Only Connect III

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Same 'rules' as OC and OC II: Electric Boogaloo.

Walking blindly towards CD shelves, my index finger first alighted upon:

Damon & Naomi: "Playback Singers".

Off yr go, then...

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Singers are sewing machines, and John Deers are mowing machines and Dear John letters are sent to soldiers and Jefferson Airplane had an album called "Voulenteers" which was partly about soldiers.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

PE dressed like soldiers. Or at least their dancers did. And "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" is about volunteering, kinda.

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The album cover ofr Hawkwin's "Warrior on the edge of time" folds out into a bronze age shield with 'chaos' wrote across it.

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It being the name of the first Pulp album.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Albums are the things that musicians put out. Madonna, The Go-Go's and very probably Li'l Kim put out. Britney Spears does not put out.
― JM, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

On "Roxanne", Sting pleads with the title character not to put out the red light. SInce then, he has gone on to sing on steamy piles of crap like "Russians".

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And It being the name of a book by Stephen King, who the AllMusic Guide credits as contributing vocals to Santana's Spirits Dancing in the Flesh.

(There's also an AMG connection between Ned and me. . .)

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Huh? Eep! You're the person whose quite fine NZ reviews I keep stumbling across and wanting to replace with my own demented dribblings! I apologize in advance.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Rocket To Russia was an album released by the Ramones and covered by The Queers, who did a song called Punk Rock Girls -- whom I have a fondness for these days. Punk Rock Girl was a song by the Dead Milkmen, who had an album called 'Not Richard But Dick.' Dick is a movie with Kirsten Dunst, and she was also in The Virgin Sucides and Bring It On, which featured a song by Rufus King called 'Just What I Need.'

― JM, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oops...

― JM, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'...I did it again', was the regrettably number performed by b.Spears at the MTV Video awards, just after she air humped the crowd doing the Stone's 'Satisfaction'. 'Satisfaction' was also a b-movie Starring Justine Bateman (from Family Ties, who's TV-brother Michael J Fox appeared in another made for tv Rawk movie with Joan Jett called 'Light of Day'.

― Jason, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Joan Jett sang "Bad reputation". Its also the name of a Thin Lizzy tune.

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

before they got particularly famous Thin Lizzy recorded a cheapo exploito album under the name Funky Junction - it was a TRIBUTE TO DEEP PURPLE .

― duane, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Liz Fraser was a member of the Cocteau Twins. Cocteau was the name of Bill Nelson's record label. One of the Nelson twins was Gunnar, but Sigurdur Bjarki Gunnarsson was not Gunnar's son.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Let's connect those two up: Deep Purple's big-ass hit was "Smoke on the Water". Many of the Cocteau Twins' album covers were created using smoke and water in varying proportions. Thus, Liz Fraser...thus Sigurdur Bjarki Gunnarson.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Goin' back to that loose end, yuppies there was a porn spoof movie named Flesh Gordon. And Gordon Gano is lead singer of the violent femmes and that weird name which I can't place reminds me of Sigur Ros who were hailed as the new Mogwai. Of course nobody has been hailed as the new Femmes. But the Femmes were male and Mogwai had a single called Helicon 2, and that sounds like Helicopter and it would take a long time by Helicopter to get to Australia which is where Men At Work are from. Additionally, helicopters are dangerous but less so if you're careful, and you can remember how to be careful by doing The Safety Dance.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If you don't dance then you ain't no friend of Men Without Hats. Poison's mama didn't dance, Alice Cooper had Poison, and for him School was Out. Chuck Berry sang about a School Day, before engaging in shady activities also perpetrated by Gary Glitter, whose domination of the UK chart was concurrent to that of Slade.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whose drummer later played for AC/DC and became The Drummer From Slade. The Drummer From Slade is bald. So is Moby. Moby hacks people off because he's sanctimonious, like Ian Mackaye (yeh, admit it), who to this day will not play a show for more than $5 with his band, who lugs all their own gear. Liam Gallagher was a roadie for Inspiral Carpets, who had a record called... (anybody?)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i dunno but it had a cow on the cover. like "Atom Heart Mother" by Pink Floyd.

― duane, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

floyd pepper was the sax-playing muppet - tim roth got repeatedlycalled a muppet in 'meantime' by phil daniels - who did that song with blur - the mention of justine bateman got me in a ho frenzied right-hand blur - box frenzy was by pop will eat itself who did a cover of hawkwinds brainstorm - professor branestawm was the name of a character in a book i nicked from a library - didn't that dude from the pastels work in a library

― Daphne zuniga, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Stephen Pastel's real surname is McRobbie. Robbie Fowler - Norman Fowler - Norman Stanley Fletcher - Fletch - Chevy Chase - Kiss Chase... a song from:

Lush: "Split"

(oh, there are 'winning conditions', btw... but it could be ages before they emerge...)

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Grounhogs had a song called 'Split part two" They also brought out an album called "Cherry red" which Keith Allen thought was all abouot his Doc Martens.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Keith Allen was once in the lamentable Fat Les with Damien Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and sheeps. Damien Hirst reported that he was pestered by one David Bowie calling on the phone, telling him "Oh, I've just done a video for Little Wonder, it's very Damien Hirst" to which Damien reported replied. "Eh? I've just done a video! It's very Benny Hill..."

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

MICHAEL JACKSON is known to be a Benny Hill fan.

― duane, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Michael Jackson" is a tune by Fatboy Slim. He says his real name is Norman Cook. It's Quentin Cook.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Quentin Tarantino directed From Dusk Till Dawn. The The had an album called Dusk. Neneh Cherry performed on a The The song once. Some cherries are black. Black is the title of an album by Metallica.

― Gareth Davies, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

vearncombe's band, black, had a hit single with "wonderful life". "it's a wonderful life" was a film starring jimmy stewart, as was "harvey". harvey williams made the sarah lp "london weekend" as another sunny day.

― kevan, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gary U.S. Bonds had a song called "7-day weekend". He also wrote a number one hit for Freddie North.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oliver North was please to provide "full deniability" during the Reagan/Bush yearz. Dead Kennedys wrote a song called "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" about Reagan, which was an update of "California Uber Alles", written about Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown was a known cohort of Linda Ronstadt.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Phillip K Dick was obsessed by Linda Ronstadt. Artist Gary Panter used to hang around w/ PKD, and also drew the cover to Frank Zappa's 'Studio Tan' alb. Deep Purple wrote 'Smoke on the Water' abt a Zappa gig that ended when the concert hall caught fire.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

One puts water on a fire. Firewater Burn was a song by the Bloodhoung Gang. Gang of FOur is a band that follows logically in this sequence. No one used logic when making the Gorillaz album, 'coz 'It Stinks.'

― JM, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gorillaz is drawn by Jamie Hewlett, who created Tank Girl. In the movie Tank Girl, Ice T plays a kangaroo.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kangaroos are from Australia. So are Midnight Oil. If you are burning the midnight oil you are staying up late. If you are up late, you are tired. If you are tired, you can't think straight. If you are drunk, you can't drive straight. If you're drinking and driving, you're certainly in DIRE STRAIGHTS.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mark Knopfler was also in Dire Straits. If you say "Knopfler" out loud it sounds like "knob fleur". Bob and Doug McKenzie called each other knobs a lot, and Geddy Lee sang on their first album. Geddy also appeared on Max Webster's song "Battle Scar".

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

scar tissue was a red hot chillipeppers song, floyd pepper was the sax playing muppet, tim roth (curses !try again)

tv cook keith floyd had a stranglers themetune, there was a boston strangler, didnt the pixies hail from boston, pixies are short so randy newman wont want them round here, pink floyd wish you were here, floyd pepper (aaarrrghhhhhhhhhhh!)

― loopy moebius, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't believe either Dr Pepper or the doctor from Dr and the Medics were real doctors. Perhaps they'd have found employment at 'Britannia Hospital' (Lindsay Anderson, 1982), which wasn't a real hospital, but did feature Leonard Rossiter, of 'Rising Damp' fame. This also featured Frances De La Tour, hence:

"Tour De France" by Kraftwerk.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kraft make a wonderful macaroni and cheese which is literally smothered with cheese. Some might say that the new Spiritualized record is also, literally, smothered with cheese.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Primus has an album called Sailing The Seas of Cheese. Les Claypool was in Primus, and they did a song on the Beavis and Butthead soundtrack which I stole from Will Sparrow in 8th grade -- just 'cause he had an album of mine and never gave it back, so turnabout was fair play. When playing, it's always best if you win. Then you should Sing When You're Winning.

― JM, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

terminal cheesecake were shit. that wifey from the devotchkas likes doing a shit onstage. devotchkas appear in clockwork orange - blur's video 'universal' - blur did a song with phil daniels who, in the film 'meantime' called tim roth a muppet repeatly, fl ..

aaargh - ok so repeater was an album by fugazi - marillion did something called fugazi - the song kayleigh is very cheesey

― mo moebius loopz, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

edam is a cheese and when spelt backwards spells 'made' - pale man made play the chillingham arms in byker on 27 july - itll cost ya £2.50

― geordie racer, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

geordie races but never, never wins !

― moebius reprised, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Never Say Never Again was a Bond movie -- the series has gone through many mutations, but the most notable song is still probably Goldfinger. Goldfinger is still (inexplicably) a band who released a song called "Mable" which I made a mention of in the last Only Connect. Martha Hall released an album called "Connect the Hearts." Heart is a band.

― JM, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

afghan whigs covered band of gold, sean connery often wears a wig - and he was james bond in never say never again

― loopy mo, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Never Say Never Again ... Again? We're repeating. One might call these last two posts 'repeaters.' Repeater+3 is an album by Fugazi. We could mention Marillion again... but...

― JM, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi was a term for a grunt going nuts in the Vietnam war (I think). Paul Hardcastle had a number one about the Vietnam War called "19". N-ni-nini-nineteen.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hardcastle and McCormick was a show in the 80s, a time that spawned other fab dramas like Magnum P.U. and Miami Lice. The theme show of the latter was composed by Jan Hammer, who was not MC Hammer. M.C. Escher was one of the subjects of a book by Douglas Hofstadter, another of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bach was in Jeckyll and Hyde -- a musical that was based on Jr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde -- the book. The Who have a song called Dr. Jimmy. I have just referenced myself, and therefore I win. I Sing When [I'm] Winning. I've just repeated again, so more Fugazi for everyone.

― JM, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi had an album called "Red medicine". Benilyn is a type of medicine. It's mentioned in a Foo Fighters song.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Foo Fighters was led by Dave Grohl, formerly of a group called The Scream, who recorded on Dischord, a label owned by...wait for it...FUGAZI.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi had former members of Minor Threat. Hansen are under eighteen, and if angry would be minor threats. Hansen's hit single had a nonsense chorus. Roxette was pop nonsense whose greatest hits album was titled "Don't Bore Us -- Get to the Chorus!" Chorus Line was a musical featuring the song "One". U2 had a song named One. U2 is an alphanumeric band name. Excuse 17 is an alphanumeric band name. Excuse 17 were all riot. I've never been in a riot, and neither had the Mekons when they released that as a single. The Mekons started their own record label... as did... FUGAZI.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

jr. jeckyll???

― ethan, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Jeckyll alter ego was mr Hyde. There is a Hyde park. Another park is Linkin Park who have a song called Crawling. Crawling is something babies do.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No no no, we were still on Fugazi. Fugazi featured the lovely vocal stylings of one Mr. Ian Mackaye, who spent a lot of time in DC with his pal Mr. Henry Rollins. Rollins moved to California to be in a big punk band. Another big California punk band was Offspring, who had a minor hit with "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)". Guy was also the name of one of the members of...FUGAZI.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi did come out of DC as Mr. Sean said, and so did a whole bunch of other crap that we like to call 'Emo', which developed a fay little style that involves wearing glases like Buddy Holly (the artist). Weezer had a song called Buddy Holly, which was really not about Buddy Holly at all. But remember Emo and DC? The whole point of this thread was me agreeing with Mr. Sean that a band came out of DC called Fugazi.

― JM, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

We should rename this thread to ONLY FUGAZI.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

the ONLY ONES were a punk band. As was Minor Threat. Which had members who later went on to be in FUGAZI which had an album called End Hits. When Nirvana broke, it Ended the string of hair-metal Hits. Poison was a hair metal band. If you took Poison, you'd need medicine. An album named RED MEDICINE was made by a band named FUGAZI.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

fugazi were in the waiting room, the velvet underground were waiting for their man, critics say luna sound like mid-late vu, dude from luna was once in a band with damon and naomi

― loop me moebius, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

fugazi are a wack-ass group. on 'supernigga', king tee says 'i'm here to rid the city of wack-ass groups, wack-ass lyrics, wack-ass loops'. common's 'the bitch in yoo' humorously refers to ice cube protege mack 10 as 'wack 10'. mack 10 is actually an okay guy, and his 'soulmate 4 life' is t-boz, of tlc fame. therefore, i give you: 'waterfalls'

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Niagara Falls is a famous waterfall. It rhymes with Viagra. Turbonegro - I got Erection.

― Nick, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Turbonegro sang about "rock against ass". David Yow of the Jesus Lizard used to bare his ass on stage. Jesus Lizard once brought out a single with Nirvana. Nirvana's drummer used to play for The Scream who were signed to Dischord. A label owned by.....FUGAZI.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

On the Dischord label was a band called Jawbox, which jumped ship to be on Atlantic records -- home of some of the finest soul acts EVER including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and Ray Charles. But it also had its share of total crap, including, but not limited to Yes, Zeppelin, Genesis, and man-whore Phil Collins, whose album, "No Jacket Required" begat the first Only Connect. Connections were made in that first thread, and Connection is a song by Elastica, who came and went so fast it made our collective heads spin right 'round like a record baby. I just alluded to Dead or Alive, and their minor hit "You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)" that was featured in The Wedding Singer, which starred Adam Sandler and a foxy-cute Drew Barrymore. Miss Drew was in Never Been Kissed, whose soundtrack featured songs from Jimmy Eat World. They released an album last year called "Bleed American" on Grand Royal records. It should be pointed out that Grand Royal has never released a good rock album, and that includes Public Places by Russel Simins. Simins plays stix for a little band called JSBX -- The "JS" stands for Jon Spencer, who was in Pussy Galore, a legendary band that really did nothing legendary, except come from DC. Just like FUGAZI.

― JM, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi are a lovely little beat combo that ethan thinks are wack. I haven't seen ethan for a while and despite his dissing of them, I would like to say "Welcome Back!" Welcome Back Kotter was a TV show featuring Gabe Kaplan, and he had a fright wig on that was very similar to the luscious locks perpetrated on the world by Leo Sayer. Leo Johnston was one of the characters on Twin Peaks, a show which really kick-started the career of Julee Cruise, who later went on to join the B-52s. Another member of the B-52s was Fred Schneider, who released a solo album featuring recording work by Steve Albini. Albini has spent much of his recording life on the label Touch & Go, a label which has the same indie cache as another indie label, Dischord...home of FUGAZI.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dischord No. 101 is an album by Bluetip. Blue is an album by Third Eye Blind. Blind Lemon Jefferson was a blues man. Man was a band from the 70's that released Back Into The Future -- a title which soulds oddly like "Back To The Future," whose soundtrack featured Huey Lewis And The News. News Radio featured flamboyand boy-child Andy Dick. Dick is a movie that featured Kirsten Dunst, who was in Bring It On and Wag The Dog. Lou Reed wanted us to "Do The Dog", a take on the old 60's dances like the Monkey. The Monkees were a pre-fab band that happened to play their own instruments and toured with Jimi Hendrix, who was promptly booed. The Boo Radleys' second album is "Everything's Alright Forever." "Forever" was the Spice Girls' swan song -- a sad farewell to the group that started the whole teen craze of the last two-three years -- a time that has seen the rise of N*Sync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. Britney Spears "covered" 'Satisfaction' on her last album, 'Oops I did It Again.' Three Degrees (not 98 Degrees) had a hit with 'When Will I See You Again?' and whose Greatest Hits comp can be found on Epic Records. Epic featured The Clash as well as Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick did 'I Want You To Want Me,' which was covered by Letters To Cleo, whose lead singer, Kay Hanley, was the singing voice of Josie in 'Josie And The Pussycats." Adam Duritz was one of the ghostwriters on the album, and his full-time project is the Counting Crows, whose last album was released on Geffen/Interscope/A&M -- A foul beast of a label that features Weezer. Weezer's old bassist, Matt Sharp, is in the Rentals, who had a minor hit with 'Friends of P." Pee Wee Herman is played by Paul Rubens, who now hosts "You Don't Know Jack." Billy Jack is a movie whose soundtrack had a song by Coven called "One Tin Soilder." Tin Machine was David Bowie's side project... from whatever it was he was doing. What Bowie WASN'T doing, however, was Ziggy Stardust or any of his old glam schtick. A very Glam act was Roxy Music. An album was recorded by The Buzzcocks at The Roxy. The Buzzcocks toured with Joy Division. Long Division is a song by FUGAZI

― JM, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Fugazi are a band from Washington DC. DC stands for Destiny's Child. They had a song called "Get on the bus". The Replacements had a song called "Kiss me on the bus". Everyone said they should have been bigger than R.E.M. Michael Stipe is mates with Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Radiohead have a song called "No Surprises". "No surprise" is the name of the fourth track on "End Hits". An album by FUGAZI.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Help! We appear to be trapped in a moebius loop involving Fugazi! The concept of the Moebius is the basis of a song by Orbital. The Orbital is a big road that goes all the way around the outside of London. London is not only home to many fine bands, but it is also namechecked in songs and albums by bands from The Clash to Blur. Blur's guitarist, Graham Coxon, has recorded several solo albums which pay great homage to the hardcore punk aesthetic and guitar work of... ARGH!!! FUGAZI!!!

― Kate the Saint, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mike, can we assume FUGAZI isn't the winning condition, then?

― Nick, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

fugazi are noted for their self-sufficient approach to the business side of music, as are hiphop socialists the coup. the coup also frequently rail against money and fame as rap status indicators. eminem rails against fame (but not necessarily money) very very very much. when not whining about trl superstardom he tends to get in trouble for homophobic remarks, like a tasteless joke about versace's murder, who created a popular designer fashion label. hence: 'gucci time' by SCHOOLY D.

(please oh please let this work)

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Am I Black Enough For You is by Schoolly D. Frank Black was in the Pixies and had albums produced by Steve Albini. Albini was in Big Black, and wrote Songs About Fucking and had a song called "Tiny, King of the Jews." The Silver Jews features Steve Malkmus of Pavement, one of the finest bands EVER. But they broke up and he went solo, like so many other artists like Pete Townshend and Henry Rollins. Rollins was in Black Flag. Black Flag was on SST and so were the Decendents, who [Didn't] Want To Grow Up. Up Records featured Built To Spill, and Caustic Resin. Caustic Acrostic is a song by FUGAZI.

― JM, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ARGH.

'caustic window' is one of richard d. james' many aliases, which he often uses to release material outside of warp records. his warp labelmate squarepusher has not done this (to my knowledge), but has done some excellent work outside of warp, including his remix of east flatbush project's 'tried by 12'. that song was also remixed by funkstorung, who have a history of working on that sort of thing, with guest mcs on their albums and a hot remix of wu-tang's 'reunited', which rza tears shit up on ('grow like a fetus / with no hands and feet to complete us / then we return like jesus / when the whole word need us'). another song on which the abbott rips it: 'bang your head' by GRAVEDIGGAZ.

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Prince Paul was a member of the Gravediggaz. Prince Paul's 1st solo joint (_Psychoanalysis_) was 1st released on the Wordsound label, also home to those beloved MC Hawd Gankstuz of mine (gotta get that CD!). These MCs have also dropped lyrical trou on the Providence- based Load Records label, also home to Lightning Bolt. Lightning Bolt is part of an artistic collective called Fort Thunder - check out http://www.fortthunder.org for more info, yo. Of course, Fort Thunder rocks, much in the way that AC/DC rock - coincidentally, AC/DC wrote a song called "Thunderstruck". AC/DC was the subject of a series of tributes from various underground groups, including the super-duper Shellac, who have been known to play a show or 10 with ... FUGAZI.

As noted earlier, Fugazi arose from the fertile loam of the DC punk scene. Another notable musician that took root in that loam is Dave Grohl (who really needs to play more drums). Once upon a time, Dave Grohl had a tape released by the super-terrific Simple Machines label just before _Nevermind_ was released. The tape was called _Pocketwatch_ - it was a series of 8 tapes. Unfortunately, the success of _Nevermind_ led to many, many demands for this tape, which led Simple Machines to stop making the tapes. Which is a shame, because I doubt many people will get to hear the Mommyheads' offering to this series, which features the greatest song title EVER:

"Undress Me With Your Golf Ball".

― David Raposa, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Mommyheads also had another single on Simple Machines called "It's All at the Mall". While you probably won't find FUGAZI albums at the mall, someone once found a Dead Kennedys album at the mall, featuring a poster by H.R. Giger. While Giger was probably best known for his contributions to the Alien series of movies, he did a lot of artwork, some for album covers, like...oh, say, Danzig III. Danzig featured the skin-work of Chuck Biscuits who not only worked with DOA and the Circle Jerks, but with Black Flag too. As previously established, Flag lead singer Henry Rollins knew Ian Mackaye of FUGAZI back in DC, but they also spent a lot of time hanging out at an ice cream shop. Therefore, Jonathan Richman's "Ice Cream Man".

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

not to be confused with raekwon's 'ice cream', which featured johhny fuckin blaze spitting slang out like a muh-fuh. meth got that name from the secret identity of marvel comics' 'ghost rider', but then changed it to johnny storm after 'blaze' became a massive hiphop cliche, johnny storm of course being the human torch, a member of the fantastic four. super-dope dj crew the x-men weren't as lucky with their comic-derived moniker, they were forced to change to 'the nextmen' under threat of lawsuit (no word from john byrne on this, yet). the nextmen also recently did a banging remix of encore's 'love & hate', which was released on automator's 75 ark label. of course, automator wouldn't be famous if it wasn't for a fellow named kool keith, who was much better as a member of ULTRAMAGNETIC MCS.

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"It was a series of 8 tapes"? I must be illiterate or dopey.

The MC5 (whose magnetivity is unknown) kicked out the jams once upon a time. Alice Cooper was caught on VH1 offering praise to the MC5. Alice Cooper plays golf (quite well, I heard).

"Undress Me With Your Golf Ball"!!!

― David Raposa, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Golf is a sport enjoyed by Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper appeared on the Muppet Show, the home of FLOYD PEPPER, who is not to be confused with Art Pepper. Art Garfunkel was "the other guy", just like Andrew Ridgely. Ridgeley's better half was George Michael. Another person with two first names was Hal David.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

and so's keith murray, whose first album was produced by erick sermon, sort of like redman's first album, which had a song on it called 'a day of sooperman luver', which samples johnny ' guitar' watson's 'superman lover'(duh), a classic dc comics-influenced record, just like gza's 'liquid swords' (with cover art by dc's denys cowans, a member of the afro-centric 'milestone' imprint). that album was, of course, produced by the rza, whose 'bobby digital' album cover was by bill sienkiewicz, also the artist on epmd's business as usual (also produced by erick sermon, whoa). of course that album's 'rampage' featured the fresh-for-1990 stylings of a mister LL COOL J.

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

LL Cool J might BE a real-life comic character, since he actually thought he could get away with writing the theme song to a movie about SUPER SHARKS! Of course, sharks ==> _Jaws_ ==> _Moonraker_ ==> James Bond ==> _Goldfinger_ ==> cover of "99 Luftballoons" (ugh, ugh, ugh) festooned on the PS2 game, _Gran Turismo 3_. Of course, there's also Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart", which r0X0rs. Heart, however, don't, though they did cover a Led Zeppelin song as the Lovemongers on the _Singles_ soundtrack. My favorite track on that album used to be Chris Cornell's "Seasons", but Chris is really pushing my once-boundless love for him & Soundgarden, given his odious studio project, and his team-up with the bland 3/4ths of Rage Against the Machine. Rage, once upon a time, covered the Boss' "The Ghost of Tom Joad". MY boss has a copy of the _Mortal Kombat II_ soundtrack, tucked in between his wife's copies of Celine Dion's odious contributions to Western culture. And, one day, while farting around his house, I discovered that Corey Hart contributed a song to one of her albums. Yes, the writer of such gems as "Never Surrender" and "Sunglasses At Night". Meanwhile, Cheap Trick (authors of such gems as "Surrender" and "Taxman. Mr. Thief") are forced to play their 3 best albums live in order to get any attention. Not that recording "The Flame" wasn't shameful enough. As far as one-hit wonders essayed by fine musical outfits, "Hell" (by Squirrel Nut Zippers) is a much better effort. They wrote it themselves, with their own hands & feet, they did.

― David Raposa, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Well Did You Evah" being a song covered by Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop for a tribute album.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

debbie harry of course was in blondie, who in 1981 did a song called 'rapture', which was wackly sampled by krs-one for his 1997 hit 'step into a world'. of course kris sounds best when he's on some dj premier, as does good-for-you mc jeru tha damaja, who's been lucky enough to have primo production for two albums. the intro to jeru's 'wrath of the math' (aptly titled 'wrath of the math') was a frustratingly obvious sample that i just couldn't place, until i listened to 'sketches of spain' the other day and heard that particular riff. another guy who likes to sample miles is dj spooky, who lifted part of 'on the corner' for his subliminal minded ep, the title of which is based on a quote from gza's 'living in the world today' ('criminal subliminal minded rappers find it...'). the chorus of that song states that 'if you living in the world today, you be hearing the slang that the wu-tang say'. one bit of slang popularized by the wu is 'cream', derived from 'cash rules everything around me', which is quoted on 'new world water' by MOS DEF.

― ethan, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Which leads us, of course, directly to "Floating Boy" by... FUGAZI (you asked for it, Ethan).

― Josh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

it appears that this 'fugazi' band are from DC. well, i'll tell you who else is, the poem-cees, the too-funky-for-words hiphop/poetry act that ain't on that bling bling shit. hiphop poetry has historically been a patchy exercise, but i think a good example is common's 'my city' (featuring malik the wordsmith). that album has a number of great guest appearances, but the most frequently mentioned one is canibus' on 'making a name for ourselves', because of a glaring mathematical error in the chorus. despite the title, canibus didn't make any math fuck-ups on '4,3,2,1' where he tore shit up with a number of distuinguished guests of mr.cool james, including meth and redman, who have a long history of collabarations that culminated in the album 'blackout!'. really ancient painter dude michaelangelo had so many noted homosexual tendencies that you might say he was 'out', at least for his time. from this formula you get eric b. and rakim's 'no omega', on which r declares himself 'the black michaelangelo' ('black...out', get it?) that's not a very good rakim song, and neither is coldcut's remix of 'paid in full'. coldcut have done some things right though, especially signing kid koala after hearing his mixtape 'scratchcratchratch' inside his van. one of the selections from that tape was isolated as a track called 'emperor's main course', which was heavily based on samples from 'the last emperor'. last emperor was also the name of an artist who worked with rza on the last lyricist lounge album, but of course the best lyricis lounge was of course the first one, which contained one of my favorite singles of the 90s: mos def + tash + q-tip's 'body rock'. this was produced by shawn j. period, who also did some work on the bush babees album, but gave up the boards on 'the love song' to allow posdnuos to do his shit surprisingly well. and only a fool don't know that pos hails from DE LA SOUL.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"This is Cracker Soul" was an early Cracker fave, but not a hit like "Low." Low are a band from chilly Duluth, Minnesota who make very slow music. Some would say boring - kind of like Long Division, one of their albums. I seem to recall that being a FUGAZI song. (Cheers Ethan.)

― Josh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

long division can be tricky to learn, i suggest kids start early with the fundamentals of division by pumping division rap in their motherfuckin headphones all day long. i suppose this sort of thing would be classified as 'edutainment', just like that bdp album. that was the third bdp album after the death of scott la rock, half of the original duo that was bdp. kris kept the name and went for delf with it, unlike ZEVLOVE X, who retired the good kmd moniker after the death of his brother subroc and is now known as mf doom. kmd's first album contains a reference to grand puba's propensity for many many skins, as does tribe's 'the chase pt. II', whose chorus is a dope vocal sample of 'nobody beats the biz' by the unimitable BIZ MARKIE.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Biz sang "Albee Square Mall" which has got dentists in the basement who do my roommate's dental work. I agree, it's sketchy. But she has no complaints. A friend's old band, The Benders, sang "She's My Dentist". The Benders featured Earl Bethel, an amazing guitar player who died of causes unknown in a Las Vegas hotel room while working out there, playing electric zither in Blue Man Group's Vegas show. Blue Man Group is like 4 irritating Mobys... blah blah Fugazi.

(every detail in this post unfortunately = true)

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Fugazi" sounds like an Italian dish, maybe some type of poached fish in dill butter. It also sounds Japanese. Which makes me wonder: did Fugazi steal Cibo Matto's name?? Cibo Matto toured a couple of times with Sean Lennon and Russell Simins, who's got to be so over his name sounding exactly like Russell Simmons's, the pompous fuck hip hop exec who back in the day produced RUN D.M.C.'S "RAISING HELL".

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Raising Hell is certainly a trickier task than raising arizona. But that indeed was the title of a film by the Cohen Brothers, whose delightful Big Lebowski featured Blue Jean by Capt'n Beefheart on the soundtrack. Beefheart worked with Zappa earlier. Zappa had a hit song called "Valley Girl" done with the aid of his daughter. Another group featuring multiple family members is OASIS.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oasis? fuck, man. well, an oasis in england isn't a very good thing, but in egypt it can be lifesaving, which is where the video for michael jackson's 'remember the time' was set. besides featuring eddie murphy as an unconvincing pharoah (and the model from star trek six as his, uh, female-pharoah- counterpart-thing) also had half of the pharcyde as dancers. the pharcyde's 'pork' (backed on my 'passin me by' single) was a parody of hardcore gangsta rap, so is the first track (well, second, after the intro) on black sheep's 'wolf in sheep's clothing'. now, on de la soul is dead, one of the assholes who steals the tape from the kids in the skits was played by mister lawnge from black sheep. he declared it to be wack and threw it away, and that reminds me of the time i found a wallflowers tape in the school parking lot; my reaction was quite similar. jacob dylan is the son of a famous 60s musician, almost exactly like sean lennon, who i like a lot better(and also dates that girl from cibo matto, whoa). my first exposure to sean was when he guested on the handsome boy modelling school album, and while i enjoyed his track, i enjoyed 'magnetizing' much better for it's pairing of old favorite mc del with prince paul + automator dope production. and every deltron and gorillaz-loving hipster out there nowadays knows that del's cousin is ICE CUBE.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

... blah blah blah FUGAZI

― Josh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

josh tells me there is a fugazi song called 'birthday pony'. there's not many songs about ponies, the only one that comes to mind is de la soul's 'pony ride'. 'millie pulled a pistol on santa' was beautifully covered for an x-mas comp by THE ROOTS.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ROOT in Australasian slang means to have sexual intercourse. Most rock bands do songs about having sexual intercourse. Except MINOR THREAT.

― duane, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Stinky Puffs was a rock group featuring a bunch of offspring from famous musical folks - MINORS, if you will. One such offspring (the lead singer, actually) was the son of a Jad Fair, one half of Half- Japanese (or, at least, one half when Jad's brother, David, is the only other member in the group). Half-Japanese "sing" about "No More Beatlemania," asking, "What about Shaggsmania?" Indeed, what about those 3 winsome gals from New Hampshire rockin' the party that rocks the body with songs like "My Pal Foot Foot"? Perhaps Austin Powers was a fan of the Shaggs, given his propensity to hop on the good foot and do the bad thing - that is, when he wasn't fronting Ming Tea, a group featuring Bangle Susannah Hoffs. Hoffs & the Bangles were fortunate enough to record a track written by The Purple One - "Manic Monday". (It's a rather duff song, though.) The Boomtown Rats didn't like Mondays, but Bob Geldof sure liked helping out the needy on Christmas time. Many of those helpful rock folks that sang on "Feed the World" (ick ick poo) also lent a hand on "We Are the World". And one of the vocalists that lent his vocal stylings to a live performance of "We Are the World" (during a Live-Aid show) was ... wait for it ...

MTV producer JOE DUVOLA.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

[Alright, kids - stop showing off. Might I suggest briefer and more light-footed connections from now on? Oh, and winning conditions are temporarily suspended until the concentration of *a certain DC-area band* in this thread has been massively diluted by other ingredients].

Duvola? Sounds a bit like Rev-Ola. Who were responsible for the re-release of:

A Certain Ratio: "Sextet"

― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't know if Tet ever had Sex, but rumour has it that the Pistols did. If you're looking for the antidote, look no further than The Celibate Rifles.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ned Rifle is Hal Hartley's nome de plume, as it were. He is the director of such movies as Amateur and Trust. Trust is an album by Elvis Costello.

― JM, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Costello worked with Paul McCartney on "My Brave Face," which was on _Flowers In the Dirt._ Many critics agreed that that album was the one that saved McCartney's tepid late-80s career from permanently entombing him six feet into the dirt, which is where Kurt Cobain says one goes when coming from "out of the ground," in "Very Ape." This sounds somewhat like "Moby Grape," whose guitarist Skip Spence was the drummer in the original incarnation of the Jefferson Airplane, next to pre-Grace Slick singer Signe Anderson, who left to have a baby. "(You're) Havin' My Baby" is a wonderfully horrible song by Paul Anka, whose last name could easily be mistaken when spoken quickly for "canker," the important half of "canker sore," which not only sounds like but could also be used to describe Mandy Moore.

― matthew m, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Demi Moore was in a movie called 'Striptease,' which is about strippers. JSBX had a song called Lapdance which was, in part,about strippers, but mostly it was about Andrei Williams being a dirty old man.

― JM, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Lapdance" is also a recent single by N.E.R.D. who, as The Neptunes, produced "Southern Hospitality" by Ludacris. It is, in Momus's opinion, ludicrous that educated people should listen to chartpop, but the founder of FT puts middle finger up to that idea. Oxide and Neutrino put their middle finger up, and also have a Devil's Nightmare, and D12 have a Devil's Night. Their cohort, Eminem, initially broke with "My Name Is ..." and DMX asked "What's My Name?". Hence: DMX.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

dmx stands for 'dark man of the unknown'. darkman was a fantastic b-movie by sam raimi, who also did EVIL DEAD II.

― ethan, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Aleister Crowley is evil, and dead too. Kacy Crowley is not evil...I think. K.C. and the Sunshine Band, however, were probably evil, through and through--when they were telling you to "Get Down Tonight" they were surely talking about getting down into the fiery pits of Hell...surely the inspiration for Shriekback's lousy cover of same.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Shriekback (I think) = Barry Andrews = XTC.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

xtc --> miss e: so addictive --> timbaland --> 'big pimpin' --> JAY-Z

― ethan, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

J and Z are the 10th and 26th letters of the alphabet. 26-10=16. I was 16 in 1984, hence:

Eurythmics: Sex Crime (1984).

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

CRIME used to dress up like cops. so did 1 of the VILLAGE PEOPLE. THE VILLAGE was where they sent Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner, which IRON MAIDEN did a song about.

― duane, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Iron Maiden also did a song called 'Can I Play With Madness?', an request the nutty Camden boys never granted. For contractual reasons, they were called 'The Madness' by this point, which is where problems could have arisen. The Madness's first single was the unremarkable 'I Pronounce You'.

― Nick, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

When Madness reformed, four years later, they were supported in Finsbury Park by Morrissey who performed "National Front Disco" and draped himself in the Union Jack, resulting in a lengthy NME inquest into Moz. Madness had originally had an unwanted NF following, as had Sham 69, who sang of "laced-up boots and corduroys". Corduroy were signed to Acid Jazz, a movement with which Jamiroquai was originally associated, and Jamiroquai was, ahem, *influenced* by Stevie Wonder, who recorded for Tamla Motown.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Chris Rock has a standup bit when he talks about Lables... "James Brown wan't singin' bout Epic! Fuckin' Temptations wan't singin' 'bout Motown!"

― JM, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

...but it's not as good as gza's 'labels'. gza was also on that last afu-ra single. afu-ra got his big break from jeru, and jeru got his big break from GANG STARR.

― ethan, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Guru from Gang Starr's album "Jazzmatazz" featured Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and DC Lee. DC Lee was once married to Paul Weller.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whose early records with The Jam were "influenced" by The Who.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The album Who's Next features a big wall immediately after the band has finished pissing on it. The song "Yellow River" was the one hit by early 70s one-hit-wonder Christie, who weren't related to, but shared a [last] name with famous pop crooner Lou Christie, whose song "There Is Nothing More To Say" was covered in 1973 on the last album by THE BRADY BUNCH. <-- (note cheeky appropriation of cheekily putting the ending term in all caps)

― matthew m, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Brady Bunch were a famous fictional singing family, as were the Partridge Family. Although Ruben Kincaid looked like Tom Cochrane, I'm not going to make that connection. Instead, a real-life relative of head Partridge Family crooner David Cassidy was brother Shaun Cassidy, who did a new wave album called Wasp, produced by Todd Rundgren, who was in UTOPIA.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The cover of Utopia's album Deface the Music was a parody of the cover of Beatles' With the Beatles. Also parodying this album cover, much more directly, was Meet the Residents, by the Residents. When the Residents perform live, most of the band is dressed up as large bloodshot eyeballs in top hats and tuxes. Someone else frequently seen in a tux, and often additionally sporting bloodshot eyeballs, was FRANK SINATRA.

― matthew m., Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nancy Sinatra recorded many duets with John Alderton-lookalike Lee Hazelwood, few finer than "Some Velvet Morning". This was also covered in 1981 or so by Roland S Howard and Lydia Lunch. After your lunch comes your dinner, hence:

"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" by BLACK UHURU.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

the 1st use of the word UHURU in rock might've been in "Ant Man Bee" by Cat. Beefheart. If you stand on a bee you get STUNG, he was the singer of the POLICE of whom NWA said fuck them, later Dr. Dre was to bring the world EMINEM.

― duane, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

EMINEM is the front man for D-12, a wack-ass group whose wack-ass first single, Purple Hills is wack. Lauren Hill should be coming out with new product sometime this year, if MTV News is to be believed.

― JM, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

M+M were a later incarnation of Martha and the Muffins who, early on, featured a young drummer called Tim Gane. No relation to the Stereolab fella, in much the same way that Dave ('n'Annie) Stewart and Dave ('n'Barbara) Stewart are unrelated. The latter worked with COLIN BLUNSTONE on a cover of "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted".

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Divergence! I don't know if you meant Lauryn Hill, but there's a track on her LP called "To Zion". Colin Blunstone was in the The Zombies. In some (er, specialist) dictionaries, Zion and Zombie are separated only by:

ZODIAC MINDWARP.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Zodiac Mindwarp sang "Feed my Frankenstein". "Frankenstein" was a song by New York Dolls. David Johansen of NY Dolls starred in "Car 54, where are you?". Studio 54 was a decadent niteclub in New York. It was also a shite movie with mike Myers but at least Sylvester's "You make me feel (mighty real)" was on the soundtrack.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sylvester [Stallone] was the lead character in Rocky -- a loveable tale about a loveable loser who just wanted to go the distance. What everyone seems to forget about the fight is that he doesn't win. He's a loser. He's not indicative of America, because Americans hate losers. Tho Beck was a Loser, and America LOVES him, for some reason. [He's] Found a Reason... to keep livin'...

― JM, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Love did a song called "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned. The Damned performed on the BBC comedy The Young Ones, as did Amazulu...and the Amazulu episode featured the joke: "Amazulu!" "Really? I'm a Norwegian!" One fab Norwegian band is the much-loved TURBONEGRO.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

So was this the answer, then?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

[Nope. Keep going - the increasing unpopularity of this thread *is* one of the winning conditions, though. So, we're getting closer.]

The middle four letters of TURBONEGRO are 'bone', and both Pixies and Tom Waits have waved their Bone Machines in our faces in the past. Pixies covered a David Lynch song on an early single, and someone who recently covered both Lynch and Waits compositions is:

PINKIE MACLURE.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

pinkie = little finger not the middle finger as raised by oxide and neutrino

― geordie, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oxidization --> rust --> the chorus to cuban link f/ fat joe's 'why me?' (why the judge wanna lock me up? / throw away the key and watch me rust') --> fat joe = frequently with pre-death BIG PUN

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Big Pun got dissed today in the same breath as Biggie Smalls - what is up with that?? ethan what did you think of Big L's "LIFESTYLEZ OV DA POOR AND DANGEROUS"? was it all that?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

One band that has been accused of being "big" is The Strokes. One of the kids on Diff'rent Strokes was Arnold. Gina Arnold is well-known for writing about shows she's never actually been at. There were many shows I wasn't at, like: Sonic Youth at the Guvernment. The government runs the country, and the country's theme song is "The Star Spangled Banner", written by Francis Scott Key.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

FSK (Peel favourites) once released an album called "The Sound of Music". The musical of the same name was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Hammers are forever blowing Bubbles. Hence, FREE DESIGN.

[The winning conditions, as if anyone is remotely interested, were that someone would mention something to do with birthdays ON my birthday. Of course, no one even posted on Aug 7, so I've changed these conditions to something entirely different. The forum yawns.]

― Michael Jones, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Does that mean we can start talking about FUGAZI again?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sean: if you can get from Free Design to bleedin' Fugazi in exactly four steps without cheating, you win.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That really depends what you mean by cheating, since the rules of Only Connect are fairly lax. Nonetheless, let's try this:

1) Despite toiling in almost total obscurity, the Free Design were recently shocked to learn that they were amazing big in Japan.
2) "Big in Japan" is a song by Tom Waits, who recently made the move to an indie label.
3) One of the most respected indie labels is Dischord.
4) Dischord in the home of FUGAZI.

How's that?

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, I could be picky and say "Dischord? Not respected by me, mate", but I shan't.

You win! The prize is a compact disc (sorry, you were one of the pro-analog[ue] guys, weren't you?) of your choice. The only restriction being the artist featured must begin with a letter scoring 8 points or above in Scrabble. No bonus squares allowed.

*And* you get to start Only Connect IV: Citizens On Patrol.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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