DownGoesFrazier Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 "That's All Right" is startlingly good for being his first release. He had it all from the very beginning. Oner of his underrated hits that you rarely hear anymore is "Big Hunk of Love". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I don't remember that one offhand, but whatever the camel walk was, I'm sure JB could do it. He had one simple belief: Let A Man Come In and Do the Popcorn Pts. 1 and 2. That's a sentiment that everybody can agree with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 In the same song, he said, "But you can bet, you haven't seen nothin' yet, until you've seen me do the "James Brown"". Amen. Edited by: finance on Mar 26, 2011 2:09 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Suspicious Minds is probably my favorite later Elvis song. What a cool drum part. I think this was Elvis' last #1 record. Lennon had some big old sideburns around '67 that might have given the King a run for his money. Nothing really affected me till Elvis' sideburns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Amen. Just don't play the wrong note or there'll be a big fineback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 > {quote:title=cujas wrote:}{quote} > When I was a kid-- I thought "Out of sight" really was James Brown--As an adult, I almost got killed one day playing "Living in America"on the car radio. I was driving around Kansas City--I grooved out when he said KC--the radio was so loud that a Fire Truck almost got me. That to me was really living in America. > cujas, I'm sorry I didn't respond to your story sooner. I think it's because I'm not sure I got it quite right...you were zooming around in your car, a young and reckless adult in Kansas City, blasting out James Brown so loud on your radio that you didn't hear/see the fire truck coming? You must have been quite a party girl ! Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 27, 2011 1:34 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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misswonderly3 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The much dissed solo Paul McCartney was actually pretty good sometimes. "Is", don't know why I used the past tense. *No Other Baby* is an obscure but just fine little song. I'm posting the original, by some ancient British band called The Vipers. It's just ok, nothing that would stick in your brain. But along comes Paul McCartney who covers it and absolutely nails it. In the hands of the Vipers, it's just some pleasant little ditty like a thousand others recorded at that time. When Paul does it, he slows the tempo, ups the intensity, plays up the melody that was hiding in the Vipers' version, and you've got a fantastic love song. (Well, thinks I, anyway.) Vipers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502WqzqLu6s&feature=related Paul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNBdsGBKX94 Don't know why he thinks he's more effective in a rowboat. Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 28, 2011 10:32 AM Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 28, 2011 10:33 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The Smiths performing Panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I like Morrisey's wobbly dance moves there. You know, you're too polite. If you don't like Paul McCartney, I don't mind if you say so. I'm used to it, everyone despises him. I fully expect people to not like him -solo, that is. Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 28, 2011 2:02 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Now how could you not like a guy who wrote a song titled Monkberry Moon Delight ? I haven't kept up too much with Sir Paul lately, but I do have some of his early solo albums and they're quite good. He did a fine takeoff on Lennon's vocal style on one song. Maybe those freaks were wrong after all. Did a little Wiki diving and there were were two Vipers, the punk group and an earlier skiffle outfit, which did the song McCartney covered. They were auditioned and produced by George Martin. Hmmmm. When Morrissey had that overhanging haircut, no wonder he was a bit wobbly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Being an OLD Beatle fan--I stuck with Paul through Ebony and Ivory--then I had to stop throwing away my money. But Monkberry, Too Many People and Admiral Halsey were truly entertaining. But it wasn't until Double Fantasy that I realized how weak paul's stuff was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 That was the time I was CRAZY about Tears for Fears and The Thompson Twins. Spandau Ballet and "I wear my sunglasses at night"--doesn't everybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hey, that song I Wear My Sunglasses at Night is by some Canadian guy, can't recall his name right now. A long way from the 80s...The Incredible String Band were the ultimate British ( Scottish, actually ) hippy dippy trippy band, the kind who had their flowing-robed, flower-wearing girfriends on their album covers and who lived in a berry-growing commune somewhere (well, I made that last part up.) They were pretty twee, but also kind of good, in their hippy dippy trippy way. Here's one of their most British hippyish tunes, The Hedgehog Song : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Most of the McCartney albums I have from the 1970s are pretty solid pop albums. He did have that touch. I lost interest during the late 1970s, after all things change and it's time to move on. I can't say anything about his later work. I'm sure it's fairly well done, though likely not very original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I remember some hippy dippy types who were into TISB. They sound pleasant enough. To get the complete way back trippy experience, smoking some dope while listening couldn't hurt. Like far out, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 The Pretenders with Thumbelina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 If I were playing the word association game, and someone said to me "'80s", my response would be "Flock of Seagulls". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 You got me-- I love Corey Hart but I didn't know anything about him--Yes he is extremely talented and Canadian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 He's extremely Canadian? He must know Bob and Doug Mackenzie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I think of all the women who fronted bands--Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders, Katrina & the Waves and Martha & The Motels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 yes, yes, yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 > {quote:title=cujas wrote:}{quote} > I think of all the women who fronted bands--Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders, Katrina & the Waves and Martha & The Motels. At first when I read "Martha and the Motels" I thought you meant Martha and the Muffins, an early 80s "new wave" band fronted by a woman. But the Muffins were a Toronto-based group. If you lived in Toronto in the early 80s they were one of the cool bands to go see. I remember wearing a Martha and the Muffins button, and thinking I was so new wave. Their biggest hit was Echo Beach . For a while you heard it on the radio everywhere (everywhere in Ontario, anyway.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWxUGStTj4 Edited by: misswonderly on Mar 30, 2011 11:22 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I like Martha, but I have some slight reservations about the Muffins. More recently, there's the Belly/Breeders conurbation and Garbage Hole. You go, girls. Back to Sir Paul for a moment. He did some Lennon style vocals, including a mini-primal scream near the end, on the song Let Me Roll It. Quite amusing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidB2CL1C9U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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