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Sounds fishy to me. But you never know, it might have some listenable moments. But I don't like the whole idea of it, frankly.
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You can always take up collecting Sun Ra.
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That Eddie Fisher clipping gave me a nightmare.
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The passions of Mitch Albom
BruceH replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I liked those lines, too. As for your final question: No. I guess I should have tried, but I just couldn't bring myself to. And I wasn't gettting paid to subject myself to swill, like the Slate.com guy. Yeah, getting paid for it really bucks up your "swill-resistance quotient" without a doubt. -
Throughout junior high and high school I was a big fan of The Rockford Files. The series made me a confirmed James Garner fan, too, though sadly he never had much of a movie career.
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Steve Reich - 70th bday retrospective
BruceH replied to ejp626's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Love that! I remember getting that record out of the library when I was in high school and just tripping out on it. -
Funkadelic had some great ones, no doubt about it. But three of my favorite album titles of the 70's are Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Another Green World Before and After Science (Yes, Here Come the Warm Jets ain't bad either, but as a title, the other three are even better, to these ears.)
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I always liked "Songs the Lord Taught Us" just as much.
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The remastered CD of Marquee Moon. "What I want I want now And it's a whole lot more Than anyhow..."
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I've been happy with the 2-CD Rhino compilation that ghost recommended (Ultimate) since I got it a few years back. Sounds like I should get the BBC stuff one of these days. As for The Zombies, the old Epic double-LP compilation "Time of the Zombies" is what turned me on to them, lo these many years ago. The second LP in the set is nothing more or less than the Odyssey and Oracle album; nice! But of course I got Zombie Heaven when it came out, and was glad I did.
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TCM PRIME TIME MOVIE DISCUSSION CORNER
BruceH replied to JSngry's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Laid up with a cold, I watched The Odd Couple followed by The Third Man yesterday. A strange combination, but fun. I hadn't seen The Odd Couple in quite a few years and really enjoyed it. -
Season 3 is much better, and season 4 is the best!
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The passions of Mitch Albom
BruceH replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
There are at least two other lines that I like almost as much: "He's a huckster evangelist for the soccer-mom set," and, "Albom was staking his claim to become the Bob Greene of sports..." I'm happy to say that no one ever lent me one of his books, effusively or otherwise. Did you read any of the book Kalo? -
If you're ever in Dallas, liste to The Flashback Cafe on KDGE and know that it already is. I have to admit that it's been a bit disturbing to me that the "New Wave" hits of the early '80s, basically the biggest hits of my college years (though not even close to what I was listening to myself in those days), have become part of the rotation of "Classic Hits" radio. I have no doubt that there is some insidious demographic formula at work that adds the chart hits of a particular year to the rotation when they have reached, say, 20 years of age. Funny thing is, I would never voluntarily listen to these stations myself, but find myself being compelled to listen to them by the fiat of my younger, 20-something co-workers. I'm pretty sure that the "Oldies" format and the "Classic Hits" format are different. To me, "Oldies" is '50s to '60s stuff. "Classic Hits" is the late '60s through the '70s (and now into the early-to-mid '80s -- does anyone else find it disconcerting to hear the Police, Talking Heads, the Clash, and even U2 on these stations?). I'm also sure that both formats suck, being based on chart performance of the song in its day, rather than whether the particular tune has achieved any esthetic esteem in the years since. Thus, you hear the same three Marvin Gaye tracks over and over, rather than any of the excellent but lower-charting numbers he also recorded. I, for one, could live without ever hearing Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's "Lady Willpower" ever again, a big hit in its day and an esthetic abortion for evermore. The worst crime of these radio formats, as some have alluded to above, is their ignoring, or ghettoizing ("Motown Mondays") of black music. I often refer to the "Classic Hits" formula as "white cock-rock plus Hendrix ( and Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy on rare occasions)." Though any single Aretha track dwarfs the musical achievements of most anyone else from the era (and by the way, where's Al Green, perhaps the finest singles artist of the '70s?), the only women you'll hear on these stations are Heart and the gals from Fleetwood Mac. And another thing, why do you hear more second-raters like Grand Funk Railroad, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Foreigner, Boston, etc. on these stations than you do even recognized ICONS of the music such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones? Again, I fear, it's because of the chart rankings of the day, which bear little or no relevance to the later judgements of time. A plague on both their formats. Right on! (And congratulations, you just caused me to vomit several times.)
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I must admit that the ending to this series of novels was a let down for me -- it had too much of a sixties flavor (in a bad way) for me. Also, the plot twist of having the first image and last image of a character be running, was too contrived for me. Still, all-in-all, I enjoyed it much more the second time through than the first. Still thinking of reading it for a third time. A third time? So how bad could it be? I'm going to jump into this soon. As soon as I finish Proust. (Not even joking here, either, as I'm two-thirds through Marcel's opus and hope to finish it by year's end). I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Brit engineers/programmers don't know who Powell is. Bet they know who Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are. I work in the wine department at a wine and spirits store in Boston and I sometimes mention to new employees that I sold wine to Saul Bellow several times. Very few of them show even a glimmer of recognition at the sound of his name. I guess the Nobel Prize ain't what it's cracked up to be. You sold wine to Saul Bellow??
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I found out about Powell by looking over his books at Boston bookstores.
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I think you're probably right, and I think it sucks.
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Finally, a CD of one of my old vinyl favorites: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Stategy) "Trust in the weather To bless agricultural man Who gives birth to more farmhands Don't ask me why"
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This sounds good. Herrmann is probably my favorite film composer; certainly in the top 2 or 3. Don't Hesitate, BruceH. Since you're a classical music fan and a film aficionado, I think you'd get a lot out of this. Herrmann was a lot more of a force in the world of "serious" music than I had realized, though I did know that he was an early and lifelong booster of Charles Ives, from having read Jan Swafford's Ives biography (which I would recommend very highly as well). I'm reading it now. Freaked me out to learn that Herrmann and Abraham Polonsky were childhood friends. Wow! My favorite film composer and one of my favorite directors. Guess it really is a small world.
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I hereby declare September to be the Month of Mobe.
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Me too, probably. Don't get me wrong, I do really like Point of Departure. But in some ways, I think PoD is a tiny bit overrated (and I think "Blue Train" is way overrated). So often PoD is thought of as THE Andrew Hill album to get (like how for a long time it was the only Hill date released on CD, and it was one of the very first Hill RVG's, etc...). But I think "Black Fire" ought to hold that title. Good call! Black Fire has long been my favorite Hill album (but I don't have them all.)
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This is a great list! I'd only add "There's A Place" from the Please Please Me (first British) album, no doubt available on CD now, and "Rain" the B-side to "Paperback Writer" and used to be available on the Hey Jude odds and ends album. "Rain" used to be one of my favorite Beatles songs, still is I guess; could well be one of the best B-sides of all time.
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I just bought the new DVD that has The War Game and Culloden on one disc. Both films are pretty damn amazing, and haven't aged much as far as I'm concerned.
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August 2006 was a real crappy month........
BruceH replied to Soulstation1's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Well SS1, I just found and ordered something that'll cheer you up plenty! The Bo-Keys is a band made up of Memphis players, who've worked with everyone - recorded at the Hi studios. It's gotta be great. Here's the full page link http://yellowdogrecords.com/bo-keys/index.html MG Are they anything like those Stax bands? -
Why not just name it "Heroin"? Or "Crack, the drink"? I prefer absinthe, the drink. (Like to mix it with root beer, the soft drink.)