I'm Back (Though I've Never Really Been Away)

Very, very busy though.

Wang Chung, "To Live and Die in L.A."

> I just learned of this song now.

John Tropea, Short Trip to Space

Marlin Records, 1977.

Rupert Holmes, "Touch and Go" and "You Make Me Real"

Both songs from Singles (Epic, 1976).

Big Sean feat. Nipsey Hussle, "Deep Reverence."

I found this song now.

https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1368334563999629315

the audacity for you to pretend to care about workers after this pic.twitter.com/8Fqc4SigZR

— Bes D. Socialist (@besf0rt) March 6, 2021

Strip Tease Belette, "Cruel Piano" and "Your Turn"

I found out about this band when I searched online for music "never released on CD." Among the results was a discussion thread from Steve Hoffman Music Forums titled, "1980s Albums That Have *Never* Been Released on CD?" This post mentioned Strip Tease Belette as a "Cult gothic type band, apparently only released on cassette." This post at AlbumoftheYear.com describes Strip Tease Belette as "a very underground French coldwave band back in the latter half of the 80's" that was around for only two years. The band comprised Hubert Beringer, François Rieg aka Frantz, Nicolas Remi, Olivier Forsans, and Denis Urban.

"34+35" (Remix)--Ariana Grande feat. Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion

An Excellent Choice

Here. coozledad • 12 hours ago This would be a good song to send out to other civilizations to let them know we're capable of truly beautiful stuff. Maybe the best one.

Bakar, "1st Time"

The first time (indeed) I heard or heard of this song and artist was only a few minutes ago.

The Brat Pack, "You're the Only Woman (The Crossover Radio Mix)"

I just heard of this while browsing WhoSampled.com. A bouncy version of Ambrosia's 1980 hit song.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "Could It Be Right"

From the album Electric Universe (Columbia, 1983).

Sho Madjozi, "Kona"

Tkay Maidza, "You Sad"

Janez Janša

The leader of Slovenia, of whom I've just learned now.

Some Historical Perspective on the Storming of the Capitol

Louis Proyect: No, America Has Not Entered the Weimar Era.

Farewell, Annus horribilis

Texako, "Wocky Slush"

I found this by chance five minutes ago.

Breaking Scene from an Indian Movie

The Pollyseeds feat. Robert Glasper and Terrance Martin, "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)"

An inspired cover of Janet Jackson's atmospheric 1986 song, but it lacks her French spoken introduction and softly-cooing outro.

A Brief Essay on City Pop

An essay on city pop.

Helen O'Connell, "I Remember You."

Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly, with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, "Star Eyes" and "Tangerine"

Helen O'Connell, "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry."

Doja Cat, "Say So." (`80s remix)

I discovered the `80s-remix genre some weeks ago after listening a lot to slowed-down versions of songs. This was one of the first, if not the first, videos I watched. "Say So" is a great song to begin with, but overlaid with a freestyle flavor, it's even better.

Britney Spears, "Toxic" (`80s remix)

This is very Moroder-esque.

$600 is a slap in the face to every American struggling due to the pandemic. You deserve better.

I voted against the 5,593-page spending bill that gave billions to corporate interests, the military industrial complex & other countries, leaving crumbs for you who need help most. pic.twitter.com/82F1HYF43T

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) December 22, 2020

Iggy Azalea feat. Tinashe, "Dance Like Nobody's Watching"

Ariana Grande, "Into You" (`80s remix)

Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy" (`80s remix)

Macka B, "Buppie Culture"

I just learned of this singer and this song.

Shaybo

I just heard of her about twenty minutes ago through a YouTube promo (Edit: actually Vevo DSCVR Artists to Watch 2021) for her song "Anger" (see video below).

MTV Animation Shows: Spinoffs and Revivals

https://twitter.com/RiseFallNick/status/1279196686087344138 Beavis and Butthead getting a 2 season minimum revival at Comedy Central Clone High getting revived Daria getting a "Jodie" spinoff at Comedy Central Undergrads getting a Kickstarter Movie Mission Hill sponoff getting pitched to Networks MTV Animation rose from the grave.

Bret Easton Ellis Might Have a Memoir Coming Out

I'll look for it.

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Kunstler: Bill of Particulars

< href="https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bill-of-particulars/">Kunstler: Bill of Particulars.

The Decade of Civil Unrest

"Scientist Predicted Current U.S. Protests and Riots in 2010, Says Civil Unrest May Last 10-15 Years."

Forthcoming Interview with Oliver Stone

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1295154139543076869

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Kunstler: Things Going By

Kunstler: Things Going By. Hundreds of colleges and universities will be going out of business in the years ahead. The outlook for the big centralized high schools is also pretty dark. The teachers’ unions’ insatiable needs are only part of the picture. Consolidating many smaller schools to save on administrative costs seemed like a good idea at the time. But we ended up with thousands of gigantic schools that looked like insecticide factories and felt like minimum security prisons. They all depend on the costly yellow bus fleets to collect the kids from far and wide. The whole scheme ended up as an elaborate day-care operation that actually retarded the development of young people into functional, autonomous adults. Covid-19 and the economic collapse it triggered will put an end to all that. How will the school districts cope with an epic loss of tax revenue from all the homeowners defaulting on their mortgages? They won’t. Schooling will have to reorganize, and probably at a very grassroots level, with home-schools evolving into neighbor-pods of tiny schools, and only among parents who have the literacy and numeracy to pull it off. We’ll be lucky if, years from now, we’ll see something like local academies spring up that can handle a few hundred students. I’d also warn you about assuming that the Internet is a permanent installation of the human condition. It depends utterly on a pretty fragile electric grid. We do, after all, have libraries, and maybe they can be persuaded to stop trying to get rid of all their books. These Covid months have prompted Americans to pass the idle hours of joblessness and anomie with Hollywood’s canned entertainments. Could that all be over, too? The theaters were already sucking wind before the virus landed — relying on an ever more brain-dead repetition of comic book movies — while the quality product moved to Cable TV. Now that’s saturated, with the newer product fermenting into garbage. But who is going to keep paying for all that with unemployment at 30 percent, and moving higher? Are you already bored out of your skull with reruns of the old classics? People truly need narrative art forms to make sense of reality, but they have to be tuned to the times we live in. My bet would be on the eventual return of live theater on local stages for original stories keyed to the new post-collapse reality — which will not be understood via Star Wars or Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Broadway is finished, with its endless reiterations of old hits, and also, of course, because New York City itself is only beginning a long journey down the drain before it can be reorganized into a functioning entrepôt. I’ve got half a mind to invest in an outfit that can put on puppet shows in my little flyover town. As you can surely tell by now, the trend is local and smaller for all of these things. That may even be true for national elections and the venerable thing called the United States of America. The Democratic Party was initially only striving for mere suicide, but lately it looks like they want to destroy the country altogether — and they may succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Fifty years from now, several separate American nations may be sending their own regional baseball league champions to some kind of World Series, if we’re not still at war with each other.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "And Love Goes On"

How is it that I'm hearing of this music only within the past week? How did such musical treasure as this fall into obscurity?




The B-sides:

"Win or Lose" (U.S.)



"Faces" (U.K.)

Earth, Wind & Fire, "You"

Lisa Moskow and Robert Rich, "Bija"

France Gall, "Laisse tomber les filles"

Brenda Holloway, "You've Made Me So Very Happy"

SilverApples, "Oscillations"

Lou Christie, "Rhapsody in the Rain"

George Jones, "She Thinks I Still Care"

Buffalo Springfield, "Everybody's Wrong"

Bhoot Bungla

The Tammys, "Egyptian Shumba"

The Walker Brothers, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"

The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, "We Are One"

Lorraine Ellison, "Stay With Me"

Alton Ellis, "Willow Tree"

Ghost, "Sun is Tangging"

Sufjan Stevens, "Seer's Tower"

Al Bowlly, "Summer's End"

Al Bowlly, "Dark Eyes"

Blue Öyster Cult, "Joan Crawford"

"How Will History Museums Remember This Moment?"

How Will History Museums Remember This Moment?"

Grand Funk Railroad, "I'm Your Captain"

Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars, and Kodak Black, "Wake Up in the Sky"

Dan Peek, "All Things Are Possible"

From the same-titled album, All Things Are Possible (Lamb & Lion, 1978).

Radiohead, "Life in a Glasshouse"

From Amnesiac. Featuring the Humphrey Lyttleton Band.

Earth, Wind & Fire, "Open Our Eyes"

Carole Bayer Sager, "It's the Falling in Love"

The original, from her 1978 album ...Too (Elektra Records), with background vocals by Michael McDonald.

Slowed and Reverb(ed): A List in Progress

Over the last two weeks I've become acquainted with an entire genre of slowed and reverbed songs, many of which are versions of pop and R&B hits of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. The videos often feature clips from anime of the same period. Here I'll share some of my favorites:



MojoisRare's SoundCloud page.

Earth, Wind and Fire, "After the Love Has Gone." (slowed version)

Lately I've Been Listening to

Angela Bofill--a lot.

Angel of the 80s? Certainly one of them.