Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In: A Rock Town Hall Companion, Our 1-Year Anniversary Episode

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Nov 052011
 

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

Can you believe it’s been a year of weekly Saturday Night Shut-In podcasts? Well, it has. This week Mr. Moderator and special guests bring you a very special broadcast coming at you LIVE from Urges in Atlantic City. He’ll share a rare, recently acquired slab of Thrifty Music and be joined by special guests Billy Bob Thornton, who’s written a fun, little ditty especially to commemorate our anniversary, and Andy Rooney.* He’ll end tonight’s episode with all the News From Rock Town Hall.

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Saturday Night Shut-In is the Hall’s attempt at creating a virtual listening party. We talk a lot about music, but how often do we get to listen to it anymore—together? To date Townsman Hrrundivbakshi has manned the board for a few Thrifty Music editions, and next week promises a very special episode curated by the Royales, ladymiss and Mr. with a playlist hand selected by Friend of the Hall Simon Reynolds. I know the Web is loaded with high-tech virtual playlists tapped into Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot, but I continue to invite Townspeople to put together their own SNSI episode to share here in the Hall.

Thanks to all who contributed to this week’s anniversary episode and to those of you who have contributed to shows in our first year. You’ll probably want to share tonight’s episode with the family, maybe even invite a few neighbors over while you’re at it. Enjoy.

[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.]

*NOTE: It’s unlikely Mr. Rooney will be able to join us tonight.

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Venn Diagram of Musical Tastes

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Nov 042011
 

(Image from http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/elitism/.)

Among your fellow Townsfolks, based on their general responses to threads over the years:

  • Who’s tastes do you think most match your own?
  • Who’s tastes do you think are least like yours?
  • Who would you most like to make you a mix CD in the hopes of hearing something interesting that you hadn’t heard before?

Lurkers and dormant Townspeople, please feel free to chime in. You know we’d love to hear from you.

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He Was a…Rather Strange and Annoying but Undoubtedly a Great Man

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Nov 042011
 

Sir Jimmy Savile

As an American, the death of Sir (yes, good heavens, he was knighted) Jimmy Savile cannot have the resonance with me that it might for many Brits of a certain age. Let’s think of him as a kind of freaky Dick Clark. Well: at least freaky in a different way. Anyway, for a long time, he was to me just “that really weird guy who pops up in a lot of old British invasion clips.” But as the longtime host of Top of the Pops he was undoubtedly a sort of institution in the UK. Perhaps Happiness Stan can put this in some perspective for us.  In the meantime, here is the New York Times obit.

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COMING SATURDAY: Saturday Night Shut-In Presents A Rock Town Hall Companion

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Nov 042011
 

Celebrate our 1-year anniversary at Urges in Atlantic City!

Tomorrow night’s episode of Saturday Night Shut-In will be our 52nd consecutive broadcast, which by my math means we’ve hit the 1-year mark. Happy anniversary, SNSI! To celebrate the occasion we’re taking the crew to Urges in Atlantic City for a very special LIVE broadcast, featuring appropriately special guests and all the news from Rock Town Hall. Bring the family. Invite friends over. Heat up some apple cider or egg nog. Light a fire. Feel the warm glow of your tube amplifier. Saturday, November 5 at 6:00 pm EST.

If you want to make sure to catch this and future episodes of  Saturday Night Shut-In the Rock Town Hall feed will enable you to easily download 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. Technology!

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INSTA-REVIEW: New U2 Documentary From the Sky Down

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Nov 032011
 

From the Sky Down, the new U2 documentary, covers the band’s early ’90s rebirth from massively popular, if slightly derided, Irish cowboy-mystics to massively popular, if slightly begrudgingly respected (by those few, like yours truly, who’d spent the latter half of the ’80s deriding them), international multimedia mavens. Although short on details for the non-fanboy (eg, band members often talk off-camera with no identifying text or image, leaving someone like myself to try to put a face to similar-sounding voices), the film is a heartwarming celebration of rock ‘n roll band brotherhood and the creative process.

In the first 40 minutes of From the Sky Down the band members take themselves to task for pretty much everything my band of rock ‘n roll brothers and I took them down for during the height of The Joshua Tree through Rattle and Hum era: the overly serious, sepia-toned band photos and the perception of rock imperialism and latent expertise concerning American roots music. About the only things they don’t excoriate themselves for during the late-’80s are the loosely tied ponytails and sleeveless shirts with vests. If you’re into that sort of thing, DVR this bad boy and wait until the family’s in bed!

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