Stood on a platform in the idle cold, awaiting the trundle of a Tube to curl up on and doze away the beginining a weekend in the country.
Normal, occasional, service resumes on Monday!
Afternoon. (That was going to be “morning” but my website mysteriously disappeared for a while.)
In need of some big hair, loud guitars, and a good laugh, I found myself on YouTube this morning. There I found this excellent little ditty which is vaguely reminiscent of some things I once knew. Not sure if you’ll remember them. Something to do with royalty…
Rock Sugar – We Will Kickstart Your Rhapsody
Oh, hello there. What’s that? You’d like something interesting to listen to on this breezy Tuesday afternoon? Well, young scamp, you’ve come to the right place.
Has it really been nearly fifteen years since this was produced? Lawks. This old-timer was too busy complaining about tedious house and trying to avoid grunge at the time, thus discovering this sometime in the following millennium. Still, a classic piece of AV that everyone should have in their life:
Coldcut & Hexstatic – Timber
Psychemagik have a habit of tracking down my fave 80s tracks and making face-boggling re-edits of them. This makes me simultaneously pleased, jealous and worried that they’re stalking my questionable taste. Lo! Mere (lengthy) moments before a recent AOR Disco-themed cheese & wine party at Chez Rik, up turned the digital news that they’d released a re-rub of another of my most-played neon classics.
Having ticked off perennial fave Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac last year, the mysterious editors-at-large have now scored number two with Wang Chung’s fret-tastic Dance Hall Days. Taking the 7″ and 12″ versions, plus some reverb and a hammer, with some sound effects that I can only assume come from one of the mixes I don’t have, they produce a jiggly edit that orbits the central riff just far enough away to make you re-hum it uncontrollably every time it thwangs back in with a vengeance.
The only minor downside comes when a rent-a-rap temporarily, yet inadvisedly barges in at about 5 minutes, but that’s nothing that couldn’t be sorted with a re-edited edit, if you were so inclined.
Overall though, top stuff. (The cheese & wine party approved.)
Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days [Psychemagik's Leg Warmer Edit]
[14:59] Rik Ward: I’m in a field
[14:59] Rik Ward: There are trees
[14:59] Rik Ward: I am drinking cider
[14:59] Rik Ward: A hamper of triangular sandwiches is close by
[14:59] Rik Ward: Everything is orange
Monsieur Minimal – Lollipop
