Tag: monkees
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72 is back: 72.5
72 the continous mix is back – I think I must have missed a few of them because this is the 5th iteration for A New Crumpl Generation. For those that don’t know, each producer has 72 hours to produce their part and pass it on until 72 minutes is up. It’s like a mashup…
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RIP Mike Nesmith
Aww no it’s obviously the season where we lose good people…Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and basically inventing music television fame has died aged 78. Here are some of my fave Mike Nesmith tunes – Tapioca Tundra, Listen to the Band, Mary Mary and The Girl I Knew Somewhere both of which he didn’t sing…
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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RC 299: Running Away Into The Sunset
From Sunset to Sunrise, from Metal Muppet Baby Shark to Catching A Godlike Pussy, we take a trip into the far blue yonder soundtracked by disco, northern soul, electronica, punk, heavy rock, ska, pop, hiphop, indie, hi-nrg, indie and a small shedload of queer artists. We talk about social media, avoid Br*x*t, Time passes…, My…
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RC 291: Out of the Window
Out of the window and what can I see?Scaffold is gone and they are coming for me. Yes the four month ordeal of ScaffoldGate is over, JUST in time for winter to appear so all the birds to have disappeared and the garden and outlook looks grumpy outside the window. Dark times ahead, from Kavanaugh…
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RC 249: A is For Acid Accordion (Odds and Sods #15)
Spell Acid? T-U-R-N-O-N. That is correct! Now spell Accordion? M-Y-R-O-N-F-L-O-R-E-N. That’s correct! Now spell Antidisestablishmentarianism? Not done an Odds and Sods show for a while, and this motley and curious collection surely qualifies. Even an intro via Speak and Spell (yes I edited it to make the words) via Pink Floyd and some accordion playing…there…