Re: Last night I dreamt of Jane Wiedlin

Nothing erotic, we were just hanging out at the mall. Weird.

This ever happen to anyone else (not Jane Wiedlin per se, or the mall for that matter)?

zoo wrote:

> Nothing erotic, we were just hanging out at the mall. Weird.
>
> This ever happen to anyone else (not Jane Wiedlin per se, or
> the mall for that matter)?

Yeah, I've had a dream. Weird.

I dreamt the other night that a friend of mine was telling me about a Stouffer's french bread pizza he'd bought on eBay. I suspect it to have been the most pointless dream in the history of mankind.

Wow, your friend bought my pizza! That's cool.

> Last night I dreamt of Jane Wiedlin

And lo, another Morrissey song title is born.

Was she in Bettie Page mode?

Aitch wrote:

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Was she in Bettie Page mode?

No, I think she was more in "Our Lips Are Sealed" mode.

rebelwithoutaclue, that sounds like a great dream! much better than these icky girl fantasies. can you actually hear the Beatles songs in your head during the dream, and can you recreate any of the lyrics or melodies?

Its interesting about my beatles dreams. I sometimes view myself personality wise as a 5th member and wonder how i would get along with the guys personally and musically
I also daydream that all my friends are in fact bandmates or ex band mates
and I sometimes view getting old friends together as a metaphor for getting the old band back together for a reunion and am sometimes reluctant to do it like a angry john lennon.

i have the exact same dreams, but i'm a member of the ramones... or on the staff of trouser press...

Aitch, he did say, "Nothing erotic."

Either you don't find Bettie Page erotic, or you need to pay more attention. (Or perhaps both.)

Deffo the latter.

i with Aitch & the clueless rebel,
i have recurring dreams of sifting through records with bette page.

The other night I dreamt that the office I work in had a power loss due to the recent rain storms, and a fellow employee told me that 5 people were stuck in the same elevater: 3 employees, with 2 members of the Doobie Brothers.

I was surprised: "Really? Which ones?" My co-worker didn't know, but he's a younger guy.

I'm rather disturbed that the Doobie Bros would be intruding into my subconcious. Where's my Betty Page dreams?

Ever wake up from a dream feeling you've been cheated?

I have this constant dream I am moving into a new house and while searching through the basement i find reel to reel tapes that have albums worth of never heard beatles recordings that are of about the same quality as their best released material.

Years ago, I used to dream that there were obscure, proper albums of never-heard Pink Floyd between Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon.

A friend of mine had a similar dream but it was The Jam and a jukebox.

I had a dream that I was tarring a roof with Lux and Ivy from The Cramps. I fell off the roof and onto another version of the same roof ... over and over and over. Until I woke up.

And this was years before Shawshank Redemption, by the way.

HollowbodyKay wrote:

> I had a dream that I was tarring a roof with Lux and Ivy from
> The Cramps. I fell off the roof and onto another version of
> the same roof ... over and over and over. Until I woke up.

Woke up with "tar" all over your sheets....

In an instance of timing that can only be called "proper cosmic," I had a very vivid musically themed dream last night and can still recall most of it quite clearly.

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I was in a little dinky used record store. It must have been a long time ago, because all of the LPs were out of their shrink wrap and many had the sleeve corners cut to show they were "cutouts."

I was browsing (and had been for a while - my fingers were covered in that grime that accumalates in the bins of record stores) and found an LP by some third world Phil Collins wannabe that had a cover that reminded me of another that I had seen before. The cover art was exactly the same style.

It took me a minute to remember which album it was, but it finally came to me. It was "Unearthed" by Steve Kilbey!



I went and asked the clerk if they filed Kilbey under "K" or lumped him in with The Church. He said they were "lumpers." I found a beat up old copy of the LP and held the two up and they were exactly the same (front and back)! Same colors. Same font. Same pose.

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Wish I could recall the name of the other fellow, but I cannot. He was from South America or Asia ... maybe. He wasn't anyone who really exists. I'm sure of that. Of course, the record store clerk from the dream acted like he knew all about the guy.

"Oh. Yeah. Him."

I think "Guilty" from Unearthed is possibly Kilbey's most pleasant straight-up pop song.

Unearthed has several really decent tunes on it. "Judgement Day" and "Othertime" are favorites of mine. Even the semi-abstract noodling is quite listenable.

I've got the album on cassette and LP, but haven't seen it on CD in years and months and weeks. Always on the lookout for it, however.

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That and Foxheads Stalk This Land by Close Lobsters.

As Jermoe points out, Unearthed can be had for cheap on eMusic. Many of his records will also be reissued later this year, both individually and as a box set.

Not to be a shill or anything (and acknowledging these are not the physical discs), but Steve Kilbey's Unearthed and Close Lobsters Foxheads Stalk This Land are both available on eMusic. They'll run you about $4 apiece.

I hate to sound like a complete technophobe, but I just hate the idea of downloading an LP album. Not if there is any chance I might find it in a record store and be able to own the actual thing. I like rolling my sleeves up and finding the stuff.

As I've said - the whole downloading thing feels like cheating to me.

But I snagged Opal's "Early Recordings" off Napster. It appears as if no one will EVER reissue that title. "Fire Of Love" by The Gun Glub was another that I snagged online.

Oh ... and three CDs worth of music by The Jazz Butcher. I've often thought about getting married just to ask him to play the reception.

I find sifting through the stacks at a record store relaxes me. It's how I deal with stress. Of course, then I spend money I shouldn't, which puts me on financially shaky ground, which causes me more stress...it's the cycle of addiction!

Seriously, I get a major charge out of finding a CD in the used bin that I've been seeking out for years, and there it is for just a few dollars. Sometimes it's all I can do not to grab the stranger next to me and say, "Look! Look at this!"

That said, as has been noted, the download "revolution" has been a boon for snagging copies of long OP records that go for a gazillion bucks nowadays. Or for satisfying one's curiosity about an artist for whom one does not wish to pay $15, or even $10.

I agree so much with what Michael wrote. I've been combing through record stores for albums and then discs for 35 years now and it's part of my DNA. I just hope that the few independent record stores around stay around.

It is such an utter delight to find that disc that you've been searching for for years, or one you want to take a chance on for a couple of bucks. Or to even pay full price for a disc because you've been eyeballing it for years and you have some money in your pocket and at that moment you just need to have it.

Michael Toland wrote:

> I find sifting through the stacks at a record store relaxes me.
> It's how I deal with stress. Of course, then I spend money I
> shouldn't, which puts me on financially shaky ground, which
> causes me more stress...it's the cycle of addiction!
>
> Seriously, I get a major charge out of finding a CD in the used
> bin that I've been seeking out for years, and there it is for
> just a few dollars. Sometimes it's all I can do not to grab the
> stranger next to me and say, "Look! Look at this!"
>
> That said, as has been noted, the download "revolution" has
> been a boon for snagging copies of long OP records that go for
> a gazillion bucks nowadays. Or for satisfying one's curiosity
> about an artist for whom one does not wish to pay $15, or even
> $10.

Then there's the delicious agony of coming home with an armload of disks and having to decide which one to play first. The one you've long been curious about and bought on a whim? The one you've been searching for for years and are thrilled to finally find? The new release you'd been anticipating for weeks? What do you do? What do you do?

Michael Toland wrote:

> Then there's the delicious agony of coming home with an armload
> of disks and having to decide which one to play first. The one
> you've long been curious about and bought on a whim? The one
> you've been searching for for years and are thrilled to finally
> find? The new release you'd been anticipating for weeks? What
> do you do? What do you do?

Michael,

If you were a girl, we'd be married. Hell, I'm considering proposing anyway.

Jay

I'm with HBKay. I enjoy the fun of tracking down those goodies in the used music stores. Downloading may deliver the same music, but it doesn't provide the same fun. (And as long as my wife is indulgent, when it comes to the storage issues, it's all good.)

I don't think anyone will ever look back with fondness to the day they downloaded any particular album the same way people do to the day they discovered one in a record store. (With the possible exception of In Rainbows, as Radiohead still knows how to make something an event.)

Sitting at your computer in your house and hitting a button just doesn't compare to the experience of finding a physical copy in a store and looking at the cover art and getting it to your car or house and listening to it. Maybe "digital natives" (to quote a phrase I have to hear constantly in my job) would dispute that, but so far I have yet to download anything (besides the aforementioned In Rainbows) that provided the same charge.

Yeah. Or ordering a CD from Amazon.com and be in thrall simply waiting for it.

I agree with these sentiments, but I'm still happy when I can snag deluxe Go-Betweens and Replacements reissues (with an entire bonus disc's worth of stuff) for a few dollars.

When I downloaded the Rumble Fish soundtrack a couple of years ago, I was pretty glad to have it (physical copies were going for $200+ at the time). I'm still glad to have it.

I still dig around record stores, pawn shops and yard sales regularly, and I still find unexpected deals...on occasion.

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I'm still happy when I can snag deluxe Go-Betweens and Replacements reissues (with an entire bonus disc's worth of stuff) for a few dollars.

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So at this late date, the Replacements have reissued stuff on CD with bonus tracks?

Bastards.

had a dream last night that the only way i could play jimmy reed songs was by restringing an electric ukulele with giant rubber bands, sounded incredible!