MP3 Truffles: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My favorite thing on the internet this week popped into my lap when Irwin sent around his find of twenty-eight exclamation points of e-bay excitement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But even that didn't quite top finally seeing one of my favorite 60s bands in action:

 

1968's Dame un poco de amooor...! is a Spanish language rock-n-roll spy comedy starring Los Bravos, and featuring many great scenes of them in action. Of course their big hits are featured ("Black is Black" above), but also check out the YouTube clips of "Like Nobody Else" - where they are dressed as matadors, "She's My Girl" - where they go undercover as Los Hong Kong 5, and the party rocker "Bring a Little Lovin'".

Here's another scene, featuring Nuggets staple "Going Nowhere". The cheesy rotoscoping animation adds significantly to the party atmosphere.

Follow the jump for this week's MP3 and music video links.

MP3 FINDS THIS WEEK:

• A long lost part of my record collection, I've been waiting for years to find The Mixed-Up World of Ross Bagdasarian again. A truly fun album. Thanks Record Robot!
• He's Mean, He's Mean. The soundtrack for Robert Altman's Popeye. Plus Harry Nilsson's unheard demo versions.
• Vintage beatnik: Jack Hammer performs "poems of rebellion" over free jazz.
• Portuguese punk circa 1983, Mau Mau.
• One of the first Leiber & Stoller hits, and its singer Wibert Harrison.
• I like the Bee Gees, but I also like the song "Kill the Bee Gees".
• A cheesy solo work from Missing Persons' Dale Bozzio. Beware of the music video - makes her look more like Dee Snyder.
• Motown around the world. Foreign language versions of the oldies.
• Perhaps they didn't get the recording contract because of the name: Mail Order.
• James Brown's Hell, a funky '74 entry made even funkier by the constant use of gonging.
• The Definitive Top 1000 Songs of all Time? It's that definitive word that makes me really question the inclusion of Bryan Adams.

VIDEOS:

• Words cannot even begin to describe what it is like seeing Japanese singer (and WFMU fave) Jon the Dog in action.
• If you're Phat and you know it, do the beat-box.
• Martin Denny does "Dites Moi" and "Quiet Village" on a filmed version of Webley Edwards' classic radio show "Hawaii Calls".
• Speaking of exotic: Yma Sumac sings in the Andes.
• See the Stars on 45 in action (so to speak), with their biggest medley hit - the one with all the Beatles songs.
• The Temptations doing "I Can't Get Next To You" on Ed Sullivan - stay tuned as they break out the moves and as a video remixer separates the vocals and instruments.
• We need to get more Not the Nine O'Clock News out on DVD stateside (currently only a lackluster "best of" collection is out there), especially with the wealth of spot-on closing-credits music parodies, including Abba, Kate Bush, Barry Manilow, new wave cheese, and, erm, cunnilingus.
• I should be peeved at Bruce Campbell for "selling out", but all he's schilling is Old Spice (still a great Christmas gift for dad), and he's doing it by singing and playing a piano version of "Hungry Like the Wolf".
• I Love the 80s: Philip Jap, "Save Us".
• I Hate the 80s: Bryan Ferry, "Limbo".

Comments

[bartelby]

The ebay listing seems like a lot of work and expense to list albums that can be found virtually anywhere for a dollar or less. Between the expense and hassle of creating the listing and graphics and then having to deal with mailing vinyl LP records - I guess they must really like ebay. Personally I wouldn't list anything short of design specs for a functional perpetual motion machine on ebay, or maybe gold bars for pickup only.

[jenjen]

That "Going Nowhere" video has the best moment of ham acting merged with smiling for the camera at about 1:49 where he sings about learning to cry... CRY! Look I'm so handsome when I SMILE!

[Vic Perry]

Wow! and this is the first time I've heard any other songs by Los Bravos too!!

Fave things about the ebay listing: counting it as every actual piece of vinyl instead of counting it by albums. That's 5 lps, not 8, sorry. 2nd fave thing: nobody has bid yet.

Hey I sold a record last year for more than 60 bucks! But nobody ponied up for my t.heads boot modestly priced at 80 bucks. Go figure. Better yet, contact me, quick. Otherwise I'll still have it in 20 years.

[SillyWilly]

I loved "Black is Black" the first time I heard it about 10 years ago but somehow got the idea the group as Swedish. Dios mio!