Nope. I jest ye not folks. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is upon us; http://www.talklikeapirate.com/. Two japesters; John Baur (aka “Ol’ Chumbucket“) and Mark Summers (“Cap’n Slappy“) invented the ITLAP day in 1995 after one them shrieked AAAARR! after hurting himself during a game of racquetball – the hilarity didn’t stop there no sir. After establishing the date they then sent a letter to the American syndicated humour columnist – Dave Barry, and the parody’s since gone viral. So getting in the spirit of things, here aaaarr two shots at redemption: Nelson Riddle – Love Song from the film Mutiny on the Bounty and Mekons with (Sometimes I Feel Like) Fletcher Christian. Enjoy!
Can’t let today go by without paying respects to Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin). Born this day 1952 and died 2002 in LA. Dee Dee, co-founder, songwriter and bass with the Ramones was famous for his count ins.
Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham, born 15th January 1970).
Starting out as an actor, he was in a couple of films before becoming disillusioned with the Film Industry. Among them was the John Sayles Film Matewan (1987) – the film dramatizes the events of the coal miners’ strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. He played the lead in Old Joy (2006), a critically acclaimed road movie aboutabout two mates on a weekend camping trip in the Cascade Mountain Range.
Here’s a Bonnie Prince Billie track: New Whaling. A beautiful song with lacy guitar and haunting vocals.
The UN General Assembly, in a resolution (in 2007) encouraged Governments to strengthen national programmes devoted to the promotion and ‘consolidation of democracy‘, and also decided that 15 September of each year should be observed as the International Day of Democracy.
The Clash released Bankrobber (1980). The song is about a father – a bankrobber who “never hurt nobody” and concentrates on the the theme of the drudgery of many working class jobs.
1. Amy Winehouse, Stronger Than Me
2. The Specials, Monkey Man
3. The Skatalites, Simmer Down
4. Sarah Vaughan, Whatever Lola Wants
5. The Shangri-Las, You Can Never Go Home Anymore
6. Aretha Franklin, Say A Little Prayer For You
Amy Winehouse was born this day 14.9.83. Her clever, cohesive style of jazz and hip-hop surfaced the stormy seas of the music industry in 2003 with her brilliant debut: Frank 2003; depicting the age-old themes of unrequited love, drama and blues with her sometime scathing wit and zeitgeist rhetoric.
Her fans may have left her financially secure but her candid demise also left critics and fault Finders also in pocket – if not financially then with high moral critique of her and her music. Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Beak fame dissed Winehouse for having a fake voice and penned her ‘Whiney Shitehouse‘ (Electronic Beats, September 2012), after also saying in the same interview “I’m a lot more interested in making my own work than listening to someone else’s“. Another critic writer; Roberto Alvarez-Galloso– reviewer and sports writer, wrote for helium.com in 2008: “Amy Winehouse and her music deserve to be banned“- he goes on to say “Her music should be placed in the trash can for the expletives, negative vibrations, and culture of death that are present“. (www.helium.com/items/1236038-amy-winehouse). Way-d-go Roberto. Sadly I didn’t find anything written under his name about multi million dollar ‘artists’ who rap about blowing people’s brains out, or just as tasteful; abusing, hating or killing women.
So wether or not the life that Amy Winehouse led only exacerbated her addictions. Or that her voice may have been stolen from another era, or influenced by the likes of Billy Holiday – what was it Oscar Wilde said: “Talent borrows, Genius Steals”.
Today, on what would have been her 30th Birthday, the Amy Winehouse Foundation will be celebrating and raising funds in support and education of young people with drug and alcohol addiction. www.amywinehousefoundation.org
‘Stronger Than Me’ is just one of the great songs from ‘Frank’, Winehouse’ debut Album.
10 tracks in honour of the work that the IASP (International Association for Suicide Prevention) do, in supporting anyone touched by this subject, and anyone who in which suicide has played a role in their lives.
The tracks are random in relevance.
1. Eels: All The Beautiful Things
2. Bon Iver: Come Talk To Me (orig. Peter Gabriel)
3. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
4. Tribute to Don Cornelius: Soul Train Line Compilation… with The O Jays and Love Train among others.
5. Dusty Springfield sings Burt Bacharach’s: The Look of Love
6. Elliot Smith: See You in Heaven
7. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
8. Daniel Johnston: Life in Vain
9. Nirvana: The Man Who Stole the World (orig. D.Bowie)
Mary Stuart on this day, 1553, aged just nine months old, was crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling. To mark the occasion I’ve loaded Fredde Gredde’s version of Killer Queen by Queen. The work that the 25-year-old Swede put into this deserves a hats off. you made my day Fredde! http://freddegredde.com/
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