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Comment on HELEN SHAPIRO – “You Don’t Know” by wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:49 +0000

Intriguing, I’d never thought of it that way. Helen’s baritone (or “truly foghorn voice” as Nik Cohn described it) certainly adds to the adolescent sexual confusion. Heck, she was all of 14.

Trying to locate early gay records is a Jon Savage parlour game; a 1957 British single on Melodisc called Queer Things by Rosita Rosano is the earliest UK one I’ve heard. Melodisc was 90% calypso and mento, but this is very after hours 50s Soho, you can imagine Lita Roza singing it. I’m not sure if it’s well known or not.

Comment on HELEN SHAPIRO – “You Don’t Know” by Russell Bailey

Russell Bailey — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:04:03 +0000

I have to say, I’m a little surprised this wasn’t deemed to invite an enriching “gay reading”, as Doris Day – Secret Love was, earlier in the list!

Comment on Back Once Again With the Ill Behaviour by JonnyB

JonnyB — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:17:59 +0000

Golly gosh… Blood on the Tracks for me, big time. I don’t know why I only heard it for the first time recently, having got my fair share of Dylan albums – I guess I resisted its reputation. But it’s brilliant, genuinely brilliant.

I so SO wanted to like Sam Brown’s album. And I still melt at the title track. But not for me.

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by anto

anto — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:23:12 +0000

Re 130: Get well soon Mr.E. What’s that line from Chinatown -
” yeeaah summer colds are the worst”.

Comment on HELEN SHAPIRO – “Walking Back To Happiness” by Martin

Martin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:43:58 +0000

The nightclub singer in This Sporting Life was a 21-year-old ex-mill-girl from Pudsey called Kim Leslie who won the audition that producer Karel Reisz organised. When a shortlist of four women had been selected, they sang before the crowd at Wakefield Trinity’s rugby ground (where much of the filming took place) and the loudness of the applause was measured. Consequently Kim Leslie’s part in the film was chosen.

The source for this information is an article “Ex mill-girl sings her way into film role” in a PDF of background information on the DVD.

Comment on CSI: Twix Fino by Bec

Bec — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:38:53 +0000

ahahah ace *applause*

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by thefatgit

thefatgit — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:23:38 +0000

I can beat that Tom! Took a tumble at the weekend and dislocated my right patella and snapped my infra patella tendon…I’m in for surgery tomorrow. Thinking of a line from a bunnyable song from certain Aussie movie director.

Comment on Christina Aguileras New Video by Michal Maxin

Michal Maxin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:19:34 +0000

I love Christina Aguilera! I think she has a real great voice. I especially love her song “hurt” it’s so beautiful! It makes me wanna cry whenever I hear it. Anyway keep up the good work!

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:05 +0000

H-h-hold your horses, SS!

Tom, sounds grim, get well soon.

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by swanstep

swanstep — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:02:01 +0000

@Tom. The Bangles did one of those (infamous/endlessly parodied/whiny)’Behind the Music’ specials for VH1 in the US. The whole thing’s up on youtube, but Part 3 covers how the band fell apart and has some good lines from band members about Eternal Flame’s (ironic) role in that.

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by Tom

Tom — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:25:24 +0000

Just to say that having said “no more impromptu Popular breaks” I’ve gone and done exactly that – basically I’ve been bed/chair-ridden since the start of the weekend with a vile sinus-busting monster cold: I’m now capable of coherent thought to the extent I can write a guardian column so hopefully the intellectual everest that is “Eternal Flame” can be conquered tomorrow.

Comment on JASON DONOVAN – “Too Many Broken Hearts” by Erithian

Erithian — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:40:44 +0000

And dubbed a “vexatious litigant” by the High Court for her regular legal actions.

Jason Donovan was the subject of a particularly good edition of “Who Do You Think You Are?” last night – his mother was descended on her mother’s side from a popular soprano who worked with the Australian equivalent of Cameron Mackintosh circa 1900, and further back from a Port Arthur convict; and on her father’s side from Captain William Cox, a soldier who settled in the penal colony around 1800 and went on to build the first road from Sydney across the Blue Mountains, a vitally important link for the new colony.

Comment on BRIAN AND MICHAEL – “Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs” by steve

steve — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:56:20 +0000

“Mam, when’s me dad comin’ ‘ome” is a particular favourite of mine. I’m sure I remember it being performed on Crackerjack (CRACKERJACK!) or some such nonsense in the late seventies. Don’t think it really charted though. Shame. “I’d sit and wait on the garden gate…”

Comment on I rather regret putting that in my mouth (cheesy lover special WRONG FOOD edition) by Ruaraidh Stone

Ruaraidh Stone — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:06:49 +0000

Marriage! Bloody hell, she’s brave. You can have the cheese for free just let me know when you want it, indeed give me six months warning and I will ripen it somewhere damp, dark and dingy for the full Strathdon blast. Rory

Comment on Fun with acid! by pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:08:29 +0000

in pete’s case, his heavy bones stopping him getting out

Comment on Fun with acid! by marna

marna — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:58:04 +0000

Have you not learned yr caustic mouth lesson yet? This got me thinking of melting bodies in acid/alkali and WHICH IS BETTER? I suggest science involving vats of dangerous chemical and matching limbs.

ALSO if you fell into a vat of acid what would be the actual cause of death?

Comment on Sex Bob-Omb: The Scott Pilgrim Musical!!! by Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:33:53 +0000

I thought about the magic realism aspect but I am a big hater of magic realism (its neither magic, not particularly real). The games being riffed on in Scott Pilgrim are nigh on twenty years old as well, which again is odd from a hipster perspective. The weirdest thing is that the most obvious games for it to play with (if perhaps too literal) is the Rock Band / Guitar Hero ones: it almost uses it with the battle between the twins but then that turns into another more impressionistic fight scene.

The odd thing is that the life lessons in the film are really interesting for a romance (and actual very similar to the ones in Shaun Of The Dead) – its not love that conquers all but self respect. The Knives Chou story is more interesting than the Scott Pilgrim one (since she makes the realisation he makes a good seven years earlier).

Comment on Sex Bob-Omb: The Scott Pilgrim Musical!!! by Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:36:01 +0000

I’m slightly astonished nobody’s looked at this in terms of magic realism.

Comment on MADONNA – “Like A Prayer” by flahr

flahr — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:14:05 +0000

This was Number One on the European Hot 100 for twelve weeks.

Comment on BROS – “I Owe You Nothing” by Bros – I owe you nothing(1988) « Chartsattack. So into music

Bros – I owe you nothing(1988) « Chartsattack. So into music — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:41:26 +0000

[...] goed, tot zover de update, de discussie over wat er nou juist niet klopte aan de band gaat hier verder. Feit blijft wel, dat dit hun grootste hit was. Het haalde de nummer 4 in 1988 en deed over zijn [...]

Comment on THE KINKS – “Sunny Afternoon” by Darren

Darren — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:46:38 +0000

I remember the Golden Oldie Picture show, and yes, Sunny Afternoon was featured as a video on there. Furthermore, the video produced was like 90% of the other videos shown on the programme – an incredibly literal transaltion of the lyrics. Girl drives of in the Rolls as the guy sips beer by the pool in his stately home.

Comment on LONNIE DONEGAN – “My Old Man’s A Dustman” by Jimmy the Swede

Jimmy the Swede — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:15:49 +0000

MC: That was great comment at #17, btw! But would only you and I know?

Comment on IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING – AN OBSERVATION BY KING CRIMSON by fnxtr

fnxtr — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:01:46 +0000

Yawn.
Don’t like it, don’t listen. It’s not like KC is crowding out the latest Lady GaGa for radio time.

Comment on LONNIE DONEGAN – “My Old Man’s A Dustman” by wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:34:55 +0000

My other favourite oddball place in Norfolk is in North Walsham, the workshop/museum of these fellas:

http://www.winstanleycats.uk.com/pages/menu.html

Their eyes are scarier in real life, believe me.

Comment on LONNIE DONEGAN – “My Old Man’s A Dustman” by Jimmy the Swede

Jimmy the Swede — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:48:54 +0000

Ah, but it was you who ended up having to eat Mrs Butterworth’s birthday cake, sunshine!

Actually, I have a little piece about this episode I rattled off some time ago, which I shall try to get to you via another place. Not really for here, I don’t think.