To me, one of the sexiest songs ever. Led by singer Justine Frischmann, Elastica’s self-titled debut album was loaded with bite size chunks of new wave and punk – riffs stolen in broad daylight from records by the likes of Wire and the Buzzcocks, then stripped, refurbished and amplified for the post-grunge mid-90s. It was a perfect antidote for the bloated dreariness that the Seattle sound had become, and it was accompanied by […]
This is the sort of thing that probably wouldn’t happen here. I just don’t think Americans take their pop charts quite as personally or as democratically as they do in the U.K. Earlier this summer, a brand of kid’s shoes put out an ad featuring “Birdhouse in Your Soul”, the 1990 major label debut single by They Might Be Giants. The duo of John Linnell and John Flansburgh have, since they started […]
We may associate dance music with the clubs, the strobelights, the bathroom drug deals and sticky bathroom floors, but in this video for his 1979 hit “Baby Blue” (not to be confused at all with songs by Badfinger or Bob Dylan), Italian disco, bubblegum, and electronic music pioneer (not to mention mastermind behind some of the most memorable soundtrack music of the 80s) Giorgio Moroder – who, in April, celebrated his 70th birthday! – demonstrates […]