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What Are You Listening to Right Now?
That's it! I'm retaliating. RA is getting this playlist from me:Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Top of the World - The Carpenters
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
and lots and lots of Beatles.
And right now, I'm listening to "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas" by Yogi Yorgensson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8SqY9...
This battle between the musical forces of dark and light reminds me of something. I can't explain it.
Jackie, you just keep tossing those cheery songs at him.
Top of the World - The Carpenters This song isn't cheery! It's creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnzNC...
And some Neil Diamond, gotta put some Neil Diamond on there...
Then, there's hope for you after all! ;)
Neil Diamond has got to be the best songwriter ever! I mean, dig this:I am, I cried
To no-one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
Pure genius.
I'm just messin with ya, I love me some Neil Diamond, too.
Heh, I love that line. It's better than Emerson Lake and Palmer's line about a ladder in "Still... You Turn Me On":Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder
I could have quoted the "Is there gas in the car?" line from Steely Dan again, but I thought I'd mix things up a little. :)And, I like a little ELP every so often. "Lucky Man" is fantastic to drive to...
Wow that really takes me back, Jackie. "Lucky Man" I mean.
Man, now I really want to listen to that. It must be on YouTube, right?
I don't think Sigur Ros is depressing either, by the way...at least some of the time. Once I was driving across central Wisconsin listening to that disc and the grey, dire day combined with "()" was too much to bear...but usually...no...But Closer is depressing, no getting around that.
However, most of what people would call depressing music is somewhat life-affirming to me. Never sure why.
I always liked Keith Emerson's simple, straightforward keyboard setups.
http://www.mindskyband.com/Images/bnr...
I always loved the fact that Keith Emerson always tried to pull a Pete Townshend-like demolition of his keyboards.
Goddamn I love Sibelius' 3rd symphony.
Really in the mood for some Wagner but don't have any recordings. Why is that? I have many operas but no Wagner. Terrible oversight, must correct ASAP.Kids and husband are playing Halo3 downstairs. It's quite loud.
"The New York Dolls" - The New York Dolls. Big Apple dreamers who went to the edge of teen beat stardom and looked down, content to lift a few drinks, crank a few chicks, and wreck a couple of hotel rooms. Anything greater would have been just too much hassle. It's no secret they nearly ruined my life.
"Metallic K.O." - The Stooges. Despite the godawful fidelity, this one deserves the same reverential tone typically afforded to "Live at Leeds," "Get Your Ya-Ya's Out," and "The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East," making up what it lacks in audiophile thrills with an experience that's as close as you're likely to ever get to the actual apocalypse. "You nearly killed me but you missed again, so you have to keep tryin' next week" is Iggy's final comment to close a seven-year run. Only problem was there wasn't a next week: just this. Detroit: where the weak are killed and eaten.
"So Alone" - Johnny Thunders. The Johnny Thunders ethos is among rock and roll’s most powerful and romanticized necrophilic myths, the former and now very-dead New York Doll constructing a template for tonsorial, sartorial, and sonic splendor with the practiced dress-to-kill-or-be-killed pose of a punk/gunslinger/junkie who’s just turned the corner from skid row where he’s developed a taste for drinking Vitalis, blazing, bastardized licks heisted from Chuck Berry via Keith Richards, diabolical, droning string bends, and snotty vocals promising a hustle, a fix, loaves, fishes, or a subway ride to nowhere. He was a guy who never worried about which fork was for the salad.
"The Slider" - T.Rex. When a recent drunken argument masquerading as a conversation amongst friends turned to perfect albums, I immediately spit out “The Slider,” still fully convinced 37 years after I bought it in 1972 as a perpetually-stoned 15-year-old that there’s not a wasted note on it. No pun intended on the “wasted” part. Due to all of his tongue-twisting verbal postures, you’d be hard pressed to figure out what Marc Bolan’s on about most of the time, but don’t let that stop you. “The Slider” swings like Godzilla’s nuts in a tsunami.
"Who's Next" - The Who. Regardless of charts, lists, and sales, this is a streamlined, LANDMARK album, fiery and melancholic, defiant and beautiful. Pete Townshend worked prehistoric synthesizers into the mix next to his power chords and the unparalleled rhythm section of Keith Moon and John Entwistle, cementing his greatness. And let's face it: Roger Daltrey's never sounded better.
"White Punks on Dope: 50 Punk Nuggets & New Wave Rarities" - Various Artists. Happy days people, for here is a punk compilation which refrains from the usual rose-tinted Pistols/Clash trophy polishing, instead focusing on the horrific fallout from those bands' commercial success when anyone and everyone thought they could turn the world dayglo. Geniunely hopeless and littered with 70's luminaries like The Nosebleeds, Norman & The Hooligans and a clutch of pub rockers who weren't so much hopping on the punk bandwagon as clinging to the bumper, this is a historical statement of immense, if slightly tuneless, worth.
"Metallic K.O." - The Stooges. Despite the godawful fidelity, this one deserves the same reverential tone typically afforded to "Live at Leeds," "Get Your Ya-Ya's Out," and "The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East," making up what it lacks in audiophile thrills with an experience that's as close as you're likely to ever get to the actual apocalypse. "You nearly killed me but you missed again, so you have to keep tryin' next week" is Iggy's final comment to close a seven-year run. Only problem was there wasn't a next week: just this. Detroit: where the weak are killed and eaten.
"So Alone" - Johnny Thunders. The Johnny Thunders ethos is among rock and roll’s most powerful and romanticized necrophilic myths, the former and now very-dead New York Doll constructing a template for tonsorial, sartorial, and sonic splendor with the practiced dress-to-kill-or-be-killed pose of a punk/gunslinger/junkie who’s just turned the corner from skid row where he’s developed a taste for drinking Vitalis, blazing, bastardized licks heisted from Chuck Berry via Keith Richards, diabolical, droning string bends, and snotty vocals promising a hustle, a fix, loaves, fishes, or a subway ride to nowhere. He was a guy who never worried about which fork was for the salad.
"The Slider" - T.Rex. When a recent drunken argument masquerading as a conversation amongst friends turned to perfect albums, I immediately spit out “The Slider,” still fully convinced 37 years after I bought it in 1972 as a perpetually-stoned 15-year-old that there’s not a wasted note on it. No pun intended on the “wasted” part. Due to all of his tongue-twisting verbal postures, you’d be hard pressed to figure out what Marc Bolan’s on about most of the time, but don’t let that stop you. “The Slider” swings like Godzilla’s nuts in a tsunami.
"Who's Next" - The Who. Regardless of charts, lists, and sales, this is a streamlined, LANDMARK album, fiery and melancholic, defiant and beautiful. Pete Townshend worked prehistoric synthesizers into the mix next to his power chords and the unparalleled rhythm section of Keith Moon and John Entwistle, cementing his greatness. And let's face it: Roger Daltrey's never sounded better.
"White Punks on Dope: 50 Punk Nuggets & New Wave Rarities" - Various Artists. Happy days people, for here is a punk compilation which refrains from the usual rose-tinted Pistols/Clash trophy polishing, instead focusing on the horrific fallout from those bands' commercial success when anyone and everyone thought they could turn the world dayglo. Geniunely hopeless and littered with 70's luminaries like The Nosebleeds, Norman & The Hooligans and a clutch of pub rockers who weren't so much hopping on the punk bandwagon as clinging to the bumper, this is a historical statement of immense, if slightly tuneless, worth.
Welcome TC, Clark! Great first post...you'll fit in well here...
RandomAnthony wrote: "Welcome TC, Clark! Great first post...you'll fit in well here..."
Thanks, Ant'ny! Coffee and insomnia...Without them, I'm nothing.
Thanks, Ant'ny! Coffee and insomnia...Without them, I'm nothing.
I think Clark just became my new best friend. Couldn't agree with your post more, especially with your assessment of the New York Dolls (who are finally getting the due they're deserved), and Who's Next, which, in my not so humble opinion, is the finest rock album ever made, so self assured and righteous and FUCKING LOUD!
I agree, there is nothing like playing Who's Next while driving only to see that you are well over the speed limit. It volume and tempo seems to make my foot heavy.
Gus wrote: "I think Clark just became my new best friend. Couldn't agree with your post more, especially with your assessment of the New York Dolls (who are finally getting the due they're deserved), and Who's..."
Re: The Who. Unfortunately they chose to soldier on after the death of Keith Moon. If you thought the nadir of their back catalog were those Kenney Jones albums, steer clear of "Endless Wire." A 10-part mini-opera? Kee-rist!!!
Re: The Dolls. I rated "One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This" five stars. Thirty-two years between albums is much too long.
As for 2009's "Cause I Sez So"? Not so much. A handful of great songs, but a calypso remake of "Trash"? Pardon me while I go set myself on fire.
But they can still bring the noise live.
Re: The Who. Unfortunately they chose to soldier on after the death of Keith Moon. If you thought the nadir of their back catalog were those Kenney Jones albums, steer clear of "Endless Wire." A 10-part mini-opera? Kee-rist!!!
Re: The Dolls. I rated "One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This" five stars. Thirty-two years between albums is much too long.
As for 2009's "Cause I Sez So"? Not so much. A handful of great songs, but a calypso remake of "Trash"? Pardon me while I go set myself on fire.
But they can still bring the noise live.
Jim wrote: only to see that you are well over the speed limit."
Or in my case, well over the hill.
Or in my case, well over the hill.
Endless Wire was a joke.
Still, I've seen the Who live several times since, and they can still stomp the shit.
Still, I've seen the Who live several times since, and they can still stomp the shit.
New Order's Power, Corruption, and Lies, in a coffee shop near an early December dusk. Lots of minor chords here, Jackie:)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-L12...
Gus wrote: "Endless Wire was a joke.
Still, I've seen the Who live several times since, and they can still stomp the shit."
Amen...
Still, I've seen the Who live several times since, and they can still stomp the shit."
Amen...
Gus wrote: "I always loved the fact that Keith Emerson always tried to pull a Pete Townshend-like demolition of his keyboards. "
Me, too. But then came "Love Beach."
Me, too. But then came "Love Beach."
Sarah Pi wrote: "
In anticipation of tonight. "
Back in the pre-punk dark ages, Springsteen was just about the greatest thing on wheels. Well, either him or the Dictators.
In anticipation of tonight. "
Back in the pre-punk dark ages, Springsteen was just about the greatest thing on wheels. Well, either him or the Dictators.
King Dinösaur wrote: "Ha! :)
Tonight, the classics:
My gatefold copy of "Machine Head" still has some hemp residue in it. Never mind "Smoke on the Water" for a quick minute. Sure it was great the first 10,000 times you heard it, but "Space Truckin'" and "Highway Star" may be actually more deserving of the hype.
Rock on."
Tonight, the classics:
My gatefold copy of "Machine Head" still has some hemp residue in it. Never mind "Smoke on the Water" for a quick minute. Sure it was great the first 10,000 times you heard it, but "Space Truckin'" and "Highway Star" may be actually more deserving of the hype.
Rock on."
King Dinösaur wrote: "Got this from the library:
Rockin' Bones"
Gimme this and the "Nuggets" box (both godhead for me), put me in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in a cabin in the woods with the biggest satellite dish money can buy and a fishing boat, and you'll never hear from me again.
Rockin' Bones"
Gimme this and the "Nuggets" box (both godhead for me), put me in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in a cabin in the woods with the biggest satellite dish money can buy and a fishing boat, and you'll never hear from me again.
King Dinösaur wrote: "The genius of Ray Davies:
"
I get a lot of grief for this, but I actually prefer the 70's section of the Kinks' resume over all the rest, especially the beyond-great "Sleepwalker" and "Schoolboys in Disgrace." I'm funny like that.
Now what about that long-rumored new studio album, over 15 years in the making?
"
I get a lot of grief for this, but I actually prefer the 70's section of the Kinks' resume over all the rest, especially the beyond-great "Sleepwalker" and "Schoolboys in Disgrace." I'm funny like that.
Now what about that long-rumored new studio album, over 15 years in the making?
King Dinösaur wrote: "Tonight's theme is:
DETROIT ROCK CITY!!
MC5 - "High Time"
The Stooges - "My Girl Hates My Heroin" (Bootle...er, uh...import)
Alice Cooper - "Billion Dollar Babies"
Mitch Ryder & The Detroi..."
Clark wrote: "King Dinösaur wrote: "Tonight's theme is:
DETROIT ROCK CITY!!
MC5 - "High Time"
The Stooges ..."
Funny thing... That's my theme every night. Try living here.
But what about the Rationals? "Kiss Alive"? The Frost?
DETROIT ROCK CITY!!
MC5 - "High Time"
The Stooges - "My Girl Hates My Heroin" (Bootle...er, uh...import)
Alice Cooper - "Billion Dollar Babies"
Mitch Ryder & The Detroi..."
Clark wrote: "King Dinösaur wrote: "Tonight's theme is:
DETROIT ROCK CITY!!
MC5 - "High Time"
The Stooges ..."
Funny thing... That's my theme every night. Try living here.
But what about the Rationals? "Kiss Alive"? The Frost?
Arvo Part's Te Deum, creeping out my colleagues...
Clark wrote, I get a lot of grief for this, but I actually prefer the 70's section of the Kinks' resume over all the rest, especially the beyond-great "Sleepwalker" and "Schoolboys in Disgrace." I'm funny like that.
Now what about that long-rumored new studio album, over 15 years in the making?
I concur; the Kinks' 70's output featured Ray Davies' strongest songwriting. It's a shame those albums didn't receive quite the adulation their late '60s catalogue has.
Ray keeps threatening to reform the Kinks, but, surprise!...Dave keeps wanting to put the kibosh on that one. I'd pay top dollar to see the Kinks slog happily through their hits and near-misses.
Now what about that long-rumored new studio album, over 15 years in the making?
I concur; the Kinks' 70's output featured Ray Davies' strongest songwriting. It's a shame those albums didn't receive quite the adulation their late '60s catalogue has.
Ray keeps threatening to reform the Kinks, but, surprise!...Dave keeps wanting to put the kibosh on that one. I'd pay top dollar to see the Kinks slog happily through their hits and near-misses.
Gus wrote: "Clark wrote, I get a lot of grief for this, but I actually prefer the 70's section of the Kinks' resume over all the rest, especially the beyond-great "Sleepwalker" and "Schoolboys in Disgrace." I'..."
I'd pay to see them too, but hold the Ray solo material. I last time I saw them was at Cobo Hall in 1979 on the "Low Budget" tour with Ian Hunter (promoting "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic") opening.
Have I ever shown you the slides from my last vacation or pictures of my kids?
I'd pay to see them too, but hold the Ray solo material. I last time I saw them was at Cobo Hall in 1979 on the "Low Budget" tour with Ian Hunter (promoting "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic") opening.
Have I ever shown you the slides from my last vacation or pictures of my kids?
[image error]Woke up this afternoon with the urge to listen to this.
Mary wrote: "
Woke up this afternoon with the urge to listen to this."
"Black Napkins." Genius, right?
Woke up this afternoon with the urge to listen to this."
"Black Napkins." Genius, right?
King Dinösaur wrote: "Iggy Pop, "Soldier""
"Dog Food." His finest solo moment? Well, at least the closest he got to the dumb genius of The Stooges.
"Dog Food." His finest solo moment? Well, at least the closest he got to the dumb genius of The Stooges.
i saw brian seltzer with the stray cats in the summer of 1990 opening for SRV (one of the last shows SRV would play) and he wore out that guitar with the rock-a-billy sound. he brought it. it took a incredible wailing Stevie just to regain the night from the stray cats. smoking nighti have been listening to the Hives - Tick Tick Boom and right at this moment going through the entire Black Crowes catalog. man, i forgot how much i love this group.
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Closer? Ooof!
How about This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears instead? That'll make Jackie merely want to stick her head in the oven, as opposed to sitting in a hot bath and slicing open her veins.