Night Music: Alabama Shakes, “Hold On”

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I almost feel like a foolish old man putting this clip up.

I kept hearing this song on KTKE and I kept thinking it was really old Jack White and White Stripes.

So, I ask Lindsay a few months back if she knows Hold On by Alabama Shakes when I discover the truth about its source, and she says, rather nonchalantly, “oh, that got some airplay about a year ago.”

But, this song sticks with you. Steve, I know you are not in favor of geeky bespectacled women singers (I personally dig women who wear glasses) but this song builds really well.

There is another clip from Austin City Limits a few months after this appearance where Brittany, the lead singer is playing a Gibson SG.

Either way, I really love this song. I keep humming it to myself (along with Dig for Fire) lately.

 

Night Music: The Replacements, “I Hate Music/Stuck In the Middle”

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Live, apparently a showcase show at the time of their first album (Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash) in 1981, which explains the decent video. It doesn’t seem that long ago, but then I didn’t know this album until later. I’d say they’re too busy breaking things to have sex on the floor, but maybe that comes later.

10:10 PM Music

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Told you I started getting my Amazon stuff, so today I cracked open and played the first Clash (UK version). Thoughts:

1) Sounded pretty darn good.
2) Last time I played this I had to flip it over.
3) Album kicks best from “London’s Burning” (last song on the first side) through “Police & Thieves” (on the second side).
4) Having not listened to this since I’m older and wiser, I was particularly struck (stricken?) by the bizarre Chuck Berry guitar solo in the midst of the white reggae classic “Police & Thieves.” I wonder if they planned it that way or if it was the only thing Mick Jones knew how to play for a solo?
5) Today I got The Germs and Fear – “The Record.” Bet you guys just love Fear. No redeeming artsy-fartsy qualities whatsoever.
6) I chose to give you “Cheat” because it’s not on the American release, I love the two-note guitar solo, it rocks and the alternate title could be “The Clash Buy A Flanger.”

A Man After My Own Heart

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I know Henry Rollins is kind of a blowhard and this is years old already, but it’s great. Be sure to watch until the very end.

Movie Time: Not Fade Away

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After David Chase stopped making The Sopranos he made the movie we would all, in some way, like to make. How did we get sucked into the rock ‘n’ roll wheel? How much sex did we have or not have because of that?

And what can we change now?

I’m watching Chase’s movie “Not Fade Away” and he includes this clip of the Rolling Stones, which in the movie is intercut with James Gandolfini and high school girls to good effect.

Okay, back to the movie.

8:30 PM Music

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My big Amazon order from Santa started trickling in today, beginning with The Clash first album (original UK version – of course, although I should eventually get both), Willie Nelson – Red-Headed Stranger and the Bad Brains’ first. Of course, the Bad Brains CD got cracked first.

ETHNIC!
PUNK!
with ATTITUDE!

No accordians, please.

Night Music: Sir Douglas Quintet, “Mendocino”

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On Playboy After Dark. Choice.

Should Nicolas be Caged?

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The Valley Girl references, as Nic Cage’s first film, reminded me of this great and funny YouTube of Mr. Cage losing it, which is what he largely does in his movies.

I will admit to being a big fan of the film Adaptation, in which Cage plays twin brothers, but, after watching that film with my niece Lindsay, she turned me onto this hysterical compilation clip of Cage out of control.

 

http://youtu.be/xP1-oquwoL8

Night Music: El Gran Silencio, “Chúntaro Style”

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This is a punk band. They pay respect to traditional styles, the way punk bands do when they cover C’mon Everybody, and they play fast and the louder the better. They’re from Monterey, Mexico, and this video is a delightful introduction to a band that might even have a better name than the Circle Jerks (if I’m getting philosophical). I like mixing things up in the music, I like fusion (thank god for Bitches Brew), and I like an accordion. So El Gran Silencio hits about eight of my sweet spots simultaneously. Plus there’s the dancing.

Journey Into The Internet K-Hole

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The two pictures I’ve posted here are of famous rock bands back in the 80s that I found in a post at the Internet K-Hole. It seems that every few months babs posts a collections of snapshots from the 80s, mostly, of kids on skate boards, bands, kids at dances, kids surfing, an occasional nude, kids hanging, kids wearing band t-shirts, kids at the beach, kids with guitars, etc. The pictures are captionless, without context, sometimes adjacent ones relate to each other, but often they come from across the country at seeming random, certainly taken by different photographers, but they seem to tell one artful story, a memoir of a generation, about what it was like to be 16 and 20 and 24 back in the 80s.

If babs posted weekly, we’d get a lot less done.

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