Faev snogs: The Kinks, “Where Have All the Good Times Gone?”

Album version after the j.

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Faev snogs: Cheap Trick, “Surrender”

This one’s all right:

That’s live at Budokan. Album version’s below the jump.

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Faev snogs: The Carpenters, “Superstar”

When it comes to Sonic Youth, I vastly prefer the Kim Gordon songs to any others. But with this one, it really was the right decision for Thurston Moore to sing it.

Original version after the jump.

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Faev snogs: Nick Lowe, “Cruel to Be Kind”

Official video after the jump.

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I think the video for “Regulate” uses the same brick archways set as “Never Gonna Let You Down”

See for yourself:

I hasten to add that every incident in both of these videos has also happened to me as well. I miss the 90s.

And I’m chastened to add that I didn’t know until recently that “Regulate” sampled Michael McDonald:

Live and learn. Mainly via YouTube.

Update: For instance, today I learned that the song title is “Never Gonna Give You Up,” not “Never Gonna Let You Down.” I guess I once knew that and forgot it. Is it ever gonna stick?

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Faev snogs: Deerhunter, “Operation”

I listened to the first couple Deerhunter / Atlas Sound albums and thought I knew what Bradford Cox was up to. I was wrong. Weird Era Cont. is wonderful and I’m embarrassed it took me this long to sit down and really listen to it. Thanks to my pal James for setting me on the right path!

I imagine the above is a fan-made video and not anything official? Either way, it’s also wonderful.

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The Orson Welles / Christpher Walken / Dune connection

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen David Lynch’s adaptation of Dune, so I’d forgotten that it was the source of one of the lines in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”:

Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm

And upon closer inspection, more lines would seem to derive from that film:

Don’t be shocked by tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice

Muad’Dib! Plus:

Come forward and get your teeth smoked, word

. . . might refer to the scene where Duke Leto Atreides uses the false tooth he’s been given by Dr. Yueh to exhale a deadly gas. (Possibly?)

Anyway, so when Christopher Walken starts flying in Spike Jonez’s video for the song—

—should we read it as a Baron Harkonnen reference?

If so, then that’s one way to link Mr. Walken with Orson Welles, since Welles was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s original choice to play the flying fat man.

More importantly, though, I think Mr. Slim is suggesting that the best way to watch Lynch’s movie is while under the influence of cannabis.

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Faev snogs: Kramer, “Insight” (Dead Kennedys cover)

From Virus 100, a DK tribute album, here is Kramer’s contribution, a dark little ditty featuring Samuel E. Wright, better known as the voice of Horatio Thelonius Ignatius Crustaceus Sebastian the Crab:

Easily my favorite cover on the album.

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Faev snogs: Angel Olsen, “If It’s Alive, It Will”

At the late Kim’s Video in NYC, where I spent a not-insignificant amount of time in the late 1990s:

Album version after the jump (it’s from her 2010 debut Strange Cacti).

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The punk ballet “Hail the New Puritan” is now up in its glorious entirety at Ubuweb and you can watch the whole thing right now so oh my god why are you bothering to read this when you can just click on the link in the post below and go watch it?!

Here, right here, click right here to see this film. It’s a punk ballet. It’s 86 minutes long.

I’ve written about this magnificent film here & here.

More can also be found here & here & here. You will not find it in the history books but who cares? It’s a secret history. Like Jack Smith!

It’s the Real Art History.

Please whatever you are doing, take the time to watch this film this very second. Do not put it off another day!

Because if you do, your skin will fester and blister and fall off. And also you will be at risk of dying without having seen one of the most beautiful movies to be seen, and that will be sad.

Also,  it is my dream that everybody living on the earth will see this film. And so I want to organize a screening.

And so if anyone reading this now wants to help make this dream a dream-come-true, please contact me.

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