[Audio http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1075113/absence/10%20The%20World%20Is%20Gone.mp3,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1075113/absence/01%20Where%20Are%20You_.mp3,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1075113/absence/03%20Where%20Were%20You%20in%20the%20Wild_.mp3,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1075113/absence/2-17%20I%20Wonder%20Where%20My%20Sister%27s%20Gone.mp3,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1075113/absence/03%20Absence%20of%20Light.mp3%5D1 The World Is Gone Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
2 Where Are You? Get Back Guinozzi
3 Where Were You in the Wild? Language-Arts
4 I Wonder Where My Sister’s Gone Anan
5 Absence of Light Maximum Balloon / Tunde Adebimpe
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2 I Got Gone (ft. Sage Francis) Buddy Wakefield
3 Fashionably Lonely Viva Voce
4 Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me Ballboy
5 where’s me jumper Sultans of Ping
So a theme: HAVOC should do us.
I like a bit of chaos and disruption and this is a good a time of year as any to sing about it.
So let’s go.
I don’t mind it being one line that evokes the spirit of it or the whole song.. just make it interesting for me to listen – odd twisted minds will prosper – but a normal very well known song, will do just fine, as long as it surprises me – enjoy.
(just spell out WHY for me- I’m a bit dim)
Great topic. I guess i can leave out the usual Stones noms
Thanks for accepting the mission!
so, like:
cry HAVOC and let slip the dogs of war…
…as in Dad’s Gonna Kill Me by Richard Thompson!
I just love that track – originally heard via you, of course!
Thanks, ghe – hope shane loves it too…
Shane! I dreamed about you last night – hadn’t realised you were that handsome. (Let’s see you better that, tcm.)
I’m very handsome in dreams – it’s the reality that needs refreshing.
*sigh*
Ooh, good topic. I shall have a think and come up with some noms tomorrow.
Nice tricky topic! Not sure this is about havoc, but it always sounds like havoc to me:
Earl Brutus: “The SAS and the Glam That Goes With It”
Actually, got one already and it is The Rolling Stones and Gimme Shelter.
good call, but:
‘impressive intros’ – A list
I will try to do an un-zedded list…
Fair enough.
Kaiser Chiefs and “I Predict A Riot”?
or, in a relationship:
You Wreck Me Baby by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers –
this is my kitten’s theme song, because she creates havoc in the household
In case you doubt my kitten’s ability to wreak havoc in my tranquil abode, she just tried walking along the top of a very large picture and brought it crashing down into my TV, my speakers and my set-top box, pulling the nails that support it out of the wall for good measure. Yes, I DO know I should’ve used screws. But that is no consolation.
Caught your hand inside a till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in women’s clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Dye my eyes and call me pretty…
James: “Laid”
Nooooo! I’m not home. Good topic though. Already have some thoughts
Mid-night ish tomorrow, (Wednesday-UK time) cut off.
will try and keep up with suggestions and post a 10 Thursday evening before – I presume- the new theme is released.
Not my usual ‘scene’, but Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” sounds pretty on-topic:
Our manager’s crazy – he always smokes dust
He’s got his own room at the back of the bus
Tour around the world – you rock around the clock
Plane to hotel – girls on the jock
We’re thrashing hotels like it’s going out of style
Oh, and lots of Iggy Pop, I should think. I’ll throw “Funtime” into the ring. And Iggy makes me think of “Lust for Life”, which makes me think of “Trainspotting”, which makes me think of the ‘lager lager lager shouting’ chaos of Underworld’s “Born Slippy (Nuxx)”.
Right, that’s quite enough from me. Time for something completely different: a little bit of “Upstairs Downstairs” on the tellybox. Laters, peeps.
Please accept a chaotic assfairy from me…
Tricky vs. Gravediggaz.. Tonite is a special nite (Chaos mass confusion mix)
by way of justification..
those who get caught in the act get the axe.
Forgive my chaotic coding.
Weather creates havoc? gee, sounds like this Christmas! but I nominate Bob Dylan’s Chimes Of Freedom:
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Any verse would do though.
The two that pop first to mind are:
Decemberists – I Was Meant For The Stage for the musical havoc at the end that turns the entire meaning of song before it on its head.
Scooter – I’m Raving for playing havoc both with Marc Cohn’s Walking in Memphis and DsD’s head. (Could also pick any number of their covers)
thanks for a HAVOC folder in dropbox..
should help calm the mayhem.
For this jazz-untrained ear, topic seems to be tailor made for Miles.
Big donds to Carole for Gimme Shelter, the film will give you any backup you need to explain the havoc!
Two more Stones tunes from Exile (sorry, Shane)
Rolling Stones – Rip This Joint
Stones wreak havoc on the States.
Rolling Stones – Rocks Off
More internal havoc than external. Understandable given their intake at the time.
Bloke who blames his chaotic behaviour on the Civil War (the American one) even though he’s living in the 21st century:
Even before my father’s fathers
They called us all rebels
Burned our cornfields
And left our cities level
I can still see the eyes
Of those blue bellied devils
When I’m walking round tonight
Through the concrete and metal.
Hey, hey, hey
I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie
On a Sunday morning
Yeah, with one foot in the grave
And one foot on the pedal
I was born a rebel
Rebels by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers…he can cause as much havoc as he likes, because it’s always someone else’s fault.
Ha, i didn’t even see this before i put up The Band!
Well, let’s see – I’m donding the Band…
I’m taking havoc to mean wanton destruction, so here’s another non-zedded hip hop classic, Organized Konfusion’s Releasing hypnotical gases..
descending in helicopters, in a village raid,
Flesh will burn when exposed to the poetical germ grenade, I’m highly intoxicating your mind..
(It’s even got one of those crazy Miles jazz samples at the start, amylee!!)
Big donds, this is great. Is this the same song / artist that Ejay put up for a earworm awhile ago? I loved it.
A quick ‘Spill search confirms the Ejay Earworm was the same track, I haven’t really been keeping up (my konfusion has been rather disorganized this last half year)
Oh, dear. More Stones – this one a recent B-lister for me. But this topic seems tailor made for rock / grunge / metal!
Rolling Stone – Jigsaw Puzzle
Both internal and external havoc, as the narrator tries to make sense of the happenings.
Nirvana – Lithium
More internal havoc.
But wait – a folkish song!
The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Fall of the south in the Civil War would count as havoc i guess.
You may think they’re small and cute and harmless, but don’t be so sure:
Be careful there’s a baby in the house,
And a baby will not be fooled
It will think and do what it wants to
until you get it schooled.
Be Careful There’s A Baby In The House by Loudon Wainwright III – and I’m the one who ought to know, and so are you, shane.
A couple on the non-PC ‘my baby’s so cute she causes havoc’ theme:
Twenty Yards Behind – Dr Feelgood:
From ‘Stupidity’, their recorded-live album that went to no 1 in ’76, the birthyear of the punk movement. Is the track’s timing all over the place? You betcha!
She’s Tuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Goes on to describe how she stops clocks and drives intelligent men doolally.
The link version isn’t quite the classic line-up – apparently Jimmy Vaughan had bust his leg, so they had a stand-in guitarist – but this track was always all about the harp. Which Kim Wilson blows the holy bejaysus out of….
Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum
I smell smoke in the auditorium
Charlie Brown by the Coasters. No, not that Charlie Brown.
Evening Guru Shane –
Buzzcocks: “Something’s Gone Wrong Again” – the butterfly effect takes hold: “…need a shave, cut myself, need a new blade – something’s gone wrong again… look at my watch just to tell the time, but the hand’s come off mine – something’s gone wrong again. And again. And again. And again, again…” From the same album as Absence’s seriously underperforming “Hollow Inside”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0CYQGO0O0
Sorry about that, Shiv – “Hollow Inside” fell at the final hurdle: I just couldn’t figure how to fit it into my blurb. I bet that’s how loads of well-deserving noms miss the real A Lists!
bishbosh -
- actually, I’d rather not have known that…
Oops!
The Beatles original version of Helter Skelter is as close as they ever got to utter musical havoc.
I prefer, for most purposes The Banshee’s cover of this song but that’s more precision bombing than havoc I think.
RT read a piece in the paper about a gang of kids robbing people on the Tube:
I ride with the Killerman Gold Posse
And we rob from the rich and we give to the poor
And the poor are we, and the poor are we
And we are so poor, and we want some more
And it’s just another, just another, just another, just another,
Just another, just another, just another, just another day
Killerman Gold Posse, by Richard Thompson; they ride on the train like old Jesse James, and they turn our ideas about children’s behaviour upside down.
Oh, I can’t keep up! But no-one does havoc like the Clash, how about ‘Tommy Gun’, or ‘White riot’? Talking of riots, there’s Peel fave ‘Trumpton Riots’ from HMHB. And more melodically there’s ‘Into the chaos’ from Howling Bells, and the glorious (“Mutiny! Mutiny!”) ‘Chaos’ from Stump.
Oh, I have to throw in my favourite equal reggae song.. Willie Williams Armagideon Time.
a lot of people are going to suffer tonight.
For historical purposes here’s Jackie Mittoo’s original riddim, Real Rock.
Donds for Armagideon Time
“If your grandmother dies, put her in a bag…”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: “Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dCc_AiATEE
Mine is the last voice that you will ever hear, btw. Don’t be alarmed.
Ack! So late! Donds for Organized Konfusion, Armageddeon Time, the Clash.
Shoot, what was I thinking of? Oh yes…
Blackalicious – The SKy is Falling
Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes in.
Johnny Cash – When the Man Comes Around
I have a few more, back in a second
There are so many Tom Waits songs. Some of his later albums are nothing but Chaos and Havoc…God’s Away on Business, Everything Goes to Hell, How’s it GOing to End, Starving in the Belly of the Whale, Misery is the RIver of the World
Is this what a MFF is like? Panic noms all round? Er, “Puppy Love”? “Save All Your Kisses For Me”? You can tell I’ve led a sheltered life…
Hang on, a theme’s emerging…
New Order: “Confusion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKyPMXQb5o – who wants to be the Disco King?
The Zutons: “Confusion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsZW1Cs-tTA – nice, understated exposition of contradictory impulses…
Everything Crash – The Ethiopians
Armageddon Days – The The
No Depression in Heaven – The Carter Family or Uncle Tupelo
I’ll try to restrain myself, but this is a juicy topic!
Shane, I don’t think there’s going to be a new topic till the 7th, so either you can take your time, or we can do a bunch of quick fixes… (or I suppose we could even take a break, but that doesn’t seem like a good idea, does it?)
steen
I hadn’t remembered when they were going to SET a new topic… but anyway at this rate – quick fixes are best. (I will have to listen speedily, between baby bouncing and work, if a left it any longer i wouldn’t get through them all)
The Roots – Rising Down
Goodie Mob – The Day After or The Coming (It’s madness everywhere I look…)
I’m always in the toilet, pissing out the noise:
The Mekons: “Never Been In A Riot” – tell me, O worldwide web, what’s this one all about? “…a scabrous dig at one of punk’s untouchables, The Clash – who were perceived as fiercely right-on in their thinking – and their clarion call to revolution: ‘White Riot’ … Oh, OK. 1’46″ of scabriety, then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-K0bRlJEsE
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine, say R.E.M.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY . (Uh oh, the Zed Police are closing in…) [You are the Zed Police. - Ed.]
Hon mention for “Radio Song”: “…the world is collapsing around our ears…”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXVyDsOV2w
I think the bleeps on this remind me of Mario Kart.. I’m so decadent..
Shiv is on a total roll. And surprise! i thought of another Stones tune.
Rolling Stones – Undercover of the Night
Also, i don’t think this is zedded -
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
Justies later-
The war is in your head
Cranberries – Zombie
Evening all.
I’m not making the mistake of getting comments by email enabled this week; I’ve got far too much to do.
Donds to HMHB’s Trumpton Riots, which was my first thought.
For now I only have two more:
Drive-By Truckers – Aftermath USA
My credit cards have all been maxxed out
Meat in my freezer all thawed
The IRS laid the facts out
It’s all worse than we thought
Welfare lady said “Enough is enough:
the kids ain’t been to school in weeks!”
Crystal meth in the bathtub
Blood spattered in my sink
Laying around in the aftermath
(How do I blockquote on WP?)
Anyhoo, RTJ may well appreciate the loose Stonesy feel of the riff here.
The second one is:
The Devastations – Sex And Mayhem
Lyrics under the visuals on this youtuber. This stands rather more chance of tickling GuruShane’s fancy.
Huge donds for Sex & Mayhem, DsD!
Wow – I leave to do a little work & the crazy train cranks up again. I love it . I got a shower & then football (USA) but I call dibs on these two.
Cross town Traffic Jimi Hendrix
Into The Valley – The Skids
Back with justies later.
Headslap for one of my assfairys -
Humble Pie – 30 Days in the Hole
Unzedded, un-nommed so far?
Temptations – Ball of Confusion
I had a few more thoughts…
Confusion – Fela Kuti. Musically it’s so strange and beautiful.
Also by him, Sorrow, Tears and Blood
“Everybody run run run
Everybody scatter scatter
Some people lost some bread
Some one nearly die
Some one just die
Police dey come, Army dey come
Confusion everywhere ”
My WHole World is Falling Down – Ken Parker. (It’s personal havoc)
And Mikey Dread – WOrld War III
and…
Carter Family the Storms Are On the Ocean. It’s my favorite song by them at the moment, a real earworm, and I like it because they’re saying “If I’m not true to you utter chaos will ensue.” But they say it by saying “the heavens will cease to be,” which for super-christian folks like them seems like a big big blasphemous scarey deal.
Sigh, no “its”
Donds for Shiv’s REM
I think I made a collaborative playlist here….
http://open.spotify.com/user/rrsteenbeck/playlist/2F9bBm7H5QQJJyAIJty5tW
LEt me know if it works or not.
works for me – thank you Ms.
A quick scan of the reggae files turned up a couple, plenty more there.
Five Nights Of Bleeding – LKJ
Dread Beat An’ Blood – LKJ
Forces Of Victory – LKJ
A Riot – Gregory Isaacs
Burnin’ And Lootin’ – Bob Marley
Blood & Fire – Niney The Observer
War Ina Babylon -Max Romeo
3rd world revolution – gill scott heron
As if Jimi’s guitar isn’t doing enough to wreck havoc with you’re mind here’s the lyrics
You jump in front of my car when you,
You know all the time that
Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it’s alright, you don’t mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a ride
You’re just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don’t need to run over you
Into the valley of death rode the ….. Skids? No light brigade here. Massive punk intro charges into a free form lyric attack that evokes the havoc & futility of battle.
Into the Valley
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone
Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die
Classic proto metal crunch from Joe Walsh on this one. Not content to shred your head with these lyrics he fuses this monster into Ravel’s Bolero & Cast your Fate To The Wind before coming back for moe.
The Bomber A / Closet Queen B / Bolero C / Cast Your Fate to the Wind – The James Gang
The Closet Queen, the bus stop dream, it wants to shake my hand
I don’t wanna be there, she decides she can
It’s Apple Dan, he’s just the man to pick fruit from your branches
I can’t sleep, and he can’t keep his cattle on my ranches
Oh, yeah, hey, yeah
It’s too strong, something’s wrong, and I guess I lost the feelin’
I don’t mind the games you play, but I don’t like your dealin’
God looked bad, the luck’s been had, and there’s nothin’ left to smoke
Will I be back tomorrow for the punchline of the joke?
Oh, woah
Where the hell is Chinhealer? – this topic was made for him.
Where the hell is Chinhealer? – this topic was made for him.
Wyngate too. He’s been popping in on the mothership, but Chinny’s been MIA for a few days.
One more headslap -
U2 – Out Of Control
OOH OOH OOOOOOO…Mr Brown!!
“(Ooh – ooh – ooh – ooh)
(It’s Mr Brown) Mr Brown is a clown who rides to town in a coffin.
(Well, here he comes) In the top is … three rows on top and two inside there.
Oh, what a confusion! Ooh, yeah, yeah!
What a botheration! Ooh, now, now!
Who is Mr Brown? I wanna know now!
He is nowhere to be found.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin’ around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.”
Oh, what a confusion, what a botheration!
Aha! Not zedded!
“Could life ever be sane again ?”
That’s right, it’s Panic, by the Smiths.
This one requires a disturbing listen to truly sense the havoc raised.
Wild Pack Of Family Dogs – Modest Mouse
& with that a good night all.
Gordon? Gordon?
Out Of Control by the Eagles – from Desperado, you know.
Off the top of my head…
Prince – 1999. (Let’s go Crazy, my first choice, is zedded) Very much in the spirit of the season, and a cracking tune back from the days he was the most exciting thing around. Besides, while Prince is not exactly an unknown entity, he’s the sort of act that is welcome in any playlist
So there.
Great topic, shane. I’ll try to nominate more obscure (to my predictable standards) stuff this week, promise!
Oh, and
Andrew WK – I Get Wet. Pretty much anything from his first record has riotous mess written all over it.
aaaand….
Not to buke any noms from the Stonites here, but surely the havoc song you’re looking for is Street Fighting Man?
I seem to be in a jazz mood this morning, not least because quite a lot of the jazz I like seems to enjoy evoking a bit of chaos. Miles Davis‘ Agitation, above all for Tony Williams’ drumming; a couple of my asaferaes, Peter Broetzmann‘s anarchistic Machine Gun and Max Roach‘s Triptych, summoning up riots and chaos through Abbey Lincoln’s screaming. Finally, something a little less violent, but with the threat of havoc to come: Horace Silver, The Natives Are Restless Tonight.
This also seems tailor-made for a bit of unreconstructed rock: the first song that comes to mind under that heading is Deep Purple, A Gypsy’s Kiss, for the demented screaming of “John Wayne! The Alamo! Crazy Horse! Geronimo!!!!” And what about the Sweet with Ballroom Blitz?
Not sure this is massively on-topic, but because it’s my favourite Copey track:
Julian Cope: “Elegant Chaos”
How about Civil Disobedience by Throwing Muses.
As ever with Kristin Hersh, the chaos and havoc is mainly in her head and in her emotions.
Donds for Atari Teenage Riot and Peter Broetzmann first off, back with noms in a sec…..
Ok, here’s one from my iTunes before I check the vinyl:
Goatwhore – “Apocalyptic Havoc”
proper metal and the title and music are spot on
Proper metal it is, and a dond. I feel cleansed and ready to face the day now.
i’m guessing that the ‘Pistols’ “Anarchy In The UK” is already zedded???
OK, just one more ridiculously extreme metal one before I try to find something a bit more up Shane’s street:
Venomous Concept – “Chaos”
You’re making my morning here.
Thanks for the Dond Amy, you deserve a medal for braving those! a metal medal obviously……
No braving involved, Panther, it’s right up my alley. Not 24/7, but when i’m in the mood, it hits the spot.
From Woodstock, there’s Jimi’s national anthem of course, but also Country Joe & the Fish‘s I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag and the most famous song about Woodstock from someone everyone assumes was there, Joni Mitchell‘s Woodstock. By the time they got there they were half a million strong, which created considerable havoc on the ground and, over the years, in the minds of the nation.
I know I’m wasting my breath/ink/time – especially given Carole’s success with the last topic – but the Dead always loved a bit of musical havoc. The Feedback section on Live/Dead is a prime example. It’s not just noise, though: more like something being formed at the beginning of time. I’ve put it in steen’s collabo.
Oh, and I’ll take this opportunity to convey my very best wishes to tfd on the expansion of the treefrog dynasty.
Chris – I just listened to all 7.49 minutes of the dead – not something I can say has happened often… it’s quite organic feedback – strangely takes me to ‘the clangers’ territory ( that’s not an insult) just the ability to evoke a bizarre world of it’s own making, in an instrumental, is weirdly impressive.
Thank you for that, shane. They put a lot of time into playing with noise, trying to keep it listenable. There’s a track at the end of Anthem Of The Sun that mixes a few performances of Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) followed by some quite beautiful feedback. Garcia said they ‘mixed it for the hallucinations’. I’ll pop it in the playlist but I completely understand if you’ve already had enough!
here’s a couple for internal havoc, havoc of the mind if you will:
Graham Coxon – “Freakin’ Out”
One of the finest singles of the last 10 years in my own humble, narrow opinion!
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – “Mr. Mental”
Brighton boys come good!
Freakin’ donds for the Coxon – boxed.
Cheers GHE!
Oh and listen you cheeky sods, I wasn’t at Woodstock, btw. And no it wasn’t because I was too old for it. pfft
I’m not sure where this will register with Shane (you’ve always been my fave, btw), but Neil Young‘s grungification of On Broadway on Freedom might count as running amok.
And what about Tom Robinson Band – Long Hot Summer, or pretty well anything from Power In the Darkness?
(I fear my choices will be too mainstream for Shane, but that’s a good thing because I already know my songs.)
a quick flick through the 7″s brought up a great tune that is bang on topic.
Towers Of London – “Fuck It Up”
I opened a DJ set with this once! Don’t let the fact that the band are complete twats get in the way of a good song!
Bunch of lads milling about, frustrations mounting, aggression building, it’s Time To Go. Black 47 is about The Troubles (I think), but could apply to football crowds, Tianamen Square..whatever you like. Havoc songs invite submissions with shouting and striking at instruments, but I like the quiet certainty in the delivery of the line ”it’s time to go”. White anger. It’s the way its delivered in old westerns or war movies; real men don’t say ”hands up pahdnuh”, they just shoot.
There’s also Fleetwood Mac‘s incongruous Somebody’s Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite), more an angry individual than an angry mob but the same certainty of impending violence…and tragedy.
”Black 47 is singing”… Thought I should clarify which is the band
Donds for Atari Teenage Riot. For some reason it reminds me of Pink Floyd, Run Like Hell…
A nice evocation of chaos and disorder, using the full resources of a jazz orchestra and lots of changes of rhythm to get the point across: Duke Ellington, Rumpus at Richmond.
Does havoc have to be man-made? This sounds like the havoc wreaked by nature (in Robert Smith’s mind, anyway).
The first time I saw lightning strike
I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space
Then everything went black
I left that basement burning
And I never went back…
The Cure: “Hot Hot Hot”
I got this b listed in 2007 (songs about heat) my second every mild success… not bad in two years at that point!
Not sure if this is it, but I’m sure there must be a Cure song appropriate to this topic. They always seemed to be quite chaotic… in a good way!
Maybe it’s “The Walk”. Hm. God, they were/are a good band (even if this song owes something of a debt to Blue Monday)!
If not them, then maybe The Banshees. How about “Spellbound”?
When you think
your toys have gone berserk
it’s an illusion
you cannot shirk
you hear laughter
cracking through the walls
it sends you spinning
you have no choice
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered, feeling…HOT HOT HOT!
I still remember that line from 2 decades ago! That might not sound like such an achievement, but you’d be surprised what I forget that happened yesterday.
An unusual nom from me, which I am dedicating to the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, cause of havoc and mayhem (for frequent fliers!) in early 2010:
I’ll see you panthersan and raise you with “Fucking Up” by Neil Young and Crazy Horse – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKdLEBcHRQ
First time I have done this on the spill so not sure if the link to you tube will work, but it is to a good version with the added bonus of having sub-titles in Spanish (although I think they have bowlderised them).
Also, if we can have Mr Brown who causes Confusion and not Havoc, then let’s have “Love or Confusion” by Jimi Hendrix.
And finally, although it is not quite havoc on the scale of Test Department (sorry – can’t find a video of them chainsawing the stage at the ICA) I do love the moment in “Si Tu Dois Partir” by Fairport Convention where the “drum solo” consists of something being dropped on the floor – certainly a surprise.
If it isn’t too rude to enquire, do you have a different alias over on RR, or have I just missed your arrival?
I’ve got the same alias on RR (and very proud of my two A listers), but don’t contribute every time. As, apparently, one of the few people who actually buys the Guardian and reads the list in the paper copy, I thought I would contribute to this after the demise of the paper version – sorry if it is invite only.
Good Lord no, sorry, it’s just my terrible memory that I honestly don’t remember seeing your name on RR. The reason I asked at all was that several RR regulars do have different aliases on here, because their original identities were already taken, so I thought you might be someone I already knew. I will now disappear into a corner in deep embarrassment.
mightily welcome daysinsurrey –
the prof Abahachi wasn’t trained in social skills, we enjoy him hanging around as ‘pretty in pink’ eye candy mostly… and his ‘Machine gun’ nomination is being used as a lullaby for my 2 month old baby (as I type) so he has his uses.
I think part of the problem is that I grew up in Surrey, and so tend to suffer violent adverse reactions to any mention of it.
daysinsurrey -
Welcome! My moniker on here is radically different from my Grauniad handle, so when i first came on here, i can’t tell you how many posts asked who i was. Same deal, people just wanted to know who they already knew me as over there.
What about CCR‘s It Came Out Of The Sky? Unidentified object falls to earth just outside Moline, scaring farmer Jody out of his tractor and causing havoc amongst the vested interests:
Until Jody exercises his finder’s rights:
….
Lambre’s Street Fighting Man made me think of The Pogues Boys from the County Hell. Causing rambunction wherever they go.
I just found a Pogues version of When the Ship Comes in!
http://open.spotify.com/track/4X3PA2ZQOxaMQ1sC2oys4f
I suppose that the ultimate in Havoc and Chaos might be the Apocalypse.
If this is the case then the coming of the Four Horsemen would cause a fair amount of havoc.
Therefore I am nominating Aphrodite’s Child and The Four Horsemen from their album 666.
In a similar spirit of End Times, I suppose I should also nominate Supper’s Ready by Genesis.
Blood Wedding by the Oysterband
Back when Garage was just that a million bands took a bit of fuzz & tried to fry the world with it. Here’s one of my favorite attempts. The Del-Vetts wreak havoc on their instruments, neighbors & from the lyrics it would appear their own selves.
Last Time Around – The Del-Vetts
Oh – it’s taken me over and swallowed me up
I’m caught in a landslide – I can’t run or duck
I’ve run out of time and I’ve run out of luck
I know this is the last time around
Oh – yeah
Last time around
Well – I know this is the last time around for me
A storm brings havoc surely (check out NYC at the moment) & if it’s Jim Morrison writing the lyrics it’s an emotional storm promises more of the same.
Riders On The Storm – The Doors
There’s a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin’ like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah
Couple more headslaps-
Public Enemy – Welcome to the Terrordome
Grandmaster Flash – The Message
Pretty much anything by Rage Against the Machine.
RATM – Testify
RATM – Bombtrack
RATM – Guerilla Radio
hmm, my last comment is awaiting moderation. Have i been bad?
Or maybe it’s because i had too many links. Anyway, it had Welcome to the Terrodome, The Message, and RATM’s Testify, Guerilla Radio, and Bombtrack.
And another assfairy -
Motorhead – Orgasmatron
I must be having the Curse of Tinny lost post syndrome. So i’ll try this ass fairy again -
Motorhead – Orgasmatron
Oh yeah, Fintan, Lemmy is a goat too.
Hmm, it might be a little while before the sprog gets into Lemmy…Matt just sent me a video of him reading Ten Apples Up On Top to Jimmy. Awwww
Aww! But they grow up so fast….
Prompted by the memory of where I last heard I Predict A Riot, and at the risk to dragging the tone ever further down, what about the original mistresses of mayhem with Theme from St Trinian’s..?
Is that John, Paul, George and Del?
That was in reference to fintan’s Del-Vetts post. I forgot to refresh while I was busy trying to trace the present day whereabouts of the ‘fifth Del-Vett’, some guy named Stu who left the band just as they were on the cusp of not making it big.
How come anybody etc, etc…. dept…
The Robins (aka The Coasters?… RockingMitch and many others surely will know for sure!) – Riot In Cell Block #9
A true 50′s staple. Lots have done a good job out of this, but this version is definitive.
A few more of the apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic variety
Shearwater – Red Sea, Black Sea Whatever happened over there, was not a pretty sight…
And when it occurred, oh, yes
sir, yes, sir
And the walls came down, it was
a fucking disaster
The whole thing’s changed in
unthinkable ways
And now you have come to inherit it
The Drones – Jezebel It’s about (among a few other things) this guy and his girl, who are fighting a on a chemical / nuclear world they don’t quite understand (as if…)
How many people gonna lie?
How many people gonna die?
What’s best for the West and the greed?
Kill ‘em all? Let ‘em breed?
Another bomb for every atom you injure
Meet the Devil with extended ring finger
Saying “thou shalt not kill”
But I’m damned if I don’t
So I’m thinking I will
oh, and yet another one, an aserafae:
Shellac – The End of Radio. The last DJ (literally) looking for signs of life on the other end… (Superb drumming in this one)
Last one for now. I knew only a cover of this by Cracker, which I love, but Spotify knows better, so I’m going with
Eugene Chadbourne – Up Against The Wall, You Redneck Mother. A true hellraiser
Well,
M is for the mudflaps you give me for my pickup truck
O is for the Oil I put on my hair
T is for T-bird
H is for Haggard
E is for eggs, and
R is for REDNECK.
Up against the wall Redneck Mother,
Mother, who has raised her son so well.
He’s thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk.
Kicking hippies asses and raising hell.
(I’m sure there are other versions of this out there… anybody?)
Lambi – donds for Redneck Mother – I’ve got a great version by Jerry Jeff Walker I’ll drop if you’re interested.
That’d be great, Fintan!. Cheers.
DOnds for Cracker! It’s the only version I know. Love that album. And thanks for the Pogues donds.
Donds:
@Bish – I Predict A Riot
@Steen – The Man Comes Around
@Panther – Anarchy & Freakin Out
Been a while since I’ve done that – feel like a better person now.
Turn me on, dead man…:
The Beatles: “Revolution 9″ – odds bods, and only five years after “I Want To Hold Your Hand”. Oh look, Yoko’s just walked in. Take this, brother, may it serve you well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oQTU0fFyts
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves fell from the rayon trees:
X-Ray Spex: “The Day The World Turned Day-Glo” – assfairy my arse. As dystopias go this is more lurid than most, and Polythene Poly seems to enjoy the journey. I got this B-listed for some topic on the mothership, possibly because the guru of the day hoped it’d shut me up for a bit. Fail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjVVhJ-INWQ
Shoey! I was wondering where you’d gotten to. Surely you’re the one to get some songs in a sane list?
I’m not getting every e-mail, only every once in a while.
Broken, splintered, bruised and thrown:
Procol Harum: “Power Failure” – seems odd to be recommending an old-fart band like the Prokes on the 21st century ‘Spill, but this song does seem to qualify. The lyrics pre-empt 70s disaster movie tropes – keywords: crashing, falling, burning, tossed, shattered… But why? “Spark plugs burned up, power’s fused…” And what happens to an electric band with no ‘leccy? Drum solo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2gSrfoyIY
Because I can’t think of much else to post [disclaimer: this has NOTHING to do with the flask of Glühwein I've just imbibed] I give you my Festive Spill #3, because a) quite a lot of people liked it, b) I’ve since discovered this video on youtube and I like it enough to want to share it and c) it contains panic and screaming, which is pretty indicative of havoc, I think you’ll agree. Hic.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Clap Your Hands
Fab song, fab vid – ta
The Ugly’s: “The Quiet Explosion” – the only band I can think of with a greengrocer’s apostrophe in their name – and, cross-referencing the discussion on RR over the last couple of days, from Birmingham, too. Mid-60s zeitgeist protest song in the “Eve Of Destruction” mould, and oddly little-known. The title seems to refer to the quiet moment of panic just before the bomb drops, but your own interpretation is at least as correct as mine. Worth a listen, I’d say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGgw2o1wzU&feature=related
I knew there was a TV series behind this.. anyone else remember When havoc struck?
Nobody?
(I guess that was one of those seventies straight to the antipodes series, then)
The title promise havoc and the lyric delivers it but this is relatively mild-mannered punk musically. The singer is one Edwin Pouncey who preferred you to know him as Savage Pencil.
Hooray! It’s guilty pleasure hour & I’ve got one with havoc aplenty & one of the great 60′s band names. The end never sounded so chirpy.
It’s Good News Week – Hedgehoppers Anonymous
It’s good news week
Someone’s dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky
It’s good news week
Someone’s found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die
Found some Havoc on my bookshelves – the villain of Margery Allingham’s The Tiger In The Smoke (and he’s very VERY bad) is called Jack Havoc; and then there’s Havoc: In Its Third Year, the novel (set during the Civil War) by Ronan Bennett, who just happens to be married to the CiF editor. Spooky or what?
Thanks for good wishes, Chris and Japanther. Matt and Jess have been married more than 8 years and had pretty much given up waiting for the patter of tiny cowboy boots. It just shows you.
TFD – I meant to ask earlier but would the wee laddie’s name be something like Arbor Tadpole Demon? Oh & I’m pretty sure even tiny cowboy boots don’t patter. more akin to scooter – oh hell now I’ve alerted Tin haven’t I?
um, no…it’s James Gabriel Owen Rose in fact.
Yeah, I’ve got some cowboy boots and they mostly clump.
Sure and a fine name it is. Congrats again.
Who knows what Baba O’Reilly is about? Well, not me, and Pete’s probably forgotten, but I always felt it was set in a post-apocalyptic world, so after the havoc had been wrought:
Sally, take my hand
Travel south ‘cross land
Put out the fire
And don’t look past my shoulder
By the Who
dond!
Ta!
Crap! I just saw the deadline on the other thread – midnight UK time tonight? Guess they’re going to be some quick justifications, and maybe a skeleton dond list?
Few grab bag donds for starters (haven’t gotten around to listening to the new stuff yet)-
Jimi – Crosstown Traffic (Fintan)
Frankie – Two Tribes (Shiv)
REM – It’s the End of the World as We Know It (Shiv)
Stones – Street Fighting Man (Lambre)
Doors – Riders On The Storm (Fintan)
Joni – Woodstock (Tinny)
sorry – can’t get too many noms – or i’d feel guilty about those I wouldn’t get a chance to listen to.
loving it so far… and just about keeping pace.. (between baby bouncing)
That wasn’t a complaint! More like guilt for throwing up so many songs i now have to justify. Big thanks to you for taking it on too, looking forward to an unusual and eclectic list.
Thought I saw Helter Skelter up there somewhere – can’t find it now. Donds for that as long as it’s Siouxsie & not those over-rated mop heads.
Playlist going to miss the deadline, so here are some highlights:
Mark Stewart – The Lunatics Are Taking The Asylum.
Mark’s best shot yet.
Jesca
oh lor that was me and |I did nom the moptops as their version is more chaotic and therefore (I think) more in keeping with the theme.
Like I said the Banshees version is for me the best but it’s more of a controlled attack.
The Beatles recording is the only one of theirs which sounds like they are on the point of losing control.
No offense, Severin. They should get some credit for coming up with the tune. Like very few Beatley originals, but do like quite a few covers.
no worries – otherwise you’d be tarred and feathered!
hope all the ‘spill choices add up to ‘unusual and eclectic’ – it’s looking good so far.
Well as it’s Shane; no messing, just the one from me and straight for jujugular.
At over 20 minutes long it is just one heaving mess of tension and release in both lyrical and musical form. This song attempts to tear itself apart from within and comes pretty damn close on several occasions. The tightest of loose playing and the loosest of tight playing hurtling into the coda of …
It doesn’t feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start,
begin to feel very glad now:
All things are a part
All things are apart
All things are a part.
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers – Van Der Graaf Generator
This is the kind of piece that would stand no chance with the average bear gurus. But our magus of the moment might be mad enough to give it a fierce hearing.
20 Minutes! That’s enough time to get in whole other theme.
…. Hoop – Havoc In Heaven
More folksy sweetness than advertised mayhem.
Stump – Kitchen Table
More chaos than their Chaos tune.
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Satan Place
Beach Boys go to hell.
Can’t recall what the others were, but suspect you will need your ear-defenders.
Thanks for donds received, and further Pogues donds for Steenbeck, which prompts me to nominate both “The Sickbed of Cuchulainn”, a celebration of a life spent causing havoc while fighting a couple good fights in the process
Or, for that matter, Billy’s Bones (riotous instincts taken one step too far)
Did somebody say “lunatics” and “asylum”?
utterly
out
of
control
And, as a final entry, Funkadelic’s Wars Of Armaggeddon (a glorious funky mess that fully deserves its title)
Muse – Knights Of Cydonia
OTT intergalactic epic.
One last & mostly for the title, although the lyrics are a bit of a mess. Do like the song tho’.
Chaos Engine – Pinback
No links but it’s dropped
Is this havoc? Or just mayhem? It sounds like havoc to me.
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis.
Donds for Steen’s mention of The The’s Armageddon days are here again.. my The The pick would be Dogs of Lust, so much havoc here that Sony has banned it from Continental Europe.. here’s the Spotify..
http://open.spotify.com/track/7MGMxmXA8Kgf4Qzv5z6ImL
I think Johnny Marr rated this as one of his top ten tracks.. or one of his top ten The The tracks.. or one of his best harmonica performances.. I’m not really justying here am I..
Nilpferd – they have some The The albums for sale at the used bookstore across the street. Is there one that you’d recommend? (I have armageddon days on a much loved mix tape. That’s cassette tape). I can’t remember which ones they have over there.
You’d probably enjoy the Johnny Marr era band the most- so that would be a definite recommendation for Mind Bomb (feat. Armageddon Days), which I’d say is the band’s masterpiece.
Marr also plays on Dusk, which although fine does have its duller moments.
The earlier Soulmining and Infected are both excellent albums filled with great songs, the latter is harder edged. Both feature a kind of synth-inflected soul pop, with a punk aesthetic and a rhythm/blues slant, paired with dystopic lyrics.
I haven’t heard the last couple of albums which include Johnson’s Hank Williams tribute Hanky Panky.
Barmy Army – Toes Tapping
Gary, Andy & the whole On-U Crew:
“Suck on this planet of noise, Bimbo”.
This RR holiday must be doing wonders for ‘Spill ratings, although respectfully suggest firing Abahachi as guest greeter.
I think that’s probably got me a couple more votes for ‘Villain of the Year’.
I guess you could call this musical havoc – although, when I first heard it, I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t as horrible and cacophonous as I’d been led to believe.
Still, at the time, there was a queue of people trying to return their copies of the album saying, with some justification, “this is not a Lou Reed album”.
I rather like the thing, although I don’t know how it would fit into any playlist.
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music Side One
Don’t you think a whole side of MMM minutes before the deadline, back to back with the epic VDGG suggestion from Tanky might place undue strain on our guru-for-a-day?
YES.
Why am I laughing when I didn’t understand a word of that? Must be the red wine.
steen – I’m still laughing after listening to MMM -VDGG – and MG today…
It’s possible I’ve caught some diseases – but I’m still laughing – they’ve got JABS to cure this haven’t they……?
cheers.
I’m sorry that I was so out-to-lunch today. I had planned to drop or justify some of my suggestions.
I always wonder if the guru has some songs in mind when he suggests a topic, and I love the idea, (that I’m nurturing) that Shane has A WHOLE LIST OF SONGS!!!!
Ahem…let’s see. The songs I couldn’t find on spotify are all longer songs that would take a week to upload on dropbox, and Shane doesn’t have a lot of time to listen to anyway.
Woohoo! My Ken parker, all 8+ minutes of it is on youTube!!
phew, love that one!
And here’s part 1 of Fela’s Confusion. If you like it, parts 2 & 3 should be on youTube.
am I too late to nominate:
Godspeed You Black Emperor – “The Dead Flag Blues” ??
32 minutes late, by my reckoning (good call. though).
Not as late as his guruness – I think he’s been progged.
I was positive Dead flag blues was zedded but it’s not…
I am now getting these into some kind of listening order – then shall post a 10 tomorrow.. baby bouncing and nappy changing keeps getting me distracted from my havoc choosing!
but these deadlines are rather fluid aren’t they?? and you know, we don’t have daylight savings time changes over here, so it was really 28 minutes before…….
Bollocks. Daylight Savings was cancelled out by the US Fall Back & whatever the UK call their clock messing back in October.
Autumnal Adjustment?
Sorry, just a quick justification for No Depression (that being uncle tupelo or the Carter Family) It’s a portrait of life during an economic depression (we can only guess what that would feel like, right?) and all of the havoc that wreaks, coupled with a vision of what the chaos that leads to heavenly peace will feel like. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I think it’s a remarkable song…
“Fear the hearts of men are failing
These our latter days we know
The great depression now is spreading
God’s word declared it would be so
….
In this dark hour, midnight nearing
The tribulation time will come
The storms will hurl the midnight fear
And sweep lost millions to their doom”
Who’s the next guru, Shoey
It’s all yours, Amy, if you want it (even if you still owe us several episodes of “Blogging for Fun & Profit”).
I’m on record as saying I don’t want the job (would probably ignore everyone, post my own list & piss off the whole room).
I can’t do it, have to work tomorrow, and supposed to be working while i’m farting around on here and arguing with yanks on CiF-
If you’re sure you really don’t want it – who’s next? Panthersan? Nilpf? Lambre? Finty? But you’d still come up with an awesome list. Looking forward to the new guru on the Graun, i’m still in shock that Shane has only 8 A’s. Hopefully that sort of thing will be rectified a bit, and you and Shane and Wyngate and the like will get more listings.
I still want to get a New Year’s music resolutions post done here, but that may not happen either -
If anyone wants more issues of Blogging for Fun and Profit after the New Year, let me know. I got spanked in Nov and Dec and just couldn’t get on here.
Yep. We want more episodes, when you can get to it.
Deal. I’ll do some more after the new year when everyone settles down and reality (and financial reality) kicks in.
If Shoey really won’t do it – Panther?
Don’t get your hope up – he doesn’t even know what day it is.
oh……i’d love to, BUT I really really don’t have enough time to do it justice and it wouldn’t be fair not to listen to all of the noms……the next few days are going to be super frantic in the Panther household….so I don’t think i’ll be getting much ‘Spill time…..sorry!
Any other takers??
I’m really looking forward to this list – the Collabo is fantastic. Sane’s having a list of his own already took me right back to Dorian’s time on RR, when he would frequently drop into the discussion to say something to the effect of “there’s a fantastic song on this subject, why hasn’t anyone suggested it yet?”.
Interesting to note that the official RR thread has over a hundred comments on it even when nothing whatsoever is happening.
If anyone knows daysinsurrey, could they convey my grovelling apologies and general mortification? The longer it goes on without any further comment, the worse I feel.
And I can’t even spell Shane properly. Yet another vote.
no worries – I try to pretend i’m sane.
Have we ever had ‘Apology Songs’?
Sorry, not sure
See what I did there? he he
No?
Sorry.
I’m sorry, but we’ve already done them with guilt apology and regret. I suppose on the ‘Spill it would be okay to repeat a topic, though.
I heard that as a TCM volunteer, though. Didn’t you?
no m8, I know my limitations. I’m happy making dropbox folders.
Living where I do, I don’t get Spotify, which precludes me from Collabo. Is that a good enough excuse to keep me out of the job?
***DIVERSION AHEAD***
(I should create a separate post for this, I know, but I’ll have to learn how to first. If anyone wishes to do it for me, I’d be dead grateful.)
**Never A Cross Word on The Spill**
Many of you do the Graun cryptic crossword, I believe, and so I’ve compiled one that has some connections with what goes on in this part of the blogosphere. I’ve used yesterday’s Graun grid (which can be found at this address: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25205) but created different clues, which I’ll post below.
I hope it will amuse, entertain and puzzle you. Some answers are very close to individual Spillers but I’ll leave you to discover which they are. This is my first attempt in decades but I rather enjoyed it so, if there is an audience, I may do it again (I have some clues ready…!). Please feed back any comments, groans and plaudits. I’ll supply the solution next year. Happy Holidays!
Across
7 Are eggs an abomination? They split us up, in time (3,6)
8 Reversing vehicles is clever (5)
9 Old coin the Spanish put back into female Jamaican star (3,6)
10 We hear it’s permitted for all to hear (5)
12 Support mistake in London area and in London docklands (6)
13,18 Snitch and drug seekers found in turbulent gulf of French warlocks (8,4)
16 Folk, part two of 23′s note is in bald son (7)
19 Dance around 10 for tot (7)
22 Serial and musical to keep Grease at bay (4,4)
25 Once he was not in shape (6)
27 Plant a severe cut (5)
28,23 Highly considerate in swirling fog on SE range of nominations (5,4,2,4)
29 It’s always hot or cold there (2,3)
30 Where to store your cotton and return, spinning wildly? (5,4)
Down
1 New arrival (missing nothing): the first joyful greetings bloom (1,1,4)
2 Drink in dry, fast hits increasing tension (8)
3 Toughened in uranium (from Cuba?) (6)
4 Get back and turn around, for example, at no time (7)
5 Creamy leek soup contains one who spills stuff (6)
6 Carpet in old city – right? – going back for decider (1,1,4)
11 Groove after Christ’s birthday party is outside (4)
14,15 Accommodate left or accommodate for money (3,3)
16 Metaphorical transport for 18 heads (3)
17 End of jumper in field (3)
18 See 13
20 See 21
21,20 Road next to road opening is blocked by weary Athenian band (5-2,8)
23 See 28
24,25 Before The Beatles’ quiet overthrow of Paddy’s lot? (6,6)
26 14,15 no more now he’s contracted (6)
Dammit, I’m supposed to be doing some work this afternoon. I’m hopeless at cryptic clues, so should probably take satisfaction from the fact that I’ve got 5 down and leave it at that.
A close to home cryptic might be just what I need to finally figure out how these things work. I shall pay really close attention to the answers and check em against the clues.
Thanks Chris (6, 5)
Chris, when I’m done with breakfast I’ll try to move this to a new post, if you don’t mind. (and if I’m capable). Looks like fun!
That would be great, thanks steen. There are no US spelling issues, so get stuck in!
Think I’ve finished it….
well done (4, 4)
Oh bother, WB, I thought I was the winner! But I’ve already won enough this week.
Here’s a clue for ya, Tinny; Overloaded postman….
So, wb, congratulations! I’m sure someone has some spillpoints for you (I don’t even know where they’re kept).
You’re a regular xworder, I suspect. How did you rate my effort? It seemed reasonably consistent and not too hard or easy but I’d value someone else’s opinion. I rather enjoyed making it and may continue (for my own amusement) if the end product is usable.
As steen has kindly created a new post for this, maybe I’ll see you there, rather than here. Cheers.