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My Bloody Valentine recently completed a staggering series of concerts at London's legendary Roundhouse venue in Camden.

Mintyblonde — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:53:38 -0800

My Bloody Valentine recently completed a staggering series of concerts at London's legendary Roundhouse venue in Camden. The band are an influential UK band that operated in the late 80's and early 90's as trailblazers of the Indie Shoegazing scene. Only releasing two well acclaimed albums, they were allegedly responsible for the bankruptcy of Creation Records although that is now under dispute. The gigs were well received, and yours truly was fortunate enough to catch them on the last date. The final track was outstanding. And painful. For me, here is their best (and yes most famous but still....) track.

talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it.

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:24:27 -0800

Everybody on the dance floor for two of the high masterpieces of disco from 1979: Lipps Inc.'s Funkytown and Anita Ward's Ring My Bell. Hey, Funkytown even has its own comprehensive website! No doubt about it, 1979 was a very BIG year for disco. Not everyone back in '79, though, was ready to shake their booty. Oh well. Doooooooooooooooooooooooo Wikipedia pages for Funkytown and Ring My Bell.

Robot High School

nangsta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:14:32 -0800

Bloody balls! Make sure to stick around for the surprise ending. Supposedly no significant computer generated effects were added.

Got my mojo working.

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:17:35 -0800

Got My Mojo Working was written by the little-known Preston Foster and first recorded in 1956 by the only slightly better-known Ann Cole. It was, of course, the Muddy Waters version that became the hit and a signature song for him: he sang it throughout his entire career, and it has become one of the best-known blues standards of all time. The song itself just has a lot of mojo, you know, so naturally plenty of others have covered it through the years: a small sampling from the YouTubes would include Carl Perkins, Willie Dixon, Elvis Presley, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, JJ Cale, Pinetop Perkins and Louis Jordan. Hell, even Bobby Darin couldn't resist the mojo!. NOTE: Check hoverovers for link descriptions. &creativeAThe original Ann Cole recording is included on the compilation CD Jump, Jive and Swing from Rhino Records. And just for good measure, Lightnin' Hopkins, in a slamming performance of Mojo Hand, and, what the hell, let's hear that one again! Also, JB Lenoir's The Mojo Boogie. Last but not least, Wille Dixon, the bassist and singer seen in one of the Muddy Waters clips and in his own cover of the tune in another clip from this FPP, was of course one of the great songwriters of the blues, a giant figure. I made an FPP on him a while back, which is here.

The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith

Item — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:32:12 -0800

"In January 2005, Mark E. Smith and The Fall (described as 'one of the most enigmatic, idiosyncratic and chaotic garage bands of the last 30 years') were the subject of a BBC 4 TV documentary, The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith." parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

RIP

Smedleyman — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:02:27 -0800

Hugh Thompson Jr., dies at 62.

My Lai. (NSFW photo) "'We had conspired with the government of South Vietnam to literally destroy the hopes, aspirations and emotional stability of thirteen thousand human beings....This was not war it is genocide....'."

"Thompson landed his chopper between the troops and the shelter, then jumped out and confronted the lieutenant in charge of the chase...Furious, Thompson announced he was taking the civilians out. He went back to Colburn and Andreotta and told them if the Americans fired, to shoot them."

I am Iron Fist: nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh

allen.spaulding — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:16:07 -0800

Submitted for your approval: Operation Iron Fist which is different from Iron Resolve, Iron Grip, and Iron Hammer. If Eisenhammer isn't creepy enough for you, let's not forget Infinite Justice, which is surprisingly close to Infinite Reach. There's quite a bit of repetition. My personal favorites are this one and this one. What's your favorite? What does it mean when we have so many ongoing operations that we run out of original names?

Love at First Bite

Simon! — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:48:32 -0800

"If you love someone, you want to give something of yourself to them... Go big or go home you know?" Show that special sweetie of yours that you care with the magic of mutual self-mutilation. Really, how often were you using that ring finger, anyways?