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Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Apr 9, 2008 19:51:25 GMT
Some people prefer the Downliner Sect's cover on their Sing Sick Songs ep, but from what I remember, it's nowhere near as good fun. If only Screaming Lord Sutch had come up with it, he might have had that elusive hit!
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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 12, 2008 18:05:55 GMT
Well - I went to Norwich today, bought Super Aleste for the Snes (my holy grail of computer games) and then I went into the record shop and found this and it cost me a small fortune (!), but I thought it was worth it - and thanks for introducing me to quite possibly the best song in the world. Click on the image and it gets bigger. If anyone wants a scan of it - give me a shout!!
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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 17, 2008 13:02:56 GMT
I hope someone out there likes the cover!!!
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by glampunk on Apr 17, 2008 17:54:37 GMT
Put it this way. I far prefer it to .... Kenny Everett's The World's Worst Record Show (Yuk/ K-Tel records, NE1023, 1978) Illustration: Mary Lewis. Sleeve design: John Constable Design Co. Cringe along with us and listen to some of the most tasteless sounds around. Pain can be fun.Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back Zarah Leander - Wunderbar The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralysed Pat Campbell - The Deal Nervous Norvus - Transfusion Jess Conrad - This Pullover Mel & Dave - Spinning Wheel Dickie Lee - Laurie Mrs. Miller - A Lovers Concerto Ferlin Husky - The Drunken Driver
Jess Conrad - Why Am I Living? The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird Steve Bent - I'm Going To Spain Duncan Johnson - The Big Architect Jess Conrad - Cherrie Pie Eamonn Andrews - The Shifting Whispering Sands Tub Thumper - Kick Out The Jams Adolph Babel - My Feet Start Tapping Skip Jackson - The Greatest Star Of All Raphael - Going Out Of My HeadSo frustrating! I only have this on vinyl (hence half a cover scan: couldn't fit it all in. Not that it matters much as you can see) and have no means of playing it just now. Fortunately - or otherwise - the majority of these are so laugh-out-loud tasteless/ weedy/ inane/ dull (delete as applicable although in some cases it's unnecessary) as to be impossible to forget. There are exceptions - everything by Jess Conrad - but the real stars of the show are the death discs. We've swooned over the Jimmy Cross classic already but, if one thing's for sure, Jimmy was intentionally sending up the morbid genre. Can the same truly be said of Ferlin Huskey and his cautionary tale of the Drunken Driver who splattered a child across the highway? What of Pat Campbell and the bargain he made with God in the maternity ward when it looked like missus and child were gonna stiff? Dickie Lee gives us a ghost story built around the enduring urban legend of the good samaritan who gives a pretty stranger a lift home at night. Where do you live, love? Oh, the cemetery. At least he gets his sweater back. Meanwhile, back out on the road, Nervous Norvis is justly celebrated for his dangerous driving in Transfusion while the Legendary Stardust Cowboy gives good dementia in the still ahead of its time Paralysed. Don't know what The Trashmen's raucous Surfin' Bird is doing here but no arguments about the inclusion of the deliciously abominable Wunderbar. It's virtually impossible to choose between Jess Conrad's unprecedented three top twenty entries though for sheer existentialist angst, even Robert Smith would have been proud to come up with Why am I living?. This Pullover is just .... impossible! And yes, that is the very same, mawkish I'm Going to Spain as covered - faithfully - by .... The Fall!
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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 17, 2008 20:44:09 GMT
If you can ever get that album onto cassette - I would love a copy Glam! It looks amazing!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 17, 2008 20:44:31 GMT
I'm sure I remember this being featured on Tiswas, where they played the Eamonn Andrews track.
You wouldn't get that on kids' morning TV these days
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Post by jkdunham on Apr 17, 2008 23:59:43 GMT
Neither The Trashmen's 'Surfin' Bird' or 'Paralysed' by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy have any place being on a world's worst record comp! 'Surfin' Bird' (covered by The Ramones and The Cramps among others) is a certifiable classic and "The Ledge" is clearly just deeply misunderstood. I had both these in my sadly missed vinyl collection on a Big Beat compilation, Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease, alongside such gems as "The Crusher" by The Novas, "Love Me" by The Phantom, "She Said" by Hasil Adkins and, one of my all-time favourites, "Psycho" by The Sonics (who also gave us "Strychnine"!)
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Apr 18, 2008 5:50:23 GMT
I reckon that the bulk, if not all, the selections are contentious, S. It's just a wonderfully eclectic, outrageously out there collection of pop songs, surely as accomplished in their own way as any Now That's What I Call Music ... compilation you'd care to mention. Not that I'm exonerating the likes of the Eamonn Andrews effort, you understand .... Another great "worst" we shouldn't overlook is William Shatner's extraordinary The Transformed Man album featuring his somewhat overwrought interpretations of Hey, Mr. Tamborine Man and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. If you can ever get that album onto cassette - I would love a copy Glam! It looks amazing! I've been looking at this record player which has built-in DVD/CD recording software, but it's way beyond my means just now and I need other stuff first (a video-DVD recorder, a printer, a can of soup ....), so you might get lucky but as to when .... As my alter-ego mentioned, you might like to try this excellent site, Kenny Everett's The World's Worst Wireless Show where you can hear all the original shows featuring several "worst"'s (including the stomping majesty of Mechanical Man) that somehow failed to make the cut. Keep it real, pop pickers.
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Post by jkdunham on Apr 18, 2008 6:35:20 GMT
Another great "worst" we shouldn't overlook is William Shatner's extraordinary The Transformed Man album If we're talking 'Shat' and boldly going where no man etc., then surely we must also mention Leonard Nimoy, doing in less than 3 minutes what Peter Jackson arguably failed to do in 3 films i.e. capture the true essence of Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings saga; The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by Leonard Nimoy
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glampunk
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Post by glampunk on Apr 18, 2008 6:55:27 GMT
and, one of my all-time favourites, "Psycho" by The Sonics (who also gave us "Strychnine"!) Is that a cover of the Leon Payne Psycho ("Aw, don't hand my Johnny's pup, momma, for I might squeeze him to die ....", etc.)? Lovely record! The Nim's Bilbo Baggins featured in one of those Top 10 Pop's Most Embarrassing Moment thingies on C4 or 5 as recently as this weekend gone. I can't really tell you much more about it, I'm afraid. Like any other right-thinking gentlemen, I switched off in protest when it became apparent that the sublime Pans People were to be held up to ridicule over the notorious The Monster Mash routine. Meanwhile, here's Kenny Everett (He's the one you look at second).
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 18, 2008 8:03:54 GMT
Meanwhile, here's Kenny Everett (He's the one you look at second). I was privileged to hear by chance a live broadcast (in the sixties from one of the North Sea Pirate Stations) of Kenney Everett being trained by Tony Windsor (Tony Withers) in how to be a DJ. Probably KE's first ever public broadcast. des
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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 18, 2008 8:14:09 GMT
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Post by Dr Terror on Apr 18, 2008 14:47:58 GMT
and, one of my all-time favourites, "Psycho" by The Sonics (who also gave us "Strychnine"!) Is that a cover of the Leon Payne Psycho ("Aw, don't hand my Johnny's pup, momma, for I might squeeze him to die ....", etc.)? Lovely record! They're different songs, Dem, er Glam. Isn't it too tight rather than to die?
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Post by Dr Terror on Apr 18, 2008 14:53:23 GMT
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Post by phantomrider on Apr 20, 2008 12:45:41 GMT
Neither The Trashmen's 'Surfin' Bird' or 'Paralysed' by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy have any place being on a world's worst record comp! 'Surfin' Bird' (covered by The Ramones and The Cramps among others) is a certifiable classic and "The Ledge" is clearly just deeply misunderstood. I had both these in my sadly missed vinyl collection on a Big Beat compilation, Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease, alongside such gems as "The Crusher" by The Novas, "Love Me" by The Phantom, "She Said" by Hasil Adkins and, one of my all-time favourites, "Psycho" by The Sonics (who also gave us "Strychnine"!) Couldn't agree more - I am a proud owner of LPs by Hasil Adkins, The legendary stardust cowboy and Nervous Norvous (The Fang is one of my all time favourite tracks). All ahead of their time. The Phantom was discovered by Pat Boone after he decide to follow Pat to church one day. Rock n Roll legends are born this way.... Did anyone go and see the Sonics when they came over recently?
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