I heard this on the radio this morning while parking the car. Hammond Jr. was the guitarist in the Strokes, and he also plays keyboards and writes songs.
The video for this song is opaque and diminishes the tune, I think, so ignore it, but as a commenter on YouTube says, this is like the Strokes with a different vocalist. That’s something to like. As is the chorus, which is big and bountiful.
This version is way better.
This track wasn’t released until 1969, two years after Redding died. More brilliant sounds, melding soca rhythms and horns with his own decidedly rustic vocals. It didn’t hit, but it sure sounds like it should have.
This is what you should buy everyone on your list.
Soul Manifesto 1964-1970 (12CD)
Included in this massive set is one of my favorites, King & Queen, with Carla Thomas. Redding and Thomas was an arranged match, the notion of producer Jim Stewart to pair Otis’s country grit with Thomas’s schooled chops, working off the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell template. That may be the charm, but what I hear on these recordings is lots of air in the arrangements, sharp tough playing (dig the crazy drums on Lovey Dovey) and singers who love singing. Thank you very much.
Fug melody. You don’t need it.
But it helps!
This is rock that doesn’t really roll. But it sounds.
My question. This may not top charts, but how can you discount this one?
The Bo Diddley original is something of a calypso, but the Dolls don’t bite on that. Their version rocks, and what most impresses in this clip is how hard these guys work the harmonies and the front line attack. That’s music.
While the pumps, and the balance they require, are rock.
Syl’s face paint seems to presage Kiss’s face paint, which Kiss started wearing around the same time. I don’t know the history here.
Is it more likely that Kiss copied the Dolls? Or the Dolls copied Kiss? Remember that the Dolls’ biggest hit was Looking for a Kiss, before Kiss even had a hit.
Here’s the Bo Diddley original:
The Times art section is full of reviews of bands that played the CMJ music thing a ma bob over the weekend. Throwback lo-fi feedbacky rock with slurred vocals seems to be as much a rage now as it was in 1992
I listened to a song or two by Diet Cig, Destruction Unit, and Weave, without finding anything to talk about.
This tune, by a Toronto band called Dilly Dally, sounds a lot like one of my fave 1992 bands, Come. Twenty three years ago, the plodding rhythm section and the careening guitars, merge with slurred and blurted vocals, to rise up and sound just fine. Nothing exciting here, but this works.
But then, so did Come. And they win.
Thomas Beller goes for a bike ride in Central Park with his wife and their two kids. A remembrance in a little less than five minutes, featuring the Rolling Stones and Merry Clayton.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/gimme-shelter-in-central-park?intcid=mod-latest
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I think we’ve posted all the extant Hans Condor songs, so how about some Guitar Wolf, who seem to have brought HC to Japan.
Wow, equally chaotic!
Reminded of this Philly band today when the Rock ‘n’ Roll HoF nominations were announced. I don’t care about the Hall, but a lot of the music Thom Bell produced in the City of Brotherly Love in the mid-70s is very fine.
