Your End of Week Topic Dump, vol. 48
A few days ago I received an email from a newspaper in England, asking if I was the person who originally published Ads vs. Reality. They wanted to feature the photos on their website, with proper attribution.
I provided the information requested, and the guy mentioned that the photos are all over the internet, without credit. He had a hard time figuring out their original source, he said.
This isn’t exactly a revelation, but it irritates me (all over again) that someone has to work to figure out who came up with the idea. I tried to fight the theft of those photos in the early days, and had some success, but it eventually got away from me. Now they’re practically public domain.
Oh well. I guess it’s a compliment, right? People don’t steal shit unless it has value. Yeah, that’s what I’ll keep telling myself…
In any case, I appreciate the Guardian going the extra mile, and linking back to the Surf Report. I’d gladly hoist a frosty Timothy Taylor in their honor, if I could get my booger-hooks on one.
And speaking of boogers, I was at Subway last night, buying a $7 lettuce sandwich. The girl on the other side of the fixins was wearing plastic gloves, as is the custom, but while building my lunch she also answered a phone, and made change to a man with a lightning bolt tattooed to the side of his neck.
What’s the point of wearing gloves, if you’re just going to go around doing normal stuff in them? I’m no scientist, but I suspect poop particles and lung spores can attach to plastic, as easily as skin. Right?
The sub was really good, though. I got cucumbers on it, and that’s my new favorite topping. I used to order green peppers, but I’ve recently switched to cukes. Mmmm… it was almost enough to make me forget that the bun was probably smeared with a trace amount of lightning bolt ball residue.
I’m heavily into the old time radio show, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. It was a fifteen-minute program, broadcast five days per week. A new case would start on Monday, and wrap-up on Friday. So, each investigation was five fifteen-minute shows.
Last night at work I listened to two full cases, ten episodes. Great stuff. Johnny Dollar, badass, insinuating that a thug wasn’t long for this world: “If I were you, pal, I wouldn’t be buying any long-play records.” Heh.
The writing on that show was terrific, and the guy who portrayed Johnny Dollar during the late ’50s (someone named Bob Bailey) was perfect. I’m going to be sad when I’ve listened to all 800 or so episodes I own.
And on the subject of records…. Can you remember the first 45 you ever bought? You know, if you’re an old fart like me and remember singles, as they were called.
My first was “American Pie,” by Don McLean, if you can believe it. The song was so long it was on both sides of the record. It faded-down at the end of side one, and faded-up at the beginning of side two.
I bought it at Miller’s Drug Store, in Dunbar, for something like 69 cents. And I’m sure I still have it somewhere. I had a lot of great stuff: “Hot Rod Lincoln,” “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” “Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me),” etc.
What was your first 45? If applicable.
Another life-changing event, involving the late, great Miller’s, was my first issue of Mad magazine. It was this one, from April 1971, when I was eight years old. I remember buying it, and repeatedly devouring every freaking word. I thought it was, without a doubt, the greatest thing I’d ever seen. And 38 years later, I still haven’t fully recovered.
I’m going to call it a day now, and go pick up my order at T-Shirt Lady Labs. Later, I’ll post a picture of the “miscommunication shirt,” and see what you guys think. It sounds fairly hideous to me (maroon with orange and white??), but maybe not.
No update tomorrow, I’m afraid; I have to write at least 2700 words of my “book.” But I’ll try to make up for yesterday over the weekend. That’ll be the goal, so stay tuned.
Oh, one more thing, before I go… Metten posted an especially-good mock today, at Mockable. So please be sure to check it out.
Have a great day, boys and girls.
Update: $10 Miscommunication Shirts are available now! Click here.
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Good Afternoon Surf Reporters.
I bought Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Ling” at the same Miller’s Drug Store back in whenever….’72??? First 45 I can remember buying. I think the second one was Ray Stevens’ “The Streak”.
TOP TEN!!!!!! Can this be true???
I think those colors will work!
my 1st 45 rpm that I can remember was C.W.McCall’s “Convoy”, I was about 8 years old and played that bitch continuously until Dad had enough and took it away. Looking back, I don’t blame him.
Tommy James and the Shondells “Mony Mony”. I think was the first flip side was “I think we’re alone now”
1st album was Bill Cosby “Why is there air”
I’m pretty sure my first 45 was the “novelty” hit Mr. Jaws. I can even remember some of the words.
Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe. I was only 2 years old. …heh
suns a bitches started without me, dammit!
My first 45 was “The Tide is High” by Blondie. I bought it at Murphy’s Mart at The Millcreek Mall in Erie, PA. I was six years old and the teacher let me bring it in to school to play during indoor recess.
If I remember correctly, my second 45 was “Pac Man Fever”. Good Lord.
I didn’t buy any 45s but I did buy an Eddie Rabbit 8 track that I wore out. “I love the rainy night” fuck yeah, Eddie, you tell em. I had this giant music system that was the size of a television and it lit up when the music played. Far out. I also had a TV that was as huge as a fridge turned on its side. The top opened to reveal a stereo, 8 track player, and record player. You think I wasn’t getting more pussy than I could handle back then?
@JCIII- it has long been the opinion of a friend of mine the C.W. McCall invented rapping with Convoy.
Anyone remember Convoy- The Movie?
Top 20
I also owned “The Streak,” purchased at Murphy’s Mart from a large effeminate man.
Here’s “Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me).” I played the living shit out of that thing, and still love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU
Convoy – The Movie. One of the finest films ever made. I didn’t think it could be topped until “Raising Arizona” came along. I literally wept during the whole thing. Changed my life.
Thank God for this update. I’d just swallowed a cyanide tablet and had to force myself to puke using a pencil to gag myself.
Nope, Jeff’s cousin, Red Sovine invented rap music with “Teddy Bear”.
That’s the first time I’ve heard “Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)” in my life, I think.
well I;ll settle for top 20!! Now I’ll go back and read.
It was February of 1964, I was 9 years old . . about to turn 10 and my Dad took me to Galperin Music in downtown Charleston, WV to buy the Beatles “I Want To Hold Your Hand” backed with “I Saw Her Standing There.” Played both sides over and over on my cheesy record player.
First album was about a year later, “Out Of Our Heads” by the Rolling Stones . . . until then just bought singles mostly at Miller Drug in Dunbar.
Back then LP’s were $1.99 for MONO and $2.99 for Stereo.
First 45 I think was “Jerimiah was a Bullfrog” or “Oh Swet Pea” At least I think that was the name of it. I rememer most of the words but nobody wants to hear me sing. I’m pretty sure both of these also bought at Miler’s Drug Store.
My cousing had the “Ding-A-Ling” song and played it until he wore out the record. Hated hearing that.
I had a lot of Christmas records, we had a Christmas Tree lot on Roxalana Road beside Bess’s Grocery store (now Rowleys), it was my job to play the records and keep everybody “in the holiday spirit”.
Temptations – “Runaway Child”
The Electric Indian – “Keem-O-Sabe”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_SXIgxLcw
I bought them both with the money I earned selling Christmas cards from a magazine add I responded to in Boy’s Life. Yeah, I was a Cub Scout back then. Members of The Electric Indian would later go on to become what is now known as MFSB known for their hit TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) and Love is the Message.
Jeff,
You are absolutely correct that it somewhat defeats the purpose of wearing gloves if you are going to handle money, scratch your ass, touch other people (especially since someone with a facial/neck tattoo is likely to be a human hepatitis repository), etc. For the record money is one of the dirtiest things you can touch. I once taught a course where we had students culture the bacteria found on their pocket change. A toilet seat is actually cleaner because most toilets get washed every now and then.
My first 45 was Destroyer by the Kinks
I got into LPs much earlier though (I didn’t know 45 existed until I was about 11). My first was some early Beatles record with Twist and Shout and Love Me Do.
For the record my first 8 track was Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, first cassette was London Calling by the Clash and Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols (I bought them at the same time), first CD was Rattle and Hum by U2, and my first (legal) download was Minor Threat.
I had a bunch of 45s, some Monkees, “Snoopy and the Red Baron” and, especially Beatles. I think the first was probably “I Saw Her Standing There”. And after 45 years (urk!), I got to see Sir P. play it live in Piedmont Park (Atlanta). Good Stuff.
I was slow on the uptake today
Two that I remember my Mom purchasing for me were Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls (with Bicycle Race on the other side) and Ace Freehly’s (sp) New York Groove.
I actually have 2 first 45′s – the first 7″ 45 was Van Halen – Jump. I think the B side was Drop Dead Legs. And, I bought a 12″ 45, also Vah Halen. It was Runnin’ With The Devil on the A side. I can’t remember what was on the B side. I thought nothing of it at the time, but WTF is the purpose of putting out a single on 12″ vinyl? Jeff – you were in the biz… Any insight?
Long before those, my very first record was Rush – Moving Pictures. My dad took me to Independent Records for my 10th birfday, turned me loose & said “Pick any record.” When we got home & put it on the stereo, I was blown away, and he was just pissed. That moment pretty much defined the next 8 – 10 years of our relationship.
I remember cutting out The Archies 45 off of the back of a box of Post Honeycomb cereal.
You don’t want that Timothy Taylor to be frosty. That would ruin it. You want it cellar temperature — around 55 degrees F. Hmm-mmm-licious.
I think my first 45 was “Black and White” by Three Dog Night. That would’ve been 1972, when I was 11 years old. I probably bought it at Woolworth’s.
“American Pie” used to scare me when it came on the radio back in 1971, because of the repeated refrain of “This’ll be the day that I die.” I was worried that I might actually die that day if sung along in my head. (It’s a wonder I never ended up with a full-blown case of OCD [rather than just a minor case].)
“Chantilly Lace” by Jerry Lee Lewis, I was about 10. I think it was 70cents at DrugFair in Greenbelt, MD. My brother got his first 45 at the same time, “Hot Rod Lincoln”.
My first 45 was a Human League 12 inch but I can’t remember which one. And I don’t know where it is today. I remember buying in on Jersey (not in Jersey) because there was no 15% sales tax – which made a big difference to me at the time.
The Guardian (or The Guraniad to old timers) is the whiniest, most liberal newspaper on earth! That canned chicken looks worse than I even imagined it could.
Madz1962 – I’m pretty sure I cut that Archies single off the cereal box too. Sugar, Sugar, I think. It played like, well, it had been cut off a box of cereal. I think the needle jumped into a flower pot next to the stereo at one point.
JeffInDenver: I believe singles were often released on 12-inch records (in the ’80s) because the sound was better than on 7-inchers, because, I think, the grooves on the 12-incher could be farther apart, and therefore more “sound” (volume, bass, dynamic range) could be put into each groove. And 12-inch singles at 45 RPM sounded better than 12-inch singles at 33 RPM, because the faster an analog source (either tape or vinyl) moves, the more “information” (sound) can be packed into it. I’m no sound engineer, but I think that’s the gist of it.
I think it was Summertime Blues/Heaven and Hell (The Who). I probably got it at Alfie’s in Fairmont. Most of the records I have from the 70s/80s came from Camelot or Murphy’s Mart.
My first 45 was “Sugar, sugar” by the Archies. Somewhere in my recollection, I also remember having purchased “American Pie.”
My first 8 track…was a knock-off Cheech and Chong tape that I discovered much later had, in fine print, “Tribute to” printed over the bold print of Cheech and Chong. Wotta ripoff!!!!
And if anyone here wants to see the results of Jeff’s predictions of a bear attack on his yurt, late Friday, or Saturday, go to nomenugget.org and check out pages 8 and 9. The print edition just came out today, and they put it online late in the day Friday.
Hey Jeff, I have spent each day for the past 49 years trying to make up for yesterday !
I cannot remember for the life of me the 1st 45′er I purchased but can remember the 1st 8 track tape…Led Zepplin and the cartridge was pink in color.
It’s weird how my mind works and a surprise that it does.
Madz1962 & Bill….I remember that Honey comb Cereal “record”. The “Big” stereo player I had was red and white and when you closed the lid it played the record. I thought it was the coolest thing ever!
My first and only 45 was out of a National Geographic magazine-it played whale songs. It was actually pretty cool.
I was 8 when I got “Let It Be” from the Beatles. Side 2 was a song called, “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)” which was a totally fucked up song.
Remind your subway girl that the gloves she is wearing is not to protect HER from things she touches but to keep the sub isolated from everything she touches.
My first music purchase, I think was ZZTop or Led Zeppelin, I can’t remember…
Madz 1962 reminded me that, yeah, they use to have records on the back of cereal boxes that you could cut out and play. I still have a 45 “record” made on a real flimsy black square, almost like paper. It was inside a MAD magazine. It had several different endings to the song and each time you played it, you never knew which ending would play. Those kind of flimsy records, I mean real flimsy on square black vinyl, were found in magazines and publications as promotional gimmicks. Anyone remember them? I also have one like that, of popular 7-eleven radio commercials.
But I still have most of my 45′s and I remember paying as little as 50 cents each. then later 69 cents, 75 and on up. When the price for a 45 record got up to $1 I remeber thinking “how ridiculous!”
Anyway, great subject and great old songs!
Speaking of Mad magazine and records, Mad used to occasionally include a joke record in some editions. They seemed consist of some flimsy acetate sheet with barely discernable grooves, but they did play if you were lucky (I had to weigh down my stylus with some quarters to get them to work. When they published the Bloom County book Billy and the Boingers in the late 80’s they also included a flimsy record insert (You Stink but I Love You), which I think I still have.
I think my first 45 was “My Sharona” by The Knack.
My first LP was Rick Springfield – “Working Class Dog”
I forgot to mention, as a kid I had some old Lone Ranger records and some Woody Woodpecker records that were really thick. Can’t remember the size, but bigger than 45. Towards the end of 45 production, I remember that the records were quite thin and flexible, compared to earlier records, especially my Lone Ranger ones! Loved the paper jackets to the 45′s as well.
My first 45 was a clear vinyl version of “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynrd and it was given to me by some older cousins. I played the crap outta that thing on my close n play record player. I think I was around 6 – 1974?
My sister is three years older than me and handled the 45 buying and she still has every one of them. Teddy Bear and Don’t Be Cruel (Elvis) and many more of his. And, Hold You Hand (Beatles) on the Swan label I believe and a bunch more. A big bunch more!
My first three 45′s were given to me by my uncle…I Told the Witch Doctor, Purple People Eater and What It was was Football (Andy Griffith comedy 45). Still got ‘em.
The first 45 I bought was most likely “Go Now” by the Moody Blues, July of ’64. I still love that tune. Then probably bought “She’s not There”, Zombies in August of ’64. “For your Love” (Yardbirds), and “Turn Turn Turn” (Byrds) both in ’65. Then it was albums only after that I’d guess.
clintcurtis,
nomenugget.org is bupkis, takes you to a midget lesbian porn site or something like that.
DTO- What It was was Football
Classic!
I think I just offended my boss because I turned to her and said ‘What’s a 45 Record?’ She looked at me like I was wearing a ‘suit made of turds’ (so to speak). I then got a 10 minute lecture on 45s, her collection and her favorites. Blah….
Anyhow, I do know that my first VINYL record was WHAM! It had “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ and I really think I mighta done permanent damage to that record listening to it so much.
May I just say that Starburst are the best candy out there? I don’t know where that bit of info came from, but by-god it’s true!
Now Playing on iPhone: “Hellacious Acres” by Kris Kristofferson
(sigh) I wish I could stop jacking off. It’s ruining my life. “Wanna go see a movie?” “Sorry, can’t leave the house. I gotta jack off.” If not for this Charlie’s Angels poster I could probably quit. But it looks so good in the bathroom…….
Oh and my first 8-Track was Parliament – “Mothership Connection”. Played it until the tape broke, patched it and played some more. I moved to cassette after that.
Swami, Good point on the Timothy Taylor. Frosty is just a catch-all phrase when it comes to beer, but not always accurate.
30 Miles South, Those flimsy “records” inside magazines were called flexi-discs. Trouser Press had one in every issue, and they were almost always interesting.
Joe T.. I have You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) on a Beatles rarities album. Your assessment is correct: fucked-up.
No 45′s for me.
My first LP was We’re The Mini-Pops (1983)
My first cassette was Triumph – Thunder Seven (1984)
My first single (cassette) was Motley Crue – Primal Scream b/w Dancing On Glass
My first CD was Bullet Boys – Freakshow (1991)
@Tyrosine- I remember having to weigh down the stylus! Man, I hadn’t thought about that in years!
T. Farty McAppleass,
Don’t let it hold you back: Combine different activities. Jack off at the movies for example. Just remember to use lots of “ointment” so if anyone objects you can just tell them you’re “healing” http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=american+dad+ointment&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#
Side note: Why are so many “Mamas and the Papas” and “One Day at a Time” ranked so high on Google Video today?
Trisha aka Mrs. Wally,
Apparently it ruins the records, so you’re not supposed to do it, but if you had one of those flexi-discs (thanks Jeff) or an album that was scratched up it was the only way.
I had a fried whose dad was a hardcore audiophile and he would put water on some records before playing them. I’m not sure how or if this works, or if it’s even good for the record or turntable, but he sure as hell did it. I never tried it myself because I knew I’d have my ass kicked into next Sunday if I was seen squirting a water bottle anywhere near the stereo.
Tyrosine – Mackenzie Phillips just dropped a big bomb shell the she and her father had had a secret affair for YEARS!
Anybody still have those yellow or red things you could pop into the center hole in your 45′s to go over the album sized spildle and not have to use that tube adapter you had for your ‘record player’?
Trisha aka Mrs. Wally…I still have a dime taped to the top of the stylus on my 1969 ‘Dual’ brand (top of the line back then in a turntable only market) turntable. Works great!
Where’s Angry White Guy today?
Thanks Jeff, for setting things straight about the flexi-discs. Yes I think I still have a couple of those plastic center things for 45′s. See how good I am at calling plastic records and plastic center things by their proper name? Someone mentioned a clear vinyl 45. I also remember that once in a while you could get a 45 on different colored vinyl, like blue or red. Jeff? What were they called?
We now have CD’s and I-POD’s and stuff. Just think where the music technology will be in 5 or 10 years from now! Jetsons?
Don’t know if this will load here, but here’s a link to a photo of me with my very first record player:
http://tinyurl.com/ybeglmb
I received a few “kiddie” records to go along with it.
The first 45 that I ever bought for myself was Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”. I played the heck out of that record back then, and it’s still one of my favorite McCartney songs to this day.
You guys are mentioning many of the singles that I acquired. (“The Streak”, “Joy to the World”, “Convoy”, etc.) In those days, it was the custom among my group of friends to buy 2 or 3 45s for each other as birthday gifts. I fondly remember one trio of favorites that I received for my eighth birthday: “Little Willy”, “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”, and “Monster Mash”.
I’ve never parted with any of my records. Still have them all, including my Trouser Press flexi-discs, stored inside several of those heavy cardboard record tote boxes with the plastic handles. (Anyone remember those?)
DTO, I still even have a few of those red and yellow inserts floating around here somewhere.
I kept my collection of 45s in a candy stripe record carrier. Eventually I filled up a couple, but the first few purchases as I remember them:
Robert Mitchum “The Ballad of Thunder Road” 1958 (reissued in 1961)
Gary U.S. Bonds “Dear Lady Twist” 1961
Del Shannon “Runaway” 1961
Ricky Nelson “Travelin’ Man” 1961
Dion & the Belmonts “Runaround Sue” 1961
I purchased most of them at “The Record Store” in downtown Tacoma, WA for a dollar each.
I long ago lost the 45s, but when I play them in my head, they still sound pretty damn good.
rock on…jtb
The best part of Mad Magazine was the back inside cover. It showed a scene with a comment. When you folded it just so, you got a different scene with a different comment that gave an entirely different outlook. Do they still have that?
Billy Preston: Outta Space
Shiny – Well, that’s just awesome. I’m so glad she decided to share that with the whole world, especially how she threw in the “consensual” part, just to make the story extra creepy. Most people who find themselves in this situation tend to keep it private, but bless her heart there’s Mackenzie shouting “consensual incest” from the rooftops. The only way this story could get any worse is if they took pictures.
DTO – I got a whole bag of those little yellow rings (I think they’re called spiders).
johnthebasket – Are you still in Tacoma? That’s where I live. I miss Tower Records, but they’re up in Seattle only, I guess. Haven’t heard of “The Record Store” as you mentioned. But I’ve only been up here since ’77.
They make turntables that can be hooked up to your computer, so you can get all your 45′s onto the computer, but again, I don’t know what they’re called. But I think it’s a cool way to help preserve the old vinyl records and listen to them (pops & scratches and all) at the computer.
I continued to buy 45s for two years, until “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” was released by Columbia in May, 1963.
I bought that, and that changed everything. I mean, that changed everything.
jtb
retrollama ~ I had the same record player, only brown and beige. The turntable had a “fuzzy” or flocked coating on it to protect the fragile vinyl records. I remember waking up at 4:30 almost every morning, and playing my records very softly, waiting for my parents to get up and get ready for work and school.
Dave B,
For me the best feature in Mad was Dave Berg’s “The Lighter Side of…”
@30…The Record Store was on the second floor of the 12-story Rust Building, which still stands in downtown Tacoma on the northwest corner of 11th and Pacific. The Rust building was mostly a business and professional building when I was growning up, and remains that, with the addition of some loft/apartment spaces toward the top.
You have a nice name, but it’s good to remember that Seattle is 30 miles north of Tacoma, rather than Tacoma being 30 miles south of Seattle. The King County fuckers stole our mouintain in the early 20th century. Until her dying day (at the age of 90) my paternal grandmother called that beautiful mountain to the southeast of Tacoma by its proper name, Mount Tacoma.
Ah, just some Pacific Northwest politics on a sunny Thursday in Puget Sound country.
jtb
Dave B.
I just read yesterday about the inside back cover of MAD Magazine! The artist who creates those is named Al Jaffee. He stated that since 1964 he made those Fold-in faeatures in every issue of MAD, except three.
First song downloaded to my I pod (with apologies to the Clash!):
Now Jeff told Toney & the secrets
I gotta write my book!
my ideas when I drive to work
Have been startin to cook
Jeff he drove his Cadillac
He went a’ cruisin’ down the ville
The cheesburger was a’ Cookin on his radiator grille
CHORUS
Toney don’t like it
Rockin the Yurt
Rock the Yurt
Toney don’t like it
Rockin the Yurt
Rock the Yurt
By order of the publisher
We don’t mock our man
We entertain the faithful
With that crazy bunker cam
But the faithful they brought out
ideas of their own
things to with cheese
By men who are full grown
As soon as Jeff headed to the Yurt
Toney and the secrets began to blurt
CHORUS
Now over at the Yurt
Oh! They really pack ‘em in
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this writing thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy WSVR jive
CHORUS
I have no recollection of my first 45 (Tush ZZTop is my best guess) but I remember my first album. I bought Black Sabbath Paranoid when I was 7 years old. My mother has always said that that should have been the first big red flag…
I do remember playing a lot of my parents old 45s. The one that particularly sticks out in my memory was Ruby and the Romantics “Our Day Will Come”. Still love that song.
Happy Thursday, Surfers!
Hokies would love the miscommunication shirt.
Hope nobody’s posted THAT thought yet.
johnthebasket,
thanks! You’re right about Seattle being 30 miles north of T town. King county will never get Mount Tacoma, because it is located within pierce county!
As for Pacific Northwest politics…I think it’s good that this group of people from the eastern states get a little of it, doesn’t hurt a thing! I would like to go back and visit W Virginia, Pennsylvania (sorry for the mis-spell) and some of these other places talked about here. I’ve never been back east, except the Chicago airport on the way to England.
My first 45 was Autobahn by Kraftwerk!
I also have a deep deep love for Mad magazine, and I remember vividly the pure joy I felt that such a thing existed when I read my first one. I was too young to understand all of it, but I recognized that it was created by much more enlightened beings than were to be found in my little world. Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, etc. I loved that “gang of idiots”!
I just teared up a little…
The Guardian article is pretty good.
I like their description of Jeff’s photo of the McDonald’s Breakfast Burrito:
“Being all squashed and pallid, the object itself is hardly appetising, but the picture also manages to make it look lonely and a bit frightened”
Pagan – Nice job on the lyrics!
Missing in action: AWG
Is Phillip MacKenzie’s dad gone? I read that her siblings are very pissed at her for telling about having sex with daddy…for a whole decade! And letting him give her heroin at age 11.
Anyway, I think I’m done for today. Thanks all, for letting be join your close-knit group.
Damnation.
I thought your Ad vs Reality was pretty near my experience — a little sad, but nothing I couldn’t get over. Sometimes you need something to eat that came through a window.
But that canned chicken. There’s an idea that’s truly hideous. The reality is otherworldly.
While reading the comments on Ad vs Reality in The Guardian, someone posted a link to this:
http://ihatemymessageboard.com/2009/03/29/pork-brains-in-milk-gravy/
I don’t think I could ever bring myself to eat something like that unless I knew I would keel over from starvation if I didn’t (and believe me, I have a long way to go to ever die of starvation).
Pagan – awesome lyrics!
ND-Thanks for that, I was about to leave work and hit my dive bar for 35 cent wings. Now I’m sure it’ll be hours before I’m hungry.
Having worked in record stores for about a decade, the Evil Twin says the little plastic things for a 45 are called “45 adapters”.
And Tiff, Shiny Rod already did mention the Hokie connection. I love those colors (and VT!).
WB in OH – it’s called the Disgusting Picture diet
I’m thinking of printing out several disgusting pictures and carrying them around with me. When I get hungry, I’ll just pull them out and look at them.
An entire blog about Yuengling Black & Tan over at OpenSalon. Jeff, have you been posting there, too?!
http://open.salon.com/blog/soxfan17881/2009/08/24/yuengling_black_and_tan_for_the_poor_connoisseur
Also, from shitmydadsays (which I believe is OH SO TRUE):
“I’m sitting in one of those TGI Friday’s places, and everyone looks like they want to shove a shotgun in their mouth.”
ND-That sounds like a plan, one look at that pic and I’m good for a couple hours.
Melissa-Reread the article, the last line leads me to believe Jeff had nothing to do with such nonesense.
WB in OH – I bet zombies eat them though….
Hey 30 miles south…close-knit group? Well maybe I guess because we kinda ‘know” each other, but not at all a closed society. It’s like a out-patient insane asylum and we just say hi as we pass each other while we wander around the halls.
Perfect description, DTO!
“nonesense” that’s nonsense at its best
ND-I doubt it, zombies like human flesh and pig brains in milk gravy would probably turn them off as well. As a matter of fact when I get around to writing my horror novel, I think I will have the hero lather himself in pig brains and milk gravy to ward them off. I’m really ill now.
See y’all Friday it’s time for a “frosty cold” PBR, peace out!
LOL DTO!
Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
on the B-side i think it was Don’t Try Suicide.
I remember thinking in while i must have been ten, how could there be a song better than this?
NDfaninAZ,
I’ve heard of the frikken yokals here in Alabamie eating pig brains and eggs.
Does anyone out there understand bing.com? It’s a fucking search engine. I’ve given them several tries, they’re supposed to help me decide stuff, but I don’t get it. Search for lesbians and you find lesbians. You didn’t help me decide shit.
OK are 45s the big dinner plate sized records or are they the saucer sized ones? And are those different than vinyls? I know some of you will want to smack the shit out of me for even asking but….HEH!
RNK ~ Both the 7 inch and the 12 inch “records” were made of vinyl. The 12 inch playing at 33rpm (revolutions per minute), usually held about 5 to 6 songs per side. The 7 inch ones played faster, at 45 rpm, thus the nickname “45″. They usually held one song per side. Before 45′s came out, there were 12 inch records which played at 78 rpm. They went so fast that you could only get one song per side. Later, after the 7 inch format came out, It was also used for “talking books”, and they slowed the speed down to 16 rpm. The fidelity was not as good as when played at 45, but it was good enough for one voice, and you could cram lots more material on the 7 inch disk if you slowed it down to 16 rpm. That’s why many turntables were equipped to play at all four speeds, so they would be able to accomodate all 4 formats. Before vinyl was used for records, the old 12 inch 78′s were made of lacquer, and were extremely brittle, and broke easily. Before records were flat, there were small cylinders, with grooves like records. They were about 5 inches long and about 2 inches in diameter. They looked like a cardboard toilet paper tube. You slid them onto a metal tube which was just slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the cylindar. The grooves were cut onto the outside only, so there ws no “flip side” I have an antique cylindar player and some cylindars. If you remember the old RCA logo, with the dog looking into the big horn, He was listening to a cylindar player. It was all mechanical, with a wind-up mechanism. The horn acted as the amplifier.
Sorry to get all pedantic on ya, there!
45…saucer
78…dinner plate
33 (aka LP)…platter
All vinyls…no smackin’ from me RNK.
My first 45 was “Popcorn” by Hot Butter. I probably got it at Korvettes or some such place. First LP was “Bridge Over troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel, which was a prize for something or other in 7th grade music class.
DTO, I still have my Dual turntable. I got it at Crazy Eddie’s (or was it Sights and Sounds?) in Flatbush in 1973; I recall taking it home on the subway, a very exciting time. It’s been rewired a couple of times, and has had a succession of replacement cartridges and styli. Today it still works, and sounds as good as a CD. Given a record in good shape, of course.
30, those turntables that can be hooked up to your computer are typically called “USB turntables”. Wacky, but what can you do.
I was a regular reader of Mad back in the day. I enjoyed it, but it was only moderately funny to me. Maybe I was too old for it or something. I did enjoy the “Spy vs. Spy” as well as Aragones’ “Drawn out Dramas”. But I completely abandoned Mad the moment I discovered National Lampoon – what a treasure for a 15-year-old boy! In addition to having the occasional titty picture, it was also hysterically funny. My first issue was this one: http://lampoon.rwinters.com/NL034-Jan1973-detail.jpg – purchased at A&S on Fulton Street because the stores near home didn’t carry such things.
T. Farty: bing.com is what I would call a “modern abomination”. Like Windows before it, an effort by Microsoft to get with the program – 10 years late and $1000 short.
Thanks, Greg & DTO fer skoolin me. And Greg, no need to apologize for the detail. Everyone is entitled to be a smartypants once in a while.
My first 45 was was way back in 1995. I remember it like it was yesterday….
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies was the band Denver was the title.
Punk rock band covering “Country Roads” and “Leaving on a Jet Plane”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpb0XB-gT_U
I grew up with CD’s but most of the bands I liked post HS put out good stuff on record, so I started collecting 45′s.
Whoops…Greg’s right about 78′s not being vinyl. My sister has albums full of my Mom’s old 78′s. I remember those things. Our Hi-Fi had 33, 78,and 45 settings and she’d play the 78′s quite often. I’m lucky I wasn’t a totally fucked up kid. I mean …Kay Star for christ sake. Then she got on this South Pacific jag and day after day I was listening to show tunes. And what was the big deal about The Norman Luboff Chior!?!?
Weird I tell ya. Even knew that as a kid.
My mom had 78s too. She was a Spike Jones fan.
My stepmom had the big 33s. We would crank the volume and jam out to Barry Manilow while cleaning house. I think I was 6. I can’t believe I lived to tell about it. I will never be able to forget the words to Mandy.
Kohl’s has a USB turntable on sale this Friday and Saturday for $71.99. Sale ends Saturday at 1:00pm. With it, you can convert all your vinyls to MP-3′s.
DTO ~ If she had Norman Luboff, she probably also had Percy Faith, Farrante and Teicher, Ray Coniff, and Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats. Yea, we had all the Broadway musicals from about 1960 to 1970. Got ‘em all memorized. My parents even had a copy of some old musical from the ’30′s, which came on six 78 RPM 12 inchers (12 songs total, remember) in this huge 3 inch thick book-like album. Those same 12 songs were eventually put out on one 12 inch stereo (microgroove) record. Fortunately, They never threw anything away, and I’ve got it all. Why, I have no idea.
I’m with chill … once you’ve discovered “National Lampoon”, “Mad” magazine ( as great an entry into subversion as it is) is greasy kid stuff.
Greg…Ink Spots, Ames Brothers and Eddie Arnold. Every Eddie Arnold album I’d bet. One Harmonicats…and I actually saw those those guys play “half time” at a Cincinnati Royals basketball game in…crap, ain’t got a year for you. Will long ago do? Bass harmonica always amazed me!
Man…I gotta go try and get jiggy with something. HA!!!
Greg sez, “My parents even had … six 78 RPM 12 inchers (12 songs total, remember) in this huge 3 inch thick book-like album.”
…and for you young ‘uns, that is why a bunch of songs released together is even today called an “album”. As in “photo album”, or “book full of 78s” or “new CD from $FAVORITE_BAND”.
I now have the Ion turntable that has the USB hook up so I can dump all my classical albums to my PC and I have a shit load of classical albums. I did have the Dual touch sensitive turntable but a power surge took it out. Loved that turntable. It had the best tracking I have ever heard from a belt drive.
Yea, Chill, the term “album” is probably the only word left from that era which still has any significance. And even though it no longer applies to a physical collection of “records”, everyone still knows what it implies, and uses it. Good observation!
Watermark those photos…thewvsr.com right across the middle like TMZ does.
My first 45 was “In the Year 2525″ by Zager and Evans. I bought it at Dracobly’s Department Store in Raymond, Washington. My first album was Stepponwolf “Stepponwolf”. The last vinyl I bought was Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. I’m thinking I should buy something else just so I don’t have to answer with that album when someone asks me “what was the last vinyl LP you bought?”.
Shiny Rod, sorry about your loss. (Dual Turntable). I had actually kind of forgotten about the Dual line, and I shouldn’t have. I had a big-assed Pioneer turntable which a friend sold to me dirt cheap. He was getting rid of all his stuff, and moving back to Korea, which he fell in love with, when he was drafted after college. The Pioneer served me quite well, although it had kind of a “loose” tone arm, which I was always fiddling with. Never had the money for a nice Dual.
Dam. You are gonna make me say what the 1st 45 I bought to play on my BSR turntable with the nickle taped to the top of the stylus was. … Ringo Starr – Photograph Damn I feel dirty.
Greg – I got mine at a pawn shop for some ridiculously low price. Pawn shops around college campuses are the best place to find music and stereo equipment. Although, I bought my receiver from HHGreggs before they became a chain store.
This is great! Check out the guy on the scooter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgaGfSMHNA&feature=player_embedded#t=72
T. Farty McAppleass,
Bing is the future of search engines. Goggle it if you don’t believe me.
Anyone that wants to destroy the Earth can easily do so by Binging Bing. Shit’ll go haywire.
TFM-Shut the fuck up. If this shit gets out Bill Gates will bing your sorry ass into oblivion and beyond.
WB in OH,
Bill Gates knows all about this. Ever notice that you can rearrange the letters of “Bill Gates” to get “Antichrist”? And his street address, “666 Death to Everything Cr” is hardly subtle. I’m just hoping I get to have sex with a midget before someone pulls the trigger. It’s one of the last things on my bucket list.
TFM-My sister is a midget but she won’t let me fuck her perhaps you might have better luck. Would you like me ask her for you? Also anagrams ain’t my thing so I’ll have to take your word on the antichrist thing.
Here’s a fun place that most WVSR fans will appreciate:
http://peopleofwalmart.com/
This has turned into the perfect music lovefest for fortysomethings. Is this the longest WVSR thread, or what? I’m still waiting for somebody to sound check the 45 of Playground in My Mind. Y’know, the one that runs “My name is Michael, I have a nickel . . . ”
I remember the Mad Magazine with the White House cover. I also slurped up Mad like nobody’s business. Later, I discovered an anthology of early Mad’s–back in the halcyon days of the mag when it was really over the top. A spoof of Archie cast the boys as knife-wielding teenage delinquents, and each panel was covered in whacky non-sequiters and graffiti by the artists. Far more out there than SNL or Monty Python.
Gordion Knot-I never heard that song before. It’s awesome. Not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhcsWMWZMaQ
I had “Playgrounds In My Mind” on 45. I also had “Seasons in the Sun,” and “Billy Don’t Be a Hero.” And “Energy Crisis ’74!”
Remember those albums they sold on TV, recorded by a sound-alike band? It would be a collection of current hits, performed by some band called Mirror Image, or somesuch. Ha!
WB in OH,
Please ask her for me. Is she hot? You think she’d be willing to dress up like a little Indian girl and let me chase her around in my Cowboy outfit? I’m excited. I’m going to get my hair cut.
Yeah, I had “Seasons in the Sun” as well (on an LP with other groups).
Somebody should make a compilation of early 70s singles–call it “The Earworm Anthology.”
The closest I could come is this Rhapsody link:
http://www.rhapsody.com/album/i-love-the-70s-1973?artistId=34397
I recall it was something by KC and the Sunshine Band, either That’s the Way I Like It or Keep It Comin’ Love, neither of which is entirely appropriate for a the 10-and-under set when you think about it. My mother set few boundaries back in the 70s.
I just remembered one that my mom played the hell out of. It was “The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer In The City”. This clip has a picture of the actual record on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1_8909dNJ0
“Me and You and a Dog Named Boo”…
Man I’m glad nobody has mentioned that one. I don’t think I could bear it. I knew a guy and we’d go target shoot with our .22′s and use 45s for targets. Perfect little bullseye. We shot the shit out of that one. They were cheap and we were making a statement goddamnit!
Jason-After listening to the original and noticed a cover by Joe Cocker, I like Joe but this is terrible compared to the original. IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HsEbb-9sA&feature=related
TFM-Yes she’s hot, I sent her an e-mail and have not heard back
I think I also had Kung Fu Fighting, The Theme from S.W.A.T. and I Think I Love You by the Partridge Family. Good God, it’s great to get this out of my system after all these years of keeping it bottled up.
Run Joey Run. Now THAT was a classic, never to be matched again!
Hey 30 Miles South, I have been on vacation for three days. Just turned on the puter for the first time.
“Somebody to Love”- Jefferson Airplane
I loved the show S.W.A.T.,Bill!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJu17fAnKU
1st 45 “mack the knife ” then saw the error of my ways-2nd 45-”satisfaction” by the stones.our record player was so crappy and beat up it would only track with a 9 volt battery taped to the tonearm !
some friends of ours got the whole chicken in a can as a wedding gift from the old lady who lived next door.don’t think it was meant as a joke either.
Since I’ve been trying to be funny in a perverted sort of way I can’t pass on this.
tom-I got a chicken in the can once, man they do not like that let me tell you brother!
boo. hiss.
Bill in WV,
Surely you must have had Boney M’s Rasputin as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
Once they came out with “Picture Discs”, why didn’t they just make them ALL like that? I remember Quiet Riot – Metal Health on picture disc. It was like having two entire album covers.
LMAO! Forgot about that one. JeffinDenver- I’ve got the Gene Simmons solo album on picture disc.
WB in OH – got a chicken in the can….haha….I get it.
Speaking of getting it in the can, did you see this link that Jeff shared with us the other day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZX9Rv_2_C0
Can someone tell me what a “cuppa two tree” is? I’ll lay off the bad chicken jokes, promise.
ND- The link was part of the inspiration for my tasteless joke.
WB in OH – were you the one that has a pillow named Lumpy?
I believe a “cuppa two tree” is like….when I get out of work, I’m going to have a couple (two or three) beers at the old man dive bar down the road.
ND-No I did not name my pillow lumpy. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Well, 5 bells in the buckeye state time to go hoist a cuppa two tree. Yeah that sounds bout right! Thanks.
Watermark! Watermark! Watermark! Watermark! Watermark! Watermark!
JE-SUS. (Said like Bobbi Dooley)
Who had the pillow named lumpy? The dementia is setting in again…
Delta Dawn was the 1st 45 I purchased with my own money. I think I bought it at Woolworths, but could have been Laneco.
Fingers crossed for you Jeff – surely someone at the Guardian will send some Timmy T your way!
Bill in WV –
Sorry….. Gene is not a pretty man… Those chicks in Poison are HOT, though….
I wonder why Poison & Vixen never toured together. Could it be, they’re the same people?
no singles for me I bought Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar babies “and ELO “On the third day” first then it was Doobie Bros “Toulous St,” My dad got a bunch of 8 tracks from a neighbor kid we cherished! One was Black Sabbath self titled, Canned Heat, “Boogie with canned heat” Cream, can’t remember the title. I loved an 8 track of Irish drinking songs, it was so awesome it was the Clancy Bros. I bought my LP’s from a little drug store in Rossford Ohio. Later I bought David Bowie “Diamond Dogs” which was really bizarre for a 12 yr. old. I was into Bowie when others were into David Cassidy and Donnie Osmond My dad took me to special record store so I could buy Sparks “Kimono My House” And “Ghosts by the Strawbs. Saw both bands on Don Kirshner’s rock concert show.
Tyrosine — I have Boney M’s Rasputin in my iTunes library. What are you trying to say?
Remember the song “Timothy” about cannibalism? How about “The night they drove old dixie down”? My aunt had some cool old singles one was “Telstar” an instrumental and “Tie me kangaroo down sport” She was English of course!
I still buy vinyl all the time don’t own an MP3 player….yet.I love all kinds of music, it is my life!
Bill….I understood the”My Ding ALing” and “The Streak”. It also confirmed to me who you are, LOL….But seriously, did you just admit to “I Thik I love you”? Seriously? Oh boy, I can get some use out of this!! LOLOLOL
“In the year 2525″…..must’ve been about 4 when I went with my older bro and sis to get it…..remember playing it for the first time at my Great Aunt’s house……one of my earlieest re-member-ies…..Bizarre.
1969?
Brynhildr,
I have Rasputin in my mp3 library as well. My wife loaded it. Must have something to do with that extra X chromosome…..
All this AM radio gold from the 70’s reminded me of this little ditty featuring the soothing talents of Jello Biafra and Al Jourgensen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_0ZipyHVcA
tiff – I’m on that Hokies thang. GO VT!!!!
what a approiate question as today was National One Hit Wonder day……my pick? funkytown by lippsics. anyone have a favorite?
thats Lipps inc……………………damn nails
“Downtown” by Petula Clark, circa 1963 or so? I believe it set me back $.89 but I’m sure I listened to it 890 times or so, making it .001 per listen. (Someone should check my math)
Best of Jeff quote nomination:
“What’s the point of wearing gloves, if you’re just going to go around doing normal stuff in them? I’m no scientist, but I suspect poop particles and lung spores can attach to plastic, as easily as skin. Right?”
Damnit Jeff, I am a scientifical laborer and while poop may stick to a hydrophobic surface like plastic, you are probably going to get less poop per bite, than were she not wearing them. I am outspoken. I might have requested she get her a new pair.
I hated when people in the lab answer the phone, use the computer, or try to sign UPS while wearing gloves.
I got me a shirt! They are truly ugly, but I may find use for it, and the price was right. I want the scribbled fish on a cowboy style hat. I suspect you this fish in Dunbar as a boy. Did you ever share the story of how you invented the fish. I do not recall it, and think I have read 90% of the Report.
Lastly, congratulations on getting proper attribution from the Brits.
Greg
Shiny and Tadpolegal – Happy Belated Birthday!
NDfaninAZ & WB in OH – I thought the pillow named lumpy was either Bikerchick’s or Brynhildr’s.
Speaking of Bikerchick – Where has she been lately?
1st 45? I don’t think I have ever purchased a 45. My parents had a lot of music when I was a kid, and I guess it never occurred to me to buy any for myself.
When they got divorced, my parents’ musical taste became horrible. My dad went through this big Ann Murray phase. TF? (Sorry my invisible Canadian friends.)
My mom got pretty into Kenny Rogers, but she was telling me recently that during that time, when she would take my brother to daycare, he would insist that she play Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman Hear me Roar” over and over again. I know it isn’t a family revelation on par with Mackenzie Phillips, but I found it to be both hilarious and disturbing.
Sex Pistols- Pretty Thing
( B side- Who Killed Bambi?)
Still sounds good, even though John Lydon is doing adverts for butter. The twat.
Oh, for cripin’ out loud. I have to be the grouchy grandpa again and try to add some perspective and come across as a pontificating pissant, which, I swear on the future crypt of Bob Dylan, I am not.
@Debra – You seem like a nice young lady; if you are communicating from some kind of mobile device which doesn’t support the period or other punctuation, it would be good to say so at the top of your post — something like “connecting via dick tracy keyboardless watch”.
If you have a qwerty keyboard, the period is right ring low, the comma is right middle low, the semicolon is right pinkie strike, the colon is right pinkie cap, the question mark (which you seem to have located already) is right pinkie down/cap.
Perhaps this information will be of use. Damn, I sure do miss wordnerd.
As for “Seasons in the Sun”…”Seasons in the Sun” is a very loose English language translation of the song “Le Moribond” by Belgian singer Jacques Brel. It was first popularly translated into English by Rod McKuen (In fact, Mr. McKuen is givin 1/2 writers’ credit on Terry Jacks 1973/74 recording. Mr. McKuen recorded the song on a couple of albums between 1965 and 1968. You can hear Mr. McKuen’s entire catalog from this period on this fine record from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/If-You-Go-Away-Years/dp/B000L43NBI/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1254013681&sr=1-9
Only $221.49, and nearly every song is listenable. This boxed set contains everything that’s wonderful and awful about the ’60s if you listen with the right ears.
And finally, with regard to 1970s music: here are a few albums recorded in the ’70s:
The Who: Live At Leeds (1970)
Deep Purple: Deep Purple In Rock (1970)
The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (1970)
Black Sabbath: Paranoid (1970)
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (1970)
The Grateful Dead: American Beauty (1970)
Carole King: Tapestry (1971)
Led Zeppelin: Untitled (IV) (1971)
Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick (1972)
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Catch A Fire (1973)
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
The Who: Quadrophenia (1973)
King Crimson: Red (1974)
Queen: A Night At The Opera (1975)
Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run (1975)
Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life (1976)
Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia (1976)
The Ramones: Ramones (1976)
OK, I’m getting tired of pasting the titles of these obviously brilliant ablums into this little box. Perhaps it is enough to say that despite what a, perhaps, underinformed dipshit or two has to say about ’70s music in this forum, the ’70s were second only to the ’60s in musical creativity in the 20th century. And in another place and at another time we’ll discuss why the 1920s are third. God help us in the ’80s and ’90s.
Debra, sorry to sound so mean. I’m just an old guy, so throw my comments to the wind.
DAMN, writing and flirting about sex is great: on a site for the Nickelodeon crowd. What matters: family, music, and swimming through the river of shit they call American business must be discussed somewhere. If not here, where? If not today, when? If not us, then who?
Live and be well…jtb
This is going to sound rediculous, but are there still any of those sweet maroon shirts? I want one pretty bad.
@WTB – Good lord, if they ended up with Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers, where, in heaven’s name, did they start?
Also, your brother selected a fine Helen Reddy song, but he could have chosen “You and Me Against the World”. It’s more appropriate, more to the point, and a better example of the range of this nice lady from Oz.
I’m, as they say on the Web, juxtaposin’.
Live and be well…jtb
Yea! I love the question. My first 45 was Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” b/w “11:59″, when I was 9. I bought it at Gipson’s (Gibson’s?) in Plano, TX. I had to explain to my mom, a devout Church of Christ woman, that I was not going to be permanently damaged by her saying ‘ass’ in the lyrics. Still have it. Still listen to it.
Damn, j the b, did you miss a dose of your medication?
@ johnthebasket,
Nice list but please don’t be so dismissive of the 90′s.
Pearl Jam – Ten
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Tool – Ænima
@ Kevindust:,
I don’t have a problem with any of your selections. However, with the possible exception of the Pearl Jam album, none of these works actually leads anywhere else; for that matter, they aren’t really “works” at all–just arbitrary collections of tunes, one or two of which per album can be made into a music video.
Having said that, I want my choices in music to be respected by others, so I am happy to respect yours or anybody’s. If you think your 90s list is comparable in musical weight, texture, resonance, and listenability to my 70s list, then live and be well.
@ WVKay — Yes.
jtb
jtb…Sweet Baby James…just sayin’
@ jtb
I heartedly do think that my 90′s list is comparable in musical weight, texture, and resonance to your list. Listenability, not so much…NIN and Pantera take time.
I assure you that each of these works is far more than a collection of tunes or singles, these are complete masterpieces from beginning to end.
Proof that amazing music is still being created? Here you go a fun cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPY32ux1P8
Sorry, I was pretty wasted when I wrote my post. So sorry to annoy you. I guess I should stick to lurking here. Gosh.
I once frequented the record shop on the second floor of the old Rust Bldg. in Tacoma in 1961-62, while stationed at Ft. Lewis. A lovely young girl who worked there recommended any number of LP’s to me, many of which I still have. We were able to go into booths to play records before purchasing, as I recall. Those were the days of Century 21 in Seattle – lots of folk music. I often hung out at a place called “The End,” on South Tacoma Way, across from Steve’s Gay 90′s. Fond memories.