday, February 11, 2008
David Usher: Crazy
From Montreal summer 2007... this tune I like... v compelling. Purloined from Deb's blog... Actually: either it's one of those tunes that's so superior... you think you've known it for decades... or it's been subliminally spinning round my head for the past year-and-a-half...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
Age of Love: Age of Love
This is probably THEE alltime trance classic... this is a version of the Jam and Spoon mix but not as good as below... the video's great though... and I know it cuts off in the end... sorry... nothing I could do 'bout that...
Age of Love: Age of Love - Jam and Spoon classic mix
THIS is the alltime classic mix... sorry no visuals:... Play this one's sound and the top one's video:~ best of both worlds... Did anyone ever go to a party called Return to the Source? This reminds me of there...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Goldie - Inner City Life
This is a classic "drum & bass" tune... watch it for lots of London-tastic imagery...
Fridge - Paradise
This one's a classic. Young or old, open the curtains, crank cup the volume: clear out the cobwebs... If you listen to BBC World Service radio you'll note the waa-aaaah vocal being used on a trail for a documentary about "sex and the Islamic girl"... but I know this tune from 1999. Very "celestial"... TOP VOLUME PLEASE:
Friday, January 25, 2008
TechnoStarWars
This is good... esp. when, at about 3:31~ into that phunky-discordant Hardcore Choir "thang"... This is fantastic... a home-made Starwars (new films) moving clipsathon in time to techno "Old Spice" music soundtrack... don't be put off by initial stills; this is nearly all motion picture...
Friday, January 18, 2008
Mozart: Requiem I
Doesn't the conductor look like a cross between mad professor - head torturer and horror film butler..?!? This is one of my favourite bits of classical music...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Labi Siffre: Something Inside So Strong
I know this one's been up before; but this is the original video...
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Bodysnatch: Euphony (Just 4U London)
NO video and this isn't the mix I like but ... wow I remember it from that time 1992...haha!
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The Prodigy: Everybody in the Place
I remember this coming on at a "rave" in 1992... but by that time no selfrespecting "rave" DJ would play the Prodigy unless it was disguised on white label (which it surely was)...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Такого как Путин Takogo kak Putin "You Must Be Like Putin"
This came out as a single, by a mysterious Russian girl group, just before Russia's last elections. The words tell how Putin is the ideal husband, lover and military leader... Vladmir Putin the Ideal Man! It has to be said: Putin is the highest-octane leader we have in the world today. Or to put it another way; the world's most charismatic dictator!
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Chinese TV Commercial "Automatic Doctor"
If this is typical of Chinese television then it must be a 24-7 scream...
Monday, December 24, 2007
Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa: Gesu Bambino by Pietro A. Yon
From Granny's blog yet again. She said she pointed this one out and said she didn't mind my nicking things as she'd nicked 'em from Youtube to begin with.
Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa is New Zealand's most famous soprano (though Hayley Westonra is the young rising star) who hit fame after singing in the church at Prince Charles and (the then) Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1982. She is widely credited to have one of the finest soprano voices in the world ...
Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa is New Zealand's most famous soprano (though Hayley Westonra is the young rising star) who hit fame after singing in the church at Prince Charles and (the then) Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1982. She is widely credited to have one of the finest soprano voices in the world ...
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
The Kylie Show: The One
This purloined from Mark's Planet (blog):
Visually it's amazing... just a shame it has to feature Kylie's averager-than-average vocals... Madonna is hardly the planet's strongest singer but her voice is ten times creamier and a hundred times more distinctive.
In her earliest days the nasty Stock-Aitken-&-Waterman put Kylie through a Kylie-multiplication machine so never less than three Kylies were warbling at any one time on any of her records. Even when she did a part on a multi-singer charity record at the time (I really cannot remember which one). Someone once said she sounded like a thin-voiced budgie: to me she is more like a singing wasp captured in a jamjar. Nasty business!
Visually it's amazing... just a shame it has to feature Kylie's averager-than-average vocals... Madonna is hardly the planet's strongest singer but her voice is ten times creamier and a hundred times more distinctive.
In her earliest days the nasty Stock-Aitken-&-Waterman put Kylie through a Kylie-multiplication machine so never less than three Kylies were warbling at any one time on any of her records. Even when she did a part on a multi-singer charity record at the time (I really cannot remember which one). Someone once said she sounded like a thin-voiced budgie: to me she is more like a singing wasp captured in a jamjar. Nasty business!
Jethro Tull: Rare promo for Solstice Bells - 1976
This video was STOLEN from Bimbibie's site quite shamelessly. I'm not sure about the tune (it's very Mull of Kintyrish, if you know what I mean...) but the video is quite wonderful
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Zucchero: Senza Una Donna
In the UK this was released as a duette with Paul Young; this version is senza Paul Young, senza jarring English lyrics and much better!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Madonna: Oh Father
Madonna makes excellent videos and this is one of her best. Today's choice was inspired by photos on Jim's blog...
Monday, December 17, 2007
Sonique: I Put A Spell On You
This is her most famous song, a cover version of the 1957 track by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, also covered memorably by Nina Simone...
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Sonique: Feels So Good
"Sonique" was a pretty good athelete on the British Olympic Team... Then a club DJ... This is her best tune (I think)... let it go through the first few bars to the hook, to "and that's what takes me higher!" then it's really catchy.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Engelbert Humperdinck: Release Me
This (seemingly the original promotional video from 1967) is absolutely hilarious!
Tina Turner: Simply the Best
This is one of those classic records that peaked at #2 in this country (actually Wikipedia says #5 but whatever; point is):-... what was at #1 nobody remembers!
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Gareth (Gates) and the Kumars: Spirit in the Sky
Even the guy who wrote the tune said he reckoned this was the best popped-up version:
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Jeanette: Soy Rebelde
This was Jeanette's first hit - way back in 1971 when Spanish TV was still broadcasting in black and white ... but this is a more recent broadcast...
Monday, December 10, 2007
Jeanette (Cria Cuervos): Porque Te Vas
Jeanette is Spain's easy listening star of the 1970s and 1980s. Porque te vas ("because you're gone") was a big Euro-hit in the mid-1970s when it featured in the Spanish film about "the lost innocence of childhood" Cria Cuervos ("Cry of the Crows") dir. Carlos Saura, 1976... Click here if you'd rather hear it in French:
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Garland - Merman - Streisand: No Business Like Showbusiness (Judy Garland Show)
No it's not all a bit tu-ette (whatever you call a 3-person duette)... this is actually a fascinating clip of weekend-night American television from the 1960s...
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Boney M: Rivers of Babylon
This 1970s pop song is a reworking of a Biblical Psalm (number 137) stemming back to the Jewish exile in Babylon around 2500 years ago!
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
Florence Foster Jenkins: Queen of the Night Aria
A tribute performance including her original ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haargh high F bit!
Sunday, December 02, 2007
"Amazing Pipes": Queen of the Night Aria
This is the famous aria with the high F (over top C). Sung by a little boy (it was always intended for a grown woman; but this shows how the "treble" voice has... well, more treble than any grown soprano's...
Elena Mosuc: Queen of the Night Aria
from Mozart's Magic Flute opera...
I'd say this is the best version (of about 7 or 8 I personally "auditioned")...
I'd say this is the best version (of about 7 or 8 I personally "auditioned")...
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Madonna - Live to Tell
This is a track you will never see on a Madonna compilation. Because like "True Blue" it simply reminds her of her ex Sean Penn too much!
Monday, November 05, 2007
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Suzanne Vega medley - Cracking/Ironbound/Fancy Poultry
I love the 2 songs Ironbound and Fancy Poultry. Fancy Poultry isn't as stupid as it might sound...
Fancy poultry parts sold here
Breasts and thighs and hearts.
Backs are cheap and wings are nearly
Freeeeeee
Nearly freeeeee
Nearly...
Freeeee.
Yeah!
Fancy poultry parts sold here
Breasts and thighs and hearts.
Backs are cheap and wings are nearly
Freeeeeee
Nearly freeeeee
Nearly...
Freeeee.
Yeah!
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong
This is a political Israel/Palestine video... very good and a GREAT song...
Monday, October 22, 2007
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
First single from debut album of "amazing" winner of 2006 X-factor ("British Idol") Simon Cowell says she is his greatest discovery yet...
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Live at the Albert Hall...
... and filmed quite some years ago by the looks of it!
... and filmed quite some years ago by the looks of it!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Joan Sutherland - Rossini's Semiramide
Performing a track from Rossini's Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York...
Monday, October 08, 2007
Whitney Houston - Step by Step
This is supposedly a different video from the "official main one" but that one was eejut "disabled by request" - WHY do people do that? It just means you and I will not get to see 'em. That's ALL...
Whitney Houston - Queen of the Night
Aren't those words telling:
I've got the stuff that you want
I've got the thing that you need
I've got more than enough
To bring you down to your knees...
Speak for yourself, Whitney, darling!
I've got the stuff that you want
I've got the thing that you need
I've got more than enough
To bring you down to your knees...
Speak for yourself, Whitney, darling!
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Friday, October 05, 2007
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
This is their best record (I think)
What am I saying. It's their greatest track of all!
What am I saying. It's their greatest track of all!
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