Tag: Punk rock
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Music theory of mashups
Via SpareElbowSkin, this is a fascinating video – I had heard of Quodlibet, it’s all over the Wikipedia Mashup page like a Radio 3 rash – but the idea of stacking mashups til basically madness is fun. The thing is, I never studied any of this stuff – sometimes it shows, LOL – but I…
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We Will Rock You (Thrash version)
I never knew Queen recorded a fast, punky, thrash version of ‘We Will Rock You’ – but they did for John Peel in 1977 – maybe a nod to his playlists at the time? Love it, it’s part of a new compilation of Queen’s BBC recordings. (via Jez Biggs)
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Ghostbusters remake
One of the things that pissed me off about the response to the backlash on the Ghostbusters remake is being automatically labelled sexist because I thought it looked like a bad or meh movie at best. Now it’s come out, and it seems that many people support my instincts, but because the studio span it…
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…
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Daphne and Celeste ARE BACK!
Wow. Whereas other people’s lists of dream reformed bands are Oasis, ABBA, Smiths, Libertines (happened), Radiohead (they’ve not split – Fact Ed. Curses! – me) mine had Daphne and Celeste pretty high up on it. Non-ironically, I always felt that as this Tim Jonze article says they were a) punk as fuck and b) had…
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The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends
Loving the pop-culture mashups of Butcher Billy including these Post Punk Super Friends series. MORRISSEY SMASH! I don’t use the M-word lightly – but looking through his online portfolio you will see similarities to a some of mashup cover work out there. I can see why clubs want his graphics, would be great to see…