Friday Weird Link
Aleister Crowley sings!
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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.
Surprisingly, it's not that bad.
I agree, not bad at all. What happens if you play it backwards?
You get your soul back...
Vive le France? I was expecting maybe some Mercyful Fate covers.
Merciful Fate? Even back in the day...
...That falscetto!?
What's on the flip side, Anton LaVey sings Bo Diddley?
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.
...It has kind of a punk sound.
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
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. 🙂
After 1940, of course, the music classes just taught Harry Barris' I Surrender, Dear. 🙂
Kevin
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
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.
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.