Tag: Buddy Holly
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Mashed Up At The Sock Hop Vol 2
Oh hello…I am alive, as you can see from the latest podcast, but not many things bring me out of blog lurkdom, but a new volume of the Sock Hop Rock n’ Roll mashup compilation from iWillBattle will do it! As before, we have rock, and/or roll mashups of a pre-1960’s flavour, with an album…
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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Little Marcy & Smokey bear
Long time listeners of Radio Clash will know the likes of Lil Markie and Little Marcy – scary evangelical Christian adults doing creepy child voices doling out Biblical messages for kids. I’ve played songs from both of these ‘singing puppets’ (well strictly Lil Markie was never a puppet) on the podcast in the past, because…
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Amazing fan animation for Jonathan Coulter’s ‘Shop Vac’
Love the touches in this, like the wagging dog tail, the sawing workshop, the Google maps bit, and the radio getting fuzzy. Excellent After Effects work here…I must try doing something like this in AE myself, looks like fun 😀 And the song is an excellent bittersweet affair, kind of like the best song Weezer…
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That’ll nearly not be the day
Conversation between Buddy Holly and Paul Cohen of Decca from Thursday February 28, 1957 wanting to release his songs they hated and didn’t want to release, but still wanted to hold onto for 5 years. One of them was ‘That’ll Be The Day’ and he went ahead and recorded and released his version against his…
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Blame Canada!
I arrived in Canada last night via umm, ViaRail, and it’s 25 degrees out, with the crickets chirping away and the trains bellowing as they pass. Staying in Ontario with my friends Doug and Greg on a farm; will hopefully venture out later for a looksie…last night was, err, interesting, the first time I’ve been…