Strange Sounds, Vol 3

The French had some seriously eerie film music in the 1970s. This is no mere empty boast of "täna jälle me joome bensiini"; they actually seem to have gone for it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USX0fZbO-ps

This week:

23 Mar Strange Sounds

Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4
The Wire Magazine, Issue #195 (May 00) | Reviews
By: David Keenan | Featuring: Harry Smith
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/445/

Kitsch of Distinction
The Wire Magazine, Issue #128 (Oct 94) | Essays
By: David Toop
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/219/

Strange Sounds, vol. 2

Post punk meets proto house, Manchester meets... outer space. You'll be hearing about John Cooper Clarke a lot these coming months, and hopefully both hearing and seeing himself in Tartu on 7 May, sans the monster


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuel9JxZoGs

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Every time my eyes spy the word 'quirky' somewhere in a text,
the first tune that pops up in my mind is THIS.

It might just be the video that associates and
always brings a dumb smirk on my face
but the song itself is nonetheless unbelievably catchy & gets stuck in one's
subconscious.
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Aside from quirky there's also absurd
and I still haven't figured out what's up with this TONETTA guy --
is he just an Internet troll or a lyrical messiah, can't really tell.

Strange Sounds, vol. 1

So, for the next week, or nest couple of weeks, you're welcome to share links and impressions of the strange, weird, kitschy, trashy, otherwordly, chilling or inadvertently (?) silly music (there is just a step from the sublime to the ridiculous and it works both ways, doesn't it?).

There'll be some exotica and chilling folk/Americana coming up in the class and a number of tracks/artists mentioned in the next week's texts are also available in YouTube (a most generous back catalogue of Heino, mind you!). But as David Toop called for more Euro-trash and weird novelty stuff, I'll start the topic with something that got a lot of airplay back in my childhood and admittedly did not sound much off the wall at the time. The English seemed plausible and I never really paid much attention to the lyrics. But then as you go on, you're bound to start wondering what a song called "You're My Voodoo" was all about; so I had it retrieved from the radio archives a few years ago and it sure as hell left me bewildered. "Oh God, my dear, you're just in your early teens" - was this actually acceptable in Czechoslovakia'80? As, apparently, was comparing a girl to a puppy... or is it a pup compared to a girl... but then "early teens" would not be "just" (and it would hardly amount to less perversity)?

To top it off, the guy himself, aptly named Jiri Korn, flutters about in this frankly ribald dance routine, looking like the AC/DC singer doing a Michael Jackson impression while gazonked on acid'n'poppers... Flatcaps off, let's get Korny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMENE5FfAs

Sacred Cows

Readings for tomorrow:

Indie's Sacred Cows
By Dr David Thorpe
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/indies-sacred-cows.php

NME Sacred Cow Blog:
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=140&p=9659&more=1

Also, I'm reminding the possibility of suggesting records for others to - those can be uploaded or provided in hard copy.

"Areaal" artist profiling radio show links and discussion

http://www.rada7.ee/?s=f&k=3&id=38800

Artist Profiles, 9 March

Tilting At Windmills
The Wire Magazine, Issue #135 (May 95) | Interviews
By: Richard Cook | Featuring: Scott Walker
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/189/


Hype Williams transcript
The Wire Magazine Issue #324 (Feb 11) | In Writing
By: Lisa Blanning | Featuring: Hype Williams
https://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/5745/

party tricks for youtube discos, vol 1

try playing the audio of one with the video of the other. or vice versa. or both at the same time:

take that, 'kidz'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlapv48d7VQ

bai bang, 'behind the enemy lines'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5lJC3xXkJ8

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