Honey Bane (real name Donna Tracy Boylan) could be the forerunner of the cosplayers in Japan. But before she became a cutie, she was part of the Fatal Microbes, Poison Girls and Crass.
In this post two of her singles, or in fact three, Turn me on Turn me off is a double.



Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 produced this record:



According to Wikipedia she was a pin-up model for erotic magazines in the late eighties.

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Actually, Polyphonic Size has never been a real band, but Roger-Marc Vande Voorde's project.
Being a true Rolling Stones fan, he started to learn guitar and began to play in small local bands : Berk, Reynolds, Magnetix and mostly Melody.
Roger-Marc was also running a belgian Stranglers fanzine: Strangled. He first met Jean-Jacques Burnel in Cologne in 1978, then sent him the 2 Polyphonic Size EP. JJ listens to the singles and offers to produce the next right away.
In early 1981, Polyphonic Size records this maxi single, PS, including a robotic cover version of the Rolling Stones classic, Mother's Little Helper. The four other tracks are "Girlscout" (sung with an english friend called Angie), Men & Construction, On the Way To Medora and a brand new version of Saison. This time, Polyphonic Size is also Martine Bourlée (who is also RM's girl friend) and Jean Marc Lederman (lately in Kid Montana and the Weathermen).



Side one:
1 Mother's little helper [3:03]
2 Girlscout [3:18]

Side two:
1 Men and construction [1:44]
2-3 On the way to Medora - Saison [5:22]

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How did an adjective like Electro Magnetic, which only originated in 1823, germinate in the minds of J. Offenbach and E. Bourget, so that today it has become a common term.
Just imagine an Italian singing teacher in 1983 with his own recording studio comprising numerous electro-magnetic instruments, intent on promoting a reticent singing student who he must back up with synthesizers and sound mixing panels. We must jump a century to react with the same enthusiasm.
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I found this on the market. If you dislike opera voices, like I do, skip to side two, there you find the instrumental rendition. That synthesizer only version is not available on cd.

Side one:
1 Introduction [2:10]
2 No 1 Andante - Tout zante sur la terre [4:24]
3 No 2 Tarentelle - C'est la vive tarentelle [1:13]
4 No 3 Ensemble - Apôtre de la foi magnétique [7:34]
5 No 3 bis La Bigornoise - Ronde (extraite de l'Ensemble) [5:13]
6 No 4 Final [1:31]

Side two:
1 Introduction [1:14]
2 No 1 Andante [1:52]
3 No 2 Tarentelle [1:12]
4 No 3 Ensemble [4:05]
5 No 3 bis La Bigornoise [3:59]
6 No 4 Final [1:31]

UPDATE:
The uploads where damaged, I re-uploaded them again.

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I got a message from Alleee of Mondo Diablo. My Silly Beatles post inspired her to make a podcast with some of my shared music. She combined it with a lot of other worthwhile Beatles covers and a radio broadcast of a syndicated special detailing the Paul is Dead phenomenon, which is a funny idea: Paul is with Ringo the only Beatle who survived. The radio recording can be found on the 365 Days Project.
Alleee had so much material, she made two podcasts out of it: Two hours of silly Beatles and even sillier comments.



And while you are there, try the other episodes, they all have nice surprises.

Years after Group 1850 disbanded, Peter Sjardin tried to take a more commercial line with this Terrible Surprise. The music was a kind of speedy rock 'n' roll in Herman Brood and Gruppo Sportivo style. Herman Brood later took over the female background singers.
The critics were merciless. Not quite rightly, I think. The music is not bad, but don't expect Group 1850.

Ella Elbersen: vocals
Wouter Planteydt: guitar, percussion
Peter Sjardin: lead vocals, organiser
Robbie Smits: vocals
Kees van der Vooren: fender bass
Wilfrid Snellens: drums, percussion

This is the only recording they made. After this failure, Peter stopped making music and retreated anonymously in a basement in Amsterdam.


This is a hand-numbered edition, from 1 to a 1000. (NR 315)

Side one:
1 Rip off love [5:27]
2 Time killer [2:34]
3 One [3:15]
4 Collage castrate code [3:38]
5 Tokyo [3:05]
6 The wrong information [3:31]

Side two:
1 Can't control [3:32]
2 Unknown queen [2:46]
3 Raped [1:52]
4 The dutch scene [4:23]
5 Sun is coming [5:56]


Put your head on the cover between Robbie and Ella, everybody is a star

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Six albums full of cleverly combined songs of others and some originals. All downloadable!
They call it Mashup pop.

A colleague of mine asked me to make a compilation for her of the silly covers I have of Beatles songs. While busy with that, I thought by myself: why not sharing this? So here it is.
I must admit, I took a lot from the fabulous the Exotic Beatles compilations of Jim Phelan.



01 Intro
02 The Squirrels - Let It Be
03 Akiko Kanazawa - Yellow Submarine Ondo
04 Die Beat Oma - Ich Bin die Beat Oma
05 Joah Valley - I Saw Her Standing There
06 William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
07 Arthur Mullard - Yesterday
08 Helmut Zacharias - Ob-la-di ob-la-da
09 First Moog Quartet - Eleanor Rigby
10 Lord Sitar - I Am The Walrus
11 Kathy Berberian - I wanna hold your hand
12 Don Bowman - The other Ringo
13 Geesin's Mahogany's Ministrels - Lady Madonna
14 The Ladmo Trio - Michelle
15 The Pickin' On Pickers - Yellow Submarine
16 The Templeton Twins - Yesterday
17 Frank Sidebottom - Flying
18 Gershon Kingsley - Paperback Rider
19 The Folkswingers - Norwegian Wood
20 Tiny Tim & Brave Combo - Girl
21 Reverend Floyd Hazen
22 Teddy Lee - Maxwells Silberhammer
23 Margarita Pracatan - From Me To You
24 Sweet Sixteen - We love you Beatles
25 John Otway - I'm the Walrus
26 Peter Sellers - She Loves You
27 R.A.M. Pietsch - Piggies
28 Gordon Langford - Yellow Submarine
29 The Travellers - Hoppla-di Hoppla-da
30 Mae West - Day Tripper
31 Dread Zeppelin - Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End

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