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Chris Bell: I Am The Cosmos (rec. mid-70s) - from I Am The Cosmos, 1992
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I might be the last one to the party on this one, but …
Masterminded by Jeffrey Lewis and Andrew Jackson Jihad.
1) Donate! Three days left!
2) They still need people to cover these songs — send them a demo by December 20!
First Few Desperate Hours
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
The House that Dripped Blood
Idylls of the King
Seriously considering banging one of these out (a haunting, creepy cover of “Idylls of the King”??) and submitting it. That’s what Garage Band is for, right?
Music video for Heavenly’s “She Says”, recently transferred from VHS!
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Dolly Mixture - “Spend Your Wishes”
dolly mixture box set was undoubtably the best thing to happen in 2010.
As someone who bought that box set, I can say that it’s true. It was the best thing to happen in 2010.
Seriously.
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Hold On.
Big Star — Ballad of El Goodo
This is probably one my favorite songs of all time, ever. For today anyway.
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“Eaten By The Monster of Love” by Sparks from Angst in My Pants (1982).
ABC’s “Tears Are Not Enough” single came out October 28, 1981. Here’s a TV performance from that era.
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John Darnielle || “No Surprises (Radiohead cover)”
Part two in the series is this cover of “No Surprises” from Radiohead’s
(best album, yeah I said it) The BendsOk Computer. (No idea which synapse misfired to produce this mixup, mea culpa maxima, etc.) Once again, Darnielle’s delivery and mode of recording is wildly different from the original, but the sheer fragility on display makes the song his own.
(Source: sprezzatur-ish, via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
Soul Train Line Dancers Groovin’ To Earth Wind & Fire’s “Mighty Mighty”
Matthew Sweet “Girlfriend” video featured on 120 Minutes, 1992
Black Box Recorder, Andrew Ridgely
“I was brought up to the sound of the synthesiser/I learned to dance to the beat of electronic drums.”
This is Sarah Nixey talking.
Moira Shearer & Robert Helpmann in The Red Shoes (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) (via)
“I am often asked why The Red Shoes, of all our films, became such a success in every country of the world. More than a success, it became a legend. Even today, I am constantly meeting men and women who claimed that it changed their lives. This is natural enough for women who were girls at the time, and who were growing up in countries that had been wracked by war. But my friend Ron Kitaj, who was thinking of becoming an art student at the time, has told me the same thing. ‘It changed my direction,’ he said. ‘It gave art a new meaning to me.’
These are personal reactions, but I think that the real reason why The Red Shoes was such a success was that we had all been told for ten years to go out and die for freedom and democracy, for this and for that, and now that the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art.”
-excerpted from Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies
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