The Girl Can’t Help It

John Waters waxes poetic on the the gaudy greatness of Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help it, one of Hollywood’s first Rock N’ Roll musicals.”He understood how beautiful bad taste could be.” (Via http://www.theseventhart.org)

More praise for Tashlin’s craft. (via Projectorhead)

Rabbithole: Cat People

Stevie Ray Vaughn shreds on Cat People title track during a rehearsal for Bowie’s ’83 Serious Moonlight tour.

The “inexhaustable” Tina Turner covering “Cat People” on 1982 TV telecast from the Park West Theater in Chicago.

Lou Reed’s 100 Favorite Singles

Picked by Lou Reed for the Curated Juke Box at the Helsinki Music Club in Zurich, Switzerland. May 2005 (via Helsinki Klub)