In which we find it difficult to escape the 1960s
A TRUE STORY: to make the mental jump from acoustic Pete Doherty bootlegs to Pretty.Odd.Punctuation.Strikes.Again. I had to go through Syd Barrett. In the process I discovered I find Ryan Ross's voice 1,000 times more tolerable than Brendon Urie's. What the hell, guys.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: so when are PATD going to cover "Waterloo Sunset"? Will someone get on this??? I hear they use the Internet and stuff.
Public Image Ltd. - Death Disco
Public Image Ltd. - Fodderstompf
At the time of my NYC trip I was going through a PiL period - even went and bought Second Edition at the Times Square Virgin megastore, where against typical Canadian practice back catalogue material was less pricey than new releases - so when Chrissie had the misfortune of asking me why I'd stopped reading Nana she got this loooong rant re: how Yazawa Ai's understanding of punk confined itself to Sid and Nancy and vintage Westwood, which ftr I was TOTALLY OKAY WITH right up to the point where she brought drugs into it, whereupon she lost me, and did I mention Sid Vicious was a crap bassist to begin with. Like legendarily crap. The funny thing is the second time around, when John Lydon went looking for a bassist, he hired a buddy from school who could not play bass at all... AGAIN. Who turned out to be Jah Wobble. Two six-sigma statistical outliers, on opposite tails of the normal curve; like being hit by inverted lightning.
W/r/t the Pistols my love has always been with Johnny but I guess that's not much of a surprise. He was so annoying yet oddly cute, like an insane ferret. XD One pictures him sitting on a throne like, "Now that the Sex Pistols are over, how do I piss off the MAXIMUM number of people today? ...I know! I'll make a disco track! And scream over it! To the tune of 'Swan Lake'! And tell everyone I'm selling out in the name of commerce!"
Remember I talked about that Buffy xover fic I read in which Lou Reed was a Watcher? Yeah. Any time, Lou; they say British people have "bad teeth" but we know the truth.
Duffy - Warwick Avenue
Duffy - Syrup and Honey
I think I like Duffy better than Amy Winehouse. ^^; Yeah, okay, I know - and Duffy's entire song persona is predicated around pleading with her man not to Do Her Wrong, so one sees the good girl vs. bad girl dichotomy coming a mile away. Plus ça change. I love Holly Golightly, though, and Dusty Springfield, and Bernard Butler left more negative space in Rockferry than Mark Ronson... well, than Mark Ronson ever leaves anywhere, but there's room for a number of approaches here. So really it comes down to sonics. And the album's not all stuck in the 60s! Some of it quite sounds like that album the Pet Shop Boys did with Dusty in the late 80s! Ahahaha.
When I was a teenager I had this photobook called A History of the Discotheque (ya rly), and the one chapter I found utterly alien to my North American life experience was the one on Northern Soul. Which I suppose is why they felt obliged to change the video for the US release. ^^; [up arrow] The UK version is considerably more dynamic, though.
Actually I probably need to revisit Back to Black; I'm sure when I acquired it that I wasn't in the right mental space. I don't like "Rehab" much but "You Know I'm No Good" is brill... I've had this great remix of "Fuck Me Pumps" for ages and recently was moved to look up the video on YTube, and it was just like, Amy, srsly, what the hell happened. Why. D:
EDIT -- forgot a song! Here's Duffy doing a live cover of errm Hot Chip: Duffy - Ready for the Floor
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: so when are PATD going to cover "Waterloo Sunset"? Will someone get on this??? I hear they use the Internet and stuff.
Public Image Ltd. - Death Disco
Public Image Ltd. - Fodderstompf
At the time of my NYC trip I was going through a PiL period - even went and bought Second Edition at the Times Square Virgin megastore, where against typical Canadian practice back catalogue material was less pricey than new releases - so when Chrissie had the misfortune of asking me why I'd stopped reading Nana she got this loooong rant re: how Yazawa Ai's understanding of punk confined itself to Sid and Nancy and vintage Westwood, which ftr I was TOTALLY OKAY WITH right up to the point where she brought drugs into it, whereupon she lost me, and did I mention Sid Vicious was a crap bassist to begin with. Like legendarily crap. The funny thing is the second time around, when John Lydon went looking for a bassist, he hired a buddy from school who could not play bass at all... AGAIN. Who turned out to be Jah Wobble. Two six-sigma statistical outliers, on opposite tails of the normal curve; like being hit by inverted lightning.
W/r/t the Pistols my love has always been with Johnny but I guess that's not much of a surprise. He was so annoying yet oddly cute, like an insane ferret. XD One pictures him sitting on a throne like, "Now that the Sex Pistols are over, how do I piss off the MAXIMUM number of people today? ...I know! I'll make a disco track! And scream over it! To the tune of 'Swan Lake'! And tell everyone I'm selling out in the name of commerce!"
Click to viewRemember I talked about that Buffy xover fic I read in which Lou Reed was a Watcher? Yeah. Any time, Lou; they say British people have "bad teeth" but we know the truth.
Duffy - Warwick Avenue
Duffy - Syrup and Honey
I think I like Duffy better than Amy Winehouse. ^^; Yeah, okay, I know - and Duffy's entire song persona is predicated around pleading with her man not to Do Her Wrong, so one sees the good girl vs. bad girl dichotomy coming a mile away. Plus ça change. I love Holly Golightly, though, and Dusty Springfield, and Bernard Butler left more negative space in Rockferry than Mark Ronson... well, than Mark Ronson ever leaves anywhere, but there's room for a number of approaches here. So really it comes down to sonics. And the album's not all stuck in the 60s! Some of it quite sounds like that album the Pet Shop Boys did with Dusty in the late 80s! Ahahaha.
When I was a teenager I had this photobook called A History of the Discotheque (ya rly), and the one chapter I found utterly alien to my North American life experience was the one on Northern Soul. Which I suppose is why they felt obliged to change the video for the US release. ^^; [up arrow] The UK version is considerably more dynamic, though.
Actually I probably need to revisit Back to Black; I'm sure when I acquired it that I wasn't in the right mental space. I don't like "Rehab" much but "You Know I'm No Good" is brill... I've had this great remix of "Fuck Me Pumps" for ages and recently was moved to look up the video on YTube, and it was just like, Amy, srsly, what the hell happened. Why. D:
EDIT -- forgot a song! Here's Duffy doing a live cover of errm Hot Chip: Duffy - Ready for the Floor