Strangely Perfect

“Baby You’re So Repulsive” I just found this shot of Crime playing the song “Baby You’re So Repulsive” in 1976 or summick. This tune was the inspiration for me inventing the basic structure of the Crawling Chaos tune “Friends”. It’s cracked me up after I heard it on Peely one night, and that was it! [...]

This song is spiffing. Or it’s really bad. I’ve noticed that when the subject of Arctic Monkeys arises, people either hate them or love them. Like Marmite. Yeah, just like Marmite. Oooh and by the way, I’ve heard that the Monkeys from the North actually enjoy the music of Crawling Chaos (but not that crappy [...]

Jaques Brel sings his song “Amsterdam” live and Davis Bowie’s recording for comparison.
Lyrics (paroles) in French and English

La Môme

La Môme

I’ve had this Faust tune in my head all day with a sprained ankle to accompany it. youtube The clip is recent, … but I like an old fart I prefer the original recording which is visible here at the faust pages. Funnily enough I keep getting it merged in my head with Robbie’s Advertising [...]

I don’t care how it’s spelt. I love it, it’s like one of my jams. Wahay! See here – click the mp3 link down along a bit. I’m glad it’s back at the minute. Give it a few hours before I’m sick of it… The second first tune is French Disko (I think someone’s got [...]

Iggy Pop – Shades. Don’t mind it being there for now.

Robbie Williams – advertising space -just keeps going round and round the last few days. Still, I’ve had worse.

George Melly is dead (not the man on the telly…) George Melly’s dead. Doomage will remember the reference in the Tom and Jerry film with the Zoot Soots (Suits). In Crawling Chaos, it would have been an EFS but “The Lady from Shanghai” was it, I suppose. I want a Zoot Suit, and I want [...]

I’ve discovered a letter from one of my heroes, Clark Ashton Smith, where he decries the way that artists are appreciated more after their end than during their existence which is strangely reminiscent of The Crawling Chaos’s relationship to the world at large. But wasn’t it ever so…