Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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George Darroch, in reply to
Can’t believe I’ve never heard that Kraftwerk. Clearly I need to spend more time with Der Katalog. And yes, Gravy Rainbow infects.
This is another one of those songs I love but which turns others I know seriously the wrong way.
When I was in a spell in 2010, I think I listened to this continuously on repeat for over a week.
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Hebe, in reply to
But then ELO could never do any bad in my books,
Jackie, our relationship was showing signs of promise. I'll really try not to notice that statement. But I'll have to try very very hard.
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3410,
the sound of the '80s, the gated reverb drum effect. Gabriel and Collins still haggle over whodunnit.
BTW,
Just been flipping through a Peter Gabriel bio. I dislike Phil Collins' music as intensely as the next guy, but - oddly enough - he seems to come across as a pretty decent geezer.Tony Banks, not so much.
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Scott Chris, in reply to
It has dawned on me through this thread what a big influence listening to (and taping) Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 was on my musical education.
Not Barry ‘Dr Rock’ Jenkins?
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Let me tickle your fancy.
I don't even...
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Oh Hebe! It's alright - I've sustained many a relationship with people who have very different musical tastes to me. Most people in my life, if the truth be told.
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Hebe, in reply to
;-)
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10,000 views just whipped by. Is that a record for most views in the opening weekend?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Not Barry ‘Dr Rock’ Jenkins?
We couldn't get him on the radio down in Christchurch. And anyway, until he heard the Stranglers, he was playing Little Feat and Return to Forever.
Which brings me to Little Feat. Just don't get that.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
10,000 views just whipped by. Is that a record for most views in the opening weekend?
I'd have to check, but it's certainly right up there.
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Hebe,
The idea that people are watching but speaking is incomprehensible to me -- a bit over 600 posts and 10,000 views. Imagine if they all joined in...
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Tom Beard, in reply to
Would Gary Numan count as well?
Indeed he would. Interesting to note that the Google ad on that clip said "Looking for a new car?"
Coincidence?
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Tom Beard, in reply to
It's not that we have nothing in common, just that in certain aspects, we are complete opposites.
For instance, no saxophone tie, but a jersey with a keyboard pattern.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Not Barry ‘Dr Rock’ Jenkins?
Jenkin, without an s if I recall correctly. I also remember him interviewing, was it Buster Stiggs(?) from the Reptiles, on Radio With Pictures. The Doc wore one of those razor blades around his neck for the occasion, and generally encouraged Mr Stiggs to reassure the viewers that no, punks didn't really bite the heads off babies. And I found myself thinking, well shit, if it was me I'd want my money back.
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Emma Hart, in reply to
For instance, no saxophone tie, but a jersey with a keyboard pattern.
You know what? Let us never speak of this again.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Which brings me to Little Feat. Just don't get that.
Don't fail me now, Russ. My older brother was into the Feat, but I suspect it was the late 60's/early 70's Wellington pothead scene as much as anything. Never really got the music but I loved the Robert Crumb cover! Then again, he also introduced me to Maria Muldaur, The Band (without Dylan), and the Who's Tommy. On the gripping hand, he introduced me to Dylan, who I rate as a lyricist but do not enjoy hearing sing.
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Sacha, in reply to
Imagine if they all joined in
but humans don't in group conversations, no matter what the medium
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Hebe, in reply to
Dylan, who I rate as a lyricist but do not enjoy hearing sing
I could not abide Dylan until I went with beloved to a Dylan/Patti Smith concert in about 1999. I came out a convert. He does seem to put out a crap album or two then a good one in a repeating cycle. Patti Smith was amazing, worth waiting 20 years for. I haven't seen live band since that equalled it (unless you count the Wiggles when my three-year-olds were struck dumb by the appearance on stage of The Big Red Car).
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Have you read Patti Smith's memoirs, Hebe? Pretty amazing life. I had no idea that she lived with Robert Mapplethorpe as his lover for a while there.
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Hebe, in reply to
Mapplethorpe shot the Horses cover, and some of the other good pics of Patti Smith. I read her book but can't remember much that I didn't know, which I picked up along the way somehow. Their relationship appeared a rather standard one of that sort -- probably startling for many people. I saw an exhibition in London of his work; some edgy stuff, some elegaic. But as a former sub-editor I have a Britannica-sized memory of all sorts of random facts that I'm never sure where they came from (I do sift for source though and immediately discard the unreliable).
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
Jenkin, without an s if I recall correctly. I also remember him interviewing, was it Buster Stiggs(?) from the Reptiles, on Radio With Pictures.
In early-ish '77 when we'd just begun Reptiling four of us - Buster, guitarist Billy Planet, sax player Jimmy Joy and myself - crashed the doctor's evening show on Radio Hauraki.
He was still firmly stuck in the Little Feat / Steely Dan hole then but he graciously let us play a bunch of records we had and take over part of his show. He loved Elvis Costello (we had one track on a Stiff Records comp as he'd yet to put out an album) and was pretty happy to let us play our treasured Damned and Clash 45s - you couldn't buy the latter in NZ at all.
However he drew a line at The Monkees and demanded to know if we were taking the piss out of him. We weren't but he couldn't see it and he killed the show - or at least our part of it.
A few weeks later he rang and asked if a Reptile would come on RWP. Thus Buster....
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Hebe, in reply to
How did the band's name come about? It gave an air of menace (which I liked).
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Before Casey Kasem there was the Lever Hit Parade.
(By the way I loved Little Feat but not sure what happened to the LPs I once owned - they must have gone somewhere with my beloved Zappa collection.)
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Lilith __, in reply to
She is about as working class as Rupert Murdoch. The problem with Marilyn and why I have never had much time for her is that she chose the wrong political party,
Can't comment on Waring's background, but by being prepared to cross the floor for the anti-nuclear issue, she did help precipitate the 1984 snap election.
And she's a hero as a feminist activist. :-)
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Lilith __, in reply to
It is/was called a magic eye. Used for getting that old AM radio right bang on the station
Thank you, Ross, I'd forgotten that! It would brighten and dim as you turned the tuning knob.
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