Jonathan Richman "Abdul & Cleopatra"

I love pretty much all of Jonathan Richman's work from with the Modern Lovers, sing-songwirter era, Spanish songs to his country albums.

There is a good chance you have heard his work and not known it.
He was in "There's something about mary" playing songs about Ben Stiller during the scene breaks.

The Sex Pistols also covered his song "Roadrunner" on their greatest hits compilation.

Here is an awesome clip of him performing "Abdul and Cleopatra" on French TV:


And here is "Roadrunner" from the first Modern Lovers album:



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Where's Bill Grundy Now?

Here is the scene:
Bill Grundy, British TV host at the last minute gets the Sex Pistols to replace Queen in an interview on his dinner time show.
The rest really writes itself.


The aftermath concludes with the British population being outraged and Bill Grundy loses his job and his career is ruined.

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Clinic - Come Into Our Room

Liverpool's Clinic are usually tagged as a garagey version of Radiohead.
I think that is an inaccurate and lazy comparison.
A lot of their music has this hypnotic-underwater feeling that sort of struts the line between really organic sounding lo-fi take on electronica and garage pop.

Here is come into our room from their album Walking with thee:



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Julie Dorion

Here is the excellent song Darkhorse by Julie Dorion from her album I woke myself up, directed by Rick White.
I've always had a soft spot for Julie, Eric's trip is and has been one my favourite groups.


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The Seeds - Pushin' too Hard

I love garage rock.
Here are the Seeds from a tv perfomance in 1967.


RIP Skye Saxon

Dig that teardrop bass!

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Television Personalities

The Television Personalities are one of the groups of the British punk explosion that are sorta forgotten to a degree.
Most people familiar with the genre will at least know the song "part time punks".
But they have a lot of depth to their music that a lot of people seem to forget.
They should at least get the same accolades that the fall get.
Most of their videos are impossible to find on youtube for some reason. But here is the recording for Silly Girl, one of my favourite songs of theirs.



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The Raveonettes - Dead Sound

Here is a really cool performance of The Raveonettes on live daily.
They strip away all the distortion and reverb and show all the beautiful melody underneath.


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