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Chic-A-Go-Go: The Soundtrack (Beluga)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson
This is another of the refugees from the virus of October, 2000. Wanna know why I remembered this one was reviewed and the review was lost? Because it's so freakin' much fun to listen to I keep bringing it back off the shelf and playing it again, and I got curious to see what I'd written about it. No review. I knew I'd raved about it, but it didn't exist. Which means the virus ate it.
Dear Beluga Records. A virus ate my homework.
The problem is that by now I don't have all the paperwork telling me the details, so I'm going on my (terribly, sadly failing) memory here, but let's give it a go-go.
Chic-A-Go-Go is a public access TV show in Chicago that features music, dancing and humor. We have one in Seattle. I think everybody has one. They all suck so bad we overload the cable companies switchboards begging for infomercials to replace them. But not so with Chic-A-Go-Go. Somehow or another, this show became the ultimate in cool. Hosted by Miss Mia and a hand puppet named Ratso, the show has become a magnet for the best the underground has to offer. We're talking The Cramps, Monotrona, Kung Fu Monkeys, The Donnas, Lemmy, The Monks, Pantyraid, Davie Allan and the Arrows... and that's before the opening credits! Everybody wants to do this show. My God, I mean Cynthia PLASTERcaster wanted to do the show. I even want to do the show. It's like they've got a laboratory in the back with Dick Clark and Don Cornelius strapped to slabs, tubes leading from their brains into some bizarre machine that feeds the teleprompter in the studio. They even have a dance line that would be like the one in Soul Train if Soul Train was filmed in Transylvania.
There's a companion video for this baby, and if you really want to appreciate the whole thing -- and frankly, I'm only talking to those of you who have a taste for the totally freakin' weird in the first place -- you have to have both. It's worth every penny. Remember when you used to take acid and watch stuff like Soul Trane and freak out laughing? You will, but you'll save so much on acid that this'll pay for itself in no time. I kid you not.
Track List:
Chic-A-Go-Go Theme - The Goblins * Miss Mia & Ratso * Never Get Ahead (All Ages Version) - Bobby Conn * Cadillac Fantasy - Monotrona * Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance To The Radio - M.O.T.O. * Ratso Meets The Donnas * Bad Boyfriend (Clean Version) - Pansy Division * Drum Buddy Demonstration - Quintron * Ratso Meets The Shirelles * Too Here - Kim * Rock & Roll Santa - Jan Terri * Miss Mia & Ratso's Halloween Ha-Ha! * Graveyard Stroll - Hoodoo Hoedown * The Great Titanic - Kelly Hogan * Time Goes By - The Sterotypes * I Wanna Be Your Tiger - Pantyraid * Ratso Meets Otha Turner * Zodiac Girl - Cats + Jammers * Summer School - Kung Fu Monkeys * Ratso Meets Davie Allen * Shape Of Things To Come - Davie Allen & The Arrows * Bad - The Dishes * Ratso Meets Jello Biafra * Punk'nhead - Pedro Bell * There Goes A Tenner - J. Davis Trio * Ratso Meets Lemmy * Bedazzled - Cynthia Plaster Caster (W-Ratso) * Allen Gillett Speaks * Come On Home - Alan Gillett * Werewolf Of Wicker Park - Gentleman John Battles * Ratso Meets The Monks Chic-A-Go-Go Remix - Dj Kurt
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