Underplayed Classics
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Shake your Head – Was (Not Was)
The video has Kim Basinger (really) & Larry from the Three Stooges (not really) in it.
This is much closer to my own idea of an ‘underplayed classic’. Arrigo Barnabé at the Teatro Pixinguinha in São Paulo, 1979, exhibiting a marriage of popular music and the dodecaphonic series (Schoenbergism).
Or, the same song many years later, and much much less crudely:
Have Chumbawamba been on before? I hadn’t realised at the time they were described as anarcho-communists. Some of the lyrics will resonate with WSM members.
– Rod Shaw
No, they haven’t.
Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:
This video was made in 2012 (when the band broke-up), however: ‘a mail-order EP, In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher, was released on 8 April 2013. The CD had been recorded around 2005 and made available for pre-order at gigs and on the group’s website, to be issued upon the death of Margaret Thatcher.’ – Wikipedia.
There’s not enough German hi-energy euro-pop on this thread.
Posting this unironically. This is a stone called classic.Anyone recognise the tune they’ve *cough* lifted.
Moo: ‘Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:’
I’m going to have to listen to them a bit more. I hadn’t paid much attention to them at the time, except for when the delightfully self-styled Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water over John Prescott’s head at the 1998 Britpop awards.
Whether they should be described as hard left like in the video is moot though – they looked to be against capitalism of the left, right or centre.
I bought a lute a couple of years ago and I’m slowly learning to play it. Many lute tunes are underplayed classics (except in lute circles of course). Here’s a really nice one from the 16th century, except it’s played on a vihuela, which is tuned the same and very similar in sound.
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