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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 17, 2020 21:39:44 GMT
This song, one of the best by an artist about another artist - and it worked too Keith didn't go .....thankfully.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 23, 2020 20:27:40 GMT
This little gem finds The Only Ones doing one of their best and trickiest songs - "Programme" - a song which showed how they could rewrite and twist new songs about the exact same topic: drugs, alienation, removal from loved ones. The band in this setting - live and unrestrained by production or studio looks and sounds great and Peter Perrett spits out the words with a seething venom here - he looks like a frightened animal.
You could hear this song a million times and never get the drug references or the lyrics - the last verse - often misprinted - starts with "A celestial being trapped by life" - which itself is so poetically odd and curiously strange that you might not even be able to figure THAT out.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 25, 2020 17:13:58 GMT
The Faces (or more accurately Faces, no "The") show up all the time in our "great covers" thread but they are quite simply, a great live band too. Here they are in peak form, effortlessly marvelous naturally.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 28, 2020 15:59:49 GMT
Greatest live album ever - a testament to Rock and Roll and more than that like multiple heart attacks followed by a caffeine rush stage dive.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 29, 2020 12:32:10 GMT
The song itself is the least disturbing aspect of this performance which is really saying something - when Iggy says "I go crazy" you imagine it's not far to go........and he's got the scars to prove it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 23, 2020 22:39:43 GMT
I could have put this in the covers thread because it is - an instrumental destruction of an old George Clinton song - but I put it here because in this performance this is Godlike genius.
This is Hendrix level/Jeff Beck level/Clapton level stuff ........at 1:35 he goes into a zone and doesn't let up.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 28, 2020 21:14:32 GMT
pacinoyes controversial opinion: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is (sometimes) good but insanely overrated and Wilco stopped being really great in the 90s.
Fight me!
Here they are being pretty great:
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 29, 2020 18:42:38 GMT
The late great Kirsty Maccoll covers the Cole Porter/Ella Fitgerald standard in her own way live:
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 8, 2020 10:26:55 GMT
The single strangest and arguably most important hit song ever.
Merle Haggard was a thief, convict, alcoholic, drug user who got out of prison and wrote this song which basically is a manifesto against anyone different from his audience - ie hippies, war protesting weirdos, the other. The thing is, Haggard didn't much like his audience either and he resembled the people he was criticizing far more in some ways - which maybe made you think the song was a put on - it wasn't that simple and he did love America, the flag and hey fnck you.
AND the people being criticized admired that too or thought it funny - so they found common ground - everybody can get this song and if you can't on some level you don't get how fncked up America is in the first place do you?
Haggard performing it live and in effect laughing at some of his own song here - watch his reactions! - not laughing at his audience, or the subject matter, but himself - neat trick.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 22, 2020 17:59:21 GMT
The original Pretenders on TV in 1981 in 18 months this lineup would be gone - 50% of this very fine lineup was dead with just 2 albums and an EP to their credit - damn....
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 25, 2020 13:50:41 GMT
From May 1968 and the Jumpin Jack Flash/Child of the Moon single through May 1972 and the amazing Exile on Main Street - the greatest 4 album run ever - the Stones didn't release anything less than great. Four albums, A-side singles and their B-sides - they ascended to a point where they topped every one of their peers and every one who came after in this amazing run.
Chuck Berry's "Let it Rock" was a B-side highlight but I prefer this version with the horns. Like I said from May '68-May '72 you can't go wrong with them and anything.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 22, 2020 16:50:45 GMT
Hey is anyone tired of hearing about Kim Shattuck - ah well - here she is at her goofy best making faces at the camera letting out her trademark yell at the end and wearing a dress because she never, ever wore pants that I can recall.......pants are for boys I'd reckon she'd say.
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2020 0:23:30 GMT
Dunno if this has been posted yet - one of the few songs she wrote, hugely influential and daring for its time, it's uptempo but angry, honest, immediate..... "That's it."
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Post by pacinoyes on May 28, 2020 21:44:46 GMT
The ExBats live (very) recently in a record store in their hometown.....at 2:50 when dad goes into his guitar noodling look at his daughter on drums trying not to fall asleep while mocking papa - utterly charming and amateurish Monkees/White Stripes mash-up.......still number 1 in the pacinoyes top 10 after 5 looooooooooong months......your move in about 3 weeks Dylan
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 7, 2020 16:00:26 GMT
To some people "The Replacements" is a Gene Hackman/Keanu Reeves movie.......to some people Exene Cervenka was married to that Viggo actor guy ..........to some people Iggy Pop was a guy who knew David Bowie...... but to desperate people.....well.........whole different POV isn't it?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 17, 2020 18:04:43 GMT
Yeah you know her......this might be the sexiest and most punk Rock thing I've ever seen......sh*tty quality which makes it weirdly better.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2020 17:48:46 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 28, 2020 20:31:33 GMT
I've been on quite a run of great female vocalists the last 3 days ...Peggy Lee......Billie Holliday.....Lesley Gore. Yes, Leslie Gore
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Post by Deceit on Jul 11, 2020 1:44:10 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 26, 2020 19:18:43 GMT
Dylan goes electric @ Newport - July 25th, 1965 - forgot to post this yesterday on its 55th anniversary. Twitter would have hated it......can you imagine .......probably would have been cancelled for assaulting his guitar strings.....
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Post by Deceit on Aug 3, 2020 6:37:19 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 5, 2020 22:17:57 GMT
From The Nerves came The Beat and The Plimsouls - that's a lot of great Power Pop ........which is why they are all held in such high esteem by people who like this stuff. Here's The Beat playing their classic Rock N Roll Girl for an audience who will enable it to not climb the charts at all (um) and which has 2 of the 2 necessary ingredients for Power Pop right in the title.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 29, 2020 19:21:40 GMT
Hey.......who was the first person to post Jeff Rosenstock on MAR anyway - maker of 3 fantastic and timely albums (his last 3). Awwww, you're all welcome and the reason I mention him is because he means it, man - he's not faking it. He ties into my (really) Old School Leftist leaning political side like The Clash - far more than the ancient and comatose Democratic presidential candidate and the gross Kamala Harris, and if you think that makes me "pro-Trump" I'm thinking it makes you kinda stupid. Here he is last night on apparent Punk Rock fan Seth Myers show, who is "so Punk Rock" that he bleeps Rosenstock TWICE.....ok then....
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 21, 2020 23:00:15 GMT
Album of 2020....... Bob Dylan ......Reissue of 2020: The 'Mats (and that's 3 just in the last 4 years bitches!) and now we have the live performance of the year too......Jack White a genuine Rock star in a world of female artiste-vocalists - and that's how I refer to the MEN for Godsakes .............who unleashed this astonishing performance 2 weeks ago on SNL.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 25, 2020 19:54:20 GMT
He invented it, perfected it, broke it, buried it, resurrected it........4 or 5 people clap....... at the end of it
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