As mentioned on the show on Saturday, when I played “Havanna Sex Dwarf” – a track from the new Booka Shade album “More” – the first thing that popped into my mind like some weird flashback was Flat Eric – the crazy head nodding puppet from the Mr Oizo video for “Flat Beat”. Who knew that a puppet could have so much funk going on?
The Herb Whisperer also reminded me that Flat Eric was the star of Levi’s StaPrest commercials in 1999. Forgot about that.
So here’s your chance to reminisce too, with one of the greatest music videos of all time…
And just to go overboard, here’s the Levi’s adverts…
So there I was sifting around some for some classic Yello tracks (didn’t want to play the obvious tracks “Oh yeah” or “The game”) and then I found this gem “Bostich” from 1980 (not 1979 like I said on the show). I’m dead certain that Mark Moore flogged that bassline riff for “Theme from S’Express”. Crazy stuff.
The Herb Whisperer is wondering why he introduced the Dressla song as Instruktah D. Still, what about that Sage Francis song?
And a warning about band names – be careful what you call yourself…
We didn’t set out to play bands with rude words in their names – eg: Holy F*ck, F*kkk Offf, but luckily no K*nt and The Gang – but sometimes those are the cards you’re dealt.
The story about Canadian band Holy Fuck ruffling the Canadian government’s tory feathers really did happen (though it possibly wasn’t the main cause of the cancellation of the PromArt program)…
In August 2008, the Ottawa Citizen and others reported that the ruling federal Conservatives had issued a talking points memo regarding the cancellation of the PromArt program, funding international promotional tours by Canadian artists.
The memo justified the cancellation on the grounds that its recipients included, among other notables, “a rock band that uses an expletive as part of its name”, apparently referring to Holy Fuck.
The band took offense at this suggestion. In an interview, the band said regarding their name: “It’s been pretty annoying, but it’s gotten us a lot of publicity, so we can’t complain about that.”
What with NZ artists enjoying a relatively positive funding run (or gravy train) during the term of the fifth Labour government (1999-2008) there was concern when National came back into power that the funding would dry up. The Nats are prolly too busy with planning mining in national parks and faking tax cuts but if you’re starting a new band and want some NZ on Air funding you might ruin it for everyone else if you call yourself “John Key is a C*nt” or “Bill English s*cks Donkey Balls”. We’d buy your record though.
Alternatively, this is the raw, unpasteurized version of the show in mp3 format. No chapters, pictures or links. Otherwise the audio content is the same as the three m4a files above. The choice is yours…..
In the interests of fairness and balance and decency (in light of my mean-spirited comments on the show a few weeks ago denigrating The Catholic Church by mentioning child abuse, paedophilia, Nazi gold, bad Dan Brown novels), here’s Bill Hicks thoughts about the pope (taken from from his album “Rant in E-Minor“).
Leighton Jones’ excellent Keytars & Violins MP3 blog is my usual starting point when I put together my part of The Joint playlist every week. The brilliant selections of deep techno, deep house, retro disco, and old synth action – mostly from artists and labels I possibly never would have discovered on my own – keep me going back for more.
As well as posting tracks Leighton also posts delicious mixes full of hypnotic tech-house. Perfect stuff for long plane and train rides. Last year I contacted Leighton and asked him if he would like to put together a mix for The Joint. To our delight he was keen to oblige and we played the mix on our 16 January 2010 show.
Classic video from 2004. Who would have thought a driving test in LA featuring a classic Volvo 244 would work so well with French disco? The reversing near miss at 2’28” is pure genius.
I’m currently driving a Volve 244 GLE (1980 vintage) as a loan car (thx Timo @ Fixations). It has a tape deck and only 1980s music will work in it (Enya sounds better than Lionel Richie who sounds better than Def Leppard). It’s like driving a Swedish lounge suite. Very classy. By pure coincidence turns out that it was the Volvo that RDU gave away as a prize back in February 2009. Freaky.
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