I’m not dead, I feel happy!
Well, I’m not dead at least.
Figures that right when I said I would do my best to update this blog on a monthly basis I go and flake out for a whole month. I guess I’m subconsciously putting this blog on the backburner while I work on other projects, like my podcast, my YouTube channel, and my other podcast. All of which I’m very proud of right now!
I’m continuing to post new episodes of Cinema Oblivia every other week. Since my last post here, I’ve uploaded episodes on Trick or Treat (with my friend/schlock connoisseur Matt Kucick), Manhunter (with Kotaku’s Brain Ashcraft), and The Visitor (with Joe Odber/aka @FrootoftheLoom1 on Twitter). I’m really happy with how all of them have turned out, not to toot my own horn. And I got some more episodes lined up. This week, Anthony Abatte joins me to talk about the crazy 70s horror/car chase flick Ride With The Devil! That episode was a lot of fun to record, so I hope you check it out.
Also, I’ve really started to kick my YouTube channel into high gear recently. Since my last post here I’ve uploaded FIVE videos, and in two of which you can see my face and everything (it’s terrifying). Check them out too if you can.
And finally, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, the podcast I’m on about prog rock, is getting updated more often as well. We put up an episode last month about The Mars Volta, and this week they’ll be another new episode, this one about post-Jon Anderson Yes (it’s a bumpy ride). So yeah, check that out too.
Sorry for all the shilling. It’s been a rough year, and all these projects are pretty much the only thing that’s keeping me remotely sane at the moment. I know a lot of you would rather me just continue this blog as is for infinity and beyond, but try to give these a shot too.
Now, here are some remixes to popular songs from the 80s. I used to post those a lot, y’know.
Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Extended Version)
Change of Heart (Extended Version)
What’s Going On (Club Version)
Money Changes Everything (Extended Live Version)
These tracks are from The Best Remixes, a Japan only EP that came out in…1996? Weird.
I found this CD at a Hard-Off, which are Japanese second-hand stores that I like to visit (and make videos about). The EP actually has six tracks, but I’m not including the ones that are on streaming services and other re-issues. So sorry, no Goonies or “She Bop” remixes here!
I know you’re gonna come for the “Girls” remix, but definitely stay for the “Change of Heart” remix and the live version of “Money Changes Everything.” “Change of Heart” ain’t exactly a Cyndi classic, but this remix slaps, with a fantastic extended outro. And the live version of “Money Changes Everything” is just fantastic, of course, that song is rad as hell, so I guess that’s not that surprising.
Probably the only less than perfect 10+ track on this EP is the remix of “What’s Going On” because, let’s be real, Cyndi’s cover of that wasn’t all that hot to begin with, still not a bad tune though.
I’ll try to have a Christmas-themed post later this month, but I’ve learned that I shouldn’t make promises about posts anymore. So, if I don’t post again until 2022, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
“not dead” is good
Like many others, I suspect, I have been following your blog for a number of years now, and whilst not everything you post floats my boat, I do often find something brilliant that was previously unknown to me. So I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank you for all the weird and wonderful music you have posted over the years.
Fantastico! Love the YT and podcast stuff as well!
Thanks for Cyndi, and for the reminder about your other activities. I’m definitely interested in hearing what you all say about Trick or Treat, still a guilty pleasure of mine.
Cyndi Lauper.
While on tour, she arrived in Japan the same day the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and nuclear devastation hit in March 2011. Other foreign artists here in Japan at the time couldn’t get out quickly enough, but she stayed and played all her shows.
Then a year later she came back to Japan again, and played free shows at schools in the hardest-hit areas.
I wasn’t really a fan of hers before that, but I sure as hell am now.
This compilation was released in 1986. It was one of the first JP discs I bought