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plungermusic · 2 years

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It’s been ages coming, as Pan said to the actress ...

Rob Millis, session/sideman stalwart of the London scene and soi-disant “appalling liberal old hippie twat”, wears his heart (and several other body parts) on his sleeve in his long-planned, long-awaited debut release… and you can see from the cover how excited everyone is that he’s finally got it out!

Musically it’s heavily influenced by 60s American soul and R&B, and leavened with a large dollop of English irreverence (like many of the Brit bands of the late 60s / early 70s whose music was in deadly earnest but who didn’t take themselves too seriously). Politics and passion are the main themes as exemplified by opener For Want Of Love, a New Orleans-via-New Malden 60s soul lament for our times with fine Wurlitzer electric piano and smooth girly bvs, and the blues-tinged swinging political-philippic-cum-paean to his wife of That Thing Called You, which features nicely judged interjections from Mal Barclay’s guitar.

There are flashes of the Bonzos here and there, not least in Caution: Stoned Idiot At Work’s Stanshall-like take on a Band slow waltz, (whose jokey tale of cannabis-scuppered amour belies the complex chordal arrangements) and the very Neil Innes anti-Brexiteer broadside of The Swivel-Eyed, which again for all its acidic humour features a fine call-and-response with the backing singers, Jeff Savage’s measured harp solo, and an appropriately trenchant organ break. [Check out the video on YouTube for this, it’s a hoot...]

More humour appears in the Alan Price-meets-The Kinks (or X-rated Obla-di?) domestic ballad Dented Tins: a half time groove, with great fat brassy slide from James Beck, that encompasses “tinned food, cunnilingus-denial and vintage guitars…” A (slightly) more serious look at love comes in My Unrequited Flame, a Carole King-ish piano-led ballad to misplaced love-that-never-was: its conversational confessional is accompanied with lush girly bvs and tight, easy listening rhythm guitar and rich production to underline its earnest.

There’s further polish in Somebody Needs The Sack, another lament, this time for lost billions in the 2008 crisis with hints of Beatlesque psychedelia from reverbed guitars, mellotron and tricksy timings, and also featuring some excellent early-Preston organ from Rob.

Jokes and jibes take a back seat in two heartfelt numbers: Dear Friends is an organ-backed blues-doo-wop tribute to friends old and new who have buoyed him through these dark times, while Smile On is an unashamedly emotional tribute to his old West London musical sparring partner and chum Jules Fothergill. A slow Memphis soul-waltz sprinkled with tasteful ornamentation and double-guitar interplay from Mike Ross, great gospelly bvs, and a stonking Gregg-ish organ burst.

While Rob might not be a Brooker or an Allman in the vocal department, his heart (and spleen and everything else) pour out through his delivery - and he is no slouch on organ, piano (electric and non-), mellotron, clavinet, and on occasion even rhythm and bass guitars… and he has a crack bunch of musicians behind him (as well as those already named: John Gordon bass; Graham Walker drums; and combinations of Toni Fortune, Clarence Hunte, An'drusilla Mosley and Lauren Dove providing backing vocals.)

A record that’s as fun and provoking as the cover art (Parental Guidance - may offend the easily offended…)

Available to download/stream now from here: https://robmillisuk.bandcamp.com/releases

Rob will be performing songs from the album at its launch at The Cavern Freehouse on Wednesday 10th August - free entry!

#rob millis #debut album #wit and wisdom #pith and vinegar

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jodielandons · 3 months

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MILLI VANILLI (2023) dir. Luke Korem | This moment in the doc really stuck with me. Imagine being a poor, abused, orphaned black child in Germany in the 80s who finally got one opportunity to follow your dreams. Your dreams ended up being exploited for a white couple's gain. Then when you lose the little success you had, you're berated by a British white man.

@jodielandons BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2024 FILM SERIES

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freckledjoes · 4 months

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Keys and Millie - gifset requests 1/? requested by anon

(don't repost my gifs or edits)

#walter mckey #keys #walter keys mckey #millie rusk #molotov girl #joe keery #jodie comer #free guy #my-gifs #jk-gifs #we were robbed of that kiss #i'll forever say it #still want free guys 2 to see my baby keys #its good to be bi #gif requests #all keys #gifset requests

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lilacandgoooseberries · 10 months

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absolutely smitten.

#i love them so much help me #im daemyra trash but #we were robbed ;___;#rhaewin #harwin strong #rhaenyra targaryen #harwin x rhaenyra #rhaenyra x harwin #house of the dragon #hotd #my edits #milly alcock #ryan corr #fire and blood

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purvlereign · 3 months

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#milli vanilli #rob pilatus #black men #he’s so pretty #like he’s literally the male version of lisa bonet

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blckvenuz · 20 days

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robert pilatus & fabrice morvan.

#milli vanilli #rob pilatus #fab morvan #milli vanilli gifs #gifset #my gifs #i love you black men 😩#it’s giving bad bitch duo

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okurrroye · 1 year

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Sooo instead of having Jonah be with who he actually belongs and should be in love with and clearly backed up by Chava’s speech of what it means to truly love someone (and it’s exactly what he did) they really forced this random and pointless ass relationship with Clara instead..?? Yeah ok

#like your racism is showing and you didn’t even try to hide it #chava was right #but instead you make him a marry some chick that was disgusted by him and demonized him without hesitation #she’s a hypocrite #like she doesn’t deserve him after that and not to mention she doesn’t even apologize like what ??#like he was better off single than being with her because in the end he still ends up putting her life back in danger like wtf #like make it make sense #this whole season was a fucking mess and they should’ve just kept this shit to themselves #the only good thing that came out of this was millie x rebecca #mindy’s exsistence and letting them young bitches know she still got it #george’s fine ass like he had no business looking like that and that’s why they killed him off because all attention would be on him lolol #and of course seeing justice being served #like this show had so much potential but they really gave us this instead and only two seasons at that like I should put them on trial #because I was robbed #jonah heidelbaum #chava apfelbaum #hunters #hunters season 2 #hunters amazon prime #hunters amazon #hunters prime video #hunters amazon prime video

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paceypeternathanslawyer · 4 months

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You know how I love to point out ways that The Dick Van Dyke was so iconic and ahead of it's time.

And i've been thinking lately... I'm pretty sure that the first time (on TV) that anyone went to marriage counseling was on TDVDS. Jerry and Millie went to counseling and I don't think that had been talked about on TV up to that point. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I feel like this is true. And it was the 60s so they had a long way to go. It was depicted as something with a stigma around it but that was realistic because that was the way it was back then but by the end of the episode they put a really good spin on marriage counseling and Jerry and Millie's friends (Rob and Laura) did NOT treat it like it was something they should be ashamed of.

The circumstances under which Jerry and Millie went to counseling was so cool I think. It was just two passionate people who loved each other but because they were two passionate individuals they had marital issues and butted heads a lot. It wasn't any insane trauma that led them to a shrink's (as they were called in the day) couch. They didn't have any disorders like split personality or the like. They just had marital issues that they wanted to work through. I think it's such a modern mindset. The Dick Van Dyke Show astounds me in all the ways they broke TV ground.

#the dick van dyke show #jerry and millie #otp #jerry helper #millie helper #rob petrie #robert petrie #laura petrie #cbs #btw i'm calling it counseling because i'm pretty sure it wasn't called therapy back in the day #but that's what this is #i believe that TDVDS had the start of the de-stigmatization of therapy on tv

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mumbojumbo84317 · 1 year

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Fab Morvan (left) and Rob Pilatus (1965 - 1998) of Franco-German R&B duo, Milli Vanilli, Gun Wharves, Wapping, London, 27th September 1988.

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#milli vanilli #fab morvan #rob pilatus #80s music #80s pop

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2ndtide · 1 year

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Milli Vanilli (1989)

#milli vanilli #rob pilatus #fab morvan #1989 #1980s #music #celebrity

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hwajoongie · 2 years

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kidcozyboy: ~

#when u ask and actually receive ~#kid milli #justhis #khh #khiphop #choi wonjae #kidcozyboy #heo seung #justhis im gonna rob u.

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ozu-teapot · 2 years

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Poison | Todd Haynes | 1991

Edith Meeks, Angela M. Schreiber, Anne Giotta, Barry Cassidy, Buck Smith, Marina Lutz, Millie White, Richard Anthony, Rob LaBelle, Lydia Lafleur, Evan Dunsky

#Edith Meeks #Angela M. Schreiber #Anne Giotta #Barry Cassidy #Buck Smith #Marina Lutz #Millie White #Richard Anthony #Rob LaBelle #Lydia Lafleur #Evan Dunsky #Todd Haynes #Poison #1991

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firebarzzz · 3 months

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Milli Vanili, Scandales Succès et Rédemption. - FirebarzzzCom -

Milli Vanili, Scandales Succès et Rédemption.

Scandale, mort de Rob Pilatus, Fab Morvan revient sur la supercherie de Milli Vanili. 📍La Note Firebarzzz Qui est le plus à blâmer entre le producteur et les artistes ?. Vu la fin de l’histoire, plus personne ne pourra occulter, le fait que l’industrie musicale soit un monde sans foi, sans loi, et ne possédant aucune pitié pour l’individu. Du succès au scandale 5 Décembre 2024 ~~~~ Milli…