Listen To The Band, long out of print, remains the best (and best-sounding) overview of pop's most misunderstood - and least understood - band. Their covert agenda? Have some fun. Dance, laugh. Was it not Descartes who said "if life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten, and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing. When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly, chumps! Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing!"
Listen to the band! It's Saturday morning, sunshine coming through the windows and you're lacing up your favorite sneakers. the whole wide world at your feet.
This post made necessary thru necessity. Stay groovy.
There''ll be a short intermission while I do various Sisyphean tasks associated with domestic routine, including putting off sorting the clean laundry pile. Again.
ReplyDeleteTell us about yer routine chores, assuming you have any. What token gesture do you make to keep your groovy hippie pad looking spick and span? The more trivial the better.
Well its late autumn so most of the immediate chores are in the garden disposing of the remnants of this summer's weather spoiled crops then putting away all the potted tender summer flowers bulbs and plants for the winter. We've also had the tree surgeons in and have around 5 years worth of wood (for burning) to process and store to be seasoned and also the preparation of this winters fuel ready for use in the fires. I've also got an array of branches and three other smaller trees to fell and process. After that there's leaves to clear, repairs and maintenance to do (on wooden gates, garden structures, garden tools and machinery etc as well as gutters to clear after the leaves have dropped) and random tidying up work before we can shut down the outdoor work for the year. Then the wife has a list of carpentry work she wants me to do before the need to give the house an autumn 'spring' clean before we get the Christmas decorations out. I'm going to be busy. I just hope the weather holds long enough to complete the outside work.......
ReplyDeleteOh and Ive just bought a ratcheted clamp in an attempt to fix the broken frames of a pair of glasses
Ratcheted clamp, you say? Fixing broken glasses frames? Mmm. Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?
Deletesweeping the bathroom floor. Woof.
ReplyDeleteI'm 8 or 9, at my friemnd Ronnie's house, and we are bouncing on his and his brother's beds screaming along to The Monkees--Stepping STONE--and one of his several older brothers, the oldest, if memory serves, came in muttering about this stupid childish shit we were listening to, told us to listen, and put on the Velvets. I was as thoroughly unimpressed--read: bored--as a nine year old could be and after we dutifully listened to a side of said LP we asked if we could put The Monkees back on and at least in my memory he called us stupid little fuckers and left.
7-8 years later I kinda sorta figured out maybe he'd been on to something....
I like to think the world is big enough - and our tastes broad enough - to embrace both The Monkees and The Velvet Underground. What am I saying? The Velvet Underground sucks and blows simultaneantly. And, while I've got my dander up - or as far up as it gets these days - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone is more "Velvet Underground" than anything the Velvet Underground ever did.
Deleteevening made; fair enough
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And here is the @192 version, with all the scans, as approved by th' Thinking Fellers Union:
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