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USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

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Kepler said:
Thank you for this. Had never heard of them. This is awesome: like Zappa crossed with James Brown.
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The Mummies are great. Even if you can only watch their bootlegs of shows on YouTube, you can feel the fun coming from the stage. I learned of them a while ago, but never had anyone interested in attending a show with me. I hope that changes the next time they roll through town.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Although I named their eponymous first effort I thought I was the only one around that loves BLM. Very underrated.
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There might only be two songs on the album that don't really do it for me. The rest of it is great stuff, even if it never gets much recognition by most people.
 
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Kepler said:
Holy sh-t, they're at the Birchmere on 9/29. Any locals wanna come dance the night away? I'm serious, I'm going. :-)
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I see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is playing a couple weeks before, which I personally would also go to. It's just not that often you can see really competent players performing the stuff they do, and they are all very competent. I'd say it would all be Blue Hairs, but the Blue Hairs of that era of music are mostly all gone now... or possibly they're Mummies, I suppose.
 
Gurtholfin said:
A friend of mine in college grew up with Corgan.

I was at Western Illinois for one semester and he was telling me about his friend's new project - Smashing Pumpkins - and how great they were gonna be. Gish hadn't come out yet.

One weekend, a couple of the guys from Snake Train (Iha's previous band) came down and stayed with him and partied with us. Used to have an EP of theirs on cassette but haven't seen it in 20+ years.

This friend of mine also said that he had been asked to join Billy for the new project - in Iha's slot presumably (or on bass?) but that he chose college instead. This was well before Gish (fall of 88) and dude was a really good guitarist - we played together and recorded in the dorms - so at the time and without the benefit of hindsight or knowing how it all turned out - I had no reason not to believe him.

If true, I wonder if he had regrets. :D

We didn't stay in touch when I moved to Lacrosse the next semester.


Gish was my favorite and MC seemed to be written about MY childhood in the Chicago burbs.
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Excellent story, wow!
 
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To go along with Gurt's Pumpkins story, I will add that Jonathan Melvoin, who was their touring keyboardist until the night he went out drugging with Jimmy Chamberlin lived here in my hometown. Worked as an EMT for the local ambulance service. Ironic.

His sisters Wendy and Susannah went to school briefly here after moving from LA, and before heading back out west and hooking up with some dude named Prince.

Unrelated, but whoever posted it, Quadrophenia is better than Tommy anyway.
 
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Worked for Neil Young for three years.

Not as a musician. Used to find slips of paper around the house with bits of lyrics on them. Never read them, believe it or not. I felt he was entitled to the bit of privacy.
 
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rufus said:
Unrelated, but whoever posted it, Quadrophenia is better than Tommy anyway.
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Correct.

1. Live at Leeds
2. Quadrophenia
3. The Kids Are Alright
4. Who's Next

I ate, slept, and breathed the Who for all of high school. I would not put Tommy in the top half of their catalog.
 
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burd said:
Worked for Neil Young for three years.

Not as a musician. Used to find slips of paper around the house with bits of lyrics on them. Never read them, believe it or not. I felt he was entitled to the bit of privacy.
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I envy you. I consider him a very interesting man.
 
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Kepler said:
I envy you. I consider him a very interesting man.
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Name dropping is lame, I know, and I wasn't a close friend, just one carpenter remodeling his home, which he and his wife, Pegi, lived in for a good part of the time. When you see what fans do to get a piece of people like that, you tend to just try to do your job well and be as invisible as possible. Still, he and Pegi were very nice and a pleasure to work for. Neil seemed like a regular person without airs or pretense who was committed to his music. A great person to be a carpenter for. Creative, and neither price nor pace were ever a part of the discussion.

But this album discussion is more interesting--a great topic put out there by Gurth. Reading it, I've been thinking I don't pay enough attention to the music I listen to. For me, it's evocative, as much about the place and time I first heard it as it is about the music itself.
 
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Rock operas are pretentious and awful. Give me Who's Next any day.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Unless it's called "The Wall." ;)
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Meh. It's very overrated - too long by half.

Rock operas usually produce some classic singles, but trying to listen to them all the way through as performance art pieces or musicals just makes me want to shower afterwards, so that I can wash the pretentious, artsy, hipster douchebag off me.
 
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I thought The Wall was brilliant. BUT, not even close to their best album. It did represent their best visual work in relation to the album, though. Pretty sure they could have done the same with Animals (think Animal Farm) or Dark Side (that would have been trippy).
 
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Gurtholfin said:
False.

There are no filler songs on The Wall. They all matter.
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I'm just not that crazy about Pink Floyd. I know too many people who worship them on the level that some people worship the Beatles or the Dead. Maybe I didn't smoke enough pot back in college to "get it". Sue me. :p
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm just not that crazy about Pink Floyd. I know too many people who worship them on the level that some people worship the Beatles or the Dead. Maybe I didn't smoke enough pot back in college to "get it". Sue me. :p
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Actually had a good friend ask me, "Wait, you DON'T partake, and you LIKE the Dead and Floyd?!" :)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm just not that crazy about Pink Floyd. I know too many people who worship them on the level that some people worship the Beatles or the Dead. Maybe I didn't smoke enough pot back in college to "get it". Sue me. :p
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I don't smoke anything and I loved Pink Floyd in my teens and 20s, and still really enjoy their pre-Wall music. They produced fun, beautiful, mentally stimulating music. What's not to love?

As far as being irritated about the culture surrounding a band, this is true of every popular band. Think about the fingernails on a chalkboard irritation of Beatles fans, or KISS fans, or the Dead, or Radiohead, or Jimmy Buffet for god's sake.
 
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