Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
I've always thought that "Roadrunner" was based on "Sister Ray."
Considering Jonathan was camped out on Lou Reed's couch for long stretches, I'd say "stolen" rather than "based on." But it's a fairly honorable tradition in Punk where three chords do most of the work.
Any other two-chord songs that "rock"?
I can only think of other highly Velvets influenced bands, like the Vulgar Boatmen.
I am such a sap. Today's Get Fuzzy made me sniffly.
But it's a fairly honorable tradition in Punk where three chords do most of the work.
It's only got three chords, but it's the right three chords.
If sniffling at that Get Fuzzy makes one a sap, then bottle me up and sell me at the farmer's market.
I sniffled too. I guess we are all saps.
Yep. It is is a good thing.
By the way, it’s been a sheer pleasure to work on your book. I’ve long been a music junkie and was proud to correct a misspelling of “Baba O’Riley” in the MS. I was pleased that you mentioned one of my all-time faves, The Good Earth by The Feelies. Also, my dad, too, had a copy of Whipped Cream & Other Delights, just as your reviewer said he would.
I just wanted to see this again. Sweet!
The Monks also had an album full of two-chord rockers (Black Monk Time). But, yeah, the Velvets really wrote the book on two-chord rocking.
On the box right now: John Zorn's version of "Man With Harmonica" (aka "Once Upon A Time In the West") with Quine & Marc Ribot trading skronky-ass guitar parts.
On the box right now: John Zorn's version of "Man With Harmonica" (aka "Once Upon A Time In the West") with Quine & Marc Ribot trading skronky-ass guitar parts.
Is that THE BIG GUNDOWN lp? Love that stuff.
On the box right now
Guster, Lost and Gone Forever, AIFG.
Fiery Furnaces!
I listened to it a few times in the car this weekend, and it's an album that makes more sense the more you listen to it. A real grower. This one is going to make a lot of critics' 10 best lists.
Hey, there's a long tradition of two-chord classics. "Sister Ray," "Roadrunner..."
Bob Quine: "[White Light/White Heat] completely changed my life. 'Sister Ray,' 'I Heard Her Call My Name.' I spent thousands of hours on headphones wearing that out. That was a big influence on me. They were starting to make a big deal about people like Larry Coryell, rock musicians playing jazz, but there was no real fusion going on. What Lou Reed did, he actually listened to Ornette Coleman, and deliberately did off-harmonic feedback and the deliberate monotony of it. This stuff is like Jimmy Reed- it's monotonous or it's hypnotic. For me, it was hypnotic."
On the box right now
Brian Lehrer and Diana Somethingorother talking about the NY state legislature's inability to pass a budget on time (20 years and counting). AIFRocks!!
Okay, it doesn't really rock. But I do like the Brian Lehrer show.