Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Darkness, Darkness" (Jesse Colin Young), #86 Pop, 5/16/1970 (the Youngbloods)

Cover by Mott the Hoople (with Mick Ralphs on vocals, for a change), a demo version off of their 1971 album, "Wildlife", appeneded to the 2018 box set "Mental Train: The Island Years"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 17th, 1980:

Public Image Ltd appear on American Bandstand, deliberately doing a terrible job of lip-synching to "Poptones" asnd "Careering", to an utterly baffled studio of dancers.

They also switched instruments several times, in mid-song, just to demonstrate how phony it all was, and invited attending dancers to join them onstage and pretend to sing a song they didn't know into unplugged mikes.

Glorious.

  

https://diffuser.fm/pil-american-bandstand/

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Youth Of America", the Wiper's explosive anthem, released May 17th, 1981, covered here by Mission Of Burma, from Matador Record's "Intended Play 2005: Wrongs Of Spring" sampler

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 18th, 1897: Paul Dukas' symphonic scherzo "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" premiers, in Paris, at the Societe Nationale de Musique

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Jennifer Eccles", #40 Pop, 5/18/1968 (the Hollies)

Mark Oliver Everett's always-melancholy music project Eels, with their prayerful version, originally on a 1995 Hollies various-artists tribute titled "Sing Hollies In Reverse;, later added to Everett's career compilation, "Useless Trinkets: B Sides, Rarities, Soundtracks and Unreleased" 

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 19th, 1986: Peter Gabriel goes from cult artists to world-wide superstar after releasing his fifth solo album - "So".
After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel spent the next ten years scratching around in the alternative rock underground, making dense, uneasy-listening music, with some success and recognition - but the "So" album changed everything, merging Gabriel's brainy, thoroughly-British art rock with pop and world music, and the world responds favorably; The singles, and especially the videos, for "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", "Don't Give Up", "Red Rain", and "In Your Eyes", send Gabriel's career through the roof.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"The Model", released 5/19/1978, by Kraftwerk, on their album "Man-Machine"

Snakefinger, compatriot and collaborator to the Residents, released his version on his debut solo album, 1979's "Chewing Hides The Sound"