I will never not love "Maggie Mae."
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
Amy - Nov 05, 2009 6:33:10 pm PST #1911 of 6436
Because books.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 05, 2009 11:40:29 pm PST #1912 of 6436
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I will never not love "Maggie Mae."
We used to listen to that in the car when I was a kid, on one of his albums that got played on long journeys. My mother liked to deconstruct the lyrics:
I'll get on back to school, one of these days... "Ah, that's what you should have done, Rod. You wouldn't have made all this great music, but you would have been well-educated."
DavidS - Nov 06, 2009 4:29:17 am PST #1913 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As Perkins notes, early Rod is great stuff.
Every Picture Tells A Story is a stone classic: "Mandolin Wind," "Reason to Believe," "I'm Losing You," the title track.
All those first four Mercury albums are loaded with great tracks: "You Wear it Well," "The First Cut is the Deepest," "Gasoline Alley."
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2009 4:43:59 am PST #1914 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And don't forget the stuff he did with The Faces.
Jon B. - Nov 07, 2009 5:42:18 am PST #1915 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
New British postage stamps!!! [link]
DavidS - Nov 07, 2009 5:46:18 am PST #1916 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New British postage stamps!!!
Nice! Though that choice for a Pink Floyd album is odd.
Seems like Coldplay should have a DVD coming out of the sleeve too.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 07, 2009 6:40:48 am PST #1917 of 6436
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Love the stamps! Blur made it into the collection. Cool.
smonster - Nov 07, 2009 7:31:29 am PST #1918 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
This just in - I fucking love Pink. Jeezy, I want to see her live. I love that she's such a great performer and so outspoken and has a sense of humor about herself. Oh, yeah, and the music is fun, too.
Signed, just watched the Pink Chronicles on Fuse.
Jon B. - Nov 09, 2009 3:41:05 am PST #1919 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
One for Corwood:
When you're both a music writer and a performer in a town as incestuous as Nashville, the occasional conflict of interest is inevitable. In this week's print edition of the Scene, you may have noticed this piece in the music section I wrote previewing the legendarily mysterious outsider-folkie Jandek's first ever appearance in Nashville. If you managed to make it to the show, then you might have also noticed me playing drums for Jandek. I know how it looks. You see, at the time I wrote the article I had no idea that, 48 hours prior to the show, I would receive an invitation to provide percussive services for the very artist I was writing about. Despite the obvious conflict presented, I decided that--since I wrote the piece before knowing I'd be involved in the show--this was a victimless breach of my journalistic integrity, and that the opportunity to be one of the few musicians to ever work professionally with Jandek was too unique to pass up.
Jandek: The Strangest Gig I've Ever Played
Hayden - Nov 09, 2009 6:00:56 am PST #1920 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks! That's a great, great story.