My Favorite Girl Group compilations, represent!

 

Cake - Baby, That's Me (from Girls in the Garage Vol. 3)

More info: Spectropop

Buy it: good luck

 

The Puppets - Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart (from Girls in the Garage Vol. 1)

Does anyone remeber that great training montage in the film Bufffy the Vampire Slayer set to this song performed by the Divinyls? Hee!

More info: 70's Invasion

Buy it: ditto

 

Nita Rossi - Untrue, Unfaithful (from You Can Be Wrong About Boys)

More info: Girl Groups.com

Buy it: You Can Be Wrong About Boys (starting at $1.95!)

 

Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind (from Girls' Scene)

More info: Decca Records // Dana Gillespie fansite

Buy it: I don't know, try ebay or something.

 

The Ladybugs - It's the Last Time (from Gee Baby Gee)

More info: Faking it, Songs and Sources // Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting

Buy it: Del-Fi Girl Groups: Gee Baby Gee

What a crappy week

 

Susan Sontag - Feminism and the Changing Status of Women

More info: BBC4 Interviews with Susan Sontag // Wikipedia

Buy it: all things Susan Sontag

 

Jerry Orbach - Lullaby of Broadway (from 42nd Street)

More info: Who is this Briscoe?

Buy it: Dirty Dancing dvd // Law & Order S14 dvd's // Broadway's Lost Treasures

Happy Holidays, PUNKS! I'm going to Spokane for a week, land of dial up. So in the meantime...

Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist

Rock Opera edition!

 

Transfused - Child of Destiny

Written by Nomy Lamm and the Need. The Transfused, a critique of unchecked consumerism and the impossibility of collective productivity, is truly one of my favorite things.

More info: Official site

Buy it: Soundtrack

 

Greendale - Leave the Driving

Still, Young is a compelling enough activist/artist that Greendale, in all its unadorned frankness, should be held as something like an answer to the dangerously slick snuff of The Passion of the Christ. An exercise in cross-media orchestrated by a man of genius and conviction, neither perfect nor gloriously imperfect while walking its uneasy middle ground to the left, Greendale is at the least alive and in favour of liberty. The rareness of that, and many of our contemptuous reactions to it, should give us pause. -Walter Chaw

More info: Official site and FFC review

Buy it: Soundtrack w/ bonus live dvd // Greendale dvd

 

Tommy - Pinball Wizard

The first rock opera, and possibly the most acid-trippiest.

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Tommy performed by the London Symphony

 

Drive By Truckers - The Three Great Alabama Icons

A look at modern-day southern mythology, the rise and fall of Arena Rock, growing up in the seventies, and the "duality of the Southern Thing". Much of the album deals with the folk-lore surrounding the band Lynyrd Skynyrd and a man coming to terms with his own legacy.

More info: Southern Rock Opera Writeup

Buy it: Southern Rock Opera

Singing Starlets

 

Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love Again (German)

More info: Dietrich By Daughter in negotiations with Gwyneth Paltrow

 

Juliette (Lewis) & the Licks - Got Love to Kill (thanks, Sue!)

She was nominated for an Oscar at age 19 and has started a band with Patty Schemel from Hole. This rocks!

More info: Official site

 

Marilyn Monroe - Heat Wave

What am I going to say about Marilyn Monroe that you don't know already know? She's gorgeous and this was one of my favorite songs when I was little. You knew that!

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Diamond collection

 

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Lindsey Lohan - Ultimate

Remember falling in love with baby Lindsey when she played her own twin in the Parent Trap re-make? Or marvelling at her perfectly, stripe-y hair in Freaky Friday? Listen to this track and try to think of a kinder, gentler time before marijuana and silicone sunk their teeth into her.

 

More info: Lindsey's official blog

Buy it: Mean Girls dvd and Speak

 

In the spirit of crass commercialism... Cola!

Sally Yip - Coca-Cola Theme (Chinese RMX)

 

 

Petula Clark - Things Go Better With Coke (partial)

More info: Wikipedia

Buy it: Things Go Better With Coke

 

 

Nancy Sinatra - Things Go Better With Coke

More info: A Century of Coke vs. Pepsi and Sheila's iview with Nancy

Buy it: Nancy Sintra S/T

 

 

Britney Spears - Joy of Pepsi

More info: The Pop Tart in Winter

 

 

Patrick Bateman's Morning Routine

More info: Film Freak Central's review

Buy it: Unrated dvd Bookosaurus American Psycho 2

Connie is Cool!

If you check out this blog faithfully you will hear loads of Connie Francis. Lucky you! She is a definite favorite of everyone here at Erin Media.

Connie Francis - Roundabout (Japanese version)

More info: Batnet and Swingin Chicks

Buy it: Where the Boys Are: 24 Greatest Hits and Singin' in Japanese

A few gift ideas for Kwanza ...

Golden Girls - Miami Miami

from the episode where Rose and Dorothy enter a contest to write a jingle for the Miami tourism board. Classic!

More info: Golden Girls fan-fiction

Buy it: the Golden Girls S1 dvd box set

 

Genya Ravan - Ain't Gonna Happen

It's crazy non-sense that its taken this long for Genya Raven to write a book. As a child she and her family escaped a prison camp in their native Poland during the Nazi occupation, after coming to America she fronted the first all-female band (Goldie & the Gingerbreads) to be signed to a major record label, guested on Lou Reed and Blue Oyster Cult records, produced the Dead Boys first album, and (heard here) fronted the jazz/R&B combo10 Wheel Drive.

More info: Genya Ravan

Buy it: Lollipop Lounge Memoirs of A Rock And Roll Refugee

It's only fitting that the inaugural post of the new Erin Media music blog would be from an album that came from my very loins.

Lora Logic - Do You Believe in Christmas?

After leaving the original line up of the X-Ray Spex and starring in a film directed by seminal feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in the mid-70's Lora (loosely collaborating under the moniker "Essential Logic") also created some of the greatest art punk you would want dance to. Her influences can still be heard in bands like The Need, Erase Errata, et al. This particular song she described as "my attempt at a Christmas carol".

More about Lora from Rina and Greil Marcus.

Buy it.