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Pessoa commented on the post, Mike Ratledge RIP 1 day, 16 hours ago
Sad news. The Soft Machine have not exactly been a popular reference point among my generation (X) (although they are name checked in a cool Eleanor Friedberger song) but I have a sweet spot for them. I guess […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, Desperately Seeking Soundtracks – Getting into Sue’s 80s groove with Betty Blue, Ry Coo and the Ghostbuster crew! 5 days, 4 hours ago
A magnificent pop song
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Pessoa commented on the post, Marianne Faithfull – LSO St Luke's 6 days, 21 hours ago
Thank you @fentonsteve, I really enjoyed that
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Pessoa commented on the post, Sampledelica 1 week ago
PSB is a fair choice, but I prefer what the Ghost Box label did with similar material in the 2000s (when “hauntology” was in fashion)
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Pessoa commented on the post, Sampledelica 1 week ago
I have a terrible confession, which I have shared here before, but I am one of those dreadfully earnest student -types in the audience heard talking to the band on one the tracks (but I am not the angry Dutch […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, Desperately Seeking Soundtracks – Getting into Sue’s 80s groove with Betty Blue, Ry Coo and the Ghostbuster crew! 1 week ago
Great choice: I love this movie, and Nick Rivers beats Jim Morrison anytime.
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Pessoa commented on the post, Sampledelica 1 week, 1 day ago
I do not know how they got away with this or how it still sneaks out on CD reissues without an army of lawyers shooting them, but this is impressive:
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Pessoa commented on the post, Sampledelica 1 week, 1 day ago
I was thinking about “Voice of America”-era Cabs (and the spooky French intro to “Silent Command”) but did not know where the samples come from.
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Pessoa commented on the post, Sampledelica 1 week, 1 day ago
This clears the room at parties, but if we want spoken-word sampling then the vile Diana Mosely made to sound like a witch by 23 Skidoo is an anti-fascist tactic.
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Pessoa commented on the post, So Long Marianne 1 week, 2 days ago
Sad news. You already beat me above with “Sunny Goodge Street”, but I like her take of Gerry Goffin’s (but not Carol King, as I had assumed) “Something Better” I dislike the sexist way they filmed her for […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, Desperately Seeking Soundtracks – Getting into Sue’s 80s groove with Betty Blue, Ry Coo and the Ghostbuster crew! 1 week, 2 days ago
Blimey, that is intense. Reminds me of the stories of that Saddam-era, Iraqi anti-British war film with Ollie Reed in it (I have not seen it).
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Pessoa commented on the post, Desperately Seeking Soundtracks – Getting into Sue’s 80s groove with Betty Blue, Ry Coo and the Ghostbuster crew! 1 week, 2 days ago
Definitely. Now you mention it, I was surprised by the lack of John Hughes’s films in that earlier thread, as some of our American contemporaries adore his stuff: I didn’t mention him as I really didn’t go for […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, Desperately Seeking Soundtracks – Getting into Sue’s 80s groove with Betty Blue, Ry Coo and the Ghostbuster crew! 1 week, 2 days ago
Absolute Beginners Soundtrack Yes, the film was a mess but this is a period piece and virtually the “sophisti-pop” manifesto. One of Bowie’s better 80’s songs, a Ray Davies deep cut in “A Quiet Life,” and a […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, The Greatest Greatest Hits 1 week, 5 days ago
Well I never! And it’s a fake cover photo! Thanks very much for the link, as I hadn’t read that.
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Pessoa commented on the post, The Greatest Greatest Hits 1 week, 6 days ago
RE Floyd, Echoes. For many years, the only way to hear the Syd Barrett songs “Candy and a Currant Bun” and “Apples and Oranges” was on a really slapdash, imported, “Masters of Rock” greatest hits thing (as they […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, The Greatest Greatest Hits 1 week, 6 days ago
The Simon and Garfunkel Collection (1981) —the one with them on the beach—has all the ones you need (My Dad had the cassette in the car). Maybe “Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro” is better for the cas […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, AfterEighties Volume 3: From Blue Velvet to Cinema Paradiso 1 week, 6 days ago
It was apparently a 1970s film, but Phillip Noyce’s Newsfront was shown on the BBC once, and I remember it as being very good.
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Pessoa commented on the post, Songs that sound like James Bond themes but aren`t James Bond themes 1 week, 6 days ago
Samples John Barry and the negation of “Nobody does it Better” style Bond.
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Pessoa commented on the post, AfterEighties Volume 3: From Blue Velvet to Cinema Paradiso 1 week, 6 days ago
I cannot honestly get a grasp on 80s TV as I watched too much (my bad), so I will just throw in some things for the sake of argument: Deadhead: Dennis Lawson in an odd murder mystery with allegorical undertones […]
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Pessoa commented on the post, The Greatest Greatest Hits 1 week, 6 days ago
And has a banging version of Dentaku, the Japanese language version of Pocket Calculator
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