Ripped straight from Hec's imagination: the love child of Iggy & Ronnie Spector - the Gore Gore Girls. I've listened to some of the mp3s available from their website & my initial reaction is that the concept is much better than the music. Then again (a) what a concept!, and (b) the music's growing on me.

My new goal in life is to have their bassist rip my clothes off: "The Deuce is unafraid of an excess of hair.... The petite blonde loves the Shirelles, Don Covay, Elvis Costello and her cherry red Burns of London bass. When intoxicated, Deuce is known to test one's knowledge of music and/or forcibly remove articles of clothing from people she feels unnecessary." I'm not sure if the fulfillment of this wish is contingent upon her feeling that I'm overdressed or feeling that I'm unnecessary and happen to be clothed, but I'm willing to get her drunk to find out.

Question: I watched the movie Passionada last night and really enjoyed the music. The singer who performed the cool Portuguese songs was called Misic.

Does anyone here have a good idea of which cd to buy if you want some of her music? A good intro, I mean.

the Gore Gore Girls

We were asked to open for them next month but can't. I'm pretty disappointed. Darn other obligations.

We should probably interview the Gore Gore Girls for Scram. Because ...

For instance, our new album has a track done originally by the Poppy Family (Terry and Susan Jacks), called "Where Evil Grows". It doesn't fit anything really, and then it's perfect at the same time. It is a great song that I think we do well. We also do a song done by the Crystals called "All Grown Up" which I think is really suggestive and sexy. It's about wearing your hair up high and going on dates.

One of Kim's earliest articles in Scram was a long piece on the Poppy Family. I do love The Ronettes (especially live in The Big TNT Show, where they bust out some serious dance action), but as a Dolls fan my heart will always belong to The Shangri Las as my #1 Girl Group. They are each profoundly trashy in their own way, however.

I should really have these girls over to my house so we can watch my many tapes of go go dancing clips from various sixties movies. My favorite right now is The Black Tight Killers, which is a sixties Japanese exploitation movie. But Santo movies have some groovy go go action as well. The all-time best though is probably Pajama Party with both Teri Garr and Toni Basil dancing with crazed fervor. Oh! and Village of the Giants (featuring both Beau Bridges and The Beau Brummels) has more Toni Basil go go dancing.

Does nobody love the trash rock like I do?

::snivels in the corner clutching his Born Bad comps, copies of Kicks and bootlegs of sixties sleeze ephemera::

our new album has a track done originally by the Poppy Family (Terry and Susan Jacks

Would that be Terry Jacks of "Seasons in the Sun" fame? Did you see the Slate article about it? I love the idea that Link Wray played guitar on it (whether or not true.) And maybe he was on Sister Janet Mead's "The Lord's Prayer". Didn't it have an incongruous, "Rumble"-ing guitar riff, too? Some sorta weird 1974 zeitgeist, I guess.

as a Dolls fan my heart will always belong to The Shangri Las as my #1 Girl Group.

Mary Weiss is clearly the progenitor of Axl Rose. Am I claiming that Shadow Morton is his father? No, but I'm not ruling it out. Whether or not the Shangri Las were better than the Ronettes, the Dolls certainly picked the right girl group producer to work with. Whatever his demons he's still not the complete wackjob that Phil S. was and is.

Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out is out. I heard her talking about the album recently on some radio show, but I didn't realize the CD had come out. Thought it was Studio 360, but don't see it in their archives. If I remember it & can find a link I'll post it.

In other news, "Beatallica back, thanks to Lars Ulrich, fair use crusader". Without hearing them I have to say that they are my new favorite parody/cover band. The music could change my mind, but in theory I love the idea of live Beatles/Metallica mash-ups. And I'm happy to see Lars joining the fight. Before reading the story I figured he was the one who sicced the lawyers on the website. Apologies to Mr. Ulrich for my uninformed rush to judgment.

Without hearing them I have to say that they are my new favorite parody/cover band.

To quote...uhh.... someone, the concept is much better than the music.

Would that be Terry Jacks of "Seasons in the Sun" fame?

Yep.

Did you see the Slate article about it?

Yep.

I love the idea that Link Wray played guitar on it (whether or not true.)

I know, that's cool, huh? It's just a little introductory fuzz guitar riff, but it could be Link.

Mary Weiss is clearly the progenitor of Axl Rose.

Heh. There's an excellent article at Spectropop about the Shangri Las attempted mid-seventies comeback. Also, Mary Weiss was the inspiration for Michael Brown's song "I Shall Call Her Mary." (Michael Brown is the cult songwriter from The Left Banke who wrote such gorgeous melodies as "Walk Away Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina" and "Desiree." Richard Thompson is a big Michael Brown fan.)

eta: I think I blabbed about all this before on my last gush about the Shangs.

Am I claiming that Shadow Morton is his father? ...Whatever his demons he's still not the complete wackjob that Phil S. was and is.

Shadow's a fascinating and well, shadowy figure. He's one of those guys you'd have to interview to understand how the mob affected the music business in NYC in the 50s and 60s. Still, his production on the second Dolls album is MUCH better than Rundgren's production on the first. (I don't hold Todd responsible though, since the young and bratty dolls insisted on doing all kinds of whackaloon stuff with old equipment to try and reproduce a mid-sixties Stones sound. The end result was thin and tinny.)

Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out is out.

I must own this.

In other news, "Beatallica back, thanks to Lars Ulrich, fair use crusader". Without hearing them I have to say that they are my new favorite parody/cover band.

Is the concept really that differen than GABBA - the Ramones/Abba combo band?

The music could change my mind, but in theory I love the idea of live Beatles/Metallica mash-ups.

The DJ at Bootie, Adrian, is also the lead singer in Smash Up Derby a live mashup cover band. (Adrian is the androgynous red head in the middle.)

Speaking of Axl and mashups...

Some sorta weird 1974 zeitgeist, I guess.

1974 was a weird time in music.

BTW, my current tagline (for posterity, "The head nurse, she blew in just like a tornado. When they started dancing, I jumped off the table.") is from a hit of that year, "Oh My My," by Ringo Starr.

1974 was a weird time in music.

A few years back, WFMU ran a poll/death-match for the worst song ever. The listeners would pick songs from each decade, the 50s, the 60s, etc. Except that 1974 was put into a category by itself, since there were so many bad songs to pick from.

BTW, are we aware that WFMU has a blog?

[ETA: msbelle's not going to be happy about the song that took 2nd place in that poll]

A few years back, WFMU ran a poll/death-match for the worst song ever.

What kind of hipster ass-hats would vote "The Name Game" as a bad song? Dipshits.

And "You Oughta Know" is by no means the worst song of the 90s, nor even a bad song.