Oh, I don't know.
Thanks!
Am now listening to some band called The Rolling Stones. Beggars Banquet is the album. Huh. I have 17 Rolling Stone albums. I think Bowie is the only artist who I have more of. Maybe Robyn Hitchcock too.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2010 7:54:06 am PDT #2835 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.
Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2010 7:56:55 am PDT #2836 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Rolling Stones
I think I remember them. They were big in the 80s, right?
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2010 7:58:29 am PDT #2837 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.
I think so. Although the album I'm listening to came out in 1968. So they must have been toiling in obscurity for decades!
eta: See, now the singer is singing about doing a jigsaw puzzle. No wonder they weren't popular back then. (For the record, I gave that song four stars.)
DavidS - Apr 07, 2010 8:21:58 am PDT #2838 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of the Rolling Stones the outtakes and sessions for Let It Bleed are fantastic. They could do no wrong at that point.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2010 8:30:57 am PDT #2839 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Cool fanvid to the Stones "Sway" using early Marianne Faithfull footage.
Mick Taylor, great Stones guitarist or the Greatest Stones guitarist?
(That's him playing on the entire track except for some sloppy rhythm guitar from Mick.)
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2010 8:33:24 am PDT #2840 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.
Am now listening to Ram. I'm pretty sure I haven't heard "Too Many People" since the early '70s. Huh. (Just thinking about music, memory and aging....)
DavidS - Apr 07, 2010 8:37:31 am PDT #2841 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was listening to it because I've been going through a lot of amazing yet slightly oddball 70s pop. 10cc and pre-New Wave Split Enz, late Hollies, Dennis Wilson's stunning "River Song," Badfinger, Colin Blunstone's (lead singer with the Zombies) first solo album.
It was just such a wide open period in pop music after the Beatles and the Beach Boys innovations.
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2010 8:39:16 am PDT #2842 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.
It was just such a wide open period in pop music after the Beatles and the Beach Boys innovations.
I think the opposite happened to "alternative music" after Nirvana sold 12 million copies of Nevermind. Alternative music seemed more homogeneous after that.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2010 8:43:57 am PDT #2843 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think the opposite happened to "alternative music" after Nirvana sold 12 million copies of Nevermind. Alternative music seemed more homogeneous after that.
I agree.
My other seventies thing right now is a mix titled "Ballrooms of Mars and other Glam Rock Ballads." Which (in my mind) should be Jill Tracy's next album -- all covers while she takes her sweet time writing new songs. I mean what's more dark cabaret than doing Bowie's "Time" or "Lady Grinning Soul"?
Fred Pete - Apr 07, 2010 8:54:43 am PDT #2844 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
It was just such a wide open period in pop music after the Beatles and the Beach Boys innovations.
Among other influences -- any mainstream that can accommodate, say, Sly and the Family Stone, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, Glen Campbell, and Cream (just to touch the surface) is a very broad stream. It's one of the things I love about late '60s pop.
Then you get to 1974, when just about anything could -- and did -- make the charts.