If Music Could Talk

Going to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes this Sunday. Should be good for a piss up With CJ Ramone and Pinch (former drummer of The Damned) I believe so. We'll see who shows up. I also see the Courettes are coming to Montreal in July, that might require a cross border incursion. I would love for CJ to...

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2024, 6:57am

RMJ Honkey is the alias under which I released my mumble rap material.

https://pexlives.libsyn.com/geer Geers Kevin and I on the sophomore Did I miss S/T? Good stuff guys. Never really thought about the humbling lyrics of SEH making the call to arms on ECW that much more impactful. Still can’t get into anything after track three though… We reach... Thanks man, here's ...

Olaf wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2024, 3:43am

I wonder how many of those kits they needed to sell just to pay Vincent Price.

He could have just done it for the laughs and not actually got paid. Like he did with Thriller.

PJ Harvey - The Wheel The House of Love - Wheels Belle & Sebastian - Dog on Wheels Jens Lekman (feat. Tracey Thorn) - Hot Wire the Ferris Wheel Grandmaster Flash - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel Hello, This is a good one - it takes me back. Back then, this was almost exp...

35) Be Funny Or Die: How Comedy Works and Why It Matters - Joel Morris. Audiobook. 2024. This is apparently how all books are titled nowadays. Morris is a comedy writer who worked with Charlie Brooker and on Paddington 2, as well as on other stuff which was less successful for me. This book manages ...

I'm almost two hours into Dark Victory and am bored silly. Just an endless parade of 1930s music biz figures and mobsters having conversations and making deals. It may be true, but it's a dull story. And how does MCA figure? It achieves predominance in artist representation and distribution by work...

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11 Apr 2024, 10:45am

I'm almost two hours into Dark Victory and am bored silly. Just an endless parade of 1930s music biz figures and mobsters having conversations and making deals. It may be true, but it's a dull story.

And how does MCA figure?

Sounds like you fellows need a podcast that updates you on the hits of the day, setting them in their proper historical context in an accessible way as hosted by a music expert and her burntout friend.

Nah, I don't think it's a given that you would have heard them. Even by the 90s things had fractured and siloed enough that people could be out of the mainstream and still be unaware of some alt scenes and trends. Like I mentioned, they were played on the LA mainstream rock radio station regularly....

... Though not being familiar with the big Daft Punk songs is really surprising to me. I know Rev is a special case, but I thought these songs were well known across the board. .. Just curious where would I have heard them? Ive been married since 92 and raising kids since 96, so there wasnt any clu...

I've probably seen this Jardiance commercial over 200 times and it always fills me with rage. :angry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aromts0OiHs We get the Canadian version of those drug ads, but Canadian law prohibits the ads from saying what the drug actually does. So the ads are invariably a bu...

Last Curb was funny in itself and as a conceptual fuck you to Seinfeld fans disappointed by the finale. I wonder, tho, if Curb's finale would have been similarly received if there hadn't been the Seinfeld reference to play off. If Seinfeld's detractors thought, "What the fuck were they doing?" we k...

Finished up my big ass re-read of Brubaker/Phillips. My favourite series remains Fatale , which would be a superb tv series. Sleeper has gone down a little in my estimation—it was my first exposure to them, but it feels a little clunky now—but The Fade Out has jumped quite a bit. It was a bit of a ...

34) Triggers: A Life in Music - Glen Matlock. 2023. Kindle. You can't help but like Glen Matlock. At least, you can't once you've medically removed the worst of John Lydon's poison tongue from your skull's innards. Unlike John, a man he doesn't have much interest in being compared to, Glen isn't a ...