I did not go. The heat won. It's been above 90 for two weeks straight and that's a bit much even for me.
Hec, that would be lovely! I could use some new tunes.
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
smonster - Jun 24, 2010 4:48:09 pm PDT #3177 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
lisah - Jun 25, 2010 4:58:19 am PDT #3178 of 6436
Punishingly Intricate
They are super fun! One of the best shows i've ever seen despite the large number of frat boy dbags in the audience. I guess you can't help who your fans are. I pinched the hell out of one who would not stop getting in my way.
DavidS - Jun 25, 2010 5:51:33 am PDT #3179 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm sending seven Southern Culture songs to Buffrawk as I type.
What more do you need from life than a party anthem titled "Liquored up and Lacquered Down"?
smonster - Jun 25, 2010 6:08:34 am PDT #3180 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
What more do you need from life than a party anthem titled "Liquored up and Lacquered Down"?
Oh hell yeah. Thanks, Hec!
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2010 6:19:16 am PDT #3181 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 how many people here are eMusic subscribers? Should I continue to point out bargains, like this Beck album One Foot In The Grave (Deluxe Reissue)?
32 songs for only 12 credits. This is some stuff he recorded before Mellow Gold....
eMusic sez:
Beck's darkest, sparest and purest album, from its opening rewrite of Skip James' "Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader" to its slow-crawling sickbed blues, recorded before almost anyone had heard of him (and backed up by members of Beat Happening and the Spinanes). If it'd been the only thing he recorded, 75 years ago, he'd be a legend.
Jon B. - Jun 25, 2010 6:43:01 am PDT #3182 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That early Beck stuff is really different from what most people are familiar with. Kinda sparse folky-bluesy.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2010 7:08:50 am PDT #3183 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.
That early Beck stuff is really different from what most people are familiar with. Kinda sparse folky-bluesy.
Yep. I like it but it may not be everyone's cup o' tea.
What other pre-Mellow Gold Beck stuff is out there? Like, how were "Satan Gave Me a Taco" and "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" released?
Jon B. - Jun 25, 2010 7:17:42 am PDT #3184 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The former was on the "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" LP, and the latter was on a 7".
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2010 7:49:22 am PDT #3185 of 6436
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Like, how were "Satan Gave Me a Taco" and "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" released?
I grabbed the latter a year or two ago, and, yeah, a very different Beck. Sounded more like early Nirvana.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2010 8:12:09 am PDT #3186 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.
Pete Quaife would be the first to admit he wasn't the greatest bass player in the world. When I interviewed him 20 years ago on the occasion of the Kinks' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame he joked that he became famous for playing the same two notes over and over on You Really Got Me, but he was a vital part of a band that survived the '60s with its legacy virtually untainted (so help me, I love those Preservation albums from the '70s). He just seemed a perfect fit between the sibling rivalry of Ray and Dave Davies, deftly handling the rapid shift from teen rage to middle age wistfulness, only to bow out when the pressures of the musical money-go-round overwhelmed the pleasure of playing those two notes and providing the rhythmic anchor chain to Mick Avory's drums on Ray's visions of England's vanished golden age.
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Pete passed away in Denmark on Thursday after a decade of struggling with kidney disease. You can read a CBC obit here, or just do what I'm going to do and put on The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and quietly mourn the loss of a well respected man.