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"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.


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In addition to the Sly songs already mentioned, I'll add Everybody is a Star

and the funky Thank You (Falettinbme Be Mice Elf Agin). Too bad drugs

got the better of the band.

 

Keith is actually a sit down comic. Not bad for an amateur. Brian Keith as

a comic? That would be a scifi flick.

 

Gram Parsons did hue closely to the country sound in the country rock

genre. I remember seeing the Film Grand Theft Parsons a few years back.

Not too bad.

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I'm beginning to discover that Metallica were better than I'd thought. This is disappointing to me, as it means I have to relinquish my long and dearly-held convictions that they were mindless metal rubbish. Metal they may be, but I concede now that they are neither mindless nor rubbish. ( I like the folk versions of Whiskey in the Jar, aka Gilkenny Mountain, better than theirs', but I admire them for even knowing the song. Btw, I realize the song posted was not Whiskey in the Jar . I'm just sayin' .)

 

The Cramps were this crazy punkabilly band from the early 80s - well, that was their heyday. I think they're a lot of fun; the less seriously you take them, the more you'll enjoy them. I think I saw them live once, but I'm not sure. They seem to be obsessed with monsters and Elvis. Here's a sample, with Rockin' Bones :

 

 

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I'm not into metal too much anymore, but Metallica are pretty good,

more melodic than your average headbangers, and while their lyrics

are often a bit sophomoric, they come up with a good one on occasion.

I do like their live version of Whiskey in the Jar. They go all out on

what is a tribute to Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, who had a hit with the

song back in the early 1970s.

 

I've seen the Cramps' weird artwork for a long time, but never really went

any further. That doesn't really match up with an Elvis rockabilly sound,

but it's only one song.

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What a delightully "square" guy. Nice little tune, too.

 

I only mentioned the Cramps in conjunction with Elvis because they seem to model themselves after him a little, plus they have at least one song about him. But really, they just seem to like "rockabilly" in general, they put their own perverted and 80s spin on it - "psychobilly", maybe. I think they'd be the first to agree that they don't come anywhere close to The King. I never meant to compare them that way, I was just saying it's clear they like Elvis and have a bit of fun imitating him - or at least his hairdo and leather jackets - sometimes.

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There is a bit of a disconnect between Hank's every guy looks and the song's

lyrics.

 

I didn't know much about the Cramps beyond their punky horror image and was

sort of expecting something different than their rockabilly sound, but that's just

my own unfamiliarity with the band.

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Yesterday I went to the bottom of one of my cassette tape baskets to find one for the car and I happened upon the Greatest Hits of Gene Pitney.

 

I had forgotten that Gene Pitney was one of the first Bacharach/David singers on the Top 40. Also, I'd forgotten that these were the first B/D songs I loved.

 

Of course you remember "Only Love Can Break A Heart", "A Town Without Pity" and "Liberty Valence"--don't think Ford used this theme in the movie.

 

But I had, indeed, forgotten, "24 Hours from Tulsa" and "Half Heaven, Half Heartache". The songs and Burt's arrangements still hold up today.

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I was trying to peel the label off a tomato yesterday and it took a lot

longer than I thought it would. I'm going to stick to apples.

 

I remember the song and the movie Town Without Pity. Both were

pretty good. I haven't seen the movie in years and I don't remember

it playing on TCM recently. It's definitely worth requesting.

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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}

> I was trying to peel the label off a tomato yesterday and it took a lot

> longer than I thought it would. I'm going to stick to apples.

 

LOL, another odd thing about "modern" life. I don't understand how they manage to grow those labels on the tomatos. But they certainly are part of the tomato itself and they are difficult to get off. I often wonder how many tomato labels I've eaten without realizing it. I hope they contain vitamins.

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They do amazing things with plant genetics nowadays. Just like the old saying

Everybody eats some dirt during their life, the same with those labels. People

will survive. I like a BLT sandwich and tomatoes in a sub sandwich, but I'm not

crazy about tomatoes by themselves, so it's only an occasional problem.

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