Here's a selection of mp3s circling the music blogs this week that you should snatch up while you can.
- Music to any ears: Slits rarities.
- Morricone's score for Orca, the Killer Whale. How come this wasn't in the Oscar medley?
- Jackie DeShannon + The Murmaids x Kim Fowley = The Lady-Bugs.
- Take your pick: Tom Waits live in 1976, or Hunter S. Thompson lecture from 1977. Probably best to grab them both and play them over each other.
- Yes indeed, a rap version of The Canterbury Tales. And don't miss Canada's Wordsworth-rapping varmint, MC Nuts.
- Pungent Stench, Been Caught Buttering. I have to agree - this is one of the greatest grindcore albums ever.
- Imus has pretty much always been a dickweed - as evidenced by the comedic slurs from his 70s "comedy" album. I have no urge to have some Imus debate, I'm just saying that I never liked the guy.
- But I liked this guy... Rest In Peace, Don Ho. More Ho.
- The soundtrack to Rick Springfield's cartoon Mission Magic.
- Tons o' yodelin' with the Dezurik Sisters.
- The Manischewitz company features Mr. Harold Stern, the Jewish Cowboy.
This week's Music Video finds are the All Olivia Edition. Why? Because I typed Olivia Newton John's name into the good old YouTube and - zap - a day disappeared. Join me down the O-hole (don't worry, this is a Grease-free zone). Start with the video below, then jump inside the post for oh so much more.
- 17 year old Olivia sings "Christmastime Down Under".
- Olivia first shot for fame in the late 60s. But she really burst onto the scene with her cute 70s country-hippie look doing "The Banks of the Ohio". Maybe it's more of a milkmaid look - doing Dylan's "If Not For You" .
- Olivia, Andy Gibb, and ABBA acoustic jam. Yes, you read that right. They would meet again for Olivia's 1978 ABC special.
- Cliff Richard and Olivia sing that song that I always hear in the grocery store.
- But then Cliff, Olivia, Andy Gibb and Elton John just butcher Buddy Holly. However, she does a pretty good job with the Hollies.
- Do you remember that the original Physical video guys were gay? That went right over my head when I was a kid. PS - don't tell the NFL.
- But that is nothing compared to the weirdness of the Physical video collection, featuring "artsy" interpretations of every song on the album, Even non-hits like "Silvery Rain".
- I remember being really excited and taping this episode of Inside HBO. Why? Olivia AND Dick Cavett.
- My favorite mid-80s Olivia videos have to be "Heart Attack" and "Totally Hot". But 12 year old me thought that only "Tied Up" totally rocked.
- Twist of Fate. This was the last Olivia video that I really liked. Here's a peek "behind the scenes" on a crappy video shoot from the same album. Not long after this I saw the terrible film Two of a Kind, which reunited Olivia and Travolta post-Grease, and thus ended my childhood lust for Olivia. (I did, however, develop a little crush on co-star Scatman Crothers)
- The entire Soul Kiss album, by the way, is just...it's just sad.
Gotta agree with the original poster about Imus:
"Don Imus may be an asshole, but he's our asshole. Deal with it."
Even earlier Imus material than this (1200 Hamburgers To Go) features him making obnoxious prank phone calls to businesses in the course of his radio show -- just the kind of record that Michael Shelley likes to finish most of his shows with.
This is not a defense of Imus -- I can't stand to listen to him myself -- but he really is the unbearable Id -- the undeniable worst -- of most of us honky assholes.
Posted by: Listener # 109577 | April 25, 2007 at 03:25 PM
PS: Sorry, Clinton, to be the first to comment on this post, with an Imus-focused response. You deserve better.
Posted by: Listener # 109577 | April 25, 2007 at 03:29 PM
Clinton- make sure to get to Chicago a week earlier than the Buffy Sing-Along...because we are having a GREASE SING-ALONG AT THE THEATRE!
I have to admit- Grease is my big guilty pleasure.
Posted by: fatty jubbo | April 26, 2007 at 03:43 AM
My God! What the hell is that picture?
Posted by: Smooth Johnny S | April 26, 2007 at 08:55 AM
It's the cover to "Been Caught Buttering", which I believe is stolen from a photo by Joel Peter-Witkin.
Posted by: Resident Clinton | April 26, 2007 at 09:24 AM
hmmm Soul Kiss..
Are you sure that's not Jayne County?
Posted by: Cynnkitty | April 26, 2007 at 10:38 AM
I thought Soul Kiss was fine. But I was somewhat older than twelve at the time. Maybe the crush lasts longer from seventeen or so. I was the same age as the first guy she married, but not quite as pretty. Yet the crush goes on.
Posted by: LCL58 | March 28, 2009 at 06:32 AM