What a nice cute song and video. The East London band The Gadsdens release their first single “The Sailor Song” by the end of November. The band consists of Jody (vocals), Simon (piano/ keyboards), Barney (guitar), David (drums) and Jihea (Bass).  The band formed in 2007 in Hackney.  After discovering similar musical tastes they decided to work together on the score for an independent film that Simon was working on at the time. Their cover of Bronski Beat’s “Small Town Boy” was born and the future of The Gadsdens was cemented. Jody`s voice is fantastic, he has a wonderful vibrato and the the first single is a great piece of pop music.

The Gadsdens are influenced by their love and appreciation of artists such as Kate Bush, Rufus Wainwright and The Cardigans. British music mag NME picked the band as one of the best unsigned acts of 2007, and  the band accepted the invitation to play an acoustic set on one of the BBC’s “Introducing” shows.

The video to the song is a beautiful animated one, created by the very talented Gavin Leisfield:

“The Sailor Song” will be released on the 29th of November 2009 in the UK.

http://www.myspace.com/thegadsdens

Daaawno, naprawdę dawno nic nie pisałem, chociaż w zeszycie już troche tych wierszy jest;) Ale teraz może nie o wierszach. Ostatnio tak latam po dysku komputera i natrafiłem na istny hicior legendę;) Mianowicie utwór Tell my why składy Supermode, na podstawie sampla z piosenki mega legendy grupy Bronski Beat pt. Smalltown boys z roku 1984(!). Nowa wersja jest dużo lepsza moim zdaniem od pierwowzoru. Dla porównania stara wersja jest tutaj:http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=6338415&song= a nowa tu:http://witass.wrzuta.pl/audio/5olPGmTwdd4/supermode_tell_me_why_www.musicishere.fora.pl Normalnie aż ciary idą;) Polecam.

P.S: mnogość remixów kawałka Tell me why mówi sama za siebie;)

I’m a few weeks late in putting this up, but the last stop on my recent UK vacation was Glasgow, Scotland, where I caught Spandau Ballet on their Reformation tour.

Glasgow was a nice city but actually the most boring one of the four that I visited. So how to pass the time? Shop for music!

Avalanche

Adam Ant, Strip. The second solo album by Adam Ant was produced by Phil Collins, which is why you hear that distinctive Collins drumbeat throughout the whole thing. Who knew Phil new from New Romanticism? Yet here the album is, replete with saucy Ant songs like “Strip” and “Puss N Boots,” each evoking Ant at his playful, dancing best. A double bonus? The title track features backup vocals by Frida of ABBA, whose album Collins also produced circa 1983. This disc and Adam’s other solo albums were remastered in 2005.

Associates, Double Hipness. The Associates were Scotland’s greatest contribution to New Romanticism and the world of music lost a giant in songwriting when vocalist Billy MacKenzie killed himself 12 years ago. Double Hipness, the last Associates album I was missing, is really a compilation of various leftover tracks and outtakes as well as stuff MacKenzie recorded under the Associates moniker at various points after the band were really done. Most interestingly, it contains the single “Steven You’re Still Really Something,” said to be a response to Morrissey in The Smith’s song “William, It Was Really Nothing.” (Morrisey’s first name is Steven, you see, and MacKenzie’s was William!) Moz denies a connection in the songs but it’s still a damn good glammed-up tune.

Human League, Secrets. The Human League have been touring quite a bit in recent years but haven’t put out any fresh material since Secrets in 2001. It’s a solid album that indicates that the Human League should record some more stuff. Supposedly, Phil Oakey has said, the band is considering a sort of duets album where they collaborate with other musicians in the near future? Meanwhile, Oakey has dueted with Little Boots on her debut album with the song “Symmetry.”

The Other Two, Selfish. Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert are awesome and deserve devastating amounts of musical respect as the drummer and keyboardist of New Order respectively. However, it’s hard to imagine that a lot of people were wondering what they were doing while Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook pursued other projects for much of the 1990s. Well, they called themselves “The Other Two” and recorded some tracks. Now that you know, you don’t really need to hear them. They are completely lovely but absolutely forgettable.

Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Scream (Deluxe Edition). One small advantage of not owning the first album by Siouxsie and the Banshees was that I could buy the deluxe edition eventually with no remorse of duplicating my purchase! The second advantage was that Avalanche had it at a fabulous price. As lovely as Siouxsie can be and as great a band as this was, the first album isn’t really their best work anyway. (Thankfully the extras here include such goodies as the 7″ version of “Hong Kong Garden.”)

Fopp

Bronksi Beat, Age of Consent. Surely, my admiration for New Romantic dance pop isn’t surprising to you at this point. So here we have vocalist Jimmy Somerville and bandmates Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek on keyboards and drums. Interestingly, Bronski Beat took their name as a riff on Roxy Music and partly inspired by Gunter Grass’ novel The Tim Drum, a big influence on many New Romantic musicians. Bronski Beat’s first album contains some extremely good dance tunes like the instantly recognizable “Smalltown Boy.”

Sonic Youth, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. The Sonic Youth rampage continued! This album, their ninth studio album from 1994, contains such exotic post-punk gems such as “Bull in the Heather,” which pretty much sums up the band’s entire musical attitude both musically and lyrically. A must-have for any new Sonic Youth fan, like me.

Sons and Daughters, Love the Cup. When in Scotland, buy Scottish bands! So here we have the first entry by Sons and Daughters, children of Glasgow, who I first heard at Liberation Dance Party when their latest album was released. It’s a fun jangle rock cacophony of Scottish wailing and ooh’s, which kind of serves as a hallmark for the band’s sounds. Not for everyone, but worth a try if you are looking for some new indie rock music to buy.

Talk Talk, The Party’s Over. I took the opportunity to round out my Talk Talk collection when I was in the United Kingdom and I could actually buy the physical albums in physical person (something that I can be a bit obsessive about at times). The Party’s Over, their first album, contains terrific tracks like “Talk Talk” and “It’s So Serious” and it would seriously rate on my list of best albums of all time (somewhere) due to its incredible synth arrangements and lush but dense production. Colin Thurston, who produced the first two Duran Duran albums, scored another New Romantic knockout with this album, in my opinion.

Talk Talk, The Spirit of Eden. By the time of their fourth album, Talk Talk had moved into experimenting with a lot of different instruments, which made record companies unhappy after their out-of-the-park hit “It’s My Life” on their second album. Still, while Mark Hollis was inventing a whole new genre with “post-rock,” he managed to create some beautiful, ethereal songs that will likely make you recognize what a tortured genius he is.

Television, Adventure. Punk band Television are among the slowest to ever produce an album, which might be unfair of me to say since I don’t know what obstacles they have really faced. Still, the three they have put out to date (with a fourth on the way perhaps??) contain excellent examples of punk guitar, yielding utterly respendent rock gems that make you want to listen to them again and again.

I wrote about these guy(s) back in the last issue of AU. I reviewed the Joe Goddard remix of their debut single ‘Brow Beaten’. There’s very little known about this act. They’ve been careful to keep their identity / identities hidden. Musically, it’s not a million miles from Hercules & Love Affair and the vocal resemblance to Jimmy Somerville has been noted by quite a few people. Here’s what I had to say about them…

The unknown holds great allure. Silver Columns know this, hence why the duo have deliberately cultivated a sense of mystique, hiding their identities from prying eyes. That they sound like Bronski Beat produced by DFA head honcho James Murphy is intrigue enough for us. Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard gives the anonymous electro-poppers a glorious makeover on this remix of their debut single. Caught in an explosion of beats, the synth begins to stagger like a gutter drunken as the singer croons in sweetest falsetto.

Anyway, I’m hoping to get chatting to them and, if so, I’ll soon be able to tell you a little more about the act, if not confirm precisely who is hiding behind those Silver Columns.

לכל המאזינים המסורים שלום!

מתנצלים על חוסר העדכון בזמן האחרון. התכנית עוברת שינויים ומתיחת פנים, מה שלא מאפשר לנו להקדיש זמן רב לעדכון. אבל אל דאגה, לא לאורך זמן. בינתיים אתם יכולים להנות מהתוכנית המצויינת (אובייקטיבים אנחנו הא?) שהייתה בשלישי האחרון דרך ה-iCast על ידי לחיצה כאן.

וגם להנות מהקליפ המגניב של Land of confusion של Genesis.

וכמובן שיש גם את רשימת השירים והמקורות:

Bronski busted out with “Smalltown Boy” in 1984. Its cool to remember the Bronski boys for this track, for being openly gay in the 80s and for lacing their lyrics with political slaps on homosexual issues like inequality of gay rights.

Discography

http://www.myspace.com/bronskibeat

“when ever i wake up….”

“hello tomorrow” – squeak e. clean f/t karen o.

Da quanto tempo manco nel mio adorato – e non letto, o piuttosto poco letto – comunque cos’è successo ultimamente nella vita della fille de poche….poche righe non basterebbero…allora FORSE ho dato una svolta alla mia vita, ho finalmente colto l’attimo e mr. keating sa se per il momento ne è valsa la pena e poi oggi la vita mi ha dato una soddisfazione enorme….dio….se la vita lo facesse un po’ più spesso…beh, una stonza stitica nello spirito e nell’anima – fraulein rottermaier, ma senza ripensamenti - è stata bastonata per una volta dalla Sra. vita….beh, Mrs. Life La ringrazio di vero cuore…basta essere perfida………forse finalmente cupido/eros mi sta dando trattando come si deve…uff, speriamo bene…se a questo si aggiunge l’avvento di gina dina nella mia vita…mi viene da ripetere solo “hello tomorrow”….w grimilde!

“You leave in the morning

With everything you own

In a little black case

Alone on a platform

The wind and the rain

On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand

Why you had to leave

For the love that you need

Will never be found at home

And the answer you seek

Will never be found at home

Pushed around and kicked around

Always a lonely boy

You were the one

That they’d talk about around town

As they put you down

And as hard as they would try

They’d hurt to make you cry

But you’d never cry to them

Just to your soul

No you’d never cry to them

Just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away”

Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy

Bisoux,

la fille de poche

(originally posted on: 27/04/05 – modified on: 13/10/09)

Don't Leave Me This Way 1986

Excerpt ~ Def 1000 songs:  The whirlwind success Bronski Beat experienced during its mid-’80s beginnings took a major toll on singer Jimmy Somerville, who surprised a lot of people with his decision to leave the group after only one full-length album. Thanks to the popularity of singles like “Smalltown Boy” and a cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” both of which showcased Somerville’s singular falsetto, Bronski Beat found itself at the forefront of several …… more

Number 895 - Communards – 1986 – ENG – Genre: Pop - Play Song – Vote 4 Communards!

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I’m old. It’s true.

I’m old enough to be that guy that says things like, “I remember when MTV played music videos”.

So far I’ve lived through 8-tracks, records, cassettes, CDs and into the digital age.

Old.

I had an apple IIc…I think I still do, as a matter of fact. I remember black and white TVs, and life before cable or VCRs.

I remember flash cubes, and a little something called the Kodak Disc.

I remember the original versions of all the TV shows and movies being remade these days.

I remember being afraid of the nuclear bomb…(looks like even that’s getting a remake, thanks S. Korea)

I lived through both Bush presidencies, and remember Coke before it was Classic.

I mean, I remember when MTV played music videos.

More specifically, I remember watching videos on MTV during those lovely high school years–riddled with all the angst a Gen Xer could muster up, for reasons still unclear to me.

I remember coming home late at night, sometimes drunk, sometimes not. Sometimes buzzing from potential love, other times, unable to sleep because something didn’t happen, and I wasn’t sure what.

Whatever the reason, I was awake, and they hadn’t invented the internet yet.

That’s when I’d turn on MTV and watch a little show called 120 minutes. This was my education. This delivered me from hair bands, and bubble gum pop.

I’d watch videos from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bronski Beat, New Order, The Replacements, School of Fish, Trashcan Sinatras, Robyn Hitchcock, KMFDM, Kate Bush, Echo and the Bunnymen, Erasure, Ministry, Sonic Youth, Violent Femmes, Blake Babies, Happy Mondays, Morrissey, Kitchens of Distinction, They Might Be Giants, and Hüsker Dü…

I could go on for days listing the alt.bands of yesteryear…The type of band that was once described as “college radio”, but would now be saddled with the horrible genre label “indie.” It’s a far cry from what I listen to these days, but it’s what got me to where I am now. It taught me what being alternative meant.

I mean, jesus …it introduced me to grunge. It introduced me to Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam…(mad props to Eddie Vedder for not overdosing and/or being dead)

It opened me up to a culture that sat just below the surface of the mainstream, at least for a little while…

Any time I stumble across a song on youtube from this era, I can’t help but pause and listen. I close my eyes and remember my youth. I remember a young, nearly optimistic kid getting his mind blown by something completely new…before I got old and started fearing change.

It almost makes me feel indestructible for a minute or two.

So in honor of that, here’s this:

and this:

and what the hell, here’s this:

after all these years the music is still fresh. the video and lyrics speak the injustice, discrimination, hate and rejection gay people get in some circles. it’s moving to see the struggle with parents, peers and people on the street. this video gives a little insight into the life of gays and should make anyone think twice before they speak words without love or act out of fear for people who are different.

lyrics

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face
.
Run away, turn away…
.
Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home
.
Run away turned away…
.
Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they’d talk about around town
As they put you down
And as hard as they would try
They’d hurt to make you cry
But you’d never cry to them
Just to your soul
No you’d never cry to them
Just to your soul
.
Run away, turn away…
.
Crying
Crying to your soul
.
Cry boy, cry…
.
You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Prachtige muziek en daarbij een blik in de homowereld en de verwerping die ze mee moeten maken. Indrukwekkend!

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home

Run away turned away
Run away turn away

Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they’d talk about around town
As they put you down
And as hard as they would try
They’d hurt to make you cry
But you’d never cry to them
Just to your soul
No you’d never cry to them
Just to your soul

Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away

Crying
Crying to your soul

Cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away…

Jimmy Somerville to release new album, Suddenly Last Summer, on May 18th

25 years after the release of “Smalltown Boy”, Jimmy Somerville releases his new Album “Suddenly Last Summer” in May this year.

Prepare to experience 11 classic songs all sensuously performed. Jimmy goes back to the basics on this album with fabulous interpretations of classic numbers such as “Hanging on the telephone”, “People are strange” and “Where have all the flowers gone”.

With his distinctive voice coming once again to the fore, you will be taken on an unforgettable journey that will touch your heart.

Release date is May 18.

Videos and songs are posted on his official MySpace page.

Emissão 06 – A nova onda dos 80

Uma homenagem aos sons da minha pré adolescencia, sons que numa era sem Web e sem TV a Cabo, tinham que ser garimpados nas lojas, rádios, festas e baladas da época.

Muita coisa fez sucesso e hoje em dia sumiu, outros entraram no mundo das festas Trash para a eternidade.

Como nesse fim de semana, vou ver o show que eu mais queria ver, em 1986 no Rock in Rio Original, – The B-52´s -  faço um mini especial da banda prá animar a baladinha.

Aproveito a nova/velha onda para vasculhar outros sons da mesma época que marcaram época.

Começando o programa com os americanos do DEVO e a canção “Time out for fun”.

Para o primeiro bloco só The B-52´s, e 3 sons muito instigantes “Give me back my man”(1980),  “Whammy Kiss”  ao vivo em 1983 e “Dance this mess around” bem do final dos anos 70.

O segundo bloco é voltado ao Europop, com o austríaco Falco, cridor de vários hits na época, unindo RAP e Música Eletrônica, e a sonzeira de “Der Kommissar”  de  1982,  ainda no idioma teutônico temos Peter Schilling com “Major Tom” secesso em alemão e inglês em 1983 e da inglaterra a banda de Jimmy Sommerville – Bronski Beat com a grande canção “Smalltown Boy” de 1984.

O terceiro e último bloco inicia com o DUO – Yazoo ou Yaz para os americanos e seu cabaret-pop com “Dont´t Go” , seguido de Eddie Grant e o balanço de “Electric Avenue” direto de 1983. Fechando o Emissão 06 -  Tom tom club e a mega pop “Genius of love” de 1981.

Jimmy Somerville interprète une version piano-voix de “Smalltown boy” lors de l’émission “Vivement dimanche” diffusée en mars 2007 sur France 2.
Promotion de la tournée RFM Party 80 à laquelle Jimmy a participé pour quelques dates.
Pour l’anecdote, il fait “chut” aux jumelles de Lio qui, paraît-il, étaient très bavardes!

Enregistré et uploadé par mes soins.

…and the poorly English translation (courtesy of Yahoo’s Bable Fish):

Jimmy Somerville interprets a version piano-voice of ” Smalltown boy” at the time of l’ emission ” Highly dimanche” diffused in March 2007 on France 2. Promotion of the round RFM Party 80 in which Jimmy took part for some dates. For l’ anecdote, it makes ” chut” with the binoculars of Lio which, appears it, were very talkative! Recorded and uploadé by my care.

This NEW video clip is a wonderful and kooky rendition of The Doors “People Are Strange”, from the forthcoming acoustic album “Suddenly Last Summer”. It will probably shock both Doors and Somerville fans but I’m already a fan of this one!

EDIT 13th April 2009: Just started my new Jimmy Video Collection Blog:
http://jimmy5.wordpress.com/

When doing my usual Sunday night search for 80s inspiration, I found this guy.  No matter what, it is better than a roommate trying to play guitar!

New Order – Blue Monday

Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy

Duran Duran – Save a Prayer

Depeche Mode – Everything Counts

Europe – The Final Countdown

See them all here.

Nothing new here the EP came out in 07 but as we weren’t about then, I felt i needed to  stick up the wonderfull B side that was on the 7″ and the Todd Terje remix. The B side is actually a cover of the classic Bronski Beat(pictured) – Smalltown Boy and this guy really does it justice. Todd Terje’s remix doesn’t need an introduction.

Jose Gonzalez- Smalltown Boy

José González- Killing for love (Todd Terje Remix)

Music really speaks to me: Sir Mix-a-Lot likes big butts, Johnny Cash thinks the epitome of being rich is drinking coffee and smoking big cigars, Jimmy Barnes doesn’t need love, as long as he’s in the company of cheap wine and a three-legged goat, towns inhabited by Bruce Springsteen are capable of ripping the balls from your sack and so on.

As you may know from my previous posts, I am a self-proclaimed music ragamuffin. I don’t own CDs, I don’t know the names of my favourite songs, I miss pronounce the names of my favourite singers and I don’t know what any album cover art looks like. On top of that let me add, I have never read any song lyrics, and even though my all time favourite front men all sing like raving winos, I just assume with my exceptional hearing I’m on the money. When it comes to music, I hear what I want to hear and it breaks my heart when I’m told by my walking-encyclopedia friends that I am singing the wrong words. Suddenly all intimate meaning is lost and I am forced to accept that no amount of goat goods is keeping Jimmy Barnes in high spirits, but rather the beginnings of a beard! Now I know how John Cougar-Mellencamp felt when he said ’sometimes love don’t feel like a shoe’.

Oasis’ track ‘Wonderwall’ has been voted as containing the most common misheard lyric of all time, with a majority of people mistaking it’s line “you’re gonna be the one that saves me” for “you’re gonna be the one at Sainsbury’s“, Sainsbury’s being the third largest supermarket chain in the UK. For those of us who have never heard of Sainsbury’s, we have Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’, the ditty that made Hendrix out to be enthusiastic about the homoerotic. The line ‘excuse me while I kiss the sky’ was mistaken again and again for ‘excuse me while I kiss this guy’, so much so that Hendrix began singing those words deliberately.

We all have our own secret and celebrated mishearing. I have collected them over many years with the help of friends, family and kissthisguy.com and now I bring you the Mixtape of Mondergreens. Not for those with a dry sense of humour. Listen all of ya’ll it’s Santa Claus!

TRACK ONE 

 ‘Tubthumping‘ by  Chumbawumba  

 From the 1997 album Tubthumper

Real Lyrics: I get knocked down but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down.

Misheard Lyrics: I’ve got no job but I’m an opera fan or I’m ‘Killgore Trout’ by Kurt Vonnegut or I get knocked down, by an oven mitt or I get no tub, pack it up again or I get No Doubt, I get the upper hand, you’re never gonna get the dog or I get a dog, but he shut-up again, he’s never gonna keep his frown or I get knocked down, but I get up again put your hands above your feet, get down.

According to Wikipedia “In the UK, a ‘tubthumper’ is a politician. The U.S. equivalent of tubthumping is ‘going on the stump’ (campaigning).Uhh, this song is about getting drunk, right? Regardless, ‘Chumbawumba’ all had confusing English accents, this song could be about anything.

TRACK TWO

‘Ghostbusters‘ by Ray Parker Jr.

Real Lyrics: Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!

Misheard Lyrics: Who ya gonna call? Those Bastards!

When played over the radio this song often received ‘the ‘call-in’ from listeners, complaining about obscene broadcasting.

TRACK THREE

‘Smells Like Teen Spirt’ by Nirvana

From the 1991 album Nevermind

Real Lyrics: She’s overboard, myself assured. I know, I know a dirty word. With the lights out its less dangerous. Here we are now entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now entertain us. A mulatto, an albino. a mosquito, my libido.

Misheard Lyrics: She soiled a wall, herself, a shirt. I know, I told a dirty turd. With the lights out, Mrs Davis. Here we are now eating tables. I fed two pigs in containers, here we are now enter day nurse. A mulatto, an albino, playing keno, Danny Devito.

Essentially, teen spirit smells the way complete and utter nonsense jibberish sounds.

TRACK FOUR

‘Bad Moon Rising ‘ by Creedence Clearwater Revival

From the 1969 album Green River

Real Lyrics: There’s a bad moon on the rise.

Misheard Lyrics: There’s a bathroom on the right or Ah, the bedroom on the right.

A la Jimi Hendrix, CCR’s John Fogerty admits to singing ‘there’s a bathroom on the right’ in live performances Bad Moon Rising.

TRACK FIVE

‘Cheap Wine’ by Cold Chisel

From the 1980 album East

Real Lyrics: Cheap wine and a three day growth.

Misheard Lyrics: Cheap wine and a three-legged goat or Cheap wine and a free main course or Cheap wine and it’s really cold or Cheap wine and some cheap ass smokes.

TRACK SIX

‘Stairway To Heaven’ By Led Zeppelin

From the 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV

Real Lyrics: And as we wind on down the road

Misheard Lyrics: And there’s a wino down the road.

TRACK SEVEN

‘Hit That Perfect Beat’ by Bronski Beat

From the 1986 album Truthdare Doubledare

Real Lyrics: Beat boy, beat boy, hit that perfect beat boy.

Misheard Lyrics: Meatball, Meatball hit that perfect meatball.

TRACK EIGHT

‘Howzat!‘ by Sherbert

From the 1976 album Howzat!

Real Lyrics: Howzat! You messed about I caught you out. Howzat! Now that I found where you’re at, It’s goodbye.

Misheard Lyrics: Howzat! Mr Barber caught you out. Howzat! How ’bout a farm? Wear your hat. It’s good times.

TRACK NINE

‘Money For Nothing’ by Dire Straits

From the 1985 album Brothers In Arms

Real Lyrics: We’ve got to install microwave ovens.

Misheard Lyrics: We’ve got this Flintstone microwave oven.

This lyric was misheard by my BFF, who gave me permission to publicly humiliate her. She went into detail about her imagined Flintstone’s Stone Age microwave. It had a creature inside that would rotate whilst a dragon breathed fire on it, made with Fred Flintstone’s bare hands. My favourite mondegreen ever.

TRACK TEN

‘Ticket To Ride’ by The Beatles

From the 1965 album Help!

Real Lyrics: She’s got a ticket to ride and she don’t care. My baby don’t care.

Misheard Lyrics: She’s got a chicken to ride and she don’t care. My baby donkey.

 ’scuse Me While I… : The Mixtape of Mondegreens (misheard song lyrics).Yours to download, borrow, rip, burn, steal and enjoy.

I’d love to hear your misheard lyrics! Comment!

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Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy (Acoustic Version)

Kool And The Gang – Cherish

Whitesnake – Is This Love

Century – Lover Why

Cutting Crew – I`ve been in love before

Adrian Gurvitz – Classic


Europe – Carrie

GNR -Tirana


Spandau Ballet – True

Craig Armstrong feat Liz Fraser – This Love

Steve Bronski, British musician, Bronski Beat

From the Rockmine Almanac for today (Saturday, 10th January):

Birth

1917. Producer Jerry Wexler born in New York City.

On Tour

1986. Sting’s concert at Newcastle City Hall is abandoned and 2,000 fans are evacuated minutes before the show is due to start after an electricity sub station behind the hall explodes.

Back Home

1965. Adam Faith arrives back in London after abandoning his South African tour which ended in farce on the 8th. He denies reports that the incident was a publicity stunt, claiming that it will cost him £ 30,000 in lost earnings and a further £ 20,000 a year from record sales. He had been told that the issue of racially segregated audiences was policy and not law and said that the secretary to the Minister of the Interior had given him the names of five other British artists who had made it clear they would only perform for mixed audiences. The £ 20,000 bond he surrendered to the Department Of Justice was to cover “breach of contract damages” and he didn’t know if any of it would be returned. Meanwhile the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, has instructed the British Embassy in Pretoria to provide him with an immediate report on the detention of Faith and his manager.

In The Studio

1956. In the early afternoon, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black begin their first recording session for RCA Records at the company’s studios at McGavock Street, Nashville. The sessions, arranged by RCA’s Nashville agent, Chet Atkins will end tomorrow. By that time Elvis, Scotty and Bill will have recorded “Heartbreak Hotel” along with four other tracks (“I Got A Woman”, “Money Honey”, “I’m Counting On You” and “I Was The One”). During the sessions, Chet Atkins plays rhythm guitar, Floyd Cramer plays piano and DJ Fontana drums.

On Television

1985. TOP OF THE POPS (BBC-1, U.K.) Presented by Mike Smith and Mike Read. Alison Moyet; Band Aid; Bronski Beat; Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson; Strawberry Switchblade; Thompson Twins and Z.Z. Top. Here are Strawberry Switchbalde with “Since Yesterday”.

Death

1997. Kenny Pickett lead singer with The Creation dies at home.

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Eartha Kitt was born in South Carolina, and spent her early years working on a cotton plantation with her mother. She did not know her father, a farm boy who had raped her mother. In childhood, she suffered for being ‘too white’ until an aunt took her from the plantation to go and live in Harlem. 

Luckily for us, Eartha strove to be a performer. She ran away to join a ballet corps aged 16, but spent a lot of the time she should have spent dancing singing in nightclubs. 

Eartha was a remarkable and unique singer, and didn’t allow convention to smother her individuality. She was sexy and liberated, and used her unusual feline looks to develop a persona that she used to her advantage, not only in her public life but in her private life too. She played Catwoman in the 1960s TV version of Batman, and had relationships with the actors Sidney Poitier and Orson Welles. 

As is customary for a diva, she collaborated with an adoring 80s gay synth-pop band, in this case Bronski Beat on “Cha Cha Heels” in 1989. 

Throughout her life she remained outspoken and politically aware, on one occasion reducing the first lady Lady Bird Johnson to tears at a dinner at the White House in 1968. When asked about Vietnam, Kitt climbed onto her seat and shouted: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.” Following this incident, recording studios in the US refused to work with Kitt, and the CIA began to follow her, keeping a file on her. 

Not one to allow minor matters like enforced exile from her own country to keep her down, Kitt instead concentrated her efforts upon touring and performing in Europe. She continued to work even right up until her death aged 81. 

Here she is at her best.

Good work, Eartha. You’ll be missed.

One of the best videos of the 80s I think…