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Well, we were supposed to be permitted to discuss any which subject in music we wanted.

Here is an idea: Which is your favorite song, of all kinds and by all artists?

I would guess that my top favorite song is "Kids in America" by Kim Wilde. The song is lively and it has a great melody and hook. I listen to it several times a day (in different versions by different artists who have covered it).

But - if I attempt to be objective - I might have to name "Bang-a-Boomerang" by Abba (Oh! This is so embarassing!). For the last time I checked that song was at the top of my list of "Most Played Songs" in my iTunes program (I never listen to music nowadays except on my iPod (when I am away from home) or on my computer).

But I have something like 25 different versions of Kids in America in my iTunes library which I listen to, and only one version of Bang-a-Boomerang!

Re: Yac's Journal:

Incredible variety in Polish music - whether it’s in the Prog of Niemen, Laboratorium, SBB, a.o.
or the Polish jazz of Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Michał Urbaniak, Ursula Dudziak, a.o.
or a sweeping huge mass of experimental stuff (Arszyn/Duda), hardcore (Homomilitia), or death metal (Vader, Behemoth),
you could easily put together a 24 hour comp of this stuff.

Some vids of more recent stuff. The first was a piece some of you may remember from a few years ago
when we used to talk music here and put together compilations for each other. I still love this album.

Can I just say that this joke is fantastic and needs to be noticed more.

No.

The Residents - Snakey Wake

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Shortly after I began making trips to Linz, Austria on a regular basis,
I wanted to (in a morbid way, I suppose), see where Snakefinger had died.
The Posthof club still has live music and performers can stay cheaply in the
adjoining Gästehaus. It was there that he suffered his fatal heart attack.

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The story behind this release (released two days ago with about 50 minutes of music):

The Residents met Philip Lithman in 1969. They became immediate friends and began playing music together. Snakefinger participated in many Residents projects with 1986 being a particularly good year for their working together. Plans were made to tour again in 1989, but fate decreed otherwise. While on a European tour, Snakefinger died on July 1st, 1987 in Linz, Austria. He was buried in London, and many of his friends in San Francisco found it difficult to accept a death so far from home. So The Residents organized a party, a wake. They arrived in black with black net wrapped around their bodies and each carried an open black umbrella. They went to their instruments without introduction and played a series of old English laments and Hank Williams' "Six More Miles". This newly remastered CD presents you the studio version of this special performance (as issued by UWEB in 1988) plus the whole recording of the live performance which was previously only available as a digital download. It also includes a special set by N. Senada.