The Chain

[Nash]

Fatboy Slim sampled this one in Rockafella Skank:

[Antcliff]

Good number. Love John Barry.

From Beat Girl to Beat me Daddy 8 to the bar...world war 2 innuendo.

[camus]

From the Andrews sisters to the Soderberg sisters; Johanna and Klara aka First Aid Kit

[camus]

That Mark Bragg was something, wasn't he? 10/10 for effort.

[Wilcken]

Can't disagree on Mark Bragg. I was sympathetically bugging out my eyes as I listened. Plus I liked the sloppy flash mobby thingie that Nicky put up in its wake.

These two aren't sisters. They do have a great band name.

Garfunkel & Oates

[camus]

Ha, that is a good band name. MMmmmm where to go from there, hopefully not the Oates rowt.

[camus]

Ok Oates pronounced "I may be some time"

This song may be some time, 17:28 seconds to be precise.



Quite awesome actually. Desolation Row was my first choice, alas, no Dylan on the tube.

[Oskar]

[camus]

From seconds to minutes:



Of course there is a possibility of repetition here, I have posted this before, hopefully not on the chain though.

[Wilcken]

[Nash]

The Minutemen were the precursors of The Watchmen.

...and there's never a reason not to have a bit of Dylan is there?

[camus]

An amazing intro...

I'd been playing Dylan for years before this, my son never clicked...He watches this, hey dad put "The Times they are a changing" on.

From watchmen to chocolate watch band

[camus]

Ok, as bad practice as it is, I'll kick off from my own post.

The chocolate watch band, I've (watch)ed loads of bands (groan) and these were my favourite:

[Wilcken]

I see your bad practice, Camus. And I raise it cause I got a solid pair, loosely associated thusly:

Radiohead > The radio man is speaking

in Screenwriter's Blues by Soul Coughing



And Lotus Flower from The King of Limbs > The King of Carrot Flowers by Neutral Milk Hotel



(Plus all three of these are the types of songs that make the case for lyrics as poetry)

...we are lisssssstening... to Los Angeles...

[Select Samaritan]

This could have gone in a much better direction. For example, I could have easily gotten to Jakob Dylan and then on to Bob say. But fuck that.

The King of Carrot Flowers - Daisies - Daisy Chain - Chainsaw:

[Nash]

Woah! Back up there a bit and you've got one of the best things that there ever was...Daisy Chainsaw.

[camus]

Great stuff!

Here's another from that otherwise truly horrendous programme. How Mark Lamarr must cringe. They say The Word changed TV, sadly I think they were right.

[Nash]

They say The Word changed TV, sadly I think they were right.

Brilliant quote there Kris!

A conversation that just happened:

Me: "I don't remember Stereolab sounding like that"

Mrs Nash: "Thats because you were always on acid when we listened to them"

Me: "But, weren't they more sort of trippy?"

Mrs Nash (rolling her eyes): "No! That was just you"

[Nash]

Forgot to post a song.

How about another bunch of filthy lefties, Marxism, Anarchism, it's all the same ain't it?

[camus]

A slightly more polished filthy lefty approach. I had the 12" of this, loved it.

[camus]

And of course the kings of all things anarchistic:

[Nash]

Ha! I almost posted Big A Little A myself back there.

How about the Jeffrey Lewis version?

[Wilcken]

Oh, The Chain is opening up entire new avenues of musical possibility for me.
The Jeffrey Lewis cover reminded me of this:

another duet.



(maybe better characterized as commentary on the real lives of many young American "anarchists")

[Nash]

Great track that, Wilcken!

How about some UK anti-folk?

[Wilcken]

Oh that was a great one.
* adding to the list of music to buy/steal/borrow *

What the world needs now is another folk singer

like I need a hole in the head.