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I realize that technically according to Mr. Ewing, Mr. Dastoor won the right to start this thread, but I am bored and Mr. Dastoor has not availed himself of that right for some time.

This will be like the first thread, in that you should continue on in a similar manner, and I will keep an eye out for winning conditions to be met, which conditions only I and an independent accounting firm (well OK just me) are aware of.

So, starting things off is PIL's "Careering". Take it away...

― Josh, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Passage to Hades" by Evan Parker and Jah Wobble.

― Marcello Carlin, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jah War by The Ruts.

― DG, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Ruts have a song on the punk comp Burning Ambitions, which also includes the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia".

― Patrick, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jello Biafra to Lard's "Forkboy" on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack.

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Trent Reznor / NIN features on that soundtrack with the song Burn.

― mrs stevie nixed, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Which ain't a patch on "Burn, Hollywood, Burn".

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(reflexively) Big Daddy Kane's bars on "Burn Hollywood Burn" make him a top contender for best guest verse of all time, which Ethan contends is Nas's, off Chef Raekwon's "Verbal Intercourse". Raekwon compared Ecstasy to Anacin in the pages of Vice Magazine, prompting a friend to wonder if he didn't get some "bad shit". "Bad Shit" was on

the first Porno for Pyros album.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

PfP leading us to Perry Farrell, and hence Lee Perry who let all those cows into the studio during the making of the magnificent:

"Heart of the Congos" by The Congos.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The upper reaches of the river Congo are the setting for Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', which leads us to the Pere Ubu song of that name.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pere Ubu named themselves after a play by Jarry, who also wrote "Crucifixion As an Uphill Bicycle Race" which was parodied by J.G. Ballard, who of course wrote 'Crash', which is the title of an album by the lovely and talented Dave Matthews Band.

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Ballard parody of which I speak is "Assassination of JFK as a Downhill Motor Race", in case you think I was being disingenuous.

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Crash" (Ballard-infuenced) being the subject matter of Normal's "Warm Leatherette".

― Janne Vanhanen, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

But what does that have to do with the Dave Matthews Band?

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

**'Crash', which is the title of an album by the lovely and talented Dave Matthews Band. **

Am I on crack or what?

― Janne Vanhanen, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Which leads us to just a Gigolo (sp?) by the ineffable David lee Roth

― Geoff, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mr. Roth, of course, lent his (a-hem) pipes in "tribute" to Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman". Obvious, yes, but sometimes a good volley does include a few lame-duck lobs.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And from "Pretty Woman" we arrive at "Pretty In Pink" by the Psychedelic Furs.

― Dave M., Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The John Hughes movie "Pretty in Pink" (whose soundtrack includes the Furs song) has "Thieves Like Us" by New Order playing in the scene where they are preparing for the prom.

― Alex Huynh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

New Order obv. evolved out of Joy Division.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

As the story goes, Ian hangs himself while listening to Iggy's "The Idiot."

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And The Nightingales recorded amongst other gems - "Idiot Strength".

― Dr. C, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Released a record on Cherry Red just like Momus.

― Stevie Nixed, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who has had an, erm, *frosty* relationship with Alan McGee.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Swiss metallers Celtic Frost — singer Tom G.Warrior — achieved their peak with 'Dawn of Meggido' on _To Mega Therion_

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Young Gods are from Switzerland, and they released the finest album of the 90s Only Heaven.

― DJ Martian, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Heaven Or Las Vegas' is a Cocteau Twins album.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

....whose Robin Guthrie lives in Twickenham, the same place that the Strawbs were from. They had a number one with the wretched "Part of the Union".

― Dr. C, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rick Wakeman (ugh) played with the Strawbs before joining Yes, whose Bill Bruford quit and joined King Crimson, whose "Red" Kurt Cobain supposedly enjoyed.

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bill Nelson's Red Noise — his less successful Devoid follow-up to Bebop Deluxe — several times turned up to a show to find they had been billed as "Red Nose"

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Westlife recorded a version of 'Uptown Girl' for Comic Relief this year, who of course have their 'Red Nose Day'.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Rose Rouge" by St. Germain absolutely blew me away at Frank's Lounge on Friday - the dancefloor started doing mincing little tippy-toe dancing, as if a too-strenuous booty shake would upset the needle, or the mood. Everyone imagined themselves as noir detectives. My friend Amy, who lives a 10-minute walk away from Frank's, has a pilot TV show based on her life - the show's name is also the name of an Elvis Costello song,

"Watching the Detectives"

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

whew. DG and mark got in ahead of me but I think my connect still (kind of) works? not like the original was that solid anyway. Could this be a divergence (Elvis Costello and Westlife)?

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"The Detectives" was a TV show which unfortunately progressed well beyond the pilot stage, and starred Jasper Carrot (whose 1975 hit I won't mention) and Robert Powell as a pair of bumbling 'tecs. RP was Jesus in Franco Zefferelli's 1977 internatiTVbiblefest. Hence:

Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet".

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Blood, which is red (cf. Westlife), makes an appearance in Costello's "Blood and Chocolate". Coincidentally, Tom Waits has performed "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". He also wrote a song called "Chocolate Jesus," which isn't quite the same as the Flaming Lips' "Plastic Jesus".

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Er, so that's the Costello I'm following up on, not the Flaming Lips, right?

The *other* EC took his surname from an area of East London, next to Hackney. Another word for hackneyed is 'trite', which makes me think of the (seemingly unconnected*) word 'contrite' and, specifically:

"An Heart That's Broken and Contrite" by John Dowland.

(*Well, how do you get from 'commonplace' to 'remorseful' just by sticking 'con-' in front of something? The Pinefox and I have wasted entire afternoons in South London parks on topics like this).

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

[Hey, don't ask Old-Pedant-Holds-Forth type Qs on a thread where Old Pedant is not allowed to Hold Forth!! Ans = both from root Latin terere/tritus, to rub or bruise. Trite = worn. Contrite = penitent = bruised eg from self-flag'n]

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Highest-charting (only?) hit single in Latin is "Gaudete" by Steeleye Span, which reached its chart peak in Christmas week 1973 when the number one was "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Slade was the name of the prison in 'Porridge', the protagonist of said sitcom being Fletcher, played by Ronnie Barker. One time Gamesmaster host Dexter Fletcher was in the abysmal 'Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels', which featured 'Hundred Mile High City' by the even worse Ocean Colour Scene on the soundtrack.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

See what happens when you invoke the pedant? It's become complete unstuck!! Repair job = Dowland played the lute which is a kind of mandolin, which is an instrument not heard much since Rod Stewart's solo LPs: Rod the Mod loves football which is where Vinnie Jones comes in. Another musican called Vinnie is Vinnie Reilly formerly of Ed Banger and Nosebleeds, who recorded "Ain't Bin to No Music School". (Phew)

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (which I quite liked) featured many "Guns", hence Negativland.

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Vini Reilly went on to the Durutti Column who recorded a track called "Otis" constructed around Otis Redding cut-ups. Otis Redding's first major UK hit was "My Girl" written by Smokey Robinson.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Smokey Robinson's "Tears Of A Clown" was covered by The [English] Beat.

― Patrick, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Obvious Offer #2: The Go-Go's. "We've Got the Beat". Duuuur. (Anyone want to make a connection to EU?)

― David Raposa, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Norman Greenbaum had a song called "Spirit In THe Sky" in which he sez he gotta friend in Jesus.

― JM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

SITS was covered by Elton John

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

And George Michael was busted in a john, so Careless Whispers oughta do it.

― Geoff, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm", sings Yog. Gershwin kind of backs this up in "I Got Rhythm" where he says that Ol man trouble won't come knocking at his door (cuz, presumably, he is innocent). That said James Brown claimed that "I got rhythms I haven't used yet" and he *was* guilty (of speeding). So therefore Foetus, "Free James Brown (So He Can Run Me Down)".

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

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-two years ago) link

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"The Devil Is My Friend" - Pat Fish, aka the Jazz Butcher.

― masonic boom, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kiss My Jazz with "Burn in Hell"

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Continuing on the Satan them: Knights in Satan's Service with their fab hit "Black Diamond".

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Black...satan.... Black Sabbath: Master of Reality!

― bnw, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

master of Puppets by metallica, also had an album that came to be galled the Black album, after taking a bit from the Beatles and the White album. White is a color, like Pink, which is a bad song by Aerosmith and an irritating little white girl rap/singer thing. She's in the Lady Marmalade bit with Mecha-Christina and Mya, who, as I stated perviously, has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Was that 'perviously' on purpose, jimmy? I like it.

― Nick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Guilty!

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't like the direction this is heading, so let's pull this back to Satan. American Thighs was the name of a Veruca Salt album, and it was named after a line in "You Shook Me All Night Long" By AC/DC, who were Against Christ / Devil's Children, and who were once on the HIGHWAY TO HELL.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ACDC also did Highway To Hell. Life is a Highway is a song that's advertised late at night on comp discs. Comp discs are good when they're put out by good lables like Darla, or Kill Rock Stars, which had a band called Bikini Kill. Kathleen hannah was in Bikini kill and also did a cover of a song called "I Wish I Was Him." Then she went and did that Julie Ruin ep and later did that Le Tigre thing with that indie filmmaker that I hate. The Moral? kathleen hannah was an ex-stripper and has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Someone else who stripped, prior to her music career, was Traci Lords, who is not to confused with Lords of the New Church, a project put together by Stiv Bators (and oddly enough, a group that covered "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, another artist with a quasi- religious name). As an added aside, Stiv used to be in the Dead Boys, where he performed the classic number "Sonic Reducer"; this fab number was later covered by the faux-punk reunion band Hard Core Logo, the frontman of whom was played convincingly by Hugh Dillon, the lead singer of Headstones...something which you will often find near dead boys.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave" was sung by Charlie Rich, who once, while presenting an award a country music ceremony, got his lighter out and set fire to the envelope declaring John Denver a winner.

― Patrick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

John Denver is Dead. Like Keith Moon.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Keith Moon's 1975 solo album was called 'Two Sides Of The Moon' and featured Ringo Starr, who used to be in an obscure 60s pop act called The Beatles.

― DG, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Beatles->Yesterday->Envogue->Suck->Suck my Kiss - RHCP->Take out the c, you have RHP->Red House Painters->Mark Kozalek (who has released an enitre album of ACDC covers)->Almost Famous (kozalek was the bass player)->Banky (who was the singer)->Alanis Morisette (who was god in DOgma)(and who also sux)->Morrisey->last Night on Maudulin St.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would imagine Maudlin St. to be somewhere near Facination Street, non?

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fascination Street is a place where you'd Keep Feeling Fascination as long as you were there, making you a member of the Human League. One of the cohorts of the Human League was Giorgio Moroder, who also worked with Heaven 17, who took their name from A Clockwork Orange. Therefore: Ludwig Van Beethoven.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What a coinky-dink! Ludwig has the same last name as Camper!

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Camper took the skinheads bowling and The Big Lebowski was about bowling and Beefheart was on the soundtrack with a song about eyes being a million blue miles, and Miles Davis sold millions of his album Kind Of Blue.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Too many pills, too little time to do them."

Make Up's "Blue is Beautiful" from the album _I Want Some_

― bnw, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Yummy Fur have a song called 'I Am 'Consumer Man'' and another version of it called 'I Am 'Cosmetic Man''.

― youn, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One of the most popular cosmetics is lipstick. Lipstick Traces was a book (and now a musical!) by Greil Marcus. Betcha think I'm going to take this to one of the subjects of his books, right? Nope: The Rock Bottom Remainders, in which he performed periodically (also featuring other authors such as Stephen King, Amy Tan, Roy Blount, Jr. and more!)

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Amy Tan had a novel named Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Jazz standards are performed from Fakebooks, and who wrote more standards than George Gershwin? Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue became the theme to Delta airlines. Delta 72 is a band.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

delta blues genre with john lee hooker

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Interesting leap you made from Amy Tan to Maxine Kingston there, Sterl.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Funky Kingston' - Toots

― tarden, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Whoops...let's go back and close that gap up. "Delta 88" was a song from the Rheostatics, from Toronto (a town with hookers). Rheostatics opened up one of the tours from Canada's most popular band, the Tragically Hip, who are from Kingston, Ontario...so Toots and the Maytalls' "Kingston Town".

By the way, Josh...are any of us getting anywhere CLOSE to winning conditions?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm not sure I have any way to judge that.

Town? Chicago is a town. A city, you might say. And also a band.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damn you and your pedantry, Josh. But yr. right. So. Amy Tan had a book named The Kitchen God's Wife. The Godz' first album was named Contact High. City High is produced by Wyclef, who had a hit song based around a Bee Gees sample. The Bee Gees soundtracked Saturday Night Fever, along with The Trammps. The Lady And The Tramp is a Disney film about dogs. Iggy wanted to be your dog. The Stooges coalesced around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is relatively close to Chicago. Chicago named their albums with numbers, as did Led Zepplin. Zepplin sucked. The Supersuckers' first album was called The Smoke of Hell.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"John E Smoke" was a song from the Butthole Surfers. The Beach Boys were probably the most famous people who sang about surfing, and one of the members was Mike Love. Love recorded "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Goddamn those half-japanese girls' sez Rivers Cuomo on El Scorcho off of Pinkerton, Weezer's second album. Half-Japanese is a band with a song called "Red Dress." Lady In Red is a song. A song that sucks. It sucks in the way that "Ska Sucks."

― JM, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In the same way that Primus sucks?

― bnw, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Primus->Southpark theme->Chef->Suck on my chocolate salty balls->I once had a girlfriend who did that to me->She also had an affair (not while with me) with Silvio Rodriguez->He is cuban, so hasta Siempre, Comandante is dediccated to Che Guevara, which could link us up with the manics->If it does, well there's richy, and hey->Happy Days theme, via Cuninghams.

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Happy Days" = '70s version of "That '70s Show" ("Dazed & Confused" = "American Grafitti")->"In the Street" by Big Star. = crappily obvious MOJO-magazine band...MOJO -> Jim Morrison -> the Doors did a "song" called "Horse Latitudes", Elvis Costello did 1 called "King Horse" on an album that started with IIRC a Sam & Dave song...

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(hey sorry to interrupt the flow, but Mike Love recorded "Alone Again Or" - where, when?)

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(Jump from Mike Love to the band Love.)

― Josh, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sam & Dave's big hit was 'Soul Man', which lent its title to a dreadful 1986 film in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to win a ethnic minority scholarship to Harvard. I see that Howell's illustrious Hollywood career extends to small part in 1995 Liz Hurley flash-vehicle 'Mad Dogs & Englishmen', named after the Noel Coward song.

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mad Dogs & Englishmen also being a live Joe Cocker album -> doo-wop group the Spaniels.

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When cocker spaniels are young and thin (like Jarvis), they would be a Skinny Puppy. The Pup moved from Nettwerk to American, the home of Wesley Willis. Wesley Willis not only wrote a song called "I Whipped Batman's Ass", he also wrote an ode to Silverchair.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Silverchair are a Nirvana from Australia, and Savage Garden are from Australia but more like Erasure. Eraser Errata are a art-punk girl band who opened for Unwound. Unwound's newest album is "Leaves Turn Inside You" and Sonic Youth had an album titled "A Thousand Leaves" and a thousand is 1k and Sleater-Kinney had a song about Y2k titled "Banned From The End of The World" and it was on their album "The Hot Rock" and "Hot Rocks" of course was the title of the Rolling Stones best-of, and a man was murdered when the stones played Altamont, and Ornette Coleman played ALTO SAX. Coleman played jazz, but if he played rock he might have had more groupies and then ALOT OF SEX, and David Lee Roth of Van Halen did indeed have many groupies.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David Lee Roth to Dave Lee Travis. Travis is a band that a lot of people on this board find intensely annoying. However, members of Travis have been known to be fans of... THE LOLLIES!!!

― masonic boom, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Lollies are of course d**mpatrol's favorite band, said individual notoriously being an alleged friend of Alan McGee, which leads us to "Me And Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson.

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar, as was Bill Clinton, who became synonymous with certain activities, thus "The Bitch Sucks Dick" by Oaktown's finest Too $hort

― tarden, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Paul Simon, who is very short, is (or used to be) married to the much taller Edie Brickell, whose second album had John Lydon doing backing vocals. PIL's "Religion" leads us to Pope John Paul II's Abba Pater album. Abba's "Does Your Mother Know" had Bjorn or Benny singing lead vocals, kind of like how The Pogues' Cait O'Riordan sang a rare female lead vocal on "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday".

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Everyday" is a stand-out track on the last Sea and Cake album 'Oui'. 'Oui' is French for 'Yes', and if Yes had *been* French their lead singer's name would have been 'Jean'. So,

"Blue Jean", by Mr David Bowie.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Billy Jean is not my lover. Once and for all.

― JM, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

OK, Michael wins.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, and no, I don't know what the prize will be yet, since you live in London (is that still correct?), Michael, whereas I do not.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Cripes! I've only just seen this! My luck really is changing...

Yes, I do live in London and I'd *like* to say that closing this thread (and so gaining the right to - gasp - *start one of my own*) and emulating Dastoor is its own reward. But it's not. I want a pint of gin like what Nick got.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, maybe I will work something out with Tom. But I still think a pint of gin is a bit much. ;)

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

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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