Another run out for Dagenham Dave and his penchant for belting out the occasional tune. I don't have anything to add what I previously wrote so I'll repost the quote from an article about him: "... He's [Venables] not new to crooning. As a nightclub owner he used to treat the punters to a regular SingalongaTel, and as a teenager he sang with band leader Joe Loss. At 17 he had to choose between football and singing. "I won the week's talent contest at Butlins, and was invited back for [...]
Solange Knowles let slip that she'd performed a "gospel version" of Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" while on tour in Europe earlier this week, and her take on the song-a slower take that plays up the song's waltziness and allows her background singers to shine-has made it to YouTube. Check out the octave-jumping she does at the end! Anyway, I'm sure that Bjork-fan "purists" out there will find something to complain about with it, because the Internet was made for complaining. So why not peep the original versions of the song after the jump? [...]
Coming up Monday March 31st, Stereogum is releasing its latest exclusive tribute album. Following up on last year's Radiohead and REM tributes, they've assembled 11 artists covering Björk's 1995 album Post . While I had been peripherally aware of Björk as Icelandic and swan-clad , besides hearing Venus as a Boy in the film Léon it wasn't really until I got the Directors Label DVDs of the work of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry (brilliant DVD, by the way) , and Chris Cunningham that I was properly exposed [...]
I've discovered the warm water!!! Now is when I know that Bjork's It's oh so quiet is a cover of Betty Hutton's Blow a Fuse (later renamed as It's Oh So quiet), I like Björk, but between the original and the cover there's not a big difference... when can you consider a song as a real cover? He descubierto el agua tibia!!! Ahora es que leo que el It's Oh So Quiet de Bjork en realidad es un cover de la canción Blow a Fuse [...]
[There are 21 MP3s contained in this post] Call me crazy, but in 2005, I compiled a bunch of whacked out tunes for my WFMU marathon premium. Back then, the disc, Loony Tunes , was given out exclusively to pledgers to my show Give the Drummer Some , but now, invoking the insanity clause, I'm making the whole shebang available here. Posted below are the original liner notes, MP3s of (most of) the tracks, and quotes uttered by each manic maestro. Go nuts! [...]
Football and Music
Idolator
Fong Songs
Deaf Indie Elephants
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Song Of The Week: Glass Candy "Life After Sundown"
Friday Remixes
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Detroit Techno Producers Used A 2013 Ford Fusion To Make An Original Track
M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" (Urban Noize Remix)
