A slow version of “Teenage Angst” by Placebo, live in Brixton, 1998… They came to South Africa around this time, the support act on a Garbage tour. My boyfriend and I caught a bus up to Jo’burg one day in the middle of end-of-year exams to see them. We had to take the bus back that same night; we couldn’t even stay to see Garbage. It was so worth it… The depth of Brian Molko’s black hole magnetism.
Category Archives: music
smashing pumpkins – starla (remastered)
Originally from the 1994 b-side compilation Pisces Iscariot; this is the remastered track from 2011. Massive.
blue canary
hang on to your ego
where’ll i’ll un-be in ireland tonight!
november növelet – i see real
violent femmes – country death song
maak’s spirit
Some Belgian friends of friends, who have opened an art space called King Kong in Joburg in an old factory, bought these guys, Maak’s Spirit, over from that country to SA recently … they played for four days, every day and every night, for hours, before returning. I only saw one gig, wish I had seen more .. they warp reality with their genius ..
lisa hannigan – passenger
Lisa Hannigan performing her song “Passenger” outside Graywhale store in Salt Lake City, Utah, 11/2/09. Credits to Kyle M.
“Walking ’round Chicago I have smuggled you as cargo
Though you are far away unknowing
By the time we get to Salt Lake, I have packed you in my suitcase
Ironed the creases from my own remembering…”
einstürzende mobauten
The Barbershop Quintet of the Fancy Ticklers performing as Einstürzende Mobauten, in aid of Movember! They’re covering the song “Garden”.
nine inch nails – the way out is through
Unofficial video by Erik Innocent for the song “The Way Out Is Through” from the album The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails. This video won the Golden Peace Medallion at the 2007 Berkeley Video and Film Festival.
jun togawa – mushi no onna – “pupa woman” (1984)
“There is a feeling I’ve had ever since childhood: that there exist many different “worlds” and I was born in the wrong one, a world I don’t quite fit into. I’ve felt this strong feeling of wrongness all through my life. There is no space for me in this world. Every time I believe I’ve finally found my place, someone comes to me and says “Go away! You’re not supposed to be here.” ~ Jun Togawa – more of this interview HERE.
Mushi No Onna (“Pupa-woman”) – translation from the internet…
In the forest, in the white moonlight, I dig in the ground and find many cicada chrysalises.
Ahh… Ahh…
They are my shape that has changed completely, thinking too much about you.
I am a woman who is an insect that sips sap in the forest, in the frozen moonlight.
When you finally notice me, I have already become an insect with a light brown belly
The mysterious grasses are parasitic on me, and a stem of sorrow grows up from my light brown back.
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There is a very pretty video for the slow version of “Mushi no Onna“, but Sony Music has restricted its viewability on Youtube to Japan… ANNOYING! I have managed to find it, though (w00t) and you should watch it HERE. I can’t get it to embed properly, unfortunately.
The following is an intense live version of the more commonly available “punk” version of the song, which riffs on Pachelbel’s Canon:
Another translation:
Moonlight in the white forest
In all of the trees
Cicadas emerge from their chrysalises
Ah ah, ah ah
And so, as thoughts of you run through my head,
my body reaches the final stage of transformation
Moonlight in the frozen forest
Sipping sap, I am an insect woman
When you notice me
amber has filled me up
The girl who changed into an insect,
a parasite in the strange grass,
growing stems of sadness from her amber back
babymetal – headbanger
The latest addition to the ‘everything japan/manga/anime/music/fashion’ obsession of my girls. Babymetal is super super commercial, total fusion of girlgroup meets metal, over the top. Everything that I dislike in music, but I still like it (shame on me).
it’s hallowe’en!
… And I’m in Ireland, so i asked the ghost in the machine to post these on my behalf :)
Albert Ayler – Spirits (1964)
Disney’s Silly Symphony (1929)
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages – ‘Til The Following Night(1961)
Blacktop – “From Beyond”. Blacktop was a short-lived swamp-rock project from the mid ’90s by unheralded genius singer/guitarist Mick Collins of the Gories and the Dirtbombs.
The Bar-Kays – Holy Ghost
Kristin Hersh feat. Michael Stipe – Your Ghost
Clara Rockmore – Nocturne in C# minor
spoek mathambo – stuck together
Beautiful, brand new video for South African vocalist/rapper/musician/Afro-futurist Spoek Mathambo‘s song, “Stuck Together”, taken from the acclaimed Father Creeper album, released earlier this year on Sub Pop. Directed by French film-makers Elias Belkeddar and Ugo Mangin.
don byas quartet – stormy weather (1947)
Recorded on 12 June 1947 at Technisonor, Paris, France.
Don Byas – tenor sax
Jack Dieva – piano
Jean-Jacques Tilche – guitar
Lucien Simoens – bass
Armand Molinetti – drums
in bloom
“Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands”
Nirvana – “In Bloom” (Geffen Records, 1992).
and her head has no room…
Pixies – “Is She Weird?”, off Bossa Nova (4AD, 1990).
the smashing pumpkins – drown
From the compilation album Rotten Apples (2001).
lisa hannigan – i don’t know
Lisa and co. performing her song “I Don’t Know” from the album Sea Sew. Directed and edited by Donal Dineen and Ian Cudmore. Shot in Dick Mac’s pub, Dingle, Ireland, 17 June 2008.
… Youtube comment in response:
“Camel Menthols. United States, Mexico, and Canada. I speak some French. I love driving, and beneath me is where I like my ground. I love to write letters, and I would panic no matter how I spoke with you. I love swimming in the sea. I’m a bit nocturnal… Especially when I stay up all night watching this video. I can’t dance. And yes, I think about it all the time. I would eat rubbish if you cooked it for me. I read novels and I don’t care how you draw or sleep. I think I would like your records.”
einstuerzende neubauten – the garden
Listening instruction: to be overlapped with the song posted by Ceci below.
invisible light
tori amos – silent all these years
Recorded in 1991, at the very beginning of her solo career. From the DVD Live At Montreux.
ani difranco – 32 flavors
“32 Flavors”, off Not a Pretty Girl (1995).
sade – slave song
“I pray to the Almighty:
Let me not to him do
As he has unto me.
Teach my beloved children
Who have been enslaved
To reach for the light continually.”
From Lovers Rock (Epic, 2000).
status update
I have just been unreliably and earnestly informed that Lady Gaga’s fragrance, Fame, will impregnate the wearer with demons.
do you realize? (live) – the flaming lips with edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
The Flaming Lips with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – “Do You Realize?” – performed at the Hollywood Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, 2011.
People from the future are going to look back and smile at all the little neo-hippies with their camera phones beaming their moment out into virtual eternity… Must have been beautiful to be in that jam, though.
midnight
if anything could ever feel this real forever…
And I wonder
when I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I’ll ever ask of you
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Dylan and Lauren (or Sandalwood, as they are calling themselves) perform their favourite track “Everlong”(originally by Foo Fighters) in the OxJam tent at Electric Picnic festival, Ireland, 2010.
Lauren (11) spotted the “Open Mic” sign outside the OxJam tent, grabbed her brother and barrelled over …within barely a minute I heard them announce “next up a brother and sister combo…” and I barely had time to get in with the camera, thankfully it took Dylan a minute to retune the borrowed guitar to drop-D.
step back
fleurmach 