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Courtney Love was briefly the vocalist for Faith No More, before they became famous.

A Shelley Homosapien naturally leads to a Funky Homosapien.

The drummer on the previous song, Stuart Elliot, would go on to be one of Bush's preferred drummers and played on this track. Besides this one he drummed on "Running Up That Hill", "Wuthering Heights" and most of her other singles too.

He also played on a number of other well-known 80s songs: Paul McCartney's "No More Lonely Nights", Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky", and...uh...Kenny Rogers' "Morning Desire". I guess you can't win them all.

In the 1970s and 80s the inhabitants of Chelsea in London were called Sloane Rangers -- a UK equivalent of "preppy".

"The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home."

This flint axe was found in 1912 in West Tofts, a now-abandoned village in the UK between Cambridge and Norwich, It was made by a Homo heidelbergensis or possibly a Neanderthal, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago.

This kind of tool is fairly common throughout western Europe and Africa, but this specimen is unique for having a Cretaceous-era fossil of a spiny oyster in the centre that suggests the axe's maker wanted the shell on it as an adornment.

It's kept in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and you can see more details on their web site.

Kung Fu Fighting to Kung Fu. Not a major hit on release but made some waves after it was used in the end credits and bloopers of Jackie Chan's US breakthrough Rumble In the Bronx. The fighting noises at the start are a sample of Sammo Hung.

Some psychedelic soul, released in December 1967 as a much-cut-down version of an 11-minute 1967 album cut that had been released as a previous, shorter single version to not a lot of fanfare in 1966. And there were two versions of this later single -- this is the longer one with a breakdown that was dropped in the other one. It went to #11 on the US charts.

Enjoying a bit of new attention after showing up during the credits of Agatha All Along.

Both songs are produced by Brian Burton AKA Danger Mouse.

Previous song opens its lyrics with 4 3, 2, 1, so let's go the other way now. I resisted the urge to post her Sesame Street version.