Entertainment For Lively Minds
Venus in Khmer
Posted by Hawkfall on 1 February 2012 - 6:02am.
I'm sticking my neck out here, but I'm saying that this is the best ever cover version of a Shocking Blue hit by a Cambodian band.
Any other exotic covers?
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Ask no more
this one's pretty far out
those kids are really groovin'
Cindy & Bert - Der Hund Von Baskerville (formerly known as Paranoid by the Sabs)
They always say that it's the monster that ruins
most horror films, when it finally shows up. Here it's der hund that
finally subverts the whole show.
Brilliant ... have ten ups ...
Never understood why/how this one came about
Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine Of Your Love
How could that NOT
have dominated the charts for weeks and weeks?
Dashed bad luck for Ella
I recall she was kept off the top spot by Frank Sinatra's version of Purple Haze
Love Potion #9 in Chinese
The Nirvana Sitar and String Group - The Letter
Usha Uthup - I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor Bollywood style. A good song is a good song...
Shameless shamisen
AC/DC's Back to Black intro
Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator
No idea what this last guy's playing but his performance deserves a wider audience.
The Velvet Fog sings Donald Fagan
This could have been written for him. It's also one of Ronnie Corbett's Desert Island Discs. Brilliant.
Let's be honest
All this stuff is much more fun than that bloody Andy Kershaw radio show, eh?
For no reason at all
except that the OP's post has reminded me of the Russian back story
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/shocking-blue-spokespeople-a-gener...
Somewhere, even as we speak, Adam Curtis is knitting a closely argued thread linking 60s Russia, the Khmer, and Venus ...