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Tune of the moment

  
  

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Cheap. Easy. Cruel.
12:21 / 06.10.03
Babyland - Test Pilot
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:23 / 06.10.03
Anything By Prince.

Solanoid- January 14th
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:25 / 06.10.03
Oh, and:

Sub Zero- The Immortals.

It's a techo song about Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat, and how he is a "Chinese Ninja Warrior", with his heart "so cold"
 
 
Sexy Legendary
15:37 / 06.10.03
City Girl by exs-MBVer Kevin Shields. Simple, maybe a little love lorn but a god dman winner in my book.

MBV covering Map Ref by Wire. Only taken me seven years to get hold of it and if you're my neighbour, then I'm sorry for playing it numerous times in any given day.

Freak by LFO, as mentioned previously, is fucking genius and its good to have 'em back.

New 50 Cent tune's a winner too.
 
 
De Selby
01:19 / 09.10.03
Ok, got a two more tunes of the moment:

Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Ed Rush and Optical remix)

Oh yes, we want fucking everything. Puts me in the weirdest moods.

Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit (Adam Freeland remix)

Ok, some love it, some hate it. I started out hating it, and then the sheer bleakness of it won me over. Stare into the void.


Its a freelandy kinda month I think
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
09:49 / 09.10.03
^5, Alex. I saw Free*Land (Adam's in a "band" now) at Leeds this year and they rocked, lots. "Fear" by the boy Freeland is some hot stuff too, It's the track from the last level of "Rez" if anyone's ever played that game.
 
 
This Sunday
08:02 / 08.06.07
Blossom Dearie's They Say It's Spring just started up on an unlabeled mix CD whose purpose I've totally forgotten. A song so fab and marvelous this thread had to resurrected to remind everyone how wow and sweet it is.

And, right on, I apparently had the sense to follow it up with the Dai-Guard themesong, the Cobratwister's Back Alley Space Boy. And - quick forward skip and back - Leon Russell's Stranger in a Strange Land coming up next.

If I wasn't insanely overjoyed when I compiled this, I must've been trying to force myself to be.
 
 
Janean Patience
08:55 / 08.06.07
Similarly, I've been going through old complilation tapes with the intention of decanting them to CD. I'd forgotten about the final track on one I heard last night - a pumping house cover version of Bruce Hornsby and the Range's The Way It Is. Irredeemably cheesy, ubergay and still, to my tasteless ears, wonderful. Not that I now have any idea who recorded it. It's from the first half of 1996, I know that...
 
 
Saveloy
09:58 / 08.06.07
Les Sabres Combo - Knee Beat

This is the BEST TRACK IN THE WORLD. I can't find any info about Les Sabres Combo on the web, other than the fact that they have a track listed on a couple of 50s/60s compilations. I got it on a mix CD some bloke sent me a few weeks back.

Like all the Best Tracks in the World it's short - just over 2 minutes - and it sounds like a gang of kids locked into a really tight but swingin' dance routine (left CLAP! right CLAP! left CLAP! right CLAP!) that they've just made up on the spot at a party.

Musically it's sparse - staccato sax honks and hand claps stab the rhythm out while the girl gang chants a lovely fluid string of "wamma-lamma binga-langa" pop-nonsense lyrics over the top. It's concentrated r'n'r / r'n'b JOY and if it doesn't make you want to dance about the room going: "Uh! YEAH!" then... well, buh!
 
 
Spaniel
11:27 / 08.06.07
That sounds fucking fantastic, I love hand claps and playground chants and stuff. Brilliant fun.

Where can I get me some, Sav?
 
 
Saveloy
11:30 / 08.06.07
*whisper whisper* PM on its way...
 
 
Spaniel
11:44 / 08.06.07
Goody!

Now then, my tune of the moment, well it has to Gasolina by Bonde Do Role. Dunno much about them other than that they're a Baile Funk outfit from Brazil, that their gigs are supposedly a bit mental, and that they often get lumped together with CSS. I imagine the Nu Rave tag gets thrown at them over here too.

Anyway, this tune is fucking nuts, it chops and changes and is riddled with fx and samples, like old-skool House (back when it was all called House in the late Eighties) crossed with Miami Bass. And it rocks the party!

Needless to say, I like these guys. Christ, in some of their other tunes you can even hear some bloody Hip House thrown in*.


*Seems like Hip House might be having a bit of a revival of late. Who'd a thunk it?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:05 / 08.06.07
I was thinking of starting a Bonde Do Role thread! I do like them, although I have my reservations about some of the more guitar-heavy stuff (although not 'Office Boy' or 'Vitiligo' which samples 'You Shook Me All Night Long' to awesome effect).
 
 
Saveloy
12:10 / 08.06.07
I wonder if Gasolina is the one I'm after? I heard a Bonde Do Role tune on the radio a while ago and it was one of those "Wow! Wtf is this?!", rush-to-the-volume-knob moments. I caught the band name but not the track, and all the BDR tracks I've heard since (Office Boy and... can't remember now) have been good but not as mad as the radio one.

Thanks for the inadvertant tip, Boboss, I'll look out for it.
 
 
Spaniel
12:13 / 08.06.07
Gasolina is on their myspace page which I have oh-so-kindly linked to above.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
12:20 / 08.06.07
My tune of the moment is "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants.
 
 
Spaniel
12:27 / 08.06.07
Must say more.
 
 
Spaniel
12:40 / 08.06.07
I'm also quite liking Atlas (beware, links to video of song) by Battles. Try and imagine a clockwork, repetitive structure comprised of drum beats and electric guitar chords and smurf work chants. It's unusual but sort of familar sounding and it sticks in the head like no-one's business. Can't say I'm that keen on the rest of Battle's stuff, but this tune stands out as interesting funtime.
 
 
Saveloy
12:54 / 08.06.07
"Gasolina is on their myspace page which I have oh-so-kindly linked to above."

D'oh! But yes, I think that's the one. Cheers, Boboss! I'm liking that Battles track too.
 
 
uncle retrospective
14:03 / 08.06.07
Atlas is locked in my head at the moment too. If they're still on tour catch them, they're so much better live than on album.
Plus you get to stare slackjawed at the drummer. He's not human.
 
 
M.a.P
11:58 / 14.06.07
Atlas obviously!
And
DEERHOOF!!!
They make me really happy: "Meet me/Meet me/Meet the perfect me"!!! ("The Perfect Me"from their latest LP "Friends Opportunity")
 
 
Spaniel
12:41 / 14.06.07
Hi Map, you're new so I'm going to be sooper nice and suggest that in future you expand just a little bit on why you like or dislike something. Considered good form around here.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:56 / 14.06.07
Yep, Map, that's a tune alright. Tune of the moment? Thanks to those 20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com [can't be arsed to do a link] boys, it's got to be the Dirty Soundsystem remix of Who by Odyssey. Sad 70's keyboards/vocals, yummy melancholic disco-house and not a filter in sight. Go listen to it. Just scroll down the front page.....

I have at least two other fave tunes at the moment, but I can't always remember what things are called so bear with me. I'm sure you'll all be waiting with baited breath.
 
 
Spaniel
13:04 / 14.06.07
That would be 20 Jazz Funk Greats, you cock.

Dirty Soundsytem remix here, you cock.

Actually, folks really should go and have a look at that site. It's fucking brilliant: neon, neo psychedilia that never fails to throw up at least one or two tunes that I really, really like. Possibly not for the rock crowd, however.
 
 
grant
16:15 / 14.06.07
Must say more.

Well, he's not a real doctor, but he is a real worm - he is an actual worm.

He loves to play the drums, too.

Lately, I can't help but break into song when I hear either:
1. "Suburbs with you" - Herman Dune (thank you, rizla)
in part, I have to admit, because I love the idea of a French dude singing "Ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-cacaca-ca-ca-ca-ca-caca-coffee with you!"

And it's so damn bouncy! With flutes! Stolen from "Wild Thing"!

or

2. "Dinosaur Egg" - Scout Niblett (thank you, Flux).

It's everything I loved about Cat Power's What Would the Community Think and old comic books with HYDRA and AIM in 'em wrapped together.

She gives voice to the inner 6-year-old would-be science villain in all of us. Most of us.

Me.

She's got a million people coming on Friday, she explains, so she needs 1. her dinosaur egg to hatch, 2. her robot slave to spring to life (to serve drinks) and 3. the tortured spirit to appear (to scare everyone).

Which is simply perfect. Just her voice and a one-note-at-a-time guitar (no chords!). I'm teaching my children to sing this song. The 13 year old is balking, but I figure another three days in The Cage and he'll be more amenable.
 
 
M.a.P
16:32 / 14.06.07
Mmmmm, okay.
Funny, because i was brief especially because i'm new (you know, didn't want to be too intrusive and/or trying too hard) and because my english is not that good (as far as my writing skills are concerned)!!!
Why Deerhoof then?
First and foremost because there is undoubtebly a sense of twisted innocence and childhood fantasy to their music and yet their sound is totally indebted to both No-Wave AND Prog rock ,which is an achievement in itself.
They are brilliantly skilled musicians (gee, what a drummer!), and the bitter brainy arty pill is a lot easier to swallow if you can run around shouting along "Panda Panda PANDA!"...
Yeah, the guys at TwentyJazzFunkGreats are awesome, i'll never thank them enough for introducing me to both Gay Against You 8-bit hardcore AND Goblin!!!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
16:43 / 14.06.07
Well, he's not a real doctor, but he is a real worm - he is an actual worm.

He loves to play the drums, too.

And he thinks he's getting good but he can handle criticism so he'll show you what he knows, and you can tell him if you think he's getting better on the drums!

Sorry about being too succinct above. I love the song because it's catchy as hell, fun in that TMBG "Sesame Street" way, and because by the end of the song I am always trying to work out whether a worm could play the drums like that if he was using both ends of a stick at both ends of the worm, and wind up doing awesome air drumming with a pen twirling between the first and second fingers of both hands.
 
 
Spaniel
16:56 / 14.06.07
(Good God, how long does it take to get an edit through round here?)
 
 
Feverfew
17:26 / 14.06.07
Tis done.
 
 
Spaniel
09:19 / 22.06.07
Rock! 20 Jazz Funk Greats comes through again.

Really loving this remix of Fuego's Misa Crella by Lee Douglas. Not heard of any of 'em before, but Lee Douglas seems to do a nice line in that Disco House stuff that's doing the rounds at the mo', and Fuego, well as far as I can see ze's all about… actually I have no idea who or what Fuego is - a musical perhaps? Whatever, Misa Crella seems to be latin in origin. Anyway, this is anthemic stuff heavily driven a great chorus and it's got me very excited this morning.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
09:44 / 22.06.07
Mr Boboss, if you honestly think that 20JFG would not be popular with the rock crowd then I suggest that you scroll down the front page 'til you get to the new Liars track and go click at it.

That, my friend, is the rock.
 
 
Spaniel
10:20 / 22.06.07
No, no, it is understood that that statement was wrongge.
 
 
M.a.P
10:21 / 22.06.07
Yay!!!
New Liars track! New Liars track!!
*skips like tiny freaky animal*

Never thought I'd say "Thank you Lord"!
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
10:24 / 22.06.07
Get used to it, baby. My 20JFG post on French progressive rock is going up next week...

It's great that new Liars track, innit? Really, well, rock, which I certainly wasn't expecting. They sound like they're having a hell of a lot of fun.
 
 
M.a.P
10:30 / 22.06.07
Right on,
like Oneida's groovy psychedelia spat out by Kodo drums,
and it sounds also a bit like "Desdemona" by John's Children, which is fun, fun, fun!
 
  

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