XWSF Tassell (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tassellrealm) wrote,@ 2006-04-17 08:31:00 |
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Bad Melody Driver - A Morning Rifle Through The You Tube
First up...
"Viva Cantando" by Salome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUCAuWX
Eurovision song contest 1969.
The song's pretty much of a dog, but I find that fantastic set, and those backing singers something of a delight. The song announces itself by blasting into a Wigan-stomper "Here we go!!!" fanfare, then promptly collapses through the floorboards. It's a classic case of 'bad melody driver', as the hooks in the song pop up and disappear in the same breath. The chorus doesn't go with the verse. The intro doesn't go with either, so to add to the confusion let's whoop things up at the end by throwing in a load of gratuitous minor key changes.
"Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Piu" by Caterina Caselli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYpYaaB
A bit mawkish. Once again, this has got that bad melody driver thing going on. You feel like you're going somewhere, and then all of a sudden - you're not going somewhere. I like the way she stands up in the audience to sing. For a moment or so I thought she was going to burst into the national anthem. The organ sound is nice. Caterina Caselli was very big in Italy in the 1960's. I've gone through a lot of sixties Italian pop stuff lately and it seems unlikely that I'm going to find anything that exists in the same sublime realms as Italian film and TV music from the same period: Alessandroni, Nicolai, Morricone, etc.
I'm quite disappointed there are no Gianni Morandi tracks on You Tube yet.
"Uno Dei Mods" by Ricky Shane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gnMnlh
This is quite a good one. I like the mods in it.
"Sing Sing Sing" by The Jacob Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxzfqz2V
The Jacob Sisters descend on Tehran sprinkling their jolly magic schlager-dust wherever they go.
This is a bit gay for me, but very funny. And quite dark.
"Rhume"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-tnhr9
A mad woman caught on the street in Toulouse. I really would like to help. Poor dear.
"Eloise" by Barry Ryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuisRfI
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'” - Ludwig van Beethoven
I love this. One can only imagine how jealous Scott Walker must have been at the time.
"Unknown" by The Slits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5EwXl9
This isn't "New Town". Don't know what it is. I'm assuming it's some of Don Letts' stuff.
Great drumming by Palmolive.
First up...
"Viva Cantando" by Salome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUCAuWX
Eurovision song contest 1969.
The song's pretty much of a dog, but I find that fantastic set, and those backing singers something of a delight. The song announces itself by blasting into a Wigan-stomper "Here we go!!!" fanfare, then promptly collapses through the floorboards. It's a classic case of 'bad melody driver', as the hooks in the song pop up and disappear in the same breath. The chorus doesn't go with the verse. The intro doesn't go with either, so to add to the confusion let's whoop things up at the end by throwing in a load of gratuitous minor key changes.
"Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Piu" by Caterina Caselli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYpYaaB
A bit mawkish. Once again, this has got that bad melody driver thing going on. You feel like you're going somewhere, and then all of a sudden - you're not going somewhere. I like the way she stands up in the audience to sing. For a moment or so I thought she was going to burst into the national anthem. The organ sound is nice. Caterina Caselli was very big in Italy in the 1960's. I've gone through a lot of sixties Italian pop stuff lately and it seems unlikely that I'm going to find anything that exists in the same sublime realms as Italian film and TV music from the same period: Alessandroni, Nicolai, Morricone, etc.
I'm quite disappointed there are no Gianni Morandi tracks on You Tube yet.
"Uno Dei Mods" by Ricky Shane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gnMnlh
This is quite a good one. I like the mods in it.
"Sing Sing Sing" by The Jacob Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxzfqz2V
The Jacob Sisters descend on Tehran sprinkling their jolly magic schlager-dust wherever they go.
This is a bit gay for me, but very funny. And quite dark.
"Rhume"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-tnhr9
A mad woman caught on the street in Toulouse. I really would like to help. Poor dear.
"Eloise" by Barry Ryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuisRfI
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'” - Ludwig van Beethoven
I love this. One can only imagine how jealous Scott Walker must have been at the time.
"Unknown" by The Slits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5EwXl9
This isn't "New Town". Don't know what it is. I'm assuming it's some of Don Letts' stuff.
Great drumming by Palmolive.
