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You will notice that the auto-embedding YouTube clips in the forums here (just post in the naked URL of the clip, folks) now (ie: in the last hour or so) enjoy a full-screen button.
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Preview of clips would be good too - just the static image if that's fetchable.
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I'd rather Bacherlorette got the success Ladyhawke's now getting, but I can kinda see why she's not. As formally perfect as Bacherlorette's debut EP and LP were, it was an altogether more insidious, even introverted proposition. I guess it doesn't help that her second album suffered the typical sophomore jitters either- it's fidgety where Isolation Loops was relaxed, stuffy where the original was expansive.
Still, I wish Ladyhawke aka Pip Brown all the very best (her singles are good revisionist fun), even if I wonder whether, rightly or wrongly, her international career may go the same way as the Datsuns- i.e. a brief, bright spark only to come crashing down when the press moves onto the next fad. She came accross as a top sort at the awards, though. Good for her.
Anika Moa is always entertaining at these things. I'm not the biggest fan of her work, but she's put on a great show every time I've seen her and her stint as a backing singer for Dimmer in 2004 was superb- Carter and Moa really bounced off oneanother.
And can I just say that I'm pysched to be seeing the Dead C and Dimmer on the same bill this weekend? Seriously, does it get any better?
Great clip of Darcy Clay, RB, I guess I'm off the (horribly young) age where that was the first NZ alternative classic that hit me at the time of its release, rather than coming to it several years after the fact, as I was forced to do with much of prime Flying Nun. What happened to him was just awful.
No matter, he left his mark...he used to do lots of things.
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He used to crash parties and Maseratis.
(It occurs to me that Darcy Clay was probably the first of the 'rediscovering "Jolene"' people, wasn't he? So there, Jack White!)
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He used to crash parties and Maseratis.
But give him his due, he never shook babies nor did he beat no ladies.
(It occurs to me that Darcy Clay was probably the first of the 'rediscovering "Jolene"' people, wasn't he? So there, Jack White!)
Indeed! He also had the good sense to absolutely murder the 1997 Diana-version of "Candle in the Wind"...and then claim the song was his.
( Songs for Beethoven is a hilarious live EP) -
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Now that the pages are so much longer do you think it might be possible please to have a System>Public Address Cafe link at the bottom of the column as well as at the top?
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Although the <<Older and Newer>> links are very useful they don't take you right to the top.
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Preview of clips would be good too - just the static image if that's fetchable
Dude, I gave you edit!
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He used to crash parties and Maseratis.
Surely one of the greatest rhymes in the history of Pop.
There'll always be complaints or disagreements about awards, but you have to admit, we've come a long way since the days when the NZMAs were so utterly irrelevant that they had to start a-whole-'nother awards*, just to have one that bore some resemblance to what people were actually listening to.
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(It occurs to me that Darcy Clay was probably the first of the 'rediscovering "Jolene"' people, wasn't he? So there, Jack White!)
My memory of the period is somewhat unreliable, but I think the Sisters of Mercy beat him to it.
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That was a blinding version of She's a Mod
Has anyone ever listened to the lyrics of "She's a Mod"?
It's about a guy whose girlfriend keeps changing her look, which is costing him a fortune because, you know, women can't earn any money of their own and/or if he buys her stuff she'll put out.
But finally she settles on the mod look, and he's so happy that "she won't change any more" as he won't have to shell out for a new look.
(But I bet after a few years she was all, "Baby, I need some flared trousers and platform shoes and other accoutrements of the disco era, etc.")
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My memory of the period is somewhat unreliable, but I think the Sisters of Mercy beat him to it.
They did, by a good ten, 15 years or so. They also did a cracking funereal version of Hot Chocolate's Emma. But that's enough Goth revivalism for today ...
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"He used to crash parties and Maseratis."
Surely one of the greatest rhymes in the history of Pop.
So good that Minuit recently appropriated it. I'd like to think in a knowing and respectful way.
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My memory of the period is somewhat unreliable, but I think the Sisters of Mercy beat him to it.
and Strawberry Switchblade who had a minor hit if my, also unreliable, memory is correct, in the mid 80s
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( Songs for Beethoven is a hilarious live EP)
Was that recorded when he was the support for Blur? I was at that show. Was Joel Tobeck on bass...?
My memory of the period is somewhat unreliable, but I think the Sisters of Mercy beat him to it.
and Strawberry Switchblade who had a minor hit if my, also unreliable, memory is correct, in the mid 80sThis is all grist to my 'Dolly: She's So Underappreciated!' mill. (One of my ambitions is to go to Dollywood and buy ridiculous tchotchkes.)
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Ladyhawke is globally successful *and* original. That's sufficiently unusual that she deserves to win all the awards, almost by definition. I don't think any other NZ artist has done that since the Datsuns (and they were to some degree cookie-cutter indie rock).
(Flight of the Conchords are comedy, rather than music. And they are flying through the air some distance above a large Great White, IMHO).
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just post in the naked URL of the clip, folks
Can you put that in the instructions, please? Just coz it's hard to remember.
Also, how about image embedding? How hard can it be? (Ok, so it disrupts the look of the site? Maybe just on some posts?)
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Greg Johnson had to physically helped to the podium for his Best Single award (and bought the house down with his short speech).
I love Greg Johnson's music. I remember him telling me "I wasn't drunk Dyan, I was exactly as fucked up as you'd want to be at one of those things.
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No "Best Pop Album"?
That is soooo bizarre.
Also, even though I loathe the genres, no "Country/Folk" category? They've got "Christian/Gospel", after all.
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Was (Songs for Beethoven) recorded when he was the support for Blur? I was at that show. Was Joel Tobeck on bass...?
Yep, that's the one!
And yes, I'm pretty sure one Joel Toebeck was playing bass, to add to the hilarity. I wasn't there, but it sounds like he was brilliant, and from what I gather from reviews at the time Blur were pretty sharp that night, too.I sometimes wonder how good his debut LP could've been, if he ever got the chance to record it. Certainly he had the goods, and the sound, to boot.
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Flight of the Conchords have only done two seasons*, surely it's too early for them to be jumping the shark? For what it's worth, although the songs weren't quite as good for the second season, I'd say the actual dialogue, performances and direction were better, so the trade-off was worth it.*on TV that is- they already had several hundred gigs and an award-winning radio show under their belt before that, of course...
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Dude, I gave you edit!
Just raised our expectations..
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He used to crash parties and Maseratis.
Surely one of the greatest rhymes in the history of Pop.
Not sure if it counts as Pop, but the best rhyme ever has to be from the "Be a Dentist" song in Little Shop of Horrors, where "bicuspid" is rhymed with "maladjusted"...
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where "bicuspid" is rhymed with "maladjusted"...
Special mention to Shriekback for
"big black nemesis" "parthenogenesis"
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"big black nemesis" "parthenogenesis"
I haven't heard that song for perhaps 15 years, but wait... wait... don't tell me... is the next line 'everybody happy as the dead come home'? Something like that?
(Imagine what I could do with this brain if it wasn't filled with dubiously accurate song lyrics.)
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I haven't heard that song for perhaps 15 years, but wait... wait... don't tell me... is the next line 'everybody happy as the dead come home'? Something like that?
Correct. I used to have extensive arguments with my flatmates over whether the earlier line was "We are not monsters/we're moral people" or "We are THE monsters".
But you've got to love the parties/maseratis line for being an all-too-rare example of zeugma in a pop song. And no, Flanders & Swann's "Have Some Madeira My Dear" isn't a pop song.
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