Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
I hate to use phrases like "The best rock band in history," but really, who else comes close?
Ramones? Stooges? AC/DC? Hmmm....Pixies?
For pure riffs only AC/DC had as many great ones.
For depth of songbook, only the Ramones can stay close.
For impact and influence only the Stooges and maybe Zeppelin or Sabbath.
Thanks for the kind words from earlier, y'all.
Congratulations, Corwood.
And now, for the reason de-post: you can listen to the entire new Breeders album on their myspace. Yay!
For impact and influence only the Stooges
If you're going to include the Stooges, then you need to add the Velvets.
Hmmm....Pixies?
I like the Pixies, but have always thought they were overhyped.
Oh, and YAY CORWOOD!
I am a heretic, because I don't like the Stones.
t stands with Jilli
Give me The Who any day.
Give me The Who any day.
EXACTLY.
Give me The Who any day.
You know, much as I like the Stones I gotta go there too.
Of course, I've been earworming about 5 different Quadrophenia songs on a rotating basis for a few weeks now (along with Entwistle's bass solo in My Generation), so I'm not exactly objective on this. But, yeah!
along with Entwistle's bass solo in My Generation
"5:15" is an even better Entwhistle solo, I think.
"5:15" is an even better Entwhistle solo, I think.
Well, I think he basically has the lead part on a bulk of the who songs. "The Real Me" trumps 5:15, in my opinion. But considering "My Generation" is about as punk a song as you're ever going to hear (for its time or for the punk era), to have a bass solo in the middle just makes it that much fucking cooler. And mainly, I was just mentioning which bits were stuck in my head (for some odd reason, 5:15 WASN'T one of the Quadrophenia songs I was earworming on, much as I love it).
ION, just watched (or at least watched most of - my DVR recording based on the schedule started late and ended before it was over - thank doG for a later rebroadcast) the VH1 doc "The Night James Brown Saved Boston" which is about a show James Brown did at the Boston Garden the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. The show got simulcast on PBS and basically, for a myriad of reasons, allowed Boston to escape a lot of the rioting/looting/arson that hit most of the other major cities in the US. Fascinating stuff, and I'm stunned, and a bit ashamed, that WGBH (the PBS station in question) didn't do this, since it is a HUGE piece of their history. It also makes hope and pray, since it looks like the materials are there, that a concert film of that show will someday be available on DVD.
Man, if I feel bad for anyone's later in life decline into a punchline or worse, it's James Brown. Because he seriously did it himself (that is, brought himself up from abject nothing), and at one point he was not only one of the most charasmatic human beings on the planet, but also seemed to be one of the more savvy ones.