Tuesday, July 07, 2015

music music # 15

The last blast? 


Suzanne Spiers reminds me of


A cover of this - once very hard to find - which is why it's the first time I've heard it



Neil Cooper with a heap of suggestions









Based on a Sly and the Family Song of course



and also 


but  Neil could also have mentioned


and probably a bunch of others




Sadmanbarty proffers a bunch of George Clinton "Funk-as-salvation songs"




 and also mentions "Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock Music"   

which reminded me of the disappointment of buying One Nation Under A Groove the LP as a cut-out in some Berwick Street record store in the early 80s and discovering when I got home that it didn't all sound like "One Nation Under A Groove" the track. Indeed the only other song that I dug even a little on the record was this one - 




Disappointment does not even begin to describe the emotions felt when I played the free bonus 7 inch inside with its live versions of "Maggot Brain". I was not ready. Not in 1981.


Sadman also mentions AC/DC's various rock-themed rockers ("Let There Be..." "For Those About To"), Kiss's unmentionable, and some house tunes with the word "house" in.  And Led Zep's "Rock and Roll" which I find really bludgeoning. 

And also from Sadman, a couple from Jamaica: 



(the latter on account of its repeating "music" utterance



David Pascoe comes with just the one 




Hal in London suggests





C.J. comes again with some self-reflexive hip hop (but isn't most of it?)



Kevin Quinn drops by once more 



Rebecca Rosengard offers 



Is this the only pop song about a kind of spotlight?


Jenny Clare is very surprised this one hasn't occurred to me yet, seeing as  she knows it's a personal ab fav of mine



Melanie Brewer  says if you wanna talk about reflexivity




Jessica Maynard says come on now, this is undeniable 




Ah but Jess, let that through and it's a slippery slope to this -