Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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Danielle, in reply to
Oh, aren't they lovely? Sigh...
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Has there been any Kim Wilde?
OMG this is bad.
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Hebe, in reply to
The horror of the Spoken Word
Surely Debbie Harry can be exempt?
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I guessing this counts as spoken word...another Dylan song done
Mr Tambourine Man - William Shatner
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
this counts as spoken word
It's a fairly epic five minutes of utter hogwash, but if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese then I'm not one to argue:
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Russell Brown, in reply to
At my school Nick Gilder (Sweeney Todd) played sock hops and dances many times before he became too pricey for high school dance budgets.
Sweeney Todd
Hot Child in the CityNow there's a song brought to me by Casey Kasem ... but I'm sure it was as Nick Gilder.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
More at the Meat Puppets end than the Poison end. I've been enjoying the Bruce Russell-compiled Time to Go -- the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years -- perhaps ever. Bruce's theme is about a psychedelic movement in South Island post-punk music, and it stands up.
It totally does. I concur with his sleeve notes too.
I think non-obvious compilations are a good way to approach the Flying Nun catalogue (canon?) at this point. Why let Siltbreeze have all the fun?
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The only song I can recall being physically threatened for enthusing over, but that was a very long time ago.
Even fuzz maestro Tony Peluso has sadly passed on. -
Rob Stowell, in reply to
Have we had the 'You have twins? We have twins too' discussion? Seems there's a few of us around here.
One more set here, as of 6 weeks ago...
Ours now 11 going on teen :)
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years -- perhaps ever
Yeah, and here's one that didn't make it onto any record that I know about- but a ripper at the time: the McGoohans' "Pyschedelic Texas"
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Hebe,
Disgusting dreck
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3410,
Disgusting dreck
or... Bubblegum gold.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Disgusting dreck
or... Bubblegum gold.
More the latter, methinks.
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Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run':
And the much more rockin' album version:
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Disgusting dreck
If you're after a far better sounding "Saturday Night"...
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DexterX, in reply to
A better Saturday Night
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
If you're after a far better sounding "Saturday Night"...
TBH I think I'd rather have the Rollers than Jimmy.
But I'd rather have Weller than either:
and, since we're there:
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Touche...
The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run':
The Sweet Fox you say...
almost a talkie... -
nzlemming, in reply to
Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run'
First band I ever saw live, Brooklands Bowl, New Plymouth, 1972 or 73 supported by [gasp] Daniel "Daddy don't you walk so fast" Boone. I was eleven. They still have a place in my musical pantheon. Some dreck in the early canon for sure (Chinn/Chapman) but some gems once they asserted their independence. Brian Connolly (lead singer) was apparently the half-brother of Mark McManus (Taggart) but they didn't find out until their mother died and they both attended the funeral.
Desolation Boulevard would be the best of their albums, IMHO.
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Hebe,
Sweet...that leads me to Sorrow (un-dreck) [my ma wouldn't take me to The Sweet concert in 1972 for my birthday so I made do with Lulu].
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Zappa engages with the Australian intelligentsia, 1973. The clip shown as an example of rock music's power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:
A pity that the later part of the show doesn't seem to be available, where the most earnest participant asks "Mr Zappa, do you believe that anyone can be truly free?"
To which Zappa replies "Well if you can't be free you can always be cheap." -
nzlemming, in reply to
The clip shown as an example of rock music's power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:
Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn't sound right either
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
Still can't hate this. The Sweet, 'Fox on the Run'
Ah, The Sweet. My first big concert was going to The Sweet on their Give Us a Wink-tour. Maybe 76 or 77.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
The clip shown as an example of rock music’s power to wreak evil appears to be the Sweet in concert:
Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn’t sound right either
Yeah, that’s totes Slade from about 5.05.
And “echoes of a Nuremberg rally”. Heh. Reminds me of seeing Public Enemy at the Brixton Academy – Flavor Flav snuck out on stage before the show, clowned around and solicited a cheer from the crowd. The Guardian’s clearly terrified reviewer later wrote it up as “Nazi-style rabble-rousing”. Seriously.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Slade, I think. That looks like Noddy Holder in the big hat. Doesn't sound right either
Sorry, corrected. The mullety guy in Slade always looked to me like he'd strayed from the Sweet.
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