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Friday Weird Link

Jesse Walker | 1.7.2005 6:11 PM

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Aleister Crowley sings!

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. kmw   20 years ago

    MmmKay.... I'm glad Ozzy does the singing for Aleister these days. (j/k)

    I guess he has a pretty good Opera voice, if you're into that kind of thing.

  2. Ken Shultz   20 years ago

    Surprisingly, it's not that bad.

  3. Ultimate Fitness Program   20 years ago

    I agree, not bad at all. What happens if you play it backwards?

  4. Jesse Walker   20 years ago

    You get your soul back...

  5. dead_elvis   20 years ago

    Vive le France? I was expecting maybe some Mercyful Fate covers.

  6. Ken Shultz   20 years ago

    Merciful Fate? Even back in the day...

    ...That falscetto!?

  7. NoStar   20 years ago

    What's on the flip side, Anton LaVey sings Bo Diddley?

  8. Rick Barton   20 years ago

    Well Jesse, at least you didn't call it a "Friday Fun Link". 🙂

    Hey that reminds me; does anyone remember the name of that really fast New Wave song, sung in French and parts of it sounded like a Beach Boys song, the OOOooooo parts? I think it was used in a Chevy Chase vacation movie.

  9. Rick Barton   20 years ago

    ...It has kind of a punk sound.

  10. kevrob   20 years ago

    Rick:

    Roger Jouret aka Plastic Bertrand released ?a Plane pour Moi (This Life's for Me) back in 1978! PB is from Belgium, BTW.

    http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/plasticbertrand.htm

    http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=plastic_bertrand

    Now, where's my skinny tie?

    Kevin

  11. Gary Gunnels   20 years ago

    Before WWII it was fairly standard for American school students to learn La Marseillaise. I guess that was their version of "cultural diversity" back then. Anyway, as I recall that's where Ronald Reagan learned France's national, and how he was able to sing it to Mitterand. 🙂

  12. kevrob   20 years ago

    After 1940, of course, the music classes just taught Harry Barris' I Surrender, Dear. 🙂

    Kevin

  13. Rick Barton   20 years ago

    Kevin,

    Thanks, wear your Devo sunglasses with pride! Here's a picture of Nena for you, a later one, but still nice. (scroll down and right)

    http://www.dforum.de/Fotos/galerien/originale/04-foto03.htm

  14. Gary Gunnels   20 years ago

    kevrob,

    Nah, it was Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. 🙂

    Notably she helped thousands of French POWs escape the clutches of the Nazis via the celebrity shots she took with them. The POWs would take the photos, cut out their face alone, and use them on forged documents.

  15. TheRev   20 years ago

    This is pretty good, but it's not as good as the gem I stumbled on a couple months ago.

    Anton LaVey singing. Even better, he's singing this synth-organ New Wave-ish love song. Apparently he was really into making music for a while, but after hearing this, I quickly understood that that was an illfated ambition.

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