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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Video Chase

I got into a YouTube tag game with P. Dub last night. Here's part of the trail:

Mention Kirsty MacColl and everyone remembes her duet with the Pogues, and of course "There's a guy works down the chip-shop". But I remember something else, from a compilation tape I bought in Sweden years ago, which started off with The Boomtown Rats' "Someone's Looking at You", and also had this:



That started a chain of Irish Folk/Country, which I felt compelled to break, and got back to girl singers with the very cunningly-titled "Rapture":



My oppo in the game was edging back to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Wandering around the edge of the Australian connection, I found that the Prodigy had done a mash of Kylie Minogue, "Slow my bitch up":



You've got to admire them.

I ended up with the last girl singer, who I only discovered last year, on the "Ear Farm" mp3 blog you'll find in my sidebar links. Pea hated her, but I just love the drawling style:



She reminds me of someone, amd I'm still waiting for the synapses to click through to a path. Anyone out there like to try jogging my memory?

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