Volume three has one track that would also end up on Great Twenty-Eight ("Beautiful Delilah") a whole lot of the blues-oriented material, and a couple of really oddball rockers. Nice stab at "The House of Blue Lights," but the ones to cherry-pick IIRC are "Downbound Train" and the curious "Broken Arrow." It's definitely not essential, but it's always fun to open up the non-28 material for me, cause I know that stuff so deep down it's always a pleasant surprise to go, wait, dude had other songs!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 August 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's gotta be 'Rock'n'Roll Music'...
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 3 August 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
I picked up Bear Family's "Chuck Rocks", with all uptempo songs, and it's perfect.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
Havana Moon
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
these days for me it's "Club Nitty Gritty". Never fails to destroy to dancefloor when I dj out
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Wow, don't think I've heard this one before.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
No Particular Place to Go. The fills!
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Never fail to be amused by the possessor of the Venus referred to in “Brown Eyed Handsome Man.” Sounds to me like Chuck sang “Marlowe’s Venus,” which I imagine as referring to Christopher Marlowe, whose Venus was a poxy quean for all I know, if not a non-being a la Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Sometimes it sounds like people, such as Carl Perkins, to name one, are singing about “Marvell’s Venus” in a nod to Andrew Marvell’s coy mistress and her problematic relationship to time’s winged Coupe de Ville.
― Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
It's "Milo de Venus," right? Or maybe "Marla de Venus" or something like that?
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 March 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Online lyrics say Milo Venus but that’s not quite what I hear him singing. I am sure he meant to sing about the same Venus as Tom Verlaine, but something got a little mutated by a cosmic ray along the way.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link
I always heard “Milo’s Venus” which is a good translation tbh
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 March 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link
It’s probably that but the vowel sounds still seem different.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link
I mean of course he meant Venus de Milo aka Aphrodite de Milos, it’s that he changed it to “Milo’s Venus” as if Milo was a person not a place, and then when someone else sings it sometimes the vowels widen and it seems like it’s a different person from the original “Milo.” Listen to Carl Perkins here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRwhbOeBgE
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 11:23 (one year ago) link
See also that one song about “Pete’s Leaning Tower.”
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 March 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link
Drifting Heart
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 20:01 (eight months ago) link