[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FeyGTmw0I0]
“Language is a Virus” (1986) – Laurie Anderson
Category Archives: music
World Domination Enterprises
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLrVKGLig9U]
Hotsy Girl (1987) – World Domination Enterprises
Back in the day when I was listening to Luc Janssen’s Krapuul de Lux, World Domination Entpresises and their track ”Asbestos Lead Asbestos” was one of my favorites.
World dance music classics #4
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BGi8u8BtaA]
This Is Not a Love Song (1983) – Public Image Ltd
This Is Not A Love Song is a 1983 of the group Public Image Ltd.. It was written by Johnny Rotten, vocalist of Public Image Ltd. and the Sex Pistols and featured on the album This Is What You Want… This Is What You Get.
See previous entries in this series.
World dance music classics #3
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84]
Psyché Rock (1967) – Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier
If you’d like nearly the same with female vocals, try Roller Girl, another Colombier production from the same year (must have been the same studio session by the way the sound is so similar.)
See previous entries in this series.
World dance music classics #2
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidEjpsxS3w]
World dance music classics #1
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_lBt-O2gE]
French Kiss (1989) – Lil Louis
Sorry I can’t give you the full twelve inch version, after this Youtube clip stops, the track speeds up again.
I’ll be unarmed
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjndTXyk3mw]
Boris Vian‘s most famous song was “Le Déserteur” (1954), an anti-war song written during the Indochina War. My dad used to play this incessantly. American readers may know this in the version by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Classical music identification request
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg5qLx_ACeU]
Rubber nipples episode of Ren and Stimpy
The piece I’d like to pin down starts at 26 seconds into this clip. Thanks! It’s not here.
I found it!
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8pXqQ0BYI]
The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Very much in the vein of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5A4CkUAazI]
Blue Moon
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkLUh_zMP8]
Blue Moon by Elvis
Elvis would have been 72 yesterday had he not died 30 years ago. Yesterday evening European artist Gottfried Helnwein (see here) commented in a TV show that in twentieth century mythology Elvis equals Mary. Helnwein looked like the ghost of Herman Brood .
Some classic eighties groove
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkP16ZarYPQ]
Loose Ends
See: 80’s Groove and electronic soul music.