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― dat login (wins), Saturday, 7 May 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I prefer Radio Ethiopia to Horses actually. Easter I've never got into if only because the song mentioned above is so collossally misguided and wrongheaded.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 7 May 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
i thought it was pretty badass when i was younger, and musically it still is, but yeah
― Francis Ford Cupola (contenderizer), Saturday, 7 May 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
It's actually interesting that the Patti Smith and Frank Zappa threads are going on at the same time. Both kind of interesting, smart people from the 60s and 70s (respectively) who weren't quite up to transcending their times. I like her more than him, but that's just personal taste.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 7 May 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
Did Patti ever have any difficult interaction with Weird Al or his band? Because then that would tie this thread with the Zappa thread and the Prince RIP thread as well.
― Wrecka Stow Ralph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
Or else we could just discuss her jazz bonafides for the same result
― Wrecka Stow Ralph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
oh she has those in spades
― dat login (wins), Saturday, 7 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Um...
― Wrecka Stow Ralph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
there is a book from the 70's called Rock 100 that Lenny Kaye co-wrote and i know there is a Zappa entry, but i don't remember what they wrote about him.
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 May 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
I'd be willing to let it slide (like anyone cares lol) if it was just one incredibly stupid song from roughly the era of songs called "mongoloid"
don't drag Devo into this!
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 May 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
but yeah, for me, it's the cringe-inducing "skip this track" thing like with Morrissey's "Bengali in Platforms"
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 May 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
It's way more aggressively cringey than Bengali, though Bengali's core message is way worse and meaner, but like when I was young I didn't even have the cultural literacy to know what Bengali meant in UK culture plus the song kinda drifts by in a haze whereas RnRN is so instantly like damn white lady pump yr brakes on the n word
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 8 May 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
did she ever wear that lester bangs t-shirt? did lester bangs make that t-shirt? he had a lot of homemade t-shirts.
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 May 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Remember when that was a viable business model? When I was a kid, I had a friend whose parents ran a T-shirt printing store. I remember my whole third or fourth grade class went on a field trip and we got T-shirts printed there, so they'd be able to keep track of us all. I don't remember where we went, but I remember the T-shirts. They were green.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 8 May 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, I got a Let It Be t-shirt that way, to name one, from one of those places where they had all the imprints up on the wall so you could pick one, choose your shirt size and color and then they would use a press iron to meld it all together. The last time I saw something like that was late 70s.
― Wrecka Stow Ralph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 May 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/12/bf/c5/12bfc552bc9624ac0819fab5248b1806.jpg
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2016 08:23 (seven years ago) link
As mentioned a couple of times above "Piss Factory"/"Hey Joe" is really great - pretty much the only thing I'll return to (slightly surprised Penman didn't mention it).
And then her voice was sampled in a Dead C track in World Peace Hope Et Al. Its only a couple of mins long but its the only other time I cared.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2016 09:10 (seven years ago) link
Was enjoying listening to this this am, has a brief snippet of smith. Her magnetism is apparent (and yeah the assertion that she might be reacting against the beat lineage in any way is mildly baffling)
― dat login (wins), Sunday, 8 May 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link