Homage to M. Gainsbourg: Michael Stipe- L'Hotel Particulier (2006) Serge Gainsbourg - L'Hotel Particulier (1971)

Percy Mayfield - The River's Invitation (1953)

I've been thinking a lot about 1988 recently. I found this in one of my notebooks:
I was young, freshfaced with perplexity.
During the hot summer I would sit the whole night long in cotton shorts, smoking stumps down to the yellow knuckle by the wafting blind.
The bed almost filled the room.
Three am, warm. I’m wearing the summer night as a moist second skin. The moths come to the blind, along with the scent of the distant river, now hidden by the darkness and lurking low and purple between its mudcaked banks, found only by the moon and the wading cattle statuesque.
On the radio, barely audible in my dim room; ‘The Rivers Invitation.’

For a good read about an interesting man go here...

Yasujiro - Curious Cows Conspiracy Anthem (2012)

 

I've tended to overlook ambient/ drone on BA. To rectify the omission to some degree here's a link to a selection of work by Yasujiro- The La Monte Young of the Faroe Islands.


 http://soundcloud.com/yasujiro

Snub TV- The KLF (c1990) PressPausePlay - Bill Drummond Interview (2011)

I know this is lazy blogging. I've got a few good records lined up but my computer is coming to the end of its 'life' and I'm having problems uploading. In the meantime enjoy these two interviews with Bill Drummond, a man I admire greatly.

Homage to M. Gainsbourg: Black Grape- A Big Day in the North (1995), Serge Gainsbourg- Initials B.B (1968)

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds -There She Goes , My Beautiful World : Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Dee Dee Ramone,The Ramones- Chinese Rocks

 Big fan of Nick Cave ever since I first heard The Birthday Party. But, me being a true pedant, even Nick is not immune to my fernickittiness. Although it hasn't tainted my love of Nick's work in general, this has been bugging me since September 2004. In the song  There She Goes, My Beautiful World  from the album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus Cave declares:
 JohnnyThunders was half alive
when he wrote Chinese Rocks...




As any fule kno Douglas Glenn Colvin (1951-2002) aka Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Lester Meyers (b1949) aka Richard Hell, wrote the song Chinese Rock(s)  in 1976.

What happened is really clear, and the songwriting credits can all be checked at BMI. The song is by me and Dee Dee, but Dee Dee did 75 percent of it. I mean, all I did was write two verses out of three. Dee Dee wrote the music, the concept was his. He's basically responsible for it. But he brought me the song; he didn't even know Johnny and Jerry, but we were friends and he thought the band was great. And when the Ramones didn't want to do the song he said, 'Look, I've written one verse of this song with the chorus and it's about heroin, how about you write the rest of it and it's yours?
Richard Hell (2005)

Dee Dee gives us a version 2:30 into the video...

Homage to M. Gainsbourg: Stereolab- Bonnie & Clyde (1990)

Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation (1988)

I was listening to this the other night and it struck me- it's 24 years old. Maybe some people out there have never heard it. It's an absolute classic.

Thurston Moore – guitar, vocals, piano; Kim Gordon – bass guitar, vocals; Steve Shelley – drums;
Lee Ranaldo – guitar, vocals

The cover is Kerze ("Candle") by  Gerhard Richter (1983)
More about the album here.

 http://d01.megashares.com/dl/ckztEsv/Sonic Youth Daydream Nation.part1.rar
 http://d01.megashares.com/dl/1S3BtSw/Sonic Youth Daydream Nation.part2.rar

Сергeй Геннaдиевич Нечaев - Катехизис Pеволюционера (1869) Generation X- Your Generation (1977)

 The revolutionary knows that in the very depths of his being, not
 only in words but also in deeds, he has broken all the bonds which
 tie him to the social order and the civilized world with all its
 laws, moralities, and customs, and with all its generally accepted
 conventions.  He is their implacable enemy, and if he continues to
 live with them it is only in order to destroy them more speedily. 

 from: SG Nechaev- The Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869)

 In connection with the extreme maximalist tendencies of the end of the (eighteen) 'sixties the
sinister, grim, and characteristically Russian figure of Nechaev is of particular interest.
He was the founder of the revolutionary society called 'The Axe or the People's Justice'.
Nechaev composed the 'Revolutionary Catechism', a document of unusual interest,
unique of its kind. In this document is to be found the extreme expression of the
principles of atheistic revolutionary asceticism. They are the rules by which the genuine revolutionary should be guided, his manual, as it were, of the spiritual life. Nechaev's catechism is reminiscent to
a grim degree of Orthodox asceticism turned inside out and mixed with Jesuitism. He was
a sort of Isaac the Syrian and Ignatius Loyola of revolutionary socialism, the extremist
form of the revolutionary ascetic denial of the world. Nechaev was, of course, absolutely
sincere, and his fanaticism was of the extremest kind. His was the psychology of the
sectarian. He was prepared to burn his neighbour, but he was ready at any moment to be
burned himself. Nechaev alarmed everybody. Revolutionaries and socialists of all shades
rejected him and found that he was compromising the work of revolution and socialism.
Even Bakunin repudiated Nechaev.

 from: Nicolas Berdayev -The Origin Of Russian Communism (1937)

Here  are some links to The Catechism of a Revolutionary, written by Nechaev in 1869:

http://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Nqv.catechism.thm.htm

http://www.spunk.org/library/places/russia/sp000116.txt

http://for-freedom.ucoz.com/blog/s_g_nechaev_katekhizis_revoljucionera/2010-05-21-2
Thanks to the original posters.

In Your Generation (1977) Generation X pay homage to the consequentialism that was the backbone of Nechaev's nihilist philosophy: 

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Pentref Wrth Y Mor (1994)

Gorgeous. Lyrics in Welsh and English: http://www.gorkys.freeserve.co.uk/gorkys/disco/lyrics/npentref.htm

Y Triban -Paid a dodi dadi ar y dol (1968)

Extreme Noise Terror- A Holocaust In Your Head (1988)

During the mid eighties a new genre emerged under the influence of hardcore punk bands such as Discharge and Chaos UK. Genres and microgenres aren't really my thing, and there have been a variety of terms used to describe this sound. I think that the name of this band sums it up nicely.

This was the band's appearance at the 1992 Brit Awards in collaboration with The KLF (having being denied a spot on 1991's Xmas Top of the Pops they at last achieved the level of exposure they deserved- a TV audience in excess of 5 million).

Sparks- Kimono My House (1974)

I was astounded and frustrated, nine years old.
Top ten countdown- at number 2 this week it's ...Sparks...
Number one records are significant when you're a kid. and this was the era when getting a number one involved selling a seriously eyewatering amount of singles (at least that's what the mythologists of seventies culture would have us believe).
There was , I concluded, no justice in a world where such a masterpiece as This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us could be kept from the 'number one spot' by the faux do wop and awful caps of The Rubettes - no white man should ever wear a cap like that.
And of course, the appeal of the group could only be enhanced by Ron Mael- forget the piquant wordplay which characterised his songwriting genius - here was a guy, 28 years old with the coolest job in the world, a pop star, whose image rested on not appearing cool. He was a schoolteacher, a librarian, Hitler, Blakey from On The Buses...

The Fuzzy Tube

http://www.totallyfuzzy.net/ourtube/

The Dead Kennedys

Fair play- there's a couple of clips from this session on Youtube- and to my mind they represent the high point of the punk genre.

Vacation...

Off on vacation again- see you in about 10 days.
In the meantime here's a thought provoking little clip...

The Clash- Tom Snyder Show: The Magnificent Seven, Interview, Radio Clash (1981)

Rambling thoughts...The coolest band of all time appearing on US TV in 1981.This is a bit of a lazy post- three Youtube videos- but there's something refreshing about it. No, I'm just kidding myself, being nostalgic. I'm 45 years old and I still like the things I liked when I was 15... Come to think of it how cool was Tom Snyder himself? Very cool... he was 45 when he conducted the interview...





Save us and not the whales...

Birthday greetings to cousin Adrian.

Birthday greetings to cousin Adrian.
Have a good time and think about getting those vinyls down from the loft!
Five decades:

What's Eno been up to?

The Monochrome Set- He's Frank

Show me a cooler frontman. Not vintage TMS in sound or look, but still excellent. More from these chaps later in the week...