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| Foam-O-Graph© - Filling A Much-Needed Void! |
Oh boy! Does business ever get brisker on th Isle O' Foam© than when a tomato in a two-piece front-loads a think-piece? We think not! Why, there's nothing like a broad in a bikini to whip up interest in another old album what most of youse bums gots awready or don't want anyway!
That's why DuMorgenstern Phloentgen-Basilica [19 my ass - Ed.] was more than keen to pretend to own an extensive collection of vinyl collectibles and an unsurpassed knowledge of the period in rock music history when psychedelia morphed into something harder to define. Plus, she's like, inclusive?
"Why, yes," she breathed yesterday [reading from a card - Ed.], "there are jazz inflections here, but the horn section never takes over, its brief appearances adding - what's this word, Farq?"
"Textural."
"Oh. Adding textural variety."
"What," I axed, "of the keyboard stylings?"
"There will be those who like to parade their scant familiarity with the genre by referencing Brian Auger, because he's the only Hammond player they can think of right now, but stylistically they have little in common, and once again the keyboard charts never dominate the overall sound or sink the album into the ham-fisted cruise ship funk served up by Mr. Auger."
"And the chick vox?"
"It would be absurd to deny the influence of Grace Slick, but here again, it's nothing like the same voice, there's no attempt at imitation."
"So - your overall rating, Ms. DuMorgenstern?"
"This is a very fine album indeed, and it's unfortunate they never cut a second or made it as big as they deserved. Perhaps the cover versions - all well-chosen and imaginatively arranged - served to lessen their impact back then, but they add a unique flavor today. Uh - can I go now? I have a bikini wax symposium to curate in like one minute?"
Today's quiz is a little different, subscribers! Can you make sense of the visual clews embedded in th' above Foam-O-Graph©? [above - Ed.]. If you think you've identified the disc so persuasively vaunted by the delicious DuMorgenstern, leave a cunning indication of yer smartassery in a comment! Don't name act/album title!
Youse bums give me gas, you so smart, gettin' quiz answers before I even axed the question! So this is by way of bein' me revenge.
ReplyDeleteIf you really don't have a clew - join in the fun by spotting the red herrings!
This is shaping up very well indeed. One hunnerd thirty six page views in a couple hours, and not even one steenkin' guess! Haw! LOOK LIKE I WIN, LUZERZ!!!
ReplyDeleteYou mean the small person songwriter's band?
ReplyDeleteBZZZZZRRRRTTTTT!
DeleteThe mackerel is a red herring.
So there's a Rainbow Connection.
DeleteIiiiii... don't think so. Rainbow trout is a red herring.
DeleteSmall person...I meant not the guy who sang for Juicy Lucy and Holdsworth. Yes, there is a Rainbow Connection.
DeleteCould there be another type of connection going round?
DeleteHoly Fish
ReplyDeleteAll fish are red herrings.
Deletecheck yourself. I trust Babs.
DeleteThere are visual clues to the record label, the band, the album title, and the name of the singer. These are in addition to the clues read off from the card by DuMorgenstern Phloentgen-Basilica. This is deliberately tough, and we'll most likely have to move on from it (most likely to a lengthy coverage of the Life And Art Of Carly Simon) unsolved.
ReplyDeleteYou're so vain
DeleteI bet you think this post is about you
Don't you, don't you?
So, Farqster, you keep threatening Carly Simon - as long as there is a photo spread of "Playing Possum" cover shoot outtakes included, we are all a okay with this!
DeleteI may have to bow to the popular will, even if it goes against my strict moral code.
DeleteIf you apply a large enough crowd to a mystery, they can often solve it. I've got it just on "vertigo" alone. I don't recall ever seeing the LP (in the US it was on "Paramount Records"). I'm listening to the Dylan cut now...it's good, but my god, how long does this thing go on for? I have the same response to a lot of jazz...this is REALLY GOOD...but can we edit it down to a single...say, 3 to 4 minutes?
Delete*facepalm* The length is entirely what this is about, consarn it! Leaving aside the fact that you don't have any better way to spend thirteen minutes right now (maybe tonight, with a little luck and a fair wind) the stretching out, the dynamics, the sheer getting into the groove, taking the time it takes ... no "long version" gets it better than this. I admit that some side-long jams would be better cut to three minutes (less, in the case of Love's "Revelation", but this is *exactly* the right length.
DeleteYou young people today, I dunno ...
For One Buck Guy.
Deletehttps://potd.pdnonline.com/2016/12/08/43217/contact-fayey-klein-seeff-carly-simon-contact-sheet/
Several decades on, long jams are still a thing. Look at the number of jam bands around - so many that the law of averages ssys that some of these jams are going to be good.
DeletePersonally, if the playing is good, why not stretch out?
You need a good place to stretch out from - a song to return to. And you need to be able to play together, and have something to say in a solo. Jazz allows this as a matter of form, but it's more elusive in rock. This version of Watchtower has everything going for it.
DeleteThen again...my favourite rock jam of all time - East West by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The few available live recordings show that they could even improve on the already stellar studio version.
DeleteAnd no theme or head!
I admit it: it's a musical blind spot. Or deaf spot. The punk rock "louder, faster, shorter" ethos really boiled down to "shorter" for me. Bob Seger's Katmandu is 6 minutes on the LP, 3 minutes on the single. BOC "Reaper"...the single elimates the guitar solo, which turns it into goth version of the Byrds. Zep's Whole Lotta is better without the ape mating call "psychedelic" middle break. Brubeck's Take Five...gimme the shorter single.
DeleteChicken of the sea?
ReplyDeleteJust before we all walk away from this, perhaps with lingering looks of regret (as it's a swell album), I'll reveal to youse bums that the clues are all in the pictures on the back wall of the sauna. Left to right: a Polish movie poster for a U.S. movie; a mathematician/astronomer; the cover of a Penguin Classics work by a German poetry dude.
ReplyDeleteComedy album coming up after the break! No flipping!
Well, the Polish movie poster is for Hitchcock's Vertigo. There's a list of Penguin Classics at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penguin_Classics (I can't brute-force look it up today as I have to pick up my grandson at the Oakland Airport, but maybe someone else can tackle it...)
DeleteSo, perhaps on the Vertogo label?
DeleteGetting the Vertigo poster is a real achievement. Yes, it's on the Vertigo label. "German poetry dude" should make box number three open for you.
DeleteI still think chicken of the sea is a hot guess.
ReplyDeleteHot mess, more like.
DeleteHey - you're our resident gagmeister - tell us a joke in the comedy comments!
Young Farquhar and his grandmother were sitting in a park (having just finished collecting some 47 beer bottles for the deposit money) on a glorious spring day.
DeleteShe told him that one day, he would find a wonderful woman and start his own family.
'And always remember this one thing,' she said. 'Be sure you marry a woman with small hands.'
'How come, Grandma?' he asked her.
“Makes your dick look bigger.”
Clar is Humorist In Residency at the Edwin Ellenbogen Center For The Performing Arts, Hackensack.
DeleteRainer Maria Rilke "Sings Your Favorite Hit Songs of Today"?
ReplyDeleteAre we admitting defeat on this one? I know I am but I don't pretend to represent anyone but myself.
Ms. DuMorgenstern description made me think it could be an album from early 70's, with a cover photo with rather bleached out colours? & including a Dylan track?
ReplyDeleteOh boy, oh boy, hope I win the fabuluous prize. It's got to be something spectacular this time, coz that was really freakin' hard. I've already got steak knives.
btw if I am right, it's a great album, all the freeloading bums should download asap.
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DeleteHi Farq, I've been away from the interwebs for 4 or 5 days, and I was wondering what 'the mathematician/astronomer; the cover of a Penguin Classics work by a German poetry dude', had to do with the Affinity album? Please can you enlighten me. Thanks in antisi...pation.
DeleteYou seem to have an affinity for causing us so many sleepless nights!
ReplyDeleteWell done, Mr. Shark! You win tonight's special prize of ONE MILLION DOLLARS! This beautifully printed bill is sure to excite attention when you "accidentally" try to pay for that beer at The Lucky Liquor Shack!
DeleteNah - lots of pointers from others - call it a group effort!
DeleteWell, I'll have that million dollar bill back, you rascal.
DeleteToo late, I done spat on it.
DeleteWhy, you cheap chiseler, for two cents I'd ... I'd ...
Delete
ReplyDeleteAccording to Hoyle.