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DDBMT & LZ !!!!!
The Greatest Hits Album of the mighty Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich dropped on the desk this morning.
Cue general dad dancing and bursts of office-wide singing along to all their great pop hits. Everything from Hold Tight to The Legend of Xanadu. Wonderful stuff.
Recognition is faltering once we get past track 15, but we struggle on to things like track 19, Everly Brothers Medley.
Come track 22, and we are all knackered, so there is some relief at a pleasant acoustic refrain. Then the horror dawns. That's not any acoustic refrain, that's the most famous one in the world.
My giddy aunt, they covered Stairway To Heaven, and then to makes matters worse it seques into Pinball Wizard, ending with an acapella 'And she's climbing......'.
You couldn't make it up.
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Funny that
No mention of DDBMT on this site. This morning was listening to 'Hold Tight' on the walk in to work, having ripped the 'Death Proof' soundtrack last night and now this post appears. Really is almost surprising.
"It's So Easy" by Willie DeVille on "Death Proof" (O?)ST
Great, great song originally recorded for a fascinatingly bad Al Pacino film called "Cruising" about a cop, looking for a serial killer, going undercover into the New York gay S & M scene.
Indeed so
A cracking selection of tunes on that album:
I wouldn't recommend the film so highly though.
"Planet Terror"
Was brilliant. Stupid in all the right ways. I was put off by the silly machine gun leg poster. Turns out she only gets the leg enhancement in the last ten minutes. A masterpiece of its genre. I loved it.
"Death Proof" was a fascinating mix of the terrible and the brilliant. Not much cop as a slasher flick, but as its own thing it was good overall. Some of the endless dialogue was boring, while over times I lost track of time and didn't mind the talking. Terrible sudden ending though - the film is missing an important scene when the girls return the beat up car to its owner, and we get his reaction.
Zabadak
Take a look at this video of Dave Dee working a crowd ... and what sort of crowd is it?
In the vanguard, as ever
I think you'll find that li'l ol' trendsetter me jumped the gun (actually it was a big whip that went THWAAACK!) by posting about the surprisingly squamatic career of PC Harman a few weeks ago.
Hold Tight...
...is a good track, love that fuzz guitar. I have time for the daft-as-a-brush 'Legend Of Xanadu' as well.