One of pop music's greatest joys is when the singing stops and the artist expresses themselves through simple spoken word. It is a great moment. We plan to make this a regular feature here as well, and we thought we would begin by going waayy back in time to the original masters of this technique: The Shangri-Las.
The Shangri-Las were young ladies who were fucking miserable and happy like that. Perhaps Emo, but better. If LiveJournal had existed back then, the world would have been deprived of their masterpieces.
'You Can Never Go Home Anymore' is one of their best. Listen to it, have a cry, and then go call your mother. Do it now, tell her you lover her.
THE SHANGRI-LAS 'YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME ANYMORE'
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Since America crowned the latest international Pop Idol last night, we thought we would celebrate by offering one of our favorite releases from the very first series of the show in the UK.
We really do love it when vocals meet technology, so expect this to be a regular feature. The future is great, and we fully expect to have our voices sound as odd as the vocals on this track in the year 2525 (if we are still alive, of course. And we expect to be. As robots). We are confident it will happen, as Visage were so visionary. Of course, Visage don't sound very confident about "womankind" surviving on this cover of the Zager and Evans single, so perhaps that is why we will all be robots.
Bobby O is one of our favorite producers from the Eighties. His stable of artists ranged from The Pet Shop Boys to Divine. We love all of them. However, there is a special place in our hearts for The Flirts who caught our ears when they were still wet with 'Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)'. Since then our love has only grown.
We have tons of love to share at Bang & Burn. We even have some to spare. This is why were thrilled to be invited to join the new 
Today's song selection is from German boy duo B.O.N. (aka Band Ohne Namen) who had a minor English hit with 'Boys'. German pop has always been "closer to the knuckle", as they say, but this song takes the phrase a bit deeper. The chorus in English is a triumph and this is exactly the type of song that Westlife should be covering (or even Busted, in a punk-pop stylee).
We confess our understanding of the French language is inadequate at best, but nothing makes us happier than an English-speaking pop act translating one of their hits for the teenage girls of France and Quebec. We love this so much we will feature an example every Thursday!
Yes. He may be a bit indie, but we admit to having a long term, gone steady, relationship with the Aussie boy and his tunes. Every now and then we will show you why, starting today.
We are finally ready to begin sharing the joy of music. For our first week of files, we thought we would start by telling you things we love. We will do this for a month or so because there is much that we love.
