So that's me off to Milano with Mrs Villain for a few days.....I won't be back in blog-land till next Monday. Here's the song I most associate with Italia, in all its extended glory of almost 8 minutes:- mp3 : Pop Will Eat Itself - Touched By The Hand of Cicciolina (Extra Time Mix) PWEI were far more successful than my memory told me. I had always thought of them as a sort of cult act who
Lesson learned from New Year's Eve: When someone offers you homemade moonshine and says "don't worry, it's not that strong" they are lying to you. Pop Will Eat Itself Can U Dig It? (Justin Strauss 12'' House Mix) Can U Dig It? (Justin Strauss 12'' Vocal Mix) Let me tell you why PWEI should be considered geek icons. First off, This PWEI song features some radical samples from The Warriors - one of the best cult flicks ever. Secondly, this song also references geek [...]
There are plenty of straight-up James Brown memorials today (here's John Pareles' obit in the Times) so I thought I'd offer up two tributes of sorts from 1989, a year after the Godfather of Soul's infamous drug-n-booze fueled run-in with...
In 1993 a compilation album was released called "Peace Together" which coincided with a series of concerts where, like the album, British and Irish musicians played and presented a united front calling for an end to the troubles in Northern Ireland. The album features many of these bands producing cover versions of songs I guess they thought were pertinent. The album also features the dreaded