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El Vez, the Mexican Elvis. Samples

Public Image by PiL and Feliz Navi Nada by El Vez

I was never a big Sex Pistols fan, and only really started listening to PiL a little while ago. The first album is pretty great, short, simple, angsty. The title song has a great little bass hook and then that Irish dude's voice is spot on. So, I thought it was odd when I got a Christmas comp called It's A Cool, Cool Christmas which has some awesome covers, and homages (Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland may appear here soon!) was a cover SLASH sample stealer with El Vez (retardedly great name) singing the Spanish favorite Feliz Navi Dad as Feliz Navi Nada. I think nada means zilch. I'm not sure if it's a straight sample grab or original instrumentation, but it's right there, super blatant, and comes back at the end with the vox. Good times. Happy chewbacah.

[PiL]--------[El Vez]--------Comments Welcome

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Parody
Swingin' The Alphabet by The Three Stooges / Minced by Richard & Danny Elfman
This is a case of discovering the parody before the original and thinking it's an awesome original. Oh well. Forbidden Zone is a fairly amazing movie from 1980 made by Ricahrd Elfman, brother of Danny Elfman (the Oingo Boingo/soundtrack guy) when they were both part of the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, which was less rock band and more performance art. Forbidden Zone has a slew of songs in it, some covers, some lip synchs, some a mixture of the two, with a few originals in there as well. It also features a snotty princess who walks around with a rider's crop in stiletos, topless in a tiarra and wears big granny panties, which is the proper way to handle nudity as far as I'm converned. So, the movie is great, and one of my favorite scenes is during school when the teacher makes everyone do the ABCs. And I just found out this is a rip on the 3 Stooges, who I don't really care for which, I've been told, makes me un-american and also possibly a fag. I dunno, I liked the first Die Hard movie. So with out any more ramblings, 3 Stooges vs a Forbidden Zone:
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Bonus below: Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo on the Gong Show and some more selections from the Forbidden Zone with brief notes..

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Cover
After Hours sung by Mo Tucker / Coil, but not that Coil
After Heather, my roommate was Amber. This is Amber:

Nice girl. Into being cute full time. Anyway, she played the song After Hours a lot. It's a good song. VU is great and Mo Tucker is great. She was, what I imagine, the feisty lil drummer girl. But she got preggers, quit the band and moved to Georgia and worked at Wal-Mart for the minimum wage until Penn, that libertarian magic guy, put out her records, or some other odd fairy godmother nonsense. Can you imagine going from being a rock star to domestic servitude? The moral of the story is don't get pregnant, just close the door, the night could last forever. Vampires are cool.
The band covering After Hours is Coil, but not the how-to-destroy-angels/analstaircase Coil, but some Japanese band off the same VU cover cds that brought us, you Who Loves The Sun? And what the hell, take an official live bootleg of the version with a Lou Reed intro. Double the hell, here's a clip from Penn And Teller Get Killed where Penn shows off how much he likes the Velvet Underground and the 3 Stooges.
[VU]--------[Coil]--------[VU live]--------Penn and Teller Get Killed VU Clip

Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix. Cover
who loves the sun by VU / Honey Skoolmate
Tis still the summer solstice on the wrong coast, the longest day of the year, where the sun pants you in front of yr friends. Luckily, I worked till dusk and avoided the sun: The guy is a jerk.
There's a great cover album of Velvet Underground songs called Rabid Chords, which is filled with Japanese bands that may or may not be obscure. I've heard of the seagulls screaming kiss her kiss her. There's also some USA bands like Of Montreal and that Jim O'rourke guy. it also has these little vingettes of someone named Gerard talking about Andy Warhol and the Velvets. He sounds like he could be huge tic of a man, on scented pillows, recounting the past, stroking an old Warhol wig, the tinsel platinum eroding on his fingernails. I could google it, but maybe Sam can grace us with a comment.
So the sun's a fucker, and Honey Skoolmates know bad spelling and barking dogs do make a good cover on all ends. It also starts to rock in the middle. Be sure to look for another VU nihongo band cover soon, just so I can talk about the tragic magic life of mo Tucker.
[VU]--------[Honey Skoolmates]--------Comments Welcome

It never grows on you. Even on the north side. Sample
hallucination acid lobot by com.a / Sample from Apple Y2K Propaganda
There was an old Farside comic where they revealed to the president or emperor or something, that his whole life had been an experiment, and the funding has run out. Take that Truman Show/Matrix! Anyway, com.a was a Tigerbeat6 darling that has seemed to evaporated in the late aughts, who did a few nifty little songs with a bunch of beat robbing and sample snatching, including an obscure Misfits' sample that will be revisited someday. Hallucination acid lobot was always just another song with a classic sci-fi sample right out of the history sbemails. However, last summer when youtube was blowing up and I was showing it to one of my editors, he freaked out and tried to find this old commercial he loved and low and behold - the birth of the sample was revealed. It's about 1:53 into the song, till the end, remixing Mac HAL as an apologetic destroyer of mank-ind.
[com.a]--------[Mac ad on 'tube]--------Watch it here--------Comments Welcome

Forgive the impromptu logo. Hopefully. Cover
Trap by The Pop Group / Covered by Gogogo Airheart!
This is a nice little piece of spastic anyway you slice it. The Pop Group were a somewhat amazing and horrible band that crawled out of the wreck of '77 punk rock, but didn't fall quite into the arms of 'sound system ragga post punktronix' but still ended up sound like a dance band, but via funk. Like James Brown. One thing that was interesting where their political lyrics. Part of the band wanted to go more and more abstract, the other half was wanted to go more concrete. Trap is from their demo takes and rarities album We Are Time and sits its behind in the abstract column. So WRT and Trap both soundy-feely disconnected, but there other stuff is titled things like "We are all prostitutes" and "How much longer will you except mass murder?" Whatever, it's on Rough Trade, so it's canonical. Anyway, I found out about the Pop Group, which is a great name, it's a big 'oi! fuck you' to The Band, because of the Go go Go Airheart cover. Also, Sharon Singh didn't know who The Pop Group was when I asked.

Monsieur GGGA!'s cover mos def sat in a studio for a bit, despite the delightful tape hissies, and sounds pretty swell. Lot's of echo. Or is it reverb? It's nice to Airheart putting in so much energy, unlike their lazy cover of Queen's Death On Two Legs, but that's for another day. It's a typical cover, but brings a bit of GGGA weird and mixes it with some earnest nostalgia. And they prolly won't ever do a Misfits cover.
[Pop Group]--------[Gogogo Airheart]--------Annotated Lyrics Follow--------Comments Welcome