Tag: Aretha Franklin
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…
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RIP Aretha
Sad to hear about the death of Aretha Franklin. She’s been ill for a long time, but no-one ever took the crown of the Queen of Soul. Here she is in her great cameo in The Blues Brothers.
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RC 228: Sloppy Seconds
A post Kleptonite #1 report and some great tracks I didn’t play. Continued in the next podcast since I ran out of time…(hence the Hipster Repent graphic which now makes more sense with the next podcast…*sigh*) Born Sloppy (1:39 – 80Mb) Jimmy Cliff – Guns of Brixton Prince Fatty ft Hollie Cook – And the Beat…
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Mutant Pop 4: Attack of the Giant Mutant Mashup Ant (2003)
OK it took me over a year to get round to doing the rest of the Mutant Pop compilations – I wanted a pause from endless tagging/chasing up of corrupted tracks on crumbling CD-Rs…but with the current GYBO-closing nostalgia it seems the right time to post the rest. Another slice of mashup history – this…
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Home Is Where The Hatred Is
‘Little’ Esther Phillips had been the same place Gil had battling addiction, which is why her searing cover of ‘Home Is Where The Hatred’ is stands up to the original. Apparently she was up for a Grammy that year, Aretha Franklin won it, then gave it to Esther saying she was the best vocalist that…
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Radio Clash 98: The Come Down
Up, up and away on my beautiful so beautiful balloon…but eventually, you’ve got to come down. A downtempo show after all thee glitz, glamour, gore, gall and guff of the last 3 gigs – the adrenalin’s worn off, the greasepaints off (err did I ever wear that?!?) (shh – metaphor ed) and I’m preparing for…