Category: Covers
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H2G2 Theme on a music box
This is what I am here for. As advertised the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (H2G2) theme (aka Bernie Leadon of Eagles fame with ‘Flight of the Sorcerer’) on a music box with added illustrations on the score by Luminous J aka Andy Riley. Wonderful.
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Don’t Cancel Halloween
Elvira sings a topical song – and a very funny video – to the tune of Madonna’s Holiday about HER favourite holiday…and how that darned virus has cancelled it. Great camp fun 🙂 via Boing Boing
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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Hard Ton Cover useless Man
Minty – the infamous Leigh Bowery with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman, and Matthew Glammore seem to sadly have become a footnote in pop’s history. Well I say pop, but Useless Man is a great if rather rude very radio-unfriendly track, but definitely a part of queer history. It’s a mutated freak Pepsi commercial, one from…
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Poppy – All The Things She Said
What IS it with new music and now? There’s a deluge of good music, I assume either planned for later in the year or cos of COVID-19 the fruitions of lockdown. Poppy’s t.A.T.u cover was meant for Pride – she is gender questioning – but also as she says in the dooblydoo it has other…