Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
I think the chorus is “what’s her word’s worth?” oft repeated.
What can I say I’m completely addicted to this funky jam. Enjoy!
Infectious
Daily Archives: September 27, 2011
Lawrence O’Donnell telling like it is…
Great Last Word by Lawrence O’Donnell – American police are getting away with the rampant abuse of the people they are sworn to protect.
NYPD actions at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration over the past weekend are so repugnant they make the Toronto Police Service seem docile and the Vancouver Police Department seem competent. It’s really a wonder why the protesters don’t show up with mace, tear gas and beat-down sticks, which are all available on-line and would make this swine think twice about attacking innocent citizens exercising their democratic rights.
Like the man says – it will take a bloodbath before it gets the mainstream media’s attention. God willing.
New on Vinyl: Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
A fascinating album to say the very least.
I’ve been a big fan of Talking Heads and David Byrne for years – actually, since I was a child, aged ten listening to Stop Making Sense over and over again while playing G.I. Joe with my brother. What can I say, Joe had some funky adventures.
This album opens with a track I found almost unlistenable at first, America is Waiting, which features a sample of an irate talk-radio host. The prodigious and precautions use of sampling on this album in fact held back its release, and it still stands as a shining example of a very early use of the technique. Moreover it is an analog recording, and therefore the samples would have had to have been synched manually, a difficult and frustrating task which often led to chance discoveries and happy accidents. The sampling itself, which also includes Lebanese mountain singers, an exorcism and radio evangelists sits in interesting juxtaposition to the African rhythms, which are complexly overlaid resulting in an intricately interwoven tapestry of funky punctuation. Eno would later say he thinks the principally innovative factor isn’t the sampling itself inasmuch as how the sampling is used as the principle vocals.
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About that Amazing Arcade Fire Show
26 September 2011/ Listening to David Byrne & Brian Eno/ Apartment is hot-as-hell, Indian Summer’s a happening, but for how much longer?
About that show…
I had to be there. Work got in the way of the last two opportunities I had to see the Arcade Fire perform, so I couldn’t afford to miss it.
I got there unfashionably early and planted myself in what would later be described by various people I encountered at the concert as ‘the happy zone’ to contrast it with the many ‘angry zones’ around the Place des Festivals where people had got boxed in and forced to listen to the show while facing the opposite direction. Not the band’s fault of course, I think they prefer smaller venues.
But in part I think that may have changed last Thursday.
I was enchanted with them, their presence, their palpable joy. Despite the fact hat an poorly-placed tent and cherry picker obscured my view partially, it didn’t seem to matter. In a strange twist it seemed as if it was fundamentally more important for the band, this quintessentially Montreal concoction, to see the crowd that came to see them. I cannot imagine what it felt like to stand on that stage and see the sea of people, citizens united under a common joy, a shared sentiment expressed by Time Magazine’s ‘most intriguing of Canadian bands’ (fuck it, they’re all intriguing – Nickleback’s fan-base perhaps most of all ;-).
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