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Michelle Phillips was the igloo snow queen to Cass Elliot's tiki cabin log fire. Her solo album came dressed in a sleeve [below left - Ed.] that she must have thought showed her sexy, sophisticated side, but the dull one-piece came over as sensible, even prudish. Carly Simon had set this particular benchmark a couple of years earlier with Playing Possum. The album was also called Victim Of Romance, and she never struck me as a victim of anything - certainly not romance. It was always Cass losing and breaking her big old heart. Michelle could look after herself.
The deliverable is the usual IoF© cornycopium of bountiful largesse, including the album, plus the extra tracks on the limited re-release (a complete album in their own right), plus the rare missing tracks supplied by a Four Or Five Guy©. Yes, the sleeve uses a Mamas & Papas-era picture, but it expresses the essence of her appeal in a timeless way. Doncha think?
This post funded in part by The Gabriel Snubbers Timing Ass., Pismo Beach.
You want this album, work for it. Tell us - in as much detail as you care to divulge - what you see when you raise your rheumy old eyes from whatever screen you're trying to focus on right now. Me: artist's articulated wooden figurine with a Buddhist bracelet around his neck like a mystic lei. Doing a happy dance.
ReplyDeleteMy old teddy bear from my childhood with his left arm almost severed from his body!!! .. and out the window a typical cold, English winter .. But the sun is making a rare .. brief?? .. appearance!!
ReplyDeleteSurbiton Steve!
DeleteI know this is rather "off topic" but with the amazing community I see here I thought I would give this a try. Since seeing the news of the death of Marianne Faithfull I have been revisiting the few recordings of hers' I have and filling in a few missing pieces. One that I see on Discogs:
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that I never knew of has grabbed my attention but after a couple of days search I have not been able to find it. I thought I'd ask you and your followers whether anyone may be able to help me. Here's hoping.
Brian
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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I use "YouTube To MP3". Does what it says on the tin. If the download is the complete album, you need to slice it up with an MP3 splitter. That's as far as the tech help desk on th' IoF© is prepared to carry you, Brian!
Delete2 floor to ceiling windows that overlook my wife's planter gardens, where about 40 different containers of differing size and colors contain herbs, flowering plants, trees and succulents.
ReplyDeleteSayy! That sure sounds a swell joint ya gots! Real elegant! What say the boys an' me drop by! Couple a broads, domestic Champagne, shoot some craps - what ya say!!
DeleteThe door is always open! "Who dis? New phone..."
Deletenice...
DeleteThrough the window, a beautiful crisp sunny winters day, four 1920’s terrace houses and two magpies. Above the screen a framed edition if VIZ magazine no.154 (with a fabulous Bat Out Of Hell cover pastiche).
ReplyDeleteDoes that Viz hold sentimental value for you, Bambers?
DeleteNope, just apppresheated the artwork.
DeleteFat Slags Out Of Hell? Dead-Big-Bollocks Ringer? Paradise By The Microwave Oven Light In Sid The Sexist's Kitchen?
DeleteActually Mrs Brady Old Lady Out of Hell.
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all sorts of stuff hanging on the wall reflecting our various and varied taste and lives...I'm partial to a Joe Yoder painting of a house on a bayou, an Elvis clock swinging it's legs, a great old Audubon Zoo poster circa 1984, and lots of records, tapes, and CDs strewn about.
ReplyDeleteI had that Audubon zoo poster at one point. I also had a first edition, hand painted Audubon lithograph, given to me by a client. Sadly "had" is the operative verb.
Deletebut very cool
DeleteA small framed picture of a village scene bought off eBay and signed by the artist Linda Thompson. Sadly not THE Linda Thompson, but it seemed worth a punt at the time.
ReplyDeleteAbove that is a Tate Gallery print of the second part of the Roy Lichtenstein WHAM! pair. I bought that in the full knowledge that it was nothing to do with the George Michael / Andrew Thingy band of the same name.
Out the window I watch the crazy neighbors as they scurry about and the on the wall a couple of guitars & mandolins hang opposite shelves of CDs & DVDs.
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My view is that of a large abstract painting (10 feet long) that channels Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell that was created by an old friend before she decamped for Australia from the USA. One of my most cherished possessions.
ReplyDeleteFT3 - your new Michelle cover is a HUGE improvement over the original. I had never seen the "Victim of Romance" cover before and was shocked at how unappealing it is. I liked a lot of Terry O'Neil's photos back in the day, but this is NOT one of them.
Carly supposedly arrived at the "Playing Possum" photo session with "no intention of baring my teddy." After she and photographer Norman Seeff had some wine, things loosened up a bit. According to Carly, "Norman said, 'Well, don't you have something on under that?'" Apparently, she did.
I just realized FT3 covered Carly's "Playing Possum" cover and more with his 12/1/2021 post along with an outtake photo from the Seeff session. Worth reviewing for sure.
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ReplyDeleteA nice piece of work and a credit to all concerned.
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteNice to se you, Stanley.
DeleteA big fat fluffy black Tom cat spooning for fuss and food whilst I try to catch up on 4chan/FMF. And beyond him, a mess.
ReplyDeleteThe glacial style of Michelle ties in my current reading, 'Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon', a gorgeous setting for the emergence of cold-eyed politically-useful Evil presented as Good.
Here's Weird Scenes for all you pale, bookish types:
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I see scattered pages of my book, using Weird Scenes as a blueprint for the London 'Spontaneous Underground'. My mind sees hallucinations of witches, scientologists, occultism and the establishment, Syd Barrett...same background as Zappa....Pink Floyd's Occultist, alchemical hidden hand...Process Church...were influences on Manson, went to college with Pink Floyd....it's all coincidence I tell yah,
ReplyDeleteInterview C.B.C Canada
ReplyDeleteInterviewer : ‘In a frenetic haze of sound and sight...sadistically designed to shatter the strongest nerves.”
Syd Barrett: “Its sort of at a higher level you can respond to it”.
There are precious few interviews with Syd Barrett speaking, yet within this brisk Opening statement we can see the entire premise of this book.
The interviewer states that the images and audio are designed sadistcally shatter the strongest nerves...