For Cheap Trick, "Daddy should have stayed in school" definitely fits the billby jothoma
Sad news. I feel fortunate to have caught Max and Pat in concert in the late 90s in San Francisco when they did a rare and brief US tour as a reunited Jazz Butcher.by jothoma
Not necessarily unexpected but the Pixies cover of "Winterlong" is great.by jothoma
"Terry meets Julie Waterloo station Every Friday night But I am so lazy, don't want to wander I stay at home at night But I don't feel afraid As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise" (for Terrance Stamp and Julie Christie)by jothoma
I started listening to this Podcast series about a year ago. I am currently listening to episode #162 on the Monkees "Daydream believer". This podcast series is incredible and quite a gift as it is essentially a PHD Seminar Class on Rock History and Musicology available for free download. The amount of research and time Andrew Hickey puts into each episode is staggering, especiallyby jothoma
Thank you for this Breno! I love these kind of playlists. I too stayed on the REM bandwagon all the way through the Berry years. Although "Monster" and "Hi-Fi" are spotty affairs, there is enough greatness there that I still return to them periodically. Not so with the next three albums. I have collectively listed to each of them once and never returned to them. I appreciatby jothoma
The first Bad Company album is pretty consistent, 70s prototypical "cock rock". If you like Mott or Free, it is worth a listen. It was definitely diminishing returns after that though.by jothoma
I saw The Who in 2007 in Fresno, CA and it was a great show. John Entwistle had passed a few years earlier so I figured it was going to be my last chance at seeing them live before they all kicked the bucket. I can't believe that was 18 years ago and they are about to go out on tour again. I thought they were old back then. Pete's brother Simon handled most of the guitar work and Petby jothoma
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
