"Look what I got at Target today! Let's play!" "Okay." "I'm Bob. I'm a Roman centurion. I have a sword." "I am Vectrix, son of Verucloetius, and was once a reknowned tinsmith of the Volcae. When the Golden Eagles came to take our lands, I rallied to the banner of my chieftain. Our warhost was slaughtered by Centurion Bob's legion. I saw my wife and daughters spitted on Roman spears, and I was taken prisoner. My arms were strong from working my trade, so I was judged fit [...]
Dark Days - Part Two Unfortuately I have no excuses. Well, saying that there might be a tiny excuse as my first girlfriend was into Asia . For a spotty faced teenager, even dumbing down to this extent could be entertained for the promise of some late night fumblings. And dumbing down is surely the end result of listening to this kind of twaddle. Fortunately, the album released in 1982 left my ownership many, many years ago but the emotional scarring is still there. Just to remind [...]
Today's Flashback Friday is about an English Synthpop/New Wave band who originally started in the late 70ies, but had their prime success in the 80ies. You might know their biggest hit, Don't You Want Me . Doesn't ring a bell? Well... read on then! The Human League was founded by two computer operators, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh , in 1977. On their search for a vocalist, a certain Glenn Gregory [...]
Phil Oakey is a post-Iggy crooner of romantic agony who possesses a tough streak of intellectual scepticism. 'Dare!' is the second intoxicating intervention to be produced out of the great split, and already it's the first Human League greatest hits collection. It is the first coherent projection of persecuted lover Oakey's staggeringly twisted personality – I mean that in the queasiest possible
Peter Mühlbauer erinnert drüben bei Telepolis an die Geschichte der Human League und befördert nebenbei ganz bemerkenswerte Videos zu Tage. Frühe Human League nach dem Klick! (more...) Human League , musique non stop , video
The Human League "Mirror Man" - After years of loving this song, I still can't figure out its angle on this "mirror man," or, given the way it's sung in the first person but then switches to an ambiguous chorus announcing the arrival of the "mirror man," whether or not the singer is the "mirror man." It seems that the singer is disassociating himself from the part of his mind that is eager to change, and he's afraid that this makes him a bit of a sociopath, or that being so [...]
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Various Artists, Frictions: Disco Select (Virgin France 1981) Rescued this French disco not disco type comp. from the salvation army recently. Along with OMD ("Enola Gay") and Medium Medium ("Hungry So Angry") there's this great early Human League track and some Franco-nu-wave by the Tokow Boys . Human League - "The Sound of the Crowd" Tokow Boys - "Petite Rockette" [...]
I logged on to the City of Woburn's website yesterday to pay the excise tax on Super Lumina, and was greeted with this cheery bit of news: Boil Water Notice Issued for Woburn: The public is advised to boil all water for drinking, food preparation, ice, brushing teeth, etc. It seems that one of the city's water storage tanks was showing high levels of E.coli bacteria. Typical. Just when the comments about Woburn's water had started to taper off (after 25 years), [...]
Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys Heartbreak Hotel - John Cale Smoke Without Fire (compliments of AmpCamp.com ) Since I've Been Loving You - Corrine Bailey Rae (Led Zep cover by Corrine thanks to Big O ) Black Starliner Must Come - Culture (Reggae classic!) [...]
Every Friday I plan on making a mix out of what ever I have in my iTunes, or rather, what ever is on my internal hard drive as I keep all my music in an external hard drive. The mixes will not have a theme. For the most part it will consist of [...]
Another post by a newcomer who we hope to see on board with his selections from time to time. Tumel 's a music freak from Istanbul, who is mostly into electronic/indie stuff, but he has some classical music, kitsch 80's pop, and techno under his belt too. Here's his first post in 2 parts, which feature some cool covers he's selected. image from the Senor Coconut event in Istanbul last friday!. * Alter Ego - All i ever wanted : this one used to be a floor [...]
Happy Birthday to the fabulous Pinkie Von Bloom! If we were real rich girls of leisure, we'd probably be whooping it up at CMJ right now -- but we have jobs and budgets, so we're seeing Britt Daniel and having cocktails at the Belmont later -- and playing hooky from work tomorrow (well, not really -- her company gives birthdays off, and I have a day saved up from my 7 year service anniversary date last month) to do girly things like get manicures and go shopping for unmentionables. Trés glam! Anyway, [...]
All Photos © Ted Polhemus/PYMCA. Boy George & Steve Strange, 1981. Various Blitz Kids, London 1981 It's the second in my series of posts dedicated to classic youth subcultures of the 20th century. The New Romantic movement evolved out of the Punk and New Wave scenes and mixed Bowie's glam to the mechanised beats of Kraftwerk. 'Bowie Night' was opened by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan along with George O'Dowd (Boy George) and Phillip Salon and originally started at Gossips in Soho and then moved to The Blitz . [...]
The Human League - Love Action (12" Remix) Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away (C2 Remix 4) Tommy Guerrero - Badder Than Bullets Dosh - Um, Circles And Squares
Sorry for the lack of posts from me but i've been pretty busy as of late. I'm currently adjusting to a new schedule with classes starting and my work place. Anywho, the regular features here will still continue and i'll probably get back to regular posting this week but if not then at least you know what's going on. Enjoy these random tracks! Shuffling these songs is pretty fun, as the list
The Human League - Once Upon A Time In The West So then 'blogging'... 'Blog', bloggin'. Blog. if this isn't the World's most vile word ( BLOG ) even in happy-clappy-your-hands-say-ye ah-land then I don't know what is. Here's some dictionary shit to pad out the bit that no-one reads. Main Entry: blog. - Part of Speech: noun. - Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log. - Example: Typically updated daily, blogs [...]
“Only pop music can save us now!†â€" Rick, The Young Ones I wish that was true. In a pop music utopia, instead of watching Dubya and Condi fiddle while Beirut burns, we could gather all the principal players together… Siouxsie & the Banshees â€" Israel (from a 1980 7†single, collected on Once Upon a Time: The Singles , 1981) â€" I wonder if this was Siouxsie’s way of making up for the swastika armband she used to wear and the anti-Semitic line in [...]
Armagideon Time
The World Won't Listen
Music Of The Moment
Modern Music
Gluck auf! - Andreas sein Weblog
Fluxblog Is So Hot Right Now
Some Velvet Blog
Hip To Be Square
undomondo
The Rich Girls are Weeping
The Revenge of Sounds of mine
The ill-ec-tro-nic
silence is a rhythm two
The Yellow Stereo
Spoilt Victorian Child
The Corner Laughers “Poppy Seeds”
