'Lies My Parents Told Me'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Chock Full O' Notes!
I had forgotten that Jimmy James is the only major character in television history to be named after a Beastie Boys song.
And of course Phil Hartman played the piano on multiple episodes, including the one where he tries to become a Mark Russell-type musical political commentator, and the talent show episode, one of my favorites ("The Great Throwdini!"), in which he and Vicki Lewis sing "Makin' Whoopee."
And no, I do not have that, and would love a copy!
"Wichita Lineman": sucks or love it?
Love it, but somewhat ironically.
including the one where he tries to become a Mark Russell-type musical political commentator
And he belts Steve (Andrea the efficiency expert's boss? righthand man? lackey?) in the mouth! And you know how I love people getting whacked in the head! In one of the commentaries Joe Rogan says that Lauren Graham was his favorite guest star & everyone agrees with him. The Andrea episodes were so good. I love how she became completely insane over the course of four episodes: "Let's just say you're not the only one in this room who's committed a felony."
"Wichita Lineman": sucks or love it?
Fine blue-collar meditation. But IMO, that was the era where Glen Campbell did no wrong.
"Wichita Lineman": sucks or love it?
For me, there is nothing but love for Jimmy Webb songs.
Except "MacArthur Park."
And Newsradio utterly ruled. Wish I'd watched it more.
I'm bored again (and posting once more). Here's my afternoon timekiller: A Hurricane Katrina mix.
That's as far as I've gotten. They're pretty obvious.
"Wichita Lineman": sucks or love it?
Love it. Unironically. Webb's best song, classic production and performance. The very zenith of late sixties / early seventies non-rock pop.
I once described it as having the existential angst of a housewife in curlers, smoking a Pall Mall and staring fretfully out the back window on the dirt backyard of her unfinished subdivision. There might have been something about her wearing a canary yellow sleeveless knit top too, I think.
That's as far as I've gotten. They're pretty obvious.
Ah, you missed two of the ones I referenced up thread: "After the Flood" - Lone Justice; "3 Feet High and Rising" - Johnny Cash (also sampled by De La Soul).
Webb's best song, classic production and performance.
Maybe his best song, but I've always been partial to "Galveston." That song, to me, is what I think AM rock/pop radio sounds like. Only on an AM station could that bass line sound so ghostly.
And it's a war protest song that was #1 on the country charts at the high-water mark of the protest movement.