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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2005, 08:20:39 AM »
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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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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2005, 08:21:36 AM »
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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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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2005, 08:23:55 AM »
VHM "Hey Joe". Jimi goes gangsta before it even existed.
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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2005, 08:25:04 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.

The sound was very raw, and unvarnished back then.  Half percussion almost!
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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2005, 08:27:07 AM »
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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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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2005, 08:27:36 AM »
Woo Hoo! "Steppin Stone"!  BOS3!  another song memorably covered years later, by the Untouchables.
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« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2005, 08:28:46 AM »
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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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« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2005, 08:30:02 AM »
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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« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2005, 08:31:52 AM »
Oh yeah, it wouldn't be '67 in Chi-Town without the Buckinghams or the Cryan' Shames ...
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« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2005, 08:34:01 AM »
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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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« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2005, 08:34:32 AM »
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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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« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2005, 08:37:12 AM »
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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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« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2005, 09:36:37 AM »
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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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« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2005, 09:41:06 AM »
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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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« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2005, 09:29:24 AM »
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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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