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Post by Calidore on Dec 19, 2020 12:09:18 GMT -5
Love those random musical combos. How about Frankie Valli and the Commodores teaming up on "Grease".
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 19, 2020 18:28:43 GMT -5
Love those random musical combos. How about Frankie Valli and the Commodores teaming up on "Grease".
That's actually a pretty good performance-- I love the fact that a lot of the Midnight Special was actual live performances-- it made stuff like this possible.
On the other hand...
You want random? This isn't a live video, but the song is very real.
Guaranteed to break your sanity within the first 60 seconds... even if you are a Webb Pierce fan. I bet Webb tied one on pretty hard after recording this one.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 19, 2020 19:51:33 GMT -5
An interesting look at the formation of The Sisters Of Mercy and their song, This Corrosion
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 19, 2020 21:44:33 GMT -5
Speaking of random, I love this video of a "performance," by The Stranglers on the Dutch tv program TopPop, where their disdain for lip-synching is quite evident. That's Punk for you!
They actually got to play live, on Top of the Pops, which usually (though not always) lip-synched to playback.
On the more creative side was the video for Golden Brown...
I had heard Golden Brown before; but, they were never that big over here and most of the Punk era bypassed central Illinois, in the late 70s (mostly Arena Rock vs Disco vs Country); so, I discovered most of that through MTV and other things, later. I think Golden Brown had been played on MTV, though I can't swear to it; but, No More Heroes I discovered thanks to the tv show Ashes to Ashes, the sequel series to Life on Mars. The song appears in the first episode, as Gene Hunt comes to the rescue of time displaced DI Alex (for Alexandra) Drake, who is caught in a gun battle with drug runners. That show and the quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks helped introduce me to a lot of what I missed from the late 70s and early 80s, beyond what MTV brought to these shores (like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Ultravox, etc...)), like the Stranglers and Tenpole Tudor.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 20, 2020 16:08:19 GMT -5
Pop singer and musician Ross MacManus performing Georgia On My Mind, on a tribute to band leader Joe Loss. Ross is joined by his son Declan....
aka Elvis Costello.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 20, 2020 20:31:48 GMT -5
7 years of Feline Fracture of Festive Faux Fir Trees....
Cole and Marmalade (and Jugg & Zig-Zag) are favorites and every cat co-habitator (you don't own a cat, you just co-exist with them) can sympathize.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 29, 2020 19:37:32 GMT -5
Eating some Taco Bell when I remembered this gem
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 1, 2021 20:28:01 GMT -5
Another old favorite, a documentary about Cyberpunk as both a lifestyle and literary genre from the 1990's
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 2, 2021 23:21:01 GMT -5
Stumbled across this, while putting together a New Wave music playlist, on Youtube..
It's basically, a concert film, that captures a huge conglomeration of key bands of the early 80s Two Tone Ska Revival, including Madness, The (English) Beat, The Bodysnatchers, Bad Manners, The Specials, The Selecter. Essentially, this is the whole Two Tone phenomena (the Ska revival, with elements of Punk mixed in) in one place. Madness was massive in the UK and the Beat would go on to evolve into General Public (Dave Wakeling & Ranking Roger) and Fine Young Cannibals (Andy Cox and Dave Steele, who were joined by Roland Gift, who had been in the ska band Akrylykz). The Specials also split off and some of them became The Specials AKA. Bad Manners, fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, continued to perform and release through the late 80s, broke up for a bit, and reformed. Really great stuff, though the angles on the stage aren't the greatest.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 3, 2021 10:51:42 GMT -5
Stumbled across this, while putting together a New Wave music playlist, on Youtube How do you feel about the New Wave Revival scene that's sprung up over the past few years?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2021 13:15:45 GMT -5
Stumbled across this, while putting together a New Wave music playlist, on Youtube How do you feel about the New Wave Revival scene that's sprung up over the past few years? Wasn't really aware of it. Closest I have come is hearing newer acts butchering classic 80s songs, at work. Just yesterday I was working and heard someone making a mess of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over". Thing is, we get many original 80s New Wave and pop artists; so, you just scratch your head and wonder why we get a 3rd rate cover instead of the original? I'm all for real musicians and singers who were inspired by that music and want to do their own work, in that style, certainly over the auto-tuned, computer-generated noise that passes for much music today. One of the great things of the New Wave era was the experimentation; synthesizers were still relatively new and bands played around with them, while they also brought in a wide variety of influences, adding the punk attitude to better musicianship (in some cases). New Wave was kind of a catch-all term, anyway, used for anyone who wasn't exactly the mainstream. You had the Cars and Blondie, but then you also got the Neo-Rockabilly acts like The Stray Cats, or the Two-Tone bands. Synth bands were classified there, even though many were travelling similar roads as some of the Pro Rock bands. I haven't made my list public, yet, since I am still assembling. It's New Wave and "Modern Rock," which was another catch-all term, which to me usually meant New Wave and/or alternative/indie. In some cases, I threw in bands from the era who weren't necessary labeled that but are some favorites, like Cheap Trick and Pat Benatar. Also included earlier Roots Rock, like Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds, and Graham Parker. Personally, I found my musical tastes were on a vastly different track than the mainstream, by the end of the 90s (as I entered my 30s, really). I wanted nothing to do with the Brittney Spears and similar artists of the New Millennium. Grunge had helped keep me interested, through the 90s, and a few acts carried forward into the Millennium; but, it was harder and harder to find new music I liked. So, instead, I went backwards, into music that I either missed, or wasn't around for, like 50s rock and roll, rockabilly, surf, swing, some jazz and such. The Surf Revival that tread on the heels of Pulp Fiction helped put me in that direction, as I first picked up collections of Dick Dale and followed with Link Wray (thank you Outre Magazine and Rhino Records) and then Los Straightjackets (again, thank you Outre). That led me to stuff like Laika and the Cosmonauts, Teisco Del Rey, the Bomboras, Man or Astro-Man, El Vez, and a few others. Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's soundtracks also gave me candidates to explore, which then led to other pathways. Lately, it's been Glam Rock and the English Roots Rock guys (Nick Lowe & Dave Edmonds, as Rockpile, Elvis Costello's earlier stuff, etc). I discovered Mud and went down a rabbit hole (with the help of clips and artists seen on Youtube videos of Never Mind the Buzzcocks). The Sweet being used for every other movie trailer helped that. Them I knew (and Slade) but didn't know Mud, and mostly just knew the names for Alvin Stardust and Shawaddywadyy (mentioned on Buzzcocks). Suzi Quatro I knew more for Leather Tuscadero than her own music and I recently watched Suzi Q, the documentary about her career.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2021 14:54:49 GMT -5
Stumbled across this, while putting together a New Wave music playlist, on Youtube How do you feel about the New Wave Revival scene that's sprung up over the past few years? ps Thanks for pointing me to that. Some other stuff popped into my Youtube feed; so, I have something new to explore.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 3, 2021 15:20:03 GMT -5
How do you feel about the New Wave Revival scene that's sprung up over the past few years? ps Thanks for pointing me to that. Some other stuff popped into my Youtube feed; so, I have something new to explore. New Retro Wave and Luigi Donatello are the two channels that come off the top of my head when I tell people about New Wave Revival and it's many sub-genres and you're quite welcome!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2021 15:59:47 GMT -5
ps Thanks for pointing me to that. Some other stuff popped into my Youtube feed; so, I have something new to explore. New Retro Wave and Luigi Donatello are the two channels that come off the top of my head when I tell people about New Wave Revival and it's many sub-genres and you're quite welcome!
That one sounds a little more 90s Dance, to me (maybe late 80s). I did enjoy some of that 90s Dance stuff, before it also was glutted with drivel....
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 3, 2021 16:18:29 GMT -5
New Retro Wave and Luigi Donatello are the two channels that come off the top of my head when I tell people about New Wave Revival and it's many sub-genres and you're quite welcome!
That one sounds a little more 90s Dance, to me (maybe late 80s). I did enjoy some of that 90s Dance stuff, before it also was glutted with drivel.... Yeah, a lot of dance and house from that era music tends to sound very much the same. But man, when you hear something good for the first time, it's like ear porn
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