A Song A Day By Active Whyzzat Members.

[Robert]

While I'm relatively new to funk, I own this vinyl and it is amazing. This song, the title track, is over 10 minutes long, but trust me the payoff is worth it. It was released in 1971, before I was born.

I also have that song on vinyl but it's a bonus 12" single in the One Nation Under A Groove album from '73. (at least I did. I'll have to check I haven't lent it to someone). Great band. George Clinton is a funky genius.

 

[Robert]

I also have that song on vinyl but it's a bonus 12" single in the One Nation Under A Groove album from '73. (at least I did. I'll have to check I haven't lent it to someone).

It lives!

And it still has Maggot Brain but from '78, not '73! Not sure why I thought it was '73.

Fished it from the "F" section in seconds. I'm still benefitting from my repeated OCD-esque alphabetising of my records every decade or so, although I'm overdue another clear out. That's about two thirds of my remaining records. Some of them are pretty crap and were only kept at the last clear out as potential sources of samples.

 

[redrumloa]

A bit out there, but Robert probably knows the original being covered.

 

[Wayne]

While I'm relatively new to funk, I own this vinyl and it is amazing. This song, the title track, is over 10 minutes long, but trust me the payoff is worth it. It was released in 1971, before I was born.

Good thread Jim. In all the years I've known you, I couldn't imagine you listening to ANYTHING but angry, unintelligible screaming and guitar thrashing death metal.

Here's one for you if you're heading in that direction;

 

[Robert]

Good thread Jim. In all the years I've known you, I couldn't imagine you listening to ANYTHING but angry, unintelligible screaming and guitar thrashing death metal.

Here's one for you if you're heading in that direction;

Lovely, and very in keeping with the Funkadelic vibe.

 

[redrumloa]

In all the years I've known you, I couldn't imagine you listening to ANYTHING but angry, unintelligible screaming and guitar thrashing death metal.

I've softened up and embraced my feminine side

While I tend to lean toward the crazy metal stuff, I have an appreciation for all music with talent. Modern Pop has no talent and Rap is not music. Rap may be creative in a spoken word way, but not my thing. I have always had tastes outside of extreme metal. Only a period of roughly 10 years from ~16-26 did I not indulge in those other genres. Most everything I like has some sort of edge to it. I don't like formulaic or by committee.

I'm not posting much from the real heavy/crazy side of my preference due to the audience. Lately the active Whyzzat members probably wouldn't get or appreciate that side of my taste. If some dormant members came back, maybe I'd post a little more of that flavor.

 

[Wayne]

 

[redrumloa]

Nearly a beat for beat cover of the original.

 

[Robert]

From one of my favourite comedy films of all time.

 

[redrumloa]

I think this band was classified as Grunge. I didn't like much "Grunge", but certain bands to me were just Metal. Labels don't always work. Take Stone Temple Pilots. I like a lot of their music, including this song. The album this came off was essentially a Pop album. I had no reason to like it, as I usually hate modern pop, but I like this album and own the CD. I'm choosing this song today for the audience. I'll probably play a harder edge song by them later.

Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart (Official Music Video)​

 

[redrumloa]

I didn't quite get the appeal of this movie as a kid, though I was just 7 when it came out. I've seen clips in more recent years and figure it is probably funny. As for the song, one of my favorite bands in the late 80s did a mini spoof with it that the guys in Monty Python probably would appreciate, but many would probably think distasteful.

 

[Robert]

Nearly a beat for beat cover of the original.

It always puzzles me when bands do that. I like it and I like the Gary Numan original but when they're so similar it seems a little pointless. I think cover versions work best if they sound distinct from the original. Here's a couple you might have heard that I think are different enough from the source material to be distinct but still unmistakably those songs.

Nine Inch Nails cover by Johnny Cash:

Kate Bush cover by Placebo:

Beatles cover by Siouxsie and The Banshees:

 

[redrumloa]

Nine Inch Nails cover by Johnny Cash:

Quite familiar with this cover. I think it is amazing and probably better than the original.

Kate Bush cover by Placebo:

I don't know either of these

Beatles cover by Siouxsie and The Banshees:

I actually don't know the Beatles original. I was never a big Beatles fan, but that probably has to do when I was born. When I was little, adults everywhere wouldn't shut up about how great the Beatles were. That and talk about Woodstock. One of these days I'll go back and listen to deeper Beatles cuts with an open mind.

That said, I did listen to this whole song and it's good. I have a couple friends who basically worship Siouxsie. She's got a great voice.

t always puzzles me when bands do that. I like it and I like the Gary Numan original but when they're so similar it seems a little pointless. I think cover versions work best if they sound distinct from the original.

Slayer - In A Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly cover)​

This is from the soundtrack to the movie Less Than Zero from 1987. Slayer were still a fairly unknown band to mainstream by that point, but were really growing in popularity in the Thrash scene. It's a heavy entry, but always worked for me. It's the furthest from beat for beat. They make it their own. I haven't seen the movie in question, but I'm guessing since the movie is drug oriented, this fits right in.

 

[Robert]

I have a couple friends who basically worship Siouxsie. She's got a great voice.

That she does. She's also one of the original "Bromley Contingent" and appeared as part of the Sex Pistols' entourage for the infamous Bill Grundy interview in '76, before she formed the Banshees:

 

[redrumloa]

That she does. She's also one of the original "Bromley Contingent" and appeared as part of the Sex Pistols' entourage for the infamous Bill Grundy interview in '76, before she formed the Banshees:

There was a real infatuation with the swastika in music back then. I get trying to be edgy and all, but so many were doing it. It didn't matter, Pop, Punk and even some metal in the 70s through mid 80s. Here's Sepultura (Brazilian Black Metal later Thrash band) in the earliest days ~84-85ish.



It a lot of musicians were pretty loose using the symbol to be edgy. OTOH in the US at least, things have swung too far in the other direction. People are way, way too sensitive. Banning the so called "Confederate Flag"? TV stations blurring the old Washington Redskins logo? Ridiculous.

 

[Robert]

There was a real infatuation with the swastika in music back then. I get trying to be edgy and all, but so many were doing it. It didn't matter, Pop, Punk and even some metal in the 70s through mid 80s. Here's Sepultura (Brazilian Black Metal later Thrash band) in the earliest days ~84-85ish.

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It a lot of musicians were pretty loose using the symbol to be edgy. OTOH in the US at least, things have swung too far in the other direction. People are way, way too sensitive. Banning the so called "Confederate Flag"? TV stations blurring the old Washington Redskins logo? Ridiculous.

The Swastika was a common symbol for punk bands and fans during the '70s but you're absolutely right to note that it was somewhat confused, even back then. I remember being told it was anti-establishment and taking that at face value as it came from someone older. Fortunately I never wore one myself but that was mostly a combination of luck and the fact my mother would have clouted me if I had.
There was an interesting article in the Guardian a few years back by a Jewish, London '70s punk, where she went into the confusion around the use of the symbol. I'll have a dig and see if I can find it.

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Here it is, although turns out it was TEN years ago - holy moly, feels like I read this recently. Anyway, it's a decent read and covers this very subject. A snippet:

At rehearsals for the 100 Club's first punk festival Malcolm started handing out swastika armbands he'd had made. Siouxsie of the Banshees put one on right away and some of the Pistols seemed ready to follow suit. Aghast, Rhodes blurted out that if anyone wore swastikas onstage, they couldn't use the Clash's instruments as planned. The Clash backed him up. The gig went on. No swastikas.

 

[redrumloa]

The Swastika was a common symbol for punk bands and fans during the '70s but you're absolutely right to note that it was somewhat confused, even back then. I remember being told it was anti-establishment and taking that at face value as it came from someone older. Fortunately I never wore one myself but that was mostly a combination of luck and the fact my mother would have clouted me if I had.

At least in the 70s, there must've been some romanticizing of Nazi Germany. Outside some odd graffiti, I really didn't see the swastika a lot. That said, I vaguely remember in grade school in the 70s talking about nationalities with some other kids on the playground. One of them listed a couple nationalities and then smiled wide and said something like "I do have a small amount of German". In the late 70s WW2 was just over 30 years prior. Pretty odd that an objectively terrible part of history would end up romanticized. I'm guessing many of those doing it largely didn't even know the history. At that age in Grade School I'm sure I probably knew very little of it myself, if any. Older adults OTOH probably did, David Bowie among them.

 

[redrumloa]

24-7 SPYZ - Thank You

Recent-ish song, late in their career. Fairly obscure, not the best production. Takes a few minutes to really start going, but love this song.

 

[redrumloa]

Infectious Grooves - You Lie...And Yo Breath Stank​

Mike Muir from Suicidal Tendencies and Robert Trujillo from Metallica (formerly Suicidal Tendencies & Ozzy).

 

[redrumloa]

BRUJERIA's PINCHE PEACH Has Died At 57 Years Old

BRUJERIA Leader And Founding Member JUAN BRUJO Dead At 61

This song is an outlier for the band and I'm not a pot head. That said, this song is catchy. It was hugely popular in Mexico.