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now i'm listening to the ever excellent "Honey Bee" by Diana Ross and the Supremes. sadly i could only find y'all a remixed version, but it's not too badly butchered. "honey bee, you stung the heart in me !" they just don't write lyrics like that anymore.
oh, now i'm listening to the Miracles : "Hoping The Pause Is Helping The Cause." it's on my old school playlist. |
07-02-2008, 10:48 PM | #77 |
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So you are a Motown fan? I remember a time that it was hard to hear good old Rock 'n Roll for all of the Motown version of soul music that was on the Top 40 airwaves when I was in high school.
Right now I'm listening to the original of "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. (It was later remade by the Rolling Stones.) |
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Back when FM radio was first becoming established, a lot of AM stations owned FM frequencies as well, and weren't sure what to do with them. My favorite FM "underground" station was the sister station of the top black top-40 station in the city. The AM station played Motown. The FM station played the Grateful Dead. The overnight DJ on the FM station was the son of the (white) station owner. The top white top-forty AM station also had an FM underground rock sibling. That was an automated tape loop operation. Song, song, song, FCC mandated station ID break, song... but no announcer to tell you what it was they were playing. They had some amazing music, and moments of extreme frustration. "Wow! That's great! What it it? I want to buy the album! What is it? Arrgghhhh!" Quote:
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16:18 CDT -- History Channel show "The Universe", Episode "The Biggest Things in the Universe", Tivo replay started by hubby.
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Some of the Motown session guys have popped up lately touring as a group. They played on many hit Motown records, as largely anonymous session men. They didn't get rich, since they didn't get royalties and made standard union session fees, but there was a lot of work, and many got houses and boats from the income they made as session players. It's nice to see them step into the spotlight under their own names, and I think they've gotten more than a few comments at gigs along the lines of "Oh, yeah! You're the one who played that great popping bass line on that Temp's cut! I learned how to play bass because I wanted to play like that! Quote:
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I am relistenind to sticky pants (stones being a long time fav but one I seldom listen to anymore) and realizing how f...ing great these guys were, and thinking how exciting musically it must have been back in these days unlikely today.
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07-03-2008, 08:06 PM | #83 |
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Best of The Boston Pops
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07-04-2008, 12:38 AM | #84 |
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Reminded and prompted by this thread, I finally replaced my tape of The Whole Story (Kate Bush) with the CD.
So, at the moment, I'm listening to "Cloudbusting" (with the added local irony that, for some reason, we have completely lost water to the house. I think "the men in power" digging up the road at the bottom of the hill may have done some "Pipebusting"). Cheers, Marc |
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Anyway, Pog is a cute, yellow, squeeze-toy hedgehog, about the size of a cricket ball. I initially found him near the water meter out in the front garden, and so naturally found him a hidey-hole from the ravages of a hedgehog-intolerant society within the meter box. Well, Pog liked his little hollow for some time, until the other day I found him 20 metres down the hill on the road. I suspect that if Pog wouldn't come to the Mountain of Intolerance, then the Mountain of Intolerance came to him in the form of the Meter Man. I don't know how it went down, but I suspect The Man's easy, autopilot meter-checking was suddenly kicked into shock upon lifting the cover, and expressed itself in "WHAT THE #$%^ IS THAT? AGGH, ^&*!ING KIDS!" and a forehand scoop (or backhand, if lefthanded) down into potential obliteration upon the road, crushed, like just another one of us oppressed species. ...but he has been saved, and sits now in a little hollow at the base of a clump of bamboo palms by the pool, eye to the pool-bar, the water and mostly the sky, dreaming of a world without hedgehog- and gibbon-oppression. Incidentally, the water is back on, and I'm on a second go through The Whole Story, currently listening to Hounds of Love. Cheers, Marc (Gibbons Unite!) |
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BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA-YA-YA!
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I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the night Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie But I say why Why deny the obvious child? Why deny the obvious child? (The Obvious Child, Paul Simon) |
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I registered to vote today,
felt like a fool. Had to do it anyway down at the high school. Thing about the second line - you know, "felt like a fool" - people say it all the time, even when it's true. following into... I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard of a Golden Retriever and never leave ‘til I leave you with a sweet dream in your bed (Sure Don't Feel Like Love following into Father & Daughter, Paul Simon) Cheers, Marc PS. The latter always brings a tear to my eye. |
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