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Which 'Lipstick Traces' song are you picking to link to, Nicole?

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

er, Holidays In the Sun?

As a link to the Holliday/Holiday refs above? Sadly, even in print I am using upspeak.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

So the Griel Marcus bit is kind of redundant, yeah? (I like this upspeak - is that really what it's called? Especially since Stephen Fry moaned about it?)

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I just like picking on Greil and to throw in a gratuitous reference? He has some really interesting theories on things but gets a bit tiresome in the long run?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Lipstick' soundtrack by Michel Polnareff!

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Greil Marcus' "Rock Death In The 70s: A Sweepstakes" starts with a rant against the overuse in pop culture of the word "survivor", which has been obnoxiously revived by Destiny's Child.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Guns N roses had ahit with Sweet Child o Mine, and Tommy what's his face from The Replacements is now in Guns N Roses, and Westerberg's Hair always reminds me of Dave Pirner who fucked Winona Rider who fucked Johhny Depp, so how's about the theme from 21 Jump Street, which kinda ties back into the GNR link, via the 21 gun salute, Traci Gun being a founder of GNR, who later went on to form LA Guns. AAARgh

― Geoff, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thanks for instigating that new rule, Kate - if you don't like the way a connection was made you can jump back one. Let's hope it doesn't lead to chaos.

I naturally detest all mention of Guns'N'Roses, so I'll stick with Destiny's Child...

Spear of Destiny... Billie Jo Spears: "Blanket On The Ground"

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

One Perfect Green Blanket by Barbara Manning

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bernard Manning did 'comedy' at his own Embassy Club, Embassies are cigarettes, and through slang mangled as it crosses the Atlantic we get 'Faget' by Korn

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Run DMC wrote a song about (my) ADIDAS, just like Korn.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The first bit of ADIDAS backwards is SADI. Come had an album I bought cause of a Melody Maker review and then regretted it, one of the tracks on which was 'Sad Eyes'

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If you move the space, you get Sade Yes, and hey, how about that Trevor Horn?

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Who produced Dollar, who covered "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The secretly reformed Beatles were rumoured to be the anonymous Klaatu, whose song Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft was recorded by karen Carpenter, heroine of an all-doll movie directed by Todd Haynes, who also directed Velvet Goldmine, which featured made-up band the Maxwell Demons, in hommage to a 60s band that Eno often said he was in, but probably also just made up.

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Another Rhode Island School of Design grad created the group that wrote the 80's smash:

"Burnin Down the House"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

sorry, to clarify: Todd Haynes went to RISD, the talented arty fuck.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gibby Haynes is no relation to Todd, but made a great Butthole Surfers record called Hairway To Steven...

― suzy, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dealing with buttholes and stairways we soon find ourselves ascending the "Anal Staircase" by Coil.

― Janne Vanhanen, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oops! We have a gap up there, which I'll try to patch by stating that buttholeisms and (burnt-down) houses converge at the mentioned Coil with their label, Treshold House.

― Janne Vanhanen, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You can get Coil's soundtrack to Derek Jarman's "Blue" on that label if I'm not mistaken. Jarman had almost completely lost his sight due to AIDS when he made "Blue"; the movie is a 3hr soundtrack to an unchanging blue screen. N'Sync made extensive use of blue-screen technology in the video for their new song, "Pop", which Justin Timberlake (real name??) claimed is N'Sync's answer to two-step anthems like

"Destiny" by Dem 2

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

So much for desitny
A pin prick on my knee . . .

Thus spoketh Stephen Malkmus on Pavement's Terror Twilight

― bnw, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

SM released an album called Stephen Malkmus.

― JM, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The artwork of the Watery, Domestic EP by Malkmus' old band was stolen from an old Atomic Rooster album.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If a rooster were bombarded with atomic energy, the radiation might render it infertile, much like a capon. Today, I was at a computer event where lunch was served, and one of the entrees was, in fact, capon. The computer company (which shall remain nameless) has been including networking components in its PCs. This ties in nicely with the first part of the question: The Water Walk was a domestic band (thus, watery and domestic), which put its music out on the label Nettwerk.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Water is a molecule composed of two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen. The element which follows Hydrogen on the periodic table would be Helium. Hence Mary Timony's band Helium and their album, The Dirt of Luck.

― bnw, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ash Bowie (Helium's bass) was in Polvo, who made the very very good "Celebrate the New Dark Age" Extended Play record. (reaches for gorp)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ash Bowie > the band Ash.

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ash = from Northern Ireland, leading to "Belfast" by Boney M.

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Belfast is in N. Ireland from whence came Stiff Little Fingers with "Suspect Device".

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Stiff Little Fingers>Stones' Sticky Fingers with on the cover the Joey D picture.

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sticky Fingers > Ry Cooder playing noodly blues solos > Paris, Texas > Wim Wenders > Kings of the Road > Two-Lane Blacktop > Blacktop > Mick Collins > Mick Jones > Air Supply > Bonnie Tyler (same songwriters [!!]):

"Total Eclipse of the Heart"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Total Eclipse>Cornwall>Straw Dogs>Sam Peckinpah>"Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid"

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Noodly>Noodles in Offspring
Total Eclipse>the band Heart (isnt one of them married to Cameron Crowe?)
Phill Collins

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Argh I knew this would happen! Dog > Bob Hund

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(throws cards to table)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Hund" is swedish, and dragging those Old West types Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid here, we've got "Cowboy In Sweden" by Lee Hazlewood.

― Janne Vanhanen, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cowboys aare frequently secretly fond of each other by Pansy Division

― Geoff, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pansy by Ultramarine

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ultravox
Kid Marine (by Pollard/Guided by Voices)

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Marine Research, who were once Heavenly, the Twee-est band of all time.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Heavenly being of course, the record label which is/was home to Beth Orton and Saint Etienne

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Saints>I'm Stranded>'Stranded'Roxy Music>John Wetton>Uriah Heep

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Uriah Heep was a rotter in 'David Copperfield'. As well as being the creepiest magician alive (against some stiff competition), David Copperfield was a TV funnyman best known for being the third of 'Three of a Kind' that didn't make it big. Tracey Ullman made it biggest, and also had a pop career so illustrious that she was nominated as Best Female Singer in the BPI awards, but presumably lost out to Annie Lennox (or was it Kate Bush? Surely not Jaki Graham?? Anyway, my favourite of Tracey's songs was her cover of 'Move Over Darling'

― Nick, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Annie Lennox >Eurythmics>Dave Stewart>directed some of the All Saints>work with William Orbit>worked with Madonna>sister in law of Joe Henry

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Move Over Darling' originally performed by Doris Day. Rock producer Terry Melcher was Doris Day's son. Melcher helped Charles Manson with his 'demos'. Manson also hooked up with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Wilson starred in 'Two-Lane Blacktop' with James Taylor, who had a hit with 'Fire and Rain'.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

James Taylor married to Carly Simon, who wrote 'You're So Vain' about him...

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Taylor played with Joni Mitchell

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Vain'>'vein'>shooting up>"Love Missile F1-11" Sigue Sigue Sputnik

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sputnik: USSR goes into space and freaks out the US. USSR in space gave us Laika, which is a pretty fabulous group...

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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