I love Falco, and this is a track from his later era, that appeared on the (I believe posthumously released) "Out Of The Dark" album. The title of this song translates loosely into, "Mother, The Man With The Cocaine Is Here."
Is my Vox blog dead? Well, just about it appears, but here I am trying to breathe a bit of life into it. I don't even know if anyone reads this, but I figure it's worth doing an occaisonal post.
Anyway, this is a song by the 80s/late 90s Brit band The Primitives. They're probably best know from their "Crash" song, which I believe was a success in both their native country and over here in the US of A. A few of you might also remember the cover that The Mr. T Experience did a while back (I'm sure it's been covered plenty, as it's a really good and catchy song, but I only really know the MTX). It turns out that The Primitives actually had a lot of good songs, and here's one of the other ones for your listening pleasure. I don't know a whole lot about the band, and in fact I don't actually own any of their records yet (something I'll definately be rectifying soon), but I seem to like pretty much everything I've heard...
EDIT: Looking around my friends pages, it appears just about EVERYONE'S Vox blog is dead. What's up with that?
This is about as festive as I get, folks. Not really my favorite time of year, to be honest. But I hope you all are having a good time at least! And enjoy this rare track from one of my favorite bands ever, The Young Fresh Fellows!
So, I've recently been getting really into New Musik. They're a slightly obscure late 70s / early 80s synthpop band from the UK. This song is an example of their amazing pop sensibilities. Especially when you consider this is from 1979, this is at least a couple years ahead of it's time really...
So, since it's Halloween and all, and I haven't posted in a while, I thought I'd go ahead and do that. But I didn't go for an overtly "Halloween song." But this song sorta fits into the theme I suppose. Most people probably know it best in Nirvana's cover version, but here's the original, from the great Meat Puppets all the way back in 1983!
Here's a song from The Cardigan's "Life" album. It's a really good pop song. Yeah, I know, my notes for this are AWESOME. But there ya go!
By the way - the pictures for the audio thing totally isn't working anymore :(
"Music For Films" is one of Brian Eno's ambient works. Eno is perhaps my favorite musical artist of all time (although I hate picking favorites). Having said that, I've always sort of worked off the premise of never having been a huge fan of his ambient stuff. But I think I may have overlooked a lot of fantastic music. I still prefer his vocal albums, but his so-called "ambient" albums, the ones that I've heard at least, have pretty much been nothing short of fantastic. Of course there's a very wide range of these kinds of albums, but some of them - as in this case - contain a lot of tracks that can be enjoyed while actively listening (some of them, especially the longer form ones, undoubtedly work better as "background" music). This track is an example of something that I think may have fit as an instrumental on a more conventional album like "Another Green World." In a short two minutes it manages to be hypnotic, a bit strange, and ultimately beautiful....
First of all, yay - I got the picture and title working ok! Now for the notes...
I've been listening to perhaps too much Warren Zevon recently, and I felt the need to share another one of his songs. This one shows the slightly more silly, fun side of Zevon (dark humor for sure, but that was sort of his style). He became incredibly prolific in his last few years - releasing three albums over the last 3-4 years of his life (a lot considering he only ever released about 8 or 9 in the thrity years before then). 2000's "Life'll Kill Ya" was his first album since 1995's "Mutineer," and it represented a fantastic return to form in my opinion. Not that he was never really "out of form," but I think this was certainly his strongest record since 1991's "Mr. Bad Example," at least. The following year he released "My Ride's Here," a similarly strong effort. The titles of these albums would turn out to be a bit ironic the following year, when he found out he was dying of terminal cancer. Of course he continued with his music right up until the end, completing and releasing "The Wind" in 2003. I personally don't feel that last record was quite as strong a record as the previous two, but it was still pretty outstanding, and really remarkable when you consider what he was going thru while making it. Anyway, he's definately a rare example of an artist who never really faded over a long career, and despite dying fairly slowly of a horrible disease he somehow managed to go out with a bang.
Ok, I'm stupid. How to I make icons or pictures for the audio tracks I'm posting here. I can't seem to figure out that part. Also, html links? I looked in the help section but I don't seem to see anything about that...
For me, Super Furry Animals' "Rings Around The World" is one of the all time classic rock albums. Even though it only came out about 5 years ago, give or take. I mean classic in the sense of being really, really, good of course. This is the title track to that record, and if you like this chances are you'll like the whole thing, so check it out...
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[this is good]The late Zevon... He's so good.How did you do the image dealie? I saw an answer in the other post... read more
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I dunno about the audio tracks. I was wondering that too. If I post a link to an album of... read more
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