Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
(Also, I didn't get a CD player until they stopped making LPs for most domestic releases.)
My brother!
I first heard Tom Waits in 1982, I think. Live. Didn't know who the hell he was. He was playing at a benefit. My friend and I both thought he was the worst performer there because of his voice. I don't think I found out who Tom Waits was until 1986 or so in college. But what someone played me was the early stuff and I still didn't like it. It was when I heard SwordFishTrombones and Rain Dogs that I became a convert. His Weill-like circus-y stuff was what led me to listen long enough to get past his instrument and listen to how he was using it.
For anybody interested in vintage comedy albums, incidentally, George Carlin's Laugh.com has licensed a bunch of them.
Damn! No Albert Brooks "Comedy, plus One". My library had this when I was a kid (along with some of the Python, Firesign Theater and Cosby records) and I thought it was hysterical then, but I know it's considered somehow groundbreaking now. The fact that I got Brooks humor as a kid really suprises me, but it's so long since I heard it I don't trust my memories.
The fact that I got Brooks humor as a kid really suprises me, but it's so long since I heard it I don't trust my memories.
I thought Robin Williams' "Reality, Wow, What a Concept," was hilarious when I was a kid. I found out upon listening to it later as an adult that I was laughing because other people was laughing, and he spoke funny, and that I'd only actually understood about three jokes on the album.
That didn't stop me from repeating a lot of the jokes. I wonder how many of my techers or other adults I horrified with my borrowed drug-and-sex humor.
Oooh, Previously unreleased Phil Hartman comedy record
Score! Thanks, Hec.
I found out upon listening to it later as an adult that I was laughing because other people was laughing, and he spoke funny, and that I'd only actually understood about three jokes on the album.
On a related note, I got into a discussion with my boss (who's from Canada) and how he's always amazed that people in the US really enjoy British humor, both because of unfamiliar cultural references and just the general style of the humor (though it's hardly a narrow range). I mentioned how I really enjoyed Python as a kid (both on record and on TV - the records didn't have laugh tracks) and chalked at least part of it up to the fact that Python only very infrequently indulged in topical humor, which I suspect has been a factor in their longevity/universality.
I also mentioned I generally just chalked up the occasional reference I didn't get - "Tony Jacklin golf clubs" and "Watney's Red Barrell" spring immediately to mind - were funny because they sounded funny.
Of course, there were plenty of non-topical references that went over my head as well (Free Masons for instance), but somehow the delivery got me past all those difficulties.
I also mentioned I generally just chalked up the occasional reference I didn't get - "Tony Jacklin golf clubs" and "Watney's Red Barrell" spring immediately to mind - were funny because they sounded funny.
Yeah, there's context (Tony Jacklin was a bit of an angry prat at the time, and his brand of clubs were inexpensive and low quality, while Watney's Red Barrell was crap bevvy of the underclass, but you can probably winkle that out), but it isn't vitally important.
Has anyone commented on this? Velvet Tinmine: 20 Junk Shop Glam Ravers
I wrote about it in LiTG. In a sidebar.
I have all those comps and love them quite a bit. Bubble Pop is where I got one of my songs from the recently posted mixes, "The Late Late Show" by Clive Kennedy.
My favorite rare glam comps, though, are the two bootleggish CD-Rs by Ursula 1000 (available in NYC) and Glitter From the Litter Bin.
Glitterbest is fascinating for charting the late glam/proto punk era (around '75) where British rock was in transition. Cool track by the Tiger Lilys who later became Ultravox.
I wrote about it in LiTG. In a sidebar.
D'oh!
My mind is becoming less and less like a steel trap....
My mind is becoming less and less like a steel trap....
I posted several tracks at Buffistarawk under Rare Glam.
I can send you some of my glam comps (mostly rarer stuff, or mixed with lesser known favs by famous peeps) if you want.
I have a lot of glam.
