pHinnWeb2

It was around the year 2007 when Euphonic , a Finnish record collector, put together an unofficial 2-CDR compilation called Finnish Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from a Remote Northern Country, 1963–1968 . It was modelled after Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era , a 1972 double album of American psychedelic and garage rock from the mid-to-late 1960s. This collection was curated by Lenny Kaye and released by Elektra Records. Nuggets became a very influential release, inspiring several punk rock bands who came to prominence during the latter part of the 1970s. The compilation spawned not only several sequel albums and later, CD boxes, but also other record labels followed in its wake, with an endless series of obscure garage rock collections such as Pebbles , Rubble and Back from the Grave . Music follows its own fashions, there always being that vast undergrowth which doesn't fit into what's currently accepted as "hip" or "authentic...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 'Love Missile F1-11' (1986) "Soon the whole world will know my name." Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a UK act active from 1982 to 1989, being the brainchild of Tony James , earlier of Generation X fame (the band that gave the world Billy Idol ), with Martin Degville on vocals and also featuring guitarist Neal X (a.k.a. Neal Whitmore ), keyboardist Yana YaYa (a.k.a. Jane Farrimond ) and two drummers, Chris Kavanagh and Ray Mayhew . The debut single 'Love Missile F1-11' was unleashed on the unsuspecting world on the 17th of February, 1986, with a music video in tow, directed by Hugh Scott-Symonds . Sigue Sigue Sputnik, supposedly named after a Russian street gang (though it seems the name originates from the Philippines and literally means in Spanish "Go, go, satellite"), were the ultimate 1980s gimmick band and hype act. Their sound can be described a sort of electronic rockabilly. They cited Suicide, the pio...

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (directed by William Greaves, 1968) This film really blew my mind, being a sort of meta-behind the scenes documentary (or whatever). There are three separate film crews: the first one is shooting a screen test for a sordid psychodrama-cum-soap opera type of film, called "Over the Cliff". They, in their turn, are filmed by the second crew, supposedly for a behind-the-scenes documentary. Then there's the third crew, shooting both the crews 1 & 2 and everything else that is happening on location. Perhaps it's a human experiment made up by William Greaves (1926 - 2014), playing the role of an incompetent director and bad screenwriter to get reactions from his actors and crew and thus setting in motion the whole creative impetus for this reality-TV before reality-TV work (or cinéma vérité as they used to call it). As an amateur/student filmmaker I could really relate to the situations and the interpersonal friction here. S...

MRS TABE SLIOOR TELLS ABOUT SATAN AND THE ARCH DEVIL CALLED ANTON LAVEY THE DISGUSTING CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF SATAN [Suomeksi] Tabe Slioor (21 November, 1926 – 25 April, 2006) was in her time a famous Finnish celebrity, socialite, journalist and fashion model. She was avidly followed by media after her notorious affairs with some famous men in high positions, such as Erik von Frenckell, the honorary mayor of Helsinki. Tabe Slioor was of Persian descent and claimed her father had been a prince even though the truth was something far more modest. While living in San Francisco, she wrote a series of profiles of American public figures for the men's magazine Jallu (which, compared to the magazine's later reputation, was still quite chaste at this point, focusing mainly on pin-ups and bikini photos). Jallu had also been the magazine to publish Tabe's controversial memoir in the early 1960s. Tabe's Stateside interviewees included Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agne...