So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

You didn't know about them and their deep poetry?  Never heard of a Sex Führer?

"Well I love TV and I love T- Rex
I can see through your skirt
I've got X-Ray specs
I came from the sky like a 747
I'm the bad boy baby, I fell out of heaven
Sex Führer baby, I'm a love dictator
Blitzkrieg romance, I'm a cruel dominator

Well I'm Christ in shades, I'm a Napalm God
Your lipstick flickers round my lightning rod
You fever pitch bitch, you love to tease
Well I'm a Hot Dog Daddy up on your knees
Sex Führer baby, I'm a love dictator
Blitzkrieg Romance, I'm a living detonator"

[Ken]

Oh, I knew them. But that video is... something.

[uwe]

I guess you could say they weren't overtly PC-obsessed and risque wasn't a bad thing to them. Frankie Goes To Hollywood meets AC/DC meets Rocky Horror Picture Show house band!

[Ken]

Haha.  Good description.

[Basvarken]

Nothing wrong with a healthy AC/DC influence

[uwe]

In the meantime, another submission for some Real Country, we await the judgement of our Senior Juror and former New Braunfels resident with no less than bated breath ...

[Pilgrim]

There's a more minimal version - just for boob men who like to watch endless replays of one shot. Reminds me of the Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love."  Boils the visual of any music video down to pretty women undulating.



And for us Robert Palmer fans, here's the original:

[Dave W]

In the meantime, another submission for some Real Country, we await the judgement of our Senior Juror and former New Braunfels resident with no less than bated breath ...

lol.

It's not a bad song, but what she's doing here is what you youngsters call cosplaying. She's playing the role of a country singer. The song isn't country music.

Ever heard of Judy Canova? She was an actress who played the role of s country bumpkin girl hillbilly singer. That's what most of what now passes as country music actually is. Singers playing a role, usually with fake accents.

[uwe]

You were comparatively mild with her, Dave, are you ok?

[uwe]

These ladies are currently all the rage in Ole Blighty:







It's edgy Indie Pop with a 60ies Girl Group vibe, I don't see or hear anything to dislike. Reminds me of them here who I thought were (and are) great:

[uwe]

"It's not a bad song, but what she's doing here is what you youngsters call cosplaying. She's playing the role of a country singer."

Oh, I get it, you mean a minstrel show in reverse!

[Dave W]

"It's not a bad song, but what she's doing here is what you youngsters call cosplaying. She's playing the role of a country singer."

Oh, I get it, you mean a minstrel show in reverse!

[uwe]

I'm terrible at telling the Three Dog Night singers (Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton & Cory Wells) apart when I don't see them, this vid is always helpful, because they all take turns verse for verse ... 



I tend to envisage all their songs with Chuck Negron (Mr Mustache) singing lead, probably because I deemed him the most handsome and coolest looking as a teen. But really they shared all their many hits pretty equally as regards who sang lead:

Lead vocal credits:

"An Old Fashioned Love Song" – Negron

"Black and White" – Hutton

"Celebrate" – Hutton (Verse 1), Negron (Verse 2), Wells (Verse 3), who sings melody through the end refrain

"Easy to Be Hard" – Negron

"Eli's Coming" – Wells

"Joy to the World" – Negron

"Let Me Serenade You" – Wells

"Liar" – Hutton

"Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" – Wells

"Never Been to Spain" – Wells

"One" – Negron

"One Man Band" – Hutton sings melody with Negron on harmony on verses, then Negron takes the lead through the end refrain

"Out in the Country" – Group vocal in unison

"Pieces of April" – Negron

"Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" – Wells

"Shambala" – Wells

"Sure As I'm Sittin' Here" – Wells

"The Family of Man" – Hutton (Verse 1), Negron (Verse 2), Wells (Verse 3)

"The Show Must Go On" – Negron

"Til the World Ends" – Negron

"Try a Little Tenderness" – Wells

"Your Song" – Hutton

Considering how much of a chart commodity they were from the late 60ies to the mid 70ies, amassing countless hits and chalking up album sales of 60 million, they've really been wiped from collective memory. I know, I know, they didn't write the songs they sang, always working with outside writer material, but neither did Elvis who was the first RRHF inductee in 1986. But I guess by the 70ies you were expected to write your own material as a credible group, I'd call it the "Beatles Effect".

[TBird1958]

This makes me (almost) want to cancel my subscription to 'Women's Underwear Monthly"    Almost. 

[uwe]

Oh man, this is great! And I'm talking about the music which sounds like it crept out of London circa 1973.