Now have been listening to There’s Gonna Be a Storm and really digging the melancholy garagey orch-pop of all of it, particularly “Let Go of You Girl.”
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
“Pretty Ballerina” has a drony violin I never noticed before, played by Lookofsky père, I believe, vaguely reminiscent of “Venus in Furs.”
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Other thing I am reminded of a bit is the Dutch group The Outsiders.
Here’s a factoid I never knew from the second album’s Wikipedia page:A pre-Aerosmith Steven Tyler, then known as Steve Tallarico, contributed backing vocals to several songs on the album including ‘My Friend Today’ and ‘Dark is the Bark’.[3]
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
It's really obvious it's him too. He was quoted somewhere about he'd been hanging out with the band and was shocked at how unprepared to record they were (songs written immediately before stepping into the studio and/or written in the studio).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Those are pretty good songs, unprepared or not!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Just happened upon this Michael Brown chestnut from the 70s: https://youtu.be/wLeQXGcw5gM
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
The four tops version is the worst.
Jesus christ!
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Bass player Tom Finn has died, meaning the entire original line-up of the band is now dead.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
RIP :(
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link