Trick ,'First Date'
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.
tangerine juice, chocolate chip muffin
this is where I saw Husker Du way way back inna day:
funny the stuff you can find on the internet. what i really want now is a list of all the bands that opened for REM on their various tours so I can jog my feeble brain.
Heh. I know that thirdave guy (from lisah's poster link). He used to go see The Pee Wee Fist all the time.
Did you know Stamey toured with Alex Chilton for a year?
Doesn't surprise me -- I've got that "Summer Sun" 7" (one of the best opening sound effects ever).
The Bible of Bop (Kimberly Rew backed by Softboys, dBs and Waves).
"Stomping All Over the World" -- One of the great forgotten powerpop tunes.
Happy Birthday bicyclops! I did'nt realize you were quoting the Beatles and meaning it all literally. We also share a birthday with Kurt Cobain, Patty Hearst, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Robert Altman.
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I saw Husker Du and Soul Asylum on that same tour. They did a pair of shows at the Paradise in Boston. It was those shows that made me realize, gee, I really ought to get earplugs. I remember not being able to hear anything well into the next day (I was on the radio the early the next morning and only got a few hours of sleep).
Trifecta!
Also, Hec, you know that the Decemberists are at the Great American Music Hall next Saturday (2/28)?
Also, Hec, you know that the Decemberists are at the Great American Music Hall next Saturday (2/28)?
I did not! I may be all night finishing the book on that date, however.
But it's a leap year! It's like the end of Daylight Savings but you get a whole extra day!
But it's a leap year! It's like the end of Daylight Savings but you get a whole extra day!
I know but...book not done. Must be done by end of month. I don't know, I expect we can turn it in on Monday, March 1st rather than on a Sunday.
Wait, Kid Congo Powers was in the Gun Club AND The Bad Seeds?
Isn't that Psychotic Goth Blues overkill? To bad Tom Waits (or PJ Harvey) never tapped him - he'd have a trifecta there.
Also, hippo birdies to bicyclops (and Giles - sheesh, Jon B shares a rarified b-day).
Happy belated Jon B and bicyclops!
Now, I know we've covered the "no such thing as a song you're embarrassed to like" thing before, but I'm working on a mix of cheesy-but-you-love-'em songs, and I'm finding that it's mostly disco. Do you think that's just my cultural remove from disco, or something inherent to the musical style?
I think that what is happening is that 'cheesy' is turning into 'without self-consciousness or irony' for the purposes of this mix.
Some songs that I think will make it: Sundown (yes, I'm obsessed with this song now), Best of My Love, Strawberry Letter, Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (Louis Prima, but only because I don't have the DLR version, which I wish I did), and Sweetness (yes, Yes).
Nothing cheesy about Strawberry Letter 23. Are you doing the Brothers Johnson hit version, or the original by Shuggie Otis?
