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delta blues genre with john lee hooker

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Interesting leap you made from Amy Tan to Maxine Kingston there, Sterl.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Funky Kingston' - Toots

― tarden, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Whoops...let's go back and close that gap up. "Delta 88" was a song from the Rheostatics, from Toronto (a town with hookers). Rheostatics opened up one of the tours from Canada's most popular band, the Tragically Hip, who are from Kingston, Ontario...so Toots and the Maytalls' "Kingston Town".

By the way, Josh...are any of us getting anywhere CLOSE to winning conditions?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm not sure I have any way to judge that.

Town? Chicago is a town. A city, you might say. And also a band.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damn you and your pedantry, Josh. But yr. right. So. Amy Tan had a book named The Kitchen God's Wife. The Godz' first album was named Contact High. City High is produced by Wyclef, who had a hit song based around a Bee Gees sample. The Bee Gees soundtracked Saturday Night Fever, along with The Trammps. The Lady And The Tramp is a Disney film about dogs. Iggy wanted to be your dog. The Stooges coalesced around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is relatively close to Chicago. Chicago named their albums with numbers, as did Led Zepplin. Zepplin sucked. The Supersuckers' first album was called The Smoke of Hell.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"John E Smoke" was a song from the Butthole Surfers. The Beach Boys were probably the most famous people who sang about surfing, and one of the members was Mike Love. Love recorded "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Goddamn those half-japanese girls' sez Rivers Cuomo on El Scorcho off of Pinkerton, Weezer's second album. Half-Japanese is a band with a song called "Red Dress." Lady In Red is a song. A song that sucks. It sucks in the way that "Ska Sucks."

― JM, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In the same way that Primus sucks?

― bnw, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Primus->Southpark theme->Chef->Suck on my chocolate salty balls->I once had a girlfriend who did that to me->She also had an affair (not while with me) with Silvio Rodriguez->He is cuban, so hasta Siempre, Comandante is dediccated to Che Guevara, which could link us up with the manics->If it does, well there's richy, and hey->Happy Days theme, via Cuninghams.

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Happy Days" = '70s version of "That '70s Show" ("Dazed & Confused" = "American Grafitti")->"In the Street" by Big Star. = crappily obvious MOJO-magazine band...MOJO -> Jim Morrison -> the Doors did a "song" called "Horse Latitudes", Elvis Costello did 1 called "King Horse" on an album that started with IIRC a Sam & Dave song...

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(hey sorry to interrupt the flow, but Mike Love recorded "Alone Again Or" - where, when?)

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(Jump from Mike Love to the band Love.)

― Josh, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sam & Dave's big hit was 'Soul Man', which lent its title to a dreadful 1986 film in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to win a ethnic minority scholarship to Harvard. I see that Howell's illustrious Hollywood career extends to small part in 1995 Liz Hurley flash-vehicle 'Mad Dogs & Englishmen', named after the Noel Coward song.

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mad Dogs & Englishmen also being a live Joe Cocker album -> doo-wop group the Spaniels.

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When cocker spaniels are young and thin (like Jarvis), they would be a Skinny Puppy. The Pup moved from Nettwerk to American, the home of Wesley Willis. Wesley Willis not only wrote a song called "I Whipped Batman's Ass", he also wrote an ode to Silverchair.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Silverchair are a Nirvana from Australia, and Savage Garden are from Australia but more like Erasure. Eraser Errata are a art-punk girl band who opened for Unwound. Unwound's newest album is "Leaves Turn Inside You" and Sonic Youth had an album titled "A Thousand Leaves" and a thousand is 1k and Sleater-Kinney had a song about Y2k titled "Banned From The End of The World" and it was on their album "The Hot Rock" and "Hot Rocks" of course was the title of the Rolling Stones best-of, and a man was murdered when the stones played Altamont, and Ornette Coleman played ALTO SAX. Coleman played jazz, but if he played rock he might have had more groupies and then ALOT OF SEX, and David Lee Roth of Van Halen did indeed have many groupies.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

David Lee Roth to Dave Lee Travis. Travis is a band that a lot of people on this board find intensely annoying. However, members of Travis have been known to be fans of... THE LOLLIES!!!

― masonic boom, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Lollies are of course d**mpatrol's favorite band, said individual notoriously being an alleged friend of Alan McGee, which leads us to "Me And Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson.

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar, as was Bill Clinton, who became synonymous with certain activities, thus "The Bitch Sucks Dick" by Oaktown's finest Too $hort

― tarden, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Paul Simon, who is very short, is (or used to be) married to the much taller Edie Brickell, whose second album had John Lydon doing backing vocals. PIL's "Religion" leads us to Pope John Paul II's Abba Pater album. Abba's "Does Your Mother Know" had Bjorn or Benny singing lead vocals, kind of like how The Pogues' Cait O'Riordan sang a rare female lead vocal on "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday".

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Everyday" is a stand-out track on the last Sea and Cake album 'Oui'. 'Oui' is French for 'Yes', and if Yes had *been* French their lead singer's name would have been 'Jean'. So,

"Blue Jean", by Mr David Bowie.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Billy Jean is not my lover. Once and for all.

― JM, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

OK, Michael wins.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, and no, I don't know what the prize will be yet, since you live in London (is that still correct?), Michael, whereas I do not.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Cripes! I've only just seen this! My luck really is changing...

Yes, I do live in London and I'd *like* to say that closing this thread (and so gaining the right to - gasp - *start one of my own*) and emulating Dastoor is its own reward. But it's not. I want a pint of gin like what Nick got.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, maybe I will work something out with Tom. But I still think a pint of gin is a bit much. ;)

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

In reply to: Carmine Appice of the Vanilla Fudge -- who recorded an album called The Beat Goes On -- went on to tour with Jeff Beck, and criticized fellow Beck-bandmate Kim Milford (a vocalist who'd worked on Jesus Christ Superstar) as "...like a go-go dancer. The crowd couldn't take him."

-- Phil (phil@masstransfer.net), June 17, 2001.

***Appice and Beck were stupid for not keeping Kim Milford; that man had vocals that could soar! Too bad Beck and Appices egos were so fragile that they had to play so loud they drowned him out in concert. They could have used a great singer like Kim;; why do you think beck picked him after hearing him in Jesus Christ Superstar? Because he thought he had a great voice...too bad Beck didn't like playing with someone more talented than himself.

― Mary Ann, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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