Random Play: It's Kiwi music, but not as we know it Jim.
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Salmonella Dub: "On the chemical make up of poorly made LSD samples and resulting public uproar and confusion" (Biochemistry Letters Apr 1993)
Before their success as a dub-step band this team of talented biochemistry researchers were well on their way to a Nobel, however an unfortunate food poisoning incident resulted in their being banned from the lab and forced them to take up their instruments.
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3410,
Phil Judd and the Bats.
A great group, they were.
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Tim Finn - Barry's Haka - The delightful tale of the elder Finn's classmate Barry. He was prone to stop and perform a Haka every time the school notices were read out and Te Awamutu primary teams had won a weekend sporting fixture. Years later when Tim brought The Herbs on board to re-record the tune, they decided to rework the lyrics somewhat to keep the Maori theme, but change focus from Barry to Te Whiti.
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Great news, I've been looking forward to Blue Smoke ever since it was mentioned on RNZ especially for the ilk of Blue Smoke and its era.
Bring on a rediscovery of many a lost song..!
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"Home, Foreshore and Sea" was performed by Trinity Roots at a Green Party conference. Alas, someone forgot to press record to capture the candidate dance footage and soundtrack from the event.
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The Knobs - Culture (Ministry of Arts and) remix
When the Cat's Been Spayed - Black Billy TK
Pajama Party - Fetus Percussions
Satelitte Spies - Why Hope I?
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The Gordons: Aspic and Ham
It's all about think pig in the 80s. -
Meanwhile, I have something on my Freeview playlist from the TVNZ 7 show "Talk Talk", featuing an interview with Roger Shepherd, of the Dunedin band: "Flying Nun." ... yep. Did I miss something?
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The Topp Twins, Untouchable Grills An early public service song promoting barbecue safety, featuring a 12-minute yodelling solo/fry-up. Jools and Lynda performed this on an ACC-sponsored tour of motorcamps in the early 1980s.
DD Smash, Devil You Grow A controversial song commissioned by Watties to make it "uncool" to grow vegetables at home. The song alluded to carrots being devil horns, but ultimately failed due to the large number of Satanic Dave Dobbyn fans.
Punk Frost, The Chills In the mid-'80s, Martin Phillipps took on some jingle-writing work, penning this song for a home hair-bleaching product. The contract was cancelled when the client complained that Martin's disastrous experiments with frosting his own hair brought the product into disrepute.
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What ever happened to tracing. Jordan Luck reminiscing about the olden days before photocopiers made things so much easier.
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Blues Smoko
- by everyone's favourite Mammal, Rick BryantToTally Ho Hum
- The Clean's more boring unreleased early single...Beam Eye Friend
- Sneaky Feelings song about plucking motes from matesTrouble with Pee
- Sneaky Feelings constipatedly skip through the alphabet (missing elemeno)Heavenly Hip Hop Pit
- The Chills get down and rap it up on their album Diving BellsRoland Moog
- Martin Phillipps 1982 promotional keyboard extravaganza -
Got my (signed) copy of Blue Smoke at the crowded Wellington launch tonight. Yes, it is a beautiful production, and made even better by an extensive index.
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Gutter Bloke
by Paul Henry & Gray AmbrosiaOil! Oil! Oil!
No Tag's slick reworking of their 1982 classic12" of Hard Fish
Give the world the finger with Flesh D-Vice's
Cod-like debut release
(okay not a song per se...)Subversive Free Radicals
If you are into the Void, and Roger, the short lived Riot 111 will make you move, move, move with their highly reactive unpaired electron punkNever ends in powerpoles
Nocturnal Projections get all SADDHeat me, Heat me
Classic Spelling Mistakes there... -
The Clean's more boring unreleased early single
FN000
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The Exponents: Airways Pies
Why should railway pies get all the press?
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bloody aftershocks
- a couple over mag4 got me up early today...
but they dislodged a few other songs, such as:Stoned Euphonium
Human Instinct with Don McGlashanFunny Boys
Flight of the Rubiconchords - all acting up a storm...and some local covers of kiwi
and overseas songs, like:The Immigrant Song
Taito Phillip Field and the Titlersother Politicians followed suit:
No Futures b/w Smiley
by John Key, the double A side single
off his post-Parliament debut
Songs in the Life of KeySpinning, Spinning, Spinning
by local Black Eyed P - Michael LawsAnne Tolley with The Dunce Exponents
and The Missed Children's Corral
are in the studio to cover some Standards -
Cistern Virtue
Long before Chris Knox and Tiki Taane, Emma Paki sold her song to advertising -- in this case, a short-lived toilet cleaner campaign.Peking Man Alone
The Urliches rewrite John Mulgan's nationalist classic as an 80s rock opera. Margaret Urlich's follow-up attempt to form a Flying Nun-covering all-girl supergroup -- When the Cactus Cat's Away -- was equally disappointing. -
On a serious note
Kiwi music won't be the same after
the sad news that Tony Parker just posted
R.I.P. Tex - Ian Morris dies in Napier -
Forever Monday Morning
A catchy tune about a breakfast TV host who is forced to relive his moment of greatest public ignominy, again and again and again.The Screwtop Letters
Shihad's CS Lewis-inspired concept album.I Go Mild
The Bats pen a campaign tune for Phil Goff in 2011. Sadly, the public prefers Gin Wigmore's excruciatingly catchy cover of Melanie's "Brand New Key", leading to an entire album: Songs in the Life of Key.Computer Games People Play for Today is the Greatest Day I've Ever Known
The Mi-Sex/Alan Parsons Project/Cure/Smashing Pumpkins collaboration was scuppered by ego clashes in the studio. -
Always liked this clip ...
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Ian Morris dies in Napier
Wow I liked him the best of Th'Dudes. Sad
He was the only one who stood with me in an unprovoked attack while on tour, some years ago.A question
Anyone ever hear a Nun song "What the Fuck's He Going on About"
I think by The Taranakis.
A Mr Knox played it to me, again, years ago. -
Blam Blam Blam - There Is No Recession in NZ
Best viewed on a Giant Plasma Telescreen (TM) near you. Power station sold separately. -
Went to Band Together in Hagley Park yesterday.
It was great!
Chur to the Chur - was the T-shirt of the day.
Left the whiskey at home and didn't see much alky or dope, a bit but not much.
Really well run, oh and the bands were great. Kids having fun, adults mellowing out & a small 3.4 earthquake that we only talked about at parties afterward. We're all in group therapy, any get together and we all share our experiences.
Jason Kerrison did bloody good.
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Jason Kerrison did bloody good.
I've never been into OpShop but they supported Simply Red last Sunday, and I have to say that they were very good. Jason Kerrison was a great showman, and I have to say that a lot of the 12000 people (that appears to be the VA's seating capacity) there, were thrilled to bits with them. Which was lovely for them, considering that most of the crowd were well over 40 - in chronological age, anyway.
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His singing goes without say, it was his idea to have the concert and it went bloody well.
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