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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on October 04, 2005, 07:57:54 AM
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Yay! Some JA and American Breed are promised.
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WOS to "Dear Mr. Fantasy." Steve's got a great voice and a solid body of work, but this song grates on me, due to (a) the word "snappy," and (b) that silly "oooooohhhh---WAAAAHHHH" bridge that suggests to me they just didn't think of any better transition from verse to verse.
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P.S. What's SW's voice being piped through? Some kind of phaser? It strangles his a's and makes him sound like the kid who says "I'm hypoglssshhhemic" while slurping on a lollipop.
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WOS to "Dear Mr. Fantasy." Steve's got a great voice and a solid body of work, but this song grates on me, due to (a) the word "snappy," and (b) that silly "oooooohhhh---WAAAAHHHH" bridge that suggests to me they just didn't think of any better transition from verse to verse.
Revisionist alert! Revisionist alert! Cranky pants early in the AM!
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BUT! Lest you think I've got the crankpants on -- wait a second! -- it's BOS1 to Tommy James's "Mirage." What a lovely little tune; I wish people still wrote stuff like this. Maybe the Click Five do, I'm not patient enough with their image to find out.
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BUT! Lest you think I've got the crankpants on -- wait a second! -- it's BOS1 to Tommy James's "Mirage." What a lovely little tune; I wish people still wrote stuff like this. Maybe the Click Five do, I'm not patient enough with their image to find out.
Agreed, great tune, and quite similar to Wind's "Make Believe" a couple years later, which was even later covered by Joan Jett.
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BUT! Lest you think I've got the crankpants on -- wait a second! -- it's BOS1 to Tommy James's "Mirage." What a lovely little tune; I wish people still wrote stuff like this. Maybe the Click Five do, I'm not patient enough with their image to find out.
Agreed, great tune, and quite similar to Wind's "Make Believe" a couple years later, which was even later covered by Joan Jett.
Thanks for reminding me of that one! I've heard it exactly once in my life. Loved it, haven't seen or heard it since.
BOS2 to the JA, natch. As overplayed as the record's undeniably been over the years, it's still a searing hot knife.
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Spanish crankypants over here: it's c-a-r-a-m-b-a, not c-a-r-u-m-b-a.
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The BOS to end all BOSes in a fab set: (pause 9 beats) "Bernadette!"
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I can't quantify it, and maybe Gaz or Geoff can, but of late I have been really getting into the Garage Rock sound, and there's something about the guitars on "Somebody To Love" that fits right in with the whole Nuggets compilation.
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The BOS to end all BOSes in a fab set: (pause 9 beats) "Bernadette!"
With special love to James Jamerson on the bass, of course.
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BUT! Lest you think I've got the crankpants on -- wait a second! -- it's BOS1 to Tommy James's "Mirage." What a lovely little tune; I wish people still wrote stuff like this. Maybe the Click Five do, I'm not patient enough with their image to find out.
Agreed, great tune, and quite similar to Wind's "Make Believe" a couple years later, which was even later covered by Joan Jett.
Thanks for reminding me of that one! I've heard it exactly once in my life. Loved it, haven't seen or heard it since.
BOS2 to the JA, natch. As overplayed as the record's undeniably been over the years, it's still a searing hot knife.
Little Steven played the Joan Jett version a few weeks back (It's a Kenny Laguna composition, maybe?) amd the original used to turn up on Dick Bartley occasionally.
Re: "STL"... why would one's mind be "full of bread"? (at one time I thought she was saying "your mind is a thoroughbred" LOL!)
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I can't quantify it, and maybe Gaz or Geoff can, but of late I have been really getting into the Garage Rock sound, and there's something about the guitars on "Somebody To Love" that fits right in with the whole Nuggets compilation.
I can't articulate equipment, but I'll urge you to listen to the Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's album, which pretty well sums up the "sound."
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Awwww... "She's Leaving Home". VHM Paulie Beatle. Love the Billy Bragg cover, Dave really should have that Sgt Pepper Knew My Father LP in 10@10 rotation.
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A gripe: The line "fun is the one thing that money can't buy" has always bothered me. It's quite easy to buy fun! Why they didn't use the word "love" there always puzzled me.
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Awwww... "She's Leaving Home". VHM Paulie Beatle. Love the Billy Bragg cover
Bragg's only UK #1 hit, for those feeling trivial today.
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A gripe: The line "fun is the one thing that money can't buy" has always bothered me. It's quite easy to buy fun! Why they didn't use the word "love" there always puzzled me.
Good point. Tho' Donald Trump would tell you love can be bought too :wink:
BOS2 Ms Ronstadt & her Stoned Ponies, major props to songwriter Nesmith of course.
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VHM "Hey Joe". Jimi goes gangsta before it even existed.
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I can't quantify it, and maybe Gaz or Geoff can, but of late I have been really getting into the Garage Rock sound, and there's something about the guitars on "Somebody To Love" that fits right in with the whole Nuggets compilation.
The sound was very raw, and unvarnished back then. Half percussion almost!
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A gripe: The line "fun is the one thing that money can't buy" has always bothered me. It's quite easy to buy fun! Why they didn't use the word "love" there always puzzled me.
Good point. Tho' Donald Trump would tell you love can be bought too :wink:
BOS2 Ms Ronstadt & her Stoned Ponies, major props to songwriter Nesmith of course.
Not to be outdone, props to Micky (and Boyce & Hart; they were hacks much of the time but they were genuinely inspired here).
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Woo Hoo! "Steppin Stone"! BOS3! another song memorably covered years later, by the Untouchables.
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Woo Hoo! "Steppin Stone"! BOS3! another song memorably covered years later, by the Untouchables.
Ditto on all counts. Maybe Ginger will play some Untouchables someday, nobody else seems to.
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Ahh, one of my favorite horn charts ever, "Bend Me, Shape Me." The handclaps are a perfect touch as well. No big surprises or breakouts in this set but a canny collection of some of my utter faves of the year. Thanks, Bob!
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Oh yeah, it wouldn't be '67 in Chi-Town without the Buckinghams or the Cryan' Shames ...
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Oh yeah, it wouldn't be '67 in Chi-Town without the Buckinghams or the Cryan' Shames ...
it made us feel so groovy...
James William Guercio rules!
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Oh yeah, it wouldn't be '67 in Chi-Town without the Buckinghams or the Cryan' Shames ...
and pretty much only in '67 could one get away with:
....it made us feel so groovy,
we fell in love, just like in the movies.
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Oh yeah, it wouldn't be '67 in Chi-Town without the Buckinghams or the Cryan' Shames ...
and pretty much only in '67 could one get away with:
....it made us feel so groovy,
we fell in love, just like in the movies.
Groovy JINX!
Indeed, as a silly, overused "hip" word that went mainstream, "groovy" has been surpassed only by "hella". And maybe "bling".
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Re: "STL"... why would one's mind be "full of bread"? (at one time I thought she was saying "your mind is a thoroughbred" LOL!)
I think Snoop Dogg restated that line a few decades later:
"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
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Re: "STL"... why would one's mind be "full of bread"? (at one time I thought she was saying "your mind is a thoroughbred" LOL!)
I think Snoop Dogg restated that line a few decades later:
"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
LOL!
and pre-JA, the Beach Boys said
"I'm a real cool head
I'm makin' real good bread"
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Re: "STL"... why would one's mind be "full of bread"? (at one time I thought she was saying "your mind is a thoroughbred" LOL!)
I think Snoop Dogg restated that line a few decades later:
"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
I always thought it was "...full of dread..." which, you know, actually makes sense, right?
mshray, who is still holding his coat & tie apart.
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I always thought it was "...full of dread..." which, you know, actually makes sense, right?
yes! I used to think that too (after I gave up on "thoroughbred") ... the Top 40 db has it as "bread" and a number of other lyric sites have it as "full of red" (?).
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I always thought it was "...full of dread..." which, you know, actually makes sense, right?
yes! I used to think that too (after I gave up on "thoroughbred") ... the Top 40 db has it as "bread" and a number of other lyric sites have it as "full of red" (?).
I always heard "full of bread" too!