Yao Lee – Rose, Rose, I Love You ~ Severin
From the soundtrack of The Pillow Book, a Cantonese rendition of a love song which always makes me smile. When my nephew and niece were small they used to love dancing to this one.
Brockdorff Klang Labor – No No No! ~ Abahachi
A re-working of classic New Wave electro-pop, in German, with songs citing Guy Debord and Christa Wolf? A secret laboratory in Leipzig has been busy creating a new group to my exact specifications…
The Associates – Country Boy ~ bishbosh
I think it was tfd who accused me of liking odd stuff (clearly, I took this as a compliment). This is quite possibly the oddest song I can’t stop listening to. I can’t think of anything else like it – which strikes me as a crying shame. Billy Mackenzie sure was a one-off.
The Legendary Shack Shakers – South Electric Eyes ~ DarceysDad
Surely a candidate for the soundtrack album from the next speed-fuelled collaboration between Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Discomfiting, in a good way.
Juaneco Y Su Combo – La Cumbia Del Pacurro ~ SpottedRichard
Take one Amazonian of Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and his jazz combo, add a cumbia rhythm, some Egyptian influences in the horns, some parrot noises and you have a fab slice of vintage jungle latin funk.
Linda Lyndell – What A Man ~ Treefrogdemon
The only white woman singer on the Stax label, Linda left the biz after receiving threats from the KKK. And if that’s not enough to get you on her side, she has a terrific soul voice and grew up singing gospel in both white and black churches. Oh, and she’s from Gainesville, Florida.”
On the subject of which, has anyone else spotted that the soundtrack over the ads for Tarantino’s current release is long-time DsD asafaerae, the sludge-electro-glam version of I’m A Man by Frenchies Black Strobe?
Coz of some personal blah, I won’t be around RR town much for a bit. Earworms will still be posted on Monday mornings as normal. Please carry on with comments as per usual, even if the worms don’t wiggle yer musical wotsit; music would be well boring if everyone liked the same sounds innit?!
Have fun peeps x
Wondered where you were, wilemena…hope everything’s OK.
I also hope things are okay.
This is a rather wonderful playlist. I think “discomfiting, in a good way” sums it up pretty nicely.
Yao Lee: Well, that was fun. I feel like I’m in “South Pacific”. Or a Chinese restaurant in Loughton in the late 80s. Can’t decide which.
Brockdorff Klang Labor: Liked the one in the end-of-year Threes; like this too. Very chirpy for such unsettling lyrics. I’m guessing they are fans of early Mute and Some Bizzare releases (as well as Kraftwerk, Numan, Human League, etc).
The Associates: Mine of course. It strikes me post-sending it in that it’s another in a (short) list of songs that I relate to/love about not being understood at home (possibly owing to sexuality) and so setting out to find one’s own place in the world. I guess we all do it to some extent, innit. See also Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy”, Erasure’s “Hideaway”, Kirsty MacColl’s “He’s On The Beach” and Alison Moyet’s “Ordinary Girl”. Anyway, this is the glam take on that theme.
The Legendary Shack Shakers: Rollicking, shambolic-sounding but probably musically rather tight good fun. Love the typewriter noises, love the “blah blah blah blah”… Yeah, a blast.
Juaneco y Su Combo: More exotica. Well, to Anglo-Saxon ears. Love this too. Great to have that long instrumental intro – and to just settling into that being the track and then being hit by a vocal. More great noises too.
Linda Lyndell: Poor Linda sounds a bit ordinary after all this bizarreness that has preceded her. Takes a while to warm up for me but love it once it hits the chorus. Which I know from this obvs. Great song.
And great list of (mostly) curios! Thanks willy – and hope things sort out OK for you on the personal front. Hugs. x
Heavens, all of these are weird except mine! bishbosh, I’m sure I didn’t ‘accuse’ you of liking odd stuff. I think odd stuff is good.
Listening now, commenting later.
Poor choice of word from me – I didn’t take it as an ‘accusation’ at all! x
Best wishes Willy, and thank you for the worms.
I love Yao Lee and Linda Lyndell but the others will take a few more listens to get my head around, I think …
Well that was a fun mix. The only song that I had heard before was the Linda Lyndell and it was, perhaps, the odd one out.
Yao Lee reminded me of music set to early cartoons. And that’s never a bad thing at all.
Although I thought the Associates track rather strange, it did, as did all the others, bring a smile to my face.
Nice list willi, and I will miss you and your comments on the mothership. Hope all is well, get back soon……………..
Damn, just lost a long comment. It was a fun mix, I loved Yao Lee, Associates and quite liked Brockdorff Klang Labor, but the lyrics were too Outré for my taste.
The last 3 not so much my thing, was the last one a big hit, sounds terribly familiar? A good mix, very enjoyable.
You too might know the Salt ‘n’ Pepa/En Vogue song that filched the chorus, beth (see the linky in my comment).
Aha, that is why I recognized it, thank you bish. In my original comment I waxed lyrical about my obsession some years ago, with Party Fears Two. No idea how I missed the Associates at the time, but I kept having to listen to this song that just seemed to come from another universe, your worm is similar
All the best to you Williy Wombat. Nice to see you found a home for my Cantonese shenanigan. Will post a proper comment on the songs tomorrow.
Yao Lee – Wonderful, couldn’t be improved on.
Brockdorf Klang Labor – Filth and depravity. Delivered in an oddly matter-of-fact “we will now do the perversity” manner. I rather liked it.
I have an Associates single. 18 Carat Love Affair. I bought it in Woolworths from their bargain rack. Can’t remember why I never delved any further but this is enough to make me want to.
The Legendary Shack Shakers – Yes what he said. Rollicking. I rollicked.
Juaneco y Su Combo – Lovely stuff. Latin funk wasn’t the half of it.
Linda Lyndell – Classic Stax soul. What a great voice. Why have I never heard f her I wonder.
Enjoyed that set very much.
Now that’s a varied mix!
Linda Lyndell, Shakers and Juaneco got the most replays.
Thanks for your well wishes. And for listening,