“I can’t wait for the new artwork to be delivered. Now, you’re sure you told him to not make a feature of our enormous heads and tiny hands? He has a solution? Great. Well, I can’t see what could possibly go wrong.”
- Rance Allen, 1977.
Don’t forget to visit It Might Also Go A Little Something Like That for your daily music fix. This week: the movie music of Stephen Bishop. See you there.
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…to paraphrase Prince. A little baby brother to this blog, It Might Also Go A Little Something Like That, has been born over at tumblr, where I will be posting a track-a-day until something explodes. Already we’re two days in and you can enjoy Isaac Hayes covering The Blue Nile and Donald Byrd gloriously at the logical end of his jazz-funk tether. The hook? Each day’s track will be tangentially connected to the day before until I paint myself into a musicological corner. It’s also an indulgent way of sorting my online stuff for the short term future. Music will live there, longer and sadly more infrequent posts here, and short bursts of tosh will thrive on twitter.
In the meantime, you can enjoy a slew of mixes on this blog, and flick through the mine of downloadable mp3s already hosted here. I plan to be back with a needlessly comprehensive series of posts about Guess Who and a best of 2009 music retrospective before the decade’s out. So see you then. Right? Right.
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The All-New Soul Tableaux
“The camera timer better be working this time, ’cause this is the last one in the roll.”
I’m delighted to welcome back the Soul Tableaux series with this gem from soul nearly men Omni. I’m betting there’s a garage full of Omni trademarked knitwear and knitting patterns that didn’t get shifted after tracks like “Roctron” didn’t do the business.
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Dear John
As I’m sure you already know John Hughes has passed away at the ridiculously young age of 59 whilst out strolling with his family in Manhattan. As a younger man I unashamedly loved his films, but as I grew older I found certain formulae kick in. The younger you are when you see a John Hughes film the more likely you are to always love it, try watching one for the first time when you’re 21 or over and something doesn’t quite click. The other thing is that the older his protagonists, the better the film. Planes, Trains & Automobiles and National Lampoon’s Vacation stand proud at one end of the spectrum thumbing their noses at the abominations of Curly Sue, Baby’s Day Out and Foetus Bueller’s Day Off (okay I made the last one up). At his peak, he was prolific to Judd Apatow like proportions, writing, directing and producing up to three films a year.
Another one of Hughes’ enduring legacies for me was his love of the second wave of British Invasion bands, which is why I now have a love of New Order I’m proud of and a similar love of Simple Minds I only admit to when I’m drunk. In that spirit, here’s a handful of tracks from Hughes films which I think are right little crackers.
Holiday Road – Lindsey Buckingham from National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Happy Birthday – Altered Images from Sixteen Candles (1984)
Some Like It Hot (extended mix) – The Power Station from National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985)
March Of The Swivelheads – The Beat from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Elegia (extended) – New Order from Pretty in Pink (1986)
Power To Believe – The Dream Academy from Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Last thought: Mark Hughes aka ‘Sparky’ – John Hughes wrote Vacation where Clark Griswold’s nickname with Sparky. Coincidence? Probably.
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From Russia With Soul
Stevie Wonder Russian Dolls
A fresh photo of one of my most treasured items, especially for Jimmy Nutmeg. And some tunes to smooth the way into the weekend, courtesy of Trevor Nelson’s favourite Motown artist, as tastefully revealed at the MJ memorial this week. He is right, though.
Uptight / Satisfaction (live) – Stevie Wonder & The Rolling Stones
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Michael Jackson 1958-2009
Cripes. LA Times and CBS News, and now the BBC have called it. Tear yourself away from the bad stuff and remember the sweet sweet music.
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Robin Danar – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
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Who is the funky sex machine?
Ah, Kate Bush. When she’s not pestering Rolf Harris to do vocals, or enlisting Donald Sutherland to play her mad scientist father, there’s always this homage to Ken Livingstone, which given her form I took at face value as another bit of bonkers pie. To be fair to her, it was written for the Comic Strip’s GLC spoof, so not quite so mad after all, but what a chorus with a cracking opinion-opinion-fact whammy:
Who is the man we all need?
(KEN!!)
Who is the funky sex machine?
(KEN!!)
Who is the leader of the GLC?
(KEN!!)
It’s no Babooshka, but what can you do?
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Let me be upfront
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