Earlier, a tipster let us know that an unreleased song by Relaxed Muscle—the electro-spook side project undertaken by Jarvis Cocker and Jason Buckle in the earlier part of this decade—had, under the innocuous title "left over relaxed m.....," surfaced on
Buckle's MySpace page. The tipster asked us if the song may fall under the "forgotten classic" category; while we need a few more comparative listens to the rest of
A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle to properly judge, we really like its spooky backing vocals and the breakdown where Jarvis commands someone to "pull your pants up and settle down." We're pretty into the other songs Buckle has on display, too, although we have one question: Is that Scott Walker getting the taffy-pull vocal treatment on "Give Inn"?
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The man who kindly asked listeners to not read the lyric booklet while listening to his band's masterpiece Different Class—perhaps because he was drunk while writing 90% of said words, and nursing a hell of a hangover whle penning the remaining 10%—may seem like an odd choice for a symposium on the art of the lyric, but let's face it: I'd listen to Jarvis Cocker ruminate on the art of display-ad placement in phone books if I could. On May 23 he'll hold a talk (complete with PowerPoint slides!) called "Saying the Unsayable" at the Brighton Festival in the UK, and it'll apparently touch on the lyrics to "Louie Louie" as well as the words sung by the likes of Pete Doherty and Hot Chocolate frontman Errol Brown. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the talk's already sold out, but surely someone reading can sneak their way in and give us a report? Please? [Brighton Festival via Guardian]
Second only to Tim Curry's 8-bit adventure on the "best Halloween content involving a suave Brit that I found while scouring my RSS feeds today": Jarvis Cocker reads the creepy story "Rats"—"a tale from a book taken from Jarvis' grandparents' house, by M.R. James"—in celebration of Halloween. [
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