Why at night did Bob Stinson get all Yessed Out?
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 October 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
Chris Squire was a John Entwistle fanatic, and Bill Bruford hated Keith Moon. It's all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 October 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Reminds me of this old thread
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 October 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
Really do feel this band and its members are some sort of patron saints of mental illness. In addition to your, um, garden variety Hazelden alcoholism you also get Bob’s schizoaffective disorder and the schizophrenia in the Mars family.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
yeah you’re not wrong
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 October 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
In other news, searching for my own playlist that I created to hold my Top 30, I accidentally came across this nifty playlist from Rhino: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7vOozeS5X4C3c69YKEop4L?si=kzGPqXp8QPyfgAMnm4Aebg
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 October 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
Gee, even the edition of Trouble Boys I have here calls that Westerberg album Suicaine Gratification. Three times over.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
Got about 3.7K hits for the correct spelling and 2K for the wrong one, so yeah
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
And 7K for "Suiciane" so maybe other misspellings as well!
SUICAINE GRATIFACATION
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
(Belongs on The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.)
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
Suicaine Gratificati
suicaine grat
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
Suicune is a legendary Water Pokémon.
Genealogy for Paulus Suicain
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Hindrik Suicka (b. - c.1724) - Genealogy - Geniwww.geni.com › people › Henrik· Translate this pageFather of Matts Henriksson Suickain; Petrus Suickain; Paulus Suicain and Thomas Suickain Brother of Johan Henriksson Suicka.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Americaine Graffiti
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Someone should sue Paul for nuisance god i hate that album title, misspelled
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
misspelled or correctly spelled, thst should have said
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
B-b-but, VG, have you ever thought that maybe Paul likes being a nuisance god?
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 October 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
Also, to be clear, I didn't actively seek out Mehr's spelling of that title. LOL. Got the book and inexplicably found myself reading the epilogue first.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 18 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
http://www.furious.com/perfect/westerberg.html
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 October 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
^Good piece, some thoughts of which Matt Wallace agrees on, going by this (grumpy) user review/response (!) to allmusic's review of Westerberg's 14 Songs.
― willem, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
I didn’t even have a chance to read that article yet. Found it whilst looking up Guralnick, didn’t realize he was comparing Westerberg to Elvis.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Is that a false/erroneous parallelism, last name to first name?
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Out on the street for a living
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsnpIbBB8o
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Gee, Mehr notes that they recorded "First Steps" (#11 in the 'other' poll) during the DTAS sessions! That song could only have improved that record. And "Trouble on the Way" should have been on PTMM. I don't get why Tommy songs never got the nod. (Not even as outtakes of interest on reissues until 2020! I mean, even Mars got "All He Wants to Do is Fish" on All for Nothing.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
^ Oh wait, I forgot "Satellite". Never mind!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 22 October 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
Xgau in Color Me Obsessed: “Yes, I would go along with every grade except that casual listening to Hootenanny suggests that maybe it could be better than a B+.”
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Think the guy talking about the fight in New Haven is mixing up two different shows.
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Trying to remember, did "Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat" originally come out as part of an "I Will Dare" EP or something?
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Thought “20th Century Boy” was on that EP as well, now they are listed as Outtakes.
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
That was my understanding re: "Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat." I think you're right about "20th Century Boy" though.
eg. https://www.discogs.com/The-Replacements-I-Will-Dare/release/1164440
It's kinda impressive how few actual b-sides etc they had, really, over a decade.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah about the B-sides.Wonder if I saw them do “Heartbeat is a Lovebeat” back then or if somebody had a bootleg of the outtake.
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
I remember seeing them do “Hitchin’ a Ride” and was worried as the years wore on that I mixed it up with “Takin’ a Ride” until it appeared on For Sale.
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
Something so melancholy about “Talent Show.” It’s like an Elliott Smith song.
― Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
"It's too late to take pills, here we gooooooooooo..."
I had no idea about the International Rock Awards performance before Trouble Boys. (ie. a couple of weeks ago, for me.) Melancholy was certainly the prevailing vibe by that point in the book.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 9 November 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
i've been reading and really enjoying the Trouble Boys bio. also, i'm a fool for not realizing "Johnny's Gonna Die" is about Thunders
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 November 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmVfF3WX_Q
― Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
I loved the behind the scenes stuff about that awards show: Clapton showing them how iron a suit, Dave Edmunds' death stare etc.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
"How to iron"
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Haha, yes. Edmunds' death stare went unexplained IIRC. I'd like to think he somehow heard and disapproved of the basement rendition of "Trouble Boys" mentioned early in the book.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link
I totally saw that telecast when it was on. I remember living colour doing a really crazy version of Johnny B Goode.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
Are there other tunes besides “Johnny’s Gonna Die” where Bob and Paul both solo? Weird how Bob takes the Sterling solo and Paul takes the Lou solo.
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
There's lots of good Bob-tastic stuff apart from his solo though, kind of like on the "Can't Hardy Wait" from For Sale where he doesn't even solo.
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
So hey, guess who turned up as my number 2 artist in the Annual Algorithmic Lookback the other day.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah this poll boosted them to #4 for me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
#1 for me. (The top 5 were all poll-related, I think: Cramps, Prefab Sprout, etc. I'm not much of a binge listener otherwise.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
#2 for me, only beaten out by cocteau twins fever
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 December 2020 05:32 (three years ago) link