sorry Sam, i think you got yer downloads crossed thar, and are referring to Hero Sabatino... Sabatino, epaulettes may have something to do with Bridge Over The River Kwai, & the influence on said songs, yes?
I was the lucky recipient of this mix at the 3MPMP social lo those many months ago. And it's yet to have made it into a CaseLogic book because I listen to it so much. Ben actually apologized to me for including "Generals & Majors." Which is a little like apologizing to someone for serving them a chocolate sundae. It's all great, but I particularly like the weird shit in the middle (the mix, not the sundae). I say we all demand immediate access to Ben's music library!
I'm gonna play the baby card (once again). I've just written a dadpunk song to explain:
"Baby ate my brain! Baby ate my brain! That's why I'm sayin it again: Baby ate my brain!"
Doesn't really rhyme unless you sing it w/ an English accent but that shouldn't be a problem.
So I'm (as the kids say) "live blogging" this while listening to your actual mix (the title makes a lot more sense now that there's whistling on the songs) -- or is that called "Twittering" now? Hard to keep up. Luckily I learned to type in summer school, for some reason.
So, how did I live all these decades without hearing this Kleenex/LilPUT (Lilliput?) song? Slightly out-of-tune sax (the way it should be), thumping beat, & whistling. Great stuff! And that Euro-dominatrix voice is always nice. What Simon Reynolds call "that voice": http://blissout.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
I'm listening to the whistling part & thinking, this reminds me of that XTC song. And the next song is that XTC song. Nice segue.
Question: how many damn songs must you own to have this many good whistling songs?
Pere Ubu, "Horses." Could this really be Pere Ubu? It sounds like Orange Juice. I've been assiduously ignoring PU since circa '85 when one of my from-CT roommates would blast "Final Solution" over & over again. Apparently I was wrong. This is a good song.
I'm reading forward here & see that you've included a Bonzo Dog Band song. I closed my mix with one. That makes two. (My father-in-law went to "university" or whatever w/ one of the Bonzos & says that he -- the Bonzo, not my f-in-l pioneered the use of black nail polish by men).
Wait a sec. I'm gonna make a Pandora station w/ that Pere Ubu song.
Before I go to Pandora, I have to mention that this is the best Brian Eno song I've ever heard. That airport stuff...
Interestingly, Brian Eno dislike Mozart -- considers him an overly mathematical fraud. Not sure what Mozart thinks of Eno.
Coincidentally, the former-roommate who introduced me to the bad Ubu roommate pointed out that Brian Eno's name can be anagrammed into Brain One. (That sort of observation helped close my mind to BE in the first place.)
whoah. looks like Poppa Sam had some coffee... let me try to address yer weary queries....
Sorry you missed out on Kleenex/LiLiPUT (but it's never too late!) they were orig. called Kleenex, but a large international corp. decided that a punk band should not have their brand name they switched it to LiLiPUT (yes, note caps & lowercase)They are Swiss http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/liliput/ and if you dig them, you should also dig Lora Logic's (former sax player w/X-Ray Spex)Essential Logic http://members.iglou.com/artbear/logic.html
re:Question: how many damn songs must you own to have this many good whistling songs?
Answer: I never counted, not about to. As a young child one day I played one record over and over again, my mother, usually a sweet & temperamental person, walked over, picked up the record, and threw it at a wall, shattering it to pieces, this incident has left me with strange disposition to never stop getting music... a few years ago, to get rid of some debt, I invited Amoeba over to buy 2/3 of my cds & records.... got rid of debt & a whole lotta trash in one fell swoop, now I can get MORE music!
re: Could this really be Pere Ubu? It is, yes, though it was when they briefly had Red Crayola's (soon changed to Red Krayola, hmm I see a pattern!) singer songwriter guitarist Mayo Thompson (who also worked with Essential Logic! Yow! Patterns!)in thee band, this song of his (that he does most of the singing on! PU's vocalist David Thomas (not of Wendy's Hot n Juicy fame) sings a bit through what sounds like the phone towards the end...this song orig. appeared on Mayo's solo debut Corky's Debt To His Father http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1050085/a/Corky%27s+Debt+To+His+Father.htm which I also recommend!
re:Bonzos pioneered the use of black nail polish by men. possibly, but not the use of black shoe polish, that was old as the hills (NSFPCW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdA4zKp-00
re:best Brian Eno song I've ever heard note:mos def Bridge Over The River Kwai reference w/this & XTC, no?
Eno is guilty of many things, but he is like what Led Zep is to many of my contemporaries (I had ENO emblazoned on my leather motor cycle jacket in 7th grade) so it's hard to be objective....
I started listening to Liliput only in the past couple of years, when I was introduced to them through my Pandora Slits station (I found the Slits annoying when I was kid but like them now -- wanted to see them at the Red Devil Lounge a while back but). On your 3mpmp download the band's name is spelled LiLPUT, though.
I'm listening to Essential Logic's "Wake Up" right now on Pandora - fun stuff. (And now Shonen Knife.) After the punk revolution we won't have to listen to Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones again. Oh wait, I like all 3 of them.
You got rid of your CDs & records just in time. I was in Streetlight 24th St yesterday & it's like a morgue in there (they're shutting down).
Now Pandora is playing Liliput's "Nightload." It's been proven by research, they are musically similar. And now the 1st Puffy AmiYumi song I've ever liked: "Tokyo I'm On My Way."
If you like Bonzo Dog Band you should check out Paul McCartney's band The Scaffold -- somewhat similar & a player in the latter was in the former.
(Pandora say that if I like the Red Crayola I might like the In Crowd's "You're on Your Own." I do. And if I like that then I might like the Kink's "Such a Shame." I do.)
Now I'm listening to Red Krayola's "Words, Worms, Thirst." I had an album by them that had a bunch of sounds like hissing bacon grease on it. Now Wire's "Outdoor Miner," which sounds to me like Butterglory. Now "Hurricane Fighter Plane," and my baby's woken up.
Bonus Friday! It's a whistlin' kinda mix.
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Allright, Tinky!
Generals & Majors & Games Without Frontiers & Eno - I feel a jacket with epaulettes coming on.
Thanks for the bonus mix...HNY!
Groovy at the beginning & rockin at the end. I particularly like the Marnie Stern. Thanks DJTHS!
sorry Sam, i think you got yer downloads crossed thar, and are referring to Hero Sabatino... Sabatino, epaulettes may have something to do with Bridge Over The River Kwai, & the influence on said songs, yes?
I was the lucky recipient of this mix at the 3MPMP social lo those many months ago. And it's yet to have made it into a CaseLogic book because I listen to it so much. Ben actually apologized to me for including "Generals & Majors." Which is a little like apologizing to someone for serving them a chocolate sundae. It's all great, but I particularly like the weird shit in the middle (the mix, not the sundae). I say we all demand immediate access to Ben's music library!
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN???!!!
I'm gonna play the baby card (once again). I've just written a dadpunk song to explain:
"Baby ate my brain!
Baby ate my brain!
That's why I'm sayin it again:
Baby ate my brain!"
Doesn't really rhyme unless you sing it w/ an English accent but that shouldn't be a problem.
So I'm (as the kids say) "live blogging" this while listening to your actual mix (the title makes a lot more sense now that there's whistling on the songs) -- or is that called "Twittering" now? Hard to keep up. Luckily I learned to type in summer school, for some reason.
So, how did I live all these decades without hearing this Kleenex/LilPUT (Lilliput?) song? Slightly out-of-tune sax (the way it should be), thumping beat, & whistling. Great stuff! And that Euro-dominatrix voice is always nice. What Simon Reynolds call "that voice": http://blissout.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
I'm listening to the whistling part & thinking, this reminds me of that XTC song. And the next song is that XTC song. Nice segue.
Question: how many damn songs must you own to have this many good whistling songs?
Pere Ubu, "Horses." Could this really be Pere Ubu? It sounds like Orange Juice. I've been assiduously ignoring PU since circa '85 when one of my from-CT roommates would blast "Final Solution" over & over again. Apparently I was wrong. This is a good song.
I'm reading forward here & see that you've included a Bonzo Dog Band song. I closed my mix with one. That makes two. (My father-in-law went to "university" or whatever w/ one of the Bonzos & says that he -- the Bonzo, not my f-in-l pioneered the use of black nail polish by men).
Wait a sec. I'm gonna make a Pandora station w/ that Pere Ubu song.
Before I go to Pandora, I have to mention that this is the best Brian Eno song I've ever heard. That airport stuff...
Interestingly, Brian Eno dislike Mozart -- considers him an overly mathematical fraud. Not sure what Mozart thinks of Eno.
Coincidentally, the former-roommate who introduced me to the bad Ubu roommate pointed out that Brian Eno's name can be anagrammed into Brain One. (That sort of observation helped close my mind to BE in the first place.)
whoah. looks like Poppa Sam had some coffee... let me try to address yer weary queries....
Sorry you missed out on Kleenex/LiLiPUT (but it's never too late!) they were orig. called Kleenex, but a large international corp. decided that a punk band should not have their brand name they switched it to LiLiPUT (yes, note caps & lowercase)They are Swiss
http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/liliput/
and if you dig them, you should also dig Lora Logic's (former sax player w/X-Ray Spex)Essential Logic
http://members.iglou.com/artbear/logic.html
re:Question: how many damn songs must you own to have this many good whistling songs?
Answer: I never counted, not about to. As a young child one day I played one record over and over again, my mother, usually a sweet & temperamental person, walked over, picked up the record, and threw it at a wall, shattering it to pieces, this incident has left me with strange disposition to never stop getting music... a few years ago, to get rid of some debt, I invited Amoeba over to buy 2/3 of my cds & records.... got rid of debt & a whole lotta trash in one fell swoop, now I can get MORE music!
re: Could this really be Pere Ubu?
It is, yes, though it was when they briefly had Red Crayola's (soon changed to Red Krayola, hmm I see a pattern!) singer songwriter guitarist Mayo Thompson (who also worked with Essential Logic! Yow! Patterns!)in thee band, this song of his (that he does most of the singing on! PU's vocalist David Thomas (not of Wendy's Hot n Juicy fame) sings a bit through what sounds like the phone towards the end...this song orig. appeared on Mayo's solo debut Corky's Debt To His Father
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1050085/a/Corky%27s+Debt+To+His+Father.htm
which I also recommend!
re:Bonzos pioneered the use of black nail polish by men.
possibly, but not the use of black shoe polish, that was old as the hills (NSFPCW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdA4zKp-00
re:best Brian Eno song I've ever heard
note:mos def Bridge Over The River Kwai reference w/this & XTC, no?
Eno is guilty of many things, but he is like what Led Zep is to many of my contemporaries (I had ENO emblazoned on my leather motor cycle jacket in 7th grade) so it's hard to be objective....
Hey BenT,
I started listening to Liliput only in the past couple of years, when I was introduced to them through my Pandora Slits station (I found the Slits annoying when I was kid but like them now -- wanted to see them at the Red Devil Lounge a while back but). On your 3mpmp download the band's name is spelled LiLPUT, though.
I'm listening to Essential Logic's "Wake Up" right now on Pandora - fun stuff. (And now Shonen Knife.) After the punk revolution we won't have to listen to Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones again. Oh wait, I like all 3 of them.
You got rid of your CDs & records just in time. I was in Streetlight 24th St yesterday & it's like a morgue in there (they're shutting down).
Now Pandora is playing Liliput's "Nightload." It's been proven by research, they are musically similar. And now the 1st Puffy AmiYumi song I've ever liked: "Tokyo I'm On My Way."
If you like Bonzo Dog Band you should check out Paul McCartney's band The Scaffold -- somewhat similar & a player in the latter was in the former.
(Pandora say that if I like the Red Crayola I might like the In Crowd's "You're on Your Own." I do. And if I like that then I might like the Kink's "Such a Shame." I do.)
Now I'm listening to Red Krayola's "Words, Worms, Thirst." I had an album by them that had a bunch of sounds like hissing bacon grease on it. Now Wire's "Outdoor Miner," which sounds to me like Butterglory. Now "Hurricane Fighter Plane," and my baby's woken up.
Thanks, BenT!
Straight Up Ear Candy!
thanks Ben T
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