Archive for the ‘YouTube Excursions’ Category

Encore Une Fois

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I discovered this embarrassing-but-danceable slice on the Funky London podcast last week and it kept me humming all weekend.  A pop-house rehash of Sash!’s ancient Mysterious Times replacing the original’s miserable overtones with a lot more fun.  Maybe the 90s were worth something after all..

Sash! – Mysterious Times (Spencer & Hill remix)

Puttin’ On The Ritz

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I may well have posted this before, but since I’m actually going to the Ritz today, here’s a YouTube video of Taco’s excellent synthy cover of Puttin’ On The Ritz from sometime back in the 80s…

Taco – Puttin’ On The Ritz

Acid Folk

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Crazy ginger vibrating Scotsman!  Flying computerized bagpipes!  What’s not to love?

Perplexer – Acid Folk

On The Move

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

The perhaps inevitable but still aggravating news has arrived that I can’t stay in my flat next year, so I’ve been out and about looking for hovels.  Still staying in West London – I value my limbs – and so far I’ve got a few viewings lined up of chic-ish boudoirs.  More news as it happens.

In the meantime it’s a great excuse to slide in this University classic from yesteryear:

Barthezz – On The Move

As usual, it’s gradually floated across the “cheese” line in the intervening years, but the associated memories of an entirely less qualified version of me throwing shapes across a club with friends still bring a tear to the eye.  (Alternative mixes with more twazzling and more thonking also available.)

Of course, if I don’t find anywhere to live, I might end up like this plucky little chap, already firmly ensconced in la paddock du fromage…

The Littlest Hobo Theme
(Terry Bush – Maybe Tomorrow)

Mr. Roboto

Friday, November 20th, 2009

During during a enjoyable late-night musical trawl beginning somewhere near Chicago and petering out between Toto and a Meatloaf ballad, I found Styx floating on the horizon in their own conceptual world with this early-80s synth-rock romp:

Styx – Mr. Roboto