How much more fun has the world of music become since Youtube opened its virtual doors in 2005? A whole damn lot, I say. Gone are the days that MTV dictated which 12 music videos us simple mortals should watch. And that describes the situation pre “The Real World”, I believe the total number of unique videos shown daily has gone down even further since the dawning of the age of reality TV. I also believe talking about MTV makes me sound like a dinosaur fossil, so let me fast forward to the 2010 era in which Youtube is my best best friend. I spend many a day (and night) endlessly watching new videos and old gems, or live versions from all-time favorite songs. Here’s one that falls in that last category: Goddess (Pt. 4) by Longstocking.
Longstocking only ever released one album: “Once Upon a Time Called Now”, and 13 years after the fact, it still rocks. Unfortunately I was never able to see them performing live, but here’s the next best thing:
I can’t even explain how excited I am finding this gem on Youtube! Halfway the nineties I bought Phranc’s ‘Bulldagger Swagger / Hillary’s Eyebrows’ 7″ and it’s been one of my favorite singles ever since (and not just because it’s on purrrdy red vinyl, although that does help!). I was never able to find a digital version of the song until I did a search again last night and the almighty interweb suddenly decided to answer my prayers. I’ve been a good girl.
Need I explain how much influence “Uncle Phranc” has had on the Queercore movement? I think not. However I do think it’s worth mentioning that Phranc has been a Tupperware consultant for years, which in me evokes the following train of thought: That’s awesome! –> Or at least very fascinating –> Or is it one of the biggest paradoxes in queer music history? –> Who cares, anyone up for a queer tupperware/household appliances party?
There’s no excuse for waiting to blog about this song for as long as I did, considering I’ve lurrrved it since the moment I first heard it.
In 2008, of Montreal released their ninth studio album “Skeletal Lamping”. The fifth track, “An Eluardian Instance”, would easily make it in my top 10 if I were the list making kinda girl.
The whole thing sounds like 3 different songs composed into one coherent track, with truly awesome lyrics, to wit:
Now I’m viewing my memory reel in reverse,
Scrolling back to come to feel your weather then
Now I’m noting the Himmlers of our parabola,
To predict the points of “thou shall not return”
Without further ado, here it is. Very belated, and yet in time for summer!
If I had a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening
All over this land
I’d hammer out danger
I’d hammer out a warning I’d hammer out this song that’s been stuck in my head for days now
All over this land
Oohooh oohooh, Oohooh oohooh
Earlier tonight I accompanied Todd to the opening of Little Buddha, located in the City Theater. He promised free sushi and champagne and he did not lie: we left the place well-fed and good-humored.
Apart from the food served and the giant Buddha in the center of the venue, nothing about that place even remotely reminded me of Asia. But rest assured, I’m making up for that here. After my already Japan themed Monday, I figured a little more of the same couldn’t possibly hurt. So here’s a great song by The Beavers (not to be confused by the Dutch band with the same name): “Why Baby Why”, released in 1967 as the B-side of their second single “Kiminaki Sekai”. Had I been asked, I would’ve switched the two sides.
“Why Baby Why” also appears on the 2005 “Sixties Japanese Garage-Psych Sampler”, a compilation of Japanese singles dating from 1966 to 1969 that you should listen to!
How much more fun has the world of music become since Youtube opened its virtual doors in 2005? A whole damn lot, I say. Gone are the days that MTV dictated which 12 music videos us simple mortals should watch. And that describes the situation pre “The Real World”, I believe the total number of unique videos shown daily has gone down even further since the dawning of the age of reality TV. I also believe talking about MTV makes me sound like a dinosaur fossil, so let me fast forward to the 2010 era in which Youtube is my best best friend. I spend many a day (and night) endlessly watching new videos and old gems, or live versions from all-time favorite songs. Here’s one that falls in that last category: Goddess (Pt. 4) by Longstocking.
