A Sense of Doubt blog post #2939 - "The Ghost in You" - Psychedelic Furs - Music Monday for 2303.06. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2939-ghost.html #eighties #eightiesmusic #psychedelicfurs #musicmonday #mondaymood #mondaythoughts #MondayVibes #mondaymotivation #MondayBlogs https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5YkwEp6YmSrpB0gwTCN9tegkuL7Y3dtEopdw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Written by Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985). The song features a notable contribution from Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen’'s E Street Band. Sylvester, Martha Wash, and Jeanie Tracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love".
Trouvé ce 12’ original de Situation dans une petite boutique de mon quartier (@asakusa_micro) Found this original 12’ of Situation in a small shop of my neighbourhood (@asakusa_micro) . . #yazoo #vinceclarke #alisonmoyet #newwave #synthepop #electropop #vinyl #eighties #eightiesmusic @muterecords @erasureinfo #asakusa #tokyo #sensoji #浅草 #浅草寺 #東京 #thismademyday @asakusa_micro (à 浅草 浅草寺) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9k4KzPiop/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I wasn’t even thought of when this song was brand new. In my late teenage years and early 20s I was moving around like a gypsy. Something about this song always felt so relatable ever since I was a kid. As an adult, even though I’m a male, this makes sense to me more and more every day. Hope you enjoy this song..
In regards to the song’s ideas about going back to your roots, Stevie Nicks has stated:
“In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey [Buckingham] and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, but we just had it on the floor. I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty… Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it—there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when I’m feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my beautiful bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table and a little lamp.”
Written between 1978 and 1979, the ballad was going to be on Stevie Nicks’s solo album, Bella Donna. When Nicks’s childhood friend Anderson, who was also pregnant at the time, told her she’d been diagnosed with terminal leukemia, Nicks saw the song in a new light. She then decided to save the song for Fleetwood Mac’s next album.
It's 1985 and you're in your dream car. What's playing on your diving jam? #throwbackthursday #tbt #eightiesthrowback #theeighties #eightiesmusic #80smusic #80sband #80scars #eightiesrock #80slifestyle https://www.instagram.com/p/CfKlcFpv6Ho/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2925 - Big Sound Authority - This House (Is Where Your Love Stands) TOTP 1985 - Music Monday for 2302.20. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2925-big.html #ukpop #popmusic #eightiesmusic #bigbandsound #paulweller https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7jxyZJeGQsPr2GsB660T98m_BBuwPuc2KbE40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The song was a combination of political satire and sexual humour, using nursery rhyme-style lyrics. The protagonist, John Wayne, is having sexual intercourse with a Native American female. When Wayne's bandolier restricts their intimacy, she suggests he remove it. He refuses and suggests he sodomize her instead. This surreal image is intended as a comment on the treatment of Indigenous people during the European colonization and was written after Jeremy Healy read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by historian Dee Brown. Wayne represents the European colonists, while his partner is the Native American people. Unusually for a song with explicit sexual content in the 1980s, the song escaped being banned from broadcast by the BBC, was playlisted on BBC Radio 1, and the band performed the song twice on Top of the Pops and on Saturday morning children's television. The song, with its "Shotgun, gimme gimme lowdown fun, boy! Okay, yeah, showdown!" intro, was taken to be a nonsensical novelty song about cowboys.
James Blood Ulmer- Are You Glad To Be In America? (Rough Trade 1980)
An extraordinary, outraged, indignant, full driven punk-funk- jazz revolution captured on vinyl. After stints with Art Blakey, Joe Henderson and Paul Bley, Ulmer joined Ornette Coleman and there began his exploration of guitar harmolodics. This record confused and confounded critics at the time – it raged too hard for the jazz police and was too fractured to be simply funky- but forty years on it remains expansive and boundary pushing.
Side one delivers a prolonged explosive rush from the opening neurotic funk of ‘Layout’, the awkward angular ‘Pressure’ to the organised chaos of ‘See-through’. ‘Jazz is the Teacher (Funk is the Preacher)’ applies some brakes midway sounding almost conventional as it slides into the loose disguise of a song. By track seven, after the pounding ‘Time Out’, the tempo cools with the tense swinging ‘TV Blues’ signposting the deep raunchy soul of album’s closing title track.
Granted the frenetic pace and restless energy of the album often pushes the band’s sound to fight with itself. Ulmer’s guitar can lurch between steely fluidity and clattering destruction. The twin sax of David Murray and Oliver Lake often bring solid foundations but then unexpectedly collapse. The rhythms jerk and slap at thrash metal velocity that sometimes seems on the edge of control. But it is such unpredictability and daring that makes ‘Are You Glad To Be in America’ one of the defining records of the No Wave- unsettling political music that rages against the state and the state of jazz.
"It's too late, the decision is made by fate Time to prove what forever should last Whose feelings are so true as to stand the test? Whose demands are so strong as to parry all attacks? And when blow by blow The passion dies sweet little death Just have been lies Some memories of gone by time will still recall the lies...." #propaganda #duel #eightiesmusic #catlovers #catloversclub #cats_of_instagram #animalplanet #animals_in_the_world_one #excellent_cats #fusagattini #gattissimi #piccoloclubfoto #heartphotos #harusphotos https://www.instagram.com/p/CG9WxNyBllANEZb9WYK0jmX0ZwQ93yYE3x-F7k0/?igshid=1rz55aelkvkzv