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June 12, 2007
Heavenly Pop Hits, continued
Judging from the still not quite triple digit You Tube views of the first five parts of the comprehensive Kiwi rock doc Heavenly Pop Hits: the Flying Nun story, not that many people out there are too excited about the fabled sounds of hobbit land. However, I know that the few people who do care, really, really care, so screw it. Here's the end of the film that wasn't available when I put up my first ecstatic notice. Part 6 here picks up right where Friday's post left off, with a discussion of a living made through shilling your tunes through Aussie soap operas.
If you've not seen the first five, then by God go back. We'll wait...
Part 6
7-9 plus some more excellent Flying Nun mp3's after the jump. If anyone out in TV land has an mp3 of Stephen Malkmus covering the Verlaines "Death and the Maiden" that was featured in Part 3, please do let me know...
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Phew! The bands gets a bit dodgy at points, and nothing beats the old Clean footage from part one in my esteem, but this is still a great, great resource.
A couple more of Flying Nun's aforementioned "pop hits":
Posted by Jeff Klingman at June 12, 2007 09:50 AM
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Sorry don't have the Malkmus track, but I have heard the cd, someone lent it to me once. It is still available, well at least in NZ, e.g. at
http://www.smokecds.com/cd/30134
I found it interesting but not exactly essential. I'm loving the 25th anniversary box though (even if it is overpriced).
Anyway, good to see someone else excited over this documentary, I loved it.
Posted by: Stu at June 14, 2007 08:13 AM
If anyones interested, I could load the whole docu as a bittorrent - its not like anyone has copyright over it - like the videos...
Posted by: JP at June 15, 2007 09:11 AM
If you did such a thing you would live on in story and song, JP
Posted by: Jeff K at June 15, 2007 10:25 AM
OK, well its seeding now at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/752604
Might take a bit to get it all - my up b/w is limited to 35k unfortunately...
Most of the bands are what I grew up with, so I don't think there are any dodgy ones - most of those ones just take a little getting used to.
Bands like the Skeptics, Headless Chickens, This Kind of Punishment, Kiwi Animal were years ahead of their time - no one else was doing that kind of stuff back in the 80's (not that I ever saw) - but I must admit D4 don't do anything for me. And I can't believe the 3D's supported U2 - that was a classic Kiwi trick to borrow some wine...
See ya
J-P
Posted by: JP at June 15, 2007 10:26 PM
