and posting this for @infinityandbepond @phaseshift and anyone else that likes (my guilty pleasure) Orphan Black which is back on the BBC3 (oh, you’ll have seen all the ads on the BBC for it…).

According to the article Phase posted a link to she gets into Sarah’s character listening to this.

Hope you’re not on your way to…[Read more]

ah @TheKrynoidMan – love bit of Can (reckon there’ll be a quite a few here).

Was gonna post this for one of the Hallelujah covers for a bit of fun!

@toinfinityandbepond – thankyou!!!!

I’d somehow missed the completely non-existent BBC trailers!!!

Why are they not previewing this show??!?

or is it normal to leave it to a week away (or, has this airing slipped?)

either way, thanks for the heads up!!

(am I sounding overexcited?)

So, in the occasional series of “Music that makes you think of an episode of Who” ( @Phaseshift – is this what you were crediting me for? If so my dumb, yes it was me and if so I feel an eejit!).

This also happens to coincide with some ‘spacey’ music recently – however it ain’t jazz, and it ain’t an excuse to listen to a very sultry…[Read more]

hey @Purofilion @janetteB – to be honest I’m with you both.

For me the paintings are there to be stared at rather than ‘got’ necessarily, and I usually react viscerally to stuff. And then I fall back on my chin-stroking/ pondering pseud habits!

btw I really shouldn’t have hit “Submit” on that post about cubism when I did – loads of typos/ errant…[Read more]

@purofilion – lovely bit of Sun Ra from the poetess with the moestess.

btw ‘Sleeping Beauty’ on that album is one of my favourites of all Sun Ra as I can’t really get into the more [ahem] challenging stuff they did.

If its evening where you are then this may alleviate any nightmares from the Krynoid Man’s Cushing montage!

🙂

For those of you needing a fix of Capaldi, here’s a video of him on the Guardian website (remember that? the ol’ mothership) talking about Surrealist art.
He didn’t write it (though his background is as a painter) but its short and slightly…[Read more]

I know @blenkinsopthebrave ,you and me both.

soufflés, eggs, stirring-for-8-mins… not sure what other territories are open for this one.

“Mary photobombs the Dalek invasion” is hardly funny.

Just shows how good @wolfweed‘s crazy captions are.

its a fair point @jimthefish – I was wondering if it would be a good or terrible idea to suggest creating a Crazy Captions using that photo.

I mean, fun for us but would it be gutting if someone not on the forum used the same caption to win?

I mean, if “Are you Soufflé Girl?” won, would I shake my fist at the stars*?

(* for me, no, I can’t…[Read more]

Hi @Arbutus – you said:

“Oh, well, summer is coming.”

Hold on! We’ve only just had Easter so surely we haven’t skipped a season entirely have we?

[though would be fittingly timey wimey if we have 🙂 ]

oh and for what is worth (which isn’t much), Nick Cave’s version of Stager Lee is based on a version of the lyrics by ‘Big Stick’ which was in an anthology of prison songs that he came across.

I still love his version, as I was so used to versions by Dr John, and Professor Longhair (can’t find the version I heard as a teenager on the album “Live…[Read more]

btw – was looking for something else and came across this version of Hallelujah.

Now I’ll admit, constant playing of Buckley’s version left me sick of the song and other versions just reminded me they weren’t his version (Shrek!).

So, happened to look at the wikipedia entry on it and saw this quote:

Cohen’s partner, singer Anjani Thomas,…

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@TheKrynoidMan and @Blenkinsopthebrave – In terms of The Thing score, had a very quick look at wikipedia and all music guide and it does seem that its a score with a lot of Carpenter’s influence. In fact Morricone may well have re-scored it as well after Carpenter asked for changes.

I’m not sure but it seems that John Carpenter did compose the…[Read more]

wow – Watched this over weekend and finished now.

I don’t really know the background to this episode, so am intrigued if this was a ‘big budget’ episode in its time. It seems it from the use of hovercraft and helicopters and what sounded like a large orchestra (though I know they were creative with how they doubled instruments!).

Overall it felt…[Read more]

he he – just found the Live version that I saw in Brixton of that mother****ing song that potty-mouthed @fatmaninabox mentioned earlier.

Honestly, Stagger Lee is the hardest man in music (he’d make Mack the Knife fall to his knees!)

don’t have nightmares!

n’night

😉

ah @fatmaninabox – that Stagger Lee – I love it.

I could almost do an entire thread on Stagger Lee versions (someone should write a history on it as a song). Its a standard that must have hundreds of versions, but Nick’s is by far and away the most foul-mouthed and nasty and is imo brilliant!

He draws on the previous versions and spits them…[Read more]

Hi @purofilion – its funny. I was trying to post a long list of wildly varied stuff that Morricone has done over the years. However, I’m limited to just a few of his vast library that Ive actually heard.

And each seems to use plenty of bass, romantically sweeping violins and a pure noted melody either on voice or instrument like pan pipes or oboe…[Read more]

@Wolfweed – wow. brilliant! Deep bow.
(had to double check that was “Little Roy” and not “Deep Roy”).
Awesome.
Dub always helps a cover version.

@Arbutus – Camille’s version of The Ship Song – I really like what she did with other songs, but gotta say I prefer Nick Cave’s own version.

Possibly this is because I heard him sing far ‘harder’/ nastier songs first (eg Black Betty or this Beefheart/punk ditty).
So Ship Song and other tender love songs he does (like the wonderful Into My…[Read more]

wow @Arbutus – the same Langley! Could it be the same music teacher (Hans Fenger)?? He’d be in his mid sixties I’d guess…

If not whoever arranged the clip you posted has a similar knack of getting a great sound from a group of variably gifted kids.