"it's hellllltime, man," i think is what they're singing.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway speaking of synths
http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2010_201005-essay-melancholy-synth.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
band of the hand is def. one of the best 80s Dylan tracks! is it even available on CD?
Nope. A one-off, produced by Petty, recorded in Australia.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Band Of The Hand...the Dylanettes sure go to town on that one. So many killer lyrics too. I love the line "so erotic, so unpatriotic, so wrapped up in the American flag."
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it's a cool song ... weird that Dylan and the Heartbreakers never really made a proper album together, even though they toured all over the world for a year or two.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Fwiw, it also leads off 1986's Band Of The Hand soundtrack -- worth picking up if you see it cheap, since it also has five songs by eternally underrated '80s Pennsylvania new wave metal band the Reds.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
and there's a CD of that soundtrack? i always thought it was just on tape/LP ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea. I just have it on cassette myself.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
from wiki: The song was released on the soundtrack album, Band of the Hand (MCA-6167, 1986) and also as both a 45 rpm 7” single (MCA-52811, 1986) and as 12” single (MCA-23633, 1986)also, apparently stevie nicks is singing backup on it! you learn something every day.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JLoO1S3-QE
I like this a log: drunken caterwauling!
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this log.
― Felix Frankfurter, Man Of Justice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
totally lives up! I like this a log too.
"Listen to me Mr. PussymanThis might be your last night in a bed so soft"
― Brio, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
as far as his collaborations go, i like this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fnyjLyqNc
― women are a bunch of dudes (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you ever wake up @ 3 AM and you're like "I'm freeeeeeefaaaaaaalliiiinn"? O_O
― ksh, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
thoughts on mudcrutch? i thought it sounded pretty good on one listen; nice production.
― hobbes, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sorta forgot about that one, but i should probably check it out. the original mudcrutch recordings on petty's box set are pretty sweet.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
REFUGEE YALL
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't do me like that, don't do me like that.
― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
great use of petty music: "the waiting" in the simpsons episode where homer buys a gun
― hobbes, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiting is the haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaardeeeeeeessssssst paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrt
― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
don't think i realized how rapey "breakdown" really is until i threw on Greatest Hits for the first time in years last week
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the version of "breakdown" from the live box is f'in sweeeeeet
― hobbes, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
refugee is the best song ever for intentionally bad singing along
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
basically i just have to give Mudcrutch some mad rock band naming props...it's like...damn what a 70s rock band from the south name...it's almost too much
wishbone ash is kinda like that for me, like that name couldn't be more 70s longhair british dudes
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
what is a mudcrutch anyway?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
If we need a calendar date when the melancholy synth begins, it's March 13, 2001, the day Discovery, by Paris's Daft Punk, was released.
god fucking dammit people
― liberté, égalité, fatalité, flawless victoré (crüt), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
who said that? kanye?
who else besides petty and dylan rocked the long slender earring in the late 80s? billy idol? i vaguely recall a recurring character on diff'rent strokes
― hobbes, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"American Girl" is a great song.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
BBC4 has been showing that documentary.
4 HOURS!! blimey.
Saw about 20 mins of it, nothing wrong with the bit I saw, but still..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
The documentary's good -- a perfect antidote for a hungover Sunday.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Was always interested in that, but never saw it. He was pretty dull on Saturday Night Live this past weekend though.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The documentary is worth sitting through just to get that hack Bill Flanagan looking very serious when he calls "The Last DJ" one of the most important albums of the decade or some such bullshit.
Actually, the doc is fascinating as unlikely proof that even an A-list b-lister like Petty can sustain a compelling four-hour narrative.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I've seen former Musician magazine editor Flanagan on CBS Sunday Morning talk pompously about the brilliance of solo releases of boomer artists.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
bill flanagan is not a hack, his feelings about "the last dj" notwithstanding.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
his U2 book cast such a spell on me that I gave the band the benefit of the doubt for many years; it's still a great read.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I think he's a great writer and a good critic - I love the U2 book, for example - but for the past x years he's been sucking on the VH1 teat so hard it hurts, which puts him more or less on par with Dave Marsh and leads him to such lame proclamations as his take on Petty (who I would not to be surprised to learn was IRL a close family friend).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf!
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, Flanagan's all but contractually obligated to say nice things about Petty (as Marsh is re: Bruce, with whom Marsh does have close family ties; see also: Marsh's "Album of the Year" sticker affixed to the last Alejandro Escovedo album - no conflict there!).
That said, I like Petty well enough. His band is great, esp. the Blue Stingrays surf disc Mike Campbell put out a few years back.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, per the original thread title, I hear Petty travels only with the highest quality pot, so I'm sure some will view that as redeeming.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
only if he's willing to share
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
he's stingy. don't "petty" the weed, man, as the old saying goes.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i may have recounted this story on ilm before, but my old room mate spent the wee hours after a show here in '99 smoking ridiculous amounts of high quality pot w/ him, his gf and his tour assistant/ mgr dude.
(this is after befriending said tour manager, sneaking onto the bus and stealing TP's underwear, despite not necessarily being the biggest fan. tighty whiteys lol)
― you hippies can keep yr gay socialist jesus (will), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no bs, they had "TP" scrawled on the waistband. saw it w/ my own two eyes i did.
― you hippies can keep yr gay socialist jesus (will), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
disappointing. in middle school we would sing "and i'm freeeeeee, i'm free ballin'!"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
creative
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to the new Petty album Mojo (out tomorrow) right now. A little too long (15 tracks, just over an hour), but definitely rockin'. A few ballads, a weirdly Grateful Dead-ish (mid-70s version) song, some very bluesy stuff...I'm liking it, and definitely thinking about going to see him when he plays MSG next month.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, 14 June 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Rolling Stone, unsurprisingly, gave this four stars
― ksh, Monday, 14 June 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ratings very much in character
How about this? I like it even though they do.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, 14 June 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link