Claustrophobes: reduce the risk of a panic attack when entering a lift by looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. The Champs are an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental Tequila. The group took their name from that of Gene Autry’s horse, Champion, and was formed byContinue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #88 The Champs.”
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The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #87 Guess Who
I’ve got a book about a German composer who beats people up. It’s a hard Bach. Today’s OHW is American Woman by Canadian rock band the Guess Who, released January 1970, from the album of the same name. The music and lyrics of the song were improvised on stage during a concert in either SouthernContinue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #87 Guess Who”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #14
There is the quark gluon plasma. In the heart of the beginning, before there were atoms, in the first three hundred thousand years there was the quark gluon plasma, where the sound of the subatomic turned into the watery atomic nevermore where atoms could not evolve. The quark gluon plasma – boiling to the nthContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #14”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #13
Let the rain fall on my tombstone and wash away my name, and let me lie in my unmarked grave in the earth revolving around the sun: unconscious, skinless, and at complete rest. Let the atoms that make up my bones dissipate and return to the earth; unconscious in rest returning to mother earth. FreeContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #13”
The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #84 Tonight
Shocked to find out this morning that a local barber has been arrested for dealing drugs. I’ve been a customer of his for years and I had no idea he was a barber. Tonight were an English five piece new wave band, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England and were active from June 1977 to January 1979.Continue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #84 Tonight”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #12.
After two thousand years of scientific discovery, all of creation can be explained by twelve subatomic particles plus five carriers of four forces. BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE UP QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE DOWN QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE CHARM QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE STRANGE QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TOContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #12.”
The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #82 Violinski
I just met someone else who doesn’t know what a globe is.It’s a small world. Violinski was a rock band formed in 1977 by Electric Light Orchestra violinist Mik Kaminski with former member Mike de Albuquerque on guitar and vocals. The rest of the band included Barry Dunnery (formerly with Necromandus), John Hodgson (drums), PaulContinue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #82 Violinski”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #11
What on Earth are you doing, God?Is this some sort of joke you’re playing?Is it ’cause we didn’t pray? Well I can’t see the point of the word without the action. Are you just hot air, breathing over us and over all?Is it fun watching us all?Where’s your son? We want him again! And nextContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #11”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #10
And then it seems if I had anything to say I would only hurl silence to the world, allowing the atomic and subatomic particles to make all the noise; realising my own illusion and my own nothingness and selfishly stay in non-existence, forever staring at the rest of humanity stabbing themselves with their ignorance; likeContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #10”
Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #9
As I find myself hurtling through the sky towards the ground, and my certain demise, a sense of calm flows through my body and I become one with the situation I find myself in. There’s not much chance of the circumstances changing in my favour, Superman is out of town, so I relax the bestContinue reading “Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #9”
La Barba Azul 