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Mayhem Gives You 12 Inches… Of Music! “Supernature” – Cerrone October 16, 2024

Filed under: Mayhem Gives You 12 Inches — justwilliam1959 @ 10:10 pm
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This is the fifth in the Mayhem 12 Inch single series and I apologise again for the rather smutty, Carry On, double entendre, innuendo title for this feature. Can any of you constant readers think of a better title? But I am quite obviously talking about the 12-inch vinyl single. This series is now a playlist of my favourite 12-inch singles and remixes, many of which I used to own on vinyl. There are five songs so far and as they are extended versions that is more than 40 minutes of music! So far we have had “Do What You Wanna Do” by T-Connection from 1977, “Everybody’s Singin’ Love Songs” by Sweet Thunder, and “You + Me = Love” by the Undisputed Truth, Freeez with an 8-minute take on their huge hit “I.O.U.” from 1983. Now it is the turn of French musical genius Cerrone with a potent mix of his 1977 hit “Supernature” clocking in at just under 10 minutes. The lyrics were written by a young, but originally uncredited, Lene Lovich, and were based on the H.G. Wells novel ‘The Island Of Dr. Moreau’.

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“If I could reach the stars I’d give them all to you” January 16, 2011

Filed under: Observation — justwilliam1959 @ 10:45 pm
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Upon reaching the ripe old age of 50 a couple of years back I made myself a short list of things I wanted to do before I pop my clogs. There were five things; Ride a motorbike, learn to play the guitar, have something I’ve written actually published, spend a couple of hours in a flotation tank and be hypnotised for some past life regression. Thanks to my delectable  fiancée, who most of you know as Catwoman, I have now achieved three of them, all birthday presents in fact. I spent a day at the Harley Davidson Centre in Wales in 2009, but I won’t be taking up riding! I took an initial few guitar lessons in early 2010, but work got in the way as I could never get home in time for my lessons. But I do have a very rudimentary skill. This weekend I underwent past life regression hypnosis. Now in many things I am quite cynical, but with things like reincarnation I do have an open mind.

The experience, given to me by Catwoman for my birthday, surpassed all my expectations. I wasn’t put into a deep trance, but some of the things I experienced were incredible. Were they actual past lives or were they part of my imagination driven by the vastness of my unconscious mind (I’m not bragging here, everyone has one!). I don’t know, but I do know it was an amazingly thought-provoking and exciting experience. I am still an atheist with no-balls, which is how an old boss of mine described agnostics! Anyway I won’t go into too much detail about it here, but feel free to get in touch if you’d like to hear more. But I am happy to say that I wasn’t Napoleon or Caesar!

But apart from the guitar lessons none of this is about music so I thought I’d add a few past life related songs. I hope you enjoy them.