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"Fugazi" sounds like an Italian dish, maybe some type of poached fish in dill butter. It also sounds Japanese. Which makes me wonder: did Fugazi steal Cibo Matto's name?? Cibo Matto toured a couple of times with Sean Lennon and Russell Simins, who's got to be so over his name sounding exactly like Russell Simmons's, the pompous fuck hip hop exec who back in the day produced RUN D.M.C.'S "RAISING HELL".

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Raising Hell is certainly a trickier task than raising arizona. But that indeed was the title of a film by the Cohen Brothers, whose delightful Big Lebowski featured Blue Jean by Capt'n Beefheart on the soundtrack. Beefheart worked with Zappa earlier. Zappa had a hit song called "Valley Girl" done with the aid of his daughter. Another group featuring multiple family members is OASIS.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oasis? fuck, man. well, an oasis in england isn't a very good thing, but in egypt it can be lifesaving, which is where the video for michael jackson's 'remember the time' was set. besides featuring eddie murphy as an unconvincing pharoah (and the model from star trek six as his, uh, female-pharoah- counterpart-thing) also had half of the pharcyde as dancers. the pharcyde's 'pork' (backed on my 'passin me by' single) was a parody of hardcore gangsta rap, so is the first track (well, second, after the intro) on black sheep's 'wolf in sheep's clothing'. now, on de la soul is dead, one of the assholes who steals the tape from the kids in the skits was played by mister lawnge from black sheep. he declared it to be wack and threw it away, and that reminds me of the time i found a wallflowers tape in the school parking lot; my reaction was quite similar. jacob dylan is the son of a famous 60s musician, almost exactly like sean lennon, who i like a lot better(and also dates that girl from cibo matto, whoa). my first exposure to sean was when he guested on the handsome boy modelling school album, and while i enjoyed his track, i enjoyed 'magnetizing' much better for it's pairing of old favorite mc del with prince paul + automator dope production. and every deltron and gorillaz-loving hipster out there nowadays knows that del's cousin is ICE CUBE.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

... blah blah blah FUGAZI

― Josh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

josh tells me there is a fugazi song called 'birthday pony'. there's not many songs about ponies, the only one that comes to mind is de la soul's 'pony ride'. 'millie pulled a pistol on santa' was beautifully covered for an x-mas comp by THE ROOTS.

― ethan, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ROOT in Australasian slang means to have sexual intercourse. Most rock bands do songs about having sexual intercourse. Except MINOR THREAT.

― duane, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stinky Puffs was a rock group featuring a bunch of offspring from famous musical folks - MINORS, if you will. One such offspring (the lead singer, actually) was the son of a Jad Fair, one half of Half- Japanese (or, at least, one half when Jad's brother, David, is the only other member in the group). Half-Japanese "sing" about "No More Beatlemania," asking, "What about Shaggsmania?" Indeed, what about those 3 winsome gals from New Hampshire rockin' the party that rocks the body with songs like "My Pal Foot Foot"? Perhaps Austin Powers was a fan of the Shaggs, given his propensity to hop on the good foot and do the bad thing - that is, when he wasn't fronting Ming Tea, a group featuring Bangle Susannah Hoffs. Hoffs & the Bangles were fortunate enough to record a track written by The Purple One - "Manic Monday". (It's a rather duff song, though.) The Boomtown Rats didn't like Mondays, but Bob Geldof sure liked helping out the needy on Christmas time. Many of those helpful rock folks that sang on "Feed the World" (ick ick poo) also lent a hand on "We Are the World". And one of the vocalists that lent his vocal stylings to a live performance of "We Are the World" (during a Live-Aid show) was ... wait for it ...

MTV producer JOE DUVOLA.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

[Alright, kids - stop showing off. Might I suggest briefer and more light-footed connections from now on? Oh, and winning conditions are temporarily suspended until the concentration of *a certain DC-area band* in this thread has been massively diluted by other ingredients].

Duvola? Sounds a bit like Rev-Ola. Who were responsible for the re-release of:

A Certain Ratio: "Sextet"

― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't know if Tet ever had Sex, but rumour has it that the Pistols did. If you're looking for the antidote, look no further than The Celibate Rifles.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ned Rifle is Hal Hartley's nome de plume, as it were. He is the director of such movies as Amateur and Trust. Trust is an album by Elvis Costello.

― JM, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Costello worked with Paul McCartney on "My Brave Face," which was on _Flowers In the Dirt._ Many critics agreed that that album was the one that saved McCartney's tepid late-80s career from permanently entombing him six feet into the dirt, which is where Kurt Cobain says one goes when coming from "out of the ground," in "Very Ape." This sounds somewhat like "Moby Grape," whose guitarist Skip Spence was the drummer in the original incarnation of the Jefferson Airplane, next to pre-Grace Slick singer Signe Anderson, who left to have a baby. "(You're) Havin' My Baby" is a wonderfully horrible song by Paul Anka, whose last name could easily be mistaken when spoken quickly for "canker," the important half of "canker sore," which not only sounds like but could also be used to describe Mandy Moore.

― matthew m, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Demi Moore was in a movie called 'Striptease,' which is about strippers. JSBX had a song called Lapdance which was, in part,about strippers, but mostly it was about Andrei Williams being a dirty old man.

― JM, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Lapdance" is also a recent single by N.E.R.D. who, as The Neptunes, produced "Southern Hospitality" by Ludacris. It is, in Momus's opinion, ludicrous that educated people should listen to chartpop, but the founder of FT puts middle finger up to that idea. Oxide and Neutrino put their middle finger up, and also have a Devil's Nightmare, and D12 have a Devil's Night. Their cohort, Eminem, initially broke with "My Name Is ..." and DMX asked "What's My Name?". Hence: DMX.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

dmx stands for 'dark man of the unknown'. darkman was a fantastic b-movie by sam raimi, who also did EVIL DEAD II.

― ethan, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aleister Crowley is evil, and dead too. Kacy Crowley is not evil...I think. K.C. and the Sunshine Band, however, were probably evil, through and through--when they were telling you to "Get Down Tonight" they were surely talking about getting down into the fiery pits of Hell...surely the inspiration for Shriekback's lousy cover of same.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Shriekback (I think) = Barry Andrews = XTC.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

xtc --> miss e: so addictive --> timbaland --> 'big pimpin' --> JAY-Z

― ethan, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

J and Z are the 10th and 26th letters of the alphabet. 26-10=16. I was 16 in 1984, hence:

Eurythmics: Sex Crime (1984).

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CRIME used to dress up like cops. so did 1 of the VILLAGE PEOPLE. THE VILLAGE was where they sent Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner, which IRON MAIDEN did a song about.

― duane, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Iron Maiden also did a song called 'Can I Play With Madness?', an request the nutty Camden boys never granted. For contractual reasons, they were called 'The Madness' by this point, which is where problems could have arisen. The Madness's first single was the unremarkable 'I Pronounce You'.

― Nick, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When Madness reformed, four years later, they were supported in Finsbury Park by Morrissey who performed "National Front Disco" and draped himself in the Union Jack, resulting in a lengthy NME inquest into Moz. Madness had originally had an unwanted NF following, as had Sham 69, who sang of "laced-up boots and corduroys". Corduroy were signed to Acid Jazz, a movement with which Jamiroquai was originally associated, and Jamiroquai was, ahem, *influenced* by Stevie Wonder, who recorded for Tamla Motown.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chris Rock has a standup bit when he talks about Lables... "James Brown wan't singin' bout Epic! Fuckin' Temptations wan't singin' 'bout Motown!"

― JM, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...but it's not as good as gza's 'labels'. gza was also on that last afu-ra single. afu-ra got his big break from jeru, and jeru got his big break from GANG STARR.

― ethan, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Guru from Gang Starr's album "Jazzmatazz" featured Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and DC Lee. DC Lee was once married to Paul Weller.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Whose early records with The Jam were "influenced" by The Who.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The album Who's Next features a big wall immediately after the band has finished pissing on it. The song "Yellow River" was the one hit by early 70s one-hit-wonder Christie, who weren't related to, but shared a [last] name with famous pop crooner Lou Christie, whose song "There Is Nothing More To Say" was covered in 1973 on the last album by THE BRADY BUNCH. <-- (note cheeky appropriation of cheekily putting the ending term in all caps)

― matthew m, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Brady Bunch were a famous fictional singing family, as were the Partridge Family. Although Ruben Kincaid looked like Tom Cochrane, I'm not going to make that connection. Instead, a real-life relative of head Partridge Family crooner David Cassidy was brother Shaun Cassidy, who did a new wave album called Wasp, produced by Todd Rundgren, who was in UTOPIA.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The cover of Utopia's album Deface the Music was a parody of the cover of Beatles' With the Beatles. Also parodying this album cover, much more directly, was Meet the Residents, by the Residents. When the Residents perform live, most of the band is dressed up as large bloodshot eyeballs in top hats and tuxes. Someone else frequently seen in a tux, and often additionally sporting bloodshot eyeballs, was FRANK SINATRA.

― matthew m., Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nancy Sinatra recorded many duets with John Alderton-lookalike Lee Hazelwood, few finer than "Some Velvet Morning". This was also covered in 1981 or so by Roland S Howard and Lydia Lunch. After your lunch comes your dinner, hence:

"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" by BLACK UHURU.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the 1st use of the word UHURU in rock might've been in "Ant Man Bee" by Cat. Beefheart. If you stand on a bee you get STUNG, he was the singer of the POLICE of whom NWA said fuck them, later Dr. Dre was to bring the world EMINEM.

― duane, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

EMINEM is the front man for D-12, a wack-ass group whose wack-ass first single, Purple Hills is wack. Lauren Hill should be coming out with new product sometime this year, if MTV News is to be believed.

― JM, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

M+M were a later incarnation of Martha and the Muffins who, early on, featured a young drummer called Tim Gane. No relation to the Stereolab fella, in much the same way that Dave ('n'Annie) Stewart and Dave ('n'Barbara) Stewart are unrelated. The latter worked with COLIN BLUNSTONE on a cover of "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted".

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Divergence! I don't know if you meant Lauryn Hill, but there's a track on her LP called "To Zion". Colin Blunstone was in the The Zombies. In some (er, specialist) dictionaries, Zion and Zombie are separated only by:

ZODIAC MINDWARP.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Zodiac Mindwarp sang "Feed my Frankenstein". "Frankenstein" was a song by New York Dolls. David Johansen of NY Dolls starred in "Car 54, where are you?". Studio 54 was a decadent niteclub in New York. It was also a shite movie with mike Myers but at least Sylvester's "You make me feel (mighty real)" was on the soundtrack.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sylvester [Stallone] was the lead character in Rocky -- a loveable tale about a loveable loser who just wanted to go the distance. What everyone seems to forget about the fight is that he doesn't win. He's a loser. He's not indicative of America, because Americans hate losers. Tho Beck was a Loser, and America LOVES him, for some reason. [He's] Found a Reason... to keep livin'...

― JM, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Love did a song called "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned. The Damned performed on the BBC comedy The Young Ones, as did Amazulu...and the Amazulu episode featured the joke: "Amazulu!" "Really? I'm a Norwegian!" One fab Norwegian band is the much-loved TURBONEGRO.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So was this the answer, then?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

[Nope. Keep going - the increasing unpopularity of this thread *is* one of the winning conditions, though. So, we're getting closer.]

The middle four letters of TURBONEGRO are 'bone', and both Pixies and Tom Waits have waved their Bone Machines in our faces in the past. Pixies covered a David Lynch song on an early single, and someone who recently covered both Lynch and Waits compositions is:

PINKIE MACLURE.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pinkie = little finger not the middle finger as raised by oxide and neutrino

― geordie, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oxidization --> rust --> the chorus to cuban link f/ fat joe's 'why me?' (why the judge wanna lock me up? / throw away the key and watch me rust') --> fat joe = frequently with pre-death BIG PUN

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Big Pun got dissed today in the same breath as Biggie Smalls - what is up with that?? ethan what did you think of Big L's "LIFESTYLEZ OV DA POOR AND DANGEROUS"? was it all that?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One band that has been accused of being "big" is The Strokes. One of the kids on Diff'rent Strokes was Arnold. Gina Arnold is well-known for writing about shows she's never actually been at. There were many shows I wasn't at, like: Sonic Youth at the Guvernment. The government runs the country, and the country's theme song is "The Star Spangled Banner", written by Francis Scott Key.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

FSK (Peel favourites) once released an album called "The Sound of Music". The musical of the same name was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Hammers are forever blowing Bubbles. Hence, FREE DESIGN.

[The winning conditions, as if anyone is remotely interested, were that someone would mention something to do with birthdays ON my birthday. Of course, no one even posted on Aug 7, so I've changed these conditions to something entirely different. The forum yawns.]

― Michael Jones, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does that mean we can start talking about FUGAZI again?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sean: if you can get from Free Design to bleedin' Fugazi in exactly four steps without cheating, you win.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That really depends what you mean by cheating, since the rules of Only Connect are fairly lax. Nonetheless, let's try this:

1) Despite toiling in almost total obscurity, the Free Design were recently shocked to learn that they were amazing big in Japan.
2) "Big in Japan" is a song by Tom Waits, who recently made the move to an indie label.
3) One of the most respected indie labels is Dischord.
4) Dischord in the home of FUGAZI.

How's that?

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, I could be picky and say "Dischord? Not respected by me, mate", but I shan't.

You win! The prize is a compact disc (sorry, you were one of the pro-analog[ue] guys, weren't you?) of your choice. The only restriction being the artist featured must begin with a letter scoring 8 points or above in Scrabble. No bonus squares allowed.

*And* you get to start Only Connect IV: Citizens On Patrol.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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