Classic Joy Division vs. Playmobil Mashup; TK celebrates Alan Vega’s 70th birthday a few years late! by Tom Kipp



Check out this video on YouTube:

 

‘s viral.  In the event you haven’t seen this.

 

TC

 

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JD as puppets, very nice. Thank ye, TC!

 

I will soon recap my 12/7 Showbox experience of see/hearing Peter Hook and band replicate UNKNOWN PLEASURES in its entirety, which was an unexpected highlight of my 2010.

 

By the by, as a birthday gift to myself I recently splurged on two of the many limited edition 10-inch eps released to commemorate Alan Vega’s 70th b’day a few years back.

 

The first, featuring both Bruce and Suicide doing "Dream Baby Dream" [Suicide’s version being from the infamous 1979 episode of THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL curated by Ric Ocasek of The Cars], arrived a while ago. 

http://www.discogs.com/Bruce-Springsteen-Suicide-Beat-The-Devil-Bruce-Springsteen-Suicide/master/22111

But the main event, as it were, just showed up, via one of my ol’ pals from Shipping and Receiving and a store called Panda Panda Records in Osaka, Japan:

 

http://www.discogs.com/Lydia-Lunch-Suicide-Frankie-Teardrop/release/1561283

 

Needless to say, I have not come across a musical item quite THIS fetishizable, and on so many levels, for quite a spell!

 

Will report back on the quality of its "contents"….

 

– Tom Kipp

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