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DexterX

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:03:45 +1200

Paul McCartney turns 70 and Justin Bieber releases his new wingle "Boyfriend" – listening to the radio newz has it hazards – they played some of his wingle – it is newsworthy how?

Kyle Matthews

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:05:48 +1200

And I don’t think I was alone – there was a global sense of ‘thank fucking god’ when those early records arrived – you only need to look at the music press of the time. Quickly, music became exciting again and people started to push the boundaries.

My partner worked…

DexterX

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:01:02 +1200

Two songs I hate as much as anything I have ever hated are Led Zep – Heart Breaker and Deep Purple – Highway Star – they are torturous – but why torture yourself when you can enjoy this piece of unbridled magnificence – better than a zero budget and making…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:47:39 +1200

Godfather of Go-Go, go-go-gone...
What a week, Donna Summer and Chuck Brown gone...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7bzLib0GY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVgf1eNG-g&feature=related

inspiration for ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buXt-yyZEss&feature=related

Pump up the volume!!

Paul Williams

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:21:13 +1200

Bloody hell, I can almost remember the words to this Tina Cross song... I was nine! Now I'm dying to know the name of the song that won... was it Mark Williams song? I remember being happy it won (sorry Tina).

DexterX

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:20:26 +1200

I prefer he original mix – though laughed my face off at the dance routine – thought it was Billy T.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksdNMiJ8Szk

3410

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:15:15 +1200

the-beach-boys-best-new-song-in-40-years?

Ah... not quite. A strong contender for best in 30, though. I like it; plenty of elements of classic Brian there. Thanks for the tip. :)

Rob Stowell

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:34:46 +1200

For the Mike love haters? Nah, it's ok, really! http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/04/25/151355713/hear-the-beach-boys-best-new-song-in-40-years?sc=fb

JacksonP

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:13:06 +1200

I was just reminded of the existence of this 'super group'!

It needs sharing.

I won't admit to dancing to it though, 'cause that would be a step too far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYqIvnPvqQ&ob=av2e

Will de Cleene

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:46:59 +1200

Excellent. I suspect it would be a hit. With the PA massive at the very least.

Seconded. Ska Back Benches theme while they're at it plz?

Didn't someone on PA request a Tomorrow People remix, like, ages ago? That would also be excellent.

Rob Hosking

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:30:16 +1200

Jacks's heavily medicated style of delivery had him sounding as if he was about to kark in mid verse

I, for one, would have been immensely cheered had he done so.

Rob Hosking

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:29:30 +1200

we must discuss this further some time. drinks compulsory

I will need quite a bit of alcohol to be enticed back to that particular phase of my life...

Joe Wylie

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:33:27 +1200

It has a certain charm ...
There are certainly worse examples of the deathbed speech genre. Jacks's heavily medicated style of delivery had him sounding as if he was about to kark in mid verse. Highly resistable.

Dean Papa

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:28:29 +1200

now this really is stirring stuff!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHDgb3NBKaM

Dean Papa

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:25:11 +1200

New Zealand 10 points!

but can anyone remember the song this beat to be the NZ representative?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VCeF6c3LFw

Dean Papa

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:18:04 +1200

oops!! meant his one (in context of the movie of course)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpf3TSpbnTo

Dean Papa

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:15:47 +1200

stirring stuff I say!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4BF67pvsc

Dean Papa

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:10:31 +1200

It has a certain charm ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jl-R2NhUiI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4BF67pvsc

Sacha

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:34:19 +1200

when I was working at the BOP Times

we must discuss this further some time. drinks compulsory.

Rob Hosking

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:20:07 +1200

I think for sheer musical torture/bad associations I haul back to an incident when I was working at the BOP Times. Had to interview someone in Te Puke & was told to take a photographer out as well, not so much for the story, but to take some shots for an…

Simon Grigg

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:00:37 +1200

yikes = *Dammers*

Simon Grigg

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:37:42 +1200

The Specials are in town.

Nah, they'd need Jerry Damners to rewrite it for them.

Sacha

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:19:32 +1200

could rescue TVNZ7 single-handedly..

JacksonP

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:49:25 +1200

I believe the band you want for that is The Yoots.

I am actually going to suggest that to the producers ...

Excellent. I suspect it would be a hit. With the PA massive at the very least.

Russell Brown

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:43:08 +1200

Someone needs to do a Ska version of that stat! Anyone? The Specials are in town.

I believe the band you want for that is The Yoots.

I am actually going to suggest that to the producers ...

JacksonP

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:28:44 +1200

Almost as much as the It's In the Bag theme.

Someone needs to do a Ska version of that stat! Anyone? The Specials are in town.

Danielle

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:49:40 +1200

Although I liked it even without the remake.

Me too. I love the Coronation Street theme. Almost as much as the It's In the Bag theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI2Wb2zJIhA

I can happily listen to that on repeat about five times. The bit about 30 seconds in when it does the little percussive…

3410

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:17:44 +1200

This is appalling but also the thing I raced home from school to watch.

Heh, and surely the most plot-heavy theme song of all time.

JacksonP

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:51:05 +1200

It goes to show how much bad music is improved by ska/ reggae/ dub treatment.

Yep. Although I liked it even without the remake. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbC2fgUXs-o

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:45:38 +1200

Take, for example, this Mission Impossible theme used to soundtrack a Krypton Factor-esque obstacle course for a squirrel:
culminating in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZNkxJFiQ0

Isabel Hitchings

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:46:45 +1200

This is appalling but also the thing I raced home from school to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAfHJfavGI

Will de Cleene

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:07:45 +1200

Ska version of the Coro Street theme.

Ta, Danielle. It goes to show how much bad music is improved by ska/ reggae/ dub treatment. Take, for example, this Mission Impossible theme used to soundtrack a Krypton Factor-esque obstacle course for a squirrel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Eb1Nt6WIE

Unfortunately, not everything is improved by ska/…

Sacha

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:51:59 +1200

genius

Danielle

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:34:03 +1200

Ska version of the Coro Street theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvdrQkIHPW0

Kinda badass.

dyan campbell

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:19:04 +1200

Now there's a song brought to me by Casey Kasem ... but I'm sure it was as Nick Gilder.

I'm sure it wasn't recorded or released until later, but it had been around as a song for a while I think. When Nick Gilder was in Sweeney Todd and they…

Lilith __

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:16:08 +1200

For the headbanging disco set.

Biobbs

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:32:35 +1200

the theme meme...
one of my yoof-ful favourites...

I see your UNCLE and raise you WHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ihWpw6CWg&feature=related

Is it just me, or was the first one always way spookier and creepier than any of the others?

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:39:56 +1200

an O(b)S-tackle course...
...the Great Wall of Jobs
Check some... results in some odious images
more flagrant than fragrant....

the theme meme...
one of my yoof-ful favourites...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NytrnoI_Q&feature=related
I still have the soundtrack record, and once had the woolworths pyjamas
(which came with a glow-in-the-dark triangular U.N.C.L.E. badge – which I…

Hilary Stace

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:53:42 +1200

Talking of Peter Sellers, this gave me nightmares when I was young. Can’t believe it was played on the public radio request session in the 1950s and 60s but it must have been. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFSftV1d6w

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:49:24 +1200

Hate every bar of its simpering, reactionary, fake superficial kumbya-tolerance

I feel your Farnham pain. Although I refuse to poke around You Tube looking for it, the name alone is enough to make me break out in a cold sweat: Mike & The Mechanics. “The Living Years”

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:52:36 +1200

Double yikes! 20,000 views has just whipped by, in the space of a week.

A lovely autumnal day, raking leaves, stacking firewood and visiting folk with new babies (not necessarily in that order).

Ross Mason

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:40:55 +1200

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Speaking of speaking. This must count as speaking:

This is the original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s

And he even made a record version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqqFWvwJJw

Hilary Stace

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:24:13 +1200

My internet connection is on a go-slow for Good Friday, so can't download any of the clips today, but can supply a piece of trivia re Gloss. The main character (played by Miranda Harcourt) was called Gemma Stace. The scriptwriter had been a friend of my older sister (not called…

Lilith __

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:55:19 +1200

Yes :)

Superb! Thank you.

Lilith __

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:54:06 +1200

Some of the episodes were truly dire television, but you gotta love the theme....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQvBbzslJE

Simon Grigg

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:53:24 +1200

Yes :)

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/goodbye-flash-youtube-mobile-goes-html5-on-iphone-and-android-2010079/

Simon Grigg

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:51:22 +1200

No idea. I've got a Droid machine so no issues with the Great Wall of Jobs

Lilith __

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:47:25 +1200

You need to opt in:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Does that work on mobile devices, though? If it did, that would be awesome!

Jackie Clark

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:39:27 +1200

Oh goodie. We're going there. In that case, my very favourite TV programmes were Poldark........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoFBiiJD1E

The Pallisers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4ER2iklnA

and The Onedin Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7RWW36wes

As you can tell, I was a sophisticated young woman with a yearning for servants.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:35:23 +1200

You need to opt in:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Sacha

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:09:14 +1200

I thought Youtube's player worked without Flash now?

JacksonP

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:41:34 +1200

Having complained about it, I'm now guilty of it.

The first you might guess was Batgirl. 2nd and 3rd, theme to Miami Vice and Chips, in no particular order.

In that I can't tell now I'm on my iPhone.

Burn.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:56:51 +1200

Accessing this thread via iPad, something is certainly is lost in translation. Sort of "Insert song here"--which could be anything--in many offerings.

Will de Cleene

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:39:23 +1200

Oh, we're going there are we? From the writers of God Save the Queen comes this Old Blighty dirge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf-wKmC2Z-k

JacksonP

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:46:11 +1200

'Yeah, whose baby are you, Batgirl!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFidlZdAQxg
We could go on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYKdayl7BHM&feature=related
and on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0MEtBQb2yM

Lilith __

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:24:56 +1200

Not wanting to take the gloss off the morning, on the theme theme.

Audio only, unfortunately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrAp7xyPaM

Lilith __

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:19:13 +1200

What Lang was describing in fiction, Hitler was trying to make happen

The story goes that when Hitler saw Metropolis he said, "This is the man to make films for the Reich!" and Lang fled Germany that same night; thus began his career in America.

JacksonP

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:00:27 +1200

or Follyfoot

Woah! That's a ghost and a half.

Not wanting to take the gloss off the morning, on the theme theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_xdCYAz8Y

Joe Wylie

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:38:47 +1200

. . . that Oz "Intelligentsia" twerp . . .
That's Monday Conference host & "moderator" Bob Moore. No doubt aware that treating Zappa as a visiting intellectual à la Germaine Greer might offend Norman Normal of Neutral Bay, Moore strove to add his brand of old school intellectual ballast to…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:37:30 +1200

You can lead a horse to culture...
The mullety guy in Slade always looked to me
like he'd strayed from the Sweet.
or Follyfoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqwJoEGyGMY
aaah, Ron and Slugger and Dora...

...and I dunno why that Oz "Intelligentsia" twerp went
straight for a Nuremberg reference, looked more
like…

Biobbs

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:35:36 +1200

I worked in printing / litho shops for many years. The ever-blaring commercial radio was as much of a health hazard as the chemicals, solvents and badly-ventilated darkrooms. I have retained a loathing for classic rock that rocks, no repeat workdays, and the hits of the 70s 80s and 90s.…

nzlemming

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:32:36 +1200

Perhaps Lang, as an artist, was commenting on the scene around him? It's not as if Metropolis is a nice place, after all.

Tim Michie

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:20 +1200

I appreciate that but the crowds in unison bits with the band took it into martial rally to my eyes...

nzlemming

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:58:04 +1200

Video is from Metropolis, 1927, by Fritz Lang so around the same time. What Lang was describing in fiction, Hitler was trying to make happen.

Tim Michie

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:49:34 +1200

echoes of a Nuremberg rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t63_HRwdAgk

Joe Wylie

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:40:35 +1200

Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn't sound right either
Sorry, corrected. The mullety guy in Slade always looked to me like he'd strayed from the Sweet.

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:35:06 +1200

The clip shown as an example of rock music’s power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:

Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn’t sound right either

Yeah, that’s totes Slade from about 5.05.

And “echoes of a Nuremberg rally”. Heh.…

Martin Lindberg

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:24:36 +1200

Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run'

Ah, The Sweet. My first big concert was going to The Sweet on their Give Us a Wink-tour. Maybe 76 or 77.

nzlemming

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:13:59 +1200

The clip shown as an example of rock music's power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:

Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn't sound right either

Joe Wylie

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:48:34 +1200

Zappa engages with the Australian intelligentsia, 1973. The clip shown as an example of rock music's power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvS78tsbheU
A pity that the later part of the show doesn't seem to be available, where the most earnest participant asks "Mr Zappa,…

Hebe

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:40:39 +1200

Sweet...that leads me to Sorrow (un-dreck) [my ma wouldn't take me to The Sweet concert in 1972 for my birthday so I made do with Lulu].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tocZ4bqIgUY

nzlemming

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:22:58 +1200

Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run'

First band I ever saw live, Brooklands Bowl, New Plymouth, 1972 or 73 supported by [gasp] Daniel "Daddy don't you walk so fast" Boone. I was eleven. They still have a place in my musical pantheon. Some dreck in the…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:04:43 +1200

Touche...
The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run':
The Sweet Fox you say...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZSbkYjQer8
almost a talkie...

Simon Grigg

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:32:22 +1200

If you're after a far better sounding "Saturday Night"...

TBH I think I'd rather have the Rollers than Jimmy.

But I'd rather have Weller than either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKcNSrB_kqg

and, since we're there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K5i231DMv8

DexterX

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:52:41 +1200

A better Saturday Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7yZH-SZKdg

Kumara Republic

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:00:03 +1200

Disgusting dreck
If you're after a far better sounding "Saturday Night"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lelsyP9qL2I

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:25:02 +1200

Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWw06ZOoBvo

And the much more rockin' album version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMEneOrTkI

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:17:15 +1200

Disgusting dreck

or... Bubblegum gold.

More the latter, methinks.

3410

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:10:08 +1200

Disgusting dreck

or... Bubblegum gold.

Hebe

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:28:18 +1200

Disgusting dreck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK6BjJaAjY&feature=fvsr

Rob Stowell

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:12:12 +1200

the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years — perhaps ever
Yeah, and here's one that didn't make it onto any record that I know about- but a ripper at the time: the McGoohans' "Pyschedelic Texas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8w_8fXKSRM

Rob Stowell

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:09:09 +1200

Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion? Seems there's a few of us around here.

One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...
Ours now 11 going on teen :)

Joe Wylie

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:57:35 +1200

The only song I can recall being physically threatened for enthusing over, but that was a very long time ago.
Even fuzz maestro Tony Peluso has sadly passed on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooeMrCws-A

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:44:20 +1200

More at the Meat Puppets end than the Poison end. I've been enjoying the Bruce Russell-compiled Time to Go — the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years — perhaps ever. Bruce's theme is about a psychedelic movement in South Island post-punk…

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:42:07 +1200

At my school Nick Gilder (Sweeney Todd) played sock hops and dances many times before he became too pricey for high school dance budgets.

Sweeney Todd
Hot Child in the City

Now there's a song brought to me by Casey Kasem ... but I'm sure it was as Nick Gilder.

Simon Grigg

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:11:17 +1200

this counts as spoken word

It's a fairly epic five minutes of utter hogwash, but if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese then I'm not one to argue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leI7sfmipuI

Bevan Shortridge

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:29:36 +1200

I guessing this counts as spoken word...another Dylan song done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc

Mr Tambourine Man – William Shatner

Hebe

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:18:12 +1200

The horror of the Spoken Word Surely Debbie Harry can be exempt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPusRALbJQ&feature=fvsr

JacksonP

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:13:34 +1200

Has there been any Kim Wilde?

OMG this is bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJRyWDwGG-4&feature=related

Danielle

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:40:23 +1200

Oh, aren't they lovely? Sigh...

Ross Mason

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:31:29 +1200

Rubbed out: rubbish.

;-) ;-)

Ross Mason

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:47 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtS7ybU0jE&feature=related

;-)

Tom Ackroyd

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:29:27 +1200

The tinkly nostalgic acoustic music used in all those hand-held beautiful people ads trying to look like the Tree of Life shot on 5Ds that are all the rage these days.

Ross Mason

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:13:04 +1200

Well done Lilith__

I have bookmarked that cracker!

Hebe

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:39:03 +1200

I have a hate-love-hate for this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOrsNrEOUc&feature=related

Tom Ackroyd

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:07:40 +1200

Spoken word classic. Reader, I bought it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94-_w9ARX0

DexterX

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:10:40 +1200

This is an improvement on Queen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JdXiIcBmw&feature=related

Ross McA.

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:44:30 +1200

Thelma Houston's version is the best by a funky mile. Bass-icly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KIW9mzJr8c

3410

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:15:45 +1200

The horror of the Spoken Word

This one has a special place in Hell; partly because it's such a cheap gimmick, partly because it's such a travesty, and partly because he comes across as such a prick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo522Wb40bU

Lilith __

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:05:49 +1200

Are you all feeling calm and relaxed? If not, try this….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSQFzw1pEE&list=UUqm36TgcwwNOG_99BRnoPqA&index=1&feature=plcp

Joe Wylie

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:27:40 +1200

The horror of the Spoken Word – Desiderata for the terminally self-absorbed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

"Do not trust anyone who tries to update Shakespeare for kids":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4

DexterX

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:59:08 +1200

And, dear old Heart. They were awesome musicians, really stuck it up those who said “rock is for men”, but dear lord, how tedious I found their stuff

I found their stuff mostly clever – liked how they could turn the beat on a song around – have their first…

dyan campbell

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:41:36 +1200

I have retained a loathing for classic rock that rocks, no repeat workdays, and the hits of the 70s 80s and 90s. It’s enough to send you postal.

Jonathan I sympathise. I didn’t even like them when they were current and hadn’t yet been turned into a kind of aural…

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:04:42 +1200

One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...Congratulations. You are doubly blessed; and they are so much more fun than a single.

hayden ward

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:38:33 +1200

not to mention that special time of the year... ROCTOBER

Jonathan Ganley

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:23:47 +1200

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:27:11 +1200

One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...

Congrats, and all the best. Busy times.

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:25:23 +1200

Back to the talkies? Check out the drummer. It's like he got lost on the way to a Duran Duran gig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-avJdGnHe0

Simon Grigg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:25:08 +1200

For Danielle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK90_cWyyco

SteveH

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:21:48 +1200

Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion? Seems there's a few of us around here.
One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...

Simon Grigg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:15:04 +1200

A great talking record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5nnDlgzxEo

A great cover of a great talking record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUoPgdRzH4o

dyan campbell

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:47:02 +1200

Good god, is this some kind of record for number of pages?? Wonderful reading…

And, dear old Heart. They were awesome musicians, really stuck it up those who said “rock is for men”, but dear lord, how tedious I found their stuff.

Heart played my cousin’s high school graduation. By…

Simon Grigg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:34:38 +1200

I see your Underworld and raise you one Leftfield:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edS4urkN9Pc

philipmatthews

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:34:09 +1200

Tom Beard

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:45:36 +1200

having my mind completely blown by Underworld's incredible mmm skyscraper i love you:

Oh yes, so much yes! Being a typography nerd at the time, I also bought the book of the same name name. It's incredible how they often seem to get the same effects in both music and…

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:49:11 +1200

'Sok I'm fine with it. Boys are 14. they are so identical that I once sat them at a hairdressers, side by side, with two different scissor wielders, and told the cutters to give the boys different looks, and their teacher and classmates were still unable to tell them apart.…

Kebabette

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:44:19 +1200

I am a total 80s head, but this is quite a pompous load o'ass.

"We made our love on wastelands
and through the barricades"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLR9yyI9CHg

Ouch, making love through barricades must be a bit stingy, poor Tony Hadley prob got barbed wire on his willy.

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:37:06 +1200

I had been enjoying not being "mother of twins" on PA.

Sorry for drawing attention to it. Ours are so individuated people sometimes look at us when we say they're twins as if we made it up. 'Are you sure?'

Yep, pretty damn sure. Fraternal 10yo girls, FTR.

ETA: Quote…

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:30:28 +1200

Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion?No. You have twins too? How old? I slipped up; I usually try to refer to the two as children rather than twins, partly as a result of my only visit to the multiple birth playgroup where it seemed…

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:13:21 +1200

They were worth any price: my then three-year-old twin boys were in awestruck silence for at least three hours afterwards.
Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion? Seems there's a few of us around here.

Speaking of which...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHXqN-x-l-M

It was special to me when…

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:00:53 +1200

I've seen the Wiggles live. Twice. They give a good show. Seriously

They were worth any price: my then three-year-old twin boys were in awestruck silence for at least three hours afterwards.

a strong visceral responseAltern8 does: videos with that flickery-flackery stuff make me throw up, literally. Used to happen…

nzlemming

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:54:49 +1200

Atomic Kitten. Live. Singin' in their nighties

And that, my pretties, is why autotune even got a foot in the door. Faaarrrrk!

Kebabette

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:46:13 +1200

They are pretty fab. I think the Leo Sayer/Wiggles is damn catchy! My 3 year old was mad in love with Jeff, but has transferred her toddlery affections to Murray.

Kebabette

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:43:54 +1200

Can I just say a hearty Bless you to Tom Beard for Never Never by The Assembly, DeepRed for the collage of 80s Aussie gems & Hebe for The The, and all the golden tunes in here.
And to the Jimmy Somerville massive – my fave is So cold the night…

JackElder

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:41:19 +1200

Add in The Wiggles

I've seen the Wiggles live. Twice. They give a good show. Seriously.

JackElder

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:37:28 +1200

I used to put this on towards the end of parties, to winnow out the wheat from the chaff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bty9ca9vYPE

Tended to instigate a strong visceral response, either positive or negative.

My own musical education was somewhat influenced by growing up in various places where availability of new music was…

Kebabette

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:22:09 +1200

Add in The Wiggles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6jCmxoQ7I ...

Kebabette

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:18:03 +1200

Atomic Kitten. Live. Singin' in their nighties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFeTVpeEXA8

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:10:23 +1200

Can anyone sit through this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa7iGhS3M&feature=related

Russell Brown

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:09:04 +1200

This used to play on the local radio station way back when. I only ever remembered the chorus, took no notice whatsoever of the verses (I was very young). I thought it was some sort of religious song because of the chorus ("Don't you ever let a chance go by,…

Ross Mason

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:01:42 +1200

And a C&W parady for ya. John Prine had a hand in it apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo8poVlQrM

Ross Mason

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:49:48 +1200

Dylan imitation......nice version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-5kpyD4cE

Waste yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eccz7D0QK0

Roger

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:44:06 +1200

Well apart from having a peculiar affliction to anything from Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan…

The holidays after high school I worked in a shearing gang and was cruely subjected to this for 12 hours a day. I believe that it certainly falls within the definition of torture!!

I still…

nzlemming

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:59:29 +1200

Remember back in the day when proper good gaffer was quite hard to come by? The rockstar roadies would saunter around with their own special stock.

And you'd find some actor had used your fricken expensive gaffer to put up a poster on the wall!

Hebe

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:42:12 +1200

Anyone that has been following this thread will feel the need to repair their DNA after the aural damage inflicted on the brain cells:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CvZ6MzMX0&feature=related

Or you could turn to God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNulAWZC4s

My preferred option; listen to some dirty rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp47YwDZ48&ob=av2e

Lilith __

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:33:22 +1200

Lou Reed is a legend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZfLXN3c_I

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:26:59 +1200

While our host is off educating the yoof, this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDeRKUJ-IU

Joe Wylie

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:48:34 +1200

The second Kinks song I became aware of was in a film about a penis transplant ("Percy").
Percy was apparently based on a novel by the late Raymond Hitchcock, father of onetime Soft Boy Robyn Hitchcock:
"And then he started writing and hit the bonanza with a book about a…

3410

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:43:36 +1200

God's Children – The Kinks

Bevan Shortridge

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:31:54 +1200

Ah, Burning Bridges. We had that on the same compilation cassette tape (20 Solid Gold Souvenirs) as Lola, the first Kinks song I was ever aware of. The second Kinks song I became aware of was in a film about a penis transplant ("Percy").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEvOL2NtWU

God's Children – The Kinks.…

Bevan Shortridge

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:18:12 +1200

Joe Wylie

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:31:36 +1200

With respect. an even more vile Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMNADUgGfVg
There was a lot worse stuff around then, like the Mike Curb Congregation's odious Burning Bridges, but Chirpy Chirp had to be the Everest of twee. I remember two Australian wannabe punkettes in the late 70s having an 'I…

Marcus Turner

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:06:42 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-7CrfbNY-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPStw1SzcQc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc

George Darroch

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:05:47 +1200

D Generation – Five In A Row – itself released as a single

This monstrosity was all over Aussie radio two years ago. I was working in a kitchen where I heard it many, many times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bLO8D9sis

Australian commercial radio is so bad that a mundane nationwide 'youth' station [[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/|Triple…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:55:14 +1200

A Tall Dwarfs classic
yeah, verily and OMG, thats my thumb!
and a lot of my books and comics...
and I even get a photocopy cameo at 4.02
(Just before Carol Tippet)

my work here is done!
set the controls for the heart of the sun...

Bevan Shortridge

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:49:06 +1200

On the subject of dubious Aussie 80s songs, perhaps a nice summation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfRmlBIf8uk

D Generation – Five In A Row – itself released as a single

George Darroch

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:39:15 +1200

Many people find it very hard to get to the end of this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ5PqyDZqvk

Russell Brown

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:32:01 +1200

Gaze in awe at...
The Antique Roadies Show
"Don't just sit there, Gaffer something!"

Remember back in the day when proper good gaffer was quite hard to come by? The rockstar roadies would saunter around with their own special stock.

3410

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:26:34 +1200

Small Faces

I love 'em too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQ_oPCzIUg

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:20:29 +1200

More on "our Australian friends":
time to recycle (again) a Spectator cartoon punchline,
about the new TV franchise –
Gaze in awe at...
The Antique Roadies Show
"Don't just sit there, Gaffer something!"

Joe Wylie

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:59:53 +1200

More on "our Australian friends":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXqt4He7hPI

Russell Brown

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:49:06 +1200

Haha Deep Obsession ROFL

A few of you out there may recall Auckland Walk, a genuinely terrible group who controversially won the Battle of the Bands in (iirc) 1984.

Like all bands you thought were long gone, they live on on MySpace.

JacksonP

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:24:33 +1200

There’s no loco without Yoko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZvHuh7wKM&feature=related

Which leads, a little laterally, to this, which I rather like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZdbNMDH8hc&feature=player_embedded

and then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi8PNir8L4o&feature=relmfu

Pete

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:14:07 +1200

Haha Deep Obsession ROFL

Simon Grigg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:16 +1200

For someone who didn't much like punk, I'm still a little surprised at how much I enjoyed Foxx's Ultravox.

You can almost forgive them for naming one of my most disliked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8IOD-wk9g

which unfortunately leads us to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8frPD7DgqI

then to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH3KUQ3wB3A

and unfortunately to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0opaRzO0ftY

Simon Grigg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:53:15 +1200

I though you said Carlene Anderson and I thought, now you're talking a common language:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgWm8o_lE7M

Scott Chris

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:38:30 +1200

But yeah, Lloyd Webber is the Nickelback of stolen light classical –

That’s a bit harsh. I see him more as a kind of latter day Sir Arthur Sullivan. Especially fond of Jesus Christ Superstar….now how does that song go again…

**dong dong dow / dabadaba da / dong dong…

Ross Mason

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:36:26 +1200

Small Faces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE

and here is one of my classics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXmMMSo47s

3410

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:21:35 +1200

Ennio Morricone

Don't mind if I do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnEfPl9JB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qSofTuDkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4GqLN3ZPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM9chl3JjrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9n0_XH_RAU

nzlemming

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:12:39 +1200

Here's one from 1976, with Midge Ure's former band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NrGba2qUvE

And this is the Ultravox I preferred, pre-Ure. I got the album from a very clued in friend in exchange for a white shirt. God knows where the vinyl went but I managed to pick up a CD later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn98yNUqDsE…

Will de Cleene

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:09:00 +1200

Another dog for the ugly song department:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrQ4YQD8UY

Pete

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:01:03 +1200

I agree with Martin, most reggae bores the tits off me.Mighty Diamonds are ok.
I mean, what do ya do during those long spaces in between notes? Play scrabble?

The worst song has got to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE82oke8BWM
which only marginally outdoes "Shadow on the Wall" by Mike Oldfield for repetitiveness…

nzlemming

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:53:30 +1200

When it comes to David Tennant doing a Dennis Potter, you can’t go past the bizarre majesty that is Blackpool…

O.o

Oh, and anyone who says show tunes are stupid can BITE ME in triple time.

That one is awesome. I was watching it on the night and immediately started…

Robert Fox

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:51:36 +1200

Sorry I'm eally late in to this thread and not got past page 4. But the first sight of Phil Collins stopped me dead in my tracks. How the Fucker avoided public execution for another day in paradise, is beyond me.

nzlemming

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:51:31 +1200

not up there with '500 miles' by any stretch, but well overplayed in its season. plus some easy trainspotter-fodder.

Got to 1:54 and had to ditch. And I *really* liked it way back when.

Tom Beard

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:48:04 +1200

It's all got a bit blurry.

nzlemming

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:43:14 +1200

Smalltown Boy' and the Communards' authentic disco classic version of 'Don't Leave Me This Way':

Word.

Martin Lindberg

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:39:49 +1200

We’re all still posting music we hate, right? Right?

Joe Wylie

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:37:55 +1200

I've been known to sing this in the shower...
Nothing like a good Japanese children's march.
And Joe Hisaishi is up there with Ennio Morricone IMHO.

Tom Beard

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:35:45 +1200

Just because it's getting late, and I need something mellow, some genuinely beautiful (though bewitchingly complex) Philip Glass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_DvtPXgOY

st ephen

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:23:35 +1200

"Equally great" works for me most of the time: A Good Heart AND Teenage Kicks . (Jackie – you should also check out Maria McKee's versions on Youtube – she was appalled at what Feargal did to the dreary country song she wrote at 19 when her boyfriend dumped her).…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:16:43 +1200

I should probably be too embarrassed to share this, but when in a really good mood I've been known to sing this in the shower...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9uHA6dyNiQ&feature=related

And an orchestral arrangement, conducted by the composer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E24AxkYsoo

Simon Grigg

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:16:02 +1200

I just went looking for that and there it is...

I'll click play one more time – the first minute or so of that is amazing, after that it's just fabulous – once I crawl up for air from my Philly box set.

Here's another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV7i9oDK_pM

Greatest UK pop singer…

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:15:17 +1200

Tin soldier: Oh yesss.That man should've taken over the world.

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:13:05 +1200

Perhaps – but Gloria Jones doesn't render me impotent with weary contempt for the sick comedy of it all.Heh; you got Tainted Love in one.

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:13:02 +1200

Just felt the need to post The Saints' 'Know Your Product'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbyaNbhHdU

That is some rock 'n' roll.

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:11:48 +1200

Ultravox. Still got no idea what this song is about, but To me it says three months living on the hill above Aro Street eating Weetbix and Gold Coin Chinese takeaways and drinking strong coffee and learning to smoke Camel plain.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:07:08 +1200

One of the best songs ever IMHO
Along with this (+ more P P Arnold).
Thanks to Simon, who spotted this vid a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKZoFRpZCI

Tom Beard

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:05:42 +1200

But if I was stocking my own personal torture chamber, it would have to be Philip Glass. Einstein on the Beach, the repeat button locked with super glue and you've broken every law of God, Man and nature.

I have the 4-CD set, and have listened to it precisely once,…

Roger Lacey

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:03:43 +1200

I know this supposed to be about bad songs but someone just sent me this list of the worst album covers. http://blog.tastebuds.fm/worst-album-covers-of-all-time/

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:03:38 +1200

(I think they're equally great.)

Perhaps – but Gloria Jones doesn't render me impotent with weary contempt for the sick comedy of it all.

Lilith __

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:02:13 +1200

John Barrowman gets more excited by Carol Burnett than you'd think possible

<3 them both. In very different ways.

Just as well JB didn't follow the advice of his singing teachers and become an opera singer, eh?

Danielle

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:00:12 +1200

I agree with you in the case of ‘Tainted Love’

Hmph. No love for that crazy yelling ghost-chorus of echoing backup singers, and the almost tripping-over-itself-in-distress clomp-clomp beat? (I think they're equally great.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSv9LOMDhbU

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:57:51 +1200

One of the best songs ever IMHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aueUFhC3Ktg&feature=related

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:57:29 +1200

But if I was stocking my own personal torture chamber, it would have to be Philip Glass. Einstein on the Beach, the repeat button locked with super glue and you’ve broken every law of God, Man and nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM6fB2t1-pU

Or if you're feeling particularly mean-spirited...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0BSh7RXPc

Lilith __

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:56:18 +1200

I used to love this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_W5QnO5UGk&feature=related

But that was before I saw the original, which is beyond compare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4

Simon Grigg

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:55:16 +1200

Ultravox. Still got no idea what this song is about, but.

On that Synth Britannia doco Midge Ure (who wrote it) says exactly the same thing.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:53:23 +1200

Here's Barry
Why thank you. He looks in surprisingly good nick.

Hebe:
T Rex
Now you cook with gas.

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:51:27 +1200

Oh sure, it’s got soul. And it’s fantastic, and it’s the original. But saying it’s the best version is like saying that Gloria Jones’ original “Tainted Love” is the best. Gloria had the heart and the authenticity … but without the icy syncopated synth blips, scungy bass, strangled vocals and…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:50:56 +1200

Raise you some John Barrowman. :-)

I see your 'Barrowman does Cole Porter like a proper time-travelling omnisexual ho-bag should" and raise you "John Barrowman gets more excited by Carol Burnett than you'd think possible".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Ja2rvNmcs

Lilith __

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:50:46 +1200

Ultravox. Still got no idea what this song is about, but.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WdUgn0XkU&ob=av2e

Simon Grigg

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:48:20 +1200

"You have thirty seconds to make at least twenty different plausible orgasm noises or this adorable kitten gets fed to this not-at-all cute puppy. Three, two, one, GO!"

Or – more likely – "The preacher has a vacancy in the choir. Three, two, one, GO!"

Danielle

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:46:15 +1200

Seven minutes of "Slow Motion"! Fucking A, Simon!

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:43:36 +1200

T Rex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19IqwU3itFk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJo3w66JorM

Lilith __

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:39:13 +1200

Cheers for the Blackpool, Craig.

Raise you some John Barrowman. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRBoNfTDT_o

Jonathan Ganley

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:39:08 +1200

Jenkin, without an s if I recall correctly.

"Good evening, Citizens ..." Here's Barry, photographed just ten days ago, he was at the Kings Arms to welcome John Cooper Clarke onstage.

Tom Beard

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:36:38 +1200

I feel the need to make it clear that the greatest version of 'Don't Leave Me This Way' will always be the original:

Oh sure, it's got soul. And it's fantastic, and it's the original. But saying it's the best version is like saying that Gloria Jones' original "Tainted Love"…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:35:39 +1200

It is – for the next few days at least – the greatest album ever released:

I'm trying to imagine what the auditions were like. "You have thirty seconds to make at least twenty different plausible orgasm noises or this adorable kitten gets fed to this not-at-all cute puppy. Three,…

Hebe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:33:37 +1200

Page 31: it's Roxy'o'clock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9EbR0ckb40&ob=av2ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpWHOR_yvQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpWHOR_yvQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU&ob=av2e

Simon Grigg

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:32:08 +1200

Good Lord.

Which may be the perfect entry to mention the 4 CD boxed set of Tom Moulton remixes of Philadelphia International soul that arrived in the mail today.

It is – for the next few days at least – the greatest album ever released:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcqwggfJzRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhYfWXMxfw