Remember the one hit wonder Mud with Tiger Feet? Here they are on Top of the Pops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfidTOTsLo
#Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight
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Colin Jackson
@ThisCJ@mastodon.nz
mastodon 4.7.2Recovering IT guy. Long career in building infrastructure most recently in developing countries. In denial about retirement.
Lives in Te Tau Ihu, Aotearoa (South Island of New Zealand) but often found elsewhere.
Avatar is me wearing a mask and holding a book about WIndows 95. (Picture is present day).
Background pic is an astro shot of the Milky Way that I took in the Australian outback
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A change in mood for me (I don’t normally post country. Or Western.) Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris. This is the version with Mark Knopfler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE_sUN_M7p0&list=RDJE_sUN_M7p0&start_radio=1
#Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Real Live Roadrunning | Official Live Video)
One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia.
And my brother lays upon the rocks
He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you
He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
…
Oh, and we were gone
Kings of oblivion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9JBM1ufA8
#Royalty#JukeboxFridayNight
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Replying to on old.mermaid.town
@futzle@old.mermaid.town kiwi. Same as pavlova. You can have Russell Crowe though.
Hawkwind want to make you royalty
Kings of speed, kings of speed
We're gonna make you kings of speed
The song title is Kings Of Speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHImVyouGQ
#royalty #JukeboxFridayNight
Hawkwind - Kings Of Speed - HD Promo Video
#JukeboxFridayNight
#birds
Jeri has already posted Prince’s When Doves Cry - good on you, Jeri. Here’s the version by Quinton Tarver from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo+Juliet, featuring very young Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes. (If you’ve never watched it, run not walk. Luhrmann brings the bard alive.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOCyUbyPS8
QUINDON TARVER - WHEN DOVES CRY
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy aka NGC300 or Caldwell C70. Shot from my garden last night. #Dwarf3 #astrophotography
Back in the early 90s I was the NZ govt’s first ICT advisor, working for the Minister of ICT. A concept in vogue then was the Negroponte Switch, broadly this was the notion that phones shouldn’t be wired and TVs should, which was the opposite of the situation as it was then. Now, many of us don’t have what we have come to call landlines, and all streaming and some live TV is delivered over fibre. (I watched the rugby game tonight over fibre, for instance.) Seems Mr Negroponte was right!
I do not dream of Sussex downs
or quaint old England’s quaint old towns—
I think of what may yet be seen
in Johnsonville or Geraldine
— Dennis Glover, Home Thoughts
InternetNZ election - boosts welcome.
The voting tokens for the INZ election are out. The list of candidates with their statements is online at https://internetnz.nz/governance-and-reports/our-board/board-elections/2026-board-elections/
The remainder of this post advises how to vote tactically should you so wish.
INZ uses a form of STV (*). Voters are asked to rank candidates from 1 to n, where n is the number standing. You do not have to rank all candidates.
Clearly, if you want specific people to win you should rank them accordingly, i.e. 1 or 2.
If there are candidates that you do NOT wish to see elected you should not rank them at all. This is better than just giving them a low ranking because it avoids the possibility of your vote getting transferred to them during the STV count process.
- The count process is explained in tedious detail here https://internetnz.nz/governance-and-reports/our-board/board-elections/internetnz-electoral-system-explanation/
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Adventures in AV, chapter 1. In which I as a tech who knows nothing about AV have to try to make a video recording set up usable by civilians
This book is amazing. It’s written by a Scottish prof of literature, who happens to live in NZ, about a prof of literature in Scotland. Well-written and keeps you guessing. Great character development. CW for most things, it’s a crime novel after all.
Classics friends: if I were going to read one modern translation of Odyssey, as a total classics civilian, should it be Emily Wilson or Stephen Fry?
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@artnacrea@mastodon.ie @rmi@cloudisland.nz my girlfriend at university, a well brought-up young woman who was studying Old Irish as part of her degree, told me in tones of faint horror about what Cú Chulainn got up to with various girls. She was somewhat shocked. Reader, I married her.
Since we’re doing mashups, here’s a track from American Edit by Dean Gray (geddit?) - Impossible Rebel. The whole album is a lot of fun and chock full of irreverent samples. Of course the music biz tried to sue it off the net with predictable results. Read more about the album on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FYEqi72b-4&list=PLrpOJGxlgJwIEs9i9a0UjNs6iSS0QomI-&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB
#MusicMusiciansAndMashups
#JukeboxFridayNight
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@paulh@cloudisland.nz The last time he stood for Parliament it was for National in a rural seat, where he was beaten by a transsexual.
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
The Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71BXaf0x5hA
There’s also a version sung by Todd Rundgren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuWTNLdKSOs
#JukeboxFridayNight#CloseToOurHearts
Seattle G&S The Nightmare Song 1997
Tamaki Makaurau I’m in you. Not complaining, but I was expecting to be in Nelson
This is a cocoa pod. The white bits within taste sweet and a little slimy, very bitter if you bite into them
So I went to the Pacific on holiday and ended up in a business meeting…
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@rmi Yes, the pic is taken from the start of the Dunstan Trail where it crosses the Kawarau, 5ks or so from the trailhead at Cromwell. The trail goes on to follow the Clutha gorge all the way to the Clyde Dam. It’s an amazing ride along steep cliffs smelling of wild thyme (!) and in some places the trail is cantilevered out from vertical rock. Highly recommended. You’ll need an e-bike for it unless you’re very fit.
Ian Kilmister of Motörhead, aka Lemmy, lived life according to his values.
You know I'm born to lose
And gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it, baby
I don't want to live forever
He didn’t, but he certainly burned brightly
Ace of Spades by Motörhead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbvWn1EY6g
#LifeWellLived#JukeboxFridayNight
I’ve really tried hard to force David Bowie’s Panic in Detroit, from his Aladdin Sane album, into the theme tonight, but I’ll give up trying and post it anyway, entirely because it contains the highly topical line “having scored a trillion dollars”
#JukeboxFridayNight #MusicMusiciansAndMashups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3fCUmSheY
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz try referring to the “Microsoft Social Network” when you mean LinkedIn
Another song about #waiting for #JukeboxFridayNight
Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Official Video)
There’s a scene in the film Chariots of Fire where runner Eric Liddell, played by Ian Charleson, reads this verse from Isaiah:
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Here’s the film theme music by Vangelis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo
As a personal link, this was filmed in part at my college on the day we all returned for the start of term. Getting in and out through the film set was a bear :)
#Waiting#JukeboxFridayNight
Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire
#JukeboxFridayNight
#PowerPlay
I am the centre of this universe
The wind of time is blowing through me
And it's all moving relative to me
It's all a figment of my mind
In a world that I've designed
Master of the Universe by Hawkwind from their album In Search of Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3W7ch0oLeA
Hawkwind - Master of the Universe
Of course, there’s always Africa by Toto
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
#JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting
#HotOrCold#JukeboxFridayNight
Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean, she was steaming
The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy
(CW misogyny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3yktdiqqe
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The King of Pop with Dirty Diana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi_S6YWjZw
#JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana (Official Video)
I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts in this line of work
Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it
Dire Straits with their atmospheric song Private Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA
#Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight
Dire Straits - Private Investigations (Official Music Video)
#JukeboxFridayNight
#PowerPlay
I saw Lemmy and the boys perform this in New Plymouth in 2007. True then and true now.
Motörhead - Just Cos You Got The Power Don’t Mean You Got The Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JzEJq5bhs
Just ‘Cos You Got the Power
What’s this sculpture, really?
So @jeridansky@sfba.social has already posted one by Steely Dan - thanks Jeri - here’s another favourite of theirs, Do It Again
When you know she's no high climber
Then you find your only friend
In a room with your two timer
And you're sure you're near the end
Then you love a little wild one
And she brings you only sorrow
All the time you know she's smiling
You'll be on your knees tomorrow, yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Yuu7RC2n0
#Dirty
#JukeboxFridayNight
Steely Dan – Do It Again (1972)
Seems like no-one has posted this yet:
Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbV16XOk404
The Stranglers with No More Heroes.
Check out Dave Greenfield's amazing keyboard solo, another good 'un we lost to Covid.
#History#JukeboxFridayNight
I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts in this line of work
Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it
Dire Straits with thir atmospheric song Private Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA
#Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight
Dire Straits - Private Investigations (Official Music Video)
Another song about #Waiting, for #JukeboxFridayNight
Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. If you don’t know the link, listen to the lyrics :) R18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Official Video)
This one’s just plain #Dirty
Content warnings, easily offended etc. Frank Zappa with Bobby Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUq_T_Bhau8
#JukeboxFridayNight
Frank Zappa- Bobby Brown *Official Video*
Lay down your bundles
of rags and reminders,
And spread your wares on the ground.
Lindisfarne with Meet Me On The Corner
I have strong memories of my grandfather taking me as a child to the football and to the pictures in Newcastle, England, presumably so my mother and grandmother could go shopping together. Recently I went back to Newcastle and sat in the main square listening to Lindisfarne and The Animals, both fine bands from the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_5dB1FkqY
#JukeboxFridayNight#MarketsAndFairs
Lindisfarne _ Meet me on the corner 1971
I racked my brains for #Stereotypes#JukeBoxFridayNight and eventually came up with this. It has two links to the theme, the title of the band and the content of the lyric. Apologies if someone has already posted it.
He’s far and he can’t run too fast
But he’s faster than me
Steriogram with Walkie Talkie Man - it’s a really fun video from back in 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UvbwCjXUk
You, you have your own special way,
Of turning the world so it's facing
The way that I'm going. Don't ever
Don't ever stop.
Your Own Special Way by Genesis
Part of my personal soundtrack, for reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaEysI4KYA
#PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight
Genesis - Your Own Special Way
Then there’s Herman’s Hermits with I’m Henery The Eighth I Am - a witty premise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1GS6gu1FgY
#royalty #JukeboxFridayNight
HERMAN'S HERMITS- "I'M HENRY VIII, I AM" (LYRICS)
One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia.
And my brother lays upon the rocks
He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you
He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
…
Oh, and we were gone
Kings of oblivion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuDp6UhkUaI
#Royalty#JukeboxFridayNight
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