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Post by pacinoyes on May 28, 2019 19:04:29 GMT
There is a secret (not really) UK school of pop-punk that starts with the Beatles '64.....Dave Clark Five......then gets dark and twisted with Nick Lowe and the Buzzcocks..........The Undertones and The Boys .......and all of that inspired the great American band The Exploding Hearts who sadly died and left us with what we have now - a bunch of sh itty bands who couldn't write this kind of pop hook if their life depended on it and probably respect girls too much to ever try to kiss them. Shrug.......
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 2, 2019 3:41:31 GMT
Just iconic ... totally insane (or, as insane as the setting allows for)
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Post by Viced on Jun 4, 2019 1:18:57 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 9, 2019 16:52:29 GMT
At the date of this performance (7/11/80), they were (imo) the world's very best band at least the best UK band - at a time when that was a big deal - they'd make one of the best albums of 1980 (Sound Affects) and one of the year's great (non-album) singles too (Going Underground). I guess you could argue the Clash though they were in a post-London Calling decline............Joy Division but Ian Curtis was already dead.......and The Attractions but they were a backing band.
Plus, no one really could play live like The Jam who here give 2 ferocious performances for a baffled crowd of Americans who are wondering why they have such short hair and why the singer isn't saying thank you.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 10, 2019 18:37:42 GMT
1 week before the Jam this same awful show hosted another great band. Here they do an ace song (with Nicky Hopkins on piano) and take a side swipe at Elvis Costello - their main rival in that time (they'd lose) "The people sit there, cameras without action, I can't see the point but I see the attraction" - witty fncker he used to be......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 13, 2019 19:34:34 GMT
Yeah that's how I'm feeling.......thanks Neil. Eddie Vedder helps out......
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Post by Viced on Jun 17, 2019 16:01:07 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 21, 2019 0:40:31 GMT
Go back sometime and look at the best albums of 71/72 - there's not many - but Electric Warrior and The Slider were not only great then - they hold up now and are even more weird and otherworldly.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 23, 2019 20:04:36 GMT
Speak your truth Iggy:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 22:02:46 GMT
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Post by Viced on Jun 26, 2019 3:06:39 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 28, 2019 18:38:59 GMT
The genius - and it is genius - of this lip-synching by the mighty Rockpile is that they are doing a fat-shaming song about eating yourself to death on a children's show . They don't even try to hide not playing because they aren't afraid of kids - they can take those little brats - look how tall and mean Nick Lowe looks after all. Rockpile were the Faces of their day and a sort of precursor to The Replacements (the Faces of their day too) - hard drinkers who played straight up Rock and could break your heart with ballads when they weren't cracking you up........they were playing on each others solo records and on one classic album under the Rockpile name which had many cool covers like this one. Viced who likes the Faces and Mattsby who likes cleverly obscure covers.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 1, 2019 21:07:00 GMT
Iggy covers The Animals which would have been an appropriate band name for the Stooges come to think of it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 5, 2019 19:40:37 GMT
Acting like a Rock star in 2019 pretty cool.
But being a rock star in 2019..........very cool.
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Post by Viced on Jul 7, 2019 15:07:06 GMT
Not quite an all-timer... but the fact that it exists is enough for me.
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Post by Viced on Jul 8, 2019 4:42:56 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 9, 2019 23:01:08 GMT
The devil's on Carl's side...........standing to his right.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2019 22:56:06 GMT
Marvelous clip - Husker Du taking BS questions from Bryant Gumbel who couldn't care less - they go to commercial break right during his solo, wtf.
The crowd is old ladies and soccer moms - Grant Hart looking slim and healthy and like he'd like to quit the band right when Gumbel talks to Mould and not him.
Historic, sad simultaneously.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 14, 2019 22:26:12 GMT
In a few months someone is going to start a thread "Album of the 2010s" - and as awful as it's been I'm probably picking Blunderbuss by Jack White - but I'm definitely picking this dude as drummer of the decade. What an ending .....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 15, 2019 23:23:15 GMT
Different time......different kind of music......always reminds me of Summer in the city.
RIP Gil ........
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 16, 2019 19:05:53 GMT
Sending this out to all the people who provoke and tell the punchline before they have even told the f8cking joke .....
Witty malcontents they were in 2007:
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 20, 2019 14:00:50 GMT
Soon to be the best band in the world - Liam is touching the microphone ?!?! and Noel only looks a little coked up.
Things would change in months:
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 30, 2019 23:19:18 GMT
One of the great triple threats in music - great singer, songwriter and amazing guitarist. His "Shoot Out The Lights" should have made our 80s poll. stephen who iirc is a fan of his Fairport Convention days.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 2, 2019 21:06:29 GMT
Graham Parker covers Prince live......he sings this like he's Sam Cooke back from the grave singing a dirty Prince song - kind of brilliant.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 13, 2019 16:02:03 GMT
"I've got syphilitic hetero friends in every part of town"
That's how it starts .....ominous, mad, diseased......then you get romance and optimism (sort of) and it ends with white noise that either represents the doomed sound of how the song began or the feeling of exhilaration that came afterwards.
One of their best songs and the Reid brothers left it off any proper album too.
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