What are you listening to right now?

[MacCruiskeen]

Einstürzende Neubauten - 'Ende Neu'

Music for the apocalypse, by 'Collapsing New Buildings' in their late melodic phase.



"Ending new. We'll become what we are. Ending new. On the island, once-new buildings have collapsed. ...We'll take a little run-up, then leap the length of New York ... and we'll go on dancing ... Hold me tight and hold me to this (a two-word sentence): Ending new. Ending new. Two words only: Ending New. Ending New. Ending, Ending, Ending New. ..."

Live in Berlin, April 1st 2000. (Nothing if not prophetic, these guys.)

- The drumming on this (F.M. Einheit + Moser) is fantastic. Observe the audience's faces: taken aback: this was the very first song that night. An hour later the place was boiling. On-form, they develop an incredibly intensity in live performance, and Bargeld is one of the best songwriters alive. (The Tower of Babel is a real drag.)

[Jeff]

Lily Allen - Guess Who Batman?

its just an idea , called "guess who batman ? " . my label wont let me put whole songs up till next week . .anyway heres one idea . i did the edit myself on garage band so sorry for the abrupt ending . this song is not a direct attack at anyone , it was origianally written about the BNP in the uk but then i felt this issue has become relevant pretty much everywhere , we are the youth , we can make coolness for our future , its up to us . go green and hate hate .
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The Guess Who - So Long, Bannatyne

Burton Cummings - You Saved My Soul (from the closing credits of Melanie.)

Bob Dylan and the Band - I'm Your Teenage Prayer (Basement Tapes outtake) (An answer song to Gloria Mann's A Teenage Prayer)

Lampshade Drama - See You Later, Allan Ginsberg (cover of another Basement Tapes outtake)

[annie aronburg]

Betty Hutton -- Murder, He Says

[compared2what?]

Hey! What's that Perez Prado song I really, really like? I can't remember, and I can't find it. Here, instead:

La Danse Macabre d'appropriation culturelle

Y Sabes Bien -- Los Zafiros

The Bristol Stomp -- A scary man. But one I could dance with. Because I know how to do that one!

He's wrong about the song's regional origin, though. Or at least I think he is. The Dovells were from Philadelphia. So I've always assumed they meant Bristol, PA.

In fact, even if that's not technically accurate, I'm standing by it. Because former teenagers the whole world over owe Philadelphia a debt for popularizing a dance craze of one kind or another. And you know how former kids are today about stuff like paying their debts.

Mashed Potato Time -- Dee Dee Sharp

The Twist -- Chubby Checker

You Can't Sit Down -- The Dovells

The Wah-Watusi -- The Orlons

Not that they invented everything in Philadelphia. They were often just ripping off the rip-off of the rip-off.

But there's $omething to be $aid for being the city that generates the teen dance pop craze, ya know?

[barracuda]

The Sylvers - Hotline

The Sylvers - Boogie Fever

The Sylvers - Disco Showdown

[MacCruiskeen]

American interview with the 48-year-old Blixa Bargeld in his excellent English (20 minutes)

Nick Cave on the young Blixa (1 min 47 secs) - "A sound I had never heard from an adult human being before."

[barracuda]

From Jazz on a Summer's Day, Newport Jazz Festival, 1958

Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown & Tea For Two

Louis Armstrong - Up a Lazy River, Tiger Rag & Rockin' Chair

[compared2what?]

Such rare and impossible beauty. I mean from Anita O'Day and Louis Armstrong. Which is not to say that Bert Stern's work isn't a miracle, too, just that it's an accidental one. And for all the infinite pleasure that every miraculous accident in the world put together might provide -- which being infinite, is impossible to exceed -- the impossible beauty of miraculous art surpasses it. Thanks so much. That footage has been making me feel as exquisitely high as Anita O'Day looks (and probably was) all day. I've never seen it before. I had no idea it even existed. Mirabile dictu.

[Jeff]

The Coup - Love, Laugh, Fuck and Drink Liquor

It's millennium three, we collared and cuffed
It's a world conversation, I'm hollarin' stuff
Like we done wallowed in muck, and squalorin' up
Who's the culprit? Follow the buck, I'm just followin' up
'Cause like me, you gots to be in the middle of it
Unravellin' the riddle of it
And to do that you goin' to ride on the powers that be
Well I fin to ride with you, take me home in your little

Nice Cave - Cassiel's Song (And RIP, beautiful Solveig Dommartin)

Fantomas - Fire Walk with Me

Fantomas - Experiment in Terror

Original Mancini theme from Experiment in Terror

Experiment in Terror was a fixture of late, late shows when I was a kid. Need to see this again, and a lot of other films I saw when I was supposed to be asleep. And WTF happened to late, late shows?

[MacCruiskeen]

Blixa Bargeld and Meret Becker (in a scary dress): 'Stella Maris' - Live in Berlin, 2000.

"We missed each other in our dreams."

Original video of the same song with English subtitles.

A very quiet and beautiful love song. (No industrial clattering here.) If he'd written it 15 years earlier, it would have made an ideal soundtrack to Wings of Desire.

Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden

Another quiet one, in English and very strange. Syd Barrett meets Buster Keaton.

[barracuda]

Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - medley of Change Partners, I Concentrate On You & Girl From Ipanema

Oscar Peterson - Wave

Frank Sinatra - Wave
This recording contains the lowest note ever recorded by Sinatra, a low Eb.

[MacCruiskeen]

Neubauten: 'Blume' (Flower) - high weirdness and a revolving woman.

Intonarumori:

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonarumori]Russolo created twenty-seven varieties of intonarumori, each with a different name according to the sound produced. Examples include:

Gracidatore (the Croaker)
Crepitatore (the Cracker)
Stroppicciatore (the Rubber)
Scoppiatore (the Burster)
Sibilatore (the Whistler)
Gorgogliatore (the Gurgler)
Ululatore (the Howler)
Ronzatore (the Hummer)[/url]

[compared2what?]

Yesterday Once More -- Red Kross

Slowpoke -- Pee Wee King

I Forgot To Remember To Forget -- Johnny Cash

In a word: Oops.

[Jeff]

In a word: Oops.

I normally hate being moved by Chauvin-ism, but I have to make exceptions. And that was definitely one. Vive la resistance!



Buffy Sainte Marie:

Guess Who I Saw in Paris

Cho Cho Fire (at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival, July 6, 2008)

God is Alive, Magic is Afoot

Starwalker

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AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits

AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm