I Love a Bunch of Genres

Death Disco
Public Image Ltd.
Single

It should come as no surprise that I’ve been thinking about pulling the plug on this page for months. I’m not getting much out of it these days, and I don’t feel like I’m giving much, either. “These days” is maybe a little misleading. This whole thing has never quite clicked for me.

Thanks, Nicole, and anyone else who’s popped in to read or listen. There have been some fun times, but, ehhh…

I might return someday - I still have plenty of genres that deserve a little lovin’ - and I might even come back to Tumblr with a new page and a new theme - lots of ideas on that front, as well - but for now, I’m sick of the blogging world.

Later, kids.

Funky Dealer
Hideki Naganuma
Jet Set Radio Future

I’mma tell you the truth, guys. I pretty much just picked this song because it showed up when I searched my music library for “funk.”

It’s a good song, though. Really, I love it. Don’t take my lack of enthusiasm as a sign that this is a bad song, because that’s not it at all.

Easy Chair
Knock the Scene
House of Orange

This has to be one of the most exciting and interesting bands in recent music history. I can’t get enough. What a shame that they broke up so soon, but I have faith the individual members will still go on to great things.

Disco Nights (Rock Freak)
GQ
Disco Nights

I love songs that have musical genres in the title, and this song has two. Yay!

This is the original 1979 GQ version of this song - about as old as any disco song, but it’s new to me, as I’ve only ever heard a cover of it by some other band. It’s pure, simple, generic disco, straight out of the appropriate era, and yet there’s something about this song that seems weirdly modern to me, as if it’s a conscious effort to imitate the style of an old type of music. That’s obviously not the case, but there’s something I find almost comforting in the thought. It truly is just a standard, ordinary genre-piece, though, and that has its merit, too.

Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen
The Pipettes
Earth vs. The Pipettes

I’ve been trying to find some modern disco all month. Maybe “modern” isn’t even the right word - I’d be happy to find a disco song recorded within my lifetime. People talk about punk being dead, but that’s total fallacy. There are people writing and recording new punk songs every day. Disco, though? Dead, baby. It’s a musical movement that came and went almost entirely within a span of about five years.

I’m not saying that because I’m happy about it. I don’t know if you’re aware, but I love disco. I’m not the only one - I’ve written here about a fair number of recent brushes I’ve had with disco music in public spaces, but they’re always songs that are more than 30 years old.Great songs, mind you (some of them, at least), but it’s time for new disco.

Today’s song is neither disco nor funk, but it has some elements of disco. That’s as good as it gets these days.

Also, The Pipettes are amazing. So good.

Your homework for today:

1. Write and record a new disco song for my enjoyment.

2. Listen to everything by The Pipettes. And watch their videos. Their videos are gear.

Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson
Off the Wall

I am so screwed up right now and I just want to disappear for a while, so I may not make any more updates this weekend. You should go do something fun while I’m gone.

Have fun, kids.

Love Rollercoaster
The Ohio Players
Honey

Somehow songs about “Love [Blanks],” where [Blanks] are locations and devices arose at work today. How we arrived on this, I do not know, but we started chaining such songs together into complicated stupidity. Something about being a Love Machine who takes a Love Train from the Love Rollercoaster to the Love Shack before sailing off on The Love Boat into the Sea of Love (there was debate about whether or not Love Boat counts, but Wikipedia tells me the theme song was also title “The Love Boat,” so take that, co-workers who argue with me about trifling minutiae).

Two thoughts:

1. You can stick the word “love” in front of anything and make a popular song out of it.

2. I couldn’t think of any songs like “Love City” or “Love Town,” but, to no surprise, the Internet claims that both exist. Well, “Love Town” exists; songwriters have come close to “Love City,” with songs like “City Love” and “Love City Groove.” Which means…

Hackneyed musicians, this title is still available! Now’s the time to scoop it up!

Also available: “Love Country”

“Love Kingdom”

“Love Province”

“Love Suburb”

“Love Cul-de-sac”

“Love Peninsula” (innuendo!)

“Love Slum”

“Love Rural Farming Community”

“Love Municipal District”

Love Machine
City of Angels
The Miracles

Fun fact: When I write very little, it’s usually because I wrote a lot, but decided against posting it.

Enjoy the music, everybody!

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - Pt. 1
James Brown
Single

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Can You Picture That?
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack

Have you cats ever seen Muppets From Space? It’s not bad - not great, as far as Muppet movies go, but judged generally, it’s a decent flick. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about having jokes about sticking fingers up poopers in my Muppet movies, but I suppose they are puppets, after all, so I’m willing to change with the times on that one.

The best part of the movie, however, is the funky, funky soundtrack. It’s among the best funk collections I know. Seriously.

As great as it is, though, it has nothing on the original tunes of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. George Clinton, James Brown, The Isley Brothers - these guys are amazing, and Dr. Teeth is even better.

Also: Best band name ever.