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I’ve been looking for an excuse to post the Daft Punk ‘body remix’ videos that have been doing the rounds and what better introduction than a Radio 1 documentary that my friend Talia did. You can check it out here.
That’s probably the first time I’ve listened to Radio 1 since the Tommy Vance Friday Night Rock Show back in 1989.
Anyway, here are the vids:
And check out Talia’s blog here. She’s my lifeline into pop. I tend to dismiss everything with very little reason, but Talia introduced me to Northern State’s Can I Keep This Pen? (The one and only time I’ve ever resorted to iTunes - and what a piece of shit experience that was) and The Pierces. Fuck it, it’s Saturday night -let’s post some more vids:
Northern State are great. Think Le Tigre stroking The Beastie Boys. And The Pierces have WHISTLING and a James Bond theme song thing going on which kills me:
And if you’re into podcasts - which I’m not at all, but am learning to appreciate slowly - then you need to check out Podcast Dot Com. It’s a really nice idea and the guy behind it is smart as a whip.
First night in Glasgow we crashed with Boag and then hung out with him again on the way back:
Boag’s a top bloke and currently writing for The Skinny. We first met back in the day on Punk Planet - weird that that place threw up so many friends. Anyway, Boag has now got himself involved with The Evil Eye working on some excellent John Carpenter influenced tunes. From their blog I found these two videos showcasing a couple of tracks from one of my favourite albums, The Director’s Cut by Fantomas:
Easily makes Cape Fear look more watchable (not Scorsese’s best work), but I’d love to watch the whole Godfather trilogy rescored by Mike Patton…
In a perfect world I wouldn’t even be aware of Radiohead.
Like everyone else, somehow I have a copy of OK Computer on CD. Unlike the rest of the world I think it’s a piece of shit. I have no idea how I ended up with the CD, but then again I have no idea how I ended up with a large brick with the word ELECTRICY written on it either.
Over the last few years I’ve found it quite easy to avoid mediocre crap like Radiohead - I don’t listen to the radio and avoid buying anything from quality music outlets like Tesco or service stations.
Long story short I don’t care about their fucking stupid new album and the ‘innovative’ way they released it.
Now I can’t turn around without hearing or reading about it (small mercies, I haven’t heard any of the actual whining on it) which seems to me a little unfair.
But I have a solution.
On their website you need three options. One button that says ‘Download and pay fuckall because I have a low IQ but I’m not THAT stupid‘, another button that says ‘I’m a moron so I’ll download and pay something I feel is hip‘ and a third button for people like me that says ‘We’re sorry for annoying you. Please press here and we’ll deposit $10 in your Paypal account for the inconvenience caused by our parents and their fear of contraception‘.
Someone drop me an email when it’s done, ok.
Not only do they not make ‘em like this anymore ‘they’ never really did:
Thankfully Zappa was never one of ‘them’.
Check out this Newsnight clip from 1983 where Zappa’s music is dismissed as an ‘expensive hobby’ and he gives his opinion on the then newly completed Barbican. Great stuff. Conductor, Kent Nagano, goes on to say:
In some ways this music, I think the fact that we’re documenting it on recording, could be one of the most historical events of this particular century…
YouTube footage via Zappa Internet Jam Sessions.
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