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The Drive, 10/4/05: 1967!
« on: October 04, 2005, 07:57:54 AM »
Yay!  Some JA and American Breed are promised.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2005, 08:02:54 AM »
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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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2005, 08:06:13 AM »
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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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2005, 08:07:39 AM »
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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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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2005, 08:07:39 AM »
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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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2005, 08:09:21 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.


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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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2005, 08:10:37 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.


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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Re: Ay Carumba!
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2005, 08:12:06 AM »
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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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2005, 08:13:14 AM »
The BOS to end all BOSes in a fab set: (pause 9 beats) "Bernadette!"
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2005, 08:14:23 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2005, 08:14:29 AM »
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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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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2005, 08:14:34 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.


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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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2005, 08:15:53 AM »
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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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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2005, 08:17:52 AM »
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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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2005, 08:20:02 AM »
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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