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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 7, 2019 15:26:44 GMT
One of the better bands of that 71-75 era along with the Stones, Faces, Dolls, Big Star etc. They weren't at that level, but sometimes they had great offhand moments - their lead singer, was older and had a great wit and style about him - he had seen a lot in Rock and Roll - you know he pushes his guitarist out of his spotlight good-naturedly of course
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 21, 2019 16:34:37 GMT
Always tough to know what thread to put it in when its live and a cover but.......Live At Folsom Prison wins out.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 25, 2019 14:06:20 GMT
You know that movie dweeb who thinks a shitty nothing movie is the equivalent in every way of The Godfather?
The next time some music dweeb tells you that an average at best Indie Band That Never Did Anything Ever is the equivalent of the Who well......they're not. To prove it play them this, the rest of us can just watch it in awe:
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 27, 2019 1:43:07 GMT
Band is Ten Years After, in this vid, and they were still called that ten years later. Westerberg covered this song in his earliest known recordings. Love the opening visual here with the vast blackness behind him, and the balloon at 2:42
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 1, 2019 14:53:34 GMT
Joe Jackson was always the lesser of the guys who did this sort of ornate pop but his best songs off his first 2 albums still hold up and this is his very best song from that time imo. He also knew how to put his songs over - it's not an easy song to perform at all - and at the end notice how he backs away from the mic to make his voice sound at a distance, a pretty cool echo effect.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 6, 2019 11:31:10 GMT
This thrilling performance - one of Elvis' very best - is filled with singing and performance tricks and his overwhelming style. Note the sweat because this is hard work and he means it, man.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 6, 2019 22:24:16 GMT
Power pop classic that he cut as a demo and which he does stupendously here - this really was the last time he had a shot at stardom on his own terms - after this he would discover the Cramps, release a fascinating disaster of a solo album then stopped playing music at all, worked as a dishwasher, was homeless, joined a nothing band as a nobody (Tav Falco's Panther Burns) ......until he was able to get his head together and make a fraction of the money that he deserved.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 8, 2019 0:06:39 GMT
Idk how I came across this but wow her voice is beautiful, and on guitar Ving Rhames circa 1989.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 10, 2019 14:57:33 GMT
Dedicated to Joe Bummer (which probably made Strummer sad, I thought we were friends Johnny!) - sounding coherent, in good humor and roaring on guitar too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2019 14:10:56 GMT
Best band that formed in the 2000s? Well, they might have been.......I wouldn't necessarily argue it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2019 19:13:06 GMT
The final Only Ones album is hampered by weak production but the songs themselves are great - it helps to find them in different versions though. This is one of the best and live it's far more muscular with John Perry's stinging guitar and the great lyrics come through - if you do happen to be stronger, it only means you're gonna take longer......... to go under.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 13, 2019 3:10:07 GMT
Zandt's charming as hell on that album btwn songs, tells some great jokes. Songs ain't bad either...
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2019 11:55:20 GMT
The last song on the last great REM album (imo) Reckoning - an album and song about being baffled by time passing you by in Reagan's America - they never got this feeling quite right again and no British band had anything to say about it anyway - they are still in the running for best band in the US (not quite) when all the best bands were American, period.
It is hard to reconcile them here with the 90s wackjob zillionaires they'd become - Stipe with long hair AND smiling, Mike Mills a ball of energy. The band was funny then too (it wouldn't last) "Jefferson I think we're lost" a clever triple meaning shout out to (President) Thomas Jefferson, (President) Jefferson Davis and their manager Jefferson Holt.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 19, 2019 20:47:10 GMT
Ace single from When I Was Cruel which recaptured much of the sharpest songwriting from ........well when he was cruel.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2019 13:14:42 GMT
The original Pretenders and what a tight band they were - within two years Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott would be dead - but here everybody is in dazzling form and specifically they were a Rock critics dream:
Unlike other special Rock bands in 1980 - The Clash, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Rockpile - there were a lot! - they had many things going on all at once - all 4 members were charismatic and could really play, songs were sexy and from a female POV, songs were political and personal but never too much of either, songs were hard but catchy and poppy - there really was nothing to chase anyone away at all, everyone could find something to like and many people found many things to love.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 24, 2019 14:16:21 GMT
Every song The Raconteurs do would be better with White taking the lead instead of Benson - that's not a diss, but he's weirder, more frantic, sexier, wilder.
Nick Cave with a front row seat to the festivities.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 25, 2019 20:46:22 GMT
One of the great post 2000 bands - there aren't many to compete with them either. Unique performance too.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 27, 2019 14:10:14 GMT
Well..they've made 3 albums, all touched by much greatness including a shockingly good comeback album 10 years after their disbanding and no band was ever quite like them either before (The Clash, Oasis) or after (Franz Ferdinand, The Arctic Monkeys). Here they are with their magnificent and very Kink-y non-album single which sounds live like a glorious mess. Preceded by them being everything a band should be - drunk (or worse), more than slightly homo-erotic and quoting a very great poem. Ah, to be young ......
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 1, 2019 19:34:34 GMT
Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus – an absolutely awful band name - would completely fit into our 80s thread too. But I’m including them here because they were an uncanny live band – every component of their songs live was exactly right when they didn’t have to deal with a recording studio – the backing vocals, instrumental interplay, energy - everyone knew their role and could play it perfectly.
Of course, the argument against that is that with Rock and Roll the whole point is to not play it perfectly on purpose......but they were a very fun band live and this track is their usual infectious show.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 5, 2019 14:01:12 GMT
A fantastic clip of XTC - who were (at the very least) an often dynamite singles band - performing their biggest hit "live" (mouthing the song) - right after this point the band would stop appearing live due to extreme stage fright. But here mad scientist/pop mastermind Andy Partridge is having great fun, acting out the song, and the cameras help out by providing different vantage points - it "feels" live.
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Post by countjohn on May 5, 2019 17:53:57 GMT
Not sure if this counts because it's a vocal performance over a pre-recorded backing track, but the title does say "TV".
Hard to believe with as long as I've been a serious Beatle fan, but I'd never seen it before a couple weeks ago and have been watching it ever since. I'd seen pics of Paul in that red blazer but never got around to watching the whole clip. It's just magical. I got chills when all the people ran on at the end and John waved his arm and said "come on".
I know a lot of people said what the Beatles were doing in the White Album period wasn't right for 68 and that's why they received mixed reviews and sort of fell out with the counterculture a little (as opposed to The Rolling Stones and others). But in a divided time like that that's just what the world needed, a big uniting moment with all those people there singing. They had all kinds of people there, young, old, hippies and people who looked like squares, blacks, whites, and a guy in a turban. We need something like that now but I don't know if it's possible today with how fragmented media is.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 5, 2019 21:01:06 GMT
Playing even further with "live" but this specific performance - which is dubbed over - was a major one when I was little pacinoyes - a little spitfire of punk rock fury and bad intentions on a tricycle really. Um...........this was one of the first clips I ever remember seeing and loving - you think great music taste is accidental? Geesh.......
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Post by pacinoyes on May 18, 2019 0:14:13 GMT
It's been a little while so I'll post some live Westerberg from this somewhat famous solo show - unfortunately the video cuts out in the middle but comes back. Almost nobody ever said "Fnck" in songs better - sort of like no one says it better than Gary Oldman or Harvey Keitel in the movies. Here he does it in San Diego - "Up to my fnckin' neck in Hollywood" - near Hollywood naturally - in front of a radio concert broadcast crowd because where else would you do it. Mattsby , Viced and also to Deceit , countjohn and TheAlwaysClassy who always post in music threads and do a real good job of keeping these threads up to date and turning me on to lots of good stuff too
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on May 18, 2019 0:41:25 GMT
Sorry if this has already been posted- didn't go through all the pages trying to find it. Zevons last appearence on Letterman. I remember watching this when it aired. Got pretty choked up.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2019 23:41:37 GMT
Unofficial Summer anthem/beer drinking song.......
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