[Johnny Brown]

Jolene is quite possibly the greatest pop song ever recorded. Its faultless, even the production couldn't be improved. Vying for the top spot I'd include in the top five Good Vibrations, I want you back, and MmmBop. Any other offers?

Also this week have been listening to lots of Leonard Cohen in an attempt to understand why Houdini would see him dead. End result: I can't - he's magnificent. Go and listen to Hallelujah again.

[Houdini]

On the classique-trip may I recommend Camille Saint-Saens . 

Davy Graham's playing is somewhat asian/arabic, non?

Leonard Cohen . . .      . . . dead.

Crumbs JB!  Wouldn't go that far; gagged would suffice.  He makes my meninges bleed something rotten. 

Any other offers?

!   


I see ROOM 101 as expulsion from Planet Earth, not necessarily death.

[Johnny Brown]

You wanted him in room 101 - a fate worse than, and followed by, death?

C'mon - nominations for greatest pop singles.

[andy popp]

Also this week have been listening to lots of Leonard Cohen in an attempt to understand why Houdini would see him dead. End result: I can't - he's magnificent. Go and listen to Hallelujah again.

I particularly like 'Tower of Song' from I'm Your Man, which is actually funny. No, really.

Followed the Danse Macabre link, its one of those things you know without realising it.

I was posting while you were Johnny. I think the '5 greatest pop singles' requires/deserves a thread of its own. I don't see it being settled quickly.

[Houdini]

Oh is so not neglected but I can't help myself.

New thread then.

Go!

[Houdini]

And this: !

[SA Chris]

C'mon - nominations for greatest pop singles.

Any particular era? And how many are we allowed.

[Johnny Brown]

No. As many as you like.

[Houdini]

New thread JB.



This one is stretched enough.

[SA Chris]

Definitely. New Fred?

[Houdini]

'Ere darlin', get yet earin' gear rahnd this n'all - kick out the jams muthafucka!

Karl Jenkins - Dies Irae



Wooooo - works for me, sweetheart.

[Houdini]

Un-unuvvah you cahnts cuz I ain't fahkin' arahn wi you tossers t'day norl, whyte?

Karl Jenkins - Sanctus

[Houdini]

Once Were Warriors



Phenomenal, heartbreaking, outrageously violent - just like life.

[Stubbs]

Once Were Warriors

Woooooooord!  Waddage for that Hoody Hoo

[Houdini]

The Fall - Rebellious Jukebox

[GCW]

Don't forget Spectre vs Rector.  Bizarre, but classic.

[GCW]

Love/ Hate with this one:

[Houdini]

It's a bizarre & unnerving fact but almost all humans blessed w/ the surname Barker are cursed w/ genius . . .  Though what form this takes is hard to predict or quantify . . .

Most excellent.


May I recommend a staple cult classic of the German Xmas:  this has never not been shown in the Reich since it was made.

Dinner For One

[Houdini]

read up on main protagonist terry stamp; now should i punt out twelve notes for this?

soaps - did you ever stump up the 12 squid for terry stamp - howling for the highway home?

Review please!

[GCW]

May I recommend a staple cult classic of the German Xmas:  this has never not been shown in the Reich since it was made.

A rather odd film.  When was it made, and why is it so popular in the Motherland?

[Houdini]

I've no idea of it's provenance, but they show it every Xmas w/ out fail.   Father-in-law-to-be says it typifies German humour; which in itself is extremely hard to understand;  it's wrong to say that German humour is w/ out humour - it's just very subtle: when your language has so little slang the approved grammatic routes are open to massive differences of interpretation;  I wish I could say I was on top of it, but I feel that is impossible or would require another lifetime to get on top of.

[Houdini]

W/ thanks to Dave for reminding me of this boss 1977 masterpiece



IMBD blurb

[Houdini]

I had reason to quote this earlier on the Croatian Tech forum I frequent as an argument against what I see as the unholy curse of minimalism in electronica.  I don't mean minimal I mean MNML: a fashionable construct; and as such - no use to Man nor Beast. 

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT By the great Welsh master, Dylan Thomas. (And I quote it here as his wise-oh-wise words seem to have been forgotten by the Johnny Come Lately's).

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.



& I'll see you in Hell, fool!

[Houdini]

1986 - the big one - the year some podgy kid took on the climbing world and won; also the year this classic track was released; and my 1st 7" single.  This isn't nostalgia: this is genius . . .



. . . if you holidayed in Mars!

 

[Jaspersharpe]

Oh God the chicken song. Every kid worth his salt knew every word of it, myself included. '86 you say? I was 12 and met said podgy lad for the first time at a Paul Williams slide show in Wales shortly after he'd done a few routes. The memories come flooding back...............