I just read this morning in the re-issues review section of the Jun09 MOJO that Thomas "Blinded me with Science" Dolby plays on this record - he's credited as Booker. T. Boffin! I don't own any Def Leppard or Thomas Dolby records but this still surprised me.

Don't expect a topic on it since they didn't pass through Chicago on the short North American tour, but just wanted to let everyone know that trash didn't die along with Lux. The Gories killed it last night. A nice little piece of my life's puzzle was put into place.

The Gories - with the original players? Didn't know this was happening! This band is good for a thread.

Yes sir, Dan and Mick who I've seen millions of times around town and Peg who was in New Orleans for the last thirteen or so years before Katrina. They did a joint tour with the Oblivians- Two shows in Memphis, one in Detroit, and now a bunch of shows in Europe.

Totally sublime, Great stuff. Never thought I'd see it happen.

I love my girlfriend, and she normally has great taste in music, but last night in the car she derisively said that what we were listening to sounded like the Cranberries. It was Cocteau Twins' Treasure. My mood was soured.

Break up with her. It'll only get worse.

Yeah ... that's trouble.

Do you have a sentimental attachment to this person?

Well, of course I do.

But anyway, if there's one record you'd think a guy could put on that wouldn't bother a girl, amiright...

... or at least not make her think of the friggin' Cranberries.

Oh, shit. I just realized that I'm going to have the chorus of 'Zombie' stuck in my head for the rest of the night.

I don't think it's outrageous or unforgiveable to identify affinities between the Cranberries and the Cocteau Twins. They're not exactly worlds apart. I mean, the Cranberries are kind of lame, and the Cocteau Twins rule, sure, but they're not exactly playing completely different ballgames musically. Both trade in yearning, ethereal, sometimes jangly dream pop with wailing female lead vocals clearly influenced by Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Yeah, it definitely makes a bit more sense when you think about it. Still though, that band haunted my childhood pretty hard because it was so inescapable for a few years.

Peter Gabriel's Up is a really, really amazing record

Special Summer celebration show at Hollywood Bowl on June 25th 1966 -

The Beach Boys
The Byrds
The Lovin' Spoonful
Love
Sir Douglas Quintet
Percy Sledge
The Leaves
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

among others

I recently found a live youtube clip of the Lovin' Spoonful, who I used to write off as lightweights.

I was wrong.

Captain Beyond - Dancing Madly Backwards ... and a couple other tracks. See if you can guess who the singer is.

Found this band will digging through some late 60s/early 70s stuff

Glad I went ahead and Wiki'd it - I recognized the voice but I'd never have put a name with it. Good stuff.

Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air

Paul Stanley from Kiss sounds like Snagglepuss when he talks.

If you haven't yet, check out their tune "Be Home Soon" or "Darling Be Home Soon" - one of the prettiest tunes ever & a favorite of mine since my old man played it when I was little.

Most of the Lovin' Spoonful's hits are sensational. Anyone who enjoys pop music made in the '60s simply needs to own a collection that contains all/most of these songs in one place:

"Do You Believe In Magic?"
"Six O'Clock"
"Darling Be Home Soon"
"Nashville Cats"
"Daydream"
"She Is Still A Mystery To Me"
"You Didn't Have To Be So Nice"
"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?"
"Nashville Cats"
"Summer In The City"
"Rain On The Roof"
"Younger Girl"

Other jams include "Lovin' You" and "Didn't Wanna Have To Do It."

Music that is definitely worth exploring, even if it might be extremely "lightweight" at times... there's really nothing wrong with that.

People also need to realize just how awesome the Guess Who were.

Paves, is there a comprehensive comp you could recommend, or even a few of their studio albums to check out first? I can't believe I've never really heard this band.

I didn't mean to say their music was lightweight - but that they were a 'lightweight' band: mostly a record company creation, like the Monkees or the Mamas & Papas. Weak in that sense, with records done mostly by session players and such.

I was wrong about that. The Lovin' Spoonful could obviously tear shit up live, as that youtube clip clearly shows. I love how they blew the intro of the first song, then jumped right in and rocked hard. They had some chemistry.

Not much of a big fan of their hits, tbh.

Playing "it's too late" on guitar today, great song. Love m7 chords!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5MORLi8K0

This looks like a pretty comprehensive hits compilation:




Password for the RAR file is "duster340."

I'm gonna download it to, I've barely heard this band's music since I was like 8 years old.

A record label creation perhaps, but awesome anyway:



check out Creed on guitar, left

undeniably great chorus

Love that song.

Creed!

The new deluxe edition of Reckoning has made me appreciate Harborcoat and Little America more than ever before.

Every home should have that Lovin' Spoonful comp. And a Grass Roots best-of while you're at it.

I came in here to post that Allen Klein, band manager, label head, tax cheat and scumbag (just ask Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger), died today. I want to believe that his death might crack open the Rolling Stones 60s vaults or let the ABKCO label start cross-licensing their catalog (Sam Cooke, Animals, Herman Hermits, the Cameo/Parkway label) to other labels for compilations and soundtracks, but given that he died of Alzheimers and his son Jody has been effectively running the label for several years anyway, it's likely to be business as usual.

recently unearthed photo of Paul, Ringo and Allen Klein, dated September '69:



The expression on Paul's face seems to say "Stay away from me you cunt".

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The Grass Roots, post Sloan/Barri era, can get pretty dicey - be careful with that. I have the first album on CD (complete with early demos) as well as the 45 of "Let's Live For Today", which is all I would recommend.

The Lovin' Spoonful is a sure thing - even their original LPs are pretty solid.

Good tunes, but Sebastian always on the verge of frenching that autoharp creeped me out.

This looks good.

The reason why New Adventures In Hi-Fi stands above the albums surrounding it is it is just R.E.M. being R.E.M., rather than actually trying a certain theme/gimmick/style (i.e. "rock" on Monster, Radiohead-style-spaciness on Up, the whole Beach Boys/sunshine pop thing on Reveal, the arena-style U2/Coldplayisms of Around the Sun, and the self-consciously back-to-basics Accelerate). This album is just so fantastic -- but try and describe it; how can you? It's not really any style aside from R.E.M. style. The songs aren't super unique or amazing or anything, it's not exactly a 'new' sound, but it's hard to describe nonetheless.

My earlier apprehension about Deerhunter live panned out. I love the band, but the performance was just forty-five minutes of unbroken guitar hisssssssssssssssss

RIP: Drake Levin, guitarist with Paul Revere & Raiders.

http://www.louielouie.net/blog:

The Smiths - How Soon is Now? (live in Madrid, 1985)

Cheap Trick Releases latest Album on 8-Track
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/c...article1205531/

Was a big fan of this band on Capricorn as a teen. My vinyl of their first LP was misplaced at college. Just recently got it on MP3. Good stuff.

Yeah, Jim and Greg contend this band is lightweight and not worth their time. Wrong.

Casey Kasem's vintage American Top 40 shows are being syndicated. No station in Cleveland carrying the 80's shows but the oldies station here carries the 70's shows. They match up real time dates with a random year each week. So you get to hear the top 40 countdown from the current week at some point in history. Always fun hearing 30 through 40 where songs that didn't chart much higher have all but been forgotten.

I've been trying to find someone who's been recording the shows and making them available as zip files. No such luck yet. I haven't tried torrents.

I did find a station in Boston that archives the past few shows for on-demand listening but the bandwidth is a bit less than what I'd prefer. Still, listening to the special "girl song countdown" show that aired this past weekend, and originally in 1977.

everybody needs to hear the new song "rats" from The Black Heart Procession. unbelievably good...

Found it here:
http://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-blac...ats_077462.html

I was decidedly NOT a fan of Visiter (nothing wrong with the music but too simple, long, and boring), but the melodies on the new The Dodos album are surprisingly nice.

Title track of the new Tori Amos

Anxious to hear new Sweet and Hoffs covers.

Stuck with listening to clips on Amazon. Can't find it anywhere. Oh well, one more week.

Sounds like vintage 70's AM radio.

This will get stuck in your head and torture you.