Paisley and Urban goin’ up the country.
Country music has at least 2 artists with incongruous surnames: Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. Not the kind of surnames that make one think of the Grand Ole Oprey. Are there other musicians with names that are incongruous with the style of music they play?
As you may have heard, today is Rock Town Hall‘s birthday.
According to Cafe Astrology
If You Were Born Today, January 12
You have a strong character with a contrary streak, but overall, you are charming and intriguing. While responsible and basically security-minded, you can also be quirky and rebellious. You are very partnership-oriented, always in mind that things are better shared, even the smallest things and simplest of activities. It is not that you are dependent exactly–in fact, you have a decidedly independent streak–it’s more that you truly enjoy good company.
Read more about RTH‘s “year ahead” here.
The sorta odd thing is, that description above is pretty accurate. Meanwhile…
A half-assed look around for what rocktsters share a birthday with RTH I found:
Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls)
Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan)
Chris Bell (Big Star)
Rob Zombie (White Zombie)
Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows)
Per Gessle (Roxette)
Cynthia Robinson (Sly & The Family Stone)
William Lee Gordon (Oak Ridge Boys)
Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine)
Non rocksters include:
Kirstie Alley
Howard Stern
Joe Frazier
Jack London
Rush Limbaugh
I’m not thrilled with what I found honestly. If I was ranking these as the most-to-least accurate, I’d put Chris Bell at the top and Rush Limbaugh at the bottom. So says I. What say you? Or better yet can you find any others that are better or worse than these?
Better better yet, what rocksters or non-rocksters do you share a birthday with? Which are you most proud of and which are you not?
I was born on February 28. I have yet to find anyone with that birthday that I can identify with or hate for that matter. The closest I can get, best|worst are…
Pope Benedict XVI serves up MAD PROPS for Rock Town Hall’s 6th anniversary of doing the Lord’s work.
Do you know what today is? It’s Rock Town Hall’s 6th Anniversary! Happy anniversary to us!
Rock Town Hall started as a private YahooGroup in 2002. On January 12, 2007, we opened our doors to the public with this stylish, passionate, humorous, even occasionally informative interactive blog. See our Welcome post here.
We really played up last year’s 5th anniversary, with a blog retrospective culminating in sammymaudlin‘s excellent introductory “sizzler reel.” Then-relative newcomers like tonyola and Happiness Stan were regularly contributing new threads, stirring the pot right alongside trusted veteran contributors, like hrrundivbakshi, cdm, machinery, oats, al, and 2000 man, not to mention sophomore Hall members like misterioso, bostonhistorian, and ladymisskiroyale. Who among us didn’t anticipate huge things for 2012: a slew of new participants, renewed activity from veteran contributors, media coverage, and maybe even a Wikipedia page?
It’s a simple enough question: would you rather have all the dudes (and they are all dudes) from Hear’n Aid or all the men and women from The Cause (aka Christian Artists United to Save the Earth) staying at your house for a week? Remember, you’ll have to share the bathroom.
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
My younger son has gotten into The Fiery Furnaces. Last night, as we listened to “Tropical-Iceland” for the third time in a row it occurred to me that there probably aren’t too many songs that reference puffins. That got me thinking whether we could put together a special kind of Last Man Standing: Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Here’s the deal:
For instance, Noah’s Rockin’ Ark includes ponies: the ponies from both The Fiery Furnaces’ “Tropical-Iceland” and The Beatles‘ “I Dig a Pony.” Ponies are loaded on Noah’s Rockin’ Ark. Ponies are off the board. It’s time we move onto to a new pair of animals, perhaps puffins.
Here’s an earlier Last Man Standing that will get you half the way there.
Entries for this Last Man Standing will close at 7:16 am EST on Monday, January 14.
Your personal workspace, ca. 1979.
The question is a simple one: What’s the best gatefold album cover for sorting weed? Be sure to think carefully before answering. You need something you can stare at, but not something that might, you know, totally freak you out. Something lifestyle-appropriate is a must, so: no Ella Fitzgerald compilations! Extra credit if you can think of a recent double-LP that would feel comfortable resting in your lap as you push the seeds to this side and the stems to that.
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
I guess no artist is picked over more than The Beatles. I still cycle through their works a few times a year. Well beyond my teenybopper years I’ve done things like sit on the floor with Beatles albums and books spread around me, pouring over them for new meaning, new connections—both to the band’s inner workings and my own wiring. We even talk about them here once in a while.
