july 29
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July 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The only Emmylou version, my favorite, they had on YouTube of this Gram Parsons classic just had stills. Still Bragg is one of the legendary leftist agit-prop singers. Pick along on your banjo:
Mark
July 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Awesome. More more!
shoulda brought the banjo to LA;
coulda composed a little earthquake ditty.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Meanwhile, at the intersection of Jazz Ave and Rhythm and Blues Boulevard, where Rock and Roll Freeway starts, is this, which just SWINGS. I am a huge Big Joe Turner fan. So next time there is a quake or an aftershock, you can get all folkie OR you can truck out in style with this:
July 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Return with us now to a simpler time, a time long ago when Deborah Foreman met a really young Nicholas Cage. This wasn’t from that film, but it might as well have been:
July 30th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Re: Big Joe Turner: classy!
Re: Little Girls: somehow I still know all of the lyrics to that song. But here’s something that just occurred to me: TEGAN AND SARA:
July 30th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
RE: Lyrics to “Little Girls”: I actually had the exact same reaction. It was wedged in there next to The Mother’s “Call Any Vegetable”, over “People Who Died” turn left at Pulsallama’s “The Devil Lives In MY Husband’s Body”. The best song so far ABOUT Tourette’s Syndrome, though they bleep the word in the vid:
Ah, Tegan and Sara…
July 30th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I adore this Tegan & Sara song!!!!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Jeez, that just reminded me, when I played Pulsallama for the first time on-air, I followed it with THIS:
Nice New Wave LP title too, IT’S ALL IN THERE. Yoikes.
Off to bed, CENTRAL PARK IN THE DARK tomorrow AM,
Stay off der Richters,
M
July 31st, 2008 at 3:08 am
Just to bring the sick and wrong ever more full circle (somehow nothing is complete without a scifi nod), one of my favorite songs as a teen:
July 31st, 2008 at 6:21 am
Ah, The Nu-Man!!! Yes, I played the Nu-Man, but really after playing all this light-hearted stuff like above, it was great, at 2AM, to put on some Lady Di: Diamanda Galas. I started with “Wild Women With Steak Knives” (still my favorite piece) and eventually I would put on stuff like this:
My heart has always been more to the Smiths, Joy Division and ultimately Diamanda side of stuff. But I never wore the required black t-shirt.
Hey, was Falco the bastard love child of Gary Numan and Robert Smith?
Mark
July 31st, 2008 at 6:48 am
One more thing before bagels and coffee:
Here’s some tidbit of gossip: but I almost ran off with the lead singer of this band; well sort of:
God knows where I would be today.
Mark
July 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
The Foo Fighters covered that. Which I did not know before today.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Diamanda Galas: good street/art cred.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Sorry to wax nostalgic, but all of this reminds of how many really great bands fronted by women there were in those days. Not just goofy pop stuff like The Go-Gos (which I do love) but serious, often political, feminist or art oriented bands like The Slits, the Modettes, The Au Pairs, Young Marble Giants, and The Raincoats and many more. Most of the British, none of them got mainstream America play, but they paved the way for bands like L7 et.
SEE:
RAINCOATS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-eRxAurros
YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0nHuLXb0s&feature=related
(I once did a series of artworks inspired by their N.I.T.A.)
AU PAIRS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB-DAyZ-3Nk
and
Catherine: You were likely too young to listen to a lot of this stuff, right?
Mark (get off my lawn you young ruffians!)