Lust for XXX

Have you ever used your boyfriends willie as a microphone?



Girls - Lust for Life

I wanna suck your....

...blood of course. It's a seasonal thing.

I first heard Drac's Back by the Bollock Brothers when my friend Ken played it at a Halloween party in my house a few years ago. It's a story about a vampire preying on 'easy pickings at the discotheque', delivered in a fabulously deadpan voice over a tinny dicso backing. So be careful what you get up to this Saturday night or you might wake up next to a monster.

Posting this next track involves a confession, I'm a Cliff Richard fan. The man is sex on legs, and he's also pure filth. Under that chunky jumper beats a dark heart. We rarely get to see the real Cliff, but he surfaces on his 1976 track, and career highpoint, Devil Woman.

Cliff singing sweetly as an angel, and seemingly oblivious to the sexual groaning in the background, warns us to watch out for the devil woman. Lets be clear, the song isn't about a woman at all. It's about a 'tall dark stranger giving you what you hadnt planned' This devil is 'gonna get you from behind'.

The video is amazing, I think it must date from around the same era as my parents wedding album because the special effects are very similar - Cliff inside a crystal ball, Cliff in an eyeball, Cliff seen through a giant bubbling potion.

And check out those moves. Cliff claws the air like his life depended on it. I'd love to dance to this in a club sometime. The dance would probably also work to 'Lovecats'. In fact, I can't think of a song that wouldnt be enhanced by it.

Why not find out for yourself?

The Bollock Brothers - Drac's Back
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman

Dial 'O' for Animal Noises

Karen O has been busy in 2009. On top of releasing and touring 'Its Blitz' with the YeahYeahYeah's she's found the time to contribute animal noises to a song off the Flaming Lips new album. Unfortunately it's not Karen leaping around in the video.





She's also recorded a soundtrack to Spike Jonze's new film 'Where the Wild Things Are'. It's credited to Karen O 'and the kids'. The kids turn out to be members of the Raconteurs, the Bird and the Bee, Deerhoof and Queens of the Stone Age. This is how she described the album in an interview with NyLon magazine

“We wrote music that would be easy for kids to sing along with.  The songs have that innocence and spirit with poppy hooks here and there.  Simple, emotional, sweet stuff.”

The Flaming Lips (feat. Karen O) - I can be a frog
Karen O and the Kids - All is Love 

Are you ready for mammal beats?

An animal themed mix inspired by Mrs Barbara Woodhouse and a trip to the pet cemetery at Powerscourt.

Download it here

Tracklist
Les Georges Leningrad - Mammal Beats

This raucous three-piece from Montreal make songs that sound like they're barely held together. Taken from their 2006 Sangue Puro album 

Y Pants - The Fly

Y Pants, an all-female punk band from New York, had a unique sound based around a toy grand piano, a thumb drum and a ukulele. They only released one album, and this is my favourite song off it, a story about a woman who, at the moment of her death, is visited by a fly. Despite the gloomy subject matter the whole thing is quite upbeat. The lyrics are taken from this Emily Dickinson poem.

Suburban Wives Club - Casual Cat at a Laudromat

Another all-girl group, Suburban Wives Club wrote punk songs about the overwhelming minutiae of suburban life. They imagined how Chairman Maos wife must have felt picking his socks up off the floor, they fantastised about finding love at the laudromat.


Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Rare as the Yeti

Kid Congo was a member of the Cramps, Gun Club and one of Nick Caves original Bad Seeds. His music has a primal swampy garage rock feel to it. For some reason he seems to be doing an impression of Dr Frankenfurter on Rare as the Yeti.

Interlude - a few words from Mrs Woodhouse

Prince - Pussy Control

Pussy Control sees Prince try his hand at gangsta rap. It dates from his creatively dodgy 'artist formerly known as' period in the mid 90's when he was madder than a bag of cats.  Despite all of the above it's completely amazing. 




White Lies - Farewell to the Fareground (Rory Philips White Horse remix)
La Horse - Cyanide and Happiness


BowWowWow - Where's my snake?

BowWowWow were formed when Malcolm McLaren nicked Adam Ant's backing band and paired them up with 14 year old scantily clad sex kitten Annabella Lwin. Like most of their songs 'Where's my snake?' is less than three minutes long and fuelled by a combination of furious tribal drum beats and innuendo.



Bumblebee Unlimited - Ladybug (Devlin extendit)

Taken from their disco concept album 'Sting like a Bee' this song tells the story of the romance between two insects - Ladybug and Barry 'B', which, alarmingly, seems to culminate in rape.




Golden Bug - LookLookLook

The Pixies - Monkeys gone to Heaven (Minigroove 45 remix)

Simian Mobile Disco - Hotdog (Cosmo Vitelli remix)

SMD celebrate their favourite mammal-based snack.





Woolfy - Oh Missy (In Flagrantis 'Barbara Woodhouse' remix)

In Flagranti's remix of a dreary Woolfy song thankfully bares no resemblence to the original. With some added encouragement from Barbara.





Idiotproof - Gorilla (Siriusmo's Ass of the Baboon remix)

Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb (David Caretta remix)

David Carretta's incredible 2003 remix of CCIS's 1981 original. I love the way the singer manages to work a W into her pronunciation of cardboard.