Dust

Dust - Hard Attack [1972]

Pull Away So Many Times
Walk in the Soft Rain
Thusly Spoken
Ivory

Just a few tracks from their second album.

Lost Island of VHS...

Antoine et Antoinette - Jacques Becker - 1947
Jacques Becker's light but highly enjoyable French film from the 1940's 'Antoine and Antoinette' is about an attractive working class couple living in Paris who get their hands on a winning lottery ticket that is sure to end all of their woes. Only the ticket gets lost in a busy train station. Antoine scrambles to find the ticket at the same time Antoinette finds herself the object of affection from a lecherous businessman who employees her. The film is sort of a remake of Rene Clair's 'Le Million'. Less artful perhaps but maybe a bit more empathetic and down-to-earth.
I suspect this could be part of the Janus Collection and may show up on Criterion some day. As it is now you can only see it on a cheap VHS copy that is tough to find.

Spiegelman does Peanuts

This is from the 2/19/00 issue of The New Yorker.

Lost Island of VHS...

The Nasty Girl - Michael Verhoeven - 1990

One of my favorite German films from the 1990's was 'The Nasty Girl' by Michael Verehoven. A young woman writes an essay that wins her the respect and love of her small home town. So for her next assignment she decides to write an essay about the town's Nazi past and before she knows it she is an outcast facing the wrath of the town along with death threats to her family. The film's story is good enough but the style and distinct energy of the directing and editing make for a really delightful cinematic experience not to mention one that deals with a subject that still riles some Germans.
This one deserves to be on DVD. Miramax has the rights.

Jukka Tolonen is a Finish guitar legend.

Here are a few tracks from his 1971 album Tolonen!. It's more jazz oriented than rock - just so you know.

Elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Air
Ramblin
Mountains
Wanderland

What is this recent New Yorker cartoon all about?
Answer below.

John
Marsha
John
Marsha
John
Marsha
John
Marsha...

The piece was written by Stan Freberg in 1951.

There was also a long running TV sitcom in the Philippines called John en Marsha back in the 1980's.

Egg breaking revival

Tear Gas - 1971 hard blues rock


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 2009 rock album

No downloads here - just a comparison of images.

Culpeper's Orchard

Culpeper's Orchard was a Danish psych / rock band [with folk influence] from the 1970's. Their sound has hints of Led Zeppelin, Cream and Genesis. Check it out.

Here are choice cuts [from YouTube] of the first album Culpeper's Orchard - 1971.

Mountain Music Part 1
Hey You People
Teaparty for an Orchard
Ode to Resistance
Your Song & Mine
Gideon's Trap
Blue Day's Morning
Mountain Music Part 2

Magazine cover

This week's New Yorker cover was done on an iPhone.

Ramases

Ramases - Space Hymns.
Ramases was an early 1970's band that produced [I think] only this one album in 1971.
And it's a good one. Sort of a psychedelic, freak folk rock album done by Martin Raphael - who made a living as a heating salesman in Sheffield, England. He and his wife, Selket, put this album together and in a short time it obtained a cult following.

Here are a few tracks to listen to available on YouTube.

Life Child
And The Whole World
Quasar One
You're The Only One
Earth People
Balloon
Jesus Come Back