Blah
Rubbish, piffle, tommyrot, drivel and utter bilge
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Into The Unknown's Christmas Special?
William Shatner feat. Billy Gibbons - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
https://williamshatner.com/ws/
https://www.billygibbons.com/
The Surfers - Here Comes Santa Claus In A Red Canoe
https://www.discogs.com/The-Surfers-Christmas-From-Hawaii/release/1855775
The Fall - Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
https://thefall.xyz/
Johnny Alvin - Santa Claus Wrecked My 'Lectric Train (Thanta Cwaus Wecked My Wectwick Twain)
http://www.45cat.com/artist/johnny-alvin
Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye
Ted Hawkins - Amazing Grace
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ted-hawkins-1567807.html
Jan Terri - Rock 'n' Roll Santa
https://music.avclub.com/jan-terri-1798226647
The Posies - Christmas
http://www.theposies.net/
The Blue Hawaiians - Christmas Time Is Here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Hawaiians
Eels - Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
https://www.eelstheband.com/
The Misfits - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
http://www.misfits.com/
Beulah - Christmas America Is Proud Of Nixon
http://journeyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/03/farewell-to-beulah-kershaw.html
Sufjan Stevens - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/
Squeeze - Christmas Day
http://www.squeezeofficial.com/
Super Deluxe - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Deluxe_(band)
The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
https://www.thekillersmusic.com/
Louis Armstrong - 'Zat You, Santa Claus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong
Aimee Mann - Christmastime
https://aimeemann.com/home
Little Cindy - Happy Birthday Jesus (A Child's Prayer)
https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/search/label/Little%20Cindy
Beck - The Little Drum Machine Boy
https://www.beck.com/
Jethro Tull - Holly Herald
http://jethrotull.com/
Martin Mull - Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mull
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Winter Wonderland
http://www.smokeyrobinson.com/
Too Many Zooz - Jingle Bells
http://toomanyzooz.com/
Society Threat - It's Christmas, Yes It Is
https://www.discogs.com/Society-Threat-Its-Christmas-Yes-It-Is/release/3302095
The Fall - We Wish you A Protein Christmas
https://thefall.xyz/
Little Susie - Who Put The Gum In Santa's Whiskers
https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/search/label/Little%20Susie
Sufjan Stevens - Put The Lights On The Tree
https://music.sufjan.com/
Culturcide - Depressed Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturcide
Southern Culture On The Skids - Merry Christmas Baby
http://www.scots.com/
Linda Hughes - Elvis Won't Be Here For Xmas
https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-cavalcade-2018-part-three.html
Marlene Paula - I Wanna Spend Xmas With Elvis
https://www.hipchristmas.com/lists/stalkers.php
Becky Lee Beck - I Want A Beatle For Christmas
https://www.oocities.org/es/beatles_novelties_and_covers/451144.html
Cindy Rella - Bring Me A Beatle For Christmas
https://www.oocities.org/es/beatles_novelties_and_covers/451144.html
The Monkees - I Can't Wait To Unwrap You At Christmas
https://www.monkees.com/
The Roots - Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa
https://www.facebook.com/TheRoots/
Red Sovine - Here It Is Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sovine
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Christmas On Riverside Drive
http://kidcreoleandthecoconuts.com/
Darlene Love - It's A Marshmallow World
http://darleneloveworld.com/
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Jingle-O The Brownie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Ernie_Ford
Everything But The Girl - 25 December
http://ebtg.com/
Roger Christian - Little Mary Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Christian_(songwriter)
The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles_(band)
William Shatner & Henry Rollins - Jingle Bells (Punk Rock Version)
https://williamshatner.com/ws/
https://www.henryrollins.com/
Coil - Christmas Is Now Drawing Near
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Solstice:_North_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_McDowall
Stanley Holloway - Sam's Christmas Pudding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway
Jethro Tull - Last Man At The Party
http://jethrotull.com/
Cary Grant - Christmas Lullaby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Grant
Labels:
2019,
bizarre,
Christmas,
christmas special,
Christmas tunes,
cool,
downright strange,
Into The Unknown,
weird
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Into The Unknown 108
Moontricks - Bones
https://moontricksmusic.com/
DMLLL - A Tango In Tear Gas
https://www.versesrecords.com/dmlll.html
Mustelide - Ginseng Woman
https://mustelide.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mustelidemusic/
Hattie Cooke - Evacuation
https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleepers
https://www.facebook.com/hattiecookemusic/
Shuma - Hatka
http://www.shuma.by/en
https://ezhevika.bandcamp.com/album/me-mother
Nick Vivid - Staring A Hole Through You
https://twitter.com/nickvividrocks
https://www.nickvivid.com/
Too Many Zooz - Night Of The Living Fred
http://toomanyzooz.com/
https://twitter.com/TooManyZooz
Alex MacFarlane - The Porter's Dance
https://hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/cassette-2019
https://www.facebook.com/hobbiesgaloremelbourne/
Daf - Die Götter Sind Weiss
https://www.groenland.com/en/artist/deutsch-amerikanische-freundschaft/
TIJ - Frozen
https://www.facebook.com/TIJmusic
Iggy Pop - Sweet Betsy from Pike
http://iggypop.com/
Imiafan - Nočná Alchýmia (2019 Version)
https://sejarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sing-me-something-sinister
https://www.facebook.com/imiafan/
Matt Maltese - Rom Com Gone Wrong
https://www.matt-maltese.com
tay ploops - end again
https://jessicagabriel.ca/mixed-media/sounds/
https://tayploops.bandcamp.com/
Dissolt - Time Waits For No One
https://www.dissolt.com/
Nicholas Langley - HOTROD 26
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/plays-the-vitamin-b12
Myd - The Sun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myd_(musician)
https://www.facebook.com/MydSound/
Cannibale - Acceleration
https://sixtonnesdechairrecords.bandcamp.com/album/acceleration
Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
https://www.facebook.com/FeverRay/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Dreijer
https://feverray.com/
Kotek - Constellation
https://westwoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/kotek-constellation
The Martin Reed Psychedelic Experience - It's A Blast (feat. Beastie Boys)
https://soundcloud.com/its-tophonicus
Meltdown - Beneath You
https://soundcloud.com/meltdowndk
Nid & Sancy - Skinny Fit
http://digitalpissfactory.net/
https://soundcloud.com/nidandsancy
Vaskos - Egyedem
https://soundcloud.com/discratebye
https://www.facebook.com/KONOKUNOK-161387650704097/
Nese Karabocek - Yali Yali (Todd Terje Edit)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neşe_Karaböcek
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje
Gwasg Gelert - Y Cod Da Vinci - Gwestai Annisgwyl
https://counterzine.com/2019/07/20/tape-review-gwasg-gelerts-y-cod-da-vinci/
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/y-c-d-da-vinci
Jane Weaver - Bright Curse
https://janeweavermusic.com/
Domingues and Kane - Instilled Regard
http://www.dominguesandkane.com/
https://versesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rough-magick
Resonators - Family Familiar
https://resonators.bandcamp.com/album/the-constant-deluxe-edition
https://www.facebook.com/Resonators
Pixies - Allison
https://www.pixiesmusic.com/
PIXIES – In the Arms of Mrs Mark of Cain
https://www.pixiesmusic.com/
The Black Lips - Gentleman
https://blacklips.bandcamp.com/
Xtort - Fire (Black Rituals Mix)
https://xtort.bandcamp.com/
Garbage Truck Disco - untitled 2019 02 28
https://soundcloud.com/garbage-truck-disco
https://soundcloud.com/joppe-deen
Labels:
info,
Into The Unknown,
track list,
weblinks
Friday, November 8, 2019
Into The Unknown 107
The Zells - Going To Hell
https://denzell.bandcamp.com/
New EP 'No More Heroes' out now
Sobranie 9 19 - Sad Reggae
St Petersburg
https://soundcloud.com/sobranieh
https://www.facebook.com/sobranieeh/
Mustelide feat. Rapasa Otieno - Thum Nyatiti
https://soundcloud.com/mustelide
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvgQMBleIPRUTX0_gb4E08A8dwG-gXfVn
https://www.instagram.com/natty_kunitskaya/
Magazine - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(band)
https://www.facebook.com/magazineofficial/
808 State - Tokyo Tokyo
https://www.808state.com/index.html
https://store.808stateofficial.com/
Dan Luke & The Raid - Black Cat Heavy Metal
https://danlukeandtheraid.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/danluketheraid/
Boundaries - Push
Copenhagen
https://soundcloud.com/boundariesdk
https://www.facebook.com/boundariesdk/
Civic Center - House In The Distance
https://chicagoresearch.info/
Ebony White - Limestone
https://soundcloud.com/user-325665197
Freakway - Runnin'
LA
https://freakway.bandcamp.com/
Alessandro Cortini - Batticuore
Berlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cortini
https://soundcloud.com/alessandrocortini
https://mutebank.co.uk/products/alessandro-cortini-volume-massimo-cd
Honeyblood - Bubble Gun
https://www.honeyblood.co.uk/
Lunar Twin - Leaves
https://www.facebook.com/Lunartwin/
https://lunartwin.bandcamp.com/
Meltdown - Terminal
Denmark
https://soundcloud.com/meltdowndk
https://www.facebook.com/meltdowndk
Molly Nilsson - A Slice Of Lemon
https://mollynilsson.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-twenty
https://soundcloud.com/dsa-music
Omar Shooli - Hab Isii (Hug Me)
https://soundcloud.com/analog-africa
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/mogadisco-dancing-mogadishu-somalia-1972-1991
The Martin Reed Psychedelic Experience - Dropping In On The 452 hz Bucket Brigade, While He's Delaying
https://soundcloud.com/its-tophonicus
https://www.facebook.com/martin.reed.161
Rodents - Free And Boring
https://soundcloud.com/permanentslump/rodents-free-and-boring
https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/
Severino Pfifferling - Klarspülen
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/musik-f-r-sp-lmaschine-und-synthesizer
Matt Berry & The Maypoles - So Low (Live)
https://acidjazz.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mattberry
The Hunted Hare - Black Finger
https://versesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nocturne
https://www.versesrecords.com/
Stickybuds - Rudebot
https://westwoodrecordings.bandcamp.com
https://westwoodrecordings.com/
The Scaners - Random City 2099
https://soundcloud.com/thescaners/sets/the-scaners-ii-1
https://thescaners.bandcamp.com/
Lyon, France
TIJ - Touch And Go
https://www.facebook.com/TIJmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/barry_snaith
UV-TV - Hide
https://uvtv.bandcamp.com/
http://www.uv-tv.world/
Cosmic Hoffman - Space Disco
https://emotional-rescue.bandcamp.com/album/space-disco
http://emotional-rescue.org/
https://soundcloud.com/emotional-rescue
Negative Headphone - Mortal Bugs On My 8-bit Memories
https://soundcloud.com/negative-headphone
https://www.facebook.com/negativeheadphone/
Klark Kent - Too Kool To Kalypso
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Copeland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klark_Kent_(album)
Stewart Copeland feat. Stanard Ridgway - Don't Box Me In
https://www.stewartcopeland.net/
http://www.stanridgway.com/
Moris Blak - Druglicker
https://morisblak.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/moris-blak
Microwave Popcorn - so long, peaches
https://soundcloud.com/libido-3
https://www.facebook.com/micropopc
Gospel Oak Disco - Without You
https://soundcloud.com/godoflondon
Iggy Pop - Run Like A Villain
http://iggypop.com/
Matt Maltese - Curl Up And Die
https://www.matt-maltese.com/
Labels:
Into The Unknown
Friday, October 11, 2019
Into The Unknown 106: Spooktoberfest!
Humanfobia & Occult Teen Orgy - Teen Cult Iniciation
Rancagua, Chile
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-ep-2019
https://humanfobia.jimdo.com/humanfobia-info-links/
Neil Young - Vampire Blues
https://neilyoungarchives.com/
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Stardust_Cowboy
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
http://www.virginprunes.com/
http://mute.com/virgin-prunes/virgin-prunes-a-short-history
The Very Things - Shearing Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Things
The Misfits - Monster Mash
http://misfits.com/
Witchfynde - Give'Em Hell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchfynde
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juju_(Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees_album)
https://siouxsieandthebanshees.backstreetmerch.com/
The Cramps - Surfin' Dead
http://www.thecramps.com/pages/biography.html
Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead
https://nouvellevaguemusic.com/
https://nouvellevague.bandcamp.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi's_Dead
The Five Blobs - The Blob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Blobs
Editors - Lullaby
https://www.editors-official.com/home/
Screaming Lord Sutch - She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch
White Stripes - Little Ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Stripes
https://thirdmanstore.com/bands/the-white-stripes
Prokofiev - Scythian suite op.20 - The Enemy God and the Dance of the Black Spirits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_Suite
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Howlin' At Nothing (Live In Denver)
http://www.nathanielrateliff.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rateliff
Anna Calvi - Ghost Rider (Suicide cover)
http://www.annacalvi.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(band)
Spizzenergi - City Of Eyes
https://www.facebook.com/SPIZZENERGI-258404567529340/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spizzenergi
Coven - Wicked Woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Destroys_Minds_%26_Reaps_Souls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_(band)
John Cale - Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores
http://john-cale.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cale
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Driscoll_Tippetts
The Danse Society - We're So Happy
http://www.thedansesociety.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Danse_Society
The Meteors - Paint It Black
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meteors
http://yendor71.com/
Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives
http://www.ymo.org/biography/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra
Venom - Black Flame Of Satan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom_(band)
http://www.venomslegions.com/
Kraftwerk - Mitternacht
http://kraftwerk.com/
Groovie Ghoulies - Pet Sematary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovie_Ghoulies
https://www.facebook.com/GroovieGhouliesOfficial
CCR - Bad Moon Rising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival
http://creedence-online.net/
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Witch
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Premature Burial
https://siouxsieandthebanshees.backstreetmerch.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_Hands
Bob McFadden & Dor (Rod McKuen) - The Mummy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McFadden
https://www.waybackattack.com/mcfaddenbobanddor.html
Bonus track: Bert Convy - The Monsters Hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YLjFp4DKpQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Convy
Labels:
Into The Unknown,
spooktoberfest
Into The Unknown 105
Scarlet Fantastic - To Hell
https://www.facebook.com/maggiekdemonde/
https://www.facebook.com/scarletfantasticofficial
https://www.hottwerk.com/hottwerkshop/prod_6809828-SCARLET-FANTASTIC-To-Hell-Part-1-LTD-NUMBERED-CD-PRE-ORDER.html
The Zells - Hello Loser
Pittsburgh
https://denzell.bandcamp.com/
No More Heroes EP Oct 2019 Crafted Sounds
lola demo - I Am The Cobra
Athens
https://www.lolademo-music.com/
https://lolademo.bandcamp.com/
R Elizabeth - An Image Is Different
London
http://www.rachaelfinney.org/relizabeth
Aaron Lee Tasjan - My Whole Life Is Over (All Over Again)
New Albany, OH
https://www.aaronleetasjan.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lee_Tasjan
Seratones - Gotta Get To Know Ya
Shreveport, LA
https://seratones.bandcamp.com/
The Flaming Dugongs - Never Give Up
Graz, Austria
https://soundcloud.com/theflamingdugongs
EyeBawl - No More Bad Nights
Delaware
https://eyebawl.bandcamp.com/
Verckys et l´Orchestre Vévé - Bassala Hot
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/congolese-funk-afrobeat-psychedelic-rumba-1969-1978
Secret Shame - Dark
Asheville, NC
https://secretshame.bandcamp.com/album/dark-synthetics
Red Spells Red - Half Spells
Washington DC
https://www.versesrecords.com/red-spells-red.html
Red Spells Red is the duo of Dennis Kane, known as The Hunted Hare, and Colorado's Dave Svrjcek aka Acef Stripe.
Paul Mosley And The Red Meat Orchestra - You're Going To Die
London
https://paulmosley.bandcamp.com/album/youre-going-to-die
Released Oct 11, 2019
Ben Lee - Speeding Motorcycle
Sydney/LA
https://benleenwr.bandcamp.com/album/quarter-century-classix
Out Nov 22
Shinobi Ninja - Subcon
Brooklyn NY
http://www.shinobininja.com/
From Bless Up, released 2017
Andrew Combs - Stars Of Longing
Nashville
https://andrewcombs.bandcamp.com/album/ideal-man
Released Sept 20
Postmodern Jukebox feat. Blake Lewis - The Middle
https://postmodernjukebox.com/
https://www.facebook.com/blakelewis/
Tolouse Low Trax - Sketches Of A Destroyed Meadow
Dusseldorf
https://tolouselowtrax.bandcamp.com/
https://emotional-response.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-lvi
Ekoplekz - Corrosion Cars
https://ekoplekz.bandcamp.com/
https://fandf.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-the-third-mantra
Olivia Neutron-John - March
Washington DC
https://olivianeutron-john.bandcamp.com/album/olivia-neutron-john
http://on-j.com/
Raydar - Murder Music
Toronto
https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/evil-squad-ii
https://www.facebook.com/RaydarMusicPage/
FACS - Total History
Chicago
https://soundcloud.com/facs-sc
https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/lifelike
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - S.O.B.
http://www.nathanielrateliff.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rateliff
Bolva - Rite II
Russian Federation
https://emotional-response.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-lvi
Allister - Fraggle Rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allister
Kacy & Clayton - Carrying On
Saskatchewan
http://www.kacyandclayton.com/
https://kacyandclayton.bandcamp.com/
'Carrying On' New West records october 2019
Xqui - GPS
https://xqui.bandcamp.com/album/spectrum-ep
Big Scary - Double Darkness
Melbourne
https://bigscary.bandcamp.com/album/animal-lp-2016
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra - High-Speed Train
https://teapadorchestra.co.uk/
Olivia Neutron-John - Beguine
https://olivianeutron-john.bandcamp.com/album/olivia-neutron-john
http://on-j.com/
Patience - Moral Damage
LA
https://patienceworld.bandcamp.com/album/dizzy-spells
TIJ - Killer Type
https://soundcloud.com/barry_snaith
https://twitter.com/barrysnaith
https://www.facebook.com/TIJmusic/
Mopac - Dead Bone Strut
Austin TX
https://soundcloud.com/mopacband
Foreign Air - Lying
DC
https://www.facebook.com/foreignair
http://foreignair.net
Moontricks - Wrong Done
https://westwoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/moontricks-wrong-done
https://moontricksmusic.com/
Charodey Jeddy - Shinobi
Ukraine
https://www.facebook.com/charodeyjeddy
Microwave Popcorn - Gose Song
RF
https://www.facebook.com/micropopc
Labels:
Into The Unknown
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Into The Unknown 104
lola demo - Kisses Are Venom
https://soundcloud.com/lolademo
https://lolademo.bandcamp.com/
TIJ - Sing Me Something Sinister
https://soundcloud.com/barry_snaith
https://www.facebook.com/TIJmusic/
Buffet Lunch - The Snail And The King
https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/buffetlunch
A Certain Ratio - Houses In Motion (1980 Talking Heads cover)
https://www.acrmcr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc_7s3G_IIc
Dur-Dur Band - Jaceyl Mirahiis
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/dur-dur-of-somalia-volume-1-volume-2-previously-unreleased-tracks
https://soundcloud.com/analog-africa
Rinse and Repeat - Apprehension
https://burgerrecords.com/
https://rinseandrepeat.bandcamp.com/
Chali 2na - Change The World
https://www.chali2na.com/
Blank Holidays - Vous êtes un Client Très Distingué
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/shopland-world-music-for-a-discovery-park-of-miniature-supermarkets
https://soundcloud.com/theblankholidays
The Fishery Commission - Fly Steady
https://thefisherycommission.bandcamp.com/
Daydream Cathedral - Mesmerized
https://soundcloud.com/daydreamcathedral
Nauchnyy Sotrudnik - Nikolay Zabolotskiy
https://soundcloud.com/sotrudnik
https://sotrudnik161.bandcamp.com/
D.A.F. - Prinzessin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch_Amerikanische_Freundschaft
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Beastie, Beastie
https://hedvigmollestadtrio.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/hedvigmollestadtrio
John Osborne - Admin Of Being Prime Minister
https://soundcloud.com/john_osborne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Osborne_(writer)
Iggy Pop - James Bond
http://iggypop.com/
Sugarloaf Beach - Girls
https://sugarloafbeach.bandcamp.com/
Charodey Jeddy - Catch Me Outside
https://vobr.bandcamp.com/
Cyfrif Iâ Dur - In Some Ways We are Different and in Some Ways the Same
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/shopland-world-music-for-a-discovery-park-of-miniature-supermarkets
Great Lakes - End Of An Error
https://greatlakesbencrum.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-too-close-to-the-edge
Cabaret Voltaire - C.O.M.A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_Voltaire_(band)
https://www.post-punk.com/cabaret-voltaire-to-release-chance-versus-causality-and-1974-76-from-the-bands-archives/
https://www.facebook.com/CabaretVoltaireOfficial/
http://mute.com/artists/cabaret-voltaire
Pinch Points - Stainless Steel
https://pinchpoints.bandcamp.com/
R Elizabeth - Spiritual to Symphony
http://www.rachaelfinney.org/relizabeth
Rinse and Repeat - PeeWee Herman
https://rinseandrepeat.bandcamp.com
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Nervous Man
https://prettyoliviarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-boys-with-the-perpetual-nervousness-the-tree-house-melodies-split-single
Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie - The Rattler
https://www.facebook.com/GoodbyeMrMackenzie/
http://www.goodbyemrmackenzie.com
The Filthy Tongues - Back To Hell
https://thefilthytongues.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-hell
The Scenes - This Is The Kind Of Music I'd Like To Hear When I'm At Home Studying Germany
https://soundcloud.com/the-scenes
https://www.facebook.com/scenesband/
Hillary Klug - Le Petit Chat Gris
https://hillaryklug.com/
Martin Rev - Dakota
http://www.martinrev.com/
https://soundcloud.com/bureau-1/martin-rev-dakota
Ruby Haunt - Jeune
https://soundcloud.com/rubyhaunt
http://rubyhaunt.com/
https://rubyhaunt.bandcamp.com/
The Secret French Postcards - Awake
https://thesecretfrenchpostcards.bandcamp.com/
Le Cliche - Ctrl+CCtrl+Cheat
https://soundcloud.com/le-cliche
https://www.facebook.com/clichesongs/
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Into The Unknown 103
Barracudas - Summer Fun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barracudas
Madness - In The Rain
http://www.madness.co.uk/
Nick Vivid - Ricochet
https://www.nickvivid.com/
Black Needle Noise with <PIG> - Seed Of Evil
https://blackneedlenoise.bandcamp.com/track/seed-of-evil
www.facebook.com/BlackNeedleNoise/
www.pigindustries.com
Ben Lee - The History Of Wonder feat. Paul F Tompkins
https://www.ben-lee.com/latest-projects
Hackney Colliery Band - Why Yellow (feat. Rob Auton)
https://www.hackneycollieryband.co.uk/
Michael Donnelly - Cupids Vagaries
https://fandf.bandcamp.com/album/why-so-mute-fond-lover
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion ft. Mark "Sparky" Phillips - Queen Of Hearts
https://www.hillbillymoon.com/
Organized Rhyme - Check The O.R.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_Rhyme
J McFarlane's Reality Guest - Do You Like What I'm Sayin
https://hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/ta-da
https://www.facebook.com/j.mcfarlanesrealityguest/
Keston Cobblers Club - Open Sesame
https://kestoncobblers.club/
Lucky and Love - Telekinesis
https://shop.luckyandlove.com/
Until Ben - Mire
https://www.facebook.com/untilben/
Whettman Chelmets - Scattered Id
https://whettmanchelmets.bandcamp.com/
Four Phonica - Everything Will Be Destroyed
https://fourphonica.bandcamp.com/
Brett Newski - Fuck You Spotify
https://brettnewski.com/
They Might Be Giants - All The Lazy Boyfriends
https://www.theymightbegiants.com/
BBGuns - Valley
https://bbguns.bandcamp.com/
Spooled Up - Landmine
https://spooledup.bandcamp.com/
Trailer Trash Tracys - You Wish You Were Red
http://trailertrashtracys.com/
Austerity - Herded (Radio Edit)
https://austeritypunk.bandcamp.com/
Humanfobia - Calles Lobregas
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
Kincaid ft. Blancmange - Big Fat Head (Club Mix)
https://soundcloud.com/kincaidofficial
http://www.blancmange.co.uk/
Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time
https://parquetcourts.wordpress.com/
Shitney - Magnetosphere Shower
https://soundcloud.com/shitney
The Fishery Commission - Never Be Where You Are
https://www.thefisherycommission.com/
Twerps - Back To You
https://www.facebook.com/Twerpsmusic/
Labels:
Into The Unknown
Friday, July 5, 2019
The Ladies Love The Doctor
I was in Waitrose this morning, as is my wont during the week on those days where I drop my daughter off at school. The reasoning is simple. Waitrose has a coffee machine wherein anyone who is a Waitrose card holder can get a free hot drink (one per visit) while shopping. Waitrose have recently done away with paper cups (as well as the cheap plastic bags) so you have to have your own cup (which I take with me). While I sip my freshly prepared beverage I can peruse the shelves and usually make a small purchase or two, although there are those rare times when I'm broke and I just go in and get the free drink, pretend to be shopping and then sneak out at the exit, avoiding eye contact with staff as I do so. What? I'm not supposed to do that, you say? Hey, I'll keep doing it until they have burly coffee bouncers on the door, inspecting everyone's purchases.
But I digress.
As you may know, if you follow me on social media to any degree, our local Waitrose is sometimes patronised by none other than the Fourth Doctor himself, Tom Baker. I hadn't seen him in town for quite some time, so when I did see him this morning it made me quietly happy and relieved, as he is in his eighties now and the last time I saw him, he was quite wobbly and using a stick. So to see him sans stick, pushing his trolley around and hailing all and sundry with his booming voice was good. All is still well with the Doctor.
He was greeting one of the female staff there as I walked past. Not wishing to interrupt, I simply said, "Morning, Tom" as I made my way past him, and he greeted me similarly. I stopped a few feet away to look at some items and could hear his half of the conversation with the lady employee. She is a lady that I have known since the late '80s, and he was complimenting her on her long service, asking her how long she'd been working there. I wasn't able to hear her response but I know she has worked for Waitrose a good many years. And like I said, I know she is at least as old as me.
After hearing her reply, Tom responded "Well, that must have been your first job after you left school, eh?"
Tom Baker, 86 years old, still flirting with the ladies.
Good on you, Tom, you silver-tongued rogue.
But I digress.
As you may know, if you follow me on social media to any degree, our local Waitrose is sometimes patronised by none other than the Fourth Doctor himself, Tom Baker. I hadn't seen him in town for quite some time, so when I did see him this morning it made me quietly happy and relieved, as he is in his eighties now and the last time I saw him, he was quite wobbly and using a stick. So to see him sans stick, pushing his trolley around and hailing all and sundry with his booming voice was good. All is still well with the Doctor.
He was greeting one of the female staff there as I walked past. Not wishing to interrupt, I simply said, "Morning, Tom" as I made my way past him, and he greeted me similarly. I stopped a few feet away to look at some items and could hear his half of the conversation with the lady employee. She is a lady that I have known since the late '80s, and he was complimenting her on her long service, asking her how long she'd been working there. I wasn't able to hear her response but I know she has worked for Waitrose a good many years. And like I said, I know she is at least as old as me.
After hearing her reply, Tom responded "Well, that must have been your first job after you left school, eh?"
Tom Baker, 86 years old, still flirting with the ladies.
Good on you, Tom, you silver-tongued rogue.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Gripes About Music
I cannot remember the last time I used this blog as a means to rant about something completely inconsequential. I used to whine on about music, adverts, TV, films, and human behaviour in general as a way of getting things off my chest. After a while, I stopped.
Possibly it was because I had run out of things to get hacked off about, but I don't think so. I always get bothered by stuff. I think it was because I was in a different job and had become a new father and thus had less time on my hands. It also had something to do with my new passion - podcasting. All in all I was able to devote less time to the blog and when I did have any free time, I was too tired to bother. And to justify my lack of activity I bullshitted myself into believing that my views were no longer unique enough to be worthy of weighing-in on the topics of the day. I felt that my little soapbox would be lost in the maelstrom of the Interwebs.
But something has been getting right on my ever-lovin' titties for a while now, and I feel a good old fashioned rant comin' on.
Unsurprisingly, it's about music.
Back in the day when I would rant about music that I disliked, I would find that a few years down the line I would look back and see the musicians I complained about in a fresh light, and one of these was a chap named Dizzee Rascal. Coming back to the UK after 18 or so years Stateside, I couldn't cope with hearing rappers with an English accent. It didn't seem right. Nowadays it's so commonplace that I can't see what I was so bothered about. Sorry, Dizzee. However, now Mr. Rascal's hits seem to have dried up somewhat, that fact that he is now in a commercial for Ladbrokes (a bookmakers) pushing their online gaming app where you can gamble your life savings away via PayPal is even more disappointing. Gambling is an addiction, Dizzee. A sickness. And while Ladbrokes' ad for online gaming is by no means the only one, and not even the only celebrity-endorsed one (Paddy McGuinness, anyone?), Dizzee's ad truly horrifies me. I thought you were better than that, mate.
One of the overriding themes of my previous rants about music seems to be the lack of quality or care that is put into the creation of music. A lot of it is about formulas - find a formula that seems to resonate with the masses, then you can replicate that time and again, and like the sheep they have been taught to be, devoid of any critical thinking skills or any true ability to discern bad from good, the masses will time and again lap it up. Which is why the Top 40 or even the Billboard Hot 100 is 75% crap.
Even when something is presented as unique and different, strip away the layers and underneath you'll find something fairly pedestrian.
Take Billie Eilish, for example. Her music is all the rage now because of the way in which it is presented. Minimalist in style, with unusual sampled sounds taking the place of traditional instrumentation, coupled with a singing style that barely rises above a mumble and utilises strange pronunciation (more on that later), and visually she and her videos are quirky, odd and arrestingly different. The sound is cool, but you can bet those songs were written on a guitar and sung normally to begin with. And they probably sounded like nothing much to write home about.
The funky pronunciation thing isn't new, in fact a few years ago I wrote about Katy Perry rhyming 'world' with 'us' because she twisted the life out of both of those words to get them to sound similar.
What does appear to be new(ish), however, is the prevalence in advertising of using existing tracks by modern artists to sell your product. This is a perfectly legitimate way to sell two products in one go, because the assumption is that a big budget ad featuring a little-known performer's tune will be shown often enough that the tune will seep into even casual viewers' heads by osmosis, and they will then find out what it is and download it. Again, nothing wrong with that in terms of marketing, really. It's another form of the impulse buy at the checkout.
However, there are several ads on at the moment in the UK where the songs used are either (a) incredibly annoying, which means that now you have an annoying tune stuck in your head all day; (b) songs that use the weird pronunciation along with strange Elton-John-meets-Elizabeth-Fraser-like phrasing so that when you actually find out what the words are, you cannot believe it: or (c) both.
Now, I have a touch of tinnitus. A constant high-pitched whine in the background which I can generally ignore when there are lots of other sounds in the room, but when in a silent room, that's all I hear. I've had it to some degree for as long as I can remember, but only in the last few years has it begun to have any measurable effect on my hearing.
Currently, I have the TV set to subtitles most of the time so that I don't have to have it at top-notch volume all the time in order to compete with all the other noises going on around me. But what this means is that in some cases, the ads get subtitled and when it is one of the aforementioned ads, you can read the lyrics and say "Hang on! Those are the words!?!?"
Let me give you an example.
The song is called 'Look After You' by Aron Wright. Never heard of him. But that song is in my brain. But you see what I mean? His low-key phrasing means he barely says the word 'look' and 'you' except in the chorus. All I heard was "I will kafter..." and until I put the subtitles on one day, I had no idea what he was on about. I was like, speak up, man, speak up! Enunciate!
Here are a couple of others where the phrasing leaves one perplexed and feeling like you've just been listening to AM radio in the 70s.
The track is called 'The Man' by Aloe Blacc. And I doubt that you all heard "A king is born, I told you before" and "Ain't no-one like me, I'm a legend" in there. If you did, you only picked up bits of it.
The following one is a little better, but I still had to turn on subtitles to find out exactly what was going on. It's a track called "I'm A Wonder Woman" by someone named Lion Babe.
Speaking of annoying ads, there's nothing worse to my mind than seeing people who are supposed to be musicians portrayed by actors who clearly haven't ever picked up a guitar in their lives.
Alright. Rant over.
Possibly it was because I had run out of things to get hacked off about, but I don't think so. I always get bothered by stuff. I think it was because I was in a different job and had become a new father and thus had less time on my hands. It also had something to do with my new passion - podcasting. All in all I was able to devote less time to the blog and when I did have any free time, I was too tired to bother. And to justify my lack of activity I bullshitted myself into believing that my views were no longer unique enough to be worthy of weighing-in on the topics of the day. I felt that my little soapbox would be lost in the maelstrom of the Interwebs.
But something has been getting right on my ever-lovin' titties for a while now, and I feel a good old fashioned rant comin' on.
Unsurprisingly, it's about music.
Back in the day when I would rant about music that I disliked, I would find that a few years down the line I would look back and see the musicians I complained about in a fresh light, and one of these was a chap named Dizzee Rascal. Coming back to the UK after 18 or so years Stateside, I couldn't cope with hearing rappers with an English accent. It didn't seem right. Nowadays it's so commonplace that I can't see what I was so bothered about. Sorry, Dizzee. However, now Mr. Rascal's hits seem to have dried up somewhat, that fact that he is now in a commercial for Ladbrokes (a bookmakers) pushing their online gaming app where you can gamble your life savings away via PayPal is even more disappointing. Gambling is an addiction, Dizzee. A sickness. And while Ladbrokes' ad for online gaming is by no means the only one, and not even the only celebrity-endorsed one (Paddy McGuinness, anyone?), Dizzee's ad truly horrifies me. I thought you were better than that, mate.
One of the overriding themes of my previous rants about music seems to be the lack of quality or care that is put into the creation of music. A lot of it is about formulas - find a formula that seems to resonate with the masses, then you can replicate that time and again, and like the sheep they have been taught to be, devoid of any critical thinking skills or any true ability to discern bad from good, the masses will time and again lap it up. Which is why the Top 40 or even the Billboard Hot 100 is 75% crap.
Even when something is presented as unique and different, strip away the layers and underneath you'll find something fairly pedestrian.
Take Billie Eilish, for example. Her music is all the rage now because of the way in which it is presented. Minimalist in style, with unusual sampled sounds taking the place of traditional instrumentation, coupled with a singing style that barely rises above a mumble and utilises strange pronunciation (more on that later), and visually she and her videos are quirky, odd and arrestingly different. The sound is cool, but you can bet those songs were written on a guitar and sung normally to begin with. And they probably sounded like nothing much to write home about.
The funky pronunciation thing isn't new, in fact a few years ago I wrote about Katy Perry rhyming 'world' with 'us' because she twisted the life out of both of those words to get them to sound similar.
What does appear to be new(ish), however, is the prevalence in advertising of using existing tracks by modern artists to sell your product. This is a perfectly legitimate way to sell two products in one go, because the assumption is that a big budget ad featuring a little-known performer's tune will be shown often enough that the tune will seep into even casual viewers' heads by osmosis, and they will then find out what it is and download it. Again, nothing wrong with that in terms of marketing, really. It's another form of the impulse buy at the checkout.
However, there are several ads on at the moment in the UK where the songs used are either (a) incredibly annoying, which means that now you have an annoying tune stuck in your head all day; (b) songs that use the weird pronunciation along with strange Elton-John-meets-Elizabeth-Fraser-like phrasing so that when you actually find out what the words are, you cannot believe it: or (c) both.
Now, I have a touch of tinnitus. A constant high-pitched whine in the background which I can generally ignore when there are lots of other sounds in the room, but when in a silent room, that's all I hear. I've had it to some degree for as long as I can remember, but only in the last few years has it begun to have any measurable effect on my hearing.
Currently, I have the TV set to subtitles most of the time so that I don't have to have it at top-notch volume all the time in order to compete with all the other noises going on around me. But what this means is that in some cases, the ads get subtitled and when it is one of the aforementioned ads, you can read the lyrics and say "Hang on! Those are the words!?!?"
Let me give you an example.
The song is called 'Look After You' by Aron Wright. Never heard of him. But that song is in my brain. But you see what I mean? His low-key phrasing means he barely says the word 'look' and 'you' except in the chorus. All I heard was "I will kafter..." and until I put the subtitles on one day, I had no idea what he was on about. I was like, speak up, man, speak up! Enunciate!
Here are a couple of others where the phrasing leaves one perplexed and feeling like you've just been listening to AM radio in the 70s.
The track is called 'The Man' by Aloe Blacc. And I doubt that you all heard "A king is born, I told you before" and "Ain't no-one like me, I'm a legend" in there. If you did, you only picked up bits of it.
The following one is a little better, but I still had to turn on subtitles to find out exactly what was going on. It's a track called "I'm A Wonder Woman" by someone named Lion Babe.
Speaking of annoying ads, there's nothing worse to my mind than seeing people who are supposed to be musicians portrayed by actors who clearly haven't ever picked up a guitar in their lives.
Alright. Rant over.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Speaking Out, If That's OK
This is a post that has been brewing for quite some time.
I apologise to my loyal reader (s?) for not having anything to say for a good while. I have been mainly using this blog recently for advertising my podcast, mainly due to the fact that my podcast platform (Mixcloud) won't let me put the weblinks on the page because I'm limited on the amount of characters i can use, so I post the playlist with all the weblinks here.
But just recently, the state of the world depresses me. And if I try to address all the crazy things that I find distressing about the state of the world in one post, it would no longer be a post, but a tome. Not only that, but there is always the risk that I am going to share an opinion with others who are more eloquent than myself, so my contribution would be so much white noise.
So I have no choice but to break my concerns down into smaller topics and sub-topics. To deconstruct my fears and dissect the minutiae within. But where to start?
Right now in the world as I see it, there are many small things that are symptomatic of a larger problem. One of those is censorship.
It seems as if the far right and the rightward-leaning, who have never responded well to any form of criticism, are taking steps, or wish they could take steps, towards criminalizing a basic human right, namely free speech.
There are a lot of countries in the world where the people in charge are able to rule with an iron fist, either by dint of religious reasons or simply because they are despots and dictators who can rig elections, get rid of the opposition by fair means or foul, commit genocide without a blink, and make laws whereby a person may be imprisoned for no discernible reason or executed for something that we in the West would regard as fairly normal, such as attempting to acquire an education or happening to be attracted to someone of the same gender. Women, it seems, have it worse in most of these countries, since they are given less opportunities in life and are regarded as subservient baby-making machines who are only slightly higher on the totem pole than stray dogs or livestock.
Here in the West we tend to take a lot of things for granted - the ability to vote, access to education and healthcare, and women, despite still not receiving opportunities or pay rates that are precisely equal, are able to have careers, educate themselves and crucially, to vote. But it seems there are those in positions of power who, given the chance, would turn back the clock and strip us of our rights. The right have always had that not-so-hidden agenda of widening the divide between the haves and the have-nots, but only recently have they been so brazen about it.
Right now we are embroiled in the whole Brexit fiasco, and our PM Theresa May has stepped down, so now there is a leadership race within the Conservative party. Everyone seems to think Boris Johnson, that large glazed ham with a handful of straw for a hairstyle, will win out over Jeremy Hunt (the dismantler of the NHS), Jacob Rees-Mogg the toffee-nosed bureaucratic vampire, and Michael Gove, the hermaphrodite pixie. Actually, no, strike that - that's insulting to hermaphrodite pixies.
Johnson is a man who once described women who wore burqas as "looking like letterboxes", a man who was such a fuck-up as Foreign Secretary that his careless choice of words ensured that British subject Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe still languishes in an Iranian jail, on a dubious charge of 'spying'. Which makes this article from last November all the more ironic.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/97552/hate-speech-vs-free-speech-what-are-the-uk-laws
But back to censorship. Donald Trump wants to arrest people for protesting. That's another basic human right - the right to complain about government policy. Criminalize that, and you have a dictatorship, you give carte blanche to politicians to do whatever the fuck they want with absolutely no comeback.
Meanwhile in the UK, Nigel Farage was recently doused in milkshake by a protester, and he wanted charges brought against the man. Several days later UK comedian Jo Brand made a joke about the incident on Radio 4's satirical show Heresy. She made the comment in response to a question about the “terrible time” in politics that the country was going through.
She said: “Well, yes, I would say that but that’s because certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they’re very, very easy to hate and I’m kind of thinking: ‘Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?’”
It was met with roars of laughter from the audience, before she clarified: “It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
Heresy’s host, Victoria Coren Mitchell, said at the end of the show that she hoped Brand’s comments had not caused offence. She later responded to Farage’s tweet complaining about them saying: “I would totally have had you down as a free speech man. Especially when it comes to jokes.”
So Farage lost it, called for Brand to be investigated, Scotland Yard got involved. The BBC were questioned. Brand was forced into making an apology.
So, here's what I foresee. Unless something drastic happens such as the Greens or Labour getting into power, our rights to protest and to exercise free speech will gradually be eradicated so that we are not allowed to complain about our governments. You will get thrown in jail for protesting or voicing an opinion that differs from the acceptable view. Which means that social media posts, blogs, standup comic routines, TV and film comedy, music, books, even newspapers will be affected. People will become afraid of speaking out. Comedy will be reduced to a watered-down anodyne shadow of its former self. Satire and parody will become criminal acts and police will raid comedy clubs on a regular basis, in a hollow echo of the regular raids of the past of gay clubs and pubs. Those who remain unafraid to speak out and protest will be thrown in jail.
Seriously, what's it going to take before people sit up and pay attention? What else has to come under attack before the masses rise up and the right-wing politics is brought back under some form of control? Music? Sport? Quiz shows?
All I am saying is that things need to change for the better, before this becomes a V for Vendetta-type situation.
My apologies for a rambling disorganised post, but I just wanted to talk about it before it eats me up inside. I'm done now, but I will be back.
I apologise to my loyal reader (s?) for not having anything to say for a good while. I have been mainly using this blog recently for advertising my podcast, mainly due to the fact that my podcast platform (Mixcloud) won't let me put the weblinks on the page because I'm limited on the amount of characters i can use, so I post the playlist with all the weblinks here.
But just recently, the state of the world depresses me. And if I try to address all the crazy things that I find distressing about the state of the world in one post, it would no longer be a post, but a tome. Not only that, but there is always the risk that I am going to share an opinion with others who are more eloquent than myself, so my contribution would be so much white noise.
So I have no choice but to break my concerns down into smaller topics and sub-topics. To deconstruct my fears and dissect the minutiae within. But where to start?
Right now in the world as I see it, there are many small things that are symptomatic of a larger problem. One of those is censorship.
It seems as if the far right and the rightward-leaning, who have never responded well to any form of criticism, are taking steps, or wish they could take steps, towards criminalizing a basic human right, namely free speech.
There are a lot of countries in the world where the people in charge are able to rule with an iron fist, either by dint of religious reasons or simply because they are despots and dictators who can rig elections, get rid of the opposition by fair means or foul, commit genocide without a blink, and make laws whereby a person may be imprisoned for no discernible reason or executed for something that we in the West would regard as fairly normal, such as attempting to acquire an education or happening to be attracted to someone of the same gender. Women, it seems, have it worse in most of these countries, since they are given less opportunities in life and are regarded as subservient baby-making machines who are only slightly higher on the totem pole than stray dogs or livestock.
Here in the West we tend to take a lot of things for granted - the ability to vote, access to education and healthcare, and women, despite still not receiving opportunities or pay rates that are precisely equal, are able to have careers, educate themselves and crucially, to vote. But it seems there are those in positions of power who, given the chance, would turn back the clock and strip us of our rights. The right have always had that not-so-hidden agenda of widening the divide between the haves and the have-nots, but only recently have they been so brazen about it.
Right now we are embroiled in the whole Brexit fiasco, and our PM Theresa May has stepped down, so now there is a leadership race within the Conservative party. Everyone seems to think Boris Johnson, that large glazed ham with a handful of straw for a hairstyle, will win out over Jeremy Hunt (the dismantler of the NHS), Jacob Rees-Mogg the toffee-nosed bureaucratic vampire, and Michael Gove, the hermaphrodite pixie. Actually, no, strike that - that's insulting to hermaphrodite pixies.
Johnson is a man who once described women who wore burqas as "looking like letterboxes", a man who was such a fuck-up as Foreign Secretary that his careless choice of words ensured that British subject Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe still languishes in an Iranian jail, on a dubious charge of 'spying'. Which makes this article from last November all the more ironic.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/97552/hate-speech-vs-free-speech-what-are-the-uk-laws
But back to censorship. Donald Trump wants to arrest people for protesting. That's another basic human right - the right to complain about government policy. Criminalize that, and you have a dictatorship, you give carte blanche to politicians to do whatever the fuck they want with absolutely no comeback.
Meanwhile in the UK, Nigel Farage was recently doused in milkshake by a protester, and he wanted charges brought against the man. Several days later UK comedian Jo Brand made a joke about the incident on Radio 4's satirical show Heresy. She made the comment in response to a question about the “terrible time” in politics that the country was going through.
She said: “Well, yes, I would say that but that’s because certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they’re very, very easy to hate and I’m kind of thinking: ‘Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?’”
It was met with roars of laughter from the audience, before she clarified: “It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
Heresy’s host, Victoria Coren Mitchell, said at the end of the show that she hoped Brand’s comments had not caused offence. She later responded to Farage’s tweet complaining about them saying: “I would totally have had you down as a free speech man. Especially when it comes to jokes.”
So Farage lost it, called for Brand to be investigated, Scotland Yard got involved. The BBC were questioned. Brand was forced into making an apology.
So, here's what I foresee. Unless something drastic happens such as the Greens or Labour getting into power, our rights to protest and to exercise free speech will gradually be eradicated so that we are not allowed to complain about our governments. You will get thrown in jail for protesting or voicing an opinion that differs from the acceptable view. Which means that social media posts, blogs, standup comic routines, TV and film comedy, music, books, even newspapers will be affected. People will become afraid of speaking out. Comedy will be reduced to a watered-down anodyne shadow of its former self. Satire and parody will become criminal acts and police will raid comedy clubs on a regular basis, in a hollow echo of the regular raids of the past of gay clubs and pubs. Those who remain unafraid to speak out and protest will be thrown in jail.
Seriously, what's it going to take before people sit up and pay attention? What else has to come under attack before the masses rise up and the right-wing politics is brought back under some form of control? Music? Sport? Quiz shows?
All I am saying is that things need to change for the better, before this becomes a V for Vendetta-type situation.
My apologies for a rambling disorganised post, but I just wanted to talk about it before it eats me up inside. I'm done now, but I will be back.
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Friday, May 3, 2019
Into The Unknown 101
Heaven 17 - Being Boiled (2008 Human League cover)
https://www.heaven17.com/
The Alchemy - We're All Just Criminals
https://www.facebook.com/thealchemyuk
m1nk - Psycho Erotic
https://www.m1nk.com/
Flaming Schwarzkopf Experience - Vladmir's Garden
https://www.facebook.com/flamingschwarzkopfexperience/
Monsieur - Robot Fucker (radio Edit)
http://www.monsieurmusic.com/
Gerry Cott - NYC Cab Ride
http://www.gerrycott.com/index.html
Franz Matthews & Local Suicide - Tutan Jamon
https://www.facebook.com/franzmatthews/
https://www.localsuicide.com/
Bard - Eyes Like Wine
https://soundcloud.com/user-784543991
Acef Stripe - We Thought We Lost you
https://acefstripe.bandcamp.com/
Echo Rider - Make It Up To You
https://soundcloud.com/danger-maybe/tracks
Austerity - Occupation
https://www.musicglue.com/austerity
Father Artois - On The Run
https://fatherartois.bandcamp.com/releases
Sailor Valentine - A Little Cat With Grey Fur and White Socks
https://sailorvalentine.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/sailorvalentine
Shitney - Compressed Tightly Together, Forced To Vibrate As Mean
https://soundcloud.com/shitney
https://www.facebook.com/shitneymusic
Xqui - Epiphany
https://xqui.bandcamp.com/
Skids - Circus Games
https://www.the-skids.com/
Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
http://www.nazarethdirect.co.uk/website/
Acid Barretts - Midnight Call
https://acidbarretts.bandcamp.com/
Dreamweaver - Birched
https://dreamweaverband.bandcamp.com/releases
Firesuite - Deadbeat
https://firesuite.bandcamp.com/
Gang - Dead
https://soundcloud.com/thegangbandpage
Honey Oat- a Stranger Spring
https://astronautico.bandcamp.com/album/honey-oat
Sevdaliza - That Other Girl
https://www.sevdaliza.com/
Skids - TV Stars
Labels:
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
Into The Unknown 100th Episode Big Boffo Bonanza!
The Beat - Stand Down Margaret (Dub)
https://thebeatofficial.com/
Scott Walker - Farmer In The City
https://4ad.com/artists/scottwalker
Louis Cole - Blimp
https://louiscole.bandcamp.com/
m1nk - Drown
https://www.m1nk.com/
Patrick Bates - Jazzba
http://www.patrickbatesmusic.com/
SPECIMEN - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specimen_(band)
Rumblin Cynth Rampo - Infernal Geometry
https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo
Psychostick - Reading Rainbow (cover)
http://psychostick.com/
Our Daughter's Wedding - Lawnchairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Daughter%27s_Wedding
Guiville ft. Dana Kerr - It Could Be
https://www.guiville.com
Luke Wright - Once You Clear The Bodies
https://www.lukewright.co.uk/
Discolor Blind - Poor Receipts
https://www.facebook.com/discolorblind/
Pete Droge - If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)
http://petedroge.com/
Vile Electrodes - As We Turn To Rust
http://www.vileelectrodes.com/
Orchestra Of Cardboard - Germans In Space
https://www.orchestraofcardboard.com/
m1nk - My Twisted
https://www.m1nk.com
Cha-Cha - The Fellowship
https://www.discogs.com/Cha-Cha-We-Are/release/2301837
Isak Anderssen - What Goes Around Comes Around pt.3
https://www.isakanderssen.com/
Leisure Process - Love Cascade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Process
Luke Wright feat. Lora Stimson - The Chains
https://www.lukewright.co.uk/
Pressed And - SLAM DUNKZ SWIM TRUNKZ
https://pressedand.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pressedand/
Psychostick - From The Heart (I Hate You)
http://psychostick.com/
The Homosexuals - Hearts In Exile
http://www.astralglamour.com/
Guiville ft. Augenmerk - Nebelblicke
www.guiville.com
LetKolben- Stand By Me (Original Mix)
http://www.letkolben.com/
Ben Sollee - Extraordinary Machine
http://www.bensollee.com/
Luke Wright - Experts
https://www.lukewright.co.uk/
Bardos - Devil's Weed
https://bardos.bandcamp.com/
Katie Kruel - If I Was Where I Would Be
http://katiekruel.net/
Tristan Welch - Friday
https://tristanwelchmusic.com/
Primus - Pure Imagination
http://primusville.com/
Alva Noto - Uni Sub
http://www.alvanoto.com/
Le Chat X - Dernier Voyage
https://soundcloud.com/lechatx
Nina Clark - Armour
https://www.ninaclarkmusic.com/
Louis Cole - Doin' The Things
https://louiscole.bandcamp.com/
Dead Swords - Waiting
https://deadswords.bandcamp.com/
Dave Greenfield & J.J. Burnel (Feat. Maggie Reilly) - Rain & Dole & Tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Burnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Greenfield
Bentcousin - Pantomime
https://soundcloud.com/bentcousin
Luke Jackson Trio - Five Years
http://lukepauljackson.com/
Harvey Summers/Laura Cole - Make Your Mark
http://harveysummers.com/
Keep Shelly In Athens - (Don't Fear)The Reaper
http://www.keepshellyinathens.com/
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra - Life Is A Drag
https://teapadorchestra.co.uk/
Trunken - Bored
https://soundcloud.com/trunken
Labels:
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Saturday, March 9, 2019
Into The Unknown 99
Vile Electrodes - The Red Bead
https://vileelectrodes.bigcartel.com/
http://www.vileelectrodes.com/
Jilted John - Jilted John
http://jiltedjohn.co.uk/
Jah Wobble ft Keith Levene, Richard Dudanski, Mark Stewart, Andrew Weatherall & Youth - A Very British Coup
https://jahwobble.com
The Specials - Breaking Point
https://www.thespecials.com/
Bob Mould - The Descent
https://bobmould.com/
Car Crash Sisters - In Another World
https://carcrashsisters.bandcamp.com/
They Might Be Giants - The Communists Have The Music
https://www.theymightbegiants.com/
Vono - Dinner Fur 2
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vono
https://bureaub.bandcamp.com/album/dinner-f-r-2
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
http://alvvays.com/
HAWN - Strange Vision
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-ride
https://hawn.bandcamp.com/
Matt Maltese - Nightclub Love
http://www.matt-maltese.com/
Zahgurim - Shower Scene
https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/moral-rearmament-special-edition
https://www.juno.co.uk/reviews/2016/06/10/zahgurim-moral-rearmament/
Fluffytails - Lying On The Golden Clouds
https://soundcloud.com/fluffytails
The Bullseyes - Love's Blow
https://wethebullseyes.bandcamp.com/
Le Cliché - The Age Of Sound
https://soundcloud.com/le-cliche
Fish Herders - Cap'n's Brunch (Eggs With Toast)
https://fishherders.bandcamp.com/
Jilted John - I Was a Pre-Pubescent
http://jiltedjohn.co.uk/
39th & The Nortons - Orchid Flower
https://39thandthenortons.bandcamp.com/
Dali Hi - Stay Low
https://soundcloud.com/dalihi
https://twitter.com/chaircast
Silent Caravan - Eko Eko Azarak
https://soundcloud.com/silentcaravan
Undone - The Strong Song
https://undone2.bandcamp.com/
Eagulls - Moulting
https://soundcloud.com/eagulls
http://www.eagulls.co.uk/eagulls/
The Bushmen - Red Necks, White Socks
https://www.discogs.com/The-Bushmen-Sweat-It-Out/release/1999461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny9oqDenF1M
https://vileelectrodes.bigcartel.com/
http://www.vileelectrodes.com/
Jilted John - Jilted John
http://jiltedjohn.co.uk/
Jah Wobble ft Keith Levene, Richard Dudanski, Mark Stewart, Andrew Weatherall & Youth - A Very British Coup
https://jahwobble.com
The Specials - Breaking Point
https://www.thespecials.com/
Bob Mould - The Descent
https://bobmould.com/
Car Crash Sisters - In Another World
https://carcrashsisters.bandcamp.com/
They Might Be Giants - The Communists Have The Music
https://www.theymightbegiants.com/
Vono - Dinner Fur 2
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vono
https://bureaub.bandcamp.com/album/dinner-f-r-2
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
http://alvvays.com/
HAWN - Strange Vision
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/for-a-ride
https://hawn.bandcamp.com/
Matt Maltese - Nightclub Love
http://www.matt-maltese.com/
Zahgurim - Shower Scene
https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/moral-rearmament-special-edition
https://www.juno.co.uk/reviews/2016/06/10/zahgurim-moral-rearmament/
Fluffytails - Lying On The Golden Clouds
https://soundcloud.com/fluffytails
The Bullseyes - Love's Blow
https://wethebullseyes.bandcamp.com/
Le Cliché - The Age Of Sound
https://soundcloud.com/le-cliche
Fish Herders - Cap'n's Brunch (Eggs With Toast)
https://fishherders.bandcamp.com/
Jilted John - I Was a Pre-Pubescent
http://jiltedjohn.co.uk/
39th & The Nortons - Orchid Flower
https://39thandthenortons.bandcamp.com/
Dali Hi - Stay Low
https://soundcloud.com/dalihi
https://twitter.com/chaircast
Silent Caravan - Eko Eko Azarak
https://soundcloud.com/silentcaravan
Undone - The Strong Song
https://undone2.bandcamp.com/
Eagulls - Moulting
https://soundcloud.com/eagulls
http://www.eagulls.co.uk/eagulls/
The Bushmen - Red Necks, White Socks
https://www.discogs.com/The-Bushmen-Sweat-It-Out/release/1999461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny9oqDenF1M
Labels:
Into The Unknown
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Into The Unknown 98
Kathryn Joseph - And It Will Lick You Clean
http://kathrynjoseph.co.uk/
Anna Von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra
https://www.annavonhausswolff.org/
Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please
http://splodgenessabounds.co.uk/
Coffee or Not - Hidden Floor
http://coffeeornot.be/
Marva Von Theo - Secret Lover
https://marvavontheo.com/
Shriekback - Shovelheads
https://shriekback.com/
Sister Socrates - Clear Cut
https://sistersocrates.bandcamp.com/
Tomasz Mrenca - Bent
https://mrenca.com
https://soundcloud.com/tomaszmrenca
Wendy Rae Fowler - This Is Not A Love Song
http://www.wendyraefowler.com/
Ivor Cutler - A Great Grey Grasshopper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Cutler
Tchiki Boum - Fertility Drums
https://lafermedelajustice.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/TCHIKI-BOUM-186508445072
The Bellrays - That's Not The Way It Should Be
https://thebellraysrock.com/
Dogplaydead - Stranger
https://soundcloud.com/dogplaydead
Fish Herders - The Trouble With Public Transportation
https://fishherders.bandcamp.com/
Funny Kind Of Sad - 61
https://soundcloud.com/funny-kind-of-sad
Gonzo - Hyde Park In Spring (or Larry, Who Sleeps On The Midway)
https://soundcloud.com/user-950705797
John Bender - 60-1 Thought 60-2 Mallinder
https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/john-bender
Laundry - Josefina
https://soundcloud.com/laundry-band
The Icicles - Trees Touch Skies
https://theicicles.com/
West Grand Brass Band - Local Honeys
https://www.westgrandbrassband.com/
Cellar Door Moon Crow - Whistler
http://cellardoormooncrow.co.uk/
Whispering Sons - Alone
http://whisperingsons.com/
Exitmusic - Criminal
https://exitmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-recognitions
Ivor Cutler - The Obliging Fairy
The Fall - Totally Wired
https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/the-fall
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