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90's Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:56:41 -0700

Last week felt like a slightly missed opportunity for some car related video shenanigans. I've already done Favourite Game by the Cardigans I was wondering what to do.

This video gives me simultaneous feelings of cheating and snobbery. You know, kind of like Princess Di. Or that Major who coughed suspiciously on "Who wants to be a Millionaire". Originally released under the moniker of Josh Abrahams in 1998 it was re-released in 2001 using the name Puretone (in order to avoid confusion with music producer Josh Abraham) to capitalise on the work he did on the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack. It reached #2 in the UK charts in 2002.

Since I heard it the first time round I get to act all superior but I do wonder if I'm slipping in on a technicality since most people will have heard it way after the 90s especially since this video is from the later European release.

Still, the video - starring the rather lovely Amiel and Megan Dorman, kicks all sorts of arse so I'm going to swallow my musical morals. Not that I really have any of course.

puretone addicted to bass

and because I'm nice here's a making of video

Making of Puretone 'Addicted To Bass'

Actually, whilst I'm on a roll, here's more Puretone car related chicanery, also starring Amiel.

Puretone - Stuck In A Groove

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:55:06 -0700

I missed 90mm last week due to a trip down to the Eifel Mountains for a spot of hurtling round the Grüne Holle - as an added bonus we didn't total any of the cars this trip round. And hit 138 mph down Fuchsröhre. Which was fun.

Because of that I was tempted to do something car related but I had something mind based on my previous post which continues my vague attempt at courting the surly mistress of continuity started all those weeks ago with the "2 many DJs" link then circling round to mentioning Spike Jonze (and resisting the opportunity to do "Elektrobank" which has Jonze directing his wife Sofia Coppola as the gymnast) and Kim Gordon and from there onto Sonic Youth and now ... Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr - Out There video

The link? My previous 90mm "Teenage Riot" is a song about an imaginary world in which hirsute Dinosaur Jr frontman J. Mascis is president - the original title being "Rock and Roll for President".

Tenuous? Bien Sur! Normal service will resume next week.

You've got to love the concept for this video - "It's called 'Out There' right? So we'll ship the band off to the woods and film them playing." "Great start! Love it! Then what?" "Hmm, let me see. Ok, how about this? About the 1:20 mark we'll build a big bonfire, ship in a load of young, attractive people, give them a metric shitload of drugs and film them going nuts!"

For added comedy value here's the same song performed live on with added, err, flourishes, on ... The Jenny Jones show. Ignore the fact that she gets the name of the song wrong and they show the "Hand it over" CD, not "Where you been?" although, to be fair, I think that was their latest album at the time.

Dinosaur Jr. @ the Jenny Jones Show *playing Out There

You know that some booker got fired over that.

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:35:17 -0700

Appropriately given last week's post, Sonic Youth were in town last week performing "Daydream Nation" in its entirety at the Roundhouse for several nights in a row. In another moment of synchronicity I also read last week that James "Vacuum Cleaner" Dyson actually designed the auditorium and seats for it back in 1967. Whodathunk?

And, because I appear to be in some sort of odd trivia vomiting mood at the moment, observant viewers who were curious (or bored) enough to actually go watch the aforementioned video for SY's "100%" will have found the doomed skateboarder in it oddly familiar. That's because he's Jason Lee - Smithian muse, erstwhile sockless skater, Redneck doogoder and Scientologist.

Anyway, more Sonic Youth. And in keeping in with this vague pretence at a 'theme' the next one after that will be related too. As if you care what inane convolutions have gone on in my mind to make otherwise entirely separate entities tangentially related.

Have a riot.

Teen Age Riot

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