photography by purpleplaid So things have shifted a bit here and looks like I'll be posting something every Thursday (other Paper Crane Collective folks have diff days). I'm super swamped with holiday prep (work & personal) and trying to beat off a massively terrible cold that came outta nowhere, to do any of my best of 2010 but it is coming! I really love Christmas! (not for the capitalist consumer greedy side of it) Unlike the rest of the population, I actually love hearing those Christmas songs playing everywhere...I even keep my radio [...]
Electro- Pop Rework - Mel and Kim were brought to the public imagination by none other than Stock, Aitken and Waterman who throughout the 80s subjected the world to a ruthless onslaught of mass produced pop bollocks. Mel and Kim ended up with a successful run of top ten hits then seemingly vapourised. Turns out Mel fell ill with cancer and bought the farm in the late 90's. Kim Appleby is still twirling around and doing pop stuff. Fuck knows what. Get fresh at the weekend. Stock Aitken and Waterman, [...]
...that T'Pau were always overlooked. Well, for good reason I would reply. But Owen (above) wouldn't have any of it. I'd just be talking to his hand when I said Carol Decker probably smelled a bit unwashed and had a mouth like a sewer. This was just to get him going, of course, but he'd stand there and laugh his head off. He'd then go off into a rant himself imagining all sorts of slutty behaviour by poor Carol finishing with a cackling " Dirty slaaaaaaaaaag! " I still couldn't imagine [...]
The best Thatcher's musical legacy can hope for now is a draw. But can it at least stay in the game, and force us to come up with an equivalent of a penalty shoot out, which we have no idea how we'd do and I really wish I had come up with before starting out... Number 3, April 1979: Squeeze - Cool For Cats "with the Dancing Girls", the title on YouTube helpfully points out, just in case you hadn't spotted them. A bit of everything chucked in: slightly drunken passes, 1970s [...]
The Good, The Amazing and The Cheeeeese below Death Cab For Cutie-Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Mariah Carey-All i want for Christmas Ron Sexsmith-Maybe this Christmas Wham-Last Christmas Coldplay-Have yourself a Merry little Christmas Low-Just like christmas Bing Crosby-White Christmas Mel&Kim-Rockin' Around the Christmas Time East 17-Stay Another Day The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl-Fairytale of New York [...]
if you are too young to remember the late 80s, or young enough not to question, you might be under the illusion that stock, aitken and waterman were cool. they were never cool. almost no one over the age of 13 would have admitted to liking any of their music, apart from the artists who glossed over their involvement - princess, i do mean you. all of saw's artists had a story. kylie and jason were aussie soap stars who denied being an item, sonia was from liverpool and had starred in bbc comedy 'bread', rick [...]
you know all those bonus tracks that surface once an album is released? we used to get them as b-sides. occasionally an instrumental would be bunged on there, or a remix, but in the 80s, you were pretty much guaranteed at least an album track if not something which didn't make the cut. for kids with only a few 7 inches to entertain them throughout the summer, this could mean that you were as familiar with an artist's rarities as you [...]
Mel & Kim - Showing out label: RCA jaar: 1986 kant a: Showing out (Get Fresh at the Weekend kant b: System (House Mix) www.myspace.com/melandkim Een guilty pleasure uit mijn schooltijd. Afkomstig uit de stal van de door mij destijds toch redelijk verfoeide Stock, Aitken & Waterman was dit stiekem toch best een leuk liedje. Gelukkig deelde mijn muzikale rots in [...]
I thought it was time to post something a little less obscure from the cassette bins. Most of these tracks are probably well known so I'm not going to post much commentary. If you can, let me know in the comments what your favorite track is of this genre. Stock Aitken and Waterman are still doing things. Here is a link to Waterman's website with news, etc. He's behind Lola apparently, some pop girl I'm not down with. And there are rumours that Stock Aitken and Waterman are going to come back and [...]
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