Tuesday 6 December 2022

A panoply of playable pleasures

It's grey, miserable and cold out there. Time, methinks, for another selection of "newer" choons that have caught my ear of late.

Let's open with a distinctively different take on an old classic...

Here's a rarity - Drag Race alumnus Violet Chakchi sans drag (as Paul Jason Dardo) doing her best Marc Almond impression in a video for Soft Cell's latest? Hell, yeah!

By complete contrast... Any regular reader will be more than well aware of my atheist disdain for all things religious - but when we discover divas with voices like this, we pay them due homage. Just. Fucking. Wow!

Taking a more sinister tone, here's what a typical week on the office is like:

Let's lighten the mood slightly, shall we, with some sleaze?

Then, there's this - from Erasure's recently-released expanded "Deluxe Edition" of their 1995 self-titled album:

And finally, a remarkable track and video from a most unlikely artist to ever be considered "enlightened"...

As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts...

14 comments:

  1. I only have time to watch one video right now. For some reason I chose Satisfaction.

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    1. Can't imagine why you were strangely drawn to that one! Jx

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  2. There are 2 pretty boys that frequent Bishop Burton layby called Princess and Angel, nice enough people, but the maid and I don't get a look in when they're around they take the first pick of the men and leave us the with the dross. I often contemplate about stuffing hemlock roots into their car's exhaust pipe.

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    1. By the sound of it, they're getting their exhaust pipes stuffed without your help. Jx

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  3. I think I might have the Noel Gallagher already downloaded as I'm a bit of a fan of the High Flying Birds.
    Obviously I love Erasure! And I like the Soft Cell tribute, but not so keen on the Como Mamas - I kept waiting for the instruments to kick in, as I like an instrument.
    A big WOW! for I Feel Love - I like it! Told you I liked instruments, didn't I?!!
    I'm not in the mood for Fever Ray - but that's not to say I didn't like it - and yes, Satisfaction was a good antidote!
    Sx

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    1. Nowt wrong with liking a good instrument, Ms Scarlet.

      Glad you found a few of the choons to your liking! Jx

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  4. Oh, thank you Jon! I've been hankering for some new music, but couldn't be bothered to go out of my way to find any. You've put together quite the varied selection from which I've found some favourites.

    But first, the "not for me"s: The Como Mamas and Fever Ray. Just like Ms Scarlet, I like a good instrument, and these were lacking.

    I rather liked ZRI's "I Feel Love", but would rather listen to the original. The same goes for that Erasure mix (I'm listening to the expanded remastered edition now!)

    The ones I really liked surprised me. I'm not really a fan of Soft Cell/Marc Almond, but "Light Sleepers" was really lovely, as was "Pretty Boy" which I wouldn't even have listened to if it was by the younger Gallagher. And Darin 'Satisfied' my ears again!

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    1. Darin satisfies the parts others cannot reach, it seems.

      It's no shock that Soft Cell continue to come up with the goods (even if you weren't a fan; it's remarkable how so many of their/Marc's songs stand the test of time), but I was pleasantly surprised by the Noel Gallagher one. Jx

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  5. I'll step aside, quietly. My head is full of a wonderful re-jig of Mozart's clarinet. Nope, I don't know who or when, but it was just the mellow thing I needed today.I'll just say it was light years from the supermarket Muzak dross...

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  6. Oh! Yes, that big momma on Comin' out the wilderness left Mahalia Jackson when the next bus was coming!

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  7. How fun. Marc Almond is amazing. And Darin is so much fun. As is Erasure... adore. Thanks for the music.

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    1. It serves to show what a remarkable amount of genuine talent there was around in the 80s for both Soft Cell and Erasure to still be going strong - and Darin's a worthy successor... Jx

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