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Rock crime. Wait for the gong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSoZUzMJ7DY
Wow, we reach! My whole philosophy revolves around the five facets of showmanship too — the gear, the threads, the performance, the groove, and the vocal. Uncanny!
That Knack/Skynyrd poll is tough. Damn tough…
Make sure you CHOOSE ONE, cdm. I hope Hrrundivbakshi will walk us through his own rationale for whatever his choice is at the appropriate moment.
Man, I HATE cymbal abuse! That was especially painful for me, cher. Thanks for sharing.
Whoa, easy there, buddy, I was the second one to vote. I’m just saying it was a tough choice.
It’s sort of like choosing between eating grapes or watching the Simpsons. I like doing both things but they bear little relationship to each other.
I’m really surprised that Skynyrd is whupping the pants off The Knack in the Big Choice Poll. *I* voted for them on the basis of the exponentially greater staying power they showed — and, I suppose, on the basis of their greater “originality,” whatever that really means. I wonder why the rest of you voted the way you did.
By the way, I should point out that I am the world’s NUMBER ONE PIMP for that first Knack album. It’s as near to a flawless power pop album as has ever been made.
After much hand wringing, I went with the Knack.
Song for song, Skynyrd blows the Knack away. But the high points on that first Knack album (What the Little Girls Do, Oh Tara, Good Girls Don’t), are much higher than anything Skynyrd had to offer.
I went with LS, because The Drive By Truckers didn’t do a concept album about the Knack.
It was easy for me to go with Skynyrd. As some of you know, The Knack really annoy me. Objectively I know that first album is very good, but they’re one of those power pop bands that removed all the heart I want out of music. I only like a handful of Skynyrd songs and get a good laugh at another half dozen, but I like the fact that they aspired to expressing something they actually cared about in their music.
Yeah, I don’t see a close race here. The Knack have a good first album, but how good? Some of us may not want more than just one song from them.
Besides, as bakshi might note along with me, what does the Knack know about a horse and a woman?
But seriously; LS is an important American rock band, not first I would imagine for anyone, but important, and a profound influence for many bands that came after–and they can play. More than a double Greatest Hits worth of good tunes. The Knack is a band that, if they had never existed, not all that much about rock and roll would be different.
It took me no time at all to make up my mind and choose the Knack. LS is a band that, if they had never existed, rock and roll would be better.
Yeah well, Steve, some people on this list like Herman’s Hermits better than The Velvet Underground.
Hey Everyone,
The TAMI Show is coming out on DVD, but our local PBS stations are showing it twice this week, I think tomorrow and Saturday. Don’t know if they are fundraising (probably) but thought I’d post a “TV Alert.”
Thanks for the heads-up on the TAMI Show cherguevarra. I already have on on Amazon pre-order, but I’ll check my local listings anyway.
I forgot to say that this past weekend our local recycling committee had a “book swap” day where you could donate & take stuff like books, CDs, etc. & I found the following gincy items:
1. A 4-CD box set of Western Swing called Playboys, Doughboys & Cowboys (I think I messed up w/the title);
2. A 2-CD Rhino Ben E. King Anthology;
3. A 2-cassette BBC Radio 1 set celebrating its 25th anniversary (1992) comprised of BBC Radio 1 versions of songs; and
4. A big coffee-table book called the Art of Rock that came out in 1987 & has plenty of Fillmore posters.
The full TAMI Show? Or one of those weird TAMI-TNT hybrids? Rewatched the Big TNT show recently, incidentally. Mostly utterly awful. Joan Baez singing “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.” This seemed like a good idea to whom?
I have a copy of The Big TNT Show that I got from AMC before they cut up the movies w/commericals. That version of “You Lost That Loving Feeling” by Joan Baez (w/Spector on the piano) must have dismayed the folkies as much as electric Dylan at Newport. Any movie that has Bo Diddley & Ray Charles in it cannot be “mostly utterly awful”, although I have to say that there was a bit too much Donovan in there that ruined the pace of the movie & the Byrds were sloppy. I hope that The Big TNT Show will also come out on DVD someday.
Oof.
http://stereogum.com/288392/sean-lennon-defends-dads-car-commercial/franchises/commercial-appeal/
John Lennon…who dat?
Well, at least he wasn’t tap-dancing with a Swiffer Jet.
Elton John, Leon Russel and T-Bone Burnett team up….
http://www.billboard.com/#/news/elton-john-recording-album-with-leon-russell-1004073124.story
Russell, I mean.