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Hidden, uncredited, on the B-side of Mercury Rev’s first CD single Car Wash Hair is Untitled, a 30-minute bad acid comedown of scathing guitar loops and low sine waves, soured by repeated screams of “I want to be inside you”. New blog: https://t.co/OZtScamOZQ
Performed at New York’s Baseball Hall of Fame on a bat-shaped guitar, Centerfield’s broad appeal put Creedence Clearwater Revival songwriter John Fogerty back in the game. Its riff-based homage helped A-side Rock And Roll Girls into the US charts, 40 years ago this month.
Released #OTD 60 years ago, Who’ll Be The Next In Line was a passive-aggressive tune about broken hearts. The nagging, nervous flip of Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy, it continued the Kinks tradition for B-sides better than their A-sides (and later gained top billing in the US).
A game-changer that set the pop-disco template for the remainder of Hot Chocolate’s career, You Sexy Thing didn’t initially float the boat of super-producer Mickie Most. He made it B-side of Blue Night #OTD 50 years ago before having a change of heart.
North Carolina songwriter Ben Folds didn’t delete the expletives with his uninhibited piano take on Dr Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit, B-side of Landed. Released 20 years ago, it quickly became a live favourite. Wary of getting ‘cancelled’, Folds excised it from his sets in the 10s.
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#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander's interview with Nicky Henson features in ART! TRASH! TERROR! "This script comes through the letterbox one day from my agent and I was already a motorcyclist..." #psychomania#cultfilm
The greatest song of hope was initially given B-side status. A Change Is Gonna Come came to Sam Cooke fully-formed, following an altercation at a whites-only motel. That incident reprised itself with tragic consequences prior to its release, 60 years ago, on the flip of Shake.
#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander has picked his nine unforgettable episodes of The Twilight Zone in the pages of ART! TRASH! TERROR! but there are so many possibilities...
#arttrashterror countdown! They both put their own stamp on the role, but if you *had* to choose, which version of Maniac is your favourite, the original with Joe Spinell or the remake with Elijah Wood?
An occasional book recommendation to those who love a book recommendation. I didn't quite know what to expect of this- well, I did. I expected some trashy bloggers treatment of grim sites of death written in the glib style of Hello. BUT. It was an informative revelation.
*NEW ON THE BLOG* @harbottlestores reads @SongsofMaldoror's Flowers Blooming Fire and reminisces about transgressive fiction of the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Fabulous review of Heidi Honeycutt's I Spit On Your Celluloid in the latest @cine_excess Journal! Read it and an excellent set of articles on Demons, Darkness and the Abject here:
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