Sep 052010
Here’s where you tell us where it’s at. Do your own thing. What have we missed on this final holiday weekend of the summer?
Here’s where you tell us where it’s at. Do your own thing. What have we missed on this final holiday weekend of the summer?
There are a few recent articles of interest about Max’s Kansas City:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/08/30/100830ta_talk_seabrook
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/design/05maxs.html?_r=2
What, no Cavern, no Star Club?
In honor of Labor Day, maybe we should consider which bands are the most hard working? Or have the strongest union?
Good idea, ladymiss. Unfortunately I’m pretty swamped today. I’ll be checking in and out. Clearly our Rock ‘n Roll Union is led by BOB SEGER!
ELO cellist killed by bale of hay:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39024702/ns/today-entertainment/
It does not get more random than this.
If only the Spinal Tap crew had thought of that first!
Does anyone here keeping up with Mad Men? Spoilers about the latest episode (The Suitcase) follow so skip this if you are planning to watch later.
At the end of the episode, after Don and Peggy laughed, cried and shared secrets against the backdrop of the Sonny Liston/Cassius Clay fight, Peggy appears in Don’s office looking worse for their all-nighter while Don has cleaned up and looks ready for business. Cut to the credits over Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bleeker St”. “The Boxer” is the obvious play here but is it just too straightforward? Is there a point where not making the clear artistic choice is just being willfully obscure? Or is it something simpler like the fact that “The Boxer” wasn’t released until the end of the 60’s and would be out of context?
I don’t watch Mad Men, k., but I would imagine that use of an anachronistic song would be reason for OUTRAGE among our Townspeople who do watch that show:)
Maybe it was simply a licensing issue and “Bleeker St” cost less to use???
Mad Men does seem to be concerned with getting the period and artistic details right, which is why I care in the 1st place. I wouldn’t even bother asking about most programs, which use the easiest and cheapest music cues they can get away with.
Mad Men has used anachronistic songs before. They’ve even used songs by The Cardigans and The Decemberists. I think they sometimes use music to underline themes and whatnot, regardless of whether the music came from the show’s era or not.
Dozens of people are killed by giant bales of hay every year, it’s just not widely reported.
It’s as common as New York pedestrians killed by falling grand pianos being lifted up the side of skyscrapers on ropes and pulleys by the Acme Moving Company.
As always, when one dies, it was the last straw.
No way am I making a hitting the hay joke.
Nope, not me.
How many more people have to die before we start taking this seriously? Think about making a donation in ELO’s name to MAGBOH. Musicians Against Gigantic Bales of Hay.
I guess the poor guy bailed.
Did we learn NOTHING from Wet Hot American Summer?
TB
The ELO link is a killer!
and on the poll- April 26, 1992 by Sublime. Hands Down
Randy Newman, “Louisiana 1927”
In re: the use of Bleecker Street in Mad Men. Isn’t Don living in the Village now? The lyric seems more suited for that episode, which really wasn’t about boxing.
Good date-based song, dr john!
Randy Newman also has that song on Sail Away called Dayton Ohio – 1903.
Oats and Boston: Thanks for commenting on Mad Men. I thought they used non-period songs, at least over the final credits so it’s not that. And I never noted that Don’s bachelor pad was so far downtown, that might explain it. I know they showed Peggy hanging with the artsy crowd, but not Don. And the boxing was a pretty major theme, in the knocked down but get back up, old guard vs. young turk sense.
And and for date songs I would take Queen’s ’39 over these (except for Prince in a party situation, of course).
Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914) by the Zombies.
“September” by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Here are a few good ones Itunes turned up:
Kinks, 20th Century man
Stooges, 1969
Richard Thompson, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Thievery Corporation, 2001 Spliff Odyssey
The Stooges’ “1970” may be my favorite date-based song, so far.