Sunday 5 June 2011

Boney M - "Rasputin"/Proxy Music...

Last night at GlamRacket Soph played Boney M's "Rasputin" and once again, as every time I hear this song, I was thrilled.  It's just so AMAZING.  A disco song about Rasputin.  That should be enough but there's so much more.  In fact everything about this song is INCREDIBLY AWESOME.  "Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine".  I still remember the first time I ever heard that line, being completely blown away.  We were on a family holiday in 1996 and this song came up in a pub quiz.  No one had ever heard of it except for my cousins, who had lived in Australia in the late 70s, and they loved it.  Very intrigued, I managed to find "The Magic of Boney M" in the cut-out bin in Newbury Comics a few months later.  Which introduced me to other such joys as "Daddy Cool" and "Ma Baker".  And we've recently discovered that "Rasputin" is the ultimate boy-girl karaoke song.  BEHOLD:





GlamRacket was also the Proxy Music single launch, which was very good fun.  The idea of going to see a cover band always seemed quite strange to me (except perhaps when David Lee Roth hired a Van Halen tribute act for his backing band on the 2002 Sam & Dave tour) but Proxy Music are something different.  I went along to see them three years ago at a friend's suggestion - "They only play songs from the first two albums, and a couple of Eno singles" - and it was just that.  And it was Awesome.  The sound, the look, the magic - all there.  Evoking quite an atmosphere, with a good sense of fun about it as well.  Last night adding in songs from "Stranded" too, including my favourite Roxy song, "Street Life".

The new single, "Lucky Number", however, is actually a Lene Lovich song, which, per their introduction to it last night, the band noticed that when played at 33 rpm rather than 45, it sounds like Bryan Ferry. And now it does ; )  The instrumental passages alternating between the KILLER riff and BIG, awesome 70's freakouts, all in all a great rock song.  Backed with a dirty, spacey version of "Baby's On Fire" sung by Heidi Heelz, which is rather excellent.


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