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Post by rizzuto on Nov 6, 2022 16:08:45 GMT -5
One of the things that I enjoyed about alternative or indie music in late 1970s to the early 1990s was the return of real instruments, thought provoking lyrics, and music that could create contemplative moods. Most of these bands and songs were never heard on mainstream radio, instead the tunes and their originators were passed around by word of mouth, small concerts on university campuses, and university radio stations, kind of like when Pipps was spinning vinyl and deep cuts.
Independent DJ's would get the music out from Britain and elsewhere on pirated radio stations. If you had a cool guy running local record shops, you could also get into bands and sounds not readily heard anywhere else. Without the Internet, you looked for flyers on telephone poles, dive bar bathrooms, music store windows, and college bulletin boards.
Interestingly, many bands came to be known from scenes in movies and television series. Recently, I was watching an episode of the X-Files, and the thought of other shows bringing music to the masses, sneaking through the corporate algorithms and the grasp of predatory music labels.
Here is an example of that from an episode of the X-Files from the British band James with a song Ring The Bells. This was a band out of Manchester, England that formed in 1982:
A young Jack Black as an attendant at a very 1980s video game arcade, the AM Philco radio in the convertible, the small plume of smoke from the mouth of the deceased....all nice touches from the mind of Chris Carter and the X-Files. I adored the show in the early 1990s. Sarah and I would throw the pillows off the couch and snuggle up on Friday nights at 9:00 PM to watch Mulder and Scully. She was always fall asleep before the show ended.
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Post by desousa on Nov 6, 2022 16:28:48 GMT -5
One of the things that I enjoyed about alternative or indie music in late 1970s to the early 1990s was the return of real instruments, thought provoking lyrics, and music that could create contemplative moods. Most of these bands and songs were never heard on mainstream radio, instead the tunes and their originators were passed around by word of mouth, small concerts on university campuses, and university radio stations, kind of like when Pipps was spinning vinyl and deep cuts. Independent DJ's would get the music out from Britain and elsewhere on pirated radio stations. If you had a cool guy running local record shops, you could also get into bands and sounds not readily heard anywhere else. Without the Internet, you looked for flyers on telephone poles, dive bar bathrooms, music store windows, and college bulletin boards. Interestingly, many bands came to be known from scenes in movies and television series. Recently, I was watching an episode of the X-Files, and the thought of other shows bringing music to the masses, sneaking through the corporate algorithms and the grasp of predatory music labels. Here is an example of that from an episode of the X-Files from the British band James with a song Ring The Bells. This was a band out of Manchester, England that formed in 1982: A young Jack Black as an attendant at a very 1980s video game arcade, the AM Philco radio in the convertible, the small plume of smoke from the mouth of the deceased....all nice touches from the mind of Chris Carter and the X-Files. I adored the show in the early 1990s. Sarah and I would throw the pillows off the couch and snuggle up on Friday nights at 9:00 PM to watch Mulder and Scully. She was always fall asleep before the show ended. That's Giavanni Ribisi next to Black. |
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Post by rizzuto on Nov 6, 2022 16:36:22 GMT -5
One of the things that I enjoyed about alternative or indie music in late 1970s to the early 1990s was the return of real instruments, thought provoking lyrics, and music that could create contemplative moods. Most of these bands and songs were never heard on mainstream radio, instead the tunes and their originators were passed around by word of mouth, small concerts on university campuses, and university radio stations, kind of like when Pipps was spinning vinyl and deep cuts. Independent DJ's would get the music out from Britain and elsewhere on pirated radio stations. If you had a cool guy running local record shops, you could also get into bands and sounds not readily heard anywhere else. Without the Internet, you looked for flyers on telephone poles, dive bar bathrooms, music store windows, and college bulletin boards. Interestingly, many bands came to be known from scenes in movies and television series. Recently, I was watching an episode of the X-Files, and the thought of other shows bringing music to the masses, sneaking through the corporate algorithms and the grasp of predatory music labels. Here is an example of that from an episode of the X-Files from the British band James with a song Ring The Bells. This was a band out of Manchester, England that formed in 1982: A young Jack Black as an attendant at a very 1980s video game arcade, the AM Philco radio in the convertible, the small plume of smoke from the mouth of the deceased....all nice touches from the mind of Chris Carter and the X-Files. I adored the show in the early 1990s. Sarah and I would throw the pillows off the couch and snuggle up on Friday nights at 9:00 PM to watch Mulder and Scully. She was always fall asleep before the show ended. That's Giavanni Ribisi next to Black. Yep, a fine actor for those fringe, quirky roles. He was hilarious on Friends as Phoebe's long-lost brother. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Nov 7, 2022 16:34:54 GMT -5
One of the things that I enjoyed about alternative or indie music in late 1970s to the early 1990s was the return of real instruments, thought provoking lyrics, and music that could create contemplative moods. Most of these bands and songs were never heard on mainstream radio, instead the tunes and their originators were passed around by word of mouth, small concerts on university campuses, and university radio stations, kind of like when Pipps was spinning vinyl and deep cuts. Independent DJ's would get the music out from Britain and elsewhere on pirated radio stations. If you had a cool guy running local record shops, you could also get into bands and sounds not readily heard anywhere else. Without the Internet, you looked for flyers on telephone poles, dive bar bathrooms, music store windows, and college bulletin boards. Interestingly, many bands came to be known from scenes in movies and television series. Recently, I was watching an episode of the X-Files, and the thought of other shows bringing music to the masses, sneaking through the corporate algorithms and the grasp of predatory music labels. Here is an example of that from an episode of the X-Files from the British band James with a song Ring The Bells. This was a band out of Manchester, England that formed in 1982: A young Jack Black as an attendant at a very 1980s video game arcade, the AM Philco radio in the convertible, the small plume of smoke from the mouth of the deceased....all nice touches from the mind of Chris Carter and the X-Files. I adored the show in the early 1990s. Sarah and I would throw the pillows off the couch and snuggle up on Friday nights at 9:00 PM to watch Mulder and Scully. She was always fall asleep before the show ended. I was totally unfamiliar with the band James, but it sounds like something I would have enjoyed back in that era, coming to the end of the time I struggled to stay up with musical trends. Manchester in my heyday meant The Hollies, Hermans Hermits, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and the execrable Freddie and The Dreamers. A little later it was bands like Van der Graaf Generator and 10CC. But in the timeframe you are discussing, it would have been acts like The Buzzcocks (and lead singer Pete Shelley doing "Homosapiens" which got some MTV airtime) and Joy Division and Simply Red and The Smiths. Manchester is probably the number four breeding ground for British groups, after London, Liverpool and Birmingham. Other good Brit acts from the late 70s into the mid-80s that didn't always get mainstream play that I recall fondly (and perhaps you do as well) include Graham Parker and The Rumour (loved them, especially "Temporary Beauty"), Husker Du, The Jam, English Beat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, many others. How about The The? Or Talk Talk, which did have the hit "Talk Talk." Seemed like limited imagination for some of them. I was never as angry about life as many of these acts appeared to be, but they were a nice antidote to bloated over-produced pop and the assembly lines churned out at Warner, CBS, EMI, MCA and PolyGram. I bought anything that came out in the early days of Stiff, which was a great Indie label in the 70s spawning acts like Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello and Ian Dury and Devo (before they all became too large for Stiff to distribute) and Lene Lovich and one of my favorites, Wreckless Eric. When I first heard him doing "Whole Wide World" back in the 70s, it would have been unthinkable that 40 or whatever years later it would be used in a TV commercial. Stiff later became quite commercial itself with Madness and Tracey Ullman and the wonderful Kirsty MacColl. Their slogan on the label, "If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth A F---" was certainly a long way from RCA Victor's "His Master's Voice" or Motown's "The Sound Of Young America," both of which are more in my personal wheelhouse, but hey, we're all just trying to make a living. |
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Post by inger on Nov 7, 2022 20:06:50 GMT -5
One of the things that I enjoyed about alternative or indie music in late 1970s to the early 1990s was the return of real instruments, thought provoking lyrics, and music that could create contemplative moods. Most of these bands and songs were never heard on mainstream radio, instead the tunes and their originators were passed around by word of mouth, small concerts on university campuses, and university radio stations, kind of like when Pipps was spinning vinyl and deep cuts. Independent DJ's would get the music out from Britain and elsewhere on pirated radio stations. If you had a cool guy running local record shops, you could also get into bands and sounds not readily heard anywhere else. Without the Internet, you looked for flyers on telephone poles, dive bar bathrooms, music store windows, and college bulletin boards. Interestingly, many bands came to be known from scenes in movies and television series. Recently, I was watching an episode of the X-Files, and the thought of other shows bringing music to the masses, sneaking through the corporate algorithms and the grasp of predatory music labels. Here is an example of that from an episode of the X-Files from the British band James with a song Ring The Bells. This was a band out of Manchester, England that formed in 1982: A young Jack Black as an attendant at a very 1980s video game arcade, the AM Philco radio in the convertible, the small plume of smoke from the mouth of the deceased....all nice touches from the mind of Chris Carter and the X-Files. I adored the show in the early 1990s. Sarah and I would throw the pillows off the couch and snuggle up on Friday nights at 9:00 PM to watch Mulder and Scully. She was always fall asleep before the show ended. I was totally unfamiliar with the band James, but it sounds like something I would have enjoyed back in that era, coming to the end of the time I struggled to stay up with musical trends. Manchester in my heyday meant The Hollies, Hermans Hermits, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and the execrable Freddie and The Dreamers. A little later it was bands like Van der Graaf Generator and 10CC. But in the timeframe you are discussing, it would have been acts like The Buzzcocks (and lead singer Pete Shelley doing "Homosapiens" which got some MTV airtime) and Joy Division and Simply Red and The Smiths. Manchester is probably the number four breeding ground for British groups, after London, Liverpool and Birmingham. Other good Brit acts from the late 70s into the mid-80s that didn't always get mainstream play that I recall fondly (and perhaps you do as well) include Graham Parker and The Rumour (loved them, especially "Temporary Beauty"), Husker Du, The Jam, English Beat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, many others. How about The The? Or Talk Talk, which did have the hit "Talk Talk." Seemed like limited imagination for some of them. I was never as angry about life as many of these acts appeared to be, but they were a nice antidote to bloated over-produced pop and the assembly lines churned out at Warner, CBS, EMI, MCA and PolyGram. I bought anything that came out in the early days of Stiff, which was a great Indie label in the 70s spawning acts like Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello and Ian Dury and Devo (before they all became too large for Stiff to distribute) and Lene Lovich and one of my favorites, Wreckless Eric. When I first heard him doing "Whole Wide World" back in the 70s, it would have been unthinkable that 40 or whatever years later it would be used in a TV commercial. Stiff later became quite commercial itself with Madness and Tracey Ullman and the wonderful Kirsty MacColl. Their slogan on the label, "If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth A F---" was certainly a long way from RCA Victor's "His Master's Voice" or Motown's "The Sound Of Young America," both of which are more in my personal wheelhouse, but hey, we're all just trying to make a living. I also went through a vacuous stretch with music at around tgat same time… but the name Homosapiens did remind me of the time that I told my nephew on my ex’s side that he was a homosapien. He denied it fervently and began crying. Th poor lads mother not father were exactly brainy. I recall his father mentioning a body part called the buh-china, for instance… and his mom… well.. she was my ex’s wife… |
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Post by inger on Nov 17, 2022 15:50:46 GMT -5
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Post by bearman on Nov 17, 2022 16:06:27 GMT -5
In honor of Halloween, it was 60 years ago last week that "The Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett hit number one on the Billboard charts. Like Frankenstein's monster, it refuses to die, re-surfacing in the Top 40 in both 1973 and 2021. It's certainly one of the most successful novelty songs and known by pretty much everybody on the planet. A few factoids about it -- the song was recorded and produced by a guy named Gary S. Paxton, who had earlier been successful producing and singing lead on another novelty song "Alley Oop" by The Hollywood Argyles. Paxton peddled the song to many labels but nobody would touch it. Finally he put out his own label, GarPax, and made millions off of it. The sound effects, as is often the case, are astonishingly simple. The creaking door was Paxton pulling a rusty nail out of a board. The cauldron boiling was him blowing a straw into a glass of water. The clanking chains were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor. The piano riffs were played by a young Leon Russell, a prominent studio musician for many years before he pursued a solo career. The backing vocals were done by The Blossoms, who recorded several of the hits attributed to one of the greatest girl groups, The Crystals. A long and confusing story too long to get into. They were also the house backing vocalists on the TV show "Shindig" and their lead singer Darlene Love had several R&B hits on her own. Nobody has ever explained why they were singing "Tennis shoe wah-oo" during the bridge. This might be presumptuous, and perhaps Bearman could contradict me, but my guess is that I'm the only one here who actually saw Bobby Pickett perform this song live. We always went to the annual KRTH 101 concerts at the Greek Theater in LA in the mid to late 90s. One thing I loved about these concerts is that they were loaded with one-hit wonders who you would never pay to see on their own, but stack enough of them up together and sure, I'll go. Well Bobby Pickett was one of these, on a bill with The Murmaids (Popsicles, Icicles") and Phil Phillips ("Sea Of Love") and Rosie and The Originals ("Angel Baby") and Jewel Akens ("The Birds And The Bees") and many others that nobody but me and a handful of other fanatics would love. He was hilarious and brought the house down. He did a monster-type herky-jerky dance while he sang that I saw people trying to imitate when the concert was over. He mentioned that Elvis had called the song "the worst thing I ever heard" and noted tartly "and where is Elvis now?" He also said that every November he got a big royalty check that he said had paid his rent his whole life. The only film I could find of him was a lip-synch he did on "American Bandstand" without the dancing you get with a live performance. Happy Halloween: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uvLHnrqdUJust tuning in again to this thread, but I did not see Bobby Pickett. I love the Monster Mash and have it on my playlist. We took our granddaughter trick or treating this past Halloween and I had it playing on my phone. Nobody but me had ever heard of the song. What a great card you got to see. Love all of those songs. |
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Post by inger on Nov 17, 2022 16:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by rizzuto on Nov 17, 2022 18:09:52 GMT -5
I don't know how I ever missed this song from 1969. Perhaps it feels familiar because it's buried somewhere in my unconscious.
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Post by Renfield on Nov 17, 2022 20:06:45 GMT -5
I don't know how I ever missed this song from 1969. Perhaps it feels familiar because it's buried somewhere in my unconscious. Too bad Graham Nash had such limited range. |
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Post by desousa on Nov 17, 2022 21:17:36 GMT -5
I don't know how I ever missed this song from 1969. Perhaps it feels familiar because it's buried somewhere in my unconscious. Beautiful. |
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Post by inger on Nov 18, 2022 11:08:30 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Nov 25, 2022 14:25:32 GMT -5
Freddie Mercury had four extra teeth, also called mesiodens or supernumerary teeth, in his upper jaw. These additional incisors caused overcrowding that pushed forward his front teeth, leading to an overbite…
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Post by inger on Nov 25, 2022 16:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by pippsheadache on Nov 25, 2022 16:30:06 GMT -5
Still in good voice at 83. Dion will always be cool. Here he is at the start, with The Belmonts and his first chart single from 1957. Still maybe my favorite by him, although I could name 12-15 I love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE |
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