Showing posts with label dukes of stratosphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dukes of stratosphere. Show all posts

Sunday, January 28, 2007

DUKES OF STRATOSPHERE - CLIPS FROM THE CHOCOLATE FIREBALL



"I'm the bad thoughts inside your head..... and you won't catch me..." Chides, the Mole IN THE MINISTRY... MAN !!!!

MAN !!!!!

Can you DIG the coolness OF THIS CLIP?


Why can't more music have more thought put into it like this today? Is that too much to ask......???? I don't want to go on ANOTHER dreary comparrison to a drollish band like Nickleback so I will save it for another time.

"CHIPS FROM THE CHOCOLATE FIREBALL" is a CD worth owning. If you can't get it anywhere you should download anything you can from the Dukes of Stratosphere. This was XTC's alter ego and for years I had no idea they even did this project. I remember this when it was on vinyl. This was also before the second album came out so this goes back a few years around the "Skylarking" album...... which is another album you should run out and get !!

Yes, it drips with Beatlemania and screams "Magical Mystery Tour" but it also screams XTC. It also is done a tad bit better than the Beatles, "MMT".... at least musically. The Beatles film was great visually from what I remember and it was handled with powerful vivid colored visuals that left a profound statement on my artistic sensibilities..... to the point where it almost defined them. And you certainly cannot say that about Nickleback.... at least, not if your speaking intelligently and coherrantly.

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Ted Cantu is the creator of http://www.beautyloungestore.com he has contributed to several blogs and podcasts such as…..http://911copywriters.podomatic.com. He served as a top rated art director for Interactive Web Marketing groups in Chicago and New York City.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

XTC - PEPPERED WITH POP BRILLIANCE

PERFECT.

I don't hand out many titles of that nature when it comes to pop music. I hardly hand them out even in Andy Partridge's case. But as an XTC this song goes past what is expected and delivers the song exactly as it should be. Better than I fantasized about. Its more electric then I could have dreamed of.

Frenetic. Mad. Disasterous. Ecstatic and Frenzied.

The office shots, screaming into a plastic toy telephone and appearing on multiple tv monitors..... all the shots equally vying for your attention.

ARE YOU RECIEVING ME?

YES... i SHOULD HOPE SO !

Of course too much exposure to this type of psychotic pop frenzied music could be dangerous to ones health, (irregular heart beats and copulous beer consumption). Not to mentioned a bruised imagination.

While I am on the subject of XTC let me ask you if you ever heard of these louts?

www.dukesofsimpleton.com

A tribute band to XTC. Spreading imagination to soul dead world.
THanks to an era of Bush and Post-Hope.... we need all the encouragement we can get.
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Ted Cantu IS THE FASCUBE NETWORK 2006