He’s Like The Wind …

After a lifetime of Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze lost the fight against cancer.

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pirates enter court again

No, this is not about the requested appeal. This goes way beyond appeal.
It seems the judge, presiding the now already famous trial of four men maintaining The Pirate Bay, may have a certain bias. Being apparently an active member of the Swedish copyright lobby it takes not much effort to find a possible conflict [...]

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Orion!

Guitar!

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Monday Evenin’tunes – Tuxedomoon – No Tears

Hugely popular in the Belgian new wave music scene, they moved from the US to follow their success.
No Tears will always remain their real breakthrough song and an anthem for a generation.
Head down and start swaying …
(If you parse this video through here you get the full 20-something minute song out [...]

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sunday evenin’ tunes – Creature With The Atom Brain : Is That Lady Sniff

Just cause it’s a great band

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Ricardo Queso

Sunday …

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Wannes

A great loss …

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sunday-at-noon tunes – dance kick off

Over the last decades some great dance hits were made, some with an eerie quality to them. Some get their freakiness from their sound, others from their videoclip, some from both.
Here are some pearls:
CJ Boland (featuring Jade4U) – Sugar Is Sweeter (1996):

Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy (1997)
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GOD – My Pal – The lyrics

About a year ago I wrote about the Australian band GOD.
They are famous in some way for their song “My Pal”, which over the years remained one of the best songs ever to me, and apparently to a lot of other people.
Now schmerse posted a comment asking me for the lyrics to the song.
So my [...]

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sunday guitar tunes – masters of reality

Once there was a band called “Masters Of Reality“.
and they rocked :
Masters Of Reality – Blue Garden (Live)

Master Of Reality – John Brown

Masters Of Reality – Domino

and a not so bad cover of “She’s got me”

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Violent And Crazy

in a fit of tongue in the cheek mixed with cross-covering , the Violent Femmes launched a cover version of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”.
Following Gnarls Barkley’s wildly popular cover of the Violent Femmes’ “Gone Daddy, Gone” this shows great bands play great songs, whether they are coves or originals.

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hot weather music

Les Negresses Vertes – Zobi La Mouche:

Ray Baretto – Acid:

Beach Boys – Good Vibrations:

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Sheena is a punk ukelele

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radio modern – roma

Last night I broke some sweat again dancing my shoes off.
It was again one of those incredible Radio Modern parties.
Traditionally the night opens with a little dancing class session teaching the basics of some jive or swing, which I completely missed this time because I was too late.
The performing act of the evening was Lady [...]

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post easter tunes – the wipers

Driving back yesterday evening after a few days at the seaside my iPod provided me with nearly 2 hours of the Wipers, which turned out to be excellent driving music, creating an eerie driving experience.
There is so much to say about the band but I prefer this time to let the music say it all: [...]

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