I've decided you need to, too.
"Mind" and its slinky little riff creeping up your backbone into the back of your - mind.
Here's a live version of "Drugs," with Adrian Belew assisting on guitar.
Because I spent last Saturday warping my mind to Talking Heads' 1979 album Fear of Music, I've decided you need to, too. "I Zimbra" - This is the album's first song and the only track with any semblance of normalcy that I'm highlighting. Why wasn't this issued as a disco single remix? No, that's not African chanting, it's writing by Dadaist poet Hugo Ball.
"Mind" and its slinky little riff creeping up your backbone into the back of your - mind. Here's a live version of "Drugs," with Adrian Belew assisting on guitar.
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Henry McCullough, the original guitarist in Paul McCartney's band Wings, died Tuesday at 72. McCullough played on Wings' first 2 albums and the singles "Hi Hi Hi" and "Live and Let Die" in addition to Paul and Linda McCartney's album Ram and Linda McCartney's Wide Prairie. (Strangely enough, his debut solo album Mind Your Own Business was released in 1975 on George Harrison's Dark Horse label following McCullough's departure from Wings.) His spoken voice lives on at the end of Pink Floyd's "Money" saying "I don't know, I was probably drunk at the time." Wings was recording in the same studio as the Floyd, and the band submitted to Pinkie's interviews about mental health that were to be interspersed throughout the band's Dark Side of the Moon album, which led to his inclusion on the track's fade. Here's McCullough's fine guitar work on Paul McCartney & Wings' debut single "Give Ireland Back To the Irish."
Dearly beloved readers, we are gathered here today to expose a cult of the 1970s. No, not Jonestown. THE M&M CANDY CULT! This started out innocuously enough with this cute animated commercial, set to the tune of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 1972 chart-topper "The Candy Man." As you can see, at this point the charismatic leader simply utilized the product as his performing backup entertainment. However, by 1976, the leader had taken on a creepier human form, as seen in this spot. What is worse, he has now been elevated to idolatry by impressionable young children drawn to his addictive treats. The tide seems to have tuned by this 1978 commercial. The followers, who now consider themselves a "gang," and conforming to the insidious meaning of the word, have grown older and overthrown "The Candy Man" as leader and have taken over a playground. Even worse, whereas before the youth were simply happy to have small bags of M&Ms, they now carry around huge cookie-jar sized containers of the confections. Happily, this 1978 relic seems to be the last that was heard of any youth organizations devoted to the small circular candies. Perhaps the youth were annihilated by roving pepped-up "Peppers" addicted to caffeinated beverages singing an equally catchy jingle of their own.
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