Funky Friday - One Year Souled |
I'm nipping off next week, (back to sunny Stow - again) but while I'm away - on August 15th - this piece of ol' puffery completes it's first year of orbit in the blogosphere (I'm discounting, b...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:53:00 PST |
"Summer is heaven in `77" * |
* 'Celebrate Summer' - Marc BolanAxe Victim says 1973 is the summer of summers. But for me, the top pop year will always be 1977. It's an overlooked classic - and the year sound and vision went Concor...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:59:00 PST |
The Real Sound Of The Suburbs |
1977 may have been the big bang/year zero of Punk, but while the world crash, burned and turned dayglo, the UK singles and album charts stayed strictly beige, and a gallery of beards and Bri-Nylon, no...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:25:00 PST |
"now he is a puppet dancer" |
Piley put me on to this Bowie boggler years ago - when I discovered YouTube, this bizzaro Bowie-as-Pelham-Puppet performance of 'Boys Keep Swinging' was the first vid' I searched for, but some ol' sp...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:04:00 PST |
Twinned With |
Here's a twinset of sunny delights and summer smashers that never were.Jimmy Webb's boys (Christiaan, Justin and James) clearly inherited their ol' dad's fine ear for a melody and his talent for tunes...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:00:00 PST |
Funky Friday - The Joy Of Six |
It's guest blogger time again, and here's a first - a Mr and Mrs post!That snappy couple Devil Dick from The Devils Music (Psych Rock, Stoner Funk and Garage Goodies)and Jenn from Eye Eat Music ...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:02:00 PST |
Pop Goes The Summer |
Good NewsMy Indiana Jones 'Raiders of the Lost Archives' quest to gather up golden nuggets, summer sweeties and snap crackle and pop tunes, has led me to possibly the hookiest band heard since Jellyfi...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:59:00 PST |
Funky Friday - Latino Lovelies |
Hola! Hola! Hola - it's all gone Channel 9 and Mondo Bossa shaped for todays fistful of funky numbers, revolutionary remakes and south american shakedowns - so fill your botas mi amigos.Ándale! Ándale...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:10:00 PST |
Fur Den Untergang |
Roman Empress and I have been putting our collective noggins together for a 'prog blogging' project. RE has thumbnailed nine key scenes for an imaginary film 'Fur Den Untergang' capturing the cu...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:11:00 PST |
Funky Friday - Hear The Drummer Get Wicked |
All this and more is available here http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/Well we've given 'guitar' a go-go (although some ol' spoilsport's pulled the vid's since), thumbed around with 'bass cadets' ,...
Posted by Planet Mondo on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:59:00 PST |
