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Thanks To Holy Warbles from jamreilly on 8tracks Radio.

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Best New Cool Toy Of The Day

John Peel's ........ record archive: notes, pix, shows, cool nav & Spotify - still growing - go be there virrrrrtually.

The Routers: A Serendipitous eBay Mistake

I was looking for an inexpensive wireless N router and got this high up in the results:

The Routers - never heard of 'em - but that's 'cause it looks like something my Uncle Rudy would've offered to put on the HiFi for me because it was Rock n' Roll, while I waited for him to leave so I could get at his Playboy collection (why were a naked man and woman in bed in that cartoon?). Who knew - industrialized session men music produced for the bargain bin of the sundries aisle of the grocery.... Background music at a teen party in any number of U.S. sitcoms.... In addition they invented, and I quote: "clap clap clapclapclap clapclapclapclap let's go!" hence the cheerleaders on the cover of their third album pictured above which featured one of their hits, Stingray, presented below along with the clap-happy Let's Go.

They briefly featured Leon Russell, who presumably ruined that experience like he did everywhere else he went. Black Cat Rockabilly Europe has a pretty good history and The Routers even have a Wikipedia page, too.

Not Gibberish

And all this time I thought it was...... The Cocteau Twins have a great series of their videos at their official site. Replete with Thompson Twins-y/Fun Boy Three-sy hair and pre-shoegazing shoegazing.

We'll be sold to Roddy
Comes for pearly dewdrop's drops
Weeks in our company
Buys the pearly dewdrop's drops

We'll be soaked and ruddy
Comes for pearly dewdrop's drops
Weeks in our company
Buys the pearly dewdrop's drops

We'll be soaked when Roddy comes
Rows of pearly dewdrop's drops
Tis the lucky lucky penny penny penny
Buys the pearly dew drips soaks

We'll be soaked when around he comes
Rows of pearly dewdrop's drops
Tis the lucky lucky penny penny penny
Buys the pearly dew drips soaks

Taciturn to fellow
So try to turn to loan him these
Bruised your eye on her staff
So when he turned around he saw

Taciturn to fellow
So try to turn to loan him these
Bruised your eye on her staff
So if we send the Roddy, soaks

We'll be soaked when Roddy comes
Rows of pearly dewdrop's drops
Tis the lucky lucky penny penny penny
Buys the pearly dew drips soaks

(We'll be sold to Roddy, sold to Roddy)
Rows of pearly dewdrop's drops
(We'll be sold to Roddy, sold to Roddy)
Tis the lucky lucky penny penny penny
 Buys the pearly dew drips soaks 

AND OCH AYE! THEY'RE BRAW WEE SCOTS LADS and LASS!

Black Snake International

Funeral Fun

From the delightfully dreadful Confessions From a Holiday Camp

A Movie 4 U

Phoned-in atonement for being occasionally tone deaf, according to my detractors....



Hiney!

BJ the DJ

It's an Accident song, so not nearly what you're thinking...


Now here's some DJs that have proved memorable for me for a variety of reasons, and also have me conjecturing that they have had the pleasure at one point or another in their lives, and have also judiciously avoided an early demise unlike the subject of the song...:

Cousin Brucie, one of the 35 "5th Beatles"


Michael Tierson (center) who always seemed to catch the correct vibe of what was on the menu - an affable chap., sounded like he was laying down...


Jimmy Saville, straight from the pages of the Beano, knighted and beknighted (for his looks)


...and Soupy Sales, sire of Tony and Hunt friend to Pookie and White Fang, but who got his start in radio.

Pretending to Speak English

Saw this at WFMU - a French friend in high school pretended to speak English - weird.....

Another great example is some of Love Psychedelic Orchestra's work... hearable below.

The Dan........OF DEATH !!!

Good ol' anonymous Dan, apparently a GlyphJockey regular reader, has returned with another splendid eclectic mix of Hallowe'en hits
Link at pickaxeinyourskull

J. Proctor - Performing Splendidly

I received this email recently: "Hi lex10 sorry to be a pain (Oh no not more emails) but if you have a spare 30 seconds could you tell me what you think of this song www.jproctor.net/lampost (linked to youtube)
I have put a link on the video so that you can download and keep the screen capture software (as a thank you for watching) which can be used to record your screen and sound, I use it to create online lectures for the College where I work
kindest regards John Proctor.
PS if I am being a pain I am really sorry and just ignore this message"

Well, John, you're not being a pain, your rendition has the three airities: sincerity, clarity, and jocularity. you sing clearly as a friendly bell, with great confidence, and nice choice of song. well done.

Now how 'bout a nice repurposing of early punk hits?

One for the Ladies in my House

Via Robert Mrazik

Such a Cool post - I'm Nauseous and Reposting Here

Jet Harris was possibly the first person in Britain to own an electric bass guitar, and certainly the first to play one in a band. His original instrument was a Framus Star bass imported by Besson & Co from West Germany.

In September 1963, a chauffeur-driven limousine in which Jet was travelling with his girlfriend Billie Davis, was in collision with a Midland Red bus as they travelled back from one of Billie's shows in Evesham. The bus was written off in the accident and it was almost fatal for Jet too. Billie, who suffered a broken jaw in the accident, pulled the unconscious Jet from the wreckage of their car. He suffered serious head injuries requiring 34 stitches in the wound.

When the court case from the car crash was finally settled, in December 1966, Mr Justice Donaldson recognised that while Jet "was no Beatle and possibly no Cliff Richard, he was nevertheless at the top of his profession". Jet was awarded compensation of £11,150 - not much by today's standards but a not inconsiderable sum in 1966.

Watch the smoke:


Billie again:

I Am So F***ing Buying an Electric Guitar!

One of my fave live bands, Nashville Pussy, teach how to play guitar. Blaine and Ruyter teach all the secrets of the "no brown M&Ms" crowd.





Just to prove they can put their money where their NSFW mouths are:



Let the lessons commence. See you on stage.

Town Without Pity

!@#$%^&*()

Peppermint Teahouse

Shoukichi Kina again. Apparently out of print. A dirty shame. Jing Jing and Hana are awesome, but there's plenty of auditory umami happening all over this album.

Here's a super brief Wikipedia about him, and

Here's more of his work.

Peppermint Teahouse
or

Remain Calm, or Not......

As Shoukichi Kina (of the album Peppermint Teahouse) Sings Hana.



10 minutes unwasted.

Sayonara

This Is Not Me

When I got married, I ran off with my wife - she was with another guy. But I was not this guy, despite the fact that I enjoyed this video at the time. I love this- the dancers, the falsetto, the spaceman- it signals one of the many death knells of rock, fueled by my jazz and southern rock and new age listening jerkoff peers, who couldn't wait to grow up and embrace the cash fueled dreary.

F**k 'em all.