Apparently Vic Chesnutt is in a coma and may have tried to commit suicide:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs...

Man, I hate this. Vic Chesnutt is an American treasure.

Ha, Sally, I love your enthusiasm. Okay, the CD is yours, but you can't say I didn't warn you. :)

I found my I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (and other happy quasi-hippy tunes) album COVER in my mom's basement the other day, sans LP. I shed a tear.

ABSOLUTELY!

Sally, I didn't put "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" on this shebang, but it IS on a CD I made for myself of 70s stuff I remember as a kid. There's also Carpenters on there, and Elton John, and some Neil Sedaka.
Do you want a copy?

NP:

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Sometimes I appall MYSELF with what I put on my CDs. I'm listening to "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" right now...
What was I thinking???"


Please tell me you put that on the shebang. please, please, please.

However, I won't know until the lazy Fort Collins mail lady gets around to delivering mine next year.

I keep hearing good things about Lucero, by the way, Gretchen...

I think Patti Smith is overrated too, honestly, but the film still looked like your kind of thing:)

Lucero 1372 Overton Park.

RandomAnthony wrote: "Clark, this looks right up your alley...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/arts/television/21patti.html?_r=1&ref=arts"

You know RA, I've never been much of a Patti Smith fan outside of her cover of "Gloria." "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..." That line alone made me want to go to confession.

I once saw her perusing the lunch meat section at a Farmer Jack store on the east side back in the 80's when she was living in St. Clair Shores (suburb of Detroit), but stopped short of actually talking to her.

Clark, this looks right up your alley...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/arts/t...

Lou Reed looks Gary Neuman in that picture. And I love Tubeway Army.

For his solo debut, ex-McCoy Rick Derringer comes on like a heavy metal David Cassidy, all blow-dried hair and skin-tight flares, the ultimate teen idol, a proto-Owen Wilson in glam threads.


Unlike anything else in Lou's catalog, this album is one mind-altering necessity of life. Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner's geetars reverberate with the sound of a bar being raised.

Ha, not exactly festive or seasonal music you're listening to there, KD. Sorry about your ears. :(

I've been neglecting my writerly duties over at Clods of Sodom, so to placate my "boss" I'm doing my "Best Metal Albums of 2009" column. It's fun - look at all the wacky stuff I'm listening to:


The 69 Eyes, "Back In Blood"


Slowmotion Apocalypse, "Mothra"


Arsonists Get All The Girls, "Portals"


Heaven and Hell, "The Devil You Know"


Destroy Destroy Destroy, "Battle Sluts"


The Red Chord, "Fed Through The Teeth Machine">


My ears are bleeding!!! :)

Atto, I love the Goldberg Variations...

Uh, good? I'm glad you enjoyed the show, KD. :)

Last night, I went to a concert of The Human Skab. It was the Human Skab "23 year reunion tour". Amazingly, Human Skab (aka: Travis Roberts) was only 10 years old when he recorded this album, which I purchased at the show last night:



His story is awesome. Check out his website: http://www.myspace.com/humanskab

He had a ginormous amp that had two settings: ON and SUPER-ON. He put on an African bird costume and danced around with scary knives. He sang songs about mining for radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Absolutely incredible.

Yep, sorry. Fortunately, I also put "Louie Louie" on the CD, so it's being washed away with that quintessential garage rock sound. :)

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Sometimes I appall MYSELF with what I put on my CDs. I'm listening to "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" right now...
What was I thinking???"

Just reading that is ear worm inducing.

Sometimes I appall MYSELF with what I put on my CDs. I'm listening to "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" right now...
What was I thinking???

J.S. Bach - The Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould

Accompanied by:



Two of my very favorite things. It's Friday and it's been a long week.

I'm on a 70's kick:
"Band on the Run" - Wings
"The Bitch Is Back" - Elton John
"Brother Louie" - The Stories
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" - Sly & the Family Stone
"Pipeline" - The Ventures
"Tiki/Quiet Village" - Martin Denny
etc.

A pox on all of the Lennon/McCartney comparisons. Squeeze deserve better.


Australia, the final piece of the punk jigsaw. Every bit as earthshaking as that first Ramones album.


Gritty, no-nonsense R&B. Wilko Johnson is the man.


Ozzy bellows a little something about fairies wearing boots and suddenly it’s witching hour.

Atto wrote: "
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone


Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga GA


Tom Waits - Mule Variations

That Tom Waits is one of my all time favorite covers."

Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is awesome. One of the few recent albums that I put in the CD player in my car and just listened to over and over.

Yes she will! Yes she will!

Don't worry Kevin, I won't yell at you for hours about it.

ha! sally is going to rip me for my punctuation of how i spelled their name.

I heard The Donnas yesterday while re-watching The Hangover....

i listened to The Donna's during lunch.

http://www.google.com/search?q=the+donna...

Clark, I have wide-ranging tastes. Sometimes I will agree with you, sometimes I will make you decide never to let me near your stereo. :)

And Daltrey can still rock that scream, 38 years later.

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Ha, I love that one, KD. :)

Clark, I agree with you on "Won't Get Fooled Again.""


I'm not sure that's a good sign, Jackie.

Ha, I love that one, KD. :)

Clark, I agree with you on "Won't Get Fooled Again."

William Shanter interprets "Rocket Man".

Genius.

King Dinösaur wrote: "Mudhoney is better, though. :)

Now, Mark Arm is a genius!"

Genius? Hmm... But I'll always admire the guy for stepping in and replacing Evan Dando on that MC5 reunion (er, celebration) jaunt back in 2004.

Singles night:


They could have ruled American rock, been the Stones (or at the very least the Faces) to R.E.M.'s Beatles, but for The Replacements, the most important thing was where the next drink was coming from. I can relate.


Nothing more than a simple love song, really, but one full of otherwordly harmonizing and a hook that I can't even begin to dream up an adjective for. Pure genius.


Unlikely to curry much favor from women's rights groups, "Slave Girl" is spiritual kin with just about any group anthologized on the "Nuggets," "Pebbles," "Born Bad," or "Back From The Grave" compendium of your choice. Tough, very tough, even by Aussie standards.

And for Gus:

The message: all politicians are corrupt bastards and come the revolution, absolutely nothing will change. Everything you'd ever want from these guys, in spades: pulsing synths, power chords, elastic bassline, skittery, maniacal drumming, and the impassioned Daltrey vocal, capped by THE GREATEST SCREAM IN ROCK 'N' ROLL HISTORY (patent pending).

King Dinösaur wrote: "It's CRAZY DAY!!! I'm only listening to certifiable MADMEN!!!Pain"


Roky Erickson, "Gremlins Have Pictures"

If you haven't seen this yet, I'd highly recommend it:



On June 13, 1975, Roky had himself legally declared “an alien from a planet other than Earth.” If you’d been born on Saturn, you’d be different, too.

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Nirvana has stood the test of time. Yes, they WERE overrated, but that doesn't mean they weren't great, because they are. The hype is beside the point."

It's always puzzled me why grunge "broke" at a time when so many bands were emulating early-70's hard rock moves. If grunge equaled Black Sabbath, then did anything really change?

Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand

Hours hours hours!!!

:)

Beatles, today:

"I Saw Her Standing There"
"Drive My Car"
"Back in the U.S.S.R."
"Paperback Writer"
etc.

It's CRAZY DAY!!! I'm only listening to certifiable MADMEN!!!


Moondog, "Sax Pax for a Sax"


Daniel Johnston, "Songs of Pain and More Songs of Pain"


Roky Erickson, "Gremlins Have Pictures"


Syd Barrett, "The Madcap Laughs"


Skip Spence, "Oar"


Mwahahahaha!!!

I distinctly recall the yelling took a grand total of 16 minutes. But to RA, it must have seemed like hours.

Mudhoney is better, though. :)

Now, Mark Arm is a genius!

Nirvana has stood the test of time. Yes, they WERE overrated, but that doesn't mean they weren't great, because they are. The hype is beside the point.

I presumed the latter Sally, because all the ladies on here are way too nice to yell, let alone yell for hours. :-)

Hm. Yes, I can see how that would be possible. I took "here" to mean here at TC, where I don't think any conversation has really lasted that long. But I suppose his "here" could have meant Wisconsin, or his office, or somesuch.

Sally wrote: ""yelled at me for hours" is a mild exaggeration. "

Have you ever had ladies yell at you Sally? It is entirely possible for it to have lasted hours, they each take their 15 minute turn, so if 4 are yelling at you they each get 1 turn an hour. It could happen.