And 'Take Me Home Country Roads'...

A couple of mine: the Monkees' 'Daydream Believer' – "You once thought of me as a white knight/Call me Steve" – which I still kind of like and I've taught my daughter that version – and the Supremes' 'Can't…

Or the Jam without Weller.

At least with Weller you know you're going to get the Original Haircut.

A couple from Big Star: for a long time I heard "Wish we had / a joint so bad" as "Wish we had / a joy…

My favourite story is Tom Waits recalling how his long-time partner Kathleen Brennan used to mis-hear "There's a bad moon a-rising" as "There's a bathroom on the right".

Heh!
Not meaning to mondegreenjack this thread, but Kim Carnes's one & only megahit wasn't quite so interesting once it became clear…

Managing to initially mishear the lyrics of Annie's Song as let me drown in your bathtub has gifted me with a lifelong resistance to John Denver

My favourite story is Tom Waits recalling how his long-time partner Kathleen Brennan used to mis-hear "There's a bad moon a-rising" as "There's a…

I am so annoyed with EC (the person) at the moment that I'd probably be happy with the Attractions and some dude who does a killer imitation of EC (the singer). Heh.

Oh, I was supposed to do this yesterday. All you need is Steve Riks.

Elvis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2yT9MMFvU

Macca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07QYwNKr6M…

I'd kinda like to hear Elvis doing John Denver songs, TBT. If he had the full Vegas band behind him...

Denver's stuff was never really epic enough for the Elvis (the Cheeseburger version)'s Vegas treatment. I do think that he'd have done a…

This isn't hi-res enough for the big screen, but it's quite wonderful ...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Managing to initially mishear the lyrics of Annie's Song as let me drown in your bathtub has gifted me with a lifelong resistance to John Denver.

Ever hear Monty Python's version? It began with Eric Idle warbling 'You came on my pillow....' before the sound of someone being strangled.

Apparently…

This isn't hi-res enough for the big screen, but it's quite wonderful ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-ClvcHtK4

Now, I know you'll get this one..it's like The Attractions without EC.

Or the Jam without Weller. Which has happened – Foxton and Buckley have been touring with a Weller sound-alaike for a few years. You can see them on Youtube but I'm not going to link to them.

Good.…

I still have it....

Me too.....it's a tune whether it's on 12 or 7. I was so obsessive then I bought them all on any format I could find. I own about half a dozen variations on the sleeve of Accidents Will Happen.

I want to see the buggers face…

At least we've worked out you don't hold grudges for three decades ;)

Grudge ? Me ?

I still have it......

I want to see the buggers face whem I get him to sign it !

I'm listening to ancient Steely Dan as I write

Lukey, don't lose that number... : )

yrs
Bilbo Rows
The Naturists' Luncheonette

I am one of the three people in New Zealand who bought that album when it came out

And so am I... so who's the last?

Actually, I think it might have been a little more than 3.... although it's decided on artistic merit, not sales, he got a silver…

Though surely with McCartney the chances of the latest album not being worse than the previous ten must be increasing?...

He's kinda had a bit of a rennaisance in recent yeas. It's the early to late 80s which were the pits.

The last three or four albums have sold well,…

The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material...

Sadly that's exactly what they're doing at the moment...

Aargh. "Old farts with creative core intact playing new material" drops to second-to-last thing.

Sounds like a Paul McCartney gig...

Though surely with McCartney the chances…

I learned not to expect too much from EC when I bought the 12' of High Fidelity

At least we've worked out you don't hold grudges for three decades ;)

There were a lot of those back then as everything got banged out on 12" as well as 7". You…

aaargh must be coffee time

The band look like they couldn't decide whether they were going to do the gig or be extras for Mad Max II.

Sun Ra lived somewhere on the edge of another galaxy, although his alter ego, Herman Blount, lived in Philadelphia

I'm more concerned about these jumpers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte2mtO80ck&feature=player_embedded

Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me

Heh.

The band look like they couldn't decide whether they were going to do the gig or be extras for Mad Max II.

there's gotta be a kevin bacon connection there somewhere...

I'd gladly queue to see the Spatial Orchestra too.

As long as they don't skank in pork pie hats.

This stuff is very cool. I can see why Jerry had no desire to go back and I guess the ongoing income from the publishing of Free Nelson Mandela (which you…

Still? Wow...

I know, I know. It's almost like a retro-90s thing at this point. Who uses listservs any more? The longtime subscribers are all on Facebook now anyway.

I guess my dreamboat turned out to be a footnote, LegBreak.

Specials-related fact: EC produced their debut album. But y'all knew…

Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me.

'Ghost Town' mashed up with Sun Ra's 'Nuclear War'!

By an orchestra!

And apparently he's been doing this stuff for several years. Why didn't I know?

Here's another one, combining an old Coxsone Dodd…

I subscribe to costello-l

Still? Wow...

Kind of excited by the new bluegrass-influenced album, though. :)

The single, a remake of Complicated Shadows, is on iTunes, is ok. I loved Momofuku in the end. Noisy.

I'm never disappointed in him as a man, because I'm not expecting too much. A little like James Brown was.

But…

What's he done now?

My problem is that because I subscribe to costello-l, I get to read everything the man ever says in any interview anywhere in the world. So his most recent obsessions are repeated and amplified to the point that he totally annoys me. I should just stop…

Pithy comments, startling insights and old-timey wisdom welcomed--either here or via my email…

I am so annoyed with EC

What's he done now? I can pretty much excuse him anything, if I get a dose of "Alibi" (off 'When I Was Cruel") first.

Have you heard Dave Dobbyn's "Lament for the Numb" CD?

I am one of the three people in New Zealand who bought that album when it came out. I await the critical rediscovery of the Dobbo on that one. When will 'Love Over All' get its due? (I'm sort of…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgkEM88Jyk

The Dammer-less Specials last month on Later with Jools Holland:

Terry Hall looks less than impressed (he's hardly getting into it) or does he always have a grumpy demeanour on stage?

If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe.

They never stopped — partly because Buster has had some bad luck financially.

I worked for Buster as the world's shittest press officer for a while after he bought the rights to use the Blue Beat label name…

If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe

hard to believe Buster B is still going he looked like heart attack material all through their gig at the Paekakariki Hotel earlier this century (2001?), was a fantastic gig, but.

Now that was a skank-fest (the good…

The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material.

Sounds like a Paul McCartney gig...every time he says "here's a song off my new album" the queues get very long at the loos and hot dog stands

Good. The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material. Just need someone left who's creative enough to synchronise the skanking.

Sadly that's exactly what they're doing at the moment..writing a new Dammers free album, as Russell pointed out:

On 4th May 2009, Lynval Golding…

If you can't answer that, or don't know what it means, you aren't a geek, you're a fanboi.

Old Listener Review

The Attractions without EC

I am so annoyed with EC (the person) at the moment that I'd probably be happy with the Attractions and some dude who does a killer imitation of EC (the singer). Heh.

Reminds me of the time I saw the Beach Boys without Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al, Mike (who'd quit again, a few days previously) or Bruce

Who needs any of those guys when you've got John Stamos?

...the main creative ain't there.

Good. The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material. Just need someone left who's creative enough to synchronise the skanking.

and I was delighted to fear that the National Geographic channel had picked it up.

Is delighted to fear the feeling you have at the top of a bungee jump?

The Specials without Jerry Dammers is like The Clash without Joe Strummer [or] The Attractions without EC.

Reminds me of the time I saw the Beach Boys without Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al, Mike (who'd quit again, a few days previously) or Bruce (whose plane had been diverted due to bad…

"I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I am frightened by old ones" (John Cage, 1912-1992). Discuss.

no matter.

and I don't know if anyone went to the neville staples gig a year or two back – that was 'stars in your arse' grade awfulness and the first gig I've ever…

Some of us, Mr Grigg, were four years old when the first Specials album came out, so we're taking what we can get. :)

Now, I know you'll get this one..it's like The Attractions without EC.

Really, what's touring is more like a an extended Fun Boy Three, since the…

You can download it here

Just downloaded thanks Russell, now I can put it on loop and imagine I'm at the Craggy Island Disco.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdjK0FjUcA

You can download it here, along with a totally wicked bootleg remix of Don Carlos/The Aggrovators' 'Late Night Blues'.

Pete Darlington, I'm thinking of you ...

In 2007, Hall teamed up with Golding for the first time in 24 years, to play Specials songs at two music festivals. At Glastonbury Festival they appeared on the Pyramid Stage with Lily Allen to perform "Gangsters". In May 2009 Golding claimed that Allen's reuniting him with Hall…

Yeah, just to be a spoilsport, The Specials without Jerry Dammers is like The Clash without Joe Strummer.

Some of us, Mr Grigg, were four years old when the first Specials album came out, so we're taking what we can get. :)

any ideas what the feud is over?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY5FKp3zZds

I have heard about these big concert ticket clusterf**ks (server crashes and instant sellouts) before. What's PAS' best advice in how I can avoid terrible disappointment on this one?

The promoter is Frontier Touring — it might help to sign up as a member with them. They'll sometimes to a…

I am all over The Specials show too. Yay. I don't think I can carry off a pork pie hat, though...

Yeah, just to be a spoilsport, The Specials without Jerry Dammers is like The Clash without Joe Strummer.

Just occasionally, not often, but occasionally, Auckland really is at the wrong end of the country.

Yes it is problematic – fingers crossed for grabaseat but I daren't book flights until I know who's selling the gig tickets – anyone have a clue?

I don't think I can carry off…

Is anyone else feeling just a little bit like a starstrcuk teenager about the upcoming gig by The Specials in Auckland?

Just occasionally, not often, but occasionally, Auckland really is at the wrong end of the country.

I am all over The Specials show too. Yay. I…

Bit of a threadjack but it is music related; Is anyone else feeling just a little bit like a starstrcuk teenager about…

And don't forget, you can still email me your geek culture questions for the Geek-Off

Would do, but can you narrow it down a bit?

Copyright

What we really need is Fair Use provisions. Is anything being done about this?

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And for Friday lulz: CD review fail.