C.Bogle Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Shake it baby, but don't break it. Grooveylicious. The only thing that might stop these hipsters is that deadpan voice from Revolution 9...the watusi...the twist. I'm going to try to catch the Rolling Stones concert movie tonight, just to see what musical shape they were in circa 1981. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 A little guilty pleasure English prog rock, Yes performing Starship Trooper. Okay, punk rocker, you've got to ask yourself one question, Would you buy a used cape from that Wakeman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Boxcar Willie singing, what else, The Wabash Cannonball. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9hs7UO91WA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Damn, those prog rock guys could be excessive. What I'd like to see is Boxcar Willie wearing Rick Wakeman's cape. Might get in the way of his guitar picking, though. Is today "midsummer"? I'm never sure when exactly that is, but it is the cusp between July and August, so that's good enough for me. It's not like I'm referring to Stone Enge or anything. This is the perfect summer song, captures exactly a hot, lazy, buggy summer afternoon. No, not the Kinks. XTC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHvvDyBoyMQ "Summer's Cauldron"...followed by "Grass": These two songs are really one, and should have been uploaded as such. Anyway, there are no visuals, so get out that copy of the "Complete Works of Henry James" and put it to good use .First, read a page or two, until you get sleepy, which you will. Then, settle down on some nice summery field, bugs, grass, and all, and put that book over your face to shield yourself from the sun while you're asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I'd hate to see poor Boxcar Willie trying to hop freight trains wearing that humongous cape. A person could get hurt wearing that thing. Hey, getting pretty rough on the Master, aren't you? Ouch. I'm not worried. Old Henry will relax, hang fire for a moment, and then be back with a page long sentence of dense and minute psychological analysis. Incoming. FYI: A new DVD edition of Laura will be released sometime in August. It contains additional bonus footage of Waldo Lydecker rub a dubbing in his tubbie. Each DVD will come with two air sickness bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 You know that scene in which Lydo Waldecker is reading to Laura, and she looks all serene? That's not serenity on her face, it's boredom. Cuz Lydo (Waldo, if you insist) is not reading her his latest column, he's reading Portrait of a Lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 That's a fairly cool video, but if that thin broadsheet Lysol is reading from is The Portrait of a Lady, it must be the most heavily abridged version in history. Now Laura was lovely and charming and savvy, etc. but she didn't strike me as somebody who would be interested in spending a evening curled up with a Henry James' novel. Somewhere between the Master and Dana's little ball bearing baseball puzzle is the locus of What Laura Knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 It's the Classic Comics edition of Portrait of a Lady .(He'd previously read her the Classic Comics version of Ulysses .) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Okay. I'll bet she could even tackle the Cliff Notes as a supplement. Waldo is smart. You never know who might show up at a cocktail party and discuss Joyce or James. I'll go with two summers. The calendar one from June 21st to September 22, and my personal one of June, July, and August. September just doesn't seem to fit into summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 The two mainstays of Throwing Muses, doing a sort of mini reunion, more or less, playing Honeychain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I didn't know you liked that kind of stuff. Think you're pretty damn eclectic, don't you? Ok, if you like those babes, you might like Jolie Holland. This tune is called (Give Me That) Old-Fashioned Morphine. I picked it in honour of another thread about, amongst other things, recreational drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Well, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I was a for free dj at a community radio station, which was semi-legal, but actually was illegal because the FCC eventually shut it down, but it was fun while it lasted and you could play anything you wanted. Naturally there was one guy who played nothing but the Dead. I'm not a huge Throwing Muses fan, but I love Belly and the Breeders. You'd need a detailed "genealogical" chart to keep them all straight. Tanya is tops. Nice song, a little on the jazzy side, nttawwt. I didn't realize she wrote it, sounds like a Freud/Doyle/Marx composition. Recreate away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Well, since current "roots" music as sung by skinny talented babes has come up, here's one more: Gillian Welch, with "My Morphine". Again, to complement the Sherlock Holmes recreational drug thread. Couldn't find a good version with a video. It's just a plain blue screen, with this very good song playing. I know people like something to look at on these things, but either get out your Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Classics Illustrated edition, and read about Holmes and Watson while the music's playing. Alternatively, one could just listen to the song. It's a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmt0jA73Hq4 Edited by: misswonderly on Aug 2, 2010 11:10 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 I'm detecting a definite bias in favor of morphine while other drugs are being treated as second class citizens. It's time to level the playing field with JJ Cale's Cocaine. Looks like a healthier Keith Richards. Junior Samples Jr. on drums. Quick Doc Watson, the mandolin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E40IFKrzDIg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 JJ Cale is very subdued in that clip. He looks like he's on a little something, but not cocaine, maybe more like a couple of Valium.He also looks like he'd rather be home, marking his nephew's math homework. He isn't one to play up to the audience, is he? That doesn't stop it from being a very good song, though. Continuing a theme...Spoonful, the Howlin' Wolf version. The "spoonful" in question could be about a few things . Wolf isn't saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 He's probably played it so often, it's a bit on automatic, but I still liked it. Could be a spoonful of...whatever. Maybe 10cc could chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Staying in the same general neighborhood, the Pixies riding a Wave of Mutilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Same group, different vice. Switching from drugs to ...transcendental meditation. Isn't that what this song is about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_JEHoyQBY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I'm not sure about that. Taking a look at the lyrics, they could lean either to the sacred or the profane. Whatever. It is good to see Francis in action before he started to look like a Macy's balloon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 The Beatles performing Hey Bulldog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Are you implying that the Pixies might be singing about something other than transcendental meditation in that song? Surely not. Edited by: misswonderly on Aug 4, 2010 3:05 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Coulda be. The lyrics are somewhat ambiguous, as lyrics occasionally are, making it unclear exactly what is being levitated, mind or body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I wonder. (gotta live up to my name) Hey Bulldog, as you doubtless know, is one of the four songs left off of the original *Yellow Submarine* soundtrack. Two of them were kind of weak ( The Inner Light, Only a Northern Song ) and two of them were pretty darn good. Hey Bulldog was one of the good ones, and here's the other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ESU52T1SQ Pretty joyful. By the way, I' m not really dissing those other two songs. Even a second-tier effort by the Beatles is good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 The clever folks at Apple released that updated version of Yellow Submarine to have another Beatles' CD for people to buy, and I bought it. mostly just for those four songs. But that's an improvement over the original, with George Martin's side of Pepperland music or whatever it was called. Nice try, Sir George, but stick to producing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 The Warm and Fuzzy Kings of Krautrock, Kraftwerk, playing Spacelab. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5k0Lp_kcko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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