Everything I've heard rules. What else should I get?
"Summertime Blues"
"Something Else"
"C'mon Everybody"
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
That Bear Family ...Rocks series is absolutely sterling. Get to the meat without the gristle, or more specifically all the rocking songs without the ballads (as worthy as those might be, it's not what I want from my rockabilly).
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
one year passes...
three years pass...
dad a wrote this on thread Songs about Class/ Class Consciousness on board I Love Music on Jul 18, 2007
Eddie Cochran's "Somethin' Else" makes love seem as class-determined as any Gang of Four song. It's totally focused on money keeping the things we want out of reach, and it's kind of neat how it treats as fantasy the idea that hard work can help you reach those things ("I'll keep on dreaming and thinking to myself, if it all comes true, man, that's something else"), even as it indulges in that fantasy.
Quality post. I've been listening to Eddie Cochran a lot lately
― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Monday, 9 January 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Me too! Obviously there are a ton of famous covers of Summertime Blues, but they all drop the secret ingredient - that rubbery, elastic rhythm with a filthy amount of swing. That general feel is in lots of 50's rock n roll, but it vanished as rock n roll became rock in the 60's.
― the_ecuador_three, Monday, 9 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
five years pass...
I checked out an Eddie Cochran box set from 1988 from the UK - great sound, probably too much for most, but there's over 30 tracks that could fit into one essential CD. (I only wish they had the master take for "Milk Cow Blues" instead of an inferior alternate.)
Reading up on him as I listen to it, this part is really chilling:
In early 1959, two of Cochran's friends, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, along with the Big Bopper, were killed in a plane crash while on tour. Cochran's friends and family later said that he was badly shaken by their deaths, and he developed a morbid premonition that he also would die young. Shortly after their deaths, he recorded a song (written by disc jockey Tommy Dee) in tribute to them, "Three Stars". He was anxious to give up life on the road and spend his time in the studio making music, thereby reducing the chance of suffering a similar fatal accident while touring. Financial responsibilities, however, required that he continue to perform live, and that led to his acceptance of an offer to tour the United Kingdom in 1960.
Cochran then wound up dying on the car ride to Heathrow after finishing that tour. Buddy Holly's ill-fated tour was also motivated by financial issues that were pressed upon him by sleazy label tactics. Really shitty, that part never gets enough emphasis.
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 March 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
two months pass...
In other news, I believe the notoriously curmudgeonly Earl Palmer didn’t have a bad word to say about Eddie Cochran, who was really friendly, polite and courteous to him iirc.