It's time for a different voice to bring you this week's Perfect Song of the Week. We'll let Pitchfork explain this one...:
Nigel Godrich, the man best known for his production for Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney, and others, as well as his work with Thom Yorke in Atoms for Peace, has somehow found time to start a new band. He's collaborating with L.A. drummer/producer Joey Waronker (who's worked with everyone from Beck to Elliott Smith and the Smashing Pumpkins, and also plays in Atoms for Peace) and London artist - and Perfect songwriter - Laura Bettinson under the band name Ultraísta.
...A new song and video has already come from the group. A post-psyche dayglo down-tempo bubblebath of beats under the name of Smalltalk. Watch and listen below...
Can you believe we're heading towards the 30th anniversary of this Perfect song but it still sounds as fresh and different as the day it was written?
Double Dutch was one of four singles released from Malcolm McLaren's ground-breaking Duck Rock album, all of which was co-written and produced by Perfect's Trevor Horn.
We've already profiled the lead single, Buffalo Gals, but Double Dutch was the biggest seller (and Malcolm's biggest ever hit), reaching #3 on the UK singles chart in July of 1983.
Head to the Perfect Songs catalogue to listen to Double Dutch, and to our Writers pages to read more about the Trevor Horn songbook. Or just click below for the video and to watch the New York City skippers that inspired the song: the Golden Angels, the Ford Green Angels, the Five Town Diamond Skippers...
"Skip they do the Double Dutch - that's them dancing!"
As The Independent reported this week, "Duran Duran are to represent musical talent from England at a concert marking the start of the Olympic Games. The band will appear alongside other acts representing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on July 27 to coincide with the official opening ceremony."
On guitar will be Perfect Songs' Dom Brown. Their setlist is a closely guarded secret but will most likely feature several of Dom's co-writes as well as another Perfect classic and Duran Duran live staple: Relax.
The band also recently announced a new live DVD, A Diamond in the Mind. It takes its name from a largely instrumental, hugely cinematic, dark and captivating song from the band's 2011 album All You Need Is Now. The song was co-written by Dom with John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and Mark Ronson.
Boys Will Be Boys. You just can't read that title without singing it in your head, can you?
The song – a hit for The Ordinary Boys and a cult classic by Goldfrapp – is co-written by Matthew Murphy and co-published by Perfect Songs.
As the Ordinary Boys unofficial theme it reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart as a download, and No. 3 on physical sales in 2006.
The same year, Goldfrapp covered the song on Radio 1's Live Lounge. It was such a success that they released their downtempo oom-pah version as the B-side to their Satin Boys, Flaming Chic single.
