45 Things: An Audio Appendix
I have a new Pitchfork column up, called “45 Things I Love About Pop”, which as titles go is among my more straightforward ones. A lot of what I talk about is helpfully linked to thanks to the wonders of YouTube: this post is designed to sweep up some of the other bits and bobs which that fine site hasn’t got. So you get (audio under the cut):
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Two Tribes (Carnage)”: to be honest I can never remember which Two Tribes remix is which but they’re all pretty awesome – well, except Hibakusha with the vomiting noises halfway through.
The JAMS – “Whitney Joins The JAMS”: Mission impossible they said!! I think I wrongly credited this to the KLF in my piece.
Thieves – “Unworthy”: As also featured in my top 100 songs of the 90s, way back when.
Sabres Of Paradise – “Wilmot”: This is the full-length version, not the single/video edit linked to on P4K.
Seeed – “Release”: No bogling indie girls, sadly, but here’s Seeed at work on the famous ‘Cure Riddim’
And that (5 tracks) is all I’m allowed for now – I’ll put a second installment up tomorrow!
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Re. “Whitney Joins The JAMs”: the original 12″ doesn’t actually have an artist credit, just the track title and a standard KLF branded sleeve. So I think you can use either…
Re. the Pfork article: I’ve got some 1988 Coco Steel & Lovebomb 12″s in the attic, so I’ll dig them out after the weekend and see if any of the tracks match your description. If so, then I’ll digitise.
Enjoyed the Pitchfork piece, and agree with a lot in it, although I’m a good few years older than you so some of it wasn’t quite so relevant to me.
Unfortunately I can’t agree with you about the Thieves. Every time I hear it I can only think of Cyndi Lauper’s cover of “What’s Going On”, and that wasn’t brilliant!
Yes it was! I thought that was a wonderful cover!
There’s one particularly good version of Two Tribes that mixes in a pleasant american voice dispensing the occasional homily like ‘supposing they gave a war and nobody came’ etc. It’s my favourite one, but without the original vinyl it’s impossible to find… (this is a not-so-subtle plea for Ton to work his vinyl-to-mp3 magic on my behalf.) In fact, any version on that big 12-inch is a good one – if only I could remember all their names…
IIRC, there were a load of mixes which only came with the FGTH computer game.
#5 – Al almost certainly this is the “Annihilation” mix, its about 9 minutes long.