I Thought You’d Fallen Off The Edge Of The World

Kylie Minogue “I Believe In You” – This is the long-awaited Kylie/Scissor Sisters collaboration. It’s not quite what I was expecting (I was anticipating something much more flamboyant with vocals by Jake Shears), but it’s excellent nonetheless. This is Kylie at her most elegant: a swooning disco ballad augmented by mellow synths and simple, understated strings. (Click here to pre-order it from Amazon UK.)

Cosmetique “Lady Di, Why Did You Have To Die?” – I acquired this rare, out-of-print circa-2000 promo 7″ thanks to Anfunny, my #1 tipster. This song was never commercially released, probably because they couldn’t get the sample clearance for Laura Brannigan’s “Gloria,” which is the basis for this track. As you can imagine, this isn’t the most tasteful song in the world – the lyrics are mostly salacious tabloid speculation, and the backing track is somewhat crude and overly filtered. Nevertheless, this song is very fun and strangely compelling.

And speaking of things which are strangely compelling…

David Boyle “George W. Pussy” – This was sent to me just the other day by Mr. Boyle, who included a note along with the mp3. This could very well be the strangest song that I post all year. He explains:

In late August, I recorded a rap song called “George W. Pussy”, a copy of which I’m attaching to this mail in MP3 form, and lyrics pasted in below. No, there’re no obscenities in it really, just some “meowing” sound effects off the keyboard, etc., so there’ll be no FCC problems. I borrow the riff from “Super Freak” (R.I.P. Rick James; I went to his 8/14 funeral service in Buffalo NY, touched his hand). There may even be subtle Sex Pistols references worked in…I wonder if the song or a video of it could even influence the 2004 election; there’s no really memorable “Bush stinks” music out there, so that “George W. Pussy” could be the “Fahrenheit 9/11” of music (or even the “October surprise”?!)…..there’s even the Rick James nostalgia factor, believe it or not! Use of the “Super Freak” hook made a #1 hit for M.C. Hammer, and “George W. Pussy” is far more controversial/ hypertopical than “U Can’t Touch This”, so should be able to do even better….. Though I’ve no distributor or promoter yet, so am looking around. I’m already working on storyboarding for the video, much of which involves Bush running around in a flight suit with the word “AWOL”, “W” much bigger than the rest of the letters because he’s “W” himself, on his chest, as he’s running away and crying. I think that should get the message across pretty clearly, since people have to graphically be shown the truth: the truth that Bush is America’s biggest sissy, the Coward-in-Chief.

(Click here to visit David Boyle’s website.)