I saw someone mention this 80’s synth group called Pink Military, and later Pink Industry, it sounded interesting so I looked them up and fell in love with the music!
Its a good collection, you can also get it on Spotify and so on, there’s some really good songs, its sort of early industrial synth and more jazzy later – this song got under my skin, I wonder exactly what the lyrics are? It seems really cool!
I’m hearing the sound of New Order, also the Slits, and Public Image, and probably something or other I don’t know, it just seems like a missing link – I wasn’t into this sort of thing back then, cos I was too mad, I wish I’d heard it earlier! đ â¤
EDIT – this one sounds like New Order bass – great bit of feminism too! Love it!
Xanadu – what a film! It flopped at the box office back in 1980, but thatâs only cos people werenât ready for it – no savour faire – now itâs 43 years later, youâre too late!
Allow me to explain, the story begins in a run down dump of a town, quite characteristic of that late 70s punk era, all the dance halls have closed and everythingâs in ruins, then Gene Kelly appears, bit of a throwback to singing in the rain or whatever, then this other lead guy meets this beautiful girl and starts a bit of a relationship or something, but she keeps disappearing. They end up doing up this old dance hall and turn it into a paradise, everything goes really crazy, but don’t worry friends, there’s lots of dancing / singing / roller skating in the movie, so you know you’re going to have a good time. It turns out she is actually Terpsichore, one of the 9 muses of Olympus! Its spooky, its crazy, its a musical, you want kinky? You got it! This movie has it all!!! Recommended – 10 / 10
OMG – What kind of music do I like? I dont even know, I canât even answer that – I always liked to get music no one else liked or knew about, then I ended up buying some of the worst music you ever heard in your life, its like surely no one else likes this do they? But then I mellowed, I liked to get funky, yeah, you read that right, Im’a takin yo to funkae town yeah! So anyhow, today I bought something new, its kind of jazzy disco electro, not bad really, it starts out soft, and winds up pretty boisterous – I thought I canât really be sure if I dig this for real, I mean this is a long way from where I call home you know this is not the real me whatsoever, anyhow, check it out, fill yer drawers, get down to it baby, you know you want it!Â
I kind of do like stuff like this, it fills a hole in my collection, its part of a whole album what you can hear on band camp (also available elsewhere)
Here’s a blast from the past – I was playing this the other night, (Best song on the best of James album I think) it seems to be a bit distorted, both on the YouTube version as well as here, I don’t get why they don’t remaster it, its very noisy, WTF? It needs cleaning up – still bloody good tho! Oh yes, I know what I like! đ
I was listening to this guy on the radio talking about the baby boomer generation, and Gen X and Gen Z, and all that, and how the world changed when the internet came out, cos now you can get any info you fancy in half a moment.
So a bit later I was thinking about how true that is, for instance, if you got a big record collection, all old LPs and stuff, like everyone did in the old days, cos everyone had like a stash of LPs and a record player somewhere in their house, so you could have a flip through and see what they collected, well I was just thinking about some of this old Pink Floyd stuff I got that I never really listen to – some of it, I havenât played for probably 30 years, its a long time to have a record you havenât played, but in those days, you got something like that for your collection then if and when you want to hear it, you know where it is, on the shelf in the front room, if you donât own it, youâd have to go and buy it from the record shop, but if you do, (own it already) all you got to do is pull it out and put it on, so maybe you wouldnât do that for years and years, but its there in your collection – so you can put it on and go, hmm, quite good that! Or a bit silly perhaps, Iâm not often in the mood for it, but itâs there when I want it etc, etc.
Anyhow, nowadays, you dont have to have some daft song in your collection you havenât played for decades, cos if you want to hear it, you can type it into YouTube and bobs your uncle, no need to own the thing at all – well, its nice to have the physical item in your hands isnât it, the art work and the the whole inner sleeve thing and what not, Careful! Donât scratch it!!
Anyhow, I played a few songs, and even though some of them are a bit daft, mostly its quite good some of it, I expect they had some fun doing those songs, I really liked See Emily Play, Arnold Layne, Careful with that axe Eugene, stuff like that, but the little ditty ones were good too!
In the old days you would get these dreadfully middle class types going why you must listen to Pink Floyd, its so terribly good – and getting out the LP and dusting it off, handling it like its some treasured heirloom or something, nowadays its like nah, its on you tube, with all the other old stuff, clicky click!! đ
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