From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #15 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Thursday, January 23 1997 Volume 01 : Number 015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:48:53 +0000 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Fleshtones en europe pendant janvier et fevrier The French, Spanish, Swiss and Italian dates are now on the Hall of Fame for those interested. The tour kicks off in Nilvange on Weds 29 Jan and winds up in Como on Sun 23 Feb. Will nothing stop these men! \\|// (-0-0-) - ------oO-(--)-Oo--------------------------------------------- Steve Coleman scaf@pro-net.co.uk The Fleshtones Hall of Fame http://www.pro-net.co.uk/scaf/fhof.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:59:55 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: THE INDEPENDENTS Yeah, they're from Florence South Carolina, and indeed, they do that Misfits meets the Specials thing, and go the whole nine yards. A nice bunch of lads, but I can't really say that I dig their sound too much. The kids love 'em though. They either are or were at one time managed by one of the Ramones (and may make it a point to tell you themselves) and pretty much stay on the road full time, last I heard. They do have a CD out too. Oh, their singer's name is Evil Presely. Tell him I say hello. Brian Poust At 03:24 PM 1/21/97 -0400, you wrote: >My band, Thee Crypt Kicker 5, is playing with this band, the >Independents, next week in Tampa. From what I've been told, they're >"horror ska," something like the Specials meets the Misfits meets the >'Dolls or something...Anyone know anything about these kats? >Thanks, >Lounge Laura > >"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..." >Laura Taylor >(813) 974-3733 >ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:21:12 UT From: "Bill Holmes" Subject: More BMI and ASCAP When I worked music management, we used to stipulate in the contract that the promoter forked over the BMI fee (we were with them, not ASCAP, same diff tho') to cover two things - (1) the fee would be paid, and (2) if it wasn't, we had the promoter by the ninnies (and BMI would then presumably follow up with them for not only us, but other acts the promoter sponsored). It was a sliding scale based on ticket price and audience capacity. Part of my job as touring manager was to submit songlists for each performance to BMI. I did this religiously, and the checks rolled in fat and frequent. The "hassle" end is when they try to get small diners, clubs and stores to fork over large annual sums because they have background music or jukeboxes. If they used a glove instead of a mallet, they'd do better. And personally, since the jukebox owner is the one who collects all those quarters, if anyone should be liable it's them, not the diner owner (in many places there are vendors who install and maintain jukeboxes like cigarette or candy machines). But if you believe the rumors as to who controls major vending companies, you'll understand why BMI & ASCAP bypass hassling those people . Despite the fact that many agents, managers and accountants are mindless scum, I firmly believe that any musician who tries to be the band and the manager at the same time has signed his financial death warrant. Take the time to find someone you trust to handle such things as copyrights, license fees, distribution and all that "boring crap" and you'll be much better off. Bill Holmes bholmes_fm@msn.com http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8282 VISIT THE WEBSITE! NEW RANTS AND LINKS WEEKLY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Back, tan and trolling through his mailbox... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:39:56 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Johnny can really screw it on, *thbbhtttt*! If you enjoyed this record, you're sure to enjoy, Maybellene or No Money Down - Chuck Berry Buick 59 - The Medallions Mercury Blues - El-Rayo-X(Have not heard the original) I Need Me a Car - Junior Wells From an Edsel commercial, which featured a talking peacock(with a Cary Grant voice!), "Can we help it if we're so darned good looking? Brian Phillips ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 97 09:29:02 -0500 From: "Andrea Lauritzen" Subject: Hentchmen have at least 2 car songs! These are: "Chicks and Cars" "Hot Rod Millie" Both are on "Ultra Hentch" (Norton) Thanks Andrea PS. I just got "girls in the garage vol. 6 1/2" and there is a song on it called "Go back to your pontiac". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:40:52 -0500 From: Don Smith Subject: no golden turkey awards here I hope this didn't go through twice... In my opinion Russ Meyer is the only living Auteur in American Cinema, followed closely behind by Woody Allen. He single-handedly creates a vision unlike any other director working in the last-20 years. In some of his later desert films, like Beyond the Valley of the Ultravixens, he was (I believe) the only cameraman, a man in his late 50s lugging cameras up and down mountain sides only to hide himself in the editing suite and *edit* the films himself. (Woody, who I think has done great work, surrounds himself with how many assistants?). Call me a film nerd, but there is no other director who created such a personal vision on film. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is my favorite film and arguably the best film ever made (director John Waters described Meyer's Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill as "the best film ever made, possibly the best film that will EVER be made." -so there is considerable argument on the subject). Roger Ebert described Russ's style in that he hates the moving camera and sets up each shot from a stationary position. Then he edits the films with a rapid-fire technique which predated MTV by 15 years. The best rapid-fire editing example is the Cocktail Party sequence in BVD, which is mind-numbing in it's quick-cut intensity. Milos Forman, I believe, said (I'm paraphrasing) "Americans require movies to act like psychedelics and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls does just that." William Goldman, (Butch Cassidy, Marathon Man, Fierce Creatures, Heat) who is oddly considered one of the great screenwriters of our day, first called Russ in the early 80s the "only living American Auteur." When I first discovered garage music I thought these bands who could come up with amazing riffs, great lyrics, and a generally wild sound were criminally ignored. I wanted to get out there and promote this amazing music to the masses. Sure, there are plenty of Long John and the Silvermens where the attraction is someone with little talent singing their hearts out, but great bands, like Russ Meyer, must be appreciated for their achievements which thumb their nose at the mainstream. Are the Shaggs incompetent teens or does their music take rock and roll to a new level? I don't want to listen to the Bobby Darins or the Jay and the Americans any more than I want to watch films by James Cameron or Bob Zemeckis. They're successful by pandering to the mainstream and ignoring avant-garde artistic vision... I gave up on that years ago. Hell, I'd be as happy watching Ebert slam the dumb-ass studio hacks as a critic as I would reading Lester Bangs run-down the Eagles and praise the Count 5. 'Cuz the Count 5 really ARE better than the Macarena, Home Improvement, Wonder Bread and the Gap. Don - ----------------- OK, no one else thinks that BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS becomes a different movie every fifteen minutes of the film???? The dialog stinks, the character developement is non-existant, the ending is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overblown... Don't get me wrong I like the movie, the same way I like all low budget Blaxplotation, Chop-Socky, Ed Wood, and the like... BUT THIS WAS WRITTEN BY ROGER EBERT!!! THIS MAN ROUTINELY PANS OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK!!! IT'S THE SAME AS REX REED APPEARING IN "MYRA BRECKINRIDGE" AND BAD MOUTHING ANYONE ELSE AS A PERFORMER. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:55:16 -0500 (EST) From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Manfred's Back Manfred wants everyone to know that he's not dead or even seriously maimed. He fell 12 feet Friday night and suffered compressed vertebrae and a facial cut requiring 15 stitches. However, he and The Woggles finished the set before taking him to the hospital. He walked to work on Monday (tho' he got a ride home). He says he is VERY sore and will be taking it easy the next coupla weeks. You can send cards, flowers, cookies, and well wishes to: Manfred Jones 445 Meigs St. Athens, GA 30601 - - Richard Whig ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:00:18 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@mail.bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Re: Fabulous Flipsides Here's another that comes to mind (thanks to the excellent Apple CD "The Iveys: Maybe Tomorrow"). "And Her Daddy's A Millionaire," the flipside to "Maybe Tomorrow" by the Iveys (pre-Badfinger 1968) is a driving rocker and a complete antithesis to the power ballad on top. I noticed yesterday as well that the bassline is similar to the Knack's "My Sharona" from time to time. It's definitely a song to blast windows with... || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Another minimum-wage college graduate || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 09:13:49 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Citizens of Boston, prepare! My favorite band, the Upper Crust, will be playing a rare (of late) Boss-town gig this Saturday the 25th at a place called O'Brien's in Allston. If I hadn't just seen them twice here in NYC I'd be thinking road trip. Well, I'm still thinking it but I probably won't act on it! But I urge any Bomp-ers in this vicinity to attend. I am also literally in the midst of creating an Upper Crust website... I'll post the specifics when it's fit for public conmsumption. Evan - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evan Davies "Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology" - I. Pop evan@funk.mtvn.com http://www.interport.net/~efd MTV Networks may deny all knowledge of the existence of this message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:28:47 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@mail.bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: The In-Sect: Anyone Heard Of? Has anyone on the Bomp list ever heard of the Ohio band The In-Sect? They are from Athens, OH (home of Ohio U.) and are in the 60s-influenced garage vein. They have one 7" on Drink n' Drive Records ("Outside Her/That's Your Problem") and are either working on or have released another (can someone tell me for sure?). I'd just like to know that they are becoming more than a local phenom, because I've known these guys since they were in other bands. I saw them mentioned in an advert for the Feline Frenzy zine, along with the Hentchmen and Thee Flypped Whigs, whom they have shared bills with. I don't live in Athens anymore and I don't really have any contact with the band members. In any case, if they come to a club anywhere in Bomp's reader area, run, don't walk, to see them... Just curious, Dave || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Another minimum-wage college graduate || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 10:32:20 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Re: descendents reunion >Anyone have any info on this, lin-up, songs, ALL-stuff, etc? >Hey, ya' never know from me: Lounge Laura There is an article about this in the current CMJ Music Magazine. I don't have it in front of me (it's home; I'm not) but from what I remember reading, it's the original lineup. However, ALL is apparently still going - sounds like the band will sometimes play behind the Descendents singer as the Descendents and sometimes behind the ALL singer as ALL. Evan - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evan Davies "Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology" - I. Pop evan@funk.mtvn.com http://www.interport.net/~efd MTV Networks may deny all knowledge of the existence of this message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:24:47 -0500 From: mary robinson crews Subject: Re: THE INDEPENDENTS >Yeah, they're from Florence South Carolina FLORENCE??!?!? i didn't know any band was from florence! +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ mary robinson crews FREEZE 'EM and EAT 'EM mary@catalogue.com -Chilly Willee http://www.catalogue.com/ http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/ +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: The In-Sect: Anyone Heard Of? There was an old UK band in the '60's called the In-Sect who tried to cash in on the British Invasion, but weren't quite good enough, though they did get at least one album over stateside, on which they wear matching outfits that actually look more like cop uniforms without badges than anything, and with back combed hair too! Brian Poust At 10:28 AM 1/22/97 -0500, you wrote: >Has anyone on the Bomp list ever heard of the Ohio band The In-Sect? They >are from Athens, OH (home of Ohio U.) and are in the 60s-influenced garage >vein. They have one 7" on Drink n' Drive Records ("Outside Her/That's Your >Problem") and are either working on or have released another (can someone >tell me for sure?). > >I'd just like to know that they are becoming more than a local phenom, >because I've known these guys since they were in other bands. I saw them >mentioned in an advert for the Feline Frenzy zine, along with the Hentchmen >and Thee Flypped Whigs, whom they have shared bills with. > >I don't live in Athens anymore and I don't really have any contact with the >band members. > >In any case, if they come to a club anywhere in Bomp's reader area, run, >don't walk, to see them... > >Just curious, >Dave > >|| David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || >|| Chillicothe, OH // Another minimum-wage college graduate || > ====================================================================== > > > ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 97 12:01:11 -0400 From: Laura Taylor Subject: car songs Two great ones by Jonathan Richman: DODGE VEGAMATIC STOP THIS CAR(I'M GETTIN' OUT!) Humbly, Lounge Laura ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:04:50 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: Pebbles If you go the mail-order route through Bomp, I recommend either vol. 9, Vol. 10 or if you would like to see what was up in the UK, Vol. 6. These are all on vinyl. >I'm a Pebbles virgin. Any recommendations on the best one to start? Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:37:41 -0500 (EST) From: Lelia Ellen Raley Subject: Re: more mr. vegas Col. Parker story gleaned from I've-forgotten-which-Elvis-bio: In his carny huckster days, "Colonel" Tom had a hot dog stand where he sold unsuspecting folks a bun with two small chunks o' dog at either end & a mess o'relish & glop in the middle. When anyone dared to protest, he would point at a section of weiner planted on the ground for this purpose and growl: "You dropped yer meat. Move on!" What a guy! Lola On 21 Jan 1997, Laura Taylor wrote: > The man credited with turning Elvis Presley into=A0a star has died. > =09A longtime friend says Colonel Tom Parker passed away today at a=A0Las= =20 > Vegas hospital, from complications of a stroke. He was 87. > =09Parker became Presley's manager in 1955. He helped the young=A0singer = get=20 > his first recording contracts and arranged his early=A0television=20 > appearances. And in the process, Presley became an=A0entertaining legend. > =09''Colonel'' was an honorary title bestowed on Parker in 1948=20 > by=A0Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis. Presley called him ''admiral.'' > =09Parker defended himself against charges he exploited his star=A0client= =2E In=20 > 1993, he said: ''I don't think I exploited Elvis as much=A0as he's being= =20 > exploited today.'' >=20 > "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..." > Laura Taylor > (813) 974-3733 > ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > =20 >=20 >=20 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 97 12:08:54 -0400 From: Laura Taylor Subject: RE: Re: Get Well Manfred! Paige Conner Totaro wrote: >Oh I love Manfred so! Please get well feel better etc.! The >hottest of >the red hot fireballs! Yum! But I cannot disparage the rest of >the >best band of the nineteen nine tays. You boys all rock! Along >with >other faves the Hate Bombs and the Royal Pendletons. Mwa! Honey, honey, honey! We couldn't agree mo'...Please, bompers, post new news about Manfred if you can...I don't like the karma around here, with the Estrus fire and the Manfred's ax...(of course, Estrus shoulda never DROPPED the Woggles, but, ah well...) >Miss Laura I hear wondrous thangs 'bout you too. from whom??? >>>When will you >make it >up here to our nations cap-i-tal for to show us your stuff? > >Anxiously awaiting - > >Paige >-------- I don't think this act will tour...another one, in the works, the details of which I cannot disclose at this time, might!:) Thanks! Lounge Laura ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:43:06 -0500 (EST) From: Tawsurf@aol.com Subject: Re: The In-Sect: Anyone Heard Of? dave, i had the in-sect 7 out durin my radio show,thee booze party, last thurs nite but did not get around to it-maybe this thursday nite...so yeah, nashville is hip to the in-sect stylings. todd ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:45:19 -0500 (EST) From: Lelia Ellen Raley Subject: Re: Mustang Sally Honda's slogan back then was "you meet the nicest people on a Honda"! Heavily promoting a squeaky-clean-cut image of pleasant blonde young people in pressed chinos who weren't ANYTHING like those nasty motorcycle-movie hog-ridin' scurvos. On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Allan G. Waite wrote: > Hitomi, > you wrote: > > > Though it is not my fave car song, Hondels sung "little Honda". > > Japanese Honda song!. Is it about motor cycle or car?? > > I think it is about the motorcycle. > > Hondas were VERY popular with American young people in the mid to late > 1960s! Japanese motorcycles were inexpensive, well made, lightweight > and fun (good power to weight ratio!)compared to Before Japan brought > Hondas and Yamahas to the U.S. in the early 1960s, Americans had little > choice but to buy heavy, expensive Harley-Davidsons and British > motorbikes. > > I have an old friend who ran a motorcycle shop in the 1940s-1970s, and > he told me about the "good old days" before Japanese motorcycles came to > the U.S. Those days weren't so good! > > This is probably more than you ever wanted to know! > > Allan Waite > > P.S. If you have any doubts, I think at least one of the Hondell's > album covers pictures them with Honda motorcycles. Also check out the > Jackson 5 album cover (about 1971) showing the boys with their > mini-bikes! > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:00:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: THE INDEPENDENTS Florence has a long history of incestuous punk bands, none of which (for various reasons including lack of talent) have ever really made it out, except for 49 Reasons, who moved to the big city of Columbia South Carolina, put out 2 45's and broke up, though they did somehow manage 2 small tours in Antischisms old van (grand total of 5 cross country trips for the van now!!!). You could say that Florence has one of the most pure punk scenes because there's no communication with the outside world, so they don't know about the punk scene at large, but there's no other option for teenage rebellion except for like, stealing hubcaps and drinking Schlitz in the Texaco parking lot. But that happened in Columbia too.... The Independents grew from the ashes of Spies On Sabbadical about three years ago, who never really did much either outside of opening for touring punk bands like Cringer, Citizen Fish and Plaid Retina (and that was the same show!). They recorded an ill fated demo tape (11 songs worth) as well. The Independents do seem to be making more headway, with current popularity of punk ska amongst the kiddies of the nation. Brian Poust At 11:24 AM 1/22/97 -0500, you wrote: >>Yeah, they're from Florence South Carolina > >FLORENCE??!?!? i didn't know any band was from florence! > > >+=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ >mary robinson crews FREEZE 'EM and EAT 'EM > >mary@catalogue.com -Chilly Willee >http://www.catalogue.com/ http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/ >+=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:42:34 -0700 From: alee@wired.com (Alex Lee) Subject: Re: car songs Not a car song, but all the versions of 'She's a Bad Motorcycle' smoke! - --Alex +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ need a drink, go to the pub, but the bugger shut something goes wrong again - --Pete Shelley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:50:54 -0500 From: Josh Lewis Subject: More car songs Lounge Laura suggested: > Two great ones by Jonathan Richman: >DODGE VEGAMATIC >STOP THIS CAR(I'M GETTIN' OUT!) Has anybody mentioned ROADRUNNER? Josh Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 14:04:51 -0500 (EST) From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Re: The In-Sect: Anyone Heard Of? The In-Sect are true blue wildmen!! They play aggressive and confident 60's punk with a very R&B tinge. When we played with them last summer they were getting a little more psychedelic. One guitarist, Tim, is a man after my all-Vox heart and is the treblemaker of the group. Todd, the other guitarist, gets a great fuzz sound outta his Fender gear. He also uses a wah, which I don't personally dig, but that's my personal take. Their frontman, Lee, is a stumblin', bumblin', harp wailin', marracca flailin' screamer. Their drummer is a dead ringer for the bass player in The Neckbreakers. When we played with them, he even wore a Neckbreakers Tshirt!! I haven't spoken with them in awhile, but I don't think they have any other records out. They also don't play outside of Ohio much. I think they are willing to, but just haven't for whatever reason. Tim also has a store in very collgiate Athens, OH that sells cool records, vintage clothing and instruments and whatever else he digs up. Richard Whig ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:26:14 +0000 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Re: Anybody else have a fave? At 23:54 21/01/97 -0800, Frank wrote: >> "Out of Sight" by the Buckinghams on USA is backed with "Don't Want To >> Cry," some 3-chord mayhem of the first order with a blazing geetar break >> (it's also on their USA lp). Again, maybe these guys' best cut? >> >> There are some others like this, anybody else have a fave? The Guess Who? had a minor hit here in the UK in 1966 with a syrupy balled called "His Girl". According to the Guiness Book of Hit Singles it made the thirties. The flip side is a fuzz-bass driven punker called "It's My Pride". Although the organ is buried in the mix, the song moves at a lick and the arrangement pure garage. You can find it real cheap at Record Fairs in London. IMHO the best thing that Randy Bachman ever wrote. Steve C. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:47:24 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: Anybody else have a fave? The Foundations surprised me with a bit of pseudo-psych on the flipside of "Build Me Up, Buttercup" called "New Direction". It is a minor key beauty with a hint of paranoia. I liked it so much, I ended up not giving the 45 to the person for whom I bought it (I think I let him tape "Buttercup" so I am not an entirely bad person). If you ask my mother which Shango song she likes, it would be their one hit, "Day After Day". If you ask my brother and myself, it would be the stell drum instrumental on the flip, "Mescalito" I know that the 5th Dimension is not everyone's fav...*Whizzz* *Kee-rash!*, missed me Laura!, however, I like both "Carpet Man"(which is never played on oldies servic...I mean stations. Who couldn't love that Sitar at the end?) and the flip, "The Magic Garden" which starts out in F (sort of) and ends on a dolorous C. Perhaps, the biggest surprise of recent times is the flipside of "Martian Hop" by the Ran-Dells (a song which I rather like). The flip is a ballad called, "Forgive Me, Darling (I Have Lied)". Not only do we find out that they actually can sing, it ends with garage-y organ arpeggios and could almost be considered a beat ballad. In 1964! The flip to "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin" by the Righteous Brothers is "There's a Woman", not an instrumental and except for Bobby Hatfield's off-key melisma is a pleasant surprise, although I do prefer the hit. So I guess that the answer is no, I don't have A fave... B all that you can B, B. Phillips Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:55:18 -0800 From: Jeff Penczak Subject: Power Pop DIDs I'm relatively new to the list so I'm sorry if I missed this thread if it was ever discussed, but if not.... While cleaning out some old cassettes from storage, I came across a cassette I made of some of my favorite Power Pop tunes from the (circa) '79-81 era and it brought back some great memories. So I was wondering if anyone else would care to share their personal Power Pop Desert Island Disks. Here's mine: The Beat - (same) City Nights - Nick Gilder Next of Kihn - Greg Kihn Goosebumps - Ian Lloyd Labour of Lust - Nick Lowe (British style) Nikki & The Corvettes - (same) The Pop - (same) Back to the Drawing Board - The Rubinoos Present Tense - Shoes Chinese Method - Roy Sundholm Strange Man Changed Man - Bram Tchaikovsky (British style) 20/20 - (same) In A Chamber - Wiretrain Wonderful World of - Wreckless Eric (British style) OK?! Lock & Load and let's hear comments/additions/complaints/whatever. Jeff PS Happy 51st to Malcolm McClaren, the scourge of the (western) music world (to hear Mr. Lydon tell it!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:10:46 -0800 From: Jeff Penczak Subject: Re: Mustang Sally Hitomi I wrote: > > Hi Timothy > I love Mustang Sally by Zakary Thacks ,the song were also played > by Jaggaurs (Japanese GS). > About another car song , I love Cadilac.(Maybe two songs have same > title??) > My fave Cadilac is by Renegades(UK '60s) . Many Scandinavian bands > played the song. > Hitomi I > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Cutie Morning Moon > '60s garage rock home page from Tokyo > > http://www.kiwi-us.com/~hitomi/ > e mail hitomi@kiwi.co.jp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~$1,000 Car by The BottleRockets and (in another, more personal vein) "Passenger Side" by Wilco are my current fave "car" songs. Jeff P.S. Thank God no one said "Just What I needed" or "My Best Friends Girl"! Ouch! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:13:38 -0800 From: Jeff Penczak Subject: Re: Mustang Sally Allan G. Waite wrote: > > My favorite car song is a tie between the Birthday Party's "Car Bomb" > and a Gary Usher novelty tune called "Dracula's Deuce", off of the album > by the same name. My favorite motorcycle tune is "Leatherboy" by > ?Mulana? Dig that crazy organ! > > AllanI also can't get "Hot Rod Lincoln" outta my head nor, on a more somber note, The NORMLs "Warm Leatherette" and Bowie's "Always Crashing in the Same Car." Gary Numan's "Cars" is pretty cool, too. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jan 97 21:57:59 +0000 From: "Blair" Subject: Re: Hentchmen have at least 2 car songs! >"Chicks and Cars" >"Hot Rod Millie" > >Both are on "Ultra Hentch" (Norton) Actually, I think they have many more, too... "Red Hot Car" comes to mind. And they also have at least one or two about specific makes, I believe. Other car-oriented songs... "I Live For Cars & Girls" - The Dictators With the A-1 line, "Cars, Girls, Surfin', Beer/Nothin' else matters here." - --------------------------------------------------------- This msg was sent using CyberDog... a human's best pal on the 'Net - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:47:33 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Robinson Subject: Re: Re[2]: Get Well Manfred! At 11:41 AM 1/20/97 -0600, you wrote: > >> >I've got almost all of Russ Myer's and Ed Wood's movies on tape. i love them >both, for different reasons. BTVOTD visually and technically is one of Russ' >better movies. Ed Wood's best never came close. > >David > Besides, it has one of the best lines in cinema. "It's my happening and I'm freaking out"......genius pure genius. M ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:21:27 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Robinson Subject: Re: Power Pop DIDs At 08:55 PM 1/22/97 -0800, you wrote: > >The Beat - (same) >City Nights - Nick Gilder >Next of Kihn - Greg Kihn >Goosebumps - Ian Lloyd >Labour of Lust - Nick Lowe (British style) >Nikki & The Corvettes - (same) >The Pop - (same) >Back to the Drawing Board - The Rubinoos >Present Tense - Shoes >Chinese Method - Roy Sundholm >Strange Man Changed Man - Bram Tchaikovsky (British style) >20/20 - (same) >In A Chamber - Wiretrain >Wonderful World of - Wreckless Eric (British style) > >OK?! Lock & Load and let's hear comments/additions/complaints/whatever. > >Jeff > >PS Happy 51st to Malcolm McClaren, the scourge of the (western) music >world (to hear Mr. Lydon tell it!) > I confess, Overnight Sensation(Hit Record) by the Raspberries gets mucho plays on the machine. The fade, the pause and the drums towards the end does it for me. I remember hearing rumors that this song was mixed specially to be heard on car radios. Can anyone confirm. And can anyone confirm that Pebbles 9 and 10 are offically released? Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:38:20 -0700 From: "Allan G. Waite" Subject: Re: Power Pop DIDs Jeff Penczak wrote: > > I'm relatively new to the list so I'm sorry if I missed this thread if it > was ever discussed, but if not.... > While cleaning out some old cassettes from storage, I came across a > cassette I made of some of my favorite Power Pop tunes from the (circa) > '79-81 era and it brought back some great memories. So I was wondering if > anyone else would care to share their personal Power Pop Desert Island > Disks. > > Here's mine: > > The Beat - (same) > City Nights - Nick Gilder > Next of Kihn - Greg Kihn > Goosebumps - Ian Lloyd > Labour of Lust - Nick Lowe (British style) > Nikki & The Corvettes - (same) > The Pop - (same) > Back to the Drawing Board - The Rubinoos > Present Tense - Shoes > Chinese Method - Roy Sundholm > Strange Man Changed Man - Bram Tchaikovsky (British style) > 20/20 - (same) > In A Chamber - Wiretrain > Wonderful World of - Wreckless Eric (British style) > > OK?! Lock & Load and let's hear comments/additions/complaints/whatever. > > Jeff > > PS Happy 51st to Malcolm McClaren, the scourge of the (western) music > world (to hear Mr. Lydon tell it!) See if you can find a copy of Jonny Sevin's only album. Jonny Sevin was Lee Joseph's pre-Yard Trauma power pop outfit from '80s. Good stuff. I bought their album after seein' 'em open for the B-52s (Mesopotamia Tour). Allan ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #15 *************************