Repeat from Press, but:
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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.
Hayden - Jul 22, 2004 7:18:07 pm PDT #4224 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
billytea - Jul 22, 2004 7:27:08 pm PDT #4225 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So I picked up a 2-disc comp of Split Enz Spellbound because I wanted some of their earlier, mid-seventies stuff. Guess what? It's good! Even before they were Crowded House, even before "I Got You" - they wrote catchy songs with smart lyrics and excellent vocals. What're the odds?
I'm going to claim pretty good (of course, I remember them from before they split up). I actually have two copies of Spellbound; I bought one for myself, and then my parents gave me another one as a present. I keep meaning to return it, but can't just drop round when I get a free weekend. I doubt they mind anyway.
Jim - Jul 23, 2004 12:34:00 am PDT #4226 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Also got Songs The Cramps Taught Us, vol. 3 which is basically a better digital edition of the Born Bad series (which I love). Does anybody else love that funky purgatory of American rock from the early sixties between Elvis hitting the army and the Beatles? It's so skanky and demented and beautiful.
Oh, yeah. I keep meaning to buy those compilations.
evil jimi - Jul 23, 2004 4:26:41 am PDT #4227 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
joe boucher - Jul 23, 2004 5:54:22 am PDT #4228 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Just sent to me by my friend Eliot, the White Light, White Heat tribute album. Downloading it now so have not listened yet but am very intrigued by the line-up:
Ergo Phizmiz plays Banjo, Bass Guitar, Ruler, Music Box, Violin, Toy Piano, Electric Guitar, Accordion, Squeezebox, Euphonium, Ukulele, Kazoo, Xylophone, Pixiphone, Uumskither, Mbira, Pod, Delay, Turntable, Percussion.
Update on the downloading: SSSLLLOOOOWWWWWWW. What will it sound like? What must White Light, White Heat have sounded like in 1968 to all those unprepared ears? Even the "prepared" ears (guys like Lester Bangs and Bob Quine who were steeped in both free jazz and feedback) were knocked on their butts. Bangs had a memorable line about the album, & especially "Sister Ray", "energies beyond the highest energies of all those Detroit killerboys," i.e., the Stooges & the MC5, both of whom Lester adored.
And was Sacha Distel Free French or pro-Vichy? Sorry, I'm having a Casablanca moment.
Jon B. - Jul 23, 2004 6:07:23 am PDT #4229 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks for the tip, Joe. I'm downloading Mr. Phizmiz' work as I write this.
Jim - Jul 23, 2004 6:11:56 am PDT #4230 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Oh, can't wait to get home for that. Asuming downloading OC eps isn't choking all my bandwidth. Ergo Phizmiz rocks.
joe boucher - Jul 23, 2004 6:13:24 am PDT #4231 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Is it really slow for you, too, Jon? The title track has been downloading for about 15 minutes -- and that's on the T-1 or whatever it is we have at work. Can't imagine how long it would be on the home dial-up.
Hayden - Jul 23, 2004 6:39:13 am PDT #4232 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've been unable to download any of it, too. Apparently metafilter posted it first, so half the world is probably downloading it at this very moment.
Your crossword is quite the hit, Joe.
tommyrot - Jul 23, 2004 6:44:09 am PDT #4233 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.
My download started at 2.0KB/sec. It was at 1.6KB/sec. when it finished with the first song. I started the second song--it's at 0.3KB/sec, so I don't think I'm gonna get it at this time.
We have a SDSL line that's roughly T1 speed here.
Years ago I compared notes with cathy (she posts here occasionally)--we both decided that White Light / White Heat was the album that had the biggest influence on us.