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"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

Laika > Margaret Fiedler>Played on Boo Radley's "Giant Steps"

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

Boo Radley>character in To Kill A Mockingbird>Mockingbird poem by Keats>...and Yeats are on your side while Wilde is on mine is Frankly Mr Shankly off The Queen Is Dead>a dead Queen is Freddie Mercury, who was Under Pressure with David Bowie

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

Ted Nugent once used a bowie knife to 'autograph' a fan's arm.

One of his biggest hits was Cat Scratch Fever.

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

"I got an itch to scratch, it need attention" - Creature of the night, as sung by Susan Sarandon, Rocky Horror Picture Show

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

The "Theme From Rocky" is sometimes covered, often with hysterical results, by cult Hull band, Fonda 500.

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

While Peter Fonda did the movie Easy Rider, The Byrds did an album called The Ballad of Easy Rider, and while there was still a Parsons in the band at that point, it was as disappointing as a latter-day Alan Parsons record, therefore Eric Woolfson.

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

Eric Woolfson's solo album 'Freudiana'>Freud>discovery of unconscious>unconsciousness>'Too Drunk to Fuck', Dead Kennedys

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

There were many dead Kennedys, a family chronicled in Seymour Hersh's book The Dark Side of Camelot; at the same time the Kennedy family were doing their thing (and shuffling off This Mortal Coil), some blokes were cutting their teeth in various other comedy troupes, eventually coming together to form Monty Python. Hilarity ensued. Eventually, Python did the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in which they perform the show-stopping number "Camelot". Therefore: Pram.

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

in the (fucking awful) derek jarman movie "Jubilee" you see a gandg of punks fleeing from having committed some act of mayhem. sinister anti- clockwise pan to A BURNING PRAM. On the soundtrack (maybe not at that actual moment) - Brian Eno. (Or Adam & the Ants, take yr pick)

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

Eno -> Bowie (Heroes) -> Kraftwerk (TEE: "Meet Iggy Pop / and David Bowie")

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

Kraftwerk - werk + noodles + Velveeta =

Ad-rock's down with the Ione
Cuz she's the cheese and I'm the macaroni

Beastie Boys' Check Yo' Head

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

Beastie Boys -> Tibet -> Dali Lama -> Bald Head -> peter Garret -> Midnight Oil ->Antarctica

― Geoff, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Antarctica -> Modest Mouse -> Mouse on Mars -> Microstoria -> Oval -> Tortoise -> Luke Vibert -> kid606 -> Mike Patton -> John Zorn -> Greg Cohen -> Tom Waits

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what's the kid606 / Mike Patton connection? other than that they're both annoying?

Tom Waits makes me think of fucking Leon Redbone. Sad piano men. Mose Allison also, a sad piano man. Mose Allison sang "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" which is the name of a album by Iron Maiden.

― tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

maiden did an album called "maiden japan". Japan > d. sylvian > Holger Czukay > Can > Canned Heat. OK Canned Heat.

― duane, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Patton sang on a song.

Iron Maiden -> Goldfinger -> Sonic Youth's Silver Sessions -> Goodbye 20th Century -> Nicolas Slonimsky

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Divergence!

Canned Heat -> John Lee Hooker -> BB King -> Leonard Feather -> Cannonball Adderly -> Nat Adderly -> Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -> Ruth Underwood -> Frank Zappa -> Edgard Varese -> Nicolas Slonimsky

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Slonimsky was 101 when he died; the dear old Queen Mum (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) hits that mark in less than two months. Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon, and is one of the foremost interpreters of Olivier Messiaen's piano works, hence:

"Turangalila-symphonie" (well, it's got piano in it).

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The 'Turangalila-symphonie' is supposed to be based on 'four cyclic themes', which leads us to Frankie Valli

― tarden, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Frankie Lymon was an early hero to Ronnie Spector (who amazingly, slept with David Bowie, but turned John Lennon down!) of the Ronettes. The Ronettes were produced by Phil Spector. Phil Spector used the famous set of session players, the Wrecking Crew, which included my personal idol, Carol Kaye, who played bass on every record from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds to the theme from Hawaii-5-0.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Several years ago, some a$$hole art students in the flat upstairs from where I lived had a party, during which time all they played was the theme music to hawaii-5-0. By 1am, my feelings could be summed up by the dead kennedy's "CHEMICAL WARFARE"

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

dead kennedy's->tomorrow wendy->andy prieboy->Johnette napolitano (whatever happened to her)->Concrete Blonde->Blonde on Blonde- >Dylan>The New Dylan->Loudon Wianwright111->Yoko Ono->John lennon- >German uberfraulines-Uta Lemper Under Here

― Geoff, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Under Here...."over theeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre! oooverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr theerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!"

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

How does Loudon Wainwright III lead to Yoko Ono ?

― Patrick, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

There are probably a number of ways to connect the two, like the fact that they were both included in the book Songwriters on Songwriting, but I too am wondering what the more direct connection is.

By the way, my connection was to the George M. Cohan song "Over There", from WWI, in case there was doubt.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

He did a song called Ono Yoko, or Yoko Ono,one of the two, that was about Lennon's death, and went "Oh no, Yoko."

― Geoff, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Uta Lemper > Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The Doors covered Brecht and Weill's "Whiskey Bar", I figure because they played at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in L.A. and they wanted to get the crowd into it. The reigning champs of the WAGOGO were the Butterfield Blues Band who'd come out with what was at the time considered one of the greatest rock records yet:

"East-West"

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

quick fix: "Over therrrrrre"s from Yankee Doodle Dandy which also featured > "Johnny Get Your Gun" > which inspired title of Dalton Trumbo novel > which inspired > "One" by Metallica, who are California just like the Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West".

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

but is that just stupid? I mean, Uta Lemper reminds me in no way of the Butterfield Blues Band. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" still less.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'East West' was also a Hermann's Hermits song.

― Nick, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Famous recent hermit Ted Kacyzynscki(sp?) - Motorhead, "Bomber"

― tarden, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A B-52 is a type of bomber; then were from Athens, Georgia as (I think) were Pylon. 'Piley-On' is a terrific and violent game from my youth, in which anyone who happened to fall over in the yard at school was immediately set upon by everyone in the vicinity, until an enormous tottering mass of pre-adolescent humanity is formed, with the poor soul at the bottom suffering lasting damage to their rib-cage.

Hence:

Glen Campbell's "Where's The Playground, Susie?"

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

[then = they, meaning the B-52s]

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Where's The Playground, Susie" was written by Jimmy Webb who was also responsible for "Macarthur Park" which was recorded by, among others, Donna Summer.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cree Summer appeared on A Different World with Cosby kid Lisa Bonet, who was married to ol' Romeo Blue, Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz was the son of Roxie Roker of the Jeffersons, a show which once had a guest appearance by Sammy Davis, Jr. Therefore: the dark lord himself, Mr. Satan, surely the guiding force behind all rock and roll musik today!

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Bette Davis Eyes"

― Stevie Nixed, Saturday, 23 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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