Su-Su-Suddio Is A No-No Nodio

Someone has complained to 4Share that my upload of Phil Collins' "Sussudio" is offensive to them.

4Share has put it in a folder where they put "offensive" matter, and I have removed the link from this blog.

Why the song is offensive to someone is anyone's guess.

However, I have removed it, like I removed the David Bowie picture sleeve upload of "This Is Not America," just in case anyone gets crazier here than they've obviously already gotten.

So if you are looking for the file, sorry, you won't find it here anymore.

And as an aside, Elvis Costello is next up. I have so much Elvis Costello material that it is taking me a long time to put this entry together, so please bear with me a little longer.

Thanks.

Stewart Copeland and Stanard Ridgway/Stewart Copeland

Here, the Police meet the Wall of Voodoo for one of the quirkiest singles of its time. It was on the soundtrack to the film "Rumble Fish," but years later, its quirkiness remains. The B side is an interesting instrumental by Copeland alone.

Stewart Copeland and Stanard Ridgway - Don't Box Me In.mp3
Stewart Copeland - Drama At Home.mp3

Julian Cope

Julian Cope was probably best known as the lead singer of the neo-psychedelic band the Teardrop Explodes. After he left that band, he went on a solo career, which produced this single, one of my favorite from the mid-to-late 1980s. It's the perfect pop single--both A and B sides--but in the U.S., "World Shut Your Mouth" only reached No. 84 on the Hot 100 in 1987. Go figure.

Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth.mp3
Julian Cope - Umpteenth Unnatural Blues.mp3

Alice Cooper

I remember Alice Cooper in the early to mid 1970s when I went to high school. This guy was every mother's nightmare. He was this ghoulish apparition with running makeup and an evil stage show that borrowed from everyone from Judy Garland to Marcel Marceau to the performance magicians (you know, those that cut a woman in half) from an earlier age.

Vincent Furnier could be called one of the first performance artists, and the rock world started to take notice when the band Alice Cooper morphed and became the performer Alice Cooper.

Cooper racked up a number of hit records during the 1970s, but by the 1980s, he was as current as 78 rpm record. For awhile he acknowledged this fact, even going new wave in the early 1980s.

But in 1986, he went back to his old ways, and "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" is as much about Alice Cooper as it is about Jason, the iconic murder in the "Friday the 13th" movie series, of which this is the title song to "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives." The B side is from some un-named concert.

Since the mid-1980s, Cooper has never looked back. He has the occasional hit record, aligned himself with the heavy metal big hair bands in the 1990s, and today puts on about the same show as he has been putting on for the past 40 years or so.

And having witnessed one of these shows, nobody does it like--or better than--Alice Cooper.

Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask).mp3
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies.mp3

Continental Miniatures

Here is an odd one-off that actually charted in the Hot 100 at No. 90 in 1978.

The single takes two of the best songs of the British Invasion--Dusty Springfield's "Stay Awhile" and the Dave Clark Five"s "Glad All Over"--and tries to bring them into the then-current sound of the late 1970s.

The band is named after a TV show that aired in some markets in the 1960s that features Italian singers doing their hits. Well, this is this band's lone chart hit, so it kind of makes sense.

Continental Miniatures - Stay Awhile.mp3
Continental Miniatures - Glad All Over.mp3

Phil Collins

To me at least, it is hard to believe that Phil Collins was one of the most popular recording artists in the world in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.

He scored seven No. 1 hits as a solo performer during that period, as well as numerous hits with his band Genesis (plenty of their picture sleeves coming up sometime down the line.

"Sussudio" is one of the best of his No. 1 singles. It has a catchy beat, but it sounds like a song from a different era, which it is.

I kind of liked his grittier songs a little better than this one, but this is the only one I have a picture sleeve of, so here it is.

Jimmy Cliff and Elvis Costello and the Attractions/Jimmy Cliff

Take one of the kings of reggae and match him with one of the kings of power punk and I guess this is what you get.

This was a one-off single to promote the film "Club Paradise." The B side is all Jimmy Cliff, and that is why I have this listed separately from my massive Elvis Costello picture sleeve section, which will be posted sometime in the next few weeks.

Jimmy Cliff and Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Seven-Day Weekend.mp3
Jimmy Cliff - Brightest Star.mp3