Oh wow that’s an immediate follow for me, thanks
― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Sunday, 22 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Almost made me sign up for Instagram.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 22 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
completely obsessed with this multilingual-rap/AOR anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrU8Ghbx7BU
― rí an techno (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 01:15 (four years ago) link
word is going around that she's passed, due to complications of coronavirus.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
What?! No...
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
yeah, I just poked around. No official announcement yet but a few clear messages from friends of hers on social media and such.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
Oh fuck no :(
― Roz, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Hell of a final post: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ZdBpGgRcW/?igshid=hbwcqdw1988e
Going to jam her version of “Is that all there is?” in tribute. Godspeed you badass legend.
― Roz, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
Oh no!!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Shit, I just started following her Instagram after it was mentioned above (one of three accounts I now follow). Having briefly "met" her again this way, I had thought I might catch up. Now, all of the sudden, it seems she is gone. RIP.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Godammit - RIP Cristina
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
This is so sad. Rest In Peace to a force of nature! x
― current (jed_), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
this interview with her that my friend Kurt wrote is worth re-reading.
http://festivefanzine.blogspot.com/2010/12/from-vaults-merry-cristina-mas.html
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
also - http://www.zerecords.com/booklets/32.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0ZZ05CwjY_4bMCBXrC9u_aI5LeKK-LKl-lf530rXFBckLMGzUASTszBWA
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
well shit!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
thanks for those links, Stirmonster, I know how much those records meant to you x
― current (jed_), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
mean, not meant.
― current (jed_), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
thanks jed. so sad. she had been hoping for over a decade to record another album but it never came to be as she had majorly struggled for the last 15 years with a serious auto immune condition. X
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
such a shame.
― current (jed_), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
💔
― maura, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Feels weird because I just fell in love with those albums in the last 6 months but I'm glad she has more fans than I imagined. I hope people will be writing lots of articles about her soon.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
So, I heard she talked about having Covid on her Instagram. I don't use Instagram but had a look and can't see where that might be. Any ideas?
Guardian piece - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/01/pop-singer-cristina-coronavirus-us
― stirmonster, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Dark Entries on twitter had said something, I think.
― current (jed_), Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link
or maybe just alluded to and you already knew that.
Josh from Dark Entries saw my post. I heard about it from John Caples then looked at Instagram and saw some comments on her last post and then a post from a friend of hers about it.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
Ah, ok. Thanks.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
She may have posted about it on FB, she has an account there too but it’s private.
She posted a bunch of images/artwork of death on IG last week though - in her usual way of commenting on what’s going on in the news. Seems like grim foreshadowing in hindsight. :(
― Roz, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
i ran a new wave / post disco night for a couple of years here in Bristol and we'd often play her explicit version of 'Is That All There Is' as the closer. Feels extremely apposite, especially when the original is apparently Trump's favourite song
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 2 April 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
Oh, snap: Cristina's "Is That All There Is" was a favourite set-closer of mine around 1988/89, and more generally, one of those tracks which I used to delight in introducing people to. "Things Fall Apart" and both 12" mixes of "Disco Clone" are also perennial, un-witherable lifetime favourites.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 2 April 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
Sad. Persoanl fave was always "Don't Mutilate my Mink". End of an era as they say. Fuck this virus
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 April 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
remember hearing 'is that all there is' listening to peel in my room in the second year of college (and peel telling a disobliging story abt leiber and stoller)
:( :( :(
― mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link
wiki sez: A version with altered lyrics, by No wave singer Cristina, was available briefly in 1980. However, it offended songwriters Leiber and Stoller, who sued and were able to get it suppressed for some time. Produced by August Darnell (Kid Creole), this version was eventually re-issued in 2004, with the songwriters' blessing, as a bonus track on a Cristina compilation album Not seeing a Cristina comp on Discogs, but they do show it on Kid Creole collection Going Places.In the Lieber & Stoller dual autobio, Lieber says that he was complaining to his WWII refugee wife, despite being at a sustained peak of success and pleasure, so she suggested that he read Thomas Mann's "Disillusionment." (wiki claims that lyrics were lifted from the story, which I haven't read). Leiber describes some record co. apprehension about its being taken as a downer in the go-go 60s, but apparently a lot of people could relate.As for it being Trump's theme song, this interview tape was quoted by Michael Barbaro in the NYTimes:MR. TRUMP: It’s a great song because I’ve had these tremendous successes and then I’m off to the next one. Because, it’s like, “Oh, is that all there is?” That’s a great song actually, that’s a very interesting song, especially sung by her, because she had such a troubled life.But he quickly retreats from the moment, declining Mr. D’Antonio’s invitation to further explain how the song makes him feel about himself, saying he might not like what he discovers.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/politics/donald-trump-interviews.html(Only time I've ever seen him claim any interest in/awareness of the life experience of a woman.)
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I'm a big fan of "Don't Be Greedy" too. Contender for my favorite on the first album.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
the reissue they’re talking about is this onehttps://www.discogs.com/Cristina-Doll-In-The-Box/release/499446
― maura, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
First heard "Is That All There Is" on the first Rodney on the ROQ comp. Out of place with all the SoCal bands, but a great closer and led me to other great Ze stuff.
There's a painting on her Instagram of her sitting at the stern of a boat that echoes the photo of her reclined on the bed on the cover of ITATI.
RIP.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Seems like most modern-day attention is focused on "Is That All," or "Disco Clone," but that whole debut album is a longtime favorite of mine. Frothy, fluffy, maybe a bit cartoonish, but oddly endearing to me. And she really was stunningly beautiful.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
her version of La Poupée Qui Fait Non is a regular in my disco dj nights.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Are there other oddball disco records with a similar vibe? I know a fair amount of ZE Records stuff, but much less about disco, Italo, etc. overall.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
the first thing to do is take the little leap over to Y records and check out Pulsallama's Oui Oui which I used to mix in or out of the Cristina song.
then there's everything else Kid Creole touched. Cory Daye's Green Light is something else I play in that context.
I guess any of the mutant disco or disco not disco comps would get you part of the way there.
Modern Romance-Everbody Salsa?
I love italo but it's a wide-ranging thing, a lot of poppy stuff that I don't like, a lot of more electro/spacey stuff that I love that probably doesn't fit the bill, some of the earlier more eurodisco stuff like Vivien Vee - Give Me a Break or more organic sounding italo.
Or Punkin Machine's Tonight.
That's all stuff I'd mix with that context I guess? I'm sure I'll think of more later.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
my favourite kid creole fact is that he lived in urmston for a while
― mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
Appreciation in the Guardian:
Cristina: no wave's daring darling captured the beautiful and damned
Despite the renewed interested, she declined to make another album (“I’m an old trout”)
― Alba, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
terrible headline
― mark s, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
MR. TRUMP: It’s a great song because I’ve had these tremendous successes and then I’m off to the next one. Because, it’s like, “Oh, is that all there is?” That’s a great song actually, that’s a very interesting song, especially sung by her, because she had such a troubled life.But he quickly retreats from the moment, declining Mr. D’Antonio’s invitation to further explain how the song makes him feel about himself, saying he might not like what he discovers.
I thought for a minute that 'her' in the interview Dan posted meant Cristina and I was knocked for six.
― Alba, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
I quite like it because it makes me think of a newspaper headline from the early 80s.
― Alba, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
Sorry, Alba! I should have incl. Mr. Trump turned philosophical. He recalled a favorite song, performed by Peggy Lee,
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
(Wonder what he thinks of "Sympathy For The Devil"?)
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link
(I would like to hear Cristina and/or Peggy Lee sing that one, btw.)
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I also took it that he somehow knew the Cristina version, from disco parties with Jeffrey Epstein, maybe.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Of all the people I ever played “Is That All There Is” to, the strongest reaction came from a textbook sociopath. He declared it his theme song and asked to hear it repeatedly. So the Trump quote is fascinating to me.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 3 April 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
I've just remembered that I once put it on a mix CD for a girlfriend and she hated it. Now I'm thinking, maybe I was the sociopath in that relationship.
― Alba, Friday, 3 April 2020 07:24 (four years ago) link