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Something seems to be missing…could it be that nugget of rock wisdom you wanted to share with us?
Apr 042007
There’s a thin line between genius and Rock Crime.
3 Responses to “All-Star Jam”
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It looks like a fat line to me. That is so wrong.
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Christ! I’m with Steve. What poo! Final Solution?! The guys looks like he’s never had more than a tooth ache. (To use Bukowski’s complaint.) And can you believe him about “pants that fit?” No, I say. David Thomas is so linked to that song, that, well, ok, we did cover it in a Big Mess show, but really you shouldn’t cover that song! Ugh.
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And can you believe him about “pants that fit?” No, I say.
Maybe Murphy has the opposite problem of Thomas, having to buy his pants off the Long and Lean rack in the teens section of the department store.
David Thomas himself has said many times that people have no business covering that song. I saw Murphy, Trent Reznor, and some other black hair-dye abuser cover it recently, trading off verses. Man it was bad. I forget which of the 3 fools at least attempted to cut loose on his part.
RE: Hobson’s Choice Poll. Humanity has failed the test – we did not deserve to survive.
I think I’d spend more time preserving the birds for their musical quality, and melt those albums into something useful. Maybe a bird feeder.
That is the funniest Big Choice Poll I’ve seen in ages! Zebop … LOL!
I had no idea as a teenager that the Doors had tried to continue on without Morrison, until I saw The Doors “Other Voices” and “Full Circle” in the cutouts at Montgomery Ward. Evidently, the Germans liked them.
As for the poll, Joan has a new single out called Love Love Love that I kind of dig.
I can’t watch live footage of the Doors without wondering what Steven Wright is doing playing guitar in the band.
If I may don the pince-nez: a Hobson’s Choice is a seeming choice that actually offers no choice at all. “You can have the Corvette or the Camaro but the Camaro is already sold.” That is, take the Corvette or nothing.
Sophie’s Choice–drawn from the book and movie, of course–is a terrible choice between (or among) equally horrible options.
What we have here is a Sophie’s Choice.
misterioso, thanks for donning the pince-nez. I’ve been down this path before. What I should have said was not a Sophie’s Choice, which I believe is a construct from that book, but an older construct known as the Morton’s Fork.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_Fork
Quite.
Well….Fork that poll!
Don’t you mean Morton’s Salt?
hrrundivbakshi – you made me snarf!
Hey! Another question from my record store daze: Is there any truth to the rumor that Iggy PoP auditioned to replace Jim Morrison????? Anybody???
I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. Do I have to do it? That’s possibly more evil than the time I had to choose between Charles Manson and Mike Love. In the words of Sir Simon Milligan concerning Hecubus: “EVIL!”
TB
Nice Kids in the Hall reference, TB!
Come on TB, this was a piece of cake. There’s one song I like (not love) on one of those albums and that made the choice easy. You can’t find a redeeming thing about any of those albums? Not even the cover art or the production or something?
The choice is clear: Leo Sayer’s Endless Flight.
For two reasons: the cover is one of the funniest things ever (I mean, visually, Leo Sayer is just funny, in general) and “How Much Love” is a catchy little song.
Enjoy the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNioJJi_NLw As someone once said, “his hair was perfect.”
I choose to think that Sayer knew he was very silly and chose to play it up. Anyway, he cracks me up; and one thing that I can say about Armatrading, Santana, and Poussette-Dart is that none has ever made me laugh, or smile, or experience anything other than profound boredom.
But I really do like “How Much Love.”
It feels good to admit that. Join with me, ye town hallers! Confess your love!
(I have never heard the Sayer covers of Beatle songs from All This and World War II. It is difficult to imagine him doing “I Am the Walrus.” That might stop being funny.)
But surely my favorite line from his wikipedia entry is “In 1981 he was the voice of Dan the forest ranger in The Raccoons on Ice, the second of four specials serving as a predecessor to the critically-acclaimed Canadian animated series, The Raccoons.”
That’s funny.
Good call out, cdm and misterioso! I, too, voted for Sayer for all the reasons you stated. Plus, I don’t know if it’s on that album or not, “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” is a pretty great slice of cheesy vinyl.
I held my nose, but I threw my vote in for Sayer. God, I hope he was in on the joke.
TB
I found this link in the comments of the Uni Watch blog. It’s home footage of the White Sox in 1976, playing a game in shorts.
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/home-video-white-sox-wearing-shorts-in-1976-28398
Baseball shares with rock ‘n roll an aversion to performing in shorts!