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Dead Kennedys -- Plastic Surgery Disasters

"I Won't Grow Up"

Could they be fictional? I always wondered what the title character of Rafi Zabor's The Bear Comes Home would sound like jamming with the AEC.

Sorry, but every time I see this thread title, I keep thinking that it sounds like one of those e-mail come-ons for Viagra...

I'd agree with this. By then his voice had achieved a kind of roughness to it that is more appealing to my ears than the more glossy timbre it had in his younger days. I'm not sure if they're "better" but it has been heartening to see the return to form that Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson have made of late. Warren Zevon had a nice return to form too, in the several years before his unfortunate death.

Is that a pun? Get it? Pun. Tang. Puntang! Never mind....

Of course, we all know, as The Treniers sang, "A poon is a kiss/A tang is a hug." NOT a tinned meat product.

"Lovely 'tang... wonderful 'tang..." Of course, there IS a product called Tang. Which was associated with our space program. Moontang...

The only Wheeler I have is Angel Song, which is really a very beautiful record. I'll have to check out some of the recommendations on this thread.

Well, maybe a few things back there in the bottom cabinet drawer behind the Trilobite Records files.

Then it's official!

I remember these records well. I recall that a friend and I spent many hours with a little cassette recorder making our own versions of these things, usually Watergate-themed. Albert Brooks did a hilarious parody of these on his LP A Star is Bought. The over-arching comic idea of the LP was that he was going to maximize his chances of having a hit by recording one track for every existing radio format. So there's a country song, a call-in show, a classical piece (Brooks singing the long lost lyrics to Bolero!), and even something for nostalgia formats: one of Brooks's "pre-natal" radio shows. Hilarious meta-media parody, way ahead of its time (mid-1970s). The Dickie Goodman parody was his Top 40 entry. The hitch was that his budget was too small to afford rights to the real Top 40 hits, so he just wrote his own snippets. The result is funnier than it has any right to be. Sadly OOP.

I like Lovano. Probably listen the most to From the Soul and 52nd Street Themes. Rush Hour is very good, too. I really love the Motian album, the third in the Broadway series, that adds Lee Konitz to the mix. Beautiful stuff.

I agree that Gladys Knight was a first-class soul singer. Anyone remember the Pips's appearance on the short-lived Richard Pryor tv series in the 1970s? They performed "Midnight Train to Georgia" WITHOUT Gladys, choreography and all, and it stood up on that basis, quite well. They were darn good, too.

9.2 is what I'm running on my iMac DV, just a generation past yours. I had no problems downloading Mozilla and expanding it with Stuffit. Maybe it'll work for you, too.

Me, too. We're ALL rooting for you.

New FOW! I hadn't heard that. Good news indeed, BruceH!

BTW, this thread is AMAZING. I wish I had stuff like that lying around.

Wasn't Albino Red from Philly, too?

Yeah, that's the Bechet track (or tracks) I was thinking of. He must have been one of the very first to multi-track. Of course he had to do it by playing onto a disc, playing that back into the studio and playing along with it, etc., etc., until all the instruments were there.

All those Spanish BNs are blue like that. (Thus the thread title "Si, Senor") But that one "blued up real good."

BLUER note.

Yeah, Larry's into somethin' here allright. Some kind of BIG BLUE WRAPAROUND building by the looks of it. Is that Monk's hat he's borrowed?

Looks Bluesier. Or do I just mean Bluer? When you play one of these does it sound bluer?

Yes indeed! Chris Elliot is SOME kind of genius (not to mention Bob Elliot).