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i always thought it was 'too much too young'

but, then, i heard...

ice cream man

repeatedly

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

which "ice cream man"?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003B5B.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― amon (eman), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

tom waits?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

wiley?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

you're listing my favorite artists!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

trick question! all the songs of tom waits are the worst songs ever

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

oh caitlin

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

the worst song ever is "one way" by Dickensian British beat collective TEH LEVELLERS

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

bahaha caitlin otm

― amon (eman), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

i like tom waits

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna gitcha gitcha gitcha gitcha

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

the one i mean is by

jonathan richman

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

trick question! all the songs of tom waits are the worst songs ever

CORRECT

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

though adam makes a convincing argument, regarding those south coast dog-on-a-string strongbow quaffers

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

This is more Jonathan Richman hate, I suppose. Why? Surely, those records were nice little beacons in the U.S.A. of the late 1970s.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 20 August 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Though the live version on Modern Lovers Live is better than the one on Rockin' and Romance.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

(I mean Rock and Roll With the Modern Lovers, not Rockin and Romance.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

tom waits is good

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

for me to poop on

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 20 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

caitlin why you make me cry?

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

because i think tom waits is bad, and my DAD listens to that

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

SEARCH:

http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Images/Portraits19911995/92-Fishing-with-John-2.jpg

DESTROY:

everything else

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

that show disappointed me.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

i like tom waits, but some of those '70s albums could have used an editor, someone who would sit down with him and say "tom, you're the cat's pajamas, but 'jim crow's directing traffic with them cemetery blues'? cmon, don't kid yourself."

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Post original Modern Lovers can get pretty tiresome, which isnt to say there are not moments -- but, you know, the nervous kid shit about dinosaurs and ice cream can only be administered in small doses before a severve reaction to the medication.

Also, some Tom Waits is OK -- anything with Les Claypool on it is definitely NOT OK.

― Cornelius J. Brosnan (Grodd), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

fuck tom wait.s

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

What is wrong with you guys? Tom Waits is the shit's tits.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

rain dogs is immortal bitchez

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

If you don't like The Specials you are a stinking gay robot. Fact.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

tom waits doesn't ALWAYS suck.

BUT, Joanathan Richman/modern lovers ALWAYS DO.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i like "government center" and "i'm straight." they remind me of this girl i knew who od'd. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

that 'sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much' song is the worst song ever

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

or that 'dance with my father again' song. i hate that one!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I like The Specials, Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers.

I also like a subgenre of UK Garage known as dubstep.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.
Not like you.

― The King's English (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

WHATS WRONG WITH JOHN RICHMAN IAN???!!
i coulda sworn we listened to him in the car for a beer run in wisconsin
was it his solo stuff or was it ghostface?

― brock (brock), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS EVER HEAR "THE NEW TELLER," A SONG HE RECORDED W/ THE RUBINOOS? SWEET.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin' "Abdul and Cleopatra" from the Back in Your Life album ('79) - Beautiful. Back in Your Life is a gorgeous sounding album. Beserkeley was a pretty large indie and they weren't putting out lo-fi stuff. They had Earth Quake, who had been on a major before they were on Beserkeley, Greg Kihn, the Rubinoos (who actually had a single from their first album that cracked the top 40), etc.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Modern Lovers in '83, touring on the Jonathan Sings album (his one album for Sire): one of the first concerts I went to. That's a good record, too, and he had a good band there (though I like the later Beserkeley years band better, I think). Jonathan came out for the encore by himself and came out in the audience and sang that great song from the Jonathan Sings about how he doesn't want a ride anywhere, he just wants to walk, a capella. Amazing - I was 15. (Also, my older brother tried out to be in the Modern Lovers that night backstage - they were looking for another guitarist. He said that Jonathan played "The New Teller" for him and then handed him the guitar and said, "How about a little 'Louie Louie'?")

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

'Government Center' is good.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

This phone call today concerns HIPPIE IAN.
I called up to say how I wanna TAKE HIS PLACE.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Tim, how come sometimes when you're posting it reads like you're talking to yourself?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Right. And that's one that's more in his later style that people know because they stuck it on as an extra track on reissues of the 1st Modern Lovers album. He had plenty of songs as good as that, though, in the years to come.

2x-post

(Adam, I am telling you guys stories and repping for Jonathan Richman.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Who is also a good dancer and good lead guitarist.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

this girl jane was seriously pretty awesome. a total fox, very smart. sometimes a l'il bitchy but who cares? i had a thing for her fierce, senior year. she was a sophomore, i think. ok, yeah, that's right, because she was a freshman when i was a junior, and we used to hang out then with my friend jeff (who i just got back in touch after many years - he used to have a drug problem but is clean now and going back to school for a master's in history) and her roommate jada (who i liked at the time). then we had a falling out or falling away or whatever it is you have when you don't hang out with people in college any more.

but yeah, so senior year i hung out a lot in the dorm where my friends lukas and gandalf and joe and christian lived, and jane lived down the hall. so we started hanging out again. everyone would pile into my car and we'd drive into kingston (where the miron liquor store was open later) and christian would buy the cheapest vodka possible (that he drank straight) and we'd talk about literature and music and whatever bullshit. totally got that dude into "spiderland." we're still friends now, he's married and lives in philly and his first novel just came out. i don't have a copy yet though. one time we took the old piano that was in the basement and threw it off something, or somewhat.

anyway, jane pretty much wore black all the time, and studied a lot. by spring of that year my stuff was pretty much done, once i finished my project, and we'd hang out and blast "i'm straight" and "government center" and i got into it because of how my friends loved it. i was spending a lot of time driving to somerville to date a lame girl so maybe i was in a baystate mood or something.

but yeah, so then i graduated, moved away to chicago, things change. i think it was in the spring of 2001 i heard that jane had died of an overdose. she'd finished her degree somewhere else, and had moved home to suburban boston, and apparently was miserable. it still makes me so sad to think about, i can see her face to this day (despite not having seeing it since late spring 1998).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman totally just asked me for a ride home

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I refuse to read Joel's funny parody post. If he does not think my anecdote about my bro trying out to play in the Modern Lovers is interesting, than I am sorry.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

I AM A JONATHAN RICHMAN FAN. IVE SEEEN HIM PLAY ONCE OR TWICE....VERY GOOD SHOWS.

GOVT CENTER IS A TREAT!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

i thought you hated the mod luvs

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

tim, man, it was not a parody post. my friend jane did actually die from an od, and i miss her very much. and you're still a douchebag who likes boston, the archies, swa, and other kinds of unmentionably shitty music. go fuck yourself.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

NOT A PARODY POST OF ME BEING MAD, BTW.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

take a chill pill.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

no.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

ok man tim i'm not mad now, sorry for losing it a bit, but goddamn man that was fucking cold.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

DUDE I'M SORRY. LIKE I SAID I DIDN'T READ IT AND THOT U WERE PARODYING ME. SORRY BRO.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

FOR THE RECORD: I DON'T LIKE THE MODERN LOVERS AND I LIKE GRIME.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

(Joel, sorry again, man. Dag ... )

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

s'all right tim i'm not mad about it now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think it was a parodi

ddb is so...unpredoctable

typing in the dark

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

FOR THE RECORD I STILL HAVE NOT LISTENED TO THE FOURTH SWA ALBUM WINTER. THE SECOND ALBUM SEX DOCTOR IS NOT THAT GREAT BUT DOES HAVE ONE CLASSIC IN THE TUNE ENTITLED "SEA AND SKY." THE THIRD ALBUM XCIII IS THE PWNAGE BROS.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

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