Oh and some country guy that the chief introduced me to.
Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet.
Johnny Cash - Big John
Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson - Ghost Riders in The Sky
Mehā¦fawk it. Anything done by Willie, Johnny, and Merle is doing me justice right now.
Now I realise this isnāt to everyoneās taste, but I like mowlam, or Thai country, as itās often called. Hereās Pornchita, or Benz, doing a pop favourite mowlam song.
I should admit that one of the things I really like about mowlam is the dancing girls. Usually the singer is matched with at least a dozen shapely lasses, all of whom would topple her in an instant by whatever means they could.
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Taiwan womanhood at very powerful mode.
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Regurgitator - Tu Plang. What a great debut album that was. Havenāt listened to it in about 10 years, even though I was at the album launch gig in 1996.
Hereās a vid. youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ht3hGcPzk
Emusic gave me 75 free tracks if I signed up again, so I did for a month. And I discovered a band called Iris (I knew Aunty played the guitar, but I didnāt know he was that good), synthy poppy, very catchy.
Hereās one: youtube.com/watch?v=h2Vwka5C ā¦ re=related
And Howard Jones, heās still going and better than ever.
Ah, CFI mages: i had a full 'gurge day yesterday. i have almost everything theyāve done from New and Hamburger EPs through to most of MishMash. ā¦Art is a killer fave, and TuPlang of course.
today iāve had a full blondie day. from 1976 through to 1980 (i wonāt stoop to Hunter). oh, and some bootlegs in concert with Iggy pop, and David Bowie, and robert frippā¦
tomorrow might be a relaxing day of Air, or maybe some atmospheric Eno or Frippertronics: iāve an horrible book chapter to whip into shape (i mean, rewrite) uuurrrrgghhhh.
I was absolutely serious about how Fat Elvis rules the hell over Skinny Elvis.
Iāve just played āIn the Ghettoā 3x in a row and tears are in my eyes. How many Skinny Elvis songs can make you cry? Now Iām on to āSuspicious Mindsā the greatest song that man ever sang, which kicks the hell all over anything he sang in the Sun Sessions. Anyone who tries to argue that āHound Dogā or āDonāt Be Cruelā is a better song is a fool.
āWeāre caught in a trap
and we canāt back out
Because I love you too much babyā¦ā
Man, pop music doesnāt get any better than that. And Iām not even gay. This is certainly better than anything off of 69 Love Songs or ABBA. Iām going to have to play āSuspicious Mindsā again for the 5th or 63rd time.
Rise by Samantha James.
She will be at room 18 tomorrow, but so will typhoon Sinlaku ā¦
Having another blast of classic Aussie music today.
Beasts of Bourbon āBlack Milkā this morning.
Spiderbait at the moment.
Coleman Hawkins: Desfinado: Bossa Nova and Jazz Samba.
Tension ā¦ starting ā¦ to ā¦ dissipateā¦
[quote]āWeāre caught in a trap
and we canāt back out
Because I love you too much babyā¦ā[/quote]
Dunno about the Elvis version, but the cover that figures in my pantheon is by Fine Young Cannibals with Jimmy Somerville on backing vocals.
When I hear about scamming evangelists I always have to drag out Cryptic SlaughterāCircus of Fools
āYouāre detached from reality!
Youāre brainwashed through and through
Start believing in yourself
And donāt let others preach to youā
When I think of scamming evangelists I think of Suicidal Tendenciesā āSend Me Your Moneyā
If you only send me a dollar or two
Well, thereās not a hell of a lot I can do for you
If you want to the light of heavenās door
Make your donation for $50 or more!
The first couple of Band albums.
Itās amazing how a group of whitebread, frost-bitten Canadians could capture my peopleās culture so authentically. Perhaps having a genuine Arkie (Levon Helm) in their midst helps, as well as touring Mississippi/Lousiana/Arkansas for 10 years with Fayetteville, ARās answer to Elvis, Ronnie Hawkins. I mean, hell, only someone who was seriously steeped in the South could write āThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Downā or someone seriously steeped in the Ozarks could write āUp On Cripple Creekā. I donāt know if any of these guys had a PhD. in anthropology, but they nailed the sound of the hillbilly American South pretty good for a bunch of foreigners. Of course, they cut their teeth as a working band spending 10 years in the hardest redneck bars in north Arkansas, so I guess they earned their authenticity.
Not even native son Johnny Cash (born a county apart from my birthplace) could do a better version of āThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Downā.
Ogdenās Nut Gone Flake the Small Faces.
Out of all of these bands: The Small Faces, the Faces, the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, The Jeff Beck Band, the Firm, Page & Plant, Pete Townsend & Ronnie Lane (did a great album together as a duo, I must say)ā¦my favorite of all of these very related bands isā¦the Who! But the Small Faces are a nice second place. āItās all sooo beauuuutiiifuuullllā¦!ā did anyone pen a better hippy-dippy anthem about getting stoned in the park?