Disordered Thoughts and Curmudgeonly Ramblings
If any German speakers (I think it’s German) can identify the song in this clip I will be eternally grateful.
Later: Found it! Aloha Heja He by Achim Reichel from 1991. Apparently it went viral in China a few years back, which is probably how it ended up on that clip.
The gator and the croc they should be friends,
Oh, the gator and the croc they should be friends,
The gator’s snout is round you see,
The croc’s snout tapers to a ‘V’,
But that’s no reason why they can’t be friends!
The gator and the croc they should be friends,
Oh, the gator and the croc they should be friends,
The gator hides his lower teeth,
The croc’s poke up from underneath,
But that’s no reason why they can’t be friends!
The gator and the croc they should be friends,
Oh, the gator and the croc they should be friends,
The alligator’s grey and mean,
The croc is cruel and olive green,
But that’s no reason why they can’t be friends!
The gator and the croc they should be friends,
Oh, the gator and the croc they should be friends,
In common little they have got,
But gharials at least they’re not!
And that’s the reason why they should be friends!
Not going to talk about the electoral apocalypse just yet.
I’ve always vaguely known that the Sisters of Mercy/Terri Nunn song Under The Gun is a cover/reworking of a Billie Hughes song, but I only just looked it up. Holy guacamole! It’s so 80’s synth-ballad it could be from the Ladyhawke soundtrack!
I am – as always – astonished at the level of talent that allows Andrew Eldritch to turn what we have above into a masterpiece while simultaneously being a complete (although highly entertaining and often surprisingly justified) dick to everyone around him.
Have found myself mildly obsessed of late with the extremely creepy ‘Black Star’ by Lustmord. Fifteen minutes of droning base, blaring horns and terrifying roars/screams. It’s downright elemental.
Fun Fact: The Escape Club’s “Wild Wild West” (1988) is the only video clip ever banned by the BBC for depiction of Biblically accurate angels.
First, there was this…
Then there was this…
And then there was this…
Let the sun fall into the ocean. Let the earth erupt in flame...
My earlier post about the Protomen’s album The Cover Up and their version of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper with each instance of “Russian” replaced with “Robot” got me thinking about what a more extensive conversion would look like. So I wrote one. Here ’tis.
You’ll take my life, but I’ll take yours too
You’ll fire your maser, but I’ll run you through
So when you’re waiting for the next attack
You’d better stand, there’s no turning back
The siren sounds, the charge begins
But on this battlefield, no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and diesel fumes
As I plunge on into certain doom
My cycle engine roars, we break to run
The mighty roar of the robot guns
And as we race towards the android wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the robots fire another round
We get so near, yet so far away
We won’t live to fight another day
We get so close, near enough to fight
When a robot gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my bike below
And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body’s numb and my throat is dry
A mess of wires where my arm had been
I never knew I was one of them…
And if that’s not enough desecration of a metal classic, check this out…
Yes, you can put out a kickass album of covers, but wouldn’t you rather put out a kickass album of covers, claim it’s the soundtrack to a movie from a parallel universe, and imply the plot with your song choices?
I don’t know much about the Protomen, but I know that their version of Silent Running blows the original out of the water (and that The Trooper sounds even better with the lyrics tweaked to be about robots).
I happened to catch Planet America last night and was extremely pleased that Cheeto Mussolini’s stupid shoes provided the perfect excuse to repeatedly play clips from Herreys’ 1984 Eurovision winning Diggy-Loo Diggy-Ley – a song that I am inexplicably and entirely unironically fond of.
Behold the official English version, which includes some classic 1980’s CGI – the creation of which probably took several weeks in Quantel Paintbox.
And if that’s not charming enough for you, here’s Herreys’ performance 31 years later at the Eurovision 60th anniversary concert. They’ve still got it! (Or at least still had it back in 2015).
The video for the Ghost song Rats can be summed up as “When you’re evil but also silly”
Peak silliness at 1:03
