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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Palm-wine, P-Funk, Philly Soul, Polka, Pop, Prog, Psychedelia, Punk – Post preferred pet sounds, pictures, poetry, puppet shows, police procedurals…

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Putting together another piece in the partwork preparing for pride of place in your pedal bin, it’s the letter ‘P’.
Please present any personal precious preferences below:

To push off, here’s Pablo

and Propaganda: (P-Machinery)

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  8. Henry Priestman
    He was in Yachts, Its Immaterial, The Christians. He has keyboarded and produced just about every Liverpool band in the 80s, and then at the age of 53 he released his first solo album

  10. Pannonica DeKoenigwarter (nee Rothschild).

    (Thelonious Monk – Pannonica) From ‘Monk’ Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Larry Gales (bass), Ben Riley (drums).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonica_de_Koenigswarter
    A fascinating life.

    She met up with her great niece Hannah Rothschild in a bar in Harlem. When told that a tramp was asleep in her Bentley outside, she said “Good. That means nobody will steal it.” Classy.

  11. I just got back from Stockholm Music & Arts festival, day one; which ended with a brilliant performance from Thåström (legendary Swedish rockstar).
    One of the songs he did was the wonderful “Ingen sjunger blues som Jeffrey Lee Pierce” (“No-one sings the blues like Jeffrey Lee Pierce”), and here it is, from another gig but the same tour so pretty similar:

    And here he is, singing “Pony Blues”, Jeffrey Lee Pierce himself:

    • This is just so great. The melody is really familiar, and yet this version puts so much glorious flesh on those bones. I wish I knew it better already, but I feel I am never going to tire of listening to it. Thanks, @mike_h!

  25. Not the Bay City Roller song, though they have also covers that.

    “In the back of a taxi-cab, I felt a nervous hand upon my thigh
    As London whistled by…”

    (“Bye Bye Baby” – The Popguns)

  26. One more. Couldn’t find an official video, but this one’s quite good.

    “In chaos and riots, the screech of machines”

    (“Everything’s Cool” – Pop Will Eat Itself)

  35. Just as Bobby’s PS magnum opus Screamadelica is notable for the absence among its tracks of the rather spiffing song Screamadelica, his previous band’s opening statement Psychocandy also omits the song with the same name..

  39. There is only one Povel – Povel Ramel, comedian and musician combined, no longer with us.
    This song still makes me giggle every time. You’ll understand almost as much of the lyrics as any Swede, it’s all nonsensical in a sort of parody of the hey-nonny-no type of folk music lyrics with incomprehensible dialects/old forgotten vocabulary. Povel is the first man on stage, trying to get the others to sing his ditty.

  41. Tom Purvis

    Purvis is my favourite artist/designer. He was one of a group of artists used by the London and North Eastern Railway in the 20s and 30s, to forge a distinct, modern identity for the company. The LNER’s contracts with Purvis and others guaranteed a certain amount of work per year, and also meant the artists could not work for other companies.

    At the time, commercial artists – what we would recognise as illustrators or graphic designers today – were viewed very much as a rung or two below ‘proper’ artists. Proper artists were paid in guineas, and commercial artists in pounds.

    Purvis’s work was influential, as were his views on his trade. He argued that his field of work was as worthy of respect as other art, and that commercial artists needed the ‘same skills, training and knowledge as that of a Royal Academician’.

    Purvis’ approach was to create posters and other materiel in eye-catching vivid colours, using simplified shapes, almost photographic compositions, with close-ups and movement.

    Two of Purvis’ poster series were designed so that they could be joined together, or used individually – the six ‘East Coast Joys’ was the most famous, forming a panorama of cliffs, sea and beach.

    Purvis also did work for Austin Reed, though in later life he turned to portraiture and – a devout man – religious paintings.

    http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/harrogate-1_zpsiwxz6ubh.jpg

    http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/mablethorpe-1_zps4nsrpwid.jpg

    http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/bridlington-1_zpshoihxdrq.jpg

  46. You wanted polka, you got it…
    Polka enthusiast “Weird Al” Yankovic’ “The Hot Rocks Polka” is THE best medly of Rolling Stones’ hits in a polka style ever…or the only one…either way, I love it:

  47. And for a more sophisticated use of the accordeon, there’s Astor Piazzolla of course.
    Here’s “Oblivion”:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya–_G0nC5k
    If it hasn’t already been used in the soundtrack to a French romantic drama, it should be. Moody French people having way too philosophical arguments two hours after meeting for the first time. And talking and talking and talking. And having sex, still talking philosophy, then talking some more over coffee, arguing over some detail that you missed (because you took your eyes off the subtitles for ten seconds to look at your watch and yawn discreetly). And then they suddenly (looks away from the screen momentarily to look at the watch and yawn discreetly) and they never meet again! Bring a hanky. And a pillow.

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