Rave 'n' Rock - Daddy Maxfield

Someone really should sample this. It's a US Glam stomper from 1973 with a tight Buzzcockian riff. It's denim-clad but it's waving a glow stick and blowing a whistle. It's like deep Quo, or Mud in one of their trippier moments. I'm going to sample this. I'm going to sample this right after I bag up that loose change and take it to the bank.

I'm back from the bank. I've sampled the Rave 'n' Rock riff, looped it and set it against a Bar-Kays rhythm track. The marching noises are sampled from Full Metal Jacket. How clever. That should get me in The Face. Did you know it was filmed on the Isle of Dogs?

I'm planning the promotional video. It'll be me putting the cassette in the back of Teddy Ruxpin, replacing the 'Counting is Fun' tape that came with him. I'll speed up the film and have Teddy and Grubby the caterpillar marching along Chiswick High Road, mouthing the words to the song. Or maybe I should film it on the Isle of Dogs as a clever homage.

Does the talking bear thing work with any old cassette tape? I always wanted to try it out with Def Leppard. Rosie says it doesn't and she reckons that Teddy Ruxpin looks like a butch lesbian anyway.

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Mission Impossible - Kane Triplets

The Kane Triplets sing the theme to the tv show that nobody really remembers much about, apart from the weekly mission by the writers to come up with a plot McGuffin: Stolen microfilm, kidnapped diplomat, finding decent French cheese in West London.

If Mission Impossible had difficulty finding a storyline each week, taking a narrative approach to pop is always a bad idea. One minute it's as simple as "yeah, yeah, baby" and next thing you know you're talking about simulacra, the nature of reality and embarking on your own Glass Spider tour.

While critics blamed the failure of David Bowie's 1987 Glass Spider tour on it's confusing narrative and overreaching concept, it seems that no one was impressed with the actual glass spider. It was one of those stupid ones with a small body and big legs. You can see a better one at the Dartington Glass visitor's centre - and you don't have to listen to a twelve minute version of Let's Dance with bass solo, choreography by Toni Basil and costumes from Beyond the bleedin' Thunderdome.

If you are interested in seeing the large glass spider, the Dartington Glass centre is just off the B3227 into Torrington, right next to the Devon Tin Machine Museum, Garden Centre and Butterfly Farm.

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Manifesto & Book News

If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

Can I have some of your ice cream?



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