A cartoon for the Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell fans.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Fred Pete - Apr 13, 2004 3:29:30 am PDT #2103 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
erinaceous - Apr 13, 2004 6:09:19 am PDT #2104 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Robin, do you want I should send you some Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio?
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2004 8:00:29 am PDT #2105 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
...wrong thread...
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:09:37 am PDT #2106 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A cartoon for the Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell fans.
Heh!
I have always liked rockabilly but am not part of the scene in any way and only own a smattering of CDs, but I will say that it is IMPOSSIBLE not to have a great time at a Rockabilly show!
Right on! I love the image of Rockabilly!Scrappy. My friend Betty usually goes to the Vegas rockabilly show (she's hot for rockabilly boys, like Allyson is). I personally own vast yonks of rockabilly, though mostly the original stuff. It's all about Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio. Though you've got to give it up for guys like Groovey Joe Poovey and Warren Smith and Charlie Feathers and Wanda Jackson. (Nick Tosches famously described Wanda Jackson as "So hot she could fry an egg on her mons.")
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:13:25 am PDT #2107 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"I got a train / I met a dame / She was a' hefTY / She was a real gone dame / She was a' pretty / From New York City / And we rocked on down / that ol' fair lane / With a heave / and a Ho / Well I just couldn't let her Go! / Get along / sweet little woman get along / get on that train, get along / Well the train kept a' rollin' / All night long / The train kept a movin' / all night long / with a heave / and a ho / well I just couldn't let her go-ho-ho ho ho!"
joe boucher - Apr 13, 2004 8:20:02 am PDT #2108 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I don't want nobody to give me no quote. Open up the search engine, and I'll get it myself. Hunhh! Gud God, y'all!
Just kidding. Don't know if this is the one you're thinking of tommyrot:
We lost out on "Sex Machine" and now it's the number one dance song in the world. Because they thought the title "Sex" went some other place. But it wasn't about that. A fella and a girl were sittin' down in a club, and everybody was dancing, and the cat said, "Get on up! I feel like being a sex machine!"
It said, "The way I like it is the way it is. I got mine and don't worry about his." What is better than that? You cain't beat that. That record is so clean. They were worried about the title. Everytime I see the words "sex machine," it reminds me of a cash register opening up. That song opened up more cash registers than most songs I know.
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:23:28 am PDT #2109 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Coolest Thing James Brown Ever Did?
Titling a song, "Funky President (People It's Bad)" during Watergate.
...or possibly doing an entire album of Popcorn themed dance songs. It's a toss up.
joe boucher - Apr 13, 2004 8:47:51 am PDT #2110 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
People people, we gotta get over before we go under
"Funky President" is a great song -- and from a Nixon supporter no less! JB's career is full of ubercool & uberweird things (sometimes inseparable). His achievement -- he changed the face of modern music (at least the popular variety, and I've read more than one composer who cited him as an influence) -- & his wackiness are both hard to overstate.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 13, 2004 8:58:50 am PDT #2111 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I haven't seen a Pixies date for SF, dammit.
They're not doing a show in Boston either, which strikes me as willfully perverse.
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 9:10:53 am PDT #2112 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JB's career is full of ubercool & uberweird things (sometimes inseparable). His achievement -- he changed the face of modern music (at least the popular variety, and I've read more than one composer who cited him as an influence) -- & his wackiness are both hard to overstate.
Heh. Then you're going to love the part of the book where I say he's overrated!
Well, not really. But I do think his influence has been overstated in the same way that Louis Armstrong's influence was overstated in the Ken Burns jazz doc.
Which is to say, of course they're titans, and HUGE in American music. But by making them that HUGE you wind up distorting the history. Mostly I wanted to make the case that while I think James Brown is funky, he isn't Funk. (Except for the very brief period when he had the JBs with Bootsy.) I think Sly and the Family Stone were far more influential on the direction of black music from the late sixties on.
I just don't hear James Brown rhythms except as pastiche (with a huge and notable exception being "Funky Drummer" samples). But Larry Graham's bass-playing defined black music for the last 40 years.