Music
Mistress of Time
Back in 1996, Jeanne Calment of France celebrated her 121st birthday by releasing a record titled Maîtresse du Temps (Mistress of Time) on which she "recounts her memories above a musical background of rap, techno and farandole, a regional dance tune dating to the Middle Ages."Based on the clips I've been able to find, the album was as awful as you might expect.
Calment died in 1997, at the age of 122. Wkipedia offers this interesting detail about her life:
Salem Statesman Journal - Feb 22, 1996
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Category: Music, 1990s
I’m Yorn
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 22, 2018 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Regionalism, 1950s
Drive the girls wild, like Jethro Tull
Then, fella, whatchoo need is a SUPER-OUTTA-SIGHT-JETHRO-TULL-T-SHIRT of the sort worn by the fullest-handed rakes everywhere.
These eye-catching sartorial groovies, which are guaranteed to reduce even the haughtiest of lovlies to a mound of hot pulsating flesh, are a divine shade of yellow designed to to flatter even the swarthiest of complexion, are the three-buttons-at-the-neck style recently made all the rage by your sharper English groups.
Dangerous Minds speculates that this must have been a joke ad to promote Jethro Tull's 1970 album Benefit.
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Category: Fashion, Music, Advertising
Juice-Head Baby
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 28, 2018 -
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Category: Music, 1940s, Women, Alcohol
Rock ‘n’ Roll From Outer Space
The Wikipedia page of the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 25, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Avant Garde, 1950s
Rita Pavone: Datemi un Martello
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 19, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Tools, 1960s, South America
Dinner With Drac
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 16, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Superstition, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
Funky Robot
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 13, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Funk, 1970s
Magma’s Invented Language
Vander invented a constructed language, Kobaïan, in which most lyrics are sung. In a 1977 interview with Vander and long-time Magma vocalist Klaus Blasquiz, Blasquiz said that Kobaïan is a "phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically. The language has of course a content, but not word by word."[1] Vander himself has said that, "When I wrote, the sounds [of Kobaïan] came naturally with it—I didn’t intellectualise the process by saying 'Ok, now I’m going to write some words in a particular language', it was really sounds that were coming at the same time as the music."[2] Later albums tell different stories set in more ancient times; however, the Kobaïan language remains an integral part of the music.
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 27, 2018 -
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Category: Languages, Music, 1970s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sing-Along in Yiddish
The album Sing-Along in Yiddish came out in 1960. Part of a fad for sing-along records. The clips below are from the follow-up, More! Sing-Along in Yiddish.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 24, 2018 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
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