DeLorean inspires pop album
It'd take a special kind of person to draw inspiration from the life of John DeLorean, who despite creating two highly iconic sportscars, is also remembered for his shady business dealings and narcotics wrap. Leave it to a Welsh guitarist and a Hollywood producer, then. Gruff Rhys, know to some as the front-man for a band called Super Furry Animal, is collaborating with Los Angeles music producer Boom Bip (seriously, we couldn't make up names like those) on an electro-pop album called Stainless Style, inspired by DeLorean's life's work.
The album is due to hit the shelves of music stores all around Wales the world in late February. The duo calls themselves Neon Neon, and as our British compatriots point out, likely won't feature any covers of Huey Lewis' The Power of Love or any of the other songs we know from the Back to the Future trilogy...just the car on the cover.
[Source: WhatCar?]
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tenfifteen 7:49AM (1/31/2008)
Narcotics rap (as in rap sheet). And its Super Furry Animals, plural.
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Blake 9:01AM (1/31/2008)
This blog entry was not written by a young person.
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Paul 9:14AM (1/31/2008)
I'd be willing to bet that it was. I'm not a young person either (37), but I saw SFA in concert a few years ago, and 'rap sheet' isn't exactly a new expression.
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Mallory 9:42AM (1/31/2008)
Anything to drum up some free pub I guess.
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Polly Prissy Pants 9:57AM (1/31/2008)
Why is that, because they misspelled the name of some ultra-spare pop group or the slang term rap? Of course the thought of Delorean being 'wrapped' in narcotics is kinda funny. Or going to Subway and saying "I'll take the turkey, cheese and narcotics wrap please".
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tenfifteen 12:49PM (1/31/2008)
I wasn't trying to be prissy. SFA are pretty well-known, and 'rap sheet' isn't slang. If I'd made two mistakes (three if you count 'know' versus 'known') in a post on a blog as widely-read as AB, I'd want to know about it. It was early, I figured the blogger in question would see the error and correct it. WTFE though.
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Bryan Bachmeyer 12:02AM (2/01/2008)
A band called "Dangerous Muse" released an EP called "Give Me Danger" also featuring a DeLorean on the cover in August 2006.
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