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There's some joke (the precise form of which I've forgotten) involving George Michael and the UK chocolate bar Wispa... which makes me think of Bounty and hence:

Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Stool Pigeon"

(Mark S: that was top-kwal info, ta. Perhaps Southwark Council could pay you to be the Pedant In The Park, sparing Foxy and I such open-space puzzlement).

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Doh! Divergence...

Coconuts contain milk. Foetuses (foeti?) *don't*, but they do need plenty of the stuff shortly after they've stopped being foetuses (foeti?). Hence:

Partick Hernandez: "Born To Be Alive".

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(Oops... Partick Hernandez later became Partick Thistle, of course; am I back on the stats page, yet?).

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Madonna applied for the backing band of Hernandez in the early eighties/ late seventies.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Los Bros Hernandes wrote the fabulous comic, Love and Rockets.

Love and Rockets evolved out of twisted art school glam gone goth band, Bauhaus.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bauhaus is an art style. White Stripes released De Stijl.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Stijl Pulse released 'Handsworth Revolution'. The Revolution was Prince's back-up band. Prince's middle name is Nelson. Nelson only had one arm, just like Def Leppard's drummer, whose song embrace-the-apocalypse song "Armageddon It" roXor.

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Human League like Def Leppard are from Sheffield and are soon to release an new album Secrets.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"My Secret Garden" by Depeche Mode comes off of the amazingly patchy album _A Broken Frame_. (I hope I did that right...)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And who could forget Roddy Frame, leader of Aztec Camera who started off on the legendary Postcard label?

― Nicole, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

On which Josef K recorded the "Radio Drill Time" 45

― Dr. C, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Josef K is not to be confused with Tonio K, who called Jackson Browne a motherfucker on his first album.

― Patrick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Jackson Browne's 'From Silver Lake' is mentioned in the Field Mice's "And Before The First Kiss"

― Nick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And by the way, I'm mad as hell for this thread being started without my permission. Can't a man bide his time, goddamit?

― Nick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Some people were mad as hell about Pearl Jam's turgid cover of "Last Kiss".

― Nicole, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"One More Kiss" (then we're history) was a fabulous song by Californian neo-psych/shoegazing band, Medicine.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

D'oh, I mean, "One Last Kiss". I can't even get lyrics right today.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Just One Kiss" by the Cure is just the thing to reverse the effects of Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine".

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

_One Last Kiss_ was an indie-pop compilation released by SpinArt Records back in The Day (TM), and, among many other songs, featured a quite young Magnetic Fields (w/ Susan Anway on vocals, if I'm not mistaken) performing "100,000 Fireflies". Of course, one reason that the Mag. Fields quickly ascended the indie-rock ladder was due in no small part to Superchunk, whose version of "100,000 Fireflies" is probably more known than the original version.

Superchuck once recorded a song called "Cool". Not far from the 'Chunk's home state of North Carolina (though a few years before their time), Pylon (Athens, GA) also recorded a song called "Cool". Silkworm (ah, "indie rock") once referenced "clipping the pylon's edge" ("It's a rookie mistake / It'll end on the rookie's head") in a song ("Tarnished Angel") on their first release for Matador Records, _Firewater_. (Of course, Matador Records was once home to, yes, Superchunk.)

And I'm spent.

― David Raposa, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Silkworm'sFirewater was...*engineered* by Albini who was in a few *disco* bands such as Rapeman, Big Black and Shellac.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Big Black was on Touch and Go, as was the Jesus Lizard. Bang.

― bnw, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Lizard' was an album by King Crimson, and 'The Crimson Idol' was a record by W*A*S*P

― tarden, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

W*A*S*P was rumored to stand for "We Are Sexual Perverts" (at least at my school). "Perverts" is a song on

the new Thou album ..!!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thousand Yard Stare was a low-rank shoegazer outfit who got their name from a syndrome suffered by grunts in Vietnam. Vietnam was the name of an LP by Shockabilly, the band that starred Eugene Chadbourne, who sometimes plays electric rake.

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Thou' is an old imperial unit, equal to 1/1000th of an inch. I understand the term 'mil' is preferred in the US. Hence:

Milli Vanilli: "Girl You Know It's True"

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

...and that fella out of Milli Vanilli was easily as *tall* as a rake, so no divergence there...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Eugene Chadbourne's "Perverts of Northridge" is kind of a stupid song, and so is "Girl You Know It's True" -- The Rolling Stones' "Stupid Girl" was covered by Garbage and released as a single in 1996.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

...and, since Bon Jovi _is_ garbage, I can tie up my mini-divergence from a couple of posts back by mentioning "I'll Be There For You"!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Which is also the title of the theme song from "Friends" which has been shown in the UK on Sky One which is cross-owned with The Sun. The album "Nothing Like The Sun" was by Sting.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, "I Don't Believe in the Sun".

― Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

There was a time when Cher's "Believe" was inescapable. Plus: She married "SON"ny Bono! ( sorry.)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"The Beat Goes On" by the All Seeing I was a danced-up reworking of the same song by Sonny and Cher. Meanwhile, "New Years Dub" by Some Chancer was recently a danced up version of "New Years Day" by U2 featuring that other Bono. The beat from NYD though had been used 7 years before on:

DJ Shadow - Lost And Found

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Another Shadow, Morton of that ilk, produced the Shangri-Las, whose "Past, Present And Future" was the structural starting point for "Various Times" by The Fall.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

DJ Shadow no doubt "lost and found" many different things at his home in the Temescal apartment complex on Sycamore street in Davis, California, where he used to live (across the street from me!) The fact that sycamores are native to Egypt is a piece of botanical trivia no doubt lost upon Pharoah Sanders who titled himself after the rulers of ancient Egypt, who currently lives about a half hour away from Davis, California, and who used to cut records with Wah Wah Watson -- who can be said to be to the guitar what Jah Wobble is to the bass. Therefore, PIL's "Careering".

― Kris, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Various Times" proving that Mark E Smith was at least as interested in death camps and nazi psychoanalysis as John Lydon was, a theme further explored by Rush in "Red Sector A".

― Kris, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The clone-counterpart of the robot Sektor in Mortal Kombat 3 was Cyrax, whose name sounds rather like Cyrix, whose recent processors are far faster than the CPU used in the eponymous "cyberpunk band" 386 DX, led by Russian ("Rush in") Alexei Shulgin.

― Phil, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I seem to remember Alexei Shulgin sponsoring a "Form Art" competition on the nettime mailing list some years back (whatever happened to that?). Alexei's attitude towards found materials reminds me of RUN-DMC's "Walk This Way", which made a journey from studio lark to full-on remake - much like...

Madonna's "American Pie"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The most American of pies being, of course, Apple, the label of our good friends Badfinger (who were also heavily cribbed by other apples, our Apples in Stereo).

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't hear "Badfinger" without thinking of Soundgarden and "Rusty Cage" from Badmotorfinger.

― Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Soundgarden started out on SST so did Husker DU, who released a number of fine albums on SST including Zen Aracade before moving to Warner Brothers.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Zen Arcade.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Husker Du is Swedish for "do you remember?", and do you remember that other great Swedish pop sensation, Abba?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

They won the eurosong festival, Celine Dion also participated in that hip event - a few laters of course.

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

a few *years* later. or is that centuries?

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

Dion & the Belmonts' "Runaround Sue", rumoured to be about somebody with venereal disease, sort of like "WHy Does It Hurt When I Pee" by Frank Zappa.

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

Frank Zappa and Paula Yates both loved giving their kids daft names; Ron Yeats could never be accused of such behaviour, but *did* put through his own goal in the 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup final, a match played at Hampden Park, Glasgow. This was also the venue for The Greatest European Club Final Of All Time (Until Last Month) - Real Madrid's 7-3 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960.

Hence: Prefuse 73: "Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives"

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

Frank Zappa manufactured and produced the girl group, the GTO's, of which Pamela Des Barres was a member. Good old Pammy enjoyed a long and naughty underage groupie sex affair with Jimmy Page. Now we've got this thread away from that nasty football nubbins and back on the right page again.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pammy's 1st groupie experience was (apparently) giving DON VAN VLIET aka CAPT BEEFHEART a hand job!

― duane zarakov, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

shit , sorry, it was supposed to be something about Jimmy Page. OK he was mentioned in "Rock Show" by WINGS, & Paul McCartney married EX- GROUPIE Linda E. & Pamela Des Barres was a famous GROUPIE & like i just said(...) CAPT. BEEFHEART.

― duane, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The line "it's the blimp"in a Beefheart song was sampled by dEUS.

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

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In reply to: Carmine Appice of the Vanilla Fudge -- who recorded an album called The Beat Goes On -- went on to tour with Jeff Beck, and criticized fellow Beck-bandmate Kim Milford (a vocalist who'd worked on Jesus Christ Superstar) as "...like a go-go dancer. The crowd couldn't take him."

-- Phil (phil@masstransfer.net), June 17, 2001.

***Appice and Beck were stupid for not keeping Kim Milford; that man had vocals that could soar! Too bad Beck and Appices egos were so fragile that they had to play so loud they drowned him out in concert. They could have used a great singer like Kim;; why do you think beck picked him after hearing him in Jesus Christ Superstar? Because he thought he had a great voice...too bad Beck didn't like playing with someone more talented than himself.

― Mary Ann, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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