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Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In: (Mostly) New Music Edition

Jan 282012

Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

In this week’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In your host, Mr. Moderator, samples mostly new releases, or at least new additions to his collection. This is sure to ignite the long-awaited RTH Youth Movement. Members of the Bad Attitude Club are encouraged to listen in, if only to strengthen their staunch opposition to most things new and unfamiliar.

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[Note: The Rock Town Hall feed will enable you to easily download Saturday Night Shut-In episodes to your digital music player. In fact, you can even set your iTunes to search for an automatic download of each week’s podcast.]

Who ARE They?

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Jan 282012

Who ARE they?

This is an early photo of a very successful band. But who ARE they?

This photo and quiz were passed along by Townsman cherguevarra.

Lou Reed…As His Music Was Meant to Sound!

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Jan 272012

No joke, I don’t recall ever seeing a kinder, gentler, more melodic Lou Reed in concert. His interplay with bandmates is warm and at an all-time high. Even his dancing (see 7:25 mark) isn’t horrendous. Enjoy!

Mystery Date: Super-Deluxe Double-Date Edition!

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Jan 272012

Today’s super-deluxe double-date comes courtesy of two different Townspeople. Can we manage the riches, pay proper attention to both contestants? I think so. Must we then choose between these two potential beauties? Of course! Rock Town Hall does not support swinging. Enjoy!

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch at least one of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

Mystery Date #1

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Mystery Date #2

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Last Man Standing: I Want to Be a Politician

Posted by cdm

Jan 272012

Inspired by the Hall’s search for a Rock and Roll Cabinet, I’m looking for politicians who are mentioned by name in the title or lyrics of a song.

What counts: actual elected officials, cabinet members, monarchs, dictators, etc.

What doesn’t count: album titles, such as Disraeli Gears; made up characters, such as the Mayor of Simpleton, the Lizard King, King Everything, etc; and those involved in politics but who don’t hold some official position, such as Lee Atwater (I’m not sure if there are any examples of this last instance but I thought I’d weed it out to be on the safe side).

An individual’s name may only be used once.

As always, please limit your posts to one answer at a time.

I’ll start off with “Even Richard Nixon has got soul” in Neil Young’s “Campaigner.”

Chemistry Class

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Jan 272012

Wow, here’s an oldie-but-goodie, first posted almost 5 years to the day, that many of our current daily participants have not had a crack at. This thread is so old that Wilco has had time to change its chemistry at least one more time. Enjoy.

This post initially appeared 1/28/07.

Changes in band chemistry need not ruin a band’s sound, but they will alter it greatly – sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, sometimes for something just as good and interesting as the orginal but…different. Today, I’m most concerned with the first and last categories. We need not spend much time on the “for worse” category. Remember, this is a site to which fans on Ron Wood-era Stones need not apply.
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Mach Schaudown: They Don’t Call it “Scat” for Nothing Edition

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Jan 262012

When you have this many people hamming it up and scatting on stage at once, there’s only one question: Who wins?

Is it the Woman Who Twirls across the stage incessantly? (Good god, did that woman ever need more attention from her parents while growing up.)

Is it George Benson, who proves he doesn’t need his guitar to find the melody?

Is it Bill Cosby, who pulls out every move in his book: the happy feet shuffle; the old man, slo-mo extended butt squat dance; the devilishly delighted Jello Pudding face; a bass solo…thankfully stopping just short of pulling out his member when Twirling Woman bends over and places her rump in front of him?

Is it a hard-rockin’ Rosa Parks, I believe, around the 1:15 mark?

Is it the hands-down favorite going into this “ham-off,” Al Jarreau?

Is it Diana Krall, who does everything in her power to resist elbowing Twirling Woman?

Is it Al and Tipper Gore, during the credits, for taking their handclaps to a new level?

I’m sure you’ll find other moments worth reliving. One thing I’d love to know is just how pissed Al Jarreau was when “The Cos” stole the camera’s focus with a comedy ham-jam just as Jarreau was sharpening his white man’s overbite for his turn in the spotlight?

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