Avant Garde superstar diva Cathy Berberian and tragic chanteuse Karen Carpenter both make nutritious hay out of the Fab’s early Psych masterpiece on 70’s TV. I too have a ticket to ride. Gone fishin’, be back next week. Feliz Año Nuevo !
Feel the snowy melancholy with The Carpenters after the jump…
Sicko Christian fundamentalist David Benoit tells a grisly tale of redemption with a shameless insensitivity that borders on the sociopathic. What a creep.
In June of 1984, David was led of the Lord to establish Glory Ministries as an evangelist. When David began, the emphasis of Glory Ministries was to expose the truth of the damaging effects of rock music on society. The only solution being regeneration by Jesus Christ.
In the past several years, David has used his vast knowledge of the occult and the New Age movement to show how Satan is subtly gaining entrance into our families and our churches through seemingly harmless children’s toys, movies and cartoons.
“David Benoit’s message is one of hope, not fear. David has a unique way of presenting hard hitting facts with southern style humor.” Jerry Falwell.
Yeah right. You laughing yet?
Now just hold your breath and watch…
Didn’t think the films of mondo-psychedelico cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky could get any freakier? Think again.
Straight outta Mexico City come Arturo Gil of video firm XNOgrafikz and bass maniac DJ Saeg, putting the audio and visual cut-up method to full digital effect on Jodorowsky’s two most popular classics, El Topo and Holy Mountain. But instead of merely generating some arbitrary rave-video-projection material, Gil and Saeg took pains to use rhythmic repetition to crack the AJ code as much as possible, creating an even more anti-linear narrative in emotive tribute to the Jewish Chilean-French celluloid shaman.
Check out the Holy Mountain remix after the jump…
Dangerous Minds has the antidote for the post-Christmas delirium that sets in right about now, and that is the realization that someone is always worse off than you. Our guest host Nate Cimmino has had to have his house filled with piles of records since just after dirt was invented, leaving precious room for little else. He collects this stuff and the useless facts that go with it so you don’t have to. You can take solace in that. Nate was a NYC club DJ in the late ‘70s through mid ‘80s, and has had his share of fun.
01. Les Reed- Girl On A Motorcycle
02. The Beachnuts- Cycle Annie
03. Patty Pravo- I Giardini Di Kensington
04. The Daughters Of Eve- Help Me Boy
05. Claudia Brucken- Kiss Like Ether (version)
06. Lizzy Mercier Descloux- Hard Boiled Babe
07. Skull Snaps- Al’s Razor Blade
09. Brenton Wood- Psychotic Reaction
10. Titanic- Santa Fe
11. Atomic Rooster- Tomorrow Night
12. Wendell Austin and The Country Swings- L.S.D.
13. Wanda Allred- Skid Row Girl
14. Ferrante & Teicher- Plunging Sharks And Diving Swordfish
15. Manfred Mann- Machines
16. Mort Shuman- Born 1969
17. Mort Shuman- She Ain’t Nothing But A Little Child
20. Sweet Thursday- Gilbert Street
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Bonus ! : Patty Pravo sings La Bambola for you…
Fashion, tribalism and a sharp suit. BBC documentary “The Street Look” connects fashion to pop music and back again. We proclaim our allegiance to the music we love in the clothing we wear. I’ve run through the whole gamut. My girlfriend says I’ve got more shoes than any man she knows: from winklepickers to creepers to sandals and Pumas, to cowboy boots, Beatle boots and leopard skin loafers. I’ve always been a fashion shapeshifter and it’s always been in relationship to whatever new social/cultural scene I feel a passion for. I like to wear my colors. It’s a declaration of what I believe in. Suit up and get ready to rock and roll.
In the late 70s, I started a company called Shady Character. I sold skinny ties and wraparound shades to stores that in turn sold them to kids in towns like Laramie, Wyoming and Brownsville, Texas - places where there wasn’t a punk or new wave scene but kids wanted to align themselves with the movement. I really wasn’t doing it for the money, much to the chagrin of my partners, I was doing it because I wanted to provide kids with a freak flag to fly, a uniform in the rock and roll army. A groovy pair of Italian wraparounds can change the world for a 17 year old in a town without pity.
Maura Johnston and Christopher R. Weingarten of the Village Voice have put together their list of the 20 worst pop songs of 2010. No 1: “Hey Soul Sister” by Train. Whether or not you agree with their list, you’ll find mucho laughs in some of their scathingly over-the-top descriptions of the songs they loathed. Nothing like disgust to bring out the best in a rock writer.
Here’s an example of the literary heights and lows that Johnston and Weingarten achieve in their all-out assault on music that gets them pissed off:
The chorus is jacked from an even worse place. “Hey Soul Sister” is an orgy where bad ideas trade STDs, and the most syphilitic brain-fart stumbled in drunk from a Smash Mouth show. (For those of you who arrived late, Smash Mouth was a band from the late ‘90s that was formed when a soul patch met cake frosting. Their wikki-wikki scratching and dorkpie hats did to music what blood-soaked clowns do to the dreams of sleeping children.) Listen to “Hey, Soul Sister” a few times and you’ll inevitably be reminded of the “whistling solo” from the Shrek house band’s inescapable “All Star.” From Smash Mouth, Train picked up an earworm that burrowed into society’s asshole, laid 4.7 million iTunes eggs, and gave birth to a grey cloud of banality that covers the Earth.
And just think: When your shitty kid marries someone you violently disapprove of 20 years from now, this song—with its references to blowjobs and songs that were ground into the ground before the kid was a twinkle in your eye—will serve as the couple’s first dance. As you watch your offspring and new in-law twirl around the dance floor, you will reach for a glass of Champagne Loko (President Kid Rock won’t try to ban the stuff until he’s up for re-election in 2032) and wonder how everything went so, so wrong.”
To see the list of 20 crimes against pop music and read more scorched-earth reviewing go to the Voice website here.
Train doing their big hit on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Sad to report that the “Ivory Queen Of Soul” Teena Marie has died at the age of 54 of what appears to be natural causes.
Marie made her debut on the legendary Motown label back in 1979, becoming one of the very few white acts to break the race barrier of the groundbreaking black-owned record label that had been a haven for black artists like Stevie Wonder, the Jackson Five, the Supremes and Marvin Gaye.
The New York Times obituary for Marie can be read here.
Jimmy Savile has been a pop culture icon in England since the early 1960s when he was a host on BBC TV’s “Top Of The Pops,” NME Awards presenter and Radio One deejay. Savile’s pimpalicious fashion sense, platinum page boy, monumental cigar and ego converge in a larger than life character that is both charming and a wee bit appalling.
Jarvis Cocker presents his top ten rules for making the perfect television pop show. Rule number 8: Get Jimmy Savile. From British TV series “Favouritism.” As Savile blows hard, Cocker is like a sail in a hurricane.
Dangerous Minds pal Wm. Ferguson’s sound-collage-and-video tribute to musicians who died in 2010.
Solar Skeletons consists of French duo TZII and RIPIT, who brought their musical talents together in January 2006 to create “a conceptual band with no limit of genre nor process.” Their music fused Industrial Minimalism with Blues, and a dash of psychedelia.
They sell their wares with a mix of tongue-in-cheek and sci-fi babble:
The Dead Sons of the Sun are roaming the Earth, choosing the musical weapon to convince the so-called human intelligence to fight if they can’t love each other. After conquering Mars and Pluto, they chose the East Coast of the USA to land and start their crusade. Their Head Quarters is now established in Brussels. They will blind the audience with raw rays of unseen light, and preach through distorted music clichés. The absurdity of human beings needs to be shown by pointing its most obvious form: religion, drugs, love etc… After being reprogrammed, humans will be able to save their planet.
Best stick to the tunes, guys, which are hypnotic, addictive and exceedingly tasty.
Bonus Solar Suns track after the jump…