artist: Richard Strange and the Engine Room
title: Going-Gone
year: 1987
label: Interphon Records
personnel: Richard Strange (vocals), James T. Ford (electronic hardware), numerous guests
tracklisting: damascus, the lion’s den, banco celestial, dominoes, the fall of the house of ‘u’, fear is the engine, wounded, love scare, pride time and inspiration, pioneering surgery
further info: https://www.richardstrange.com
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Our good poker pal Li’l Art Fein has, as his March Fein Mess, the Just About Completely True Stories of how yours very truly came across My First Records and Concert, strictly rock ‘n’ roll-y speaking, of course.
yes, It’s nice to remember your First Time
(usually…..)
If you are familiar with the authors on this website, you will notice that alot of the blogs are about the 1980’s. To teenagers today, the eighties was a complicated time– filled with change, baby formula, and first words (mine were all four verses of Elton John’s Rocket Man).
Since most teenagers didn’t experience the eighties, it is viewed by many of the members of Generation Y as a decade filled with Pac-Man, bad hair, and ugly shirts. But thanks to Family Guy, a popular show created by televisionary Seth MacFarlane, teens today are getting a little dose of the eighties once more– this time without the Gerber.
In 1986, the music video for A-Ha’s single, ‘Take On Me’ was nominated for an MTV Music Video award– and for good reason. The movie version of ‘Take On Me,’ featuring a special type of animation known as "roto-scoping," was a smash hit the US and UK alike, and quickly made A-Ha one of the most popular bands of the 1980’s.
It has been more then twenty years since ‘Take On Me’ was popular, but it only took a fifty-second segment on Family Guy to bring it all back, providing you old-timers with a healthy bit of nostalgia and us youngsters with yet another punchy Family Guy gem.
Take a look
Chew on that. It’s delicious.
Until Next Time:
Alex E.
Though no tree-climbing marsupials or idyllic, unspoiled vistas likely greeted the exhausted and bewhiskered band of Ugly Things
artist: Crawling Chaos
title: The Gas Chair
year: 1982
label: Factory Records
personnel: ???
tracklisting: macabre royale, creamo coyl, left hand path, guinness, arabesque, harry, disierta membra, canadian pacific, breaking down
further info: https://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/cchaosinfo.html
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Several of the inimitably esteemed recording artistes I had the pleasure of becoming Lost In The Grooves with have recently made grand new releases available to discriminating listeners and/or readers out there in what remains of the real world. Yes of course there’s head Kink Ray’s LONG-awaited so-low album (which sounds not too bad at all to what’s left of these ears), but what truly is exciting me this week is Sundazed’s full-color re-release of that last “real” Jan and Dean long-player, Popsicle.
In truth a hasty grab-bag of hits, misses, and miscellania circa ’62 thru ’66 cobbled together to, um, commemorate Captain Jan Berry’s recent near-fatal car crash, the Popsicle album actually provides just as wild and crazy a ride as yer typical J&D LP ever would (e.g.: Side Four of The Jan & Dean Anthology Album, anyone?!!) as it veers madly from the ridiculous (“One-Piece Topless Bathing Suit,” perhaps the funniest Sloan/Barri composition this side of “Eve Of Destruction”) to the sublime (Jan’s tongue-possibly-deep-within-cheek “Norwegian Wood”) and THEN some (a fully half-an-album’s worth of selections with either “Summer” or “Surf” in the song-titles themselves: “She’s My Summer Girl” has long been a quite guilty pleasure-o-mine, you know, while J&D’s “Summer Means Fun” more than hangs ten against the Fantastic Baggys’ near-identical version, I’ll have YOU know).
So as Jan lay hovering next to death in nearby UCLA Medical Center, and his until-then hapless cohort Dean “The Boy Blunder” scoured the vaults to fulfill the duo’s contractual commitment to Liberty Records, “Popsicle” the song — originally appearing as “Popsicle Truck” on the November ’63 Drag City album — crept to the mid-twenties on the sales charts (I can distinctly remember it jumping from my childhood six-transistors as that fateful Summer of 66 was about to arrive), providing a sticky-sweet if tragically premature capper to the initial career of our most fave pop duo this side of Don & Phil. But Popsicle the ALBUM is in retrospect as fine a place as any to immediately reacquaint oneself with the majesty and true mondo-magic which was, and forever shall be, Jan Berry and Dean O. Torrence …until Sundazed gets very round to re-issuing their beyond-classic Jan & Dean Meet Batman, that is !!
artist: 17 Pygmies
My good buds
Col. Knowledge & the Lickity-Splits,
who made, to what’s left of my ears,
one of 2005’s Most Missed Albums,
are On The Road Again!
Please check out at least one of these shows;
Bring the Whole Family even!!
(tell ’em Gary Pig Gold sentcha)…..
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