What Can't You Find On The Internet?

(ok that wasn't what you asked for but it may help?)

Osama thumbs up anyone?

quebecois band le volume etait aux maximum pulled their videos for "teenage gluesniffer" and "les princesses" for whatever reason, but I suspect they might still be floating around in some mandatory canadian music video archive.

please help me and Jimmy The Mod find legendary Subway ad starring Joe Torre and Willie Randolph that contains the immortal line “that’s alotta meat”

istr they have a playful tug of war with a footlong in the closing image

Playful tug of war with a footlong

Osama thumbs up anyone?

https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EKiq9Pp.png

yes thank u

There was an album cover I used to see posted on ILX sometimes with a picture of a weird-looking dude with a big red beard which covered a larger percentage of his face than a beard would normally cover. Any ideas?

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:58 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe try https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:07 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp: Hatcat forever.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:10 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gentle Giant debut perhaps?

― Dan Worsley, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:12 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, it was an actual photograph, but I do think that it was progressive rock of some kind.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably the Simply Red album after Mick's head shrunk

― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Julie's 16th Birthday? They Only Come Out at Night?

― adam t. (abanana), Monday, January 31, 2022 4:48 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gary Higgins Red Hash?

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, January 31, 2022 5:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.discogs.com/release/3581939-Jonathon-Round-Jonathon-Round

― JacobSanders, Monday, January 31, 2022 6:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Red Hash is what came to mind for me too!

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 31, 2022 6:25 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

These were all good answers, by the way, even if none of them were what I was looking for. I was reminded of my problem this morning when I came across this picture of Roy Wood, which is the closest I've found, but is still not quite right.

https://i.imgur.com/PyaXHr3.png

I feel like the picture I'm looking for might also have been backlit, so you could see light coming through the subject's hair. In the picture I'm thinking of, the guy was definitely a ginger though. I'm wondering if he actually had a full beard, or if it was more like EXTREME 70s mutton chops (a la Ray Dorset, but definitely not Ray Dorset). He also did not have facepaint, but it's possible that he had eyeliner. The guy definitely looked more feral than Wood does here. That is to say that, despite his weird appearance, Wood has a serene look on his face. The guy I'm thinking of had a more wide-eyed intense look on his face, like he was surprised, or possibly peaking on acid.

There's also the chance that I'm not thinking of an album cover at all, and it was instead a promo shot.

in glorious black & white, but ginger geezer viv stanshall?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/560x315_b/p03mbfps.jpg

Feels like a slim chance, but: Leon Russell?

Possibly Jethro Tull circa War Child or the Nuge on Cat Scratch Fever?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTMzOTIzNTg1Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODIyMzYwNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_.jpg

El Topo

Viv Stanshall is pretty darn close! Something familiar about the tufts of face fur climbing up his cheeks. Maybe I will try to track down some alternate pictures of him.

It's amazing that people are coming up with so many different possible answers.

HOLY SHIT HIDEOUS LUMP! THAT'S IT!

Thank you.

looks like a Jack Mitchell photo lol

this was a journey. made me think of this for some reason.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gw5nh3_rq6g/maxresdefault.jpg

Men used to be so much more fearless in their fashion.

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9qh4Z46FE

?

Amazing, thanks budo!

cheers! good thing i reorganized my bookmarks recently

I seem to remember sometime in the past year, someone posted (probably on ILM) about a website that archived liner notes, LP and CD booklet scans, etc. Anyone know the site? (I've already found albumlinernotes.com, not sure if there are any other such sites.)

This? The Liner Notes Project

Pretty sure that was it, thanks!

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

― MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:07 bookmarkflaglink

Love the look of this - fwiw MN, this is an adaptation of the Yevgeny Zamyatin book 'We'.

in fairness budo jeru had already got that one

oh yeah, sure, i was just boosting the original novel as well, which is v good.

is there a particular translation into English that---we---should look for?

I once caught an episode of German pop show Formel Eins. There was a ridiculously OTT new romantic group debuting their single, a protest song against the cold war. I remember there was a background with a cowboy and a cossack playing chess - not sure whether this was a music video or just how Formel Eins chose to illustrate the performance - and I strongly remember the line "why did the Russians invade Afghanistan?", for its literalness and out of placeness in a synth pop bop.

This was decades ago (at which point ofc it was already a decades old rerun) and I may have exaggerated some or all aspects in my mind since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Cold_War

any help?

This it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ZophoD-U

that is it jaymc! great work.

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoO53l0fUZ0

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

footage of larry king interviewing putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_hnDgELts

damn! thanks!

transcript via kremlin in case anyone is interested
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558

seems ridiculous that you can have an isbn number but all that comes back in searches is 100 pages selling the same "ed mcbain omnibus" with the same "cover coming soon" and no information about what's in it. i swear the internet used to be more helpful.

978-0340623244

The name of a book published around 1912 that contained offensive (for the time) songs and poems. I think the title started with an I. And it was available on Google Books.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still looking.

A gallery of all 9 original panels of "A Short History of America" exist online in a decent (or *gasp* high) resolution?

All I could find is this YT in reasonable quality -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkq595NhD0

Nice, thank you!

video of New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed" on Letterman circa 2003?

It used to be here but was taken down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyp3JC9-uU

I just saw them on Letterman. They did "The Laws Have Changed," which was exactly what I wanted to hear, and the most obvious song to play. Neko looked really pretty, more beautiful than I remember her being from the two times that I've seen the band perform.

Carl looks more like Howdy Doody with each passing day.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:56 PM (twenty years ago)

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Andy Partridge once wrote a mini-essay (or post?) about songwriting in which he used an extended metaphor about going around a racetrack built by his forebears (the Beatles, the Move, the Kinks, etc.) This may have been a myspace post? Or maybe that's just where I originally saw it, in my memory. It's not in the Complicated Game book and I can't seem to find it on Chalkhills (it wasn't really "news" or "press").