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A bizzarely apt musical selection, that I came upon while looking at an old link.
Because of the various discussions and whatnot about the 50th Anniversary of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, I think I'll start off with what I said about my view of the Beatles in general about eight years earlier:
I suppose I have a rather skewed view of the band compared to most people. You see, I was a baby in their heyday (I was born around the time Revolver came out) but they had already broken up by the time I was allowed to listen to the radio in the early Seventies. So I knew all four of them as solo artists FIRST. It wasn't till much later in life that I got the message that these guys were THESE GUYS and so on.
The media establishment was so quick to move on that their songs as a group were largely out of circulation for some years. Besides, Paul kept on making hit records with Wings. There was no point to look back at that time...unless you were looking back to the Fifties in the wake of American Grafitti and Happy Days. It took the Disco backlash, Elvis' death, the Beatlemania Broadway show (anybody remember that?) and the Sgt. Pepper's movie/soundtrack to start a Beatles nostalgia trend in earnest.
Anyway, I come from a time warp with regards to that realm of pop culture. I'm like a baseball fan who has to remember that the Dodgers once played in Brooklyn, or a car nut who must be prompted that GM used to have a brand of cars called LaSalle. Well, I'm not THAT bad. After all, I can ask my brother (who played a role in his High School's Beatles-based revue).
--So, what about the album itself? Really I took my own sweet time getting to it. You see, my sister had the vinyl of the movie soundtrack, which of course threw the original narrative of the album out in favor of a contrivance of both it AND Abbey Road. So my own views of what the songs were and what they meant were very very wrong, on many levels.
I only got to hear the songs that were on the album that were not remade for the movie in the early Eighties when a family friend let me borrow her vinyl of the Beatles LP--and I never heard the Beatles LP all the way through till just after the start of this Millennium when on a road trip with my brother. The new PBS special about the album's making swung my compass on it completely around.
The new remaster is going on my Xmas Wishlist.
FP
I Shouldn't Mind That I'm Too Old...
May. 2nd, 2015 07:37 pm...But I am afraid that I'll be the wrong kind of old just as I was the wrong kind of young.
My Research Addiction brought me to the website of a classic rock radio station that regularly polls listeners and then publishes the results of these polls. I've just pored over the latest "favorite songs of all time" list, and while I expected that the songs of not only my childhood AND my high school years would be old enough for "classic rock", it turns out that the music of my COLLEGE years qualify now as well! It shouldn't have surprised me but it did.
The good news is that now I've found a bunch of acts I've probably HEARD but don't so much KNOW about.
My Research Addiction brought me to the website of a classic rock radio station that regularly polls listeners and then publishes the results of these polls. I've just pored over the latest "favorite songs of all time" list, and while I expected that the songs of not only my childhood AND my high school years would be old enough for "classic rock", it turns out that the music of my COLLEGE years qualify now as well! It shouldn't have surprised me but it did.
The good news is that now I've found a bunch of acts I've probably HEARD but don't so much KNOW about.
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The Last Dance
May. 17th, 2012 01:19 pmRepeating my previous Donna Summer video embeds:
( From Here To Outer Space )
( Probably Her Most Epic Hit )
( The Flipside, including 'Heaven Knows', which was a hit in its own right )
( From Here To Outer Space )( Probably Her Most Epic Hit )( The Flipside, including 'Heaven Knows', which was a hit in its own right )Writer's Block: This is a Recording
Jan. 9th, 2012 01:44 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
2) My days as a performer, if I ever had them, are over.
1) Out of curiousity years ago, I looked over the Top 100 lists for the Eighties for covers, just to see how many songs of the "Re-Decade" would be worthy of an album. I came up with two volumes.
VOLUME I
* You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Hall & Oates)
* [Ghost] Riders In The Sky (The Outlaws)
* Working In The Coal Mine (DEVO)
* Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Soft Cell) [Yes, BOTH the songs are remakes!]
* Oh Pretty Woman (Van Halen)
* Wake Up Little Susie (Simon & Garfunkle [live version])
* Stop In The Name Of Love (The Hollies)
* You Belong To Me (The Doobie Brothers)
* Red Red Wine (UB40)
* Beast Of Burden (Bette Midler)
* California Girls (David Lee Roth)
* Get It On [Bang A Gong] (The Power Station)
* Smokin' In The Boys' Room (Motley Krue)
* Dancing In The Street (Mick Jagger & David Bowie)
* Lover Come Back To Me (Dead Or Alive)
* You Can't Hurry Love (Phil Collins)
VOLUME II
* Needles & Pins (Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks)
* The Harlem Shuffle (The Rolling Stones)
* The Peter Gunn Theme (The Art Of Noise)
* Venus (Bananarama)
* Walk Like A Man (The Mary Jane Girls)
* Walk This Way (Run-DMC with Steve Tyler)
* I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (Robert Palmer)
* Earth Angel (New Edition)
* California Dreamin' (The Beach Boys)
* Runaway (Luis Cardenas)
* War (Bruce Springsteen)
* That's Life (David Lee Roth)
* Lean On Me (Club Nouveau)
* What's Going On (Cyndi Lauper)
* Wipe Out (The Fat Boys with The Beach Boys)
* I Think We're Alone Now (Tiffany)
* Always On My Mind (The Pet Shop Boys)
* The Loco-Motion (Kylie Minogue)
* Groovy Kind Of Love (Phil Collins)
* I Love Your Way/Freebird (Will To Power)
K-Tel? Time-Life? Madacy? Where are you when I need you?
2) My days as a performer, if I ever had them, are over.
1) Out of curiousity years ago, I looked over the Top 100 lists for the Eighties for covers, just to see how many songs of the "Re-Decade" would be worthy of an album. I came up with two volumes.
VOLUME I
* You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Hall & Oates)
* [Ghost] Riders In The Sky (The Outlaws)
* Working In The Coal Mine (DEVO)
* Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Soft Cell) [Yes, BOTH the songs are remakes!]
* Oh Pretty Woman (Van Halen)
* Wake Up Little Susie (Simon & Garfunkle [live version])
* Stop In The Name Of Love (The Hollies)
* You Belong To Me (The Doobie Brothers)
* Red Red Wine (UB40)
* Beast Of Burden (Bette Midler)
* California Girls (David Lee Roth)
* Get It On [Bang A Gong] (The Power Station)
* Smokin' In The Boys' Room (Motley Krue)
* Dancing In The Street (Mick Jagger & David Bowie)
* Lover Come Back To Me (Dead Or Alive)
* You Can't Hurry Love (Phil Collins)
VOLUME II
* Needles & Pins (Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks)
* The Harlem Shuffle (The Rolling Stones)
* The Peter Gunn Theme (The Art Of Noise)
* Venus (Bananarama)
* Walk Like A Man (The Mary Jane Girls)
* Walk This Way (Run-DMC with Steve Tyler)
* I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (Robert Palmer)
* Earth Angel (New Edition)
* California Dreamin' (The Beach Boys)
* Runaway (Luis Cardenas)
* War (Bruce Springsteen)
* That's Life (David Lee Roth)
* Lean On Me (Club Nouveau)
* What's Going On (Cyndi Lauper)
* Wipe Out (The Fat Boys with The Beach Boys)
* I Think We're Alone Now (Tiffany)
* Always On My Mind (The Pet Shop Boys)
* The Loco-Motion (Kylie Minogue)
* Groovy Kind Of Love (Phil Collins)
* I Love Your Way/Freebird (Will To Power)
K-Tel? Time-Life? Madacy? Where are you when I need you?
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Writer's Block: Love Me Tender
Jan. 8th, 2012 06:43 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
"Kentucky Rain". I wish the Pet Shop Boys had remade it the same time they remade "Always On My Mind".
"Kentucky Rain". I wish the Pet Shop Boys had remade it the same time they remade "Always On My Mind".
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Writer's Block: American Music Awards
Nov. 21st, 2011 02:53 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Judging by my own record collection: The Beatles, the individual members, and spin-off acts (ex.: Wings, The Travelling Wilburys).
Judging by my own record collection: The Beatles, the individual members, and spin-off acts (ex.: Wings, The Travelling Wilburys).
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I Admit I'm Square
Apr. 22nd, 2011 09:16 pmI'm showing my age here, but whenever I see a reference to "Lil Wayne", I think of a midget with a pompadour singing "Danke Schon".
More songs from 1974 that I wouldn't mind having in my record collection:
* "Another Park, Another Sunday" by the Doobie Brothers (and I don't mind "Black Water" if you can somehow omit the fiddler)
* "Dreamer" by Supertramp
* "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell
* "How Long" by Ace
* "Killer Queen" by Queen
* "Radar Love" by Golden Earring
* "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" by John Lennon
And there are a few others I've already shared with the Vending Machine of Awesome.
* "Another Park, Another Sunday" by the Doobie Brothers (and I don't mind "Black Water" if you can somehow omit the fiddler)
* "Dreamer" by Supertramp
* "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell
* "How Long" by Ace
* "Killer Queen" by Queen
* "Radar Love" by Golden Earring
* "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" by John Lennon
And there are a few others I've already shared with the Vending Machine of Awesome.
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Writer's Block: And The Winner Is…
Sep. 8th, 2010 09:09 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
What? MTV still does this? What right do they have?--I thought they gave up on showing music videos years ago.
What? MTV still does this? What right do they have?--I thought they gave up on showing music videos years ago.
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- music,
- pop charts,
- pop culture,
- pop music,
- r&b,
- rap,
- rock,
- tv,
- video,
- writer's block
My Imagination Gets Better TV Than I Do
Jul. 29th, 2010 01:33 amA month and a half before his death, I had This Vision of Michael Jackson's comeback. Now, I still haven't seen This Is It, but I doubt anything in that vision matches. Today my mind came back to "Did You Like My Song?"--as if it had been playing on a radio in the next room.
Describing the video as I am "seeing" it is rather daunting. There are several scene changes as the song plays out. In one, Michael is in the character of Sam Cooke in a setting witnessed by the writer of the companion book to the PBS series Rock N Roll--a Segregation-era basement bar, with Michael dressed to the nines, playing to fans who hadn't had time to change out of their work clothes. Then it's the far future, and he's walking a display hall in a museum, where costumes from his glory days' videos ("Rock With You", "Beat It", "Billy Jean"...both the Teenage Wolfman and Zombie costumes from "Thriller") hang in hallowed silence. Michael sings in a public restroom to his mirror's reflection...which becomes a hall of mirrors and suddenly there's a whole chorus of Michaels, all wearing a different costume. Then back to the basement bar, the show over, and Michael watching the crowd leave him.
There's no way I can believe this video happened. But part of my being knows this exists/would exist/is real in some sense, which is why I have to write about it now. MJ Lives. We just don't know it yet.
Describing the video as I am "seeing" it is rather daunting. There are several scene changes as the song plays out. In one, Michael is in the character of Sam Cooke in a setting witnessed by the writer of the companion book to the PBS series Rock N Roll--a Segregation-era basement bar, with Michael dressed to the nines, playing to fans who hadn't had time to change out of their work clothes. Then it's the far future, and he's walking a display hall in a museum, where costumes from his glory days' videos ("Rock With You", "Beat It", "Billy Jean"...both the Teenage Wolfman and Zombie costumes from "Thriller") hang in hallowed silence. Michael sings in a public restroom to his mirror's reflection...which becomes a hall of mirrors and suddenly there's a whole chorus of Michaels, all wearing a different costume. Then back to the basement bar, the show over, and Michael watching the crowd leave him.
There's no way I can believe this video happened. But part of my being knows this exists/would exist/is real in some sense, which is why I have to write about it now. MJ Lives. We just don't know it yet.
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Useless Stupf
Mar. 30th, 2010 02:12 pm* Early Voting for the Tennessee Primary Elections this year starts April 14th, or the day after my Knoxville IPMS meeting that month. I intend to vote early and make my Internet presence as apolitical as possible thereafter.
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Local Standards may deem the following YouTube video to be NSFW. I was curious because I hadn't heard the song much since it was a hit, but I guess it impressed me (at age 12) more than it should have. I had no real taste in music back then.
( The Mediocre Decadence Of Disco )
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Local Standards may deem the following YouTube video to be NSFW. I was curious because I hadn't heard the song much since it was a hit, but I guess it impressed me (at age 12) more than it should have. I had no real taste in music back then.
( The Mediocre Decadence Of Disco )Writer's Block: I'm with the band
Jan. 2nd, 2010 01:01 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
As horribly untalented as I am in Music, I'd sooner be a lyricist than an actual performer. Or I'd be reduced to the guy who bounces rubber balls off the drum heads at Devo concerts.
As horribly untalented as I am in Music, I'd sooner be a lyricist than an actual performer. Or I'd be reduced to the guy who bounces rubber balls off the drum heads at Devo concerts.
Oh Look, Another Vend
Dec. 22nd, 2009 04:20 pm( Could You Believe There Were TV Commercials Just For This Song? It Was Its OWN Jingle! )If you really want to talk music mash-ups, just contrast Olivia with what Linda Ronstadt was doing at the same period. This song above versus Ronstadt's "Hurt So Bad" a few months later for an example. Perhaps the music press should have set them against each other as pop culture archrivals.
We Need A Vend Around Here Tonight!
Oct. 27th, 2009 06:35 pmTags:
- angst,
- depression,
- dread,
- love,
- money,
- music,
- pop charts,
- pop culture,
- rock,
- the 1980s,
- video,
- youtube
Wednesday's On The Phone To Thursday--
Oct. 20th, 2009 04:24 pm--Friday's on the phone to me!
My friend Paul gave me the MP3 files to the remastered Beatles catalog this week, all 16 albums and collections. So I've been playing some of the songs every so often and will probably do so all season till I get to all of them.
I suppose I have a rather skewed view of the band compared to most people. You see, I was a baby in their heyday (I was born around the time Revolver came out) but they had already broken up by the time I was allowed to listen to the radio in the early Seventies. So I knew all four of them as solo artists FIRST. It wasn't till much later in life that I got the message that these guys were THESE GUYS and so on.
The media establishment was so quick to move on that their songs as a group were largely out of circulation for some years. Besides, Paul kept on making hit records with Wings. There was no point to look back at that time...unless you were looking back to the Fifties in the wake of American Grafitti and Happy Days. It took the Disco backlash, Elvis' death, the Beatlemania Broadway show (anybody remember that?) and the Sgt. Pepper's movie/soundtrack to start a Beatles nostalgia trend in earnest.
Anyway, I come from a time warp with regards to that realm of pop culture. I'm like a baseball fan who has to remember that the Dodgers once played in Brooklyn, or a car nut who must be prompted that GM used to have a brand of cars called LaSalle. Well, I'm not THAT bad. After all, I can ask my brother (who played a role in his High School's Beatles-based revue).
FP
My friend Paul gave me the MP3 files to the remastered Beatles catalog this week, all 16 albums and collections. So I've been playing some of the songs every so often and will probably do so all season till I get to all of them.
I suppose I have a rather skewed view of the band compared to most people. You see, I was a baby in their heyday (I was born around the time Revolver came out) but they had already broken up by the time I was allowed to listen to the radio in the early Seventies. So I knew all four of them as solo artists FIRST. It wasn't till much later in life that I got the message that these guys were THESE GUYS and so on.
The media establishment was so quick to move on that their songs as a group were largely out of circulation for some years. Besides, Paul kept on making hit records with Wings. There was no point to look back at that time...unless you were looking back to the Fifties in the wake of American Grafitti and Happy Days. It took the Disco backlash, Elvis' death, the Beatlemania Broadway show (anybody remember that?) and the Sgt. Pepper's movie/soundtrack to start a Beatles nostalgia trend in earnest.
Anyway, I come from a time warp with regards to that realm of pop culture. I'm like a baseball fan who has to remember that the Dodgers once played in Brooklyn, or a car nut who must be prompted that GM used to have a brand of cars called LaSalle. Well, I'm not THAT bad. After all, I can ask my brother (who played a role in his High School's Beatles-based revue).
FP
( Never Forgot This Song, But Never Knew Who Made It Till Today ) Bottom-Feeders is devoted to the middling and mediocre music of the 1980s...songs good enough to make it to the Pop Charts but not good enough to make the Top 40. Some bands were true one-hit wonders; others spent their whole careers charting but not making the A list. I'll probably cruise this blog a lot and hope the Vending Machine can handle the results!
FP
