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This is what the kids call an “open thread”. It’s the place to share your pain or links to Viagra sites.
I’ll start. We discussed The Prisoners awhile back. Just discovered that eMusic has their first 2 available.
Jan 272007
All-Star Jam. Have mercy.
13 Responses to “All-Star Jam”
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I hope you don’t miss today’s All-Star Jam!
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Funnily enough, someone outside of RTH just hipped me to this clip last week! As far as I’m concerned, this is as close as free jazz ever came to being broadcast on prime-time TV (unless Sun Ra or Pharoah Sanders guested on a Cosby Show episode I’m forgetting).
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HOOKER!!!!!!!!!
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I heard Poindexter was looking for opinions on that new Of Montreal album. I can’t be bothered with the old site. When you’re checking back here, you can check here for what I wrote. It has not been a “grower” but I can admire what they’ve done.
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Thanks man, I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’m sick of hearing these hip kids creaming themselves over this stuff. Oats, I’ll give you a free pass since you generally have pretty good taste. (not including your overall distate for the hold steady though, you shall be held accountable for that)
This is the kind of crap I hear down at the coffeehouse. Mr Mod, you know what I’m talking about.
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This is the kind of crap I hear down at the coffeehouse. Mr Mod, you know what I’m talking about.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. I heard some of that stuff when Ed posted his review and concurred with much of what he said, not to mention the way he said it.
Have you considered doing a monthly review of the stuff we hear at that coffeehouse? It could be enlightening and entertaining.
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The registration drive is making progress! Keep ’em coming! There’s a link on the sidebar to register. It’s painless and only takes a minute. Then you can blow as hard as the next Townsman.
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Thanks man, I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’m sick of hearing these hip kids creaming themselves over this stuff. Oats, I’ll give you a free pass since you generally have pretty good taste. (not including your overall distate for the hold steady though, you shall be held accountable for that)
What, does everyone have to like ’em?! Am I supposed to care if Craig Finn’s feelings get hurt? Fuck that shit! 🙂
I kid, but, hey, is anyone else here on my team here, even if just a little? Make yourselves heard!
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Who’s Craig Finn? Is he the keyboardist from the Silver Bullet Band?
I heard an earlier Of Montreal album once and liked it, so there:P Are you and Craig happy now?
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GREAT INSULT
Hey, Mod — is this where I’m supposed to post random shit that has nothing to do with anything in particular? I hope so, ’cause I want all of you to know that I learned an *excellent* insult in Korean today, and I wanted to share:
“Dongmure t’uigil nom!”
… which translated means:
“Get struck by shit lightning!”
Thought you might appreciate it.
BTW, what’s with the cheesy serif font?
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a) YES! This is where you can post random stuff, suggest threads no one’s yet thought of, etc. We DO read it.
b) Re: “cheesy serif font”…”Dongmure t’uigil nom!”
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As far as I’m concerned, this is as close as free jazz ever came to being broadcast on prime-time TV (unless Sun Ra or Pharoah Sanders guested on a Cosby Show episode I’m forgetting).
This was actually on an episode of the Monkees, or is that clip from Head?
And btw it may not have been prime time, but Sun Ra did appear on Saturday Night Live.
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Haha, etc. Touche’!
FS
As the Commenter of the Month for the last two months running, I would humbly like to place this gem into consideration for this month’s PRTHN-P:
“2. Iggy needs to put a shirt on. It’s time.”
Your nomination carries weight, Great One. Thanks! I laughed really hard in work when I first read that one.
If you don’t mind a baseball question, Mr. Mod, I’m just wondering how your feelings about the Phillies winning it all this year compare/contrast when it won it all back in 1980.
Funny you should ask, Diskojoe. Were you walking behind my wife and I on Saturday, as we discussed some of the differences in how we perceive the world in our 40s compared with our 20s?
The 1980 Phils team was a huge part of my life. I grew up with that team. Their hopes and struggles through the late-70s were mixed in with my own. When Tug threw that final pitch past Willie Wilson I felt a tremendous emotional release, a way more “cosmic” sort of feeling than I got this year, when seeing Lidge’s final pitch past Eric Hinske. That 1980 Phils – and their fans – overcame a lot of hardships, a lot of emotional upheaval.
This year’s Phils team was way more “professional.” The guidance by Charlie Manual was much more positive. Once the playoffs started it was clear to me that the Phils were the “class” of the NL, a feeling I can’t ever remember having over a Phils team – not in 1980, not in 1993, not in 1978, when they had maybe their strongest roster. There was always the Big Red Machine, the Lasorda-era Dodgers, the late-70s Pirates, or the Braves in the playoffs as the team that had it all together. It was really weird watching a Phils team, from September on, that totally had its shit together. Combined with the fact that my own shit is more together than it was when I was 17, I thoroughly enjoyed this year’s rare Championship with nothing but positive feelings. There was no sense of “overcoming” hardships. I still did my share of manly wiping of a solitary tear or three, but both for me and the Phils, there was nothing like the image of a champagne-and-tears-soaked Dallas Green, Paul “The Pope” Owens, and Tug McGraw embracing in the locker room.
Okay now I gots to ask. Somehow I have made it thru three generations of rock and roll with tinnitus in only one ear. And until now, the name La Monte Young never blipped on my liner-notes obsessed radar.
Now I see the lad has somehow overtaken the Obscured-by-Clouds-his-own-self Syd Barrett on the RTH poll, garnering eight votes, nonetheless! This to me is as incomprehensible as Kosuke Fukodome being voted onto the all star STARTING team while Jimmy Rollins earns a holiday in Vegas!
I could go out and simply Googly-up La Monte Young and be greeted with all sorts of trivia, minutia, and all the porn that rhymes with ‘La Monte’. Still, I would be unfulfilled. I might discover the what, but not the why! I would be lectured but not enlightened!
So RTH’ers everywhere, why does this feller deserve to be ranked above Terry Reid, whose alblum I still own and probably still haven’t listened to? La Monte Young matters?!!? Prove it!
La Monte Young was one of the early minimalists. John Cale was playing in Young’s group, the Theater of Eternal Music, before the Velvet Underground. He is not well-known because he has controlled recordings of his music to an insane degree. Just search his name on Amazon — his out of print CDs are going for $400, $600, and up.
If you were inclined to listen to Terry Reid’s music, you could without much difficulty. But it’s very hard to listen to Young’s.
Thanks B.S. I get it now!
Nigel Tufnel: Look… still has the old tag on, never even played it.
Marty DiBergi: [points his finger] You’ve never played…?
Nigel Tufnel: Don’t touch it!
Marty DiBergi: We’ll I wasn’t going to touch it, I was just pointing at it.
Nigel Tufnel: Well… don’t point! It can’t be played.
Marty DiBergi: Don’t point, okay. Can I look at it?
Nigel Tufnel: No. no. That’s it, you’ve seen enough of that one.
BTW: whoever nominated Stumpy Joe in the poll is a god damn genius!