OPO: Raspberries

To me this stuff is the male equivalent of The Shirelles’s “Tonight’s the Night.”

Much closer to that than to Spinal Tap’s “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight.”

It's the song playing in Fast Times when J Jason Leigh and Damone do it in the dugout.

isn't that "somebody's baby" by Jackson Browne?

Is this one of this somebody didn’t buy the rights for the home video version things?

How bizarre.

I remember being particularly scandalized by that whilst watching John Sayles’s “Baby, It’s You.”

One of those…

It's the song playing in Fast Times when J Jason Leigh and Damone do it in the dugout.
isn't that "somebody's baby" by Jackson Browne?

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, March 13, 2024 2:24 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's my memory but i remember from the you must remember this podcast that there are like 4 distinct edits of Fast Times that are floating around, and that scenes I remember well weren't in the original movie

so the imdb page covers all of this in typically frustrating crowd-sources fashion. there were lots of tussles over music rights for home video, cable, etc., and eventually all the original music was restored, but:

1999 DVD version is completely restored and contains all of the music and scenes from the theatrical version. The entire soundtrack has been restored, including Timothy B. Schmidt's "So Much In Love", Tom Petty's "All Amercan Girl," and "Goodbye, Goodbye" which had been omitted in several other versions.

there is no such song as Tom Petty's "All American Girl," although the imdb entry refers to this repeatedly.

One time I saw Wim Wenders at MoMA MY

there is no such song as Tom Petty's "All American Girl,"

That was his obscure series of YA novels.

Lol

(xp)
…at MoMA introducing a then-newly restored The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick talking about saving some money by swapping out some songs on the soundtrack.

High point was then-still-tolerable Peter Handke getting more and more annoyed at moderator Ian Buruma, at one point responding to some question he didn’t like with “and Ozu drank too much sake!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVE-VjC_ME

More importantly, that wasn’t Damone with her in the dugout.

I come to this thread for the Raspberry strudel, it’s great.

Didn’t remember that copy of Taking Liberties in the background.

a then-newly restored The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick talking about saving some money by swapping out some songs on the soundtrack.

Supposedly the impossibility of obtaining music rights is the reason why Wenders' debut, Summer in the City, has never been released.

Anyway, if for some reason I had to Only Pick One Raspberries song, it might be "Let's Pretend". But they are probably the epitome of a band that could create a great compilation with only enough good songs for a compilation.

Fair point. Or so I used to think.

Side 3 is a solid album though

^^Probably my favorite. Also has the best artwork (die-cut, baby!).

this song from his early days band Cyrus Erie rocks so hard, extremely Who-like right down to the drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Dtg295wVk

Too bad Jonathan Richman didn’t see fit to put the Raspberries on his graph.

#onethread!

“I Don’t Know What I Want” has that beautiful melisma from “So Sad About Us,” too (“And you’d think I was committin’ some kind of criii-i-i-ime” = “You can’t switch off my lovin’ like you can’t switch off the suuu-u-u-un”).

I’m reluctant to bring up the subject of postmodernism because people seem to have different views of what it is, but I don’t how else to talk about something that I think is key to Raspberries. They’re a very early example of music where the gesture is the important thing, much more so than whatever the content would be. They’re so much more like this than Big Star. Maybe it’s partly me, but I’ve always been less invested in, you know, whether Eric gets the girl or whatnot and more invested in things like how Wally looks rocking out. Or “OMG it’s The Who.” Stuff like that.

I think that’s really why “Overnight Sensation” works so perfectly as their signature song. They were always kind of a band about a band. It makes their dissolution kind of sad and “Overnight Sensation” really works that poignancy in retrospect.

Now that Eric has died as well. Even more so.

really very otm

great post

Jesus, it wasn't! It was the nerdy guy he was like mentoring? I clearly haven't seen it in like 20 years. Also, I think it was somebody's baby. I was getting it was GATW but as soon as I read that it felt right.

I like Tim’s post and may want to add to it, but need to get some shuteye.