Jan 272009
In rapid-fire style, Rock Town Hall wants to know what’s NOW PLAYING (or was most recently playing) as you read this post! How is it? Is there a story to tell? Would you recommend this to anyone? There’s not a minute to waste!
In rapid-fire style, Rock Town Hall wants to know what’s NOW PLAYING (or was most recently playing) as you read this post! How is it? Is there a story to tell? Would you recommend this to anyone? There’s not a minute to waste!
The Band, “Up On Cripple Creek,” or what dbuskirk would call Civil War Re-enactment music.
The Pharcyde’s Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde which I bought for $1.99 from Amazon’s MP3 store. Amazon MP3s are the new crack.
The Oliver’s Army clip set off a round of EC on youtube. I just finished seeing him play that song at Glastonbury to a sea of people singing and clapping along.
Walk In the Woods by Peter Case.
Great lyrics, really descriptive with an ironic plot twist at the end.
Frosty Morning Blues by Bessie Smith on WFMU. I highly recommend the internet feed of WFMU shows.
Not so much playing, but I just bought a copy of Bellybutton by Jellyfish @ the junk shop down the street from my office @ my lunch break for $2.
“Pain in My Heart” – Rolling Stones via the XM/Sirius Underground Garage station
“Sheet Music” by 10cc.
“I Can Wait” by Steve Earle, on my Ipod, because I am playing it over and over again.
“Sheet Music” by 10cc.
I haven’t heard that since about 6th grade but that summer it was all my friends and I listened to. How is it?
I don’t know a song by 10cc beside their big hit. Maybe The Great 48 directed me to something cool by them long ago, or maybe it was just a Graham Gouldman solo album. Is there a 10cc album worth checking out for someone like me, whose curious?
I thought the Wall Street Shuffle (from Sheet Music) was really cool in 6th grade.
Also, you know Dreadlock Holiday, don’t you?
Don Covay, “We Can’t Make It No More”…give me five, cdm!
Regarding Dreadlock Holiday, all I can recall is the album title and the cover. Both were MAJOR turn-offs to my ever digging any deeper on 10cc. I got the same scary vibe from them that I would later get when I tried checking out Sparks. At least I got as far as buying and listening to a couple of Sparks albums:) “Wall Street Shuffle” does ring a bell.
Too Much On My Mind by the Kinks off the Ipod.
All that busy harpsichord business in the background that I assume Nicky Hopkins is doing almost seems like a synthesized deconstructive pattern you might find on Summerteeth by Wilco or something, when you pay it some attention. It’s a bunch of frilly effect.
Magical Power Mako – Lo-Pop Diamonds
As to 10cc, I went through a discovery phase with them about five years ago and the conclusion I came to was that they are difficult to recommend in a vacuum because they are effectively the Frank Zappa of pop rock. Great for a variety and production junkie like me, but to boil them down to anything is hard. On the flipside, girls like 10cc much more than Zappa.
And only one big hit? “Things We Do For Love” was preeety big, if not equally popular to “I’m Not In Love” back in my formative years of the 70s. I can definitely remember hearing it on Friday nights at the Roll-A-Rena during 6th grade.
Tracking flugelhorn on the Prester John LP.
Give you five? You got it! Shit, I’ll throw in the other five for Don Covay.
I got to turn on a total Hendrix freak to Mercy Mercy the other day, by the way. He was psyched.
Oh right, “Things We Do for Love” is also fantastic! Thanks for the overview, eh.
The new Franz Ferdinand. I bowed out for their last record but I’m on board for this one, damnably catchy stuff here…
I remember hearing “Mercy Mercy” for the first time before a Ben Vaughn show at Maxwell’s and being floored. What a beautiful sounding record that is. I always felt that Van Morrison was influenced by his early stuff and well as the often acknowledged Mick.
That producer Horace Ott is a real under-the-radar guy, he produced and arranged most of the great records Nina Simone recorded at Phillips (“Wild Is The Wind”) as well as doing the Village People’s hits. And Beatle Bernard Purdie is on drums!
Some bells, Tuvan-like chanting, and drones on WFMU. Sounds like a boiler room in an old municipal building. Oddly, it seems to fit my mood.
I dusted off my copy of London Calling. Wow. How come The Clash isn’t my favorite band of all time? I’m reminded of their greatness each and every time I expose myself to this record, which is not enough…
TB
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band live at the Paradise in Boston, December 5, 1980 – gotta love dimeadozen.
Great recording, great show. Geo, is this the tour when he played the old Latin Casino in Jersey (can’t remember the name of the place)? I assume I saw him there with you.
Saw last week or the week before that it was Don’s birthday, 68 years old I think. Beefheart is a tempting what-if. Should we wish that he had continued making music up til the present? Or should we be happy that, like the Beatles, he quit while he was ahead? God knows, the music that he left us with is enough for a lifetime of listening.
lateleydavidband wrote:
Cause you’re too busy with your mancrush on Townshend?
As for Al’s question…EMERALD CITY was the name of the old Latin Casino. I saw my first real rock show there, winning at radio contest in 10th grade and getting in underage alongside my prematurely gray English teacher. The Nighthawks were the headliners. DJ Michael Tearson got up onstage with the opening band, John Eddie and the Front Street Runners, if memory serves, and sang some rockabilly song with them. I had fun, but this may have marked the start of my not liking Stevie Ray Vaugnh, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, et al.
Two days later I could have seen XTC, but noooooooo… Even cooler that you guys got to see Beefheart there. I would have been too young to get him at that point. I probably would have shat my pants.
How utterly Stonesy am I today? I just got on and just turned on my mp3 player here in a coffee shop and what fires up? The Stones. Torn and Frayed. Man, that’s the good stuff. I could eat Exile on Main St. for dinner, I swear!
That’s true, Mod…
Okay, it’s Jan. 27. Aside from catching a bit of the Lerner Isle of Wight film on tv, I shall give myself a good proper Who fasting. No Who/Townshend music until…well, until The Clash become my favorite band. A steady diet of Clash should do the trick…I’ll keep you all updated…
TB
Mr. Mod, I have always been perfectly happy with a 10cc GH album. I only really knew I’m Not In Love, Dreadlock Holiday and The Things We Do For Love, and that’s how Greatest Hits 1972 – 1978 closes, with those three songs, in some order. The stuff before is pretty catchy, and I like Life is a Minestrone and The Dean and I quite a bit, too. I heard one of their regular albums once and I’m more than good with that little six year, single album retrospective. I’ve never heard a song of theirs that wasn’t on it that I wanted to hear again anyway.
The Who, BBC Sessions. New purchase that I’ll have to consider some more but it doesn’t wow me on a first listen.
I thought The Things We Do For Love was Queen. It’s 10cc?
**Warning the below comments are from someone who likes Sparks.**
I LOVE 10cc. I think the self titled disc, SHEET MUSIC and HOW DARE YOU are all VERY good, ok brilliant. How Dare You is my fav but the other two are right behind it. Original Soundtrack isn’t far off these three and features the hit “I’m not in love”. The thing about 10cc is all 4 members could write, all had very strong voices, most songs had unusual surprises and they were clever,funny bastards. After these 4 albums 2 members (Creme and Godley) left the band but 10cc continued. It was this version that had the hit “The Things we do for love” is off of DECEPTIVE BENDS. Many consider this the last worthwhile moment they ever had.
In my opinion the first 4 albums are better then any best of’s that I’ve heard.
PS – Don’t gage 10cc based on Dreadlock Holiday. This is not even close to one of their better tracks.
Scott 4 by Scott Walker. The chilly existentialism is a handy antidote to the monster Melbourne heatwave.
Graham Gouldman, later of 10 CC, wrote For Your Love, a hit and more than half-decent song for The Yardbirds.
And Heart Full of Soul. So not a complete dill then.
Sandinista! disc 2 (vinyl sides 2b,3a,3b.)
The Clash are fucking awesome. Even their “let’s write a triple album in the studio in NYC on drugs” album is pretty great.
I love 10cc AND Sparks.
Mikeydread said-
Scott 4 by Scott Walker. The chilly existentialism is a handy antidote to the monster Melbourne heatwave.
I can imagine it would! And it works well in matching moods for a frozen Minnesota winter. Seriously, I went on a bender once listening to Scott 3 and 4 during such a cold freeze. It’s very much mood altering or enhancing music.
Someone mentioned that early Scott fans are not the fans of his current work. I think that is largely very true and a good point related to this discussion. I much prefer the Scott 1-4 to his current “music”. DRIFT and TILT are dense and disturbed. When I first hear TILT years ago I laughed out loud per it was unlistenable. However, I came to listen to it again and it sunk in to some degree. I will say that I have the Scott Walker box and some of the tracks from TILT are on it. In that context they gradually grew on me and didn’t seem “THAT” weird. Weird yes but not totally impenetrable as it once seemed. Still, it’s very rare that I’m in the mood to listen to DRIFT or TILT. It’s like deciding to watch a deeply twisted, disturbed ambiguous film that is a bit self-important. Certainly not everyone’s cup of tea and even hard for those who drink it to get a grip on it’s actual value.
And in polar opposite of DRIFT and TILT…. Yes, I LOVE Sparks too. No real apologies for that, just giving context for the anti-Sparks league!
I’m with you on Sandinista, Kilroy. We should add that to the Bin of Polarizing Platters.
No music on right now – watching an old episode of “The Magic Garden”.
I-pod mix of songs I am trying to learn for a solo acoustic gig ( My Hometown, Needle & The Damage Done , Lookin For Me Somewhere -bodeadns- and ELO.. Rock & Roll Is King)were the last 4 to play. I ‘m at work so I can’t really sing along
GBV, “My Kind of Soldier” – was it 2000 Man who needed to pick up the GBV GH album? Whoever it was really should – and don’t bother with the other 803 GBV albums.