80ās day today. Z-O-I-D-S and W-O-R-D up.
Those of us who are goth or goth-related probably all know Faderhead. He puts together stuff that is upbeat and gets everyone on the dance floor. So we all kind of think of him as a pop-goth.
But have ever you heard his own stuff? Where he sings?
He recently put out an EP (Therapy For One | Faderhead) and wow.
That is totally not what I wouldāve expected. It aināt happy dance music. Itās as dark and goth as anything gets. If you listen, youāll likely want to reach out and ask if he needs a therapist. And thereās the title - Therapy For One.
If you like goth music, you should check it out. It is nothing at all like āTZDVā or āThe Way to Fuck Godā or āDirtygrrrls/Dirtyboisā. Itās really deep and dark and has a feel of honesty to it.
Itās not going to make you dance like those big hits did, but itās definitely worth listening to. To hear someone just open up and pour their heart and soul into it.
I know I just posted a big long thing, so itās not really appropriate for me to post another thing. But here we are. Iām doing it.
Stevie Wonder singing Higher Ground (Higher Ground - YouTube) just is so powerful. Everyone should listen to it. Heās not just singing about one thing, but about life. Itās real easy to say weāve improved a lot of that stuff, But have we really? I kinda doubt heād agree with that.
Answering the real questions here, what if Black Sabbath and Wham did a song together and pulled in Van Halen for the guitar solo?
Ozzieās confused face at 1:20 says it all.
I have really been enjoying electro swing in the last few years. But this is something even more far out.
A golden, misty sunset over the Potomac. Passing Point of Rocks listening to New Adventures in Hi Fi.
Cruising through Wisconsin farm fields at 80 mph listening to Telephone Free Landslide Victory for the first time.
I canāt help it, this is good.
Love that song! Ever since the movie first came out.
Hereās another version I found in just the last two or three weeks. Ashley Slaterās voice is so cool.
The original video. Yes, Iām still enjoying this!
Another guy whose voice I like is Richard Sinclair, from Hatfield and the North et al, an old 1970s progressive rock band (subgenre Canterbury style). This was an attempt to be āmore accessible.ā
A live version from 1990:
Thatās interesting, I couldnāt pin it to any genre, but I guess prog-rock is good enough.
Probably why it didnāt work out as a āhit,ā if I recall right.
Kind of missed a trick by not including some of the Ghostbusters commercial remixed to sound like rap. Probably could just get away with playing with the speed a little to get it to fit in. Pretty cool, though 
Iāve always rather liked this one:
