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EGYPTIAN SHUMBA (1963)
One of the weirdest, wildest and most exhilarating tracks I’ve ever heard.
October 7th, 2009.
One of the weirdest, wildest and most exhilarating tracks I’ve ever heard.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
It’s like the crossroads in the Wizard of Oz, but the flying monkeys are meeting Shangri-Las or the Angels. Odd.
While searching for Shangri-Las I found this. Watch at your peril (but I just listened to that cacophony of screaming so you probably should). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCDv0IorMQ
October 7th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Free download of the new Hoovers & Sledgehammers album here:
http://www.drunkenlustrecords.com/Rumours_&_lies_h&S.html
If I remember Mongrel were big fans of these. My favourites are New Shoes, Hash Cake & the TEFL Teacher and Students Demons
October 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@ Rosemary – I made it about five seconds in… I find those Jon Bennet Ramsey-esque performers really disturbing!
@ albinicus – It wasn’t so much that we loved them or anything, more that if you’d just waded through a pile of identikit Radiohead or Coldplay wannabes, listening to some mad lad ranting about how he could grow turnips out of his ears etc. was always refreshing!
October 8th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Ya gotta admit though ‘New Shoes’ is a slam poetry classic..
October 8th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I’ll admit, I felt a bit creepy watching it, and then I felt like Mikael Blomqvist; as if there was something to be taken from it, something I was missing, some point that I just couldn’t grasp. So I watched it again. Then I took a boiling hot bath. Shudder.