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Slowdive evening.
Abandoned House, Ano Korakiana, Corfu, Greece.
Spotify Playlist 200000
Hello,
This week's playlist is good. I'd say better than average. Very synth and motorik driven with a splash of slow stuff and a couple of your good old pop tunes. James seems to be the one who listens to new good music and some of us (well, just me) have him as a filter: "if he likes, I like". Very not indivualistic of me but a shit is not given. This approach might backfire at some point but it's working right now! Matthew's Toadcast is to blame for the inclusion of Lady Lazarus and Post War Glamour Girls and finally, that BBC Documentary on Krautrock for all the German goodness. Do click on the pre-Daft Punk dude below or on this dot --> . to listen.
Tracklist:
Harmonia – Sonnenschein Liars – No.1 Against the Rush Hookworms – Form and Function Swearin' – Here to Hear Post War Glamour Girls – Johnny And Mary Kraftwerk – Radioland - 2009 Digital Remaster Lady Lazarus – Half-Life These New Puritans – Spiral Oneohtrix Point Never – Describing Bodies Girls Names – Hypnotic Regression Beak> – Egg Dog Ivor Cutler – There's a Turtle in My Soup
Synths. We need more synths. SYNTHSZZZZZZZZZZ
A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick
The release of Blu-Ray and DVD restorations of John Frankenheimer's film Seconds in the Criterion Collection is long-awaited justice for an obscure masterpiece.
Seconds is different from most “cult” films. The director was still young but at the height of his fame, having made the political thrillers Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, and The Train, each with Academy Award-nominated work. The cinematographer, James Wong Howe, was one of Hollywood’s most original directors of photography. Rock Hudson, cast against his usual light-romantic type, gave an often strikingly intense performance (requiring professional football players hired as extras to hold him on a gurney). The score from Oscar-nominated rising star Jerry Goldsmith was eerily apt. Sets blended with striking and sometimes bizarre location shots, including an actual slaughterhouse that advertised itself as a “used cow dealer.” (The experience turned Frankenheimer off steaks for a long time, he tells us in the running commentary.)
In other words, it was a mainstream Hollywood product with every prospect of making money.
For all this, as Frankenheimer puts it, Seconds went from failure to classic without ever becoming a success. One reason was the casting. As the Criterion extras make clear, art-house audiences seeking European-style existentialist or expressionist film were unprepared for Rock Hudson, while Hudson’s fans didn’t want probing philosophy.
Read more. [Image: Gibraltar Productions; Joel Productions; John Frankenheimer Productions Inc.]
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room, (1965)
Lou Reed Playlist
Lou Reed is dead. No one really reads this page so it's not like we need to write anything about it. I'm writing about it though, because The Velvet Underground is my favourite band ever, the equivalent of The Beatles for other people. I'm familar with his work until he released Raven in 2002.
I bought a pirate version of the "Peel Slowly and See" boxset. They were just 5 shitty tapes. At 15, I had never listened to anything remotely similar to that and I only bought it because I knew Nirvana had covered Here She Comes Now.
There's an amazing demo version of Heroin on the first tape. It lasts about 14 minutes or a bit less and they fuck up and they hurry up because I guess the tape is running out or whatever and I can here a sense of "let's get shit done" to the whole thing. Snare roll youtube clip:
I'd like to think that if I'd been a youngster back then, I would have been a Velvets fan rather than a Beatles or Rolling Stones fan. THE NOISE. It's all about the noise they made combined with the gorgeous melodies of some of their poppier songs.
Example 1:
There are better examples of noisy Velvet Underground but this one is the one I want right now.
Example 2:
I guess that what I like about it is that the structure is so fucking unpredictable and then right at the end when it hits you with the "something's got a hold of me and I don't know what" followed by "it's the beginning of a new age" is like a release. What a religious cult fanatic might feel when a "reverend" puts his hand on their forehead and demands the devil leaves their body.
He was a dick, apparently. I've read a few of the interviews Lester Bangs did with him and he comes across as an arrogant prick who knows is good at what he does but I don't think that matters. Loads of people are arseholes and they don't contribute with anything towards the improvement of life. He fucking wrote "I'm set free". He can do whatever the fuck he wants. And he encouraged to debate sexuality openly, because why not. Maybe he took himself too seriously but when you're pumping drugs into your body and have success, it's probably difficult to have a sense of what is real.
Regardless, I think his solo albums, particularly Transformer and Coney Island Baby have amazing tunes but they're completely different from the Velvet Underground. The weirdness and eperimentation within a pop structure are kind of gone. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm most likely wrong.I loved what he was doing with Antony on tracks like "Fistful of love". Still, I wouldn't touch "Lulu" with a stick covered in shit though.
Anyway. I've put together my favourite Velvet Underground and Lou Reed songs along with some very, very good covers from equally good bands. Just the stuff I've known and loved for a long time. Nothing wild or out of ordinary. It's noon on a Monday and I should be doing something else but putting this shit together feels right. I think people mention his music for different reasons: to appear cool, to wear the Warhol t-shirt, to take drugs or to just fucking enjoy it. Personally, I think he had the skill to write amazing songs. We're going to have a real good time, together. Click here or on Lou's face.
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There’s even more great news!
In January our MLC-friends from Plastic Animals (Edinburgh) and Molly Wagger (London) will come to Leeuwarden, NL to play a few shows with our band Sväva.
FINALLY; THE EP-RELEASE.
November will be release-month of the Mellow Leave Collective EP. We will release one song a week with video. December 1th you can download the EP on Bandcamp for free. We’ve been looking forward to releasing this EP for such a long time and finally it’s going to happen!
we collaborated with the mellow leave collective girls on a track for this EP... excited for it to finally be released!
TOMORROW NIGHT! new tunes guaranteed!
Amazing ending for a very good film. Saturn Rising.
Hey, someone likes us!
PLANIMALS PLAYLIST 4001
Dearest followers,
Here's another play list with songs and that. In the last few weeks we've been writing new stuff and trying to demo. Other than that, the songs on this come mostly from Luther, good Coolio and Finders Keepers. Hope you like. Clickity HERE or the kitty.
T.R.A.S.E – Electronic Rock (Original 1981 LP Version)
Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma
El Mato A Un Policia Motorizado – Chica de Oro
The Yawns – Calling Colin Through a Wall
Neil Young – Pochahontas
Diana Ross – Upside Down Willie
Dixon – Back Door Man
Föllakzoid – 9
Francis Poulenc – Gymnopedie, No. 1
Forrests – Billions Hebronix – Viral
Neu! – Für Immer (Forever)
Freaks and geeks. Excellent photos.
Planimals Spotify Playlist 3000
Not really, but who is counting? So Thom Yorke doesn't like Spotify anymore. Oh well, I guess it makes sense. I remember the peeps from Lower Dens complaining about it a while ago when their last album came out. I think we've made something like 23p from the streaming. It's ridiculous but who makes a living out of this nowadays? It's not really a factor that affects us at all but we're not what you'd call a "real" band in the sense that we all have a job and make music around that. Anyway, I'm boring myself now. The whole point is that not a shit is given around here and this is why I've put together a new play list. It's influenced by the great time we had at ATP and by those Amoeba Records videos on youtube where musicians pick some albums from the shop. Very enlightening, I'd recommend you watch some.
The Gun Club – Sex Beat
The Wipers – Taking Too Long
John Fahey – On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
Kaleidoscope – The Sky Children
The Bartlebees – Little Queenie
Scott Walker – Boy Child
Psychic TV – Godstar
Deerhunter – Sleepwalking
Cluster – Für die Katz'
The B-52's – 52 Girls
Plastic Animals – Floating