Just a few tracks that have caught my attention of late.
The album version of Shiny Toy Guns’ Don’t Cry Out. The male vocalist is nasal, the female vocalist is basically just screeching, and the bells are out of tune, BUT IT ALL WORKS SO WELL!!!
This “Parallel Universe” mix of Kate Bush’s Running Up that Hill/A Deal with God by Matt One. Adding vocals from Placebo’s version works incredibly well and slipping in the guitar solo from Another Brick in The Wall is a masterstroke!
Going really far back for a couple of 80s tracks that totally passed me by at the time. The Great Commandment by Camouflage and the odd but compelling Screaming Jets by Johnny Warman, which I presume is where the 90s rock band got its name from.
And finally perhaps the most ludicrously happy piece of music ever recorded -, the theme song from the 1988 Crystal Light United States National Aerobic Championships. The fact that such a contest existed, that it was televised, that the opening is such unadulterated, unintentional camp, AND that they came up with such a banger of a tune for it is so incredible that I am simply lost for words. And on top of that, the singer – Ty Parr – went on to be a regular bit player on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is just baffling in a truly wonderful way.
That’s it. Go find your own entertainment!