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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Song For RICHARD FARIÑA [d. 4/30/66]

Mimi's Birthday = His Deathday

Song For RICHARD FARIÑA by Holy Contour



found this as old draft
looking for words to fit new tune
and see the date is synchronous
RF died April 30 1966

lyrics

Destined be a legend in my mind 
your life cut short will haunt long-left mine 
you went bump bump bump downthefunnystairs 
with a shock of wind-blown careless hair 
which was how you'd die
Superman through the sky... but Gravity's say 
ruled the rued day with its rude win 
Death steals the last grin 
--happiness made holy 
rockin rolly guacamole

-------------------------------------------------------

 'Morgan The Pirate'



[about you know who...]
 just done yesterday [Richard's last-- 52 years ago]
    

Friday, November 3, 2017

Thursday, September 14, 2017

A Review or 2 of COME ON



                                        from  https://www.angry-mom-records.com/come-on/

Come On - 1978-1979
(Manufactured Recordings)


I just imagined a great band. They have the post-punk bravado of Pere Ubu, the nervous energy of the Talking Heads, the minimal funk of Liquid Liquid, the frenetic jangle of The Feelies, the detached, no-star swagger of MARS, the stripped down harsh guitar minimalism of Arto Lindsay in DNA and the idiosyncratic and whimsical lyrical style of Devo. Oh and they look like a monochromatic Modern Lovers that sing about suburbanism and Mickey Mouse. 
Ok, so they exist, or existed rather. They’re called Come On and you need to know about them. Like much of music and / or show business, timing is everything. They were around at the right time. 1976-1980 to be exact, playing at the very same venues The Ramones, Blondie, Television and The Talking Heads played at. David Byrne was a fan and he urged Brian Eno and David Bowie to come see them at CBGB, which they did. However Bowie got tired and Eno said they were “too vertical and not horizontal enough”, (whatever that means) which is his reasoning to their dismissal from No New York. They were supposed to get introduced to Art Garfunkel for chrissakes! Garfunkel! (Maybe that was for the best). They even auditioned Patti Smith’s sister Kimberly to sing but thankfully turned her down for the enigmatic and punk-fueled Jamie Kaufman. 
Come On did release 2 singles: the surging, carpet-bombing Don’t Walk On The Kitchen Floor and the UK only Housewives Play Tennis. The latter was so mangled that the band never even saw a copy until a member won it at auction on eBay. 
With all of that said, Come On is one of the most important underground groups from the late 70’s punk and no-wave scene. We should be talking about them right alongside The Talking Heads and Patti Smith. 
While the band has been archived before on CD, this is the first LP collection of their material. Not only does it include both sides of their officially released singles, but it also includes the original masters of their other studio recordings which until now, were pressed from low-grade cassette dubs. Manufactured Records also managed to put together a beautiful booklet with band history and photos. I expect to have this way-up high on my year end list. Truly fantastic stuff! (Dom)


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COME ON were a late ‘70s downtown New York City quintet who released a two-song 7” (“Don’t Walk on the Kitchen Floor”/“Kitchen in the Clouds”) in 1978 that basically set the archetype of jittery and tightly-wound post-punk that art-schooled oddballs across the United States would be following well into the 1980s. If COME ON songs were art made with instruments, the visual equivalent would be something like Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes: minimalist, sharp-angled reflections of the banal minutiae of modern living. A CD-only COME ON anthology has been floating around since the late ‘90s, collecting the one official single, a two-song 7” from 1980 that the band apparently wasn’t aware had ever been released until it popped up on eBay, and about a dozen otherwise unreleased tracks that had been recorded live at CBGB in 1978 and the Hurrah in 1980, and now the entire collection is available on vinyl for the first time ever, as part of Manufactured Recordings’ archival reissue series. The combination of Jamie Kaufman’s buttoned-up, nervously yelped vocals, the intertwining guitar scribble and scratch from George Elliott and Elena Glasberg (the latter was still a high school student when she was recruited into COME ON!), and Ralf Mann’s stutteringly danceable, downtown funk basslines invited more than a few comparisons to the earliest incarnation of art-schooled oddballs-turned-major label new wave paragons TALKING HEADS, which is to say before David Byrne got the giant suit and developed the Afrobeat obsession. And in true More Songs About Buildings and Food style, Kaufman’s lyrics fixated on the mundane and the everyday, chronicling such topics as station wagon-driving housewives playing tennis, banging on the ceiling with a broom when a neighbor’s stereo is too loud at night, being snubbed by Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, and the complexities of the child/parent relationship—imagine Jonathan Richman’s narratives of (sub)urban naivety, if the MODERN LOVERS had formed in the post-(not proto-)punk era, drawn their primary inspiration from TELEVISION rather than the VELVET UNDERGROUND, and existed on the cusp of No Wave’s New York campaign of dissonance and anti-rock reductionism. One of the greatest, most essential American weirdo art-punk bands ever, no hyperbole. 
(Manufactured Recordings, comeonnyc.bandcamp.com)
-Erika Elizabeth

Sunday, June 18, 2017

COME ON Hath Risen Again [ALBUM RELEASE 6/16]




We back from the ashes, with a fine remastered updated
selection of tunes to bemuse and set a'jigging new generations to come

https://comeonnyc.bandcamp.com/ 

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& At all the usual retail outrets

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Ain't there one damn song that can make me Break down and cry? [¿No hay una canción maldita que me puede hacer romper a llorar ?]



SELECTED YOUTUBE COMMENTS ON KLAUS NOMI'S 
‘VALENTINE’S DAY’ [2008 from 'ZA BAKDAZ']
before someone [maybe our friendly distributor?] had it removed along with all these gratifying comments [to a co-creator comme moi] ...
THERE WERE NEARLY 1/2 MILLION VIEWS OF THE FAN'S VIDEO

You might imagine the seeming-semi-founded hope that maybe DB did his own surprise version when the titles & song lengths were announced for THE NEXT DAY
[Smiley face, tears]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwA4fFY66nI

-If I had to describe a field of brilliantly colored tulips to a blind person, I would play them this song.
what a heavenly song  …you are an angel my sweet nomi !!!
·  jsennstrom
-It's weird, can't think of another adjective to describe this music, but very beautiful and addictive.
-amazing....he was not only a great singer, but also a great composer . K. Nomi is one of the finest pop artist ever
·  futuristfood
-insanely great.. thanks for posting.. thought i'd never have anything new from Klaus .. this is magic.. thank you!
·  ddhhdd807
-I love this song ; wonderful always, thank you so much Herr Klaus !
-this is beautiful piece of psychedelica. I thought about the end result of life and wild montains. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg were there. I'll sen d this out to my six friends and lovers who od'd
·  kaching64
-Sounds a bit like Knockin' On Heaven's Door... cool
·  samandy1110  -I really do like it though. It's so simple, and it actually makes sense. Not to mention how much talent was put into this.
·  LaQuishmia
-oh god, I don't normally cry whenever i think about celebrities dying and stuff, but when i heard this song, i couldnt help it. :'( Now i can't listen to this song without crying. RIP
-So beautiful
-Christ. Eyes always water...
-wouaoww... exellent i love
-stunning
·  ratayska
-j aime trop
·  grayinu
-to beautiful for words
-So, melancholy, funny, lonely, beautiful, like his life, like mine.
-Pretty cool stuff - pure music
·  HMLSLLC
-Well I'm not gay and I like Matalica and System if the down but I like this song.
-KLAUS NOMI IS GOD.
·  ratayska
- moi aussi il me fait pleurer ,beaucoup d emotions et du bien..me too it makes me cry, a lot of emotions as well’
-He makes me happy,he makes me cry.!!!!
·  dutereq
-very powerful song
-eerie...but very beautiful..........
-this song is very calming if you've had a bad day
·  taniarebel
-i love the beat and the piano in it!
-This song is sad in a very good way.
-Beautiful man, beautiful song. Bless his heart.
-Oh my god that was beautiful
-What a very unique song. It leaves one speechless.
-This is such a hauntingly beautiful song, most likely written & performed late in Klaus' life.
-Beautiful. Manly tears are being shed ;_;
-My eyes are moist too...
·  OWRBtheo
-This is just wonderful. Wonderful, almost brings tears to my eyes it does.
·  Boompass
-I cried.
·  hyarke
fucking trippy
fucking beautiful
I cried
-What a wonderful song...
·  Larz9220
-wow this music sounds so nice <3
-nie wiem co to ale piekne =
‘I do not know what is beautiful, but ...’
-Endless... it climbs over the sky!
-I actually kinda teared up at this video...
·  ZeroCorpse
-Za Bakdaz is a nice final album for Klaus, and this song is truly beautiful. I love it, even though it's a composite of his real vocals and samples, it's just plain lovely and odd
-Is the wordless cry in this song a mourning of a dying person, who doesn't want to go yet, or is it angel's singing about happiness and peace he found after death?
·  666oddi
-Es gibt viele schöne Stimmen. Aber Klaus Nomi hatte eine FANTASTISCHE...!!
·  PitxiYo
-One of the most important songs in my life.
·  hispula
-I hear angels singing...
-zawsze na tym płaczę, ciekawe dlaczego... :*
‘always cry at this, I wonder why.’
-oh my god!!!!!!!!
·  majallica2
-WOW...THIS IS JUST WOW .. :)
·  hispula
-I didn't know about Klaus Nomi before but today I have a new idol... Thank you You Yube!
·  alxazazel
-Totally previously unreleased and totally beautiful! If only Klaus had lived longer... Klaus was an unique talent way ahead of his time and this song will surely become a classic in the future !
-True genius! His electro pop was ahead of the times, but this song is from 1983 and sounds like mellow, reverb, 90's bands like the magnetic fields or galaxie 500. AMAZING!!
-i think it sounds better...
- A timeless beauty - the song and the person!
·  333vasco
-The guy was born a millenium too early. This song is rather contemporanious. This is gonna be one of those to listen to, over and over and over.
-A priceless treasure..
·  Lunoki
-I can't help but think of David Byrne and Brian Eno's album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, when I hear this song. Just shows you how ahead of the curve Klaus Nomi was when his songs sound so reminiscent of music that came out only a few months ago. What a great tune.
·  bobbyluy
-This makes me cry, its lovely we miss you klaus,
-this song is so beautiful so fantastic , please , please send me this song please
·  vettae
-a big Nomi fan? I can't even describe the trip I'm on, or what goes onin my brain (and heart :) when I see him or listen to his voice. No other human being has ever made such an impression on me in 29 years. It's going to be my birthday and I guess I will find some Nomi albums ;-)

-So beautiful..... I very love it song...

-i have found something new to obsess over, thanks
It's over?....Already?...But...but.­..I don't want to go back to real life!!
holy shit! some Klaus Nomi I've never heard ... and so beautiful! Best thing I've ever heard him do! This guy should have been bigger than Jesus... so sad... what a beautiful man he was!



Thursday, April 7, 2016

TO TALKING HEADS 1975 poem





TO TALKING HEADS
Off top 9:45 Oct. 1975 Sat.

I woke up laughing & all my body was
Rooting for itself
Hands like pom pom girls
No struttin feathers for boys
The elastic band of wellwishers
Going it & get carried away
Radio wires was gone down
That didn’t keep us from dancing

“It was from fear that all other
deviations and evil arose” it said
from this book.

Slipflower second and it’s got a
Magic moment, recollection of the magic
The door was flat and they
Left it open, the reason was near it on the floor. Their
Odors and parts of them wanted to
Mingle, that old book when it
Fell off give each 3 a clip at the same time
Fingers was drawn on wall
To point at victims & victors & all
who was in there it meant
the same different thing. They took
it a commune for health of
their new kids, them Xs of powder
for some bug’s kids.
Yah no
Yah no
-found it to be a luvin’
freedom & (fun)
They get diff things, them
All going in from the flesh out

-the fat one w/ little digits sticks
‘em down to the cooler sand & thinks
their hands can feel it enough
to look right. (They can’t see
and it needs a different expression).
They is loved & lovely in that
Light they can’t see, like them
had brains hanging out to
get fumigate. We go “all right” to
them funny smells and look
to them with slow love.

Them caught clips of misunder-
stand it on the fuel to the fire
and they was have a ladder from their eyebrows touch the
floor. When they keep moving, if
they was alone, they’d go
swayin’.

What was it? Goes like: a dumb
Open mouth is the root of chaos.

Stole it then tries to say
what it mean.

My bro. go it w/ a arts ‘n’ crafts
Belt for me

Keep that synapse in the brain
Choose yer diction, that reality

Post yer bill shit on head of eyes

Break it over a clip

He can’t keep the beat He can’t keep the beat

Send it trace thru black
Beam of the charge what
come thru
you put it on a side
It get ready for expression
That thing come thru violent
You get so berserk inside
-It would clip you & fall
For them ax grinds?

He go it like a fighter
We put a snake in
He die slow, she slip in innocent
River meet a blob of concrete
Them expects too much, take
floor, go it to piss,
Then back for more.

Move it thorough & stir
That kind of dense action
Sweet meeting
Get them animals

Them got to smell it, touch it
Pick it like a flower

It’s $ cuts
Pull back near a card
They call some office.
To put our identity past them
Offerings, they chose our
Sex different

It an ornery fucked head
& drone ________________________

Talking H.
Them need rep
Need them flowers
Them got fast
Has it to be got

Money $
You poke around for it
Gives you a cut
You find it
You go and do nothing w/ it
You give $



-dedicated to TALKING HEADS
I just unearthed the notebook this was scrawled in…
I wrote this spontaneously in a friend’s vacationing friend’s apartment on East 1st Street Manhattan (a stone’s throw from then-new CBGB’s on the Bowery) where I met, became fast with ze Heads... and left them a copy at their loft before returning to Denver ahead of my move to 7th St. dreams in the head of becoming the 4th Head, with luck!

That longago weekend in an uptown club basement dressing room I was offered some pure cocaine which seemed to rewire my brain & mood for days, reflected in adopting certain novel speech/language patterns as above! so b'low