What Can't You Find On The Internet?

Sam - sorry.

Which is a real bitch cos every other fucker does.

(heh)

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World/philsys.html

http://link.bubl.ac.uk/ISC2365

My God - I never realised this! And it seemed such an apt monker anyway (he is from Barnet, he is ape-like). How extraordinary!

Also moving pictures (say Real Video) of Mazinger Z are unfindable.

In the meantime, it's part of the zip file of Pavement tabs you can get here (click on "All Pavement Tabs!!"), though it doesn't seem to be available separately. It's only an 84k zip file, so it won't take long to download, but if you'd rather not get the whole zip then let me know and I'll send you the individual file.

Also, from what I've seen, full details of exactly which seats changed hands in UK general elections up to 1970, though I might just not have looked hard enough.

In fact, information on 60s-70s ska and reggae seems to be pretty sparse in general, sadly. I also can't find mp3s of a couple of dancehall tracks I'm looking for, but I should probably stop being a cheapskate and buy them, except I have no idea where I'd buy them.

I'm having one of my intermittent reggae obsessions, as you can probably tell...

I can't find a resolution for the www contradiction between Lloyd Cole, on the Lloyd site, saying he loves Robert Quine and they're going for NYC Chinese food next week, and Quine, on the Quine site, saying, "Lloyd Cole just wants to make MOR records for the commercial radio" etc.

Most importantly, I can't find 'Ask And He'll Answer' Nicky D answering my question of a while back, namely: why are there two different versions of the Magnetic Fields' GET LOST LP?

Do you have to go and buy tracks while they're still reasonably new, or is there a fair bit of back stock? And are the Greensleeves riddim compilations mixed or do they feature full-length tracks? I'm mainly looking for "Money To Burn" (don't know who this is by but it rocks) and Mr Easy's "Crazy", both of which are based on the Buy Out riddim, but I'd be interested in any other Buy Out tracks or, well, anything, really. (Cue lots of dancehall connoisseurs laughing at me - as you can see, I don't really know what I'm talking about at all. I feel far too white and middle-class to say "riddim", as well, but it seems fairly unavoidable.)

Anyway, thanks very much for your help, much appreciated, you rock. And an excuse for a record-shopping trip to the Berwick Street area is always appreciated, even if I haven't dared venture into the non- indie shops before :)

is there a particular translation into English that---we---should look for?

I once caught an episode of German pop show Formel Eins. There was a ridiculously OTT new romantic group debuting their single, a protest song against the cold war. I remember there was a background with a cowboy and a cossack playing chess - not sure whether this was a music video or just how Formel Eins chose to illustrate the performance - and I strongly remember the line "why did the Russians invade Afghanistan?", for its literalness and out of placeness in a synth pop bop.

This was decades ago (at which point ofc it was already a decades old rerun) and I may have exaggerated some or all aspects in my mind since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Cold_War

any help?

This it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ZophoD-U

that is it jaymc! great work.

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoO53l0fUZ0

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

footage of larry king interviewing putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_hnDgELts

damn! thanks!

transcript via kremlin in case anyone is interested
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558

seems ridiculous that you can have an isbn number but all that comes back in searches is 100 pages selling the same "ed mcbain omnibus" with the same "cover coming soon" and no information about what's in it. i swear the internet used to be more helpful.

978-0340623244

The name of a book published around 1912 that contained offensive (for the time) songs and poems. I think the title started with an I. And it was available on Google Books.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still looking.

A gallery of all 9 original panels of "A Short History of America" exist online in a decent (or *gasp* high) resolution?

All I could find is this YT in reasonable quality -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkq595NhD0

Nice, thank you!

video of New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed" on Letterman circa 2003?

It used to be here but was taken down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyp3JC9-uU

I just saw them on Letterman. They did "The Laws Have Changed," which was exactly what I wanted to hear, and the most obvious song to play. Neko looked really pretty, more beautiful than I remember her being from the two times that I've seen the band perform.

Carl looks more like Howdy Doody with each passing day.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:56 PM (twenty years ago)

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Andy Partridge once wrote a mini-essay (or post?) about songwriting in which he used an extended metaphor about going around a racetrack built by his forebears (the Beatles, the Move, the Kinks, etc.) This may have been a myspace post? Or maybe that's just where I originally saw it, in my memory. It's not in the Complicated Game book and I can't seem to find it on Chalkhills (it wasn't really "news" or "press").

there are some trees on the Thames path near Hammersmith, actually on the Barnes side, which are famous and called something like The Seven Sisters. only you can't search for seven sisters, or barnes elms or anything specific because you get too many hits for entirely different things. and if they were elms then they probably died in the 70s. but i do remember reading about them somewhere.

You're not thinking of Barney, the big old plane in that area?

http://scottishforestbirds.blogspot.com/2017/02/london-trees-barney.html?m=1

no, that's on the common, not the riverside path.

there's a tourism plaque on the Hammersmith side pointing out things of local / natural interest and i thought I'd read it there, but i checked yesterday and it's not the source.

although the final shot on your page might be getting at what I'm thinking of, a series of trees along the Thames path, Victorian. not sure the maths and up though (if they got rid of 30 and that was half of them, and then lost 19 and another 10 that'd leave... 1)

(thought it might be in News From Nowhere because the protangonist starts from that stretch of the river but a quick skim suggests not. plus i've not read that before so i wouldn't've seen it there)

https://apps.london.gov.uk/street-trees/?trees=eJxVyzEOwjAMheG7eIbKdps05BSIFaHKbaK0qE2qKEyIuxOYYPDy_c_XJ4wpp0eYwcJlmeYtRQcH2GSJpZ7P_x5WGUr2fgj1aa_tnPZVci1fjbL5X1yTuMFJ-SAjGWTqKqfx7qeyOLBMpj31dRgD2CM23J0QlVKaUCvdt6YmKWAVNZ1BQkRqtWbm1-0NYPk3lw

you might need to zoom in. but these are poplars and elms along the bit of river i'm talking about. there are a shedload more along that stretch, it's contnuously wooded all the way around, but the fact that only some of them are labelled makes me think it's a thing.

I often use Google Books to find old things, and typing in "trees thames path 'seven sisters'" returns this book from 1861:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Elliot_s_New_and_Practical_Guide_Through/OgO6aicEfbEC?hl=en&gbpv=0

"Observe on each side of the long walk the beds of very beautiful flowers; on the right hand are seven magnificent elm trees, known as the Seven Sisters; two large lime trees, called the Two Brothers, and on the left a majestic Turkey oak tree" - but he's talking about Kew Gardens, not Barnes. He also mentions the other Seven Sisters at... well, at Seven Sisters. So as you point out those specific trees are almost literally lost in the chaff. I'm also reminded of the classic blog post from years ago about the bridge over a highway in the US that connected nothing to nothing, where the writer dug deep and found the original planning documents. The fact is that some things just aren't on the internet.

On a tangent, there's an ambient ratio station called Sleepbot that loops through a set of CDs the owner bought in the early 2000s. Amongst which is James Johnson's Minimum:
https://www.discogs.com/master/544972-James-Johnson-Minimum

Which was self-released as a CDr in 2002 and then again on his own digital label in 2012, which is defunct, so there appears to be no way to buy it legitimately any more. The same has happened to a load of ambient releases from the early 2000s. They were released as CDrs, then on a digital record label that went defunct, and now they're too obscure for Spotify or Bandcamp etc because the artists involved have moved on. Which raises the moral issue of whether you should continue to listen to a piece of music if the musician no longer wants it out in the public eye. Or if you should listen to it really, really quietly.

the seven sisters i was originally aware of were rocks along the Wye on the way to Monmouth. i think any 7 things, especially near rivers, get called sisters.

do copyright libraries get copies of all cds? i guess there are things that fly below the radar still. those 10 cdrs with hand drawn sleeves owl and mouse were selling at gigs for instance

i recall as a kid listening to an early or original version of "concrete jungle" by the wailers. not the '71 lee perry joint, which is fairly slow. this was more like a midtempo ska, with a descending chromatic guitar line and a chorus of singers shouting "jungle" in a call-and-response type way. i've searched through all my wailers CDs and have come up short. nothing seems to be on youtube. did i make this up?

so, i guess an arrangement not dissimilar from the "catch a fire" version -- maybe it was a demo?

probably not but Babylon by Bus '78 version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeayU1b9-dE

nope. i think it might have been this demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmt0Hf0sSiM

i guess the other possibility is that i heard a lo-res version of the "catch a fire" version and over time my memory merged it with the production sound of the '70-'71 era à la "natural mystic" etc.

can't find proof on the internet that headphone pad replacement company Wicked Cushion's slogan "Music Sounds Better When Its Wicked" really IS trademarked without the apostrophe in "it's"

one of my friends keeps bringing up his quest for Fancy J London's "Can We Talk for a Minute"

it means enough to him that i figured i'd check with y'all

anyone have it sitting around for a YSI?

ok there was this youtube vid / channel : zeek sheck meets caroliner type big neon afro-krampus costumes performance art / computer art with sloppy punk / hyper edited digi noise music.
the name was something like godlomanchimpzilla / godmanchimpzilla or similar and i can't find it. any ideas? thanks!

probably wider than the internet, and a requst from my mother...

seen 'on the news' in the last week or so (Sky or BBC, specifically BBC South West), a book about a boy in belsen concentration camp. she said 'comic book'. no title, no author.

a quick search brings up Tomi Reichental and his 'I Was A Boy In Belsen (2011)', which is also available as a kids book 'Tomi (2021)' neither of which are 'news' and the latter has spot illos but isn't a 'comic book' at all. sample here https://obrien.ie/tomi

she's pretty sure it was Belsen (Bergen-Belsen) and it wasn't animals (so not Maus, which she's already read)

i am at a loss.

oh, https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/9781487526849.008

But I Live.

"An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust."

but again, not news.

The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a survivor of Bergen-Belsen
Paperback 2 Jan. 2025
by Peter Lantos (Author)

which IS new! it's probably this.

what's the name of that phenomenon whereby the precursor of something is viewed as clichéd / hackneyed, because we've seen & become accustomed to so many souped-up high-octane derivatives of it since? - we discussed it here wrt sitcoms - can't find a jot about it anywhere now

are the videos from john malkovich's "playing lynch" project available anywhere? i could only find the one where he plays the log lady on vimeo.

A short tour diary that a guy wrote about going out with Moby on his first big tour, mostly revolves around 'Moby was a douchebag' (shocking)

Was this it? Though the links seem to be dead:

Always a good time to post this account of being in Moby's band and pretending to play keyboards

That’s it! Had no idea why I had seen it, makes sense that it was ILM.

The Wayback Machine is throwing a 503 error, hopefully it has the pages archived when it’s working.

Just noticed the last post on that thread suggesting they are gone.

Works for me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151120014051/https://inthemix.junkee.com/my-1993-rave-adventure-with-moby/19934
https://web.archive.org/web/20160320041846/https://inthemix.junkee.com/how-i-survived-americas-first-ever-rave-tour/20112

forgotten part of that diary - the Hartnoll brothers seem like lovely dudes

Seems like the last part of that diary is not archived. Shame, I was enjoying the read.

ilx