Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Reaching for the World
https://img.discogs.com/Z_R9ms5G6JkyFnUeuc4AaS5RRi0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-327763-1172921636.jpeg.jpg
― visiting, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
bahahaha
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
yawnsomely literal and also forced and nonsensical
https://i.imgur.com/F1g1r6a.png
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
“does what it says on the package”
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
that's a really nice cover tho
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
i do love it. great record too tbh.
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 August 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
Humble Pie, Go for the Throathttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Humble_Pie_Go_for_the_throat_album_cover.jpg
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Friday, 14 August 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Image_Knock_On_Wood_cover.jpg
Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
https://ecsmedia.pl/c/down-to-earth-b-iext55324715.jpg
Down to Earth - Eddie Floyd
― visiting, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Beggar_On_A_Beach_Of_Gold.jpg
Mike & the Mechanics: <i>Beggar on a Beach of Gold</i>
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
Oh my.
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
The well just never goes dry.
― enochroot, Sunday, 22 November 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
Chris Rea, "God's Great Banana Skin"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/God%27s_Great_Banana_Skin.jpg
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 28 November 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Has this ever been posted here?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg
It just hit me that this "iconic" album title and cover is actually horribly unimaginative, literally named after the fucking recording studio and the cover is just them walking on a road. It's not far off from calling a song "Untitled Original." Still one of my favorite records of all time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:11 (three years ago) link
In 1970, the studio was renamed from EMI in honour of the group's 1969 album Abbey Road.
― visiting, Monday, 30 November 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
could have counted if they had dressed up as monks
― Running up that hill but fleeting (a deal with Gop) (breastcrawl), Monday, 30 November 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
Is "God's great banana skin" some known expression/metaphor that I'm just not familiar with, or did Rea come up with it himself? What does it even mean?
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
Ah, it's explained at the Wiki page for the title song:
Rea was inspired to write the song after he noticed his daughter was tempted to laugh at "somebody who'd been giving her a hard time". Rea told John Pidgeon in 1992: "I told her 'don't laugh when people go down even if they've been awful to you because you're tempting God to throw you a banana skin'. It's half moral and half superstition. Anybody who's done me a disservice in life, and I see them go down, you get tempted to laugh. I don't know whether it's superstition or not, or I daren't laugh just in case God throws me a banana skin as well."
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
xp ok whatever named after the road the studio is on, still extremely uninspired
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 06:30 (three years ago) link
it had no weighted meaning to anyone else before they named the album that though!
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
That banana skin just doesn't seem that great imho.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
Shel Silverstein - "Crouchin' On The Outside"
https://i.imgur.com/CQID7kV.jpg
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
Bizarre.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
killer cover imo
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
yeah that's extremely weird and striking, and I'm also confused about what the title means - is that an idiom or a play on an idiom?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
he looks feral
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
all-time cover. terrified me as a kid.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
in my cover-connections fantasy, i like to imagine that black sabbaths paranoid is his hallucinating POV and this is the reverse shot, as you calmly approach.
"Shel? Shel? Why dont you come inside and have some water bud, OK? Nice and easy" "grmfmrmrmSWORD?!"
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
lmao definitely looks like he's in the midst of a trip that's starting to go bad
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Okay, it turns out I know nothing about Shel Silverstein, I thought he wrote a couple of books for kids and that was about it. What an interesting dude.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
(I say this not just from the cover posted here, it spurred me on to read more about him)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
I think everyone at some point has that same realization, extremely interesting dude
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
I love that song he wrote "Big Four Poster Bed"
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
Silverstein is the best and that's as good a picture of him as i've ever seenand yeah "hey did you know BOY NAMED SUE etc etc" but how about thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuQTN7Xo4w
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
very thankful the youtube clip of that song does not feature yawnsomely literal cover art
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
friggin hapsburg chin there!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
black flags damaged belongs here imo, honestly a pretty LOL cover
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/H5Q74sYOX_k0J_7qPCYMeSf0e3k=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6842321-1427766011-5427.jpeg.jpg
Ferlin Husky – Sittin' On A Rainbow
― visiting, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
good one, love "the world on a string" to go with it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
first track is "I've Got The World On A String"!!
― visiting, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:04 (three years ago) link
Looks like this excellently monikered dude has some others:https://img.discogs.com/RvUIbxwomB4pmtWbrPZrn1XYW6U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6625053-1475120554-6305.jpeg.jpg
― Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
(God, do I wish his self-titled LP depicted him rubbing the belly of a big husky dog)
― Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link
lol I read that as "Feelin Husky"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
Frottin' Husky.
― nickn, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
Good work from Ferlin there.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
in today's edition of Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgS1_-oWkzY
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
also, was immediately reminded of Feargal Sharkey (yeah, yeah), but Mr Husky actually predates him by quite a lot.
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
Thanks to Kenny Everett I am familiar with this classic track by Ferlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-kykDYQw0
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
NV knew where it was at.
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:51 (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link