PATRICK D. MARTIN - Computer Datin' (1981)

 

This self-titled EP by Patrick D. Martin came out in 1981, and is in the genre of Electronic, Minimal, New Wave, Synth-pop, and it lives up to all of that.

I was going to play a cool instrumental called "?" but I can't find it on Youtube, and I'm too lazy to do it myself, so this will work just fine. 

This is Quirky & Fun music!

PATRICK D. MARTIN - Computer Datin'

THE RED TYGER CHURCH - "Free Energy" (2004)

 

The Red Tyger Church was from Sacramento, California, and they came out with this release called "Free Energy" in 2004.

The name Angie has been used in at least four other songs since 1969 by Badfinger, Stevie Wonder, Helen Reddy, and of course, The Rolling Stones.

This song is ten or twenty times better than The Rolling Stones' "Angie." 

THE RED TYGER CHURCH - "Angie Vampyre"

GEOGRAPHY, SEX, AND ROCK 'N' ROLL (Michael Franks, "Popsicle Toes," 1976)

 

Rich here. I had never heard of Michael Franks until I heard my brother Mark's band play "Eggplant," a jazzy, sexy, slinky song written by Franks that talked about all the ways the singer's baby cooked her, ummm, "eggplant," and his declaration that sometimes he "just has it raw with mayonnaise." 

 

"Eggplant" was the sexiest song I'd ever heard. Yet, for as much as the entire song was steeped in sexual allusions, it never once mentioned sex or making love. 

 

And as I discovered when I rushed out and bought THE ART OF TEA, the silky, jazzy album featuring "Eggplant," Michael Franks was certainly no stranger to double entendre. Many of his seductive songs are slyly blanketed with analogies and euphemisms for having sex. In fact, you may remember "Popsicle Toes," his most well-known song from the mid-'70s that included sexy lines that never mention sex. But I don't think he's singing about geography, do you?

 

You got the nicest North America

This sailor ever saw

I'd like to touch your warm Brazil

And feel your Panama

 

With all those warm-climate allusions, are you feeling hot, yet?

MICHAEL FRANKS - "Popsicle Toes" 

WARUM JOE - "Sex Beat" (1986)

 

Warum Joe were from Paris, France and started out in 1979 as Rock'n'Verole. Here's a song that was only released as one of the songs on this 1986 various artists compilation album on the French New Rose label titled "Play New Rose For Me 100".

 

They had several more albums after that but it wasn't until 2025 that this single was on an album of their own, called "Horas Extraordinarias" on Smap Records

WARUM JOE - "Sex Beat"  

ESCALATORS - "Here Comes That Girl Again" (1980)

 

A 1980 band by the name Escalators was the brain child of bassist Busta Jones who had played with people like Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, and The Talking Heads just to name a few.

In fact, Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads was one of the people who joined Busta on this EP, playing synth and guitar. 

If you're not familiar with this group, it's probably because this EP was only released in Canada and in France. 

One thing I don't like about writing on this blog is reading about all the people who have passed away.

Busta Jones was another one who died way to early at the age of 44 in 1995. 

ESCALATORS - "Here Comes That Girl Again"  

EDDIE HAZEL - "Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs" (1977)

 

Eddie Hazel was the lead guitarist in the band Parliament / Funkadelic and came out with this crazy good solo album with this wild cover called "Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs" in 1977. 

In 1971 Funkadelic came out with an album called "Maggot Brain," and Eddie played a ten minute guitar solo on the title song that some people think is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

Eddie died two days before Christmas in 1992 at the age of 42, and they played the song "Maggot Brain" at his funeral!

Eddie Hazel, what a guitarist, what a guy!! 

EDDIE HAZEL - "What About It?"

BILLY BRIGGS - "Chew Tobacco Rag" (1951)

Forgive me for this one, but this song by Billy Briggs from 1951 is just something everyone needs to hear at least once.

It's so goofy, it's contagious!

Billy Briggs was from Fort Worth, Texas, and was mainly a steel guitarist.

Just in case you can't get enough, there's a Part Two of this song too that you can easily find on youTube.

BILLY BRIGGS - "Chew Tobacco Rag"