Everytime I channel surf the past few weeks, there's Ralph Macchio sulking, being oblivious or - most often - getting his ass kicked by every living soul whose path he crosses in one of the three Karate Kid flicks. I was roughly the age of high school student and social pariah Daniel-san, the character Macchio was playing, when The Karate Kid opened in theaters in the summer of 1984. (Macchio was, at the time, already in his forties) The movie was, as I recall, an unexpected hit. I saw [...]
Psychic Twin get all dreamy on us. Psychic Twin, the duo of Erin Fein and drummer Jonny 'Magic' Sommer have released the b-side to their forthcoming "Strangers" 73. The "Strangers" 73 releases on...
For those of you who would rather live in the past, or just simply would like to experience what pop culture was like towards the the end of the 20th Century, we have the perfect solution. Thanks to FLIGHT FACILITIES ' Triple J Mix-Up Exclusives , you are invited to step into a time machine with their latest installment as they have cleverly put a mix together for the years of 1982-1992 ! For a complete hour, Flight Facilities have chronologically comprised a [...]
Aretha Franklin: Don't Play That Song [Purchase Deep Sea Skiving] Happy New Year! To promote a string of singles that would appear on their the 1983 Bananarama debut Deep Sea Skiving , Siobhan ( shuh-Bone) Fahey gives Smash Hits a list of her ten favorite songs, featuring a heavy dose of American R and B as well as a nod to her Irish roots ( The Wolfetones "James Connolly") and The Sex Pistols whose "No Feelings" they covered in 1982 for a UK film called [...]
¿Os acordáis de " Venus " de Bananarama ?, el popular tema con el más de uno dío brincos cuando era un enamo. Pues al parecer el gran productor mexicano Mateo González Bufi le pasaba algo parecido en su infancia y hoy ha querido rendir homanaje en forma de edit a este clásico de 1986 creado por el trío británico de las alocadas chicas de camisetas rotas y melenas al viento. [...]
Tal parece que la DJ Whitney Fierce se ha consolidado ya en la vida nocturna de Nueva York...al menos lo suficiente como para que Andy Butler aka Hercules & Love Affair la haya considerado para trabajar en un nuevo track, el cual estará integrado en el playlist del esperado DJ Kicks de H&LA. Al respecto "Release Me" - una verdadera revisión al dance ochentero post hi-energy- el mismo Andy Butler anota en Soundcloud : "Escribí esta canción con mi [...]
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British boy bands are on the rise, with groups like One Direction and The Wanted making a monster impact on the US charts, but what about the ladies? Just as our neighbors across the pond have produced an inordinate share of the best boy band pop of the last few decades , so have they contributed some absolutely showstopping girl groups, from the iconically well-known ( Spice Girls ) to the relatively obscure — on these shores, at least ( Atomic Kitten , anyone?). [...]
1 photo by G. 1 photo by Sara Dallin's friend. Sara Dallin of Bananarama and Geoffrey Dicker If you grew up in the 80s like I did, Bananarama are not just mere mortals - they are musical goddesses. I was literally moments from drifting off into that gentle good night for the evening when my phone rang and my friend said "Did you know that Bananarama is minutes away from your house right now?" No sooner did I put the phone down, but I got dressed, [...]
Dutch rock band Shocking Blue is probably better remembered in America for their big 1969 hit "Venus," because Americans are often all about one song with great bands. It became particularly big after English pop group Bananarama covered the track, a cover which happened to accompany a Gillette Venus razor commercial (clever). And if you happened to own a Korg keyboard in the early '90s like me, then you probably remember it serving as the demo song that played when you pressed a little yellow button -- granted it was more of a midi file. I'm [...]
Today in "everything I never knew I wanted" news, Scott Lucas and the Married Men recently covered Bananarama's " Cruel Summer " at Novelty Golf and Games up in Lincolnwood for A.V. Club's Undercover series. The band put their own dark and sensual spin on the 1983 funky pop hit. If it weren't for the lyrics, it would be a completely different song with much, much more emotion than the original trio conjured. The video's definitely worth a view, if for nothing else than to see The Married Men haunt a mini-golf [...]
The first summer Olympics that I recall in more than fuzzy detail was the Los Angeles Games in 1984. For me, the first thing that comes to mind from those games isn't Carl Lewis or Mary Lou Retton, it's Zola Budd. It must have been in Sports Illustrated that I first read of Zola, a diminutive South African teenager who had broken the women's world record in the 5000 meters, a record that was unrecognized as it had taken place in a race in her homeland. I found Zola fascinating as she [...]
Superchunk - Cruel Summer [Bananarama] watch the original
Summertime... best time for listening to music! / photo by Brittney Bollay It’s time again for Friday on My Mind , the weekly blog post with videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and the fine people at King 5 News. Today is all about Songs for the Summer. Wednesday officially marked the Summer Solstice and while warmer temperatures have arrived throughout most of the country, Seattle continues to teeter between grey skies and glimmers of sun rays. As we wait with bated breath for the summer [...]
Why do bands break up and get back together again? When I interviewed Sting in the living room of his Central Park West apartment for People magazine in 1996, he gave me two good reasons: 1) For the nostalgia. 2) Because they need the money. He said that since neither one applied to him at the time, the world shouldn't be expecting a Police reunion anytime soon. I'm not sure which reason came into play when Sting finally reformed the Police in 2007 for a world tour. Maybe pigs flew (returning to [...]
Scott Lucas revealed after his band's performance in Columbus on Sunday night that the cover they opened their set with - Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" - will be featured on the Onion's A.V. Undercover series sometime in the coming months. And, shaking the setlist up a little bit, Scott Lucas and The Married Men decided to play the song for the first time live at this show. Fans of the original song (which became a hit after being featured in [...]
Yesterday we heard " This Summer ," the new single from Superchunk. The b-side is a crunchy cover of Banarama's '83 synthpop hit "Cruel Summer" and if you've got Spotify you can stream it below. Read More...
Stereogum Yesterday we heard " This Summer ," the new single from Superchunk. The b-side is a crunchy cover of Banarama's '83 synthpop hit "Cruel Summer" and if you've got Spotify you can stream it below. Read More... Original Website: Stereogum
Given it's two years since the Superchunk reunion album, it's not clear if the new Superchunk single is a continuation of that comeback, or a whole new comeback all of its own. The most exciting part of he new single is the b-side: a cover of Bananarama's Cruel Summer. Bananarama - Cruel Summer by hushhush112 (Nb: this is the original.) The bad news? The single, This Summer, is limited to a pressing of 1300 . Good luck hunting one down. [...]
Criminally underrated electropop outfit, Gossip is now streaming their upcoming new album, A Joyful Noise, in it's entirety on the band's official website. Go listen! The album, due everywhere May 22nd via Columbia Records, was produced by pop mastermind Brian Higgins (Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud) and serves as the follow up to 2009's Music For Men. The album's lead
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