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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

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"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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