Strangely Perfect

Some may recognise this post’s title – it’s the opening line from David Bowie’s ‘Quicksand’ and refers to Alistair Crowley‘s OTO-like organisation.  Personally, I like the tune and it always comes to mind on mornings like today when the sky was like the photosphere of the Sun, absolutely flawless in it’s colour transitions.  The pictures [...]

The Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud I stumbled upon an amazing amalgamation of Bowie’s track with some Oliver Postgate animation.  I never liked the track much apart from about 2/3 of the way through when it picks up.  With this animation, it works all the way through. Postgate died recently aged 83.  Many people of [...]

I Wish I Was a Girl – by The Pink Fairies Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat Ironic or what? Oh I tripped down the street in my fashion, Arousing Ladies passion, But they misunderstand my eyes, They don’t know that I’m just after their guys. The instrumental and vocal bit after the verse above [...]

Apocalyptica featuring Till Lindemann: Helden Since I first heard this version, it won’t leave my head, which means for me, as a lingering tune, it fully deserves the soubriquet, “Strangely Perfect”. I don’t care if no-one agrees with me as music is something that is perceived in an individual’s mind, at one point in time.  [...]

V2 Schneider – Bowie I don’t know why Bowie titled it so; maybe it’s a tribute to the Kraftwerk dude.  Whatever, it’s one of my all-time favourite intros and even though it’s lost some power compared to the “modern” sounds available now, it’s still a cracker and it could easily be re-done.  The sax at [...]

Art and creativity come in many forms but since the internet arrived with the huge explosion in community sites and the easy interchange of prior art, maybe the concept of creativity needs re-defining. Prior art like: a 20 foot oil canvas viewed in a museum a paper book like Harry Potter, read in bed, a [...]

A better translation of the classic Jaques Brel song, “Dans le Port d’Amsterdam” by Jillian Greenwood

This original post on Jaques Brel has been updated and I’ve stuck the Bowie version up.  I’ve improved the layout as it’s getting quite a few hits.  It may help French students like Rocket Mole.

…so I looked it up and bizarrely, it IS on youtube with some sort of a video. It’s Mick Ronson doing “The Empty Bed” from his LP “Play, Don’t Worry”. Without checking the sleeve, I think it’s a cover of an Italian or Spanish dudes tune, or possibly Greek. Certainly Mediterranean. I think. Probably. Or [...]

Another bit of the “Friends” piece (and others) comes from Rachmaninov. This info should be incorporated with that here. The first video is of his famous prelude (which he called “it” as he got fed up with playing so often). This music represents corpses(ghouls) rising from the grave at night, walking around a bit doing [...]

“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! [...]

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