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high flying bird
this is one of my most favourite 80s europop/italodisco songs. and the backing dancers here are manic! brillaint!
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together in mordis dreams
BRIGITTE BARDOT - ROSE D'EAUtwo of my most favourite things in the whole wide world: brigitte bardot and deer. seriously, this picture is like what my dreams are like! a lovely little song to accompany it too!
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a girl named sam
SAMANTHA JONES - COME TO ME SLOWLYyou don't hear too many people covering margo guryan. and certainly not possibly one of margos most gorgeous songs. but brit singer sam gives it a really good go.
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lonely singing doll
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amanda madness!
this is genuis! amanda lear goes rogue and leaves disco behind and tries her had a bit of punky rock and roll. it's totally nuts and i love it. great video too - lots of home movie style clips of her in paris circa 81.
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french 'fro
STELLA - PAUVRE CLOCHEno -one can accuse stella for not going for it in the hair department. what a 'do'! bloody great track though - from the later part of her career in 68.
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help needed!
can anyone help me with my chantal kelly collection? i need 'les roses de mon jardin' - anyone have it?
if anyone has - in return i'll get my ass in gear and burn then post her rarely heard songs 'la chanson du coucou' and 'biolou-biolou'.
if anyone has - in return i'll get my ass in gear and burn then post her rarely heard songs 'la chanson du coucou' and 'biolou-biolou'.
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BARON OF LOVE, PART 2
Alex Chilton
Like Flies on Sherbert
Peabody: 1979
[Buy It]
LET ME GET CLOSE TO YOU
Alex Chilton
High Priest
Big Time: 1987
[Buy It]
DOWNS (demo)
Alex Chilton
1974
Available on: Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story
Big Beat: 2008
[Buy It]
IT'S YOUR FUNERAL
Alex Chilton
A Man Called Destruction
Ardent: 1995
[Buy It]
Alex Chilton, who died, wrote songs. He recorded songs. He made songs. He unmade them. In the end, the life was largely in song, and the songs all had life, and that's all there is to say, and there isn't anything that can be done. Once he covered "Let Me Get Close to You," which was Goffin-King via Skeeter Davis:How long I'll never know
I've waited to tell you that I love you so
Now I have finally said it
Come on baby don't make me regret it"It's Your Funeral" is an instrumental. There are no words.
*
With a few hours to absorb the news, some memories came into focus, mostly distant ones, like hearing Big Star for the first time in the early eighties in Miami, or buying Like Flies on Sherbert in college, or driving upstate with some friends some years ago and listening on the car radio to Stuff, which collected some of Chilton's songs -- you could say that they were his best songs, but it might be more accurate to say that they were the songs of his that sounded most like songs that might be on a car radio. I remembered beginning to date the woman I'd later marry, playing lots of Chilton's music for her, and trying to figure out his secret: the way his try-anything-once aesthetic was both forthright and evasive, how he could combine an anarchic sense of humor and an unironic ability to convey pain, his addiction to the brilliant throwaway, his graceless grace. He drew lines back to Slim Harpo and Ronny and the Daytonas and Danny Pearson, so many it seemed he'd get trapped in the tangle. He escaped, again and again--but escaped to what? The most recent memory was the blurriest: it was just last November when I saw him with the reconstituted Big Star (half original, half Posies) at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. I wrote a little piece about the show for the New Yorker that now seems dismissive to me, though I didn't mean it that way. I had no idea it would be the last I'd see of him.
*
NOTE: This is obviously not the first time we have written about Chilton here at Moistworks. Here is a piece by Alex Abramovich that investigates the end of Big Star and the beginning of Chilton's solo career.
Alex Chilton
Like Flies on Sherbert
Peabody: 1979
[Buy It]
LET ME GET CLOSE TO YOU
Alex Chilton
High Priest
Big Time: 1987
[Buy It]
DOWNS (demo)
Alex Chilton
1974
Available on: Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story
Big Beat: 2008
[Buy It]
IT'S YOUR FUNERAL
Alex Chilton
A Man Called Destruction
Ardent: 1995
[Buy It]
Alex Chilton, who died, wrote songs. He recorded songs. He made songs. He unmade them. In the end, the life was largely in song, and the songs all had life, and that's all there is to say, and there isn't anything that can be done. Once he covered "Let Me Get Close to You," which was Goffin-King via Skeeter Davis:How long I'll never know
I've waited to tell you that I love you so
Now I have finally said it
Come on baby don't make me regret it"It's Your Funeral" is an instrumental. There are no words.
*
With a few hours to absorb the news, some memories came into focus, mostly distant ones, like hearing Big Star for the first time in the early eighties in Miami, or buying Like Flies on Sherbert in college, or driving upstate with some friends some years ago and listening on the car radio to Stuff, which collected some of Chilton's songs -- you could say that they were his best songs, but it might be more accurate to say that they were the songs of his that sounded most like songs that might be on a car radio. I remembered beginning to date the woman I'd later marry, playing lots of Chilton's music for her, and trying to figure out his secret: the way his try-anything-once aesthetic was both forthright and evasive, how he could combine an anarchic sense of humor and an unironic ability to convey pain, his addiction to the brilliant throwaway, his graceless grace. He drew lines back to Slim Harpo and Ronny and the Daytonas and Danny Pearson, so many it seemed he'd get trapped in the tangle. He escaped, again and again--but escaped to what? The most recent memory was the blurriest: it was just last November when I saw him with the reconstituted Big Star (half original, half Posies) at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. I wrote a little piece about the show for the New Yorker that now seems dismissive to me, though I didn't mean it that way. I had no idea it would be the last I'd see of him.
*
NOTE: This is obviously not the first time we have written about Chilton here at Moistworks. Here is a piece by Alex Abramovich that investigates the end of Big Star and the beginning of Chilton's solo career.
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