May 182013
Some of these questions have objective answers, some don’t. Your mission is to answer all questions as quickly as possible, right or wrong—just not indifferently!
- Name 2 Beatles songs featuring a sax solo.
- Share a topic that you know is sure to get a specific Townsperson’s goat.
- What’s the first disaffected musician song that comes to your mind—RIGHT NOW?
- What was the name of that terrible French prog band we featured, maybe 2 or 3 years ago? Mimes may have been involved in their performance.
- Is there any form of dance less essential and less diverse than Irish step dancing?
- What’s the last outdated musically related purchase you made? (For instance, I attended an estate sale yesterday and bought a few 78s, despite the fact that I don’t own a working 78 player.)
I look forward to your responses.
Name 2 Beatles songs featuring a sax solo.
All I know is Brian Jones played sax on some song called You Know My Name, Look Up the Number
Share a topic that you know is sure to get a specific Townsperson’s goat.
Did anyone enjoy watching the Indians kick the Phillie’s asses as much as I did?
What’s the first disaffected musician song that comes to your mind—RIGHT NOW?
The Lemonheads – Become the Enemy. It’s kind of a disaffected song, and Evan Dando is at least a disaffected musician.
What was the name of that terrible French prog band we featured, maybe 2 or 3 years ago? Mimes may have been involved in their performance.
That made me think of Trapeze. They sucked, too.
Is there any form of dance less essential and less diverse than Irish step dancing?
Line dancing is the stupidest thing people do. Besides kill each other, that’s stupider, but line dancing is next.
What’s the last outdated musically related purchase you made? (For instance, I attended an estate sale yesterday and bought a few 78s, despite the fact that I don’t own a working 78 player.)
I bought a used copy of Aqualung the other day. I don’t think I’m even gonna play it, just trade it in.
Name 2 Beatles songs featuring a sax solo.
Yeah..You Know My Name comes to mind but how about Got To Get You Into My Life which has quite the horn section
Share a topic that you know is sure to get a specific Townsperson’s goat.
Elvis Costello should have quit after Armed Forces
What’s the first disaffected musician song that comes to your mind—RIGHT NOW?
Leave Me Alone – MJ… probably still singing it.
What was the name of that terrible French prog band we featured, maybe 2 or 3 years ago? Mimes may have been involved in their performance.
Martin Circus, of course. You take the good, you take the bad.
Is there any form of dance less essential and less diverse than Irish step dancing?
The Chicken Dance
What’s the last outdated musically related purchase you made? (For instance, I attended an estate sale yesterday and bought a few 78s, despite the fact that I don’t own a working 78 player.)
An old re-issue of BOMP!
Name 2 Beatles songs featuring a sax solo.
Brian Jones in “You Know my Name…” and, I dunno, “Savoy Trufffle”?
Share a topic that you know is sure to get a specific Townsperson’s goat.
I agree with the sarge; Lou Reed is largely unlistenable.
What’s the first disaffected musician song that comes to your mind—RIGHT NOW?
“Money-go-round” by the Kinks
What was the name of that terrible French prog band we featured, maybe 2 or 3 years ago? Mimes may have been involved in their performance.
Dunno
Is there any form of dance less essential and less diverse than Irish step dancing?
Yes — generic 80s white person dancing (see: The Boss, “Dancing In the Dark”)
What’s the last outdated musically related purchase you made? (For instance, I attended an estate sale yesterday and bought a few 78s, despite the fact that I don’t own a working 78 player.)
Are you kidding me?! That’s all I buy these days!
Only solo Lennon “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” and solo McCartney “Coming Up” (is that high squeaky sound a soprano sax?) come to mind.
not feeling antagonistic today
“Mercury Poisoning” Graham Parker
don’t know
Could be worse; could be “Line Dancing with the Stars!”
I am browsing through a copy of The Onion’s “Tenacity of the Cockroach”, a series of interviews from the AV Club with non-mainstream artists. It is full of surprisingly dated interviews with the likes of Negativeland, Mr. Show, etc from the late 90’s – early 00s. I trashpicked it along with the Buddah Records box set (http://www.amazon.com/Buddah-Box-Various-Artists/) a major grab-bag of oddities.
sorry for the busted link, here’s the full link: http://www.amazon.com/Buddah-Box-Various-Artists/dp/B000008MPM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1368891292&sr=1-1&keywords=the+buddah+box
“Got to Get You Into My Life” and “Savoy Truffle” (as I see HVB took a shot on) have horn sections but not distinct sax solos.
Name 2 Beatles songs featuring a sax solo.
Perhaps “Lady Madonna” and “Good Day Sunshine”. I think there are prominent horns in there.
Share a topic that you know is sure to get a specific Townsperson’s goat.
Let’s talk about Robert Johnson for Mr. Mod’s benefit!
What’s the first disaffected musician song that comes to your mind—RIGHT NOW?
XTC (Andy Partridge) – “I Bought Myself a Liarbird”
What was the name of that terrible French prog band we featured, maybe 2 or 3 years ago? Mimes may have been involved in their performance.
I can only think of Can, but I know they’re German. I do not get them at all.
Is there any form of dance less essential and less diverse than Irish step dancing?
Country line dancing?
What’s the last outdated musically related purchase you made? (For instance, I attended an estate sale yesterday and bought a few 78s, despite the fact that I don’t own a working 78 player.)
A couple of years ago I bought, for $100 on craigslist, an ADAT digital recorder to replace a dead one in my home studio setup. It was just so that I could transfer some ADAT tracks onto the computer for continued work. Original price of an ADAT? I think it was $2000+.
“Lady Madonna” is the other song I could think of! Nice work.
1. Lady Madonna and You Know My Name
2. __________ are better than the Beatles in some ways.
3. “We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful” by Morrissey
4. No idea
5. That dumb dance from the video to Genesis’ “I Can’t Dance.”
6. I accidentally bought a cassette copy of The Kinks’ UK Jive a few months ago.
Oats, the the fact that you accidentally bought UK Jive–on cassette, no less–is really funny. Be careful not to accidentally listen to it. I have it on cd, and surely it has not been played since the very, very early 90s.
Jamie Kitman, who manages TMBG & has a column in Automobile Magazine, said that UK Jive was the 1st Kinks album that he disliked. As for myself, although I haven’t played it for a bit myself, it’s not totally bad. Although “Down the Days (till 1992)” has dated, “Looney Balloon” reminds me of Robyn Hitchcock, “Now & Then” and “War Is Over” are good, “Bright Lights” is a half-decent Dave rocker & “How Do I Get Close” is the one “AOR power ballad” that I can tolerate.
1) “You Know My Name” & I swear that I have heard a version of “The Long & Winding Road” that features a sax solo.
2) Bubblegum.
3) “Fight the Power” by the Isley Brothers
4) I recall that video, but couldn’t tell you who it was to save my life.
5) Country line dancing.
6) A slide whistle.
I certainly don’t remember disliking it. It was, well, “workmanlike.” And, yeah, Looney Balloon is very suggestive of Robyn.
I assure you all, there was a method to my mad plan to acquire a copy of UK Jive at this late date.