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| Pretty Things, yesterday. Phil May, front n' center |
What is the length of shrift given to the Pretty Things [not above - Ed.]? Generally shorter than Phil May's hair back in '63. They are a Top Tier U.K. band; innovative, wild, talented, with a charismatic front man and a berserker drummer. All they lacked was a knack for writing a string of hit singles, which put them behind their contemporaries the Stones, the Who, the *sigh* Beatles, and the Kinks. There are a few greatest hits collections out there, but you'll have a tough time whistling any one of them. Don't tell that to Mike Stax - he not only named his swell magazine after the band [Ugly Things - Ed.] but also stole the name of their bass player [not "Mike", the other one - Ed.].
I can live without the early raw R&B, while noting that it is R&B, and the transitional Get The Picture (Mike's favorite album of all time, bless), but S.F. Sorrow and Parachute have always been on my consolette autochange.
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Parachute was never Rolling Stone Magazine's Album Of The Year [1970 - Ed.], in spite of the rock myth to the contrary. But it should have been. After a startling, discordant opening, the album works through some of their most memorable songs, with inventive arrangements and beautiful harmonies - they never got the credit for their stacked vocals. Their best album, as good as rock music gets. That cover, though ... ooff ...
Bonus album #1: Swingin' London!
Bonus album #2: "Best album ever made!" M. Stax
Bonus album #3: All the hits you can't remember!
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BLING. Fess up - what do you wear in the adornment line? Perhaps a gangsta-style medallion, or a mood ring? How do you pretty up yourself?
ReplyDeleteParadiso (1969) is also good and Deflecting Grey (EP). Personally I also liked Silk Torpedo (1974). Check out Electric Banana Blows Your Mind (1967).
ReplyDeleteI don't "Pretty Up" myself. Don't wear no jewelry. Don't wear no scarfs. I'm lucky to shave before a dentil appointment. Thanks for these offerings Farq. Love the Pretty Things. Uglier than the Stones. Keep your children away!
The Deflecting Grey EP is included in the bonus tracks. The Electric Banana album is somewhere here on th' IoF©, but I can't find it! D'oh.
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I know what I said, but thinking about it later, I would be honored to have a card here, as you have time. Thanks.
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DeleteHad a Peace Sign medallion but gave it to the grandkids. I don't need to keep that shirt.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they, 4 years apart. I keep wearing the same shirt to get my drivers license picture, ever since I realized I still had that shirt .
ReplyDeleteAlthough I already have these it's good to see them get a wider audience - as for adornment I'm over 60 but still have a full head of hair so it's a bit bouffant! By the way I'm sure I read that SF Sorrow wasn't released in the US 'til 69 and was criticized for copying Tommy!
ReplyDeleteWit' th' full head o' hair, shaddap awready. Jeez.
DeleteLuck of the draw I guess - it's not like when we pop out to the world there's a list of optional extras to tick off.
DeleteFunny you should mention mood rings . . . wore a nose mood ring for a while. Otherwise I just keep it simple for my everyday look. https://www.atelierbassi.com/shop/tiga-d-latex-rubber-man-wig-5860#attr=49464 --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteA Buddha amulet from Cambodia plus a (plain) aluminium ring made from UXO bought in Laos!!
ReplyDeleteKeep my hair in a number 2!!
Yeah yeah, you have hair.
DeleteThere's some unadvertised bonus bonusses here; the Electric Banana, the definitive collection of Early Years rawnch, and an expanded Get The Picture. Grab it with tongs!
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I'm wearing a hat and scarf at most times, but the rest of my outfit is usually pretty messed up.
ReplyDeleteDo you wear socks with flip-flops?
DeleteThere are limits, Farq, even for me!
DeleteHow about a plastic bag on your head when it rains?
DeleteAarrrggghhhhhhhh
DeleteHow about rolling your t-shirt up over your belly when it gets a bit hot?
DeleteThe belly is still acceptable, surprise surprise, therefore no need for any rolling up activities ;-)
DeleteYou seem untouched by Siamese sartorial vernacular.
DeleteI do my best ;-)
DeleteNo adornment here, the occasional 'loud' shirt if appropriate. Oh, yellow laces in my DM's, probably doesn't count?
ReplyDeleteYellow laces seem as close as you'll get to bling.
Delete24-hole ox-blood Doctor Martens, backless leather chaps, and a combover.
ReplyDeleteUNSEE!!!!
DeleteSeems unfair if I don't list my bling: Ayutthaya temple ring (pretty cosmic), plain silver wedding band, Seiko 5 automatic (black), temple bracelet (black, from a selection) on right wrist. Sometimes I wear a ganesh rudraksha on a woven necklace. No tatts or piercing. Clothing all used from local market, hardly counts as bling!
ReplyDeleteOn special occasions I sometimes don underwear.
ReplyDeletenotBob, th' IoF©'s Senior Fashion Correspondent, acts as an aspirational role model for us all.
DeleteIt's my duty & pleasure!
DeleteThat's "Senior Fashion" Correspondent, not Senior "Fashion Correspondent". I want that piece on disposable diapers on my desk tomorrow, whenever that is.
DeleteAs my Mod days are long gone (oh how I wish I could still fit into my made to measure suit) and have now evolved a garb that's part farmer Giles/ part beach bum (surf shoes are very adaptable footwear for the arthritic and shorts should be worn whenever possible), I'll stick to the bling.
ReplyDeleteSo I wear a St Christopher ring on my right hand given to me as a child by my grandparents, a gold wedding band (made from another signet ring I was given as a child and my parents wedding rings) and a gold victorian garnet signet ring on my left hand bought for me as an engagement ring from my wife. Around my neck I have a gold chain with a Wyland whales tail, a gold "the one ring" (I'm a sucker for Tolkien) and once upon a time as its now buried somewhere in the garden (along with the original garnet from my signet ring), a pewter Incan charm representing the Incan equivalent of my birthsign. No tats or piercings and since I retired no watch (the days pass fast enough as it is without checking how quickly they are going).
You may get something out of this (although I doubt it):
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Don't be so sure I won't. The first few paragraphs have caught my interest but of all nights I'm on the clock tonight (got to get up early in the morning) but I will certainly give the rest a read when i get chance. Thanks for that....
DeleteUh huh ...
DeleteWell I've not yet finished it and I'm enjoying the imagery and get feeling the observations you make about time, many of which I've come to myself in by different routes, are worthy of one of those long debates over one or more bottles of something intoxicating. That said given my increasingly Darwinian outlook on our existence, I'm not sure how much we might be on the same page. So I need to read on....
DeleteNothing I write even refers to Darwinism, let alone runs counter to it.
Delete"ism is for ists" - this is not that.
As I said I need to read on but given that Darwin's theories are predicated on evolution over the passage of time, the seeming rejection of the value time as a notion, be it a philosophical one or not, and particularly a rejection of the value of the past would, on the face of it, seem to counter his ideas. Darwin's ideas are predicated on the existent and value of time even if it is a human construct. To reject the value of time by default would then surely be a rejection of his concepts?
DeleteBasically the past informs us at all levels and should continue to inform us. Still I haven't finished reading it yet so my impression of it may change significantly.
I shall read on.....
Forgive me, but I can't let this pass. You have misunderstood. It is not a "rejection of the value of time", it is an understanding of it. "An understanding of time is an understanding of the nature of things, not their duration." Evolution teaches a perfect way of understanding time - it is not quantifiable, does not divide itself into intervals. That's what we do, that's the magic spell we cast on the world, and ourselves.
DeleteIf you can get over our programmed obsession with the interval - the step from "one" to "two" - the whole pot of instant noodles should heat up nicely for you.
(Incidentally, this is possibly the only humour-based music blog where you'll find a discussion like this in the comments. Go us!)
Not a bling guy. Silver wedding band, watch, in the summer a hat. When the mood strikes, crotchless panties.
ReplyDeleteTMI.
DeleteThe most I do to pretty my self up is put on a pair of shorts that have a zipper and a t-shirt that doesn't have random unexplainable bleach splotches on them. I wear flip-flops everywhere cause I just don't care!
ReplyDeleteYou are wearing Thai National Costume.
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