Hi. I'm never in this thread, but I have a question I hope someone can help me with. I accidentally bought the "clean" version of
Black Parade
off of iTunes. Do I need to beat myself up about it? Buy the real one also? Not care?
This is basically my introduction to My Chemical Romance - while I've probably heard them before, I haven't knowingly sat down and listened to them.
Do I need to beat myself up about it? Buy the real one also? Not care?
Do you mean you bought an edited version of the entire album, or just the single of "The Black Parade"? If it's just the single, don't worry about it. If it's the entire album, you really should have the "real" version. While a cleaned-up-for-language version of the album shouldn't be hugely different, I can't really imagine it. (And I've been listening to
The Black Parade
a lot. Um, really a lot. Hello, I have turned into a raving My Chemical Romance fan.
goes back to checking iTunes to see if the video for "Famous Last Words" is available yet.
)
Thanks, Jilli, it's the whole album. Re-buying now.
Sean's spy mix
How about adding the theme from Peter Gunn?
He was a private detective, which is sort of a spy, I think. And they used his theme for the videogame "Spy Hunter."
How about adding the theme from Peter Gunn?
He's getting a separate crime jazz mix which is where I'd put Peter Gunn. Except, Peter Gunn isn't on that mix because - even though it's definitive Crime Jazz - it's so well known as to be hard to hear in context. And I've got about three or four other tracks that are similar, but less well known.
It's sort of the same way I wouldn't put "Bang a Gong" on a Greatest Hits of Glam Rock mix. I'd rather put "20th Century Boy" or "Hot Love" or "Jewel" or "Solid Gold Easy Action" as my T. Rex pick.
Of course, I undermine my own argument by including both the "James Bond Theme"
and
"Mission: Impossible theme" in my spy mix, as they are equally iconic.
It's sort of the same way I wouldn't put "Bang a Gong" on a Greatest Hits of Glam Rock mix. I'd rather put "20th Century Boy" or "Hot Love" or "Jewel" or "Solid Gold Easy Action" as my T. Rex pick.
Not "Ride a White Swan"?
Anyway, I guess I haven't listened to T. Rex in a while - I can't remember how "Hot Love" or "Jewel" go (and am currently too lazy to get my iPod or my MacMini up to listen....
"Ride a White Swan"?
thank you! I could recall the tune but not the words.
mp3s of that Velvet Underground acetate: [link]
Haven't listened (or downloaded) yet....
As indicated in the comments of the FMU blog, that's probably a rip of that Japanese bootleg that's been floating around for a couple of years, that's a copy of an identical acetate found in Mo Tucker's basement. The one on eBay was supposedly in better condition, but otherwise the same recordings.
Someone posted these same mp3's last month when all the hoopla started (I BTed them from somewhere). They're quite interesting, but I think they're for hardcore collectors only.
Speaking of which - Jon (or anyone else), have you heard the bootleg
Screen Test: Falling in Love with the Falling Spikes? It's a recording done before they renamed themselves the VU, and before Mo Tucker had joined the band. The sound quality is awful (it's a live recording), but there's a very pretty version of "Oh Sweet Nutnin'" - it's very different from the much later
Loaded
version. Hmmm.... as soon as I get a turntable I should digitize that.