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Same old story...
Mar. 25th, 2008 10:13 pmJoy Division to Happy Mondays, the BBC documentary version. More impenetrable accents, narrated by John Simm (yes, that John Simm). Wow, Bernard Sumner looks old...
question 3: now with (even more) fencing!
Mar. 23rd, 2008 08:11 pmWell, you did ask: I would like to get even more blog about fencing. But I would like the story from the beginning; the "why" and "when" and all the "how you got started".
Star Wars almost certainly had something to do with it. Not necessarily the fencing style, but the idea of a sword and a discipline for learning to use it.
( I get a little long winded... )
The rest is history. Now this kid always picked last for kickball is a bona fide athlete who talks A. into competing and attempts to drag anyone in my orbit towards the Gospel of the Sword :P
Star Wars almost certainly had something to do with it. Not necessarily the fencing style, but the idea of a sword and a discipline for learning to use it.
( I get a little long winded... )
The rest is history. Now this kid always picked last for kickball is a bona fide athlete who talks A. into competing and attempts to drag anyone in my orbit towards the Gospel of the Sword :P
I still have this disc with the distinctive bright orange cover. Based on the date of release (1992) I'm pretty sure it was one of the "get this not that" recommendations I received from Laddie at Let the Music Play in Atlanta on one of my record runs as an impoverished college student. Great guy - he was always careful to let me know what expensive imports would be going domestic by my next visit and what vinyl simply could not be lived without until then (ahh, had I only the ease of internet shopping back then. But I digress...)
The piano riff (starting at about 3:30) is what gives this track the early morning/sunrise vibe, but incredibly it was improved upon with flutes on the Twitch #5 remix (lamentably, I can't find the music online, just the liner notes).
Swiss cheez
Jan. 29th, 2008 09:10 pmIt's got everything - yodeling, cleavage, lederhosen, BEER! Wait for it....
Background: This record was a #1 hit in Europe in 1989 and was allegedly made using The Manual (How to Have a Number One The Easy Way) by the Timelords (furthermore known as The KLF, whose manipulation/playing with the media has a long and amusing history). Not high art, but a silly send-up of every German stereotype available.
My own history with it: Incredibly (or not), I have it on 12" twice, if only because an Abba melody with beats is fun to dance to. During my music evangelist teenage years, one kid liked this song so much he had me put it on two mixtapes.
Background: This record was a #1 hit in Europe in 1989 and was allegedly made using The Manual (How to Have a Number One The Easy Way) by the Timelords (furthermore known as The KLF, whose manipulation/playing with the media has a long and amusing history). Not high art, but a silly send-up of every German stereotype available.
My own history with it: Incredibly (or not), I have it on 12" twice, if only because an Abba melody with beats is fun to dance to. During my music evangelist teenage years, one kid liked this song so much he had me put it on two mixtapes.
music meme
Aug. 30th, 2005 07:10 pmThis one was too good to pass up:
( results with commentary )
No underlines - so many 12" under the bridge since I graduated that I'd be pressed to say which was my favorite then vs. what is my favorite now.
I don't know many of these because by senior year of high school I'd given up on most top 40 and was feeding off a steady stream of mixtapes from UK penpals. What I remember:
808 State's "Pacific" - got the 7" single for Xmas '89 along with Morrissey's "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and though it took a couple of hearings, this was the single that destroyed my indie-kid identity forever. I about burned a hole in it until the album came out stateside, and was ached for raves which gratefully started taking off while I was in college.
Shamen "Move Any Mountain" - got the "En-Tact" import cassette (yes! We were still listening to cassettes then) out of curiosity and I remember listening to it in my beat up old Walkman on endless walks around the block.
Happy Mondays "Hallelujah" EP/ Inspiral Carpets "Life" - poisoned by Madchester on a family trip to England the summer between junior and senior years. Pressed these and 808 State on my school friends with an evangelical fervor.
Looking back I notice that often times I wasn't put off so much by the music itself as I was the fans involved - Cure fans seemed just so much cooler than, say, R.E.M. fans who were just a bit too mainstream for my 17 year old music snob tastes, especially when "The One I Love" went top 40 in the late 80s. This cut me off of a lot of stuff I might have liked otherwise.
- Go to musicoutfitters.com
- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
- Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).
( results with commentary )
No underlines - so many 12" under the bridge since I graduated that I'd be pressed to say which was my favorite then vs. what is my favorite now.
I don't know many of these because by senior year of high school I'd given up on most top 40 and was feeding off a steady stream of mixtapes from UK penpals. What I remember:
808 State's "Pacific" - got the 7" single for Xmas '89 along with Morrissey's "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and though it took a couple of hearings, this was the single that destroyed my indie-kid identity forever. I about burned a hole in it until the album came out stateside, and was ached for raves which gratefully started taking off while I was in college.
Shamen "Move Any Mountain" - got the "En-Tact" import cassette (yes! We were still listening to cassettes then) out of curiosity and I remember listening to it in my beat up old Walkman on endless walks around the block.
Happy Mondays "Hallelujah" EP/ Inspiral Carpets "Life" - poisoned by Madchester on a family trip to England the summer between junior and senior years. Pressed these and 808 State on my school friends with an evangelical fervor.
Looking back I notice that often times I wasn't put off so much by the music itself as I was the fans involved - Cure fans seemed just so much cooler than, say, R.E.M. fans who were just a bit too mainstream for my 17 year old music snob tastes, especially when "The One I Love" went top 40 in the late 80s. This cut me off of a lot of stuff I might have liked otherwise.
