I just started listening to Dawn of Doo Wop. Fantastic stuff. My favourite song is probably I Sold My Heart To The Junkman.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of revisionism, isn't there a story about that, that The Bluebelles released a version that was actually recorded by somebody else?
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 August 2009 23:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
I am sooooo confused as to why jaymc reposted all that. Nice read, though.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 9 August 2009 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you have to ask...
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sha Na Na's woodstock performance is some crazy bullshit.
― dat conehead beldar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
counterrevolutionary rocksteady
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 13 August 2009 04:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
we've discussed it, and it's less "revisionist" than "earnest homage," but let's face it this song is beautiful:
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
though are those really backup singers on the record or is that billy joel multitracked to infinity?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
now that distance between that video and the present day is greater (!) than the distance between the video and the music it is paying homage to, the video and song has revealed itself to be just as authentically moving and beautifully crafted as many of the doo-wop records to which it was no doubt compared unfavorably in 1984.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
also sudden unexpected nostalgia for those 80s music videos that actually had nice-looking, well-choreographed tracking shots and an editing rhythm that actually lets you see stuff, etc. see also
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
also christie (sp?) brinkley is stunning.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno why but for some reason i'm expecting joe piscopo in jerry lewis getup to pop out at any moment in these videos.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a reasonable expectation.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink