Silly Love Songs

This first one is a rare Cure track To The Sky. It sounds like it would fit well on some 80's teen movie soundtrack, although I think it came out in the 90's. It's been on several compilations but I couldn't find much info on the original release. I love the flute sounding synth and delayed guitar.



Second is an acoustic version of Under The Milky Way by The Church, everyone's favorite song off the Donnie Darko soundtrack, along with The Killing Moon.



Lastly we have Kissing The Machine by Elektric Music, Karl Bartos' solo work after leaving Kraftwerk (almost as creative of a name as Electronic - Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's 90's side project, who Bartos actually collaborated with later). This is my favorite off the album because it features the singer of OMD and is similar to their 1985 hit If You Leave.

MINA

The Italian pop singer Mina Mazzini had a pretty interesting career, beginning when she was just 19 years old. Going through her videos you can see she has changed her look many times. Short hair, long hair, curly hair, from bleached blonde to brunette. She wore heavy eye makeup (Siouxsie Sioux anyone?), sang about sex, was banned from television, and shocked audiences with her shaved eyebrows-thirty years before Marilyn Manson would pull the same stunt.

Heres a video of her doing Nancy Sinatra's hit Bang, Bang. I love 60s female singers and girl groups, so I'll be posting similar artists in the near future.

The Gun Club

In the past few months I have been frequently listening to each release from The Gun Club. They have such a unique mid-tempo early LA punk-blues-rockabilly sound with hints of goth rock if not only in their image. Here I've provided one track from their first four albums.

Black Train - Fire of Love (1981)


Run Through The Jungle - Miami (1982)


The Stranger In Our Town - The Las Vegas Story (1984)


Bill Bailey - Mother Juno (1987)

Gravitational Lense

I've been into a lot of dark, ambient, soundtrack stuff for the past few months. One of the pioneers of this sound is Arpanet (aka Dopplereffekt, Gerald Donald, etc). I found this mix of a track off his 2006 release Inertial Frame. It basically just adds a beat, extra synths, and muffled bassline to the otherwise beat-less song but it pays off.

The original track features haunting voice stabs on top of eerie, funhouse synths before transitioning into a 2 minute long experimental space warp.

Arpanet - Gravitational Lense (Chwolson Xallarap Remix)

Welcome to the blog

I love music too much to not do anything with it, so I decided to let you know what I'm listening to now and then. Hopefully you'll like it and maybe discover some stuff you never knew about.

-Lance