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Absurd-Ditties
''Absurd-Ditties'' is the seventh full-length album by the punk rock band Toy Dolls, recorded in September 1992 and released in January 1993 by Receiver Records. Album info and review It is considered by many, including vocalist and guitarist Olga, to be one of the band's best albums. The album title is a play on the word "absurdities", as a description of the album's "absurd ditties". In 2012, the website of music venue SO36 said that ''Absurd-Ditties'', along with the band's first album '' Dig That Groove Baby'' (1983), are "recognized as woof the best punk albums of all time." That same year, Olga was asked in an interview with ''For the Love of Punk'' "What is the favorite album you’ve done & why?," to which he replied "''Absurd Ditties'', best songs, best production!" He then was asked "what’s been the most popular Toy Dolls album?," to which he said "''Absurd Ditties''! and ''Dig that Groove Baby''." He had been previously quoted as saying the album was his personal f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Algar
Michael "Olga" Algar (born 21 September 1959 in Marsden, South Shields, England) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who fronts the band Toy Dolls. Mainly a lead/rhythm guitarist, Olga is also a songwriter and record producer. Algar lived in the City of Sunderland during most of his life before moving to Tokyo, Japan, in 2000. He then moved to central London in 2002 where he has lived since. Musical career Michael “Olga” Algar, began playing music "around the age of 11 after seeing Mud, Sweet, Slade and Suzi Quatro on ''Top of the Pops'', a UK pop TV show". He had started songwriting/composing by the age of 17. He played in various local bands including Straw Dogs and The Showbiz Kids before forming Toy Dolls in October 1979. Over their 40-year existence Toy Dolls have toured the world extensively and released numerous albums and singles. Olga has written all the band's albums which include such titles as ''Absurd-Ditties'', '' Fat Bob's Feet'', ''Idle Gossip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat Bob's Feet
''Fat Bob's Feet'' is a full-length album by the Punk band Toy Dolls. It is one of the more popular pieces recorded by the band and included such punk favourites as ''Bitten by a Bed Bug'', ''The Sphinx Stinks'' and bonus single A-side ''Turtles Crazy!'' that wasn't included in original album track list. ''Kids In Tyne & Wear'' is the reworking of Kim Wilde classic ''Kids in America'', one most often covered songs by the punk rock bands. Fat Bob's Feet'' is a rare late The Toy Dolls album that doesn't contain any classic/symphony instrumental adaptation. Track listing All tracks by Michael Algar # "Gloomy Intro/Toy Doll Tonic" – 0:55 # "Fat Bob's Feet!" – 2:46 # "We Quit the Cavalry" – 2:59 # "The Sphinx Stinks" – 2:18 # "Rodney's Memory" – 2:35 # " Olga Crack Corn" – 1:09 # "Bitten by a Bed Bug" – 3:02 # "Kids In Tyne & Wear" – 3:15 # "Frankie's Got the Blues" – 2:35 # "A Bunch O' Fairies" – 2:43 # "Yellow Burt" – 1:05 # "Back in '79" – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orcastrated
''Orcastrated'' is a studio album by the English Punk rock band Toy Dolls, recorded in 1995. The band name is rendered as Toy Dollz on this album. The album features several cover versions of classical music. When fanzine '' Flipside'' commented about this in an interview with Michael Algar, Algar said "I really like classical. When I'm at home I never listen to punk music. I mean the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned were all my favorite bands but I like listening to opera and Mozart. To be honest I just want peace and quiet! It's nice to escape from the noise of sound checks, rehersals,(sic) gigs and you appreciate it more when you hear a guitar." The band are not a fan of the album. In a 1997 interview with ''My Letter to the World'', Algar said that the band's following album and latest album at the time, '' One More Megabyte'', was "better than the last album." He said that ''Orcastrated'' "was very poor" and further commented that "we've done two really poor albums. One w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn () is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife (the other being Sternschanze) and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed ''die sündigste Meile'' (the most sinful mile) and ''Kiez''. The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals. Name and history The name ''Reeperbahn'' means ropewalk, which is a place where ropes are made ( nds, Reep = rope, the standard German word is ; = track). Until the 1620s Hamburg's ropewalks had been located in the Neustadt (New Town) quarter of the inner city close to the Elbe, which then became a densely built up area. Therefore, the ropewalks "had to be relocated outside the city walls on the country road leading toward Altona – which later took on the street name 'Reperbahn'." The street was a ropewalk in the 17th and 18th centuries. The street and its side streets The street is lined with restaurants, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Receiver Records
Receiver or receive may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums * ''Receiver'' (album), the second and final album of the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998 * ''Receivers'' (album), the fourth full-length release from Parts & Labor, released in 2008 on Jagjaguwar Records Songs * "Receive" (song), a song by Canadian-American recording artist Alanis Morissette * Receiver (single), a single by Wagon Christ * "Receiver", a song by the American band Bright on the album '' Bells Break Their Towers'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Receiver'' (statue), a public statue in Green Bay, Wisconsin associated with the Green Bay Packers * ''Receiver'' (video game), a 2012 first-person shooter Roles and professions * Receiver, a person who receives goods in a distribution center * Receiver, in receivership, a person appointed as a custodian of another entity's property by a court of law or a creditor of the owner, pending a lawsuit or bankruptcy * Metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SO36
The SO36 () club is a music club on Oranienstraße near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. It takes its name from the historic postcode of that area, SO36, in which the SO stands for Südost (South East). The Kreuzberg district has historically been home to the Berlin '' punk rock'' movement, as well as other alternative subcultures in Germany. History Since the 1970s SO36 has been a major venue for "alternative" music and culture. Many Punk greats have performed and still perform here. Martin Kippenberger took over the management in 1979, focusing on creating a crossover between Punk and other genres and mediums such as New Wave and the visual arts. SO36 has been compared to New York's ''CBGB'' as one of the finest new-wave venues in the world. However unlike CBGB the venue still stands as of June 2020, and remains a fixture on the Berlin music scene championing new artists, while staying true to its Punk roots. In 2016, the club released ''SO36: 1978 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dig That Groove Baby
''Dig That Groove Baby'' is the first full-length album by the Punk band Toy Dolls, released in 1983. It is considered by many fans to be the best work by the band and contains future live staples such as "Nellie the Elephant" and "Fiery Jack". The song "Dig That Groove Baby" is included in the 2002 video game ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4''. Recording The album was recorded in February 1983 at Guardian Studios, which were located in a terraced house in the village of Pity Me in County Durham.Liner notes. The album only took three days to record and mix, which left no time to fix any mistakes. The rushed production also meant that Happy Bob recorded his drum parts while on a lunch break from a local hospital that he worked at. Songs Algar said "My favourite songs on it are "Dougy Giro" (it's written from the heart and it's completely true; we knew Dougy well,) and also "Glenda and the Test Tube Baby" (I really love the chorus, it has minor chords which I like a lot, and it's one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. It could have been as early as . Alternatively, a date as late as the 1750s has been suggested. To a large extent, the piece conforms to the characteristics deemed typical of the north German organ school of the Baroque era with divergent stylistic influences, such as south German characteristics. Despite a profusion of educated guesswork, there is not much that can be said with certainty about the first century of the composition's existence other than that it survived that period in a manuscript written by Johannes Ringk. The first publication of the piece, in the Bach Revival era, was in 1833, through the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn, who also performed the piece in an acclaimed concert in 1840. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
