This will be my last post for at least a week. Tomorrow I am heading for the lovely Toledo, Ohio and from there Chicago for three days of motherfucking rocking at Lollapalooza. So in the mean time here are a bunch of tracks that you 80s fans (i.e. 80% of my readers) should enjoy. When I come back I'll be doing my usual Lolla recap, but if you can't wait till then I'll be Twittering throughout the weekend during the downtime between acts (I don't use my phone during a performance, remember my rules). So bookmark this [...]
As a nation gears itself to see Heath Ledger's final (full) performance when "The Dark Knight" hits theaters next month (okay, so a lot of people would've seen the movie anyway, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking there won't be a morbid curiosity group checking it out), it's now more apparent than ever -- death sells. It's been a known commodity in the music business for sometime now, especially in the rap world, where I *believe* Tupac has been more prolific since being murdered than he was in his lifetime. The Beatles weren't the first artists to [...]
Cut/Copy + Black Kids at Neumo's | 30 April 2008 I used to think that any band that employed female back up singers was lame by default. It seemed to be quite a fashionable thing to do back in the mid 90's, Electronic's second album is an egregious example of this. I could never [...]
I feel one of the most important early lessons of my life was learning that everything we do is a result of routine, bad and good. We're creatures of habit and the quicker we realize it, the faster we can start changing the ones that don't serve us well. Tips for Breaking Bad Habits and Developing Good Habits Most of life is habitual. You do the same things you did yesterday, the day before and every day for the last month. It's estimated that out of every 11,000 signals we receive from [...]
I have no clue how I got my hands on Columbia's "The Sound of the Suburbs" compilation in my senior year of High School. I certainly didn't get it from the local mall's record shop - they didn't get much more daring than U2. I most likely picked it up in the college town a little ways down the road. I'm not sure why I would have bought it either. I didn't know any of the bands at that time. I'm pretty sure it was the title that attracted me. My family were pioneers in Florida's blue sky suburbs and [...]
Though it came and went in the blink of an eye, of all the musical movements, punk tends to live on in the imaginations of people. Just look at the number of documentaries, books, academic studies, magazine cover stories, compilation albums, and fashion aesthetics that still draw on punk. Whether it really was as revolutionary as it seemed, punk has definitely become iconic and continues to influence new bands with its sneering nihilism and DIY-learn-three-chords-and-for m-a-band approach. My personal connection to punk is one that actually started relatively later in life than for most. I was about [...]
Because you never know when you might end up smoking crack with Pete Doherty, and when you do, you're going to need a soundtrack. MP3: Babyshambles - "Who's Got the Crack?" MP3: Kings of Leon - "Taper Jean Girl" MP3: Ian Dury & The Blockheads - "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" MP3: The Blood Arm - "Do I Have Your Attention?" MP3: The White Stripes - "Girl, You Have No [...]
The Brit Box competition was fierce and heavy, neck and neck. The randomly-selected winner from all the wonderful entries was a "vklj" who said that Common People changed his life. Here's to hoping the Brit Box is more of the same for you, vklj, and please be in touch with your mailing address. I have a new contest to launch today. Have you heard the quirky, snarly, danceable-punk Cockney perfection of the Ian Dury song, "Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll"? To celebrate [...]
T his is one of the weirdest Festival City Radio podcasts ( number 93 ) we've done in a long time. There's all kinds of stuff going on in this one. N ew releases for Nov 13, and one from Nov 6 : Duran Duran - " Night Runner (ft. Timberlake and Timbaland )" Malajube - "Montreal 40degrees C" Os Mutantes - " A Minha Menina [...]
John Miles - Slow Down Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) Johnny Walker - Funky Trip
Here's an interesting story... about the piano John Lennon wrote the song Imagine at... One of the more interesting side notes is that George Michael ( yeah the guy from Wham who passes out in his car) is the guy who donated the piano, which he'd bought a few years ago for a little over $2 million bucks. Maybe he just forgot where [...]
(Deel 149 hiero ) En met deel 150 ga ik door waar ik gebleven was, deel 148 en 149 zijnde twee "tussenaankopen". Inmiddels zijn er 179 singles aan bod gekomen, nog 462 te gaan. Ik ben eigenlijk wel verbaasd dat ik het volhoud om (min of meer) iedere dag een single te posten, na jaren van slabakken op deze blog. Enfin. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Pégame con tu palo rítmico (Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick) label: Stiff jaar: 1979 [...]
Everlasting Love - U2 Never Say Never - Romeo Void Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads Plug Tunin' - De La Soul New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead Music MP3 music
Actually he didn't sing at my wedding, but my wedding song was a Depeche Mode song. However, the song was "Somebody" and Martin Gore sang on that slab of wax. Despite a well publicized brush with the Reaper David Gahan is 45 today. Born this day in 1962. I don't have enough Depeche Mode Songs to create a play list for today. However, I did a review of the re-issue of Speak and Spell last year. That included a "what they did before the band" blurb. Let's just say these songs are inspired by Gahan's pre-DM life. [...]
Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick [1979] From the makers of the anthem "Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll" came this dance/punk classic with infectious opening riff by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, in 1979. It got a fair amount of airplay on stations like WNEW, and was number 1 in the UK popular music charts in January 1979. The opening reminds me of opening the door to a party that is already going full blast. Ian Dury on CD >>posted [...]
El otro dia volvà a fumarme un porro después de mucho tiempo (¡quien me ha visto y quien me ve!). Desde Jamaika Bob Marley + The Marley Brothers + The Ghetto Youths Crew - Kinky Reggae Bob Marley Ariane Moffatt - La Bonne Étoile Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Moments In Heaven
Ian Dury- Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy Ian Dury never fit in. When he released his two seminal albums in the late '70s, New Boots and Panties and Do It Yourself and , no one was sure what to make of this unattractive man's music. Was it comedy, disco, pub rock, reggae or punk rock? It was all of that, and consequently, it's aged really well. Here's the best song from the aforementioned albums that didn't make the cut for Dury's excellent import-only greatest hits compilation.
The Lost Turntable
Ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen...
the finest kiss
snuhthing/anything
A Free Man
Condemned to Rock 'N Roll
MusicWarship
This Recording
I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
shoes are for work
UGLY TALENTED
Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations
chezlubacov
Some Velvet Blog
SlavetoShuffle
Art Decade
Motel de Moka :: Open since september '05
There Stands the Glass
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: Stronger
