I thought I’d give your mid-week a little kickstart with some Kylie.
From 1988, here’s “I Should Be So Lucky” (the alternate video) by Kylie Minogue.
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These Dreams.
So last night I spent the night at the Holiday Inn closest to work. I didn’t get the best of night’s sleep, but I did manage to get enough to keep me productive throughout the day. Worried that I was going to sleep through my alarm, I woke up several times during the night. Because of this, I had quite a selection of dreams peppered through my slumber to keep things interesting. For the first time in quite a few nights, I didn’t dream about tornadoes (thanks for taking over that duty, Erik) but instead I had one of my “performance frustration dreams”. These dreams usually come up when I’m worried about not doing well at something and they frequently manifest themselves as something music or radio related; for example, I can’t get CDs into the players fast enough to avoid dead air on the radio or I can’t beat match a mix while DJing at a club, no matter how many times I have been able to mix the two records in question in the past.
Last night’s spin on my performance frustration dreams involved a live performance of the group Heart. In my dream I was one of their sound engineers for this comeback concert, and I was in charge of making sure the recorded music augmented their live performances perfectly. Because I had to make sure the tracks matched the instruments, I was challenged with playing vinyl records that had been recorded at home. And because it was a rowdy crowd, I had to spin the record on top of a beer bottle while holding the needle in place. I couldn’t let the record wobble in any way or else Nancy and Ann would sound all warped, and that would be bad. The record ended up falling off the top of the beer bottle and the whole show slowed down into a warbling, draggy sound. Just as everyone was looking at me for messing up this comeback tour, my dream morphed into something more interesting that didn’t involve frustration at all.
That all being said, because of last night’s dream, this track has been my ear bug, playing over and over. If you follow me on Rdio, you’ll notice that I have played this track several times today trying to get it to move back into my enjoyment category and out of my repetitive category.
So, out of respect for the Wilson sisters of Heart, and with my apologizes for wobbling the record that was spinning on top of the beer bottle, here they are with their 1987 hit, “There’s The Girl.”
Great track, by the way. I LOVE the backup vocals on this. Interesting, melodic backup vocals do a lot more for me than lead vocal acrobatics.
Strike A Pose.
I was going through old photos on the hard drive and I had completely forgotten about this poster photo from 2008. Ah, the old DJing days.
New Year’s Eve Dance Party: Shalamar.
One of my favorites from 1979, here’s “The Second Time Around” by Shalamar.
Real.
This song is a decade old, but I really, really like the words.
Now that I have found you
You’ve changed my life
Cos you’re the one who showed me
I have everything right
We’re never gonna differ cos we know it’s true
So don’t change me and I won’t change you
Here’s Sophie Ellis-Bextor, “I Won’t Change You”
Pack The Floor.
I’ve posted this track before, but I stumbled across an extended mix of it on YouTube and it got me feeling thinking about the original track again. This song used to PACK the dance floor back in ’92 (before it was released to radio in the U.S. in ’93). It’s actually the song that got me into my modest music production. My version of a radio edit of this track was played nationwide.
Here’s the original ’91 radio edit of “That’s What Love Can Do” by Boy Krazy.
Dance.
Dance with me on this Sunday night.
Here’s DJ Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor with “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”.
