Interesting recent interview with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins.
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
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."
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?
megan walker - Dec 01, 2009 1:35:12 pm PST #2075 of 6436
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't know, but I could certainly use "Duchess" for my "A Royal Pain in the A**" mix
DavidS - Dec 01, 2009 2:54:21 pm PST #2076 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Musically they could be great, but they were so damned obnoxious lyrically.
No More Heroes would be their acknowledged classic.
There's some great stuff on Black and White.