Saturday Night Tunage VI
It's another Saturday Night Tunage to liven up your weekend! I'm your party host, DJ Wonderduck, and tonight's Tunage is a special one! I mean, they're all special, but this one is even more special than usual, for this one... is all Eighties music, all the time! It's should come as no shock to any of my readerslisteners whatever you folks are that I'm a '80s fan... it's the music of my callow yoot, after all. But there's more to it than that. For I believe that the '80s were the last bastion of a time where music didn't have to actually mean anything. It was just there for fun! No messages, no statements, just a rolickin' good time. Sure, there were songs that had an underlying motive to them (U2 and The Clash, for example, were rather heavy-handed about that), but the majority of it all? Go out and have a good time!
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Man, you're talking about the decade of We Are The World & Live Aid, "the Safety Dance", "Land of Confusion", and even "Silent Running" and "All You Zombies". Growing up in the Eighties, pop music felt very, very political.
I swear that video of "Life in a Northern Town" wasn't the version that played on MTV in the States. Did they do a more-tasteful version which was all townscapes & cut the band out of the footage?
Posted by: Mitch H. at July 17, 2011 09:10 AM (CLEj8)
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The version on MTV actually had more of the band in it! They stitched in footage from a concert they filmed and ran that one in the US.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 17, 2011 01:16 PM (3tp4g)
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 17, 2011 01:24 PM (3tp4g)
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Yeah, that's the one. Didn't have all those BBC-rific video matting effects that the other version did.
Rock Lobster - brrr. We did this weeklong backpacking hike along a remote forest trail in northern Pennsylvania with my Boy Scout troop in '86 or '87, and one of the older scouts brought along a Walkman with external speakers, a ton of batteries, and just three tapes - all Oingo Boingo or B-52s. The rest of us got very tired of both bands by the end of that week. In fact, until I just looked it up now, I had been under the impression that the bands had shared members or something like that - it all blurred together in a spray of hipster-ironic misery.
Posted by: Mitch H. at July 17, 2011 02:22 PM (buFXq)
That playlist made me think of Toy Matinee, for some reason. The only song of theirs I recall hearing on the radio back then was "Last Plane Out", but I like this one more. (And I guess "back then" would have been 1990, but that's close enough for government work.)
Posted by: Mikeski at July 17, 2011 11:12 PM (GbSQF)
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That song, Mikeski, sounds very Level 42-ish to me... which is a good thing. Pity about the lead singer, though. Guess we have to add him to the Michael Hutchence list.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 18, 2011 12:21 AM (3tp4g)
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Oh, Toy Matinee. Kevin Gilbert was almost the lead singer for Genesis, but his untimely demise meant that the job went to Ray Wilson instead. At any rate, I highly recommend the Toy Matinee album as well as Gilbert's "Thud" LP.
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 19, 2011 10:38 AM (3m7pZ)
Saturday Night Tunage V
Once more, this time with feeling, it's Saturday Night Tunage with your host, DJ Wonderduck. I wasn't sure I was going to do the Tunage this week, but whilst at work on Friday the instore music system managed to blow my mind... forcing me to inflict the pain share the joy with you! I'm sure you'll appreciate the "stacks and stacks of red hot wax" I'll be layin' down for your enjoyment, so lets get started!
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Oh, the "Delerium" AMV... what a piece of work! And you're right, a 60fps (doubled-30, basically) would be a neat thing to see... at HD resolution, of course.
"Weapon Of Choice" is one of those odd little things that might never have come to exist if anyone at an early stage of things had looked at the concept and said, "Wait, you want to do WHAT?" On paper it sounds idiotic, and yet.
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 10, 2011 11:33 PM (7lMXI)
2Derude vs Robert
Miles - Children of the Sandstorm
THAT'S IT!
I've been trying to find out what that was that for years!
Posted by: brickmuppet at August 15, 2011 02:49 PM (EJaOX)
Saturday Night Tunage IV
Another Saturday night, another Saturday Night Tunage with me, DJ Wonderduck, spinning the music of my life out into the vast reaches of the intertoobs for the pleasure of you, my readers listeners. It's almost like I'm back behind the mic at one of the various radio stations I used to work for, with one major difference: I can play what I want! No more playlists making the music decisions for me, I'm stickin' it to The Man, go crazy folks riot in the streets woo!
Or, y'know, not. Because rioting in the streets isn't... well... very nice. And you're likely to be hit by a car. I don't want you to be hit by a car, and would feel bad if my choice of music made you want to go out into the streets and riot without looking both ways first. If you do feel an overwhelming urge to riot in the streets after listening to Saturday Night Tunage, please let me know so I can adjust my choices of music to something less riot-inducing. Saturday Night Tunage may have been in contact with peanuts. Saturday Night Tunage has been known to cause reactions in people with an allergy to asparagus. Do not taunt Saturday Night Tunage. If Saturday Night Tunage lasts for four hours or more, please contact your doctor.
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I've never been much of a music fan. However, I am growing increasingly curious about your seemingly endless collection of fish-themed anime pictures. Do you have your anime collection sorted into "fish" and "non-fish" sections? Or have you just memorized all the shows that contain fish-shots?
Posted by: Siergen at July 03, 2011 04:07 PM (RRRYd)
Saturday Night Tunage III
You've waited all week, and now it's finally here! DJ Wonderduck is back with the third installment of Saturday Night Tunage, music to either get you in the mood for whatever event you have planned on this first full day of the weekend, or to provide you with a soundtrack for the evening!
But enough of me jabbering away, let's get on with the tunage! Maestro, if you please...? more...
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Your fixation on tuna-related matters lately is a bit odd, and out-of-character. One might almost say there's something fishy going on...
Posted by: Siergen at June 25, 2011 09:50 PM (ZlSUX)
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Well, most of the time around here it's toon-age, no?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 25, 2011 10:43 PM (mRjOr)
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Very nice lineup this week, sir! I love the Tron Legacy soundtrack, particularly "Derezzed" (the remix is fantastic). As a die-hard PSB fan I had to pick up Electronic when it came out (and was slightly disappointed that Neil Tennant is only on a couple of tracks); they also released a single for a movie, I think it may have been Cool World, called "Disappointed." And Elfen Lied... hoo boy. Not my cuppa, normally, but I slogged through it and agree that it's a great series... that I never really want to watch again.
Posted by: GreyDuck at June 26, 2011 08:31 AM (7lMXI)
3AM Eternal, at least, was all over the radio in that hippest of hip places, North Dakota.
So that KLF album was the first CD I ever purchased. Not the first album, though... I was a cassette-tape-and-boom-box era pre-teen. I don't recall what my first tape purchase was. (They say the memory is the 2nd thing to go...)
Some Sunday afternoon tunage, perhaps? Travel, by The Gathering.
I did the RealAudio-pirate-radio-DJ thing for a few years, back when that sample in the opening of Travel meant something. So it's hard not to drop song links in discussions like this...
Posted by: Mikeski at June 26, 2011 11:20 AM (GbSQF)
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GD, Disappointed was Electronic's biggest hit (6th on the UK charts), as well as being on the Cool World soundtrack. That being said, I don't like it nearly as much as Getting Away With It.
Mikeski, now that I've listened to your linked tune, I feel like staring at my shoes in despair.
Posted by: Wonderduck at June 26, 2011 12:24 PM (n0k6M)
Saturday Night Tunage II
As the motivation to write anything in-depth and interesting seems to have departed my body as of right now, I've decided to do another Saturday Night Tunage post! Come, be amazed at my myriad musical tastes!
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So, have any anime theme songs or sound tracks tickled your fancy?
Posted by: Siergen at June 18, 2011 11:40 PM (PvrXx)
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Nothing recent, Siergen, other than Magia. The Angel Beats soundtracks are great fun, though. For example, three different versions of "Crow Song", all of them good in their own ways.
Posted by: Wonderduck at June 18, 2011 11:56 PM (n0k6M)
Posted by: bouff at June 19, 2011 09:55 PM (GhfbT)
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What I've found is that she's a minor character from the Touhou franchise named Miyako Yoshika. No less a person than TheBigN himself posted the original picture to Danbooru, so perhaps he can shed some light on the subject... let me see what I can do to summon hisownbadself...
Posted by: Wonderduck at June 19, 2011 10:19 PM (n0k6M)
So you just have to look at it the other way. It's not a dead girl amongst dead fish to be used as food, it's actually zombie fish and a zombie girl being sold as bodyguards.
I think the fish will require some frickin' laser beams on their frickin' heads to be any good at the job, though.
Posted by: Mikeski at June 20, 2011 01:53 PM (GbSQF)
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On the comments for that picture on danbooru, one person actually notes that one of the Yoshika's nicknames as attributed by some fans is "Maguro-chan", which references bed habits apparently.
Posted by: TheBigN at June 20, 2011 02:46 PM (k33Ji)
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What is it with Touhou and Chinese girls as ineffective security guards?
At any rate, thanks for the music - I was stuck at work on Saturday night and it helped a lot.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at June 20, 2011 03:35 PM (pWQz4)
It's funny: I was, at best, indifferent to the Foos before that AMV. (Fully deserving of its win, I hasten to add.) Now I'm... slightly more than lukewarm to them. I picked up "Echoes Silence Really Long Album Title Guys" and like a few tracks off of there, but I'll probably never be a huge fan. I can respect 'em a lot more, though.
Posted by: GreyDuck at June 21, 2011 09:28 PM (7lMXI)
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Okay, dead-ish. Mostly dead. Possibly pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 21, 2011 11:37 PM (2yngH)
Saturday Night Tunage
No, not "Saturday Night Tuna," tunage! I haven't done a good music post in a while, and since I don't want to work on the two long anime posts I've got on my mind, this would be a good time!
Click below for an... interesting... assortment of music! more...
Some Housekeeping and More Music Meme
Okay, so I'm probably not going to be around for a couple of days. I'm having a tooth pulled Monday afternoon, under general anesthetic. I'm sure that Monday night I'll be either too drugged or in too much pain to blog. Hopefully sometime Tuesday I'll be functional enough to update here.
I've had too many bad experiences with dentists to be awake for this. Hell, I went into shock during a teeth-cleaning once. It's not the pain, that's nothing... it's the tugging and the pulling and the sounds. I punched a dentist in the groinacological region once, but that was because he didn't wait long enough for the Novocaine to kick in before he poked at a cavity. The stabbing pain just caused my right arm to jerk spasmodically; I really didn't mean to. Heck, until then he was a friend of mine. We played racquetball the weekend before, for heaven's sake (he won).
So, yeah, with any luck I'll be back Tuesday.
More Music Meme featuring the letter "P":
I couldn't believe I forgot these two songs, so I had to do another post to include them.
Bonus 1): Pump Up The Volume, M/A/R/R/S
This may have been the first real hit to have been created out of nothing but samples. It's also not the song I remember (or have in my collection), but it turns out there's a reason for that. For example, at 2:14, the lyrics in the video above go "Automatic pushbutton remote control / synthetic genetic command your soul". The version I remember from my youth, and have on 45rpm single, is "Automatic systematic remote control...". There's also no samples from Wolfman Jack or James Brown on it. Turns out the video above is actually the original version of the tune, which was released in the UK. The version I'm remembering is the US version, which pulled the samples for legal reasons. Huh, who knew? Pump Up The Volume was nominated for a Grammy award in 1989 in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category, and was M/A/R/R/S' only release.
Bonus 2): Politics of Dancing, Re-Flex
I often feel like I'm the only person in the world who remembers this band and their only (legitimately) released album. It's too bad, really, for Re-Flex should have been a lot bigger than they were. This 1983 album (of the same name as the single) is chock full of great beats, blistering hooks, clever lyrics, everything you'd want from an '80s New Wave group. It peaked at #53 here in the US, #23 in the UK, and the rumored second album never appeared.
Until 2002, that is, when the keyboardist for the band, Paul Fishman, unofficially released Humanication, and announced that a 6-CD boxset, called Re-Fuse, was going to be coming out sometime in 2010. I'm hoping it's true.
It's Music Meme Time Again
So over at Greyduck's place, it seems that he was tagged by another blogger with the following situation:
1. If you’d like to play along, reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter. 2. You then list (and upload or link to the video, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter. 3. Then, as I’m doing here, you’ll post the list to your journal with the instructions.
Of course, GD came through with flying colors. Also of course, I couldn't resist a challenge of that sort so I requested a letter of my own. Grey gave me "P". Below, please find my five songs... and enjoy, won't you?
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That Party Hard video was great! Was it from the actual show, or just a fortuitous mash-up? I have never watched that anime, but now I'm intrigued...
Posted by: Siergen at August 13, 2010 10:18 PM (jMQcx)
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A skilled editing job, Siergen. A very skilled one.
Posted by: Wonderduck at August 13, 2010 10:37 PM (iJfPN)
I love the Foo's, def think Dave Grohl was the most talented one in Nirvana and deserves the sucess he's had (I just got the Them Crooked Vultures CD- a collaboration between Grohl and Josh Homme from QOSTA).
I have the Andrew WK song somewhere on CD too, was wondering what happend to him so just did a quick search- apparently has done a album of J-pop covers and Gundam songs!
Oh, I'll play too!
Posted by: Andy Janes at August 14, 2010 12:53 PM (hyMZ3)
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Don, since you're a member of the Order of the Honorary Duck, I give you "H", for "honorary." Enjoy!
Shawn (but not lowercase shawn), thanks for delurking! In appreciation for your efforts, you get "D".
Andy, my non-F1-fan friend, you get tapped with "L" for Lotus, the team you saw unveil their car in a shopping mall in Malaysia. In your case, though, I give you one additional rule: the first word in your titles cannot be "Love". That'd be too easy.
I look forward to everybody's efforts!
Posted by: Wonderduck at August 14, 2010 06:42 PM (iJfPN)
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Oh, Andy? Andrew WK is also hosting a show called Destroy Build Destroy that shows on the Cartoon Network over here. His acting style could (charitably) be called "over the top."
Posted by: Wonderduck at August 14, 2010 06:45 PM (iJfPN)