Holger Czukay, "Cool In the Pool" The Associates, "Love Hangover" Coloma, "No Moving Parts" Kraftwerk, "Aerodynamik" (Alex Gopher & Etienne de Crecy Dynamik mix)
Personally, I'm not too hot on this particular cover, but it was asked for very nicely by Plastique Nouveau. And since he hasn't heard it in around 15 years.... mp3 : Associates - Heart Of Glass My lack of enthusiasm is down to the fact that I loved the original - takes me back to my boyish schooldays and the longing I had for the delectable Deborah. Sigh. On the 'try and then buy' basis,
There's never a shortage of celebrity crushes on my end. The first one I can recall was Geena Davis, although more for her role as Dottie Henson in A League of Their Own than anything else. I think I was more in love with Dottie than Geena. Not really convenient, considering that she was in her prime in the early 1940s and I was developing my attraction 50 years later. Well... that, and the fact that Dottie was a fictional character to begin with, I suppose, never meant it'd amount to much. Then for years it [...]
I'm anticipating that many a blog will be commemorating the fact that today is the 10th Anniversary of the sad death of Billy MacKenzie. I don't know that what I've got to say will be all that different, but I'll offer some facts, and then I'll offer some thoughts. Billy was born in Dundee, Scotland and it was just outside that city that he took his own life with an overdose of prescribed
As a perhaps mistimed part of the run-up to the Billy McKenzie anniversary memorial gig, The Sunday Mail has run an interview with Billy's short-lived wife. Like that episode of The Simpsons, it turns out McKenzie had a Vegas wife, Chloe: "At 17, Billy was a real sweetheart. He was gorgeous. "We began dating and got married shortly after that. Billy proposed in Las Vegas. I had no idea he was going to ask me to marry him. "So we just got married right there and then." [...]
This month, it's ten years since The Associates' Billy McKenzie took his own life. As a tribute and celebration of his work, there's to be a special gig at the Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday 28th March - the day after he would have been fifty. Amongst the highlights is the first-ever live appearance of British Electric Foundation with their music of quality and distinction; Electric Soft Parade; Subterraneans, featuring a guest appearance from Paul Haig. Haig's not been on stage since 1989, which makes it even more than a rare appearance by the Josef K man. More [...]
Some bands just sound better when it's raining outside. This is a fact, particulary in mind of those dark and moody bands of the 80s. One group that comes to mind are the Associates , the influential duo of vocalist Billy Mackenzie and multi-instrumentalist Alan Rankine. Like many talented twosomes, their relationship eventually became volatile and Rankine departed after their classic Sulk album in 1982. The two albums Mackenzie and Rankine recorded, however, are both considered classics that touched two aspects of great originality. One was Mackenzie's extraordinarily powerful vocals, which had the [...]
No. 6: "Sorry For Laughing" Josef K The Only Fun In Town, 1981 As the story goes, Josef K had committed its debut album to tape, only to have the whole project nixed by Postcard Records head Alan Horne who wasn't fond of the record's slick sound. Down in Brussels for a New Year's Eve gig, Josef K decided to re-recorded the album's title track; four months later, the single "Sorry For Laughing" hit shops in April of 1981, released by the [...]
Little White Earbuds
THE VINYL VILLAIN
Ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen...
No Rock And Roll Fun
Obscure Sound
The Merry Muses Of Caledonia
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Pictures Of Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix
Bobby Womack & Lana Del Rey
Video: Chromatics – “These Streets Will Never Look The Same”
