More YouTubey music
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trixtahI've been compiling a list of late-80s/early-90s dance music - more on that another time - but I wanted to post up a few indie tracks from earlier in the 80s that I love love.
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon (live clip)
The Cure - Lovesong and a live clip of Pornography (love to see one of their concerts one day - Robert Smith is still pumping it out)
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (must see the movie)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (the spacey video)
And some kiwi goodness with The Chills - Love My Leather Jacket (YEAH) and Pink Frost
And, holy shit!, Look Blue Go Purple, a feminist women's band, who played good music (although excessively girly vocals, c'est la vie): Circumspect Penelope and Cactus Cat (poppy, and I didn't like it so much, although I had the EP. Where is all the music I've lost over the years?). Their best song, IMO, was As Does the Sun (probably due to the instrumental break in the middle). Oooh, MySpace! It's there.
And just as an oddity, a Japanese cover of a song by Dead Famous People (another kiwi women's group), Postcards from Paradise. Horrible sound quality (and lead vocal, although DFP's vocalist, Donna Savage, was nothing to write home about), but I'm boggled. Simply boggled.
DFP's best song was called "Traitor to the Cause": "When you look at me, then I remember this. When you make the tea, it tastes like weasel's piss. .... When I look at you, I feel so sick inside. ...Who would ever've thought you'd turn out to be het. Don't ever come round my house again. You were wrong if you thought we could be friends." They also had the grooviest drummer, Robin Tearle, who could arm-wrestle anyone into submission. :-)
And just to give a bit of context to NZ in the early 80s, a TV skit by McPhail and Gadsby (popular comedians) featuring the "lady MPs" - McPhail is playing Marilyn Waring, who was instrumental in forcing a change of govt in 1984 when she crossed the floor on a debate on nukes (and later came out as a lesbian), while Gadsby is Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, in the blue frock.
And here's a clip with a bit of Karen Hay, who introduced the late-night music show, Radio With Pictures, that first exposed me to all that groovy Brit and indie kiwi stuff. The clip also features the Topp Twins, NZ's famous lesbo twin comedy and country and western stars (no kidding, they have had a number of variety shows on TV, and numerous tours around the country), but whose music I really loathe (except for their early political non-C&W stuff). Hey, they're out and proud and do drag. Good on them.
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon (live clip)
The Cure - Lovesong and a live clip of Pornography (love to see one of their concerts one day - Robert Smith is still pumping it out)
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (must see the movie)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (the spacey video)
And some kiwi goodness with The Chills - Love My Leather Jacket (YEAH) and Pink Frost
And, holy shit!, Look Blue Go Purple, a feminist women's band, who played good music (although excessively girly vocals, c'est la vie): Circumspect Penelope and Cactus Cat (poppy, and I didn't like it so much, although I had the EP. Where is all the music I've lost over the years?). Their best song, IMO, was As Does the Sun (probably due to the instrumental break in the middle). Oooh, MySpace! It's there.
And just as an oddity, a Japanese cover of a song by Dead Famous People (another kiwi women's group), Postcards from Paradise. Horrible sound quality (and lead vocal, although DFP's vocalist, Donna Savage, was nothing to write home about), but I'm boggled. Simply boggled.
DFP's best song was called "Traitor to the Cause": "When you look at me, then I remember this. When you make the tea, it tastes like weasel's piss. .... When I look at you, I feel so sick inside. ...Who would ever've thought you'd turn out to be het. Don't ever come round my house again. You were wrong if you thought we could be friends." They also had the grooviest drummer, Robin Tearle, who could arm-wrestle anyone into submission. :-)
And just to give a bit of context to NZ in the early 80s, a TV skit by McPhail and Gadsby (popular comedians) featuring the "lady MPs" - McPhail is playing Marilyn Waring, who was instrumental in forcing a change of govt in 1984 when she crossed the floor on a debate on nukes (and later came out as a lesbian), while Gadsby is Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, in the blue frock.
And here's a clip with a bit of Karen Hay, who introduced the late-night music show, Radio With Pictures, that first exposed me to all that groovy Brit and indie kiwi stuff. The clip also features the Topp Twins, NZ's famous lesbo twin comedy and country and western stars (no kidding, they have had a number of variety shows on TV, and numerous tours around the country), but whose music I really loathe (except for their early political non-C&W stuff). Hey, they're out and proud and do drag. Good on them.
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Date: 2009-02-06 08:12 pm (UTC)"As Does The Sun" is a good candidate for their best song, but I would also suggest "Winged Rumour" and "Year of the Tiger". It seems no coincidence that all these were Kath Webster songs, and it seems a pity and a shame that she was about the only one who dropped off the planet when the band broke up.
Thanks so much for the vid - the audio on "Penelope" is mixed better than on the record!
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Date: 2009-02-06 10:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-02-06 11:44 pm (UTC)And I did get to see them perform, but I can't remember where it was. It wasn't the Mangawhai women's music festival in 87 - definitely night time and indoors - maybe the Gluepot? God.
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Date: 2009-02-07 01:09 am (UTC)I bought "Hellzapoppin" while I was trying to be cool in 1992, but yeah, David Saunders' voice never did it for me.
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Date: 2009-02-08 06:51 am (UTC)Heh, I never bought the Hellzapoppin LP - I was engaged in retro pirating by copying the three tracks I wanted from a friend's copy onto a lovely stretchy C90 tape. :-D
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Date: 2009-02-07 12:39 am (UTC)And while I'm here, I heard the Lamb song B-Line recently and loved it, after Not Getting It when you posted the video a while back. So thank you! Turns out all I needed was a bit of time to get used to their style.
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Date: 2009-02-08 06:52 am (UTC)Yay for more Lamb goodness. It's always good to listen to new-to-you stuff. :-)