Many of the lyrics are gut-punchers for sure
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 16, 2006 12:22:34 pm PDT #4212 of 10003
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
evil jimi - Oct 16, 2006 3:20:28 pm PDT #4213 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Found out the other day that Steve Mallinder, former lead singer of Cabaret Voltaire, is now a Uni lecturer in Australia.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
DavidS - Oct 16, 2006 4:21:43 pm PDT #4214 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
I think there's some exhaustion with the prolonged death march, plus they haven't really been a cultural force for a long time.
But I will always remember being in college during those aformentioned '79-'83 years and reading the Village Voice at the library and drooling over the CBGBs schedules back then.
tommyrot - Oct 16, 2006 4:26:40 pm PDT #4215 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
This ain't no mudd club, or C. B. G. B.
I ain't got time for that now
What's a mudd club?
DavidS - Oct 16, 2006 4:47:12 pm PDT #4216 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What's a mudd club?
It was the rock and roll disco downtown. They only played danceable R&R.
bon bon - Oct 16, 2006 4:50:37 pm PDT #4217 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The CBGBs closing has been talked to death, at least locally, and many other clubs have shuttered without somehow preventing the 1970s from happening.
DavidS - Oct 16, 2006 4:59:28 pm PDT #4218 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I never went to the Mudd Club in the early eighties. But I did go to Danceteria, The Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge.
esse - Oct 16, 2006 11:49:56 pm PDT #4219 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The most interesting thing about the CBGB closing (other than Trudy and Victor got to go) was simply that it marked the last in a long line of famous clubs closing in NY. I read an article that detailed their rise and fall, and how some of them tried to survive and others couldn't. Sad and interesting.
evil jimi - Oct 17, 2006 12:19:35 am PDT #4220 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
IMDB
Lost In Translation star Scarlett Johansson has signed a deal to make her first record, Scarlett Sings Tom Waits, according to media reports in the US. The album is being recorded at the moment and sessions will continue through the winter, with a possible release next spring from Rhino Records' currently re-activated Atco label. According to Fox News, the 21-year-old is recording a whole album of songs by premier singer/songwriter Waits. Sources says the eventual release date will be coordinated to coincide with Johansson's movie schedule.
esse - Oct 17, 2006 1:08:20 am PDT #4221 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
...huh.