yawning fawnboy

POINTLESS YOUTUBERY OF A FAWNING FANBOY
LICK this, the 1996 video by Red House Painters for their cover of the Cars song "All Mixed Up."

holy crap! I just watched it again & I know I just said holy crap but holy fucking crap, man! This video has it all. An extremely hot chick and an even hotter song! Damnation she's fine! Gott damn! etc.

Just noticed this ancient clip of XTC "this is pop" on a tv show introduced by Peter Cook. & naturally at the end he gets the band's name wrong. Hah.

& holy feack, why have I never even heard of this before?!??!!? it's a sickeningly literal music video for the stunningly pretentious, stunningly great, neil peart crossed with a pagan ritual in a library or something. Icicle Works "Love is a Wonderful Colour,"

I swallowed hard and listened, intently resigned
beside the glow
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reality finds you fumbling for reason
when the chance comes round

etc.

& holy shit, I also didn't know this existed. a live clip of the awesome "Reaping the Richest Harvest", which features some nice over the shoulder camera work so ya's can see my man Chris Sharrock beating the living tits off his drums. HOLY SHIT!!!!! obviously you'll have to try to disregard the singer Ian McNabb who was already beginning to lose the plot by this point, sporting as he does a brown fringe jacket & a headset mic. Very ill-advised.

will i
subsequently fumble
through the reasons to be gained......

but then check out the bassist giving hell to the roto-toms in mid song

(clearly, the less said about this the better. and this. after that first album it all went pear-shaped.)

but gasp "as the dragonfly flies" live! in the pissing rain. Korgs in the rain, surely a great album title

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Here's Prefab Sprout taking the piss out of The Boss with "Cars & Girls".

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MIRANDA SEX GARDEN
I don't know why I thought to look this up, but there it is. The remix, anyway. The original was only like 90 seconds.

Here's a much better song, from those 2-3 years when they & everyone else in the world sounded like Levitation. Good times!

speaking of which, Levitation "Nadine" music video, another blueprint for my current preferred vision of dark, organic pop, check out the chick & that fucking horn part has always given my chub a chub. rock on! & the drumming, oh the drumming. Dave Francolini is like a caveman (ie savage, brutal) scientist behind the kit. I'm tellin' ya. This song is only 90 seconds & it KICKS FUCKING ASS!!!!! even though it came 8-10 years after the good icicle works shit it still seems v similar to me for whatever reason. same vibe, same spirit, if that's not too ghey a word to use.

enjoyment

the past few mornings have given me a chance to digest some musics & to even recreate certain aspects myself. yesterday in the car i jammed like fuck to the Sundays, obviously, i finally got all 3 of their albums in mp3 form & had them on random play. sweet. add to that the 2008 stuff so far from the Cure, which includes new singles & a couple of remixes. i like the songs themselves a lot but at least one of the remixes sucks. today, this morning, i was back to the 'nu-misc' folder on the mp3 cd & fell in ear-love with the two songs by Windsor For The Derby. me neither. shit was pretty righteous this morning, they hit me with some old school dirgeyness but they added old style xtc drums & wires so it was just weird enough to make me go HOLY hot BAD F-WORD! there was another song in the nu-misc folder, i forget who it's by, but it sounded like Swans crossed with Beach Boys. It was power dirge, then a breakdown, then a 4-part a capella thing. It was weird. ... that was also Windsor For The Derby. So, well done, them.

ghouly halloween muzak

last night on the ghouly halloween muzak at work, my ears exploded to the tones of....... one of the last songs i'd ever expect to hear at work, "shadow of love" by the Damned!

followed 90 min later by "lullaby" by the Cure.

if only they coulda worked in some xtc & kiss it would've been the best muzak set evar.

jesu "why are we not perfect" ep is fucking excellent. i'm almost positive that ole justin k broadrick fleshyjesu got himself a old casio sk-5 toy sampler like mine. the way he uses loops & the loops he's using sound very familiar. plus there's this telltale xylophone tone. hah. i guess we'll know for sure if his next album features dog barking, laser machine gun & bongo hi/bongo lo. the new ep is full-on my bloody valentine worship, which is allllllllllll right with me. my bloody valentine meets red house painters. very obscure for most of the world, very bonerific for myself & my earholes.

it could be sweet, like a long forgotten dream

yep, heard portishead "it could be sweet" on the muzak at work this morning. outrageous! in addition to hearing that one cocteau twins song numerous times at work..uhhhh, i think it's the one on 'heaven or las vegas' that comes after 'iceblink luck'.

i didn't care for "Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music" funny BBC radio show till the later episodes, which included many Morrissey jokes (& jokes about sad obsessive Smiths fans) & many many funny rock songs, including the one about being trapped in the airport, 'vodka & toblerone'. which, yeah. hey, there ya go. it's no 'cereal & beer' but it'll do.

Still crushing hard on the happy songs on "skylarking", the 3 good songs on "nonsvch", & maybe 1 song from "wasp star". the rest....not so much. Colin Moulding songs don't make sense to me lately. & "mummer" had eluded me completely till this very morning. when I was reminded of the Andy Partridge interview when he talked about Steve Nye, who they got in to produce "Mummer" after hearing his work with the band Japan. "Mummer" is just a slow, depressing album overall for some reason to me. Even the last half of "Skylarking" just seems doom-laden.

Gimme the happy, gimme "Dear Madam Barnum" 50x in a row, please!!!!!!!