SHAKEDOWN, 1979 (April, part two)
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Monday 21 May 2012
Didn't like much by The Bee Gees but they knew the craft inside out, big respect. Goodbye Robin, we love this one http://youtu.be/AbkbGF27JyY
Chicago
Peaceful political protest ---> police violence ---> no more protest #FreedomPattern
Sunday 20 May 2012
One of these guys is a wanker
I honestly haven't got it in me to respond to Alain. I mean.. self help... oh I'm going to bed. No beer outside. Yes beer. #shibboleth
I've written a small self-help book about sex: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1447202279/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1&qid=1336389093&sr=8-1
It's almost sweet that people are
amazed by John Terry's lack of class. Has he not lowered your
expectations enough in recent years?
Why did John Terry get a medal? When
United won in 1999, Roy Keane wore a grey suit and scowled like a man,
nary a medal in sight.
Saturday 19 May 2012
Donna Summer's disco was as radical as punk
Working from the unlikely location of Munich, the trio managed to fuse soul with the surgical precision of Kraftwerk, creating a record so far ahead of its time that pop took a good 20 years to catch up. Like the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, I Feel Love is a studio recording so perfect that covering it – or even playing it live – would be pointless, though many have tried. The sparsest ingredients – lyrics that could be written on the back of a beermat with room to spare, a bassline that, in theory, a three-year-old could play – are turned, in Summer and Moroder's hands, into an entire world of futuristic wonder. Moroder took a Moog Modulator synthesiser and put a delay on the bassline, creating the "dugga-dugga-dugga" sound that has galvanised dancefloors ever since. Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
If that was all Summer had ever done, her place in pop would be assured, but she made a number of standout records that have influenced musicians right across the spectrum, from rock to R&B. The drum break on her 1979 album track Our Love was filched for the beginning of New Order's Blue Monday, who also put the epic Patrick Cowley mix of I Feel Love on their Back to Mine compilation. Her version of Jon and Vangelis's State of Independence was covered by Chrissie Hynde. Part of Summer's strength was her versatility. The high concept of her album I Remember Yesterday was that each track would pastiche the sounds of a different decade, from the magnificent Love's Unkind, her take on Phil Spector, to I Feel Love (which represented The Future) and her voice is at home in any style Moroder and Bellotte can throw at her. Pitted against Barbra Streisand on the scenery-chewing 1982 duet No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Summer demonstrates in grand style that she can face down any diva. Every time someone demolishes Summer's On the Radio on a TV talent show, remembering the original – surely one of the greatest ever songs about that medium – only reaffirms Summer's technical and emotional mastery. Even the records she made with Stock Aitken Waterman in the late 80s, a collaboration which seemed sacrilegious at the time, are animated by the power and sincerity of her voice.
And then, of course, there is sex. Summer's single Love to Love You Baby announced her arrival to the world – 17 minutes of groaning, whimpering and moaning. Get past its use by Mike Leigh in Abigail's Party – which made it an icon of bad taste thanks to it being played by the awful Beverly – and Love to Love You Baby is charged with feelings of liberation, a pre-Aids world of pansexual freedom and adventure. While Summer renounced her raunchy past, betraying her gay fans in the process, her best records still pulsate with that spirit, the lifeforce of pop itself. At only 63, that life force was extinguished.
Alex Needham @'The Guardian'
Traffic (Live at Santa Monica Auditorium 1972)
"The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"
"Light Up or Leave Me Alone"
"John Barleycorn"
"Rainmaker"
"Glad"
"Freedom Rider"
"40,000 Headmen"
"Dear Mr. Fantasy"
Steve Winwood, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass;
Jim Capaldi, percussion, vocals;
Chris Wood, flute, saxophone;
Rebop Kwaku Baah, percussion;
Roger Hawkins, drums;
David Hood,bass.
"Light Up or Leave Me Alone"
"John Barleycorn"
"Rainmaker"
"Glad"
"Freedom Rider"
"40,000 Headmen"
"Dear Mr. Fantasy"
Steve Winwood, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass;
Jim Capaldi, percussion, vocals;
Chris Wood, flute, saxophone;
Rebop Kwaku Baah, percussion;
Roger Hawkins, drums;
David Hood,bass.
Friday 18 May 2012
This makes absolutely NO fugn sense!!!
'Half of the arrests are for drugs and you test them and find drugs, and then claim that drugs lead to crime? No wonder the White House doesn't get it.'
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