Thinking of You, Townspeople

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Sep 202007
 

Hey Townsperson,

As I browse a few of the finer blogs out there, I got to thinking of you. In particular…

Townsmen Hrrundi and Saturnismine may be interested in a piece on Chaka Khan‘s upcoming covers album, as covered on Silence Is a Rhythm Too. There are clips of her covering Hendrix and – get this, Hrrundi – a Prince song. (No word on whether she covers the rest of Hrrundi’s Holy Trinity, ELO and ZZ Top.) I’ll let you make up your own mind, but it’s likely we agree that Chaka will never top the following piece of work.

Townswoman Sally C and Townsman Mrclean came to mind when I saw this.

Then I was checking in on Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage, and I thought about dbuskirk and BigSteve and their recent discussions regarding the Sly Stone box set.

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4 Shitz & Giggows

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Sep 192007
 

Help me! My potato skins are almost here!

I picked up the new Okkervil River on eMusic last week. I’ve got mixed feelings about it, apparently as I feel ashamed for some reason to find myself enjoying it. But that’s my issue. This song, “Plus Ones”, has a premise I thought some of you might enjoy.

It uses song titles with numbers in them to emphasize a sense of “then what.”

Opening lyric: “No one wants to hear about your 97th tear, so dry your eyes or let it go uncried, my dear”

Loser Rock perhaps, but that’s not the point. The point is that there are a bunch of these number-song references and some of them escape me.

Take a listen and see if you can help sammy escape from the maze before your meal arrives.
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Even Losers Win

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Sep 182007
 

Pulp, “Mis-Shapes”

As Townsmen Alexmagic and Oats mentioned yesterday, there’s a song by Pulp that they feel proves that even a Loser Rock artist can make successful Winner Rock. Check out “Mis-Shapes” and let us know if you, too, feel the thrill of victory!

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I Summon the King Crimson Apologists!

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Sep 152007
 

Townspeople:

Other than an early, head-scratching introduction to the band through periodic spins of my Dad’s copy of “Lark’s Tongues In Aspic” (not bad for a guy born in 1930!), my experience with King Crimson is limited, and I am wary. A recent flyer at a used copy of “Beat” didn’t do much to make me like the band more — but I did spin 30 seconds of the title track from “In the Court Of the Crimson King” on iTunes and liked it well enough. Oh, and lest ye think I’m a knee-jerk prog hata, I can also put a check-mark next to the “saw Robert Fripp deliver lecture on Frippertronics at Georgetown University and liked it okay” box.

What I really want to know is: are King Crimson really Great, and — well, if so, why?

I look forward to your responses.

HVB

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