Depeche Mode, ‘Never Let Me Down Again’
I remember thinking how cool and “European” this video was. Mostly because it looked like something a repressed German would have made. Oh, and I LOVED the Isetta in the video.
I remember thinking how cool and “European” this video was. Mostly because it looked like something a repressed German would have made. Oh, and I LOVED the Isetta in the video.
This video uses Sims to act out the story in Kenny Rogers’ “Coward of the County.” At about 1:43 in, when Tommy’s love, Becky, is introduced, things get a little creepy. She basically looks like Tommy but with longer hair — and bad teeth. This video is really strange.
A) Haddaway, the original “What Is Love?” artist, actually has a pretty fascinating bio. B) Diane Birch, who’s covering the song above, also has an interesting bio.
A few things tied together with a very thin thread … First, I read A. O. Scott’s “Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis” in the New York Times this morning. Online initially and then, yes, switching over to my iPhone when I had to leave the house for work. (Scott says, “I see you rolling [...]
Curious as to what the 1970s UK rock powerhouse Slade actually looked like, I turned to YouTube. Was there a live performance of the iconic holiday song “Merry Xmas Everybody” there? There are at least four. And what’s beautiful is that each version is from a distinctly different era. There’s the glam era Slade, the [...]
Note: In the world of Christmas songs, “cool” is relative. Let’s just say that these are some of my favorites. “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” The Beach Boys (iTMS, Amazon) “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (iTMS, Amazon) “Silent Night,” The Coctails (Amazon) “O Tannenbaum,” Nat King Cole (iTMS, Amazon) “We [...]
In the 1980s, specifically around ’83, there was a bit of a mania for ATVs, specifically three-wheelers. The three-wheeler, however, was shown to be dangerous and was quickly replaced by its more surefooted cousin, the four-wheeler. But before the big, loud, motorized tricycle was yanked from the scene it would be immortalized in at least [...]
Little Richard is the “Architect of Rock and Roll” (he’s also the “King of Rock and Roll,” along with several others—neither Run nor D.M.C. among them). Lady Gaga is the “Princess of Electropop.” There are three “queens of Tejano” and six “queens of Rock and Roll,” Gwen Stefani inexplicably one of them. Jully Black is [...]
“So What’cha Want,” Beastie Boys
While in Milwaukee this weekend, C. and I somehow got on the subject of Milwaukee bands—and how we couldn’t think of any. I just hit up the Wikipedia Musical Groups from Wisconsin list. Here are the ones from Milwaukee that I’d heard of prior to scanning that list: The BoDeans: Officially from Waukesha, but played [...]