Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.

'Shindig'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


Sue - Sep 23, 2007 10:05:30 am PDT #6518 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Is this a movies or music post? Who knows.

I saw Control, the Ian Curtis movie Friday night. Really well acted, and beautifully shot in B&W. It's mostly about the personal decline of Curtis. There's very little about the development of their sound, but a fair amount of coverage of the band live. Martin Hannett appears in one brief studio scene close to the end of the film, and isn't mentioned otherwise.

I've been thinking a lot about Joy Division since. It's meant recontextualizing the band, since personally they're tied to the mid-1980's when I was really discovering that music. And by that time, they were mythical. But really, the music of the 1980's was their legacy. Ian Curtis died in 1980, when I was only 10, listening to Rick Springfield and the BeeGees. It blows my mind a little to think of that music existing alongside all the top-40 radio that I associate with the late '70s, and that it's survived.

The other thing is that I also realized that what Joy Division music I had is gone. I think I had Closer and a later singles album on cassette, and I've been sloughing off that collection over the past few years, since I have no way of playing anymore.

ETA: Also the movie brought back the horrors of late70s/early 80s fashion. Pleated pants made of what I could tell were horrible scratchy polyblends. Shudder.


DavidS - Sep 23, 2007 10:27:22 am PDT #6519 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I really love the early Joy Division stuff that's collected on Substance.

Particularly "Warsaw" (from when that was their band name). But also (of course) "Transmission."


tommyrot - Sep 23, 2007 10:29:42 am PDT #6520 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

But also (of course) "Transmission."

I love the Low cover of "Transmission."


Hayden - Sep 24, 2007 6:44:26 am PDT #6521 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Thanks for the Deerhoof heads-up, Tom.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2007 9:46:27 am PDT #6522 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Mr. Yuck song: [link]

I haven't heard this since 1976, I think. I'm surprised at how well I remember it (I've been earwormed with it before I went out and found this mp3).

Mr. Yuck wikipedia page: [link]

A memorably scary psychedelic public service announcement was also produced in the 1970s featuring the theme song, becoming a pop-culture icon unto itself for a number of generations.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2007 4:43:36 pm PDT #6523 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Awesome homemade video: TMBG Puppets in “Ana Ng”

Vancouver artist Mizushima Hine created a wonderful stop-motion video of the classic They Might Be Giants song “Ana Ng”.


Atropa - Sep 24, 2007 7:15:06 pm PDT #6524 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Siouxsie and Budgie divorced?! How did I not find out about this earlier? I'm ... wow. I'm actually shook up by this.


DavidS - Sep 24, 2007 7:27:17 pm PDT #6525 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I wondered what was behind the new solo album instead of a Creatures record.


Glamcookie - Sep 25, 2007 8:48:20 am PDT #6526 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Not only did they divorce, but Siouxsie came out as a lesbian! My GF was all over that news.


tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 8:52:04 am PDT #6527 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh my.

So was she 'bi' before, or is this totally new?