Back in 2003 I was moving from northern California back to southern California and I was looking at having to move all of my albums again to another house for the 3rd time in 4 years. In the interim my turn table broke and I was pretty much exclusively listening to CD's at that point. I figured I would kill two birds with one stone and sell my records and replace my absolute favorite albumsby jothoma
I know I have mentioned this in a previous thread at some point over the years but being a white kid growing up in the mid-80s in a Central California town know for oil, agriculture and Buck Owens, there wasn't much exposure to music beyond country and classic rock. In 1985, at age 16, a friend of mine, who was slightly more cool than I was (which is to say not at all), bought a cassetteby jothoma
To continue the Yacht Rock rabbit hole, I just watched the Yacht Rock documentary on HBO last week. The term was coined by a group of comedians who did a series of spoofs on YouTube about 2005. It was retroactively applied to a genre of music that never actually existed. Essentially what these guys noticed is that a group of Los Angeles session musicians all played on the same artists records,by jothoma
I read an interview with Robbie Williams a few years back saying that is why he loves living in Los Angeles because he can go to his neighborhood grocery store and no one has a clue who he is. So there are some benefits to being massive around the world but still unknown in the states.by jothoma
If you are a fan of the first two albums you should give their last two albums 2005's "Don't believe the truth" and 2008's "Dig out your soul" a listen. They are genuinely good albums with Zak Starky on Drums and Andy Bell from Ride on bass these two albums feel like a band again rather than just Noal and Liam and session players. If you miss Ride, Andy Bell conby jothoma
I was playing Look Sharp! a couple of months back while I was preparing dinner and the song "Fools in Love" came on. My 20 year old daughter stopped what she was doing and came into the kitchen and asked who this was and I told her Joe Jackson and did the performative "I can't believe you don't know who Joe Jackson is" routine. One of her favorite artists, Inara Gby jothoma
Me too. Gotta love Les Nessmanby jothoma
Television: "Venus De Milo" Then Richie, Richie said "Hey man, let's dress up like cops, think of what we could do" Something, something said "you better not"by jothoma
I saw him at the Wiltern Theater in LA the last go around. Hard to believe that was seven years ago. Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize he was coming back to the states but I am looking forward to seeing him again. This will be my 4th Weller show as I saw him once in the 1990s and another time in the early 2000s. He doesn't disappoint.by jothoma
Damnit, I just got sucked into listening to another podcast I don't have time for. And he is already over 160 episodes in. I'll never catch up. I made the mistake of listening to his podcast on The Move's "Flower's in the Rain" and Small Faces "Itchycoo Park" after recommendations on the Steve Hoffman forums. I thought I was a big fan of these two bandsby jothoma
I was surprised to see this music documentary hasn't been brought up yet. In January 2020 David Johansen from the New York Dolls decided to put on a show, to celebrate his 70th birthday, at the Carlyle club in New York performing the songs of the New York Dolls, as well as his solo work, as his alter ego, Buster Poindexter. Martin Scorsese caught wind of it and decided to film it and releby jothoma
I've always been more of a S & Y guy than a C & N guy but I agree with Stevee, IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER MY NAME is an absolute classic and well worth your time. That plus a few ace Byrds songs not called "Mind Gardens"...by jothoma
I would also throw the podcast "Political Beats" out there. The title is a bit of a misnomer. The podcast was started by two Washington DC journalists who normally write about politics as their day jobs but they realized that after work hanging out in pubs they were spending most of their time discussing music so they started a music podcast as a side project. Each episode they invitby jothoma
Nice to see that The Fags haven't been forgotten. Great band with an incredibly non-commercial name that probably doomed them. "Rockstar" is a prototypical more cowbell song.by jothoma
Love that he is still playing "Lonesome tonight". That is one of my favorite NO songs.by jothoma
MrFab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don’t think I have, either. And weren’t those > “hooked on…“ medleys kind of the same thing? > > I only knew the parodies, (The Circle Jerk's > s “Golden Shower of Hits,” Dr. Demento used to > play “Bra Size 45”) and at first I didn’t even > realize they were parodies. Don't forgetby jothoma
I enjoy Christgau's writing quite a bit and he's usually pretty good at summing up his opinions in a pithy and humorous way. He has major blind spots in musical styles that he writes off too easily and other styles he gives to much weight to, to be sure. But he was certainly better in his music reviews in the Village Voice in the 70s than the god-awful Dave Marsh was in the pages of Rolby jothoma
I was a huge fan of The Jam in the 80s and it lead to discovering their influences like the Small Faces, the Action, The Who (circa 64-67) and The Move. As a matter of fact, I became such a Move fan that it ultimately lead me to Cheap Trick, who I never would have given a rip about in the 1980s. Now Cheap Trick are one of my perennial favs as they borrow so much from the sound and humor of Roy Woby jothoma
I can totally hear Suzanna Hoff's doing a credible version on the song. It's not too dissimilar to the other jangly pop she's done. Case in point:by jothoma
I absolutely love this clip from 1965 from some long forgotten UK TV show. It stars a very Mod looking Kiki Dee (who 10 years later had a hit singing a duet with Elton John) singing a very Burt Bacharach sounding song called "Small Town". Definitely fits the Dusty, LuLu, Sadie mold. Then it is followed by a very early, pre-Ian McLagen, Small Faces signing "I've Got Mineby jothoma
Wow, that sucks. She was only 37 years old. She was an amazing singer and frontwoman for the band. Their version of "Hey Sa-Lo-Nay" is one of my all time faves:by jothoma
I think his best solo album is 1973's "Pretty Much your Standard Ranch Stash". Start with that one and work backwards. It was his 7th solo record up to that point (between 1968-1973) and the last record under his contract with RCA records. His recordings became more sporadic after that. I think it was his most consistent set of songs but the previous records all have their high poiby jothoma
When the Monkees were good they were very good and Mike Nesmith was the best musician of the bunch for sure. He was also quite a pioneer in the field of Country Rock prefiguring what would come with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers both with the Monkees and his solo albums after. Check out this Monkees Mike Nesmith tune, "What am I doing Hangin' 'Round" that came oby jothoma
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy's initial recordings on Glass Records had the trashy pop sound of the mellow side of Velvet Underground or the Modern Lovers, albeit with a wry British sense of humor. Pat's bandmates at that time were Max Eider on guitar and David J on bass (after Bauhaus broke up and before he formed Love and Rockets). When Max and David J departed in the mid 80s Pat siby jothoma
Pat’s family posted on the Jazz Butcher Fan page on Facebook that Pat, aka The Jazz Butcher, passed away last night suddenly. He had been playing periodic live shows via streaming on facebook, although he canceled last weeks because he wasn’t feeling well. He was set to play a live gig tomorrow night at a venue in Bristol so this was completely unexpected. Quite sad.by jothoma
I'm surprised that The Motors "Dancing the night away" hasn't been mentioned yet. That track is ace.by jothoma
Pat Fish posted this on Facebook yesterday: Fire Records The Jazz Butcher reveals limited edition bookback CD ‘Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-sides and Seasides’ (out 12th November). pre-order here: According to the Fire Records website it is a 4 CD set of all of the Jazz Butcher singles. Note there is a separate link for the US orders. I bought most of my Butcher CD'sby jothoma
The production in the mid to late 80s renders some of that music almost unlistenable to me. For example the heavy reverb on the drum sound on main stream rock music like Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album, Cheap Trick's albums from 85-90, bands like Def Leppard, etc. There was some discussion of an artist like Michael Stanley a few months back after he passed awayby jothoma
I saw the thread title and this is the first song that popped into my head: Wrong Rubert, I know, my apologies for the earworm.by jothoma
I actually discovered Johnny Ray a few years back when I was doing a deep dive on early 50s singles that paved the way for Rock and Roll. I had no idea until you just mentioned it that the Dexy's intro was referencing him but it makes total sense. He was a closeted gay man who was kind of a proto Elvis, at least in his performance antics if not his actual music, which was closer to Dean Martby jothoma
