What song are you listening to?

I love it. I'll now drink several litres of vintage 1988 gasoline.

Long live Aggrotech.

Ooo Baby Baby by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Cheesy as all hell, but I think it's catchy.

"If" is f*cking EPIC.

You should try and get hold of the Telly album, Brown. I've got it on vinyl, and it's one of my favourite "So Bad It's Brilliant" albums, I love the way he just talks through many of the verses because he's not that great a singer. It's just got such a great "WTF" charm to it, and I used to love p*ssing people off by putting it on or sneaking a track from it onto a dance compilation.

Louis Armstrong wrote:

Classic dirty blues. Gotta give you a nod for putting that one up. It's always fun when you are listening to a blues record and all of a sudden a song about a lady going to her dentist to get her cavity filled by his big long drill, so much it made her hurt and cry.

For some odd reason I feel like they have double meanings....nah, couldn't be...

Lazenby. wrote:

"If" is f*cking EPIC.

You should try and get hold of the Telly album, Brown. I've got it on vinyl, and it's one of my favourite "So Bad It's Brilliant" albums, I love the way he just talks through many of the verses because he's not that great a singer. It's just got such a great "WTF" charm to it, and I used to love p*ssing people off by putting it on or sneaking a track from it onto a dance compilation.

I'm going to look for it when I go into the music store again. Hopefully they'll have it on vinyl.

BTW - love the avatar, Laz.

In due part to the Guiness advert on television.

I find Harris to be a quintessentially underrated American composer, who's inspired a lot of great yank film composers - Alex North, Leonard Rosenman, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Williams to name just four. Much like hid colleague and contemporary, Howard Hanson, who most are familiar with from Ridley Scott royally punking Goldsmith at the end titles of ALIEN, by opting with temp track, which was Hanson's Symphony No. 2.



This is another forgotten gem. A proto-proto minimalist masterpiece written in 1918 by Danish composer Rued Langgaard, titled - Music of the Spheres. It's tonal, but it's orchestration and manipulation of multileveled clusters of sound, suggesting a feeling of buoyancy. Pedal timpani glissandi (that howling wind effect some might remember from Bartók's later Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - featured in THE SHINING, with the daytime trip through the maze and the bouncing ball), glissandi on directly on piano strings (what we now called 'prepared piano') distant choir singing from the gods, organ, diatonic tone clusters (you can hear these in the violin bowed tremolo figures), slowly shifting polyphony, the use 'blocks of sound' that predates Gyorgy Ligeti by 50 years. Much like Ligeti's seminal work - Atmosphères (featured throughout Kubrick's 2001 in the 'blackout' intervals, and most memorably in the stargate sequence) - time is suspended.

I had to pleasure of hearing the piece at its UK premiere at the proms last year.

The Kleerup remix of Erase/Rerwind:



Ebeneezer Goode...

After seeing what a crazy miserable c*** she was on The Apprentice, I decided to look up Dionne Warwick.



Honestly surprised I wasn't more aware of her work with Bacharach, given my parents musical taste, but this has been stuck in my head all day.

Check out The Stranglers version. Just about the best cover version in the known universe:

http://www.we7.com/#/song/The-Stranglers/Summer-In-The-City

There is only one Elvis:



"They call her Natasha, but she looks like Elsie..."

'Walk on By' is a beautiful song.

Louis Armstrong wrote:

'Walk on By' is a beautiful song.]

The Stranglers version is really a mash-up of Walk On By and Light My Fire.

Shut up! It's late and it's catchy!

So much better than the Ibiza-flavoured version Florence normally serves up. Can be found on mp3ify.com