16 33 TV: Live from Finsbury Park
Saturday May 19th 2007, 12:05 pm

Today on 16 33 TV: Real LIVE shit.

Vanilla Fudge tie with Isaac Hayes for the best overblown covers. Here is them indulging in some flamboyant trippery in front of a studio audience. Appice repeatedly jumps onto his crash and Mark Stein channels Shatner. Yayz.

Marvin in his later days getting all three points from the Star Spangled Banner at the NBA All-Star game, with his stunna shades on. Outstanding 80s soul backing. He could have sung his shopping list. Thanks to ILL for the tipoff.

Biz Markie & Roxanne Shante doing what people ought to do in the BX in 1986, rocking the house. Back when Biz weighed less than I do and female rappers had hair like it was the 50s and never showed any skin. “We came here, tonight, to get started…”

The John Coltrane Quartet joined by Eric Dolphy on flute for yet another beautiful take on “My Favourite Things”. Trane has his soprano out, taking things to Africa, McCoy is banging keys like whack-a-mole, Elvin Jones is beating the shit out of his trap-set, the cameraman is making with the arty shots and Dolphy only slightly spoils it with his solo. I was born cruelly late in the century. If you were alive in the 60s and you didn’t follow this band around trying to hear every second they played then you wasted your life and that’s probably everyone. Shame on you.

TV On The Radio doing “Staring At The Sun” in Boston this March. I have watched every video of this song on youtube (because it’s the greatest rock & roll song of the century so far) and this is my favourite. The degree that Tunde looses it on stage depends on how much the crowd goes stupid and in this case everyone does the dummy. Oh yayz.

Want Pie

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Filed under: Hiphop, Jazz, Other Music, Psych, Rock, Soul, Youtubeism

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You missed out making pie charts. And youtube separate from internets? And you spend twice as much time picking your nose as eating it? Does this mean you discard 50% of boogers, or that the eating is a relativly easy task, unless there is hair in with it of course, compared to the picking?

Comment by munded 19.05.07 @ 1:21 pm

I spose you’re just choosy when it comes to boogers.
Half my favourited vids have gone from my youtube, have you noticed this with yours? it must be the record labels removing them no? I can sort of understand it but most of them are 80’s hip hop vids from back when rakim had proper lambchop sideburns that we’ll never get to see again. It would’nt be so bad if the labels released dvd collections of that stuff cos so many people would buy it, so why don’t they? or is it like when the BBC used to record over old masters of steptoe!

Comment by hurks 19.05.07 @ 2:51 pm

I very much doubt that most 80s hiphop videos exist in master form. Record masters may have mostly been saved but I doubt videos were in general. If those 80s hiphop videos were owned by majors or if their rights are now then they really don’t care about anything other than “protecting rights” on the off chance that they can then sell the rights to someone else. LastFM have just launched their video offering and they are licensing videos from the labels for some, I assume small, amount. They may get round to licensing back cat videos for Hiphop artists and they would then remain up unlike youtube which doesn’t license anything.

It takes a lot longer to pick a decent booger than it does to eat it, unless you put a big green one inside your spaghetti.

Comment by bse 19.05.07 @ 5:55 pm

I like Vanilla Fudge a lot.
The difference between their covers and Ike’s, is that Ike’s are all perfectly judged. He always knew exactly how far to push a song, how long a guitar solo should be, how many times to repeat a backing vocal, when to introduce the strings etc. Vanilla Fudge had no judgement so everything is turned up to eleven, all they way through. Which is fantastic when it works, as it does here.

I can’t listen to Marvin singing backed by drum machines and 80s synths. Not without thinking of how amazing the musicians he worked with on most – ok, all – of his Motown stuff were.

Comment by David N 20.05.07 @ 1:35 am

Hey ma, what’s for dinner? Go up your nose and pick a winner!

Comment by munded 20.05.07 @ 10:51 am

That Marvin video is something else, how has he managed to make it totally not sound like the Star Spangled banner and more like some smooth 80s soul?

I am also big on those shades.

That Vanilla Fudge also rocks it, that album is great. I also like that for some really trippy sounds it just appears to be four regular dudes on alot of drugs.

I wanna see TV On The Radio live. Alot.

Oh and you spend more that 4% of your free time playing Pokemon.

Comment by Becca 21.05.07 @ 11:20 am

Damn, you sure dedicate yourself to “eating it”. I can’t find “hittin it” anywhere so you must be really good at it!

jokes.

Comment by ILL 21.05.07 @ 11:59 am

Sexytime isn’t “spare” time.

David – I think Isaac often strung songs out too much as well he just jad a larger palette to paint from than Vanilla Fudge did. There was only so much they could do with a song wheras Ike had the arrangements to pull off more covers. They’re a whole lot of fun though.

Marvin COULD HAVE made great music in the 80s if he’d have worked with the right people. In the 60s and 70s he had the benefit of some great producers and musicians working on his stuff. When he went to Sony he seemingly got fuck all to work with.There are 20 or 30 production teams/bands he could have made great 80s soul with if only someone had got them together. :-(

B – I probably should have put 30% of spare time as Poketime and dropped general internets down a bit.

Comment by beez 21.05.07 @ 6:25 pm



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