Entertainment For Lively Minds
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Download bargain alert
Goldfrapp's Rocket(Richard X One Zero Remix) is available as a free download at Amazon.
Blur vs Steptoe
Credit where credit is due: Yesterday, another iain started a thread about mash ups. Ghost mentioned a mash up of Blur's Park Life and the Steptoe & Son theme. A quick Google turned it up on YouTube. I posted it on the original thread but since that is now among the back pages I thought I would repost here.
Live Stones
The Stones' Brussels Affair bootleg has been mentioned here a few times. Anyone wishing to hear what all the fuss is about can hear for themselves at Wolfgang's Vault where it is being streamed.
On the subject of Stones' bootlegs, Big O still has Liv'r Than You'll Ever Be available.
Some Audio Fly Tipping I Did Earlier
There are cover versions of all bar 2* of the HJH's songs on Spotify. Here is a playlist
*Wild Honey Pie and Piggies.
Hurry Up Harry...we're going to do some avant garde dancing
Wiki prog too much effort?
This is Metallizer. It will generate a fictional band, album, track listing and sleeve.
Here's one I made earlier:
Butchered:
Execute Your Euphoria
(2008 - META80542)
Track listing:
Defiler of Passion
Adulterated Karma
Severe Gloom
The Slayer and The Verses
Betrayed By Rapture
Between Bliss and Aggression
Behold The Blasphemy
The Cemetary of Mercy
One Billion Names of The Blasphemer
(Couldn't get the sleeve to show).
Celebrity endorsements
Ever wanted to hear The Yardbirds advertising milk shakes? Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis pushing gaspers? Wilson Pickett plugging Pepsi? Spotify is your friend! 73 vintage celebrity ads here
Here's one not included:
Unlikely Collaborations
Canned Heat and The Chipmunks:
The Beatles In The USSR
Fascinating BBC World Service documentary about the lengths people had to go to to hear The Beatles in the Soviet Union.
Listen here.
Bruce Springsteen, Winterland 1978
The entire show is available from Wolfgang's Vault.
And to think I paid £30 for a 3 LP vinyl copy of this 25 years ago.
Any Richard Thompson fans here?
He's done a Black Cab session. You can find it here
Great Moments in Lip-Synching
I've just read Peter Guralnick's biography of Sam Cooke. In it, he mentions a TV appearance where Sam and Jackie Wilson lip-synched to Sam Cooke's Everybody Loves to Cha-Cha-Cha.
And it's on YouTube.
Fleet Foxes extra dates
31/10/08 Custard Factory, Birmingham
5/11/08 & 10/11/08 Shepherds Bush Empire
Details here.
Another Beatles cover
Here's Neil Young, as seen on Spanish TV, playing A Day In The Life:
Gavin & Stacey late adopters...
...should note that the first series is being repeated on BBC3. First two episodes were last night and they're both available for the next 6 days on iPlayer.






