
The initial breakdown of this Marina and the Diamonds’ remix circa 2.15 might well be the most beautiful thing that Pink Stallone have come up with yet, and God knows they have been good kids and true purveyors of blissful 80s tinged top-class ‘dance with your make-up smudged by tears’ music since they came inside our radar less than a year ago. You can enjoy it at quite a few levels, right now as I write this I am revelling in the minutiae of little details accumulating in the background, pleasure sighs from electronic devices squeezed by loving hands which set the pastel-coloured scenario for yet another demonstration of greatness. These kids definitely got the right stuff.
Marina and the Diamonds- Obsessions (Pink Stallone Remix)

Let’s check what we have like we were John Rambo’s loving nemesis- trademark Cowley locomotion hi-energy styles, uplifting chorus re: that utopian discotheque where luminescent reflections in the glitter ball breed dancefloor stars swirling down below in a ground fertile soil for weird and beautiful flowers, and to top it all a killer collection of apoplexy inducing air-keytar riffs, which at 3.20 reach ecstatic heights not far below those of Do You Want to Dance with Me’s glorious coda. We have all we need it seems, let’s do it.

If you didn’t know this one then I am happy to introduce it to you, as Stuart did to me in the shape of a dog-eared 7” with suitably cheesy artwork (regretfully not the one with the cat driving a car, but hey, you can’t have it all). Doctor’s Cat’s ‘Watch Out’ is a definitive italo hit, mythical theme tune for a gang of gay bravos to engage in some proper dancefloor hustling in the oversaturated celluloid of an imagined Warriors Z-series rip-off, and perfect soundtrack for a bout of hedonistic shadowboxing that will help you overcome all adversities.
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Thanks for the marina & the diamonds remix!
Yours sincerely
Welikeit.indie27th January 2009
Thank you for posting the Doctor’s Cat “Watch Out” as Felix da Housecat’s track “Neon Human” is based on it. I was trying to remember which track Felix had ‘borrowed’ from.
Yours sincerely
Miserablism27th January 2009
You are welcome! Nothing beats Doctor’s Cat. And Felix does indeed like to ‘borrow’ stuff.
Yours sincerely
20jazzfunkgreats27th January 2009
looks like rivers cuomo
Yours sincerely
anonny30th January 2009
effectivement, le remix est excellent. tout est sublime quand je transe dans les rues de montréal à l’écoute d’Obsessions (Pink Stallone Remix). je ne vois plus les chars…
btw great funk jazz!
Yours sincerely
Jean-Pierre10th April 2009