Best. Video. Eveh.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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.
Shir - Nov 25, 2009 5:12:19 am PST #2065 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
DavidS - Nov 27, 2009 5:25:36 pm PST #2066 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I'm reading a short interview with Michael Brown of The Left Banke.
(Did you know he wrote "Walk Away Renee," "Pretty Ballerina," and "She May Call You Up Tonight" about the same unrequited love? That she later went on to become an opera singer? Did you know he had a huge crush on Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las and wrote a song about her with the group Montage titled "I Shall Call Her Mary"?)
From the interview:
EDEN: Was there really a lot & a one way sign that you would pass by every day?
BROWN: The sign was on Falmouth street in Brooklyn, & the lot was on the corner of Falmouth & Hampton Ave. We used to play in there when we were little children & have praying Mantises drop on our hands, they were the most beautiful creatures you could imagine.
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So I looked up Falmouth & Hampton in Brooklyn and it's in Manhattan Beach. And when you pull back on the map you see it's next to Brighton Beach (Neil Simon, Woody Allen). And then the next neighborhood over is Coney Island and there's Mermaid Avenue (Woody Guthrie, Wilco, Billy Bragg).
I'm love seeing pop culture through Google Maps.
DavidS - Nov 28, 2009 5:37:41 pm PST #2067 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Interesting recent interview with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins.
Hayden - Nov 29, 2009 12:22:14 pm PST #2068 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Amazon has 500 mp3 albums for $5.
DavidS - Nov 29, 2009 4:33:36 pm PST #2069 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
After playing some metal xmas songs for my next door neighbors they urged me to check out Steel Panther's "Community Property."
Which I dedicate to Jilli and Cass and anybody else with a hair metal past.
(Not exactly work safe as the power ballad lyric goes: "Well my heart belongs to you/ Yeah my heart belongs to you / but my cock's community property...")
Jon B. - Nov 30, 2009 3:42:38 am PST #2070 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
This has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn't seen it. Day-umm, Prince can play guitar: [link]
I'm linking to Bill Janovitz's post because his commentary nails it.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2009 5:25:24 am PST #2071 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, he's always been a fantastic player but you get the feeling he's been plugging in every day for the last fifteen years when we weren't looking.
He's putting together some pretty legendary performances later in his career.
You have Stevie Winwood -- arguably the most soulful Englishman next to Jagger, Rod Stewart (and who else?)
Paul Rogers.
Nice to hear Jeff Lynne singing without buckets of echo on his voice too. Not that he's got a lot of range, but his voice is much warmer than you'd expect from the ELO records.
Scrappy - Nov 30, 2009 7:04:20 am PST #2072 of 6436
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Loves me some Paul Rogers.
Cass - Nov 30, 2009 7:49:34 am PST #2073 of 6436
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Steel Panther's "Community Property."
That never stops being hysterical to me.
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2009 1:25:56 pm PST #2074 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So. The Stranglers. They have a few songs that I totally love, so a while back I bought some greatest hits CD and didn't like anything on it at all. Here are The Stranglers' songs I have and love:
- (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
- No More Heroes
- Duchess
- Golden Brown
So, what else by The Stranglers is similar?