"They got little baby legs/And they stand so low/ You got to pick 'em up/Just to say hello" I saw this sign on the subway yesterday: "Get Prepped For Success! Minority/Women/Small Business Owners: Sign up for the MTA and other government agency contracts." [...]
Here, for your enjoyment are the Nick Drake songs that Elton John sang back in 1968. Part of a set that included Mike Heron, John & Beverly Martyn's songs ( details ). They aren't as good as the originals, but I have never found Elton's treatment disagreeable and rather enjoy the placid, laid back mood they evoke. There is more than enough online dissection of these tracks, so I'll let you give them a listen and make your own minds up. Listen: Elton John - Day is Done Listen: Elton John - Saturday Sun [...]
This is the debut post of our debut weekly feature. Every Wednesday we'll highlight the music of an artist as interpreted by his peers. So dive under the covers – they're ready and waiting. Soft, warm, and bed-bug free, we guarantee only sweet dreams and lullabies. That's right – once a week The Canals will be your personal tooth fairy, delivering glorious sounds straight to your deserving ears. And best of all, we don't even ask for a tooth in return – just your unwavering [...]
Hasni - Omri Omri (mp3) Omri Omri. Courage est bien de débuter cette lettre, qui s'ajoute aux autres, avec ces mots. Ceux-là sont tout ce qui me reste, et qui paraissent subsister, comme des ruines, à tout ce qu'il en était de nous. Ainsi ta voix succulente me dessinait chacun de tes mouvements faciaux, ces expressions qui, à chaque heurt et à chaque friction, ont échoués de feindre mes yeux. Et tes joues qui ne pouvaient dessiner autres que [...]
CANDY SAYS The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground Verve : 1969 [Buy It] SPACE ODDITY Video David Bowie David Bowie [UK] Mercury : 1969 [Buy It] THE COMMANDER THINKS OUT LOUD The Long Winters Ultimatum Barsuk : 2005 [Buy It] BATHYSPHERE Cat Power What Would The Community Think? [...]
First off I want to say that this has been in the works (well in my head) for almost six months, but i've never had the time to just sit down and think about what I wanted to include. I make no secret about my love for film here on the site, as it's almost equal to my love of music. The connection I find between films and music is simple. It's that one scene and that one song that if they're both put to use correctly, than it can set that mood perfectly without there even being any kind [...]
'When you grow up, son, what do you want to be?' 'Well, God, I've thought about it quite a bit and what I'd really like to be is the lead singer of a really cool band.' 'Really, son. You mean a global superstar like, say, Elton John?' 'Fuck's sake, God, he's not cool, he's a waddling great tranny who has contributed the grand total of two parts of fuck all to the world of music for the best part of thirty years.' 'Come on, some of his earlier stuff was okay.' 'Well, the old soldier song was nice. [...]
It seems that every famous or talented person has something decidedly odd about them. It's as if the better they get, the weirder they must act. Perhaps it's their way of standing out from the crowd. To me the seventies seams like a rather bare decade. I covered the punk stuff and most likely will go on and do the metal, but otherwise my mind draws a blank, most of my favourite old time songs are either 60s or 80s. But despite all this, I've managed to scrape together this group, a respectable (mostly) group of artists, each of them [...]
Back in June 1970 Joe Boyd was wondering how to turn the genius that was Nick Drake into a marketable star. As a taster to see if other artists might record some of Nick's songs, he got Elton John into the studio at Sound Techniques in Chelsea to record a variety of his whitchseason stable artists' songs, including a couple of John and Beverley Martin songs from their Stormbringer album and
Aaaaah jag sitter just nu o jobbar på en blandskiva... ja jag vet de jävla plast skivorna förstörde våran syn på musik nu när allt laddas hem o bränns och känslan av att ta tid och sitter o tajma sina 30 minuter på ett 60 band... alla ni conversbärande cheap monday kids med urtvättade band t-shirt (min är en brun refused tröja) känner nog igen detta underbara att sitta och jobba med sina låtar o ge över de till sina vänner som det vore endel av dej själv. ja ja skitsamma jag låter som nån jävla [...]
I Am Your Curse, Jumbotron by Vice President Dick Cheney I have never watched a freakin' episode of Lost that was so frustratingly predictable. Let me tell you something about being cursed. First let me tell you something about Rousseau, m'kay? I didn't like that woman on Babylon 5 , and damned if I like her now. She reminds me of Barbara Boxer, only less horny and violence crazed, if that was even possible. If Rousseau offered herself to me, I would respond [...]
"Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John which clocks in at 11:09 Let's talk about sports for a minute. Recently, retired professional basketball player John Amaechi came out of the closet and became the first active or former NBA player to publicly acknowledge he was gay. A few players from other major professional sports have come out as well in the past, but none before they were retired. Knowing the probable macho male team environment that exists in all levels of team sports it's not exactly shocking that [...]
Send me an Angel Real Life Heartland Polystar : 1983 [ Listen ] Talking in Your Sleep The Romantics In Heat Nemperor Records : 1983 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Abracadabra Steve Miller Band Abracadabra Mercury/Phonogram GmbH : 1982 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] The Sound The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love Universal Motown : 2006 [ Listen ] [ [...]
Ooh, there's a right old playground scrap brewing. Elton John was rude (but accurate) on the question of Noel Gallagher (" "an absolute twat who looks like Parker from Thunderbirds ), Noel's chum in plodrock isn't 'avin any of that, la : "Elton's just a fat man in a tracksuit. Whereas anything that comes out of Noel's mouth is absolute genius. "Noel is the last man you want to start with. He's so quick he can destroy anyone. Elton John needs to watch out." Yes, who would want to [...]
We're trying to be strong... but it's so hard to go on. How can we continue with a song on our lips and a smile on our big, goofy faces knowing that the fabulous friendship of Elton John and Victoria Beckham has run into trouble? One source said: "Elton has always been so generous to Victoria and David in the past. But sometimes it's easy to feel like people are taking things for granted. The Beckhams stay at his house in France all the time and have his staff running around after them. Which [...]
Kim Wilde has said the sort of thing that Elton John needs to hear every so often - that he sometimes only has the vaguest connection with everyday life . Something Elton has admitted himself from time to time, between sacking florists and reworking songs about dead drug-addicted film stars into plodding hymns to dead princesses. Victoria Newton, though, throws a fit, damning Kim from the public prints: "I always had her down as a mild-mannered, softly spoken elder stateswoman of cheesy pop. But frumpy Kim, now a gardening expert, [...]
John Howard, the dismal Prime Minister of Australia, attempted to get involved with British politics during the last election when his hapless fixer Lynton Crosby was dropped in to run the Tory Party campaign. (How did that work out, we wonder?) Now, we've sent Howard a gift. Elton John has got involved in Australian politics : The musician, on an Australian tour, was asked if he had a message for Howard, whose government overruled a local law allowing gay unions in June. "Up yours!" replied the outspoken star, who "married" his [...]
We know that the end of next summer is going to be a pretty grim time all round, as the Daily Express marks ten years since the British state somehow silenced Diana Spencer heavily pregnant with sixteen Muslim children by using eye-burning lasers and a decoy drunken, drugged pisspoor driver. The decade since everyone went a bit doolally is going to be harder for some than others - a lot of people are going to have to try and explain why, precisely, they thought it worthwhile to spend their time travelling down to London to put clingfilm wrapped [...]
Having taken aim at his employers last week , this weekend Elton John is taking on organised religion. All of it. Elton meets with Jake Shears out the Scissor Sisters for the Observer Music Magazine gay issue - which obviously collapses into a predictable "me too" session that it hardly seems worth the effort of bringing them into the same room. Elton and, say, Chris Moyles - that might have revealed something interesting about one or both men, and their sexuality and attitudes. Jake Shears and one of the boyband closeteers, like Gateley - that may have [...]
A lot of people over the years have hoped that Elton John's label would drop him; indeed, around the time of his Duets album, some people were hoping that, prior to dropping him, they'd take him to a third or fourth floor balcony. Now, though, Elton John wants his label to drop him , as he's less than thrilled with how they're attempting to sell his wares: "Nobody would know the album has been out since September. My record label isn't doing anything to help. Fuck Universal. Please drop me. I'm 58 and [...]
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