Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

Speaking of breakbeat...

2008-05-31T00:13:12Z

or just plain "breaks," as I was last time: The Prodigy is generally considered to be the definitive breaks act, and they have been the most visible, thanks to several videos centered around frontman Keith Flint's evil-clown persona. But Prodigy ...

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I'm still listening to Peter Hope (and Nine Inch Nails)

2008-05-29T01:24:08Z

Since I've put up two songs from Peter Hope's post-Box career, I should really put up something from the band that put him on the map. (You know, my map.) The Box was formed by the original ClockDVA instrumental lineup after being fired by bandl...

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Dap-dippin'!

2008-05-22T22:19:18Z

The State Theatre of Ithaca has just announced its 2008-09 season schedule, and the big news is, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are coming to Ithaca! Yahoo!!! Not until November, though; sigh. But I'm going! And I bought tickets today to se...

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Shawn Lee and soundtrack music

2008-05-22T03:23:33Z

Shawn Lee has just put out yet another new Ping Pong Orchestra album! It's called Miles of Styles and, as the title suggests, it's got the most varied genres of any record in the series (and it's also double the length). The tunes are mostly ins...

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Unlikely covers

2008-05-22T00:30:53Z

A few days ago Jeff was looking for an unlikely cover of a disco song; that reminded me of something I came across last year, a disco cover of an unlikely song. Yardbirds disco, anyone? If that's not weird enough, the chorus turns into southern ...

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Space: 1999

2008-05-19T22:52:27Z

After watching the Space:1999 pilot episode with me, none of the family is interested in watching any more. They are rather slow; but what fabulous sets! I wouldn't mind living out my life in the dark of space if I could do it with such sleek pl...

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AOR addendum: New England

2008-05-19T22:30:22Z

There was one more minor AOR hit I wanted to include in my last post, but there was no audio file to go into the Seeqpod player. "Don't Ever Want To Lose You Ya" by New England was one of many songs I taped off the radio in 1979, but never got th...

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Touch

2008-05-17T22:27:14Z

The pinnacle of my used-record-store-owning career came when a guy from the next county called and said there was a song he'd been looking for for ten years, but nobody knows what it is, and the chorus goes "don't you know what love is," and-- and...

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Still wallowing in the 80s: Chrome

2008-05-16T00:59:17Z

The big news is that my old pal Jeff has started his own music blog, at last. I've known Jeff since high school; he was into cooler music than I was, and lent me records and made me tapes to get me up to speed. All these years later (26!) we rar...

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The 80s are coming back

2008-05-13T02:50:27Z

They've been coming back for quite some time now (since 1990), of course, but now my 1980s are coming back. Since my recent post on Slab!, band member Stephen Dray has announced their imminent reformation (in the comments on this blog post), or r...

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