I feel affectionate toward it because he does obviously love them as much as I do.
I don't know if the Voice's offices are in the same place that they were 30 years ago, but they're basically across the street from CB's. Not that Christgau loved the Ramones & Television & the Dolls just because they were local, but some of the affection is clearly because they really were neighborhood bands to him.
I'd love to write a 33 1/3 book about the second Dolls record.
Why not? Time constraints & other commitments notwithstanding. You have the talent and enthusiasm, and from the point of view of the publisher you have Bubblegum & LITG, so you aren't an unknown quantity.
It's only 6:30 & I'm leaving work -- woo and a big effin' hoo! And no, I am not being sarcastic. It's one thing not to have seen the sun for the last month when leaving work during the long months of short winter days, but it really sucks to have it happen all the time in summer if you're not doing shift work.
I don't know if the Voice's offices are in the same place that they were 30 years ago, but they're basically across the street from CB's. Not that Christgau loved the Ramones & Television & the Dolls just because they were local, but some of the affection is clearly because they really were neighborhood bands to him.
Sometimes one forgets this about New York Rock history. That was one of the great things the Voice did in one of its rock and roll Quarterly issues in its interview with Jerry Nolan. He grew up playing in garage bands in New York (and I don't mean out in LI - which had its own scene). So did Genya Ravan.
I loved that the dBs were in a loft on top of New York Rocker.
The Oscar Wilde Room at the Mercer Arts Center? An entirely mythical place to me, as vivid as a glam rock Camelot in my imagination.
See also his classic Split Enz song "I Got You."
Or Message To My Girl. Or anything else on Conflicting Emotions. But my favorite Split Enz song has to be Six Months In A Leaky Boat, which is the only song I know of to mention Aotearoa.
Not to be glib about the catastrophe, but Katrina is really helping Randy Newman's album sales. He has two in the Amazon Top 100 at this moment. Best Of is #68 as of this writing.
"Louisiana 1927" is getting a lot of airplay. It was on the first hour of Morning Edition on Friday, then Newman opened the telethon with it tonight.
Ah. See, I rarely watch TV, and NEVER listen to the radio. Except when the asshole who sits next to me listens to his crap-rock station loudly, drowning out my reasonably volumed Cure.
They just played "Cherub Rock" by The Smashing Pumpkins on The Alternative. Considering that the only Smashing Pumpkins I own is their K-Tel cover of "Jackie Blue" I do have a fair number of their songs that I like to hear when they roll up. I like them in both their Big Rock Guitar mode, and their Ominous Pop Mode. Also, it sounded really good next to The Pixies "Dig for Fire/Alison."
They just played "Cherub Rock" by The Smashing Pumpkins on The Alternative
I hate the Smashing Pumpkins with a big Billy-Corgan's-ego size hate but I not so much I can't admit to loving
Gish
and
Siamese Dream
- they are both really fantastic albums. (But they're it!)
Now playing: I never use my iPod's "genre" function but to clean my house today and start packing for Winfield I made a smart playlist of just bluegrass and country.
So far:
Sweet Dreams - Emmylou Harris
I Want to Sing that Rock-n-Roll - Gillian Welch
Wrecking Ball - Old Crow Medicine Show
One of these Trains - New Grass Revival
You're Looking at Country - Loretta Lynn
Watch Me Fall - Uncle Tupelo (this shouldn't be in there tech. but for some reason all my UT is listed as "country")
One Hundred Years from Now - Wilco (my iPod loves Jeff Tweedy)
Have a Feast Here Tonight - Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
Barely Human - Robbie Fulks
Right Back Where I Started - Mike Ireland and Holler
Used to Call Me Baby - Split Lip Rayfield
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson
Sister Cry - The Jayhawks (also listed as country...so it's an imperfect method for getting genre mixes - but still)
Has anyone in this thread mentioned that iPods rock lately?
ETA: Huh. Did something on the board change as far as line breaks? I don't why I am getting a line in between those song titles. I didn't do anything different....
