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Stuck records
Posted by Archie Valparaiso on 9 January 2009 - 9:56am.
I've been listening to the previews of the Word Festive Fifty - desperately trying to keep up, as ever - and I was struck by how much this:
sounds like this:
What really made me go "Whoa!" wasn't so much the arguably Satrianine similarity between the two, but realising just how much time separates the Ting Tings tune from Toni Basil's hit: a whole 26 of your Eeenglish years.
Now then, now then. What did typical chart fodder sound like 26 years before "Mickey"? Well, it sounded like this:
or, at it's absolute mostest shockthevicarest, like this:
Haven't moved on very far since 1982, have we?
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No, we haven't
And 1982 (or thereabouts) seems set to be the sound of 2009 - an antidote to drab indie I guess. Not sure who decided this, but I suppose we've done post punk so seems inevitable. Not that there won't be any good records as a result. I wonder where they'll go after that?
In defence of Toni Basil
Because she always gets abused for "Mickey".
1. She did the choreography on the "T.A.M.I." show
2. She's one of the two weird women Jack Nicholson gives a lift to in "Five Easy Pieces".
All of which has nothing to do with your point but trivia will out.
But on the other hand...
I believe she was one of the dancers on David Bowie's Glass Spider tour, and therefore guilty of playing a prominent role in the worst live show I have ever seen.
Spot on Fraser and succinctly put
some crimes are simply unforgiveable. It was my first Bowie gig and I've never felt so let down before or since.
Mickey is quite possibly...
my favourite one-hit wonder of all.
It's brilliantly constructed pop: an intro chant that gets the title in your brain, those rising Farfisa chords, the funky rhythm of the verses and a proper singalong chorus. The Ting Tings tune just stea...er pays homage to the funky rhythm bit and the singy-chanty vocal style. It's linear.
Guess which song we'll still remember in 26 years' time?
Gets her kit off
at the end of Easy Rider too (I think)
Hear that?
It's the whirr of hundreds of Word readers fast-forwarding.
Getting back to the point....
I've recently been thinking about time passing etc in much the same way.
I started seriously listening to music in 1972 or thereabouts and still buy a lot of music now that dates back to then, or even earlier, say mid to late sixties. Overall, therefore, covers, say, around 40 years.
Transport myself back to 1972 and imagine looking back at music over a 40 year span recorded since........eeerrrmmm....1932!! I can't quite get my head around what it must have been like in the pre rock n roll days - little radio, no TV etc, let alone t'internet. A very different world.
Bring it on
Music from Tony Basil, lyrics from the movies?