Crystal Castles - “Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)” (2010)
Whoo, gurl…still recovering from a big night out at the goth club. Some sick NIN remixes but no Crystal Castles, so I’ll be blasting this all day. I love these ‘full circle’ moments in music. Crystal Castles (always growing on me more and more), at the forefront of a new goth moment in love, calling on fairy godfather Robert Smith to do vocals for a cover of Platinum Blonde, a band that rode the success of the Cure’s new wave look and sound. Swish.
Happy November!
PLATINUM BLONDE - NOT IN LOVE (1984)
THE FLIRTS
teased-out-mall-teen-hussy-new-wave-w/disco-frosted-tips?
Bitch, sprang has sprung, you know you are…
bratty-duster-stoned-monster-mash-street-jam?
This:
makes me think this:
tugs and kisses,
garrett
NICE MOVER
GINA X & ZEUS B. HELD = LEATHER CLAD DISCO DOM
FANTASY GODS AMONGST THE SNOWY RUINS OF BERLIN
(NO G.D.M. is an homage to “stately homo” QUENTIN CRISP, Gina’s hero)
AND THEN ZEUS FROM ON HIGH SPOKE “LET THERE BE F A S H I O N,” AND A LOVE SHADOW SPREAD ACROSS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS AND WIDEST SEAS, ENRAPTURING ALL THE LAND:
WM
Fehlfarben - “14 TAGE (12” version)” (1982)
How funky can one German band be?
Fehlfarben is a German post-punk band from Düsseldorf, Germany. Its founding members are Peter Hein (vocals, former Mittagspause (“lunch break”), Thomas Schwebel (guitar, former Mittagspause, S.Y.P.H.), Michael Kemner (bass, former 20 Colors, Mau Mau, DAF, YOU), Frank Fenstermacher (saxophone, later Der Plan), Markus Oehlen and Uwe Bauer (drums, former Mittagspause, Materialschlacht). Apparently, they are still active (!!!).
Fehlfarben were apart of the Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) scene in Germany in the late 70s/early 80s. Other active bands included Palais Schaumburg, Grosse Freiheit, Die Radierer, Der Plan, Pyrolator, Mau Mau, among a zillion other completely AWESOME bands. Read more on Neue Deutsche Welle here. There are plenty of blogs online where you can hear more of Fehlfarben and their NDW contemporaries—Rho-Xs, Mutant Sounds, Happy New Wave. Amazing stuff, even if you don’t understand a lick of German. I certainly do not.
—Jamillah
Nancy Nova - “The Force” (1981)
I think I’m in love with Nancy Nova. She has a voice like Eartha Kitt sucking on a helium tank.
Oh shit, and that gaze….what a freak!
more cultural insensitivity:
Also:
swoon,
garrett