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We already have a perfectly good word for doing new "versions" of a tune, regardless of motive or worthiness of result, "cover" should be reserved for the much narrower practise of purposefully diverting sales from a current hit with a (purposefully?) lame/watered down version...to do otherwise is lazzy/sloppy/lame. If so restricted, then few if any of Elvis P's versions of blues/R&B tunes were "covers" since the originals had long since run their course and Elvis usually transformed them into something new/different/and often better...Pat Boone on the other hand is a different matter.

Ode to Billy Joe has no more to do with Emmet Til than it does with the native american's from whom the name Talahatchie presumably came...

That's interesting, up to a point (the point where I quit reading), but I'm not sure it tells much worth knowing 'but B on B or anything else...

I like it for what it is..doesn't bother me that it's not Moanin' or The Sidewinder...

and the nominees are: Madonna, chic, Afrika Bambata, Beasties, Melloncamp, Leonard Cohen, Donna Summer, Ventures, DC5 which has lead to the usual handwringing re what is R'nR...now it's your turn.

Lots of doo wop and other oldies at my second wedding, don't remember what we listened to at the first one...

Saw Sonny here in Ptld, Or last night. No ticket snafus, good sound, nice if not brilliant band (particularly liked the hand drummer's groove). Sonny wasn't operating at genius level, but he at least got within sight of it fairly often. Typical good/frustrating late period Sonny. Probably better than the second set at carneigie, if not the first, now on to Monteray....And I paid a quarter to park on the street a block away, can't do that in New York I'm sure.

that's the one with Moncur, right?

methinks they doth protest jsut a little too much, 'cause whether they intended it or not, there is something ironic about a jazz piano trio playing "Iron Man" in 2007...and I think they know that. Sure the press has seized on a small corner of what they do, but that's entirely predictable. And, on the whole I find their music far too much like Black Sabbith or Rush, bombastic and lacking in nuance, and none of it, self-composed or reinterpreted, anywhere near as profound or funny as Sonny R's "Surrey" or T. Monk's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", or for that matter the Platters' "Smoke". Given that they couldn't even draw a decent crowd to a freebie some time ago in Ptld, I's surprised the're still a hot topic... Maybe "she's so fine my 409" was covertly stating a preference for big girls? Think I'll go write some Studebaker songs...

We were both working in a now defunct redcord store; just another reason to lament the demise of bricks & mortor...

Kinda makes sense if you think of the rest of the Move, w/out Wood or, later, Lynne. But still only kinda...

I, for one, 'drew the line' somewhere between benedetti & JJ, not sure I can articulate exactly why...

Yesterday I took some magazines to donate to the Tidal Wave (where the library gets rid of old stuff). Almost didn't go in to shop, but I did...and found: Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select, no book Milton Brown - 4 cd box on Prper, long booklet Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 1 cd on Verve Lee Wiley - Mosaic Single Bill Frisell - Good Dog Lenny Bro' - with Levon Helm & Rick Danko All that and a bag of chip, well cookies actually, for a grand total of $9!!!!!!

Well...this is well into speculative territory so all the usual caveats apply in full, but I think Wood was one of those inately musical people for whom the usual standards don't really apply and he was so far into his own little space that he didn't know/care how the lyrics would seem to others, notwithstanding that he may have been trying to some degree to be trippy, more Brian Wilson than Syd Barret - off, but functional, but definately off. Not surprising that he had a fascination with mental health issue - "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited", etc. The rest of band seem to be in a very different place, so down to earth that most of Wood's shit is just flying over their heads. And the Move's bouncing from one style to another has a definate Spinal Tap edge to it...in other words, the less tongue in cheek, the more strange...not that I have a romantic (in the kiterary sense) fascination with strange, but if the shoe fits...

Um, actually...no, I don't think so.

I've got no particular probs with the JJ box, it is what it is, and am eagerly anticipating this one. In fact the only miles box I think could've used some editing is the Gil Evans one, and I'm still glad I got it...

What is/are Walmart Pond scum, Alex?

Love Nudes For LuLu, hated Spy v. Spy. In the former case I thought the concept helped the playing, in the latter it (Ornette as punk?) just got in the way...

The 40th Ann editions don't look to add that much to the 30th Ann stuff I have, so I guess I'll pass. Shazam is my fav, but it's the only one I owned back in the day. On the strange coincidence side, they covered both Love and the Moby Grape (and Jackie Wilson and Bach). If someone turns up tapes of their early mod motown covers band incarnation, I might buy that. Til then there's always the early Who and Small Faces (what other good examples of that mod sound are there?) And yes, I do think Wood really was that daft, in a good way...

If he gave it up by choice, that's more impressive...

Anyone else a fan of the Move? Fav album/personnel?

Anyone else love this animated Nickolodeon show, music by ___ Lurie? The cowboy tuba polka show is airing now.

Am I the only one who thinks that Plant is a much better singer since he's lost the ability (range) to do all that acrobatic shit he did with zep?

metaphorically good, literally not so good...

con, good attitude, sorry to say I had a hard time being quite so philosophic 'bout my AOTWs...