Football and Music

I wanted to post a mention about some other places (blogs) I visit when I’m not hanging around here. Now thanks to a couple of perfectly timed posts by them in the last few days I have a great F&M related excuse to do so.

JC over at The Vinyl Villain added a couple of remixes a few days back. I am mirroring them here because they are only available for a limited amount of time.

This one is also slightly related to my World Cup theme posting the other day… the Italia ‘90 part anyway…

It is the 2nd appearance on Footie&Music for this group with the same song and today it is variations of their theme.

Grebo alert. The Poppies are here !

I first mentioned PWEI in August last year and posted a couple of tracks, the football and music-related song being about their song for the 1990 World Cup and the lovely Cicciolina.

Then the Vinyl Villain posted a couple of remixes the other day and as mentioned I’m mirroring them:

» PWEI - Touched By The Hand Of Ciccolina (Extra Time Mix)

» PWEI - Incredi-Bull
So named because the Poppies were big fans of Steve Bull, who was knocking around - and banging them in - at the time.

and the one I posted:

» PWEI - Touched By The Hand Of Ciccolina (7″ version)

ADDITIONALLY….

Only a few days after JC’s post another place I regularly visit posted more Pop Will Eat Itself tracks:

- Go over to The Lost Turntable (who didn’t know what a grebo was) and grab the 12 songs he’s posted.

There’s yet another site… which I frequent who’s done a bit of write up about the Black Country’s finest - Because Midway Still Aren’t Coming Back is always an excellent read.

So including the linked blogs that’s 16 tracks to be had. Not bad at all.

Heads up all you Grebo’s - Double your pleasure today with two recordings from the Black Country.

Staying in the ’90’s, even though it was (Radiohead and Nirvana excepting) a sh?t pointless decade, there was another band who worshipped the beautiful game, or to be more precise - an certain Italian prOn star-turned MP…

Pop Will Eat Itself or PWEI or the Poppies recorded some memorable songs, but today our focus is on Cicciolina. *ahem* come on chaps… not that sort of focus…

In 1990 at the height of the Italio house/dance/rave type music PWEI came out with a song in time for Italia ‘90 which included footie-related samples, no lyrics - just a chorus, and had nothing to do with La Cicciolina, but at the time she was all over the place.. *ahem* again… thanks to her appearance on Rapido (she also had a minor pop career) and for obviously being an adult film star.

I remember and will never forget one famous occasion… I think it was after 1990, when she appeared on Jonathan Ross’ teatime (6pm) show when he was on Channel 4. After her introduction as she was walking out she flashed a tit at the audience. This was live telly at the time and none of that Janet Jackson nipple delay was in effect then.

Anyhoddles… to the music.

Listen:

PWEI - Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina

Extra fact: Some copies of the single contained petition forms demanding that Cicciolina be allowed to present the 1990 FIFA World Cup to the winning team.

BONUS: The Poppies take on Peter Gabriel:

» PWEI - Games Without Frontiers.