Ken Nordine

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Man, colors is SO cool.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

the Hip-O select set (reissue of his 50s albums) is insanely great.

Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I really get into this album when I get into it.

the answer is PUCE

ghost dong (Sonny A.), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

You know, his piece "The Vidiot" is utterly, wonderfully bizarre. Who the heck is the guy playing his friend?

Also, Nordine sure reminds me of Orson Welles's delivery.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 May 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

The Hip-O Select compilation of the Word Jazz stuff goes for crazy money, can't hardly find a quality rip of it online either. But I scored a copy of the comp for reasonable money. Amazing stuff! Is the rest of his work of the same caliber?

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 May 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link

Nutria!

Limousine Driver Nicknamed Hilton (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

What are your favourite Colors?

Ecru
is a critic,
loves to see the show.
Just doesn't know
when to say yes
and when to say no.
But that's because of beige.
You see, beige has taught ecru
a funny point of view,
that true is like false
and false is like true.
Who can expect to get anything straight,
like an answer I mean,
from an ecru that thinks,
or thinks that it thinks,
by the thought it was taught,
that love is the same as hate,
that shouldn't's the same as should,
that dumb is the same as smart,
that bad is the same as good.
A kind of critical confusion in critic
could have complications almost arithmetic.
Those of us (are there any? huh, too many!)
who have to know exactly what to do,
what to see, what to say, what to think,
will have to wait until ecru is ready,
with his double talking trade,
to make steady unsteady
calling crooked straight.
But, what the heck, you know ecru.
Just a freeloading critic,
who loves to see the show.
Just doesn't know
when to say yes
or when to say no.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link

Recentl picked up "Wink" (née Twink), almost as good as his seminal Word Jazz albums. A singular talent.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

Too young. RIP Ken, been spinning some colo(u)rs in your hono(u)r tonight.

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link

RIP big guy, he got so close to the ton too! I very much enjoyed the concert he played in London about 20 years ago, as part of Laurie Anderson's Meltdown iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IVuagl9GEY

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQ7xu2_xAM

r.i.p. ken

☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 17 February 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link

Wow, that Levi's advertisement linked to in the obituary might be the best ad I've ever seen.

RIP. I always liked Colours a great deal. I should have heard much more by now.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 17 February 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link

Damn, I was just thinking about how it's time to give "Word Jazz" a spin again.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 17 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link

nine months pass...

my gf and i made a silly music video set to a song off of 'love words' to submit to a local music video fest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJ1evmwxbw

flopson, Sunday, 1 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link


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