Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!

'Sleeper'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

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.


Spidra Webster - Jan 23, 2006 12:28:40 pm PST #1975 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

I love Tom Scola, too! Yayayayayay!


DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 2:18:17 pm PST #1976 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

::loves Tom Scola forever and ever::

You do know that we (a) own Ghost World on DVD and (b) one of the features on the DVD is the "Jaan Pechan Ho" video in its entirety, right? Not to mention that I've had it on tape since the early 90s.

Not that you shouldn't love Tom Scola forever and ever. Though if you really loved him you'd send him that Bone figure already.


DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 2:44:41 pm PST #1977 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My new guilty pleasure (after arguing many times that I don't feel guilty about musical pleasures) is Spacehog.

First of all it's a bad band name.

Second of all, everything they do is both derivative and a bit shallow.

That noted, they derive from Suede and Bowie and Roxy Music and they do the huge guitar crunch and swoopy chorus vocals beautifully. They really sound epically, fantastically glam rock.

They're easy to find in the cut out bins.

Resident Alien and The Chinese Album are both worthy.

AMG sums it up pretty well on The Chinese Album review:

"In the Meantime" was a huge hit, and Resident Alien went gold, but Spacehog's debut earned them no critical respect. At any other time, the group's glitzy revival of Bowie, Roxy and Mott the Hoople would have earned kudos, but it arrived at the height of Brit-pop, when other, more celebrated (and, frankly, better) bands were dominating the media spotlight. So, when it came time to deliver their second record, Spacehog knew they had to make a big splash, and The Chinese Album delivers on that promise. A faux song cycle layered with details and hooks, The Chinese Album is a big album conceptually, but the band doesn't quite have the gravity required to make it the sweeping achievement they desire. That hardly means that the album isn't enjoyable, however. Royston Langdon's mock-Bowie baritone is damn near irresistible, and when they have the right hooks and melodies, the result is a gaudy guilty pleasure.


DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 2:50:45 pm PST #1978 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. You can watch videos at AMG now. You have to watch through a brief commercial first.


JZ - Jan 23, 2006 3:04:15 pm PST #1979 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

You do know that we (a) own Ghost World on DVD

Yup.

and (b) one of the features on the DVD is the "Jaan Pechan Ho" video in its entirety, right?

This I did not know, owing to you being the one who bought it and neither one of us having watched it since the boughtening. And IIRC, the tape is mighty grainy and scritchy and many generations removed from the original movie musical shininess.

Though if you really loved him you'd send him that Bone figure already.

Dude, it's been ready to go forever. You had stuff you wanted to send him, so it's been sitting in its box all lonely and waiting for its care-package companions. Poor little thing.


msbelle - Jan 23, 2006 3:08:56 pm PST #1980 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Oh I've seen the lead singer of Spacehog at a couple of Loser's Lounge shows.


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2006 5:14:01 am PST #1981 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What's that keyboard instrument called -- the small one that you blow into, either directly or through an attached tube? I'll know it when I see it...

t edit Never mind: Melodica!


lisah - Jan 24, 2006 6:16:05 am PST #1982 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate

Melodica

or...

a

HOOTER!


DavidS - Jan 24, 2006 8:44:34 am PST #1983 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

HOOTER!

lisah would know.

::hoping Jon adds a melodica and a keytar to his performances::


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2006 9:14:22 am PST #1984 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I do own a keytar!