Archive for October, 2004

• Friday, October 29, 2004  1:36 pm 

  End of the Halloween candown

  Ah, yeah, it’s friday and your 20jazzfunksters have to go back to their lairs to dust their capes and shine their fangs (a shout out to little fang from here!!) before the Halloween wick-end…
  …so yeah, we leave you with two tracks that don’t need much of a comment, one of them is by Can, taken [...]

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• Thursday, October 28, 2004  1:35 pm 

  Lost bolts

  The Lost Boys might well be one of the ultimate 80s movies, with its blend of terror slasher and kid fantasy, US high school social struggle, leather jackets, a bonkers grandpa, nerdiness (one of the definitive comic bookshop scenes ever), brat packers, Corey Feldman, silly comedy and lots of hairspray. If the relationship between the [...]

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• Tuesday, October 26, 2004  5:50 pm 

  I see you shiver in antici… pation.

  (it feels weird and in a way wrong to keep posting songs here as if nothing had happened yesterday, because yesterday John Peel passed away, and he meant so much to us and many others, so let us keep silent for a respectful moment before continuing with the music, which is what he would have [...]

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•   5:45 am 

  John Peel 1939 - 2004

  Undertones - Teenage Kicks

  John Peel was my best friend. At school he made me feel like there was something else out there and other people who were into the same thing as me.
  John Peel died of a heart attack last night while on holiday in Peru.
  We were very lucky to have you.
  Play The Undertones [...]

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• Monday, October 25, 2004  5:19 pm 

  Human, fly away!

  Mum and Dad- The Human Fly
  Total evil riffing stunt rider music from Manchester. Ok, so The Cramps did a different thing about a Human Fly(available here at bubblegum machine, Help me help me….). Sonovac did a good cover. Gregor Samsa first awoke to find himself as one, and Wire wrote about the annoying one you [...]

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