Topic: Currently listening to... (Read 597125 times)

Klang · « **Reply #12060 on:** April 05, 2015, 06:05:36 PM »

Had a nice chat today with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, in preparation for a preview article on an upcoming solo show. Just a great spirit. A very cool lady. Super talented, too.

Celebrating with a binge listen today.

Here's one of my favorite vids of her, fronting The Heads (the post-David Byrne edition of Talking Heads, which sadly got quashed by Byrne, so they didn't last long):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW56q3EvKbc" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW56q3EvKbc</a>

For those unfamiliar with Concrete Blonde, I highly recommend a hearing.

oldbrownshoe · « **Reply #12061 on:** April 06, 2015, 06:58:59 AM »

Went to the local record shop on Friday (in 2015 that's called 'the supermarket') and finally put the £3 Billy Fury CD that has been staring at me for the last month next to my bottled beer, organic harvest bread and chilli flakes.

30 tracks - it compiles all Billy's hits from '59 to '66 - almost like an alternative 60s to the group scene - and it is MAGNIFICENT.

Forget David Cameron and the other 60s dodgers, I'm immersing myself in Fury until the General Election.

Kevin · « **Reply #12062 on:** April 06, 2015, 08:04:49 PM »

Quote from: oldbrownshoe on April 06, 2015, 06:58:59 AM

Went to the local record shop on Friday (in 2015 that's called 'the supermarket')

I remember when in the sixties it was called "the appliance store".
"a fridge with that LP sir?"

Moogmodule · « **Reply #12063 on:** April 06, 2015, 11:48:49 PM »

Quote from: Kevin on April 06, 2015, 08:04:49 PM

I remember when in the sixties it was called "the appliance store".
"a fridge with that LP sir?"

That was an advantage of doing most of my record buying in the late 70s/80s. I knew I was getting desperate to find a record when I has to resort to the appliance or department store sections.

oldbrownshoe · « **Reply #12064 on:** April 15, 2015, 05:09:18 PM »

While they're dirt cheap I'm filling my boots with rare and deleted CDs.

However, the one bought yesterday was not dirt cheap - £15 - the most I've ever spent on a single CD!

THE WHO - 'Rarities 1966-1972'.
The 25 tracks were originally divided into two separate LPs:
1. The brilliant, sharp, angular 60s one from '66 to '68 (I got that one).
2. The turgid, languid heavy one from 1970 to 1972 (I didn't get that one!).

Can't see myself ever getting beyond track 15 ('Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde' from '68) but the 'Ready, Steady, Who' EP and their 45s from the 60s are as good as it ever got.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12065 on:** April 16, 2015, 12:39:12 AM »

Hey oldbrownshoe, the 70s weren't so bad...


The Sexiest Babes of 70's Television

The Raspberries were OK. Eric Carmen wanted to be Paul.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12066 on:** April 16, 2015, 12:50:44 AM »


Raspberries - I Wanna Be With You

Momma Yo! Wait! That was a different song...


Raspberries - Go All the Way

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12067 on:** April 16, 2015, 02:31:59 AM »

Cheryl Ladd was the best of the bunch...

KelMar · « **Reply #12068 on:** April 16, 2015, 04:09:26 AM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on April 16, 2015, 12:50:44 AM

Momma Yo!

Those reviewers were wrong when they said the Raspberries were just copying everybody. I never heard anybody else say Momma Yo! or Momma Momma Yo Yo! for that matter.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12069 on:** April 16, 2015, 04:29:02 AM »

Quote from: In My Life on April 16, 2015, 04:09:26 AM

Those reviewers were wrong when they said the Raspberries were just copying everybody. I never heard anybody else say Momma Yo! or Momma Momma Yo Yo! for that matter.

Some things don't change...


The Raspberries - Go All The Way


The Raspberries—Go All the Way—Live in Los Angeles 2007-11-30

oldbrownshoe · « **Reply #12070 on:** April 16, 2015, 06:52:37 AM »

Those guys have bad clothes and bad hair cuts, the 1970s (see also 1970s Who, solo Beatles etc.) were truly awful!

I bought Big Star's (often linked with these guys in the music press) first album the other day, it was cheap!, and even though it came out relatively early in the decade, 1972, there was a huge sense that it would have been a whole lot better if it had been made just four years earlier.
I found the recording far too clean and ultimately quite soul-less.

KelMar · « **Reply #12071 on:** April 16, 2015, 04:23:52 PM »

Quote from: oldbrownshoe on April 16, 2015, 06:52:37 AM

Those guys have bad clothes and bad hair cuts

http://youtu.be/d_-nxBzxb1c

Not as bad as these guys but that didn't stop me from buying two of their albums....when I was 13.

http://youtu.be/VA820nSPK54

Normandie · « **Reply #12072 on:** April 16, 2015, 05:28:31 PM »

Sorry, couldn't resist


The Who - Cut My Hair

This is actually one of my all-time favorite songs.

oldbrownshoe · « **Reply #12073 on:** April 16, 2015, 05:43:12 PM »

Townshend's gotta be due a Rock Opera soon, it's been two weeks since the last one!

Normandie · « **Reply #12074 on:** April 17, 2015, 01:13:13 AM »

It was just a joke about the song title

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12075 on:** April 17, 2015, 03:27:36 AM »

Quote from: In My Life on April 16, 2015, 04:09:26 AM

Those reviewers were wrong when they said the Raspberries were just copying everybody. I never heard anybody else say Momma Yo! or Momma Momma Yo Yo! for that matter.

Yo momma so fat her navel gets home ten minutes before she does.

Yo momma so fat that when she bungee jumped she tore down the bridge.

I guess Eric Carmen invented yo momma jokes.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12076 on:** April 17, 2015, 03:48:40 AM »

Yo momma so stupid that she waited for the stop sign to say GO.

Yo momma so stupid that she tripped over a wireless phone.

Yo momma so fat the army uses her underwear as parachutes.

etc.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12077 on:** April 17, 2015, 03:51:19 AM »


Eric Carmen - All By MySelf (HQ)

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #12078 on:** April 17, 2015, 03:57:29 AM »

The Midnight Special was really something special...


Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head

1975

Klang · « **Reply #12079 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:33:59 AM »

I attended a taping of 'The Midnight Special' once. It was actually just the host, Helen Reddy ('I Am Woman'), doing a couple of songs and introducing acts that would be edited in later.

Another brush with greatness.

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