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Sudge was the enthusiasm engendered by the Bread Love & Dreams piece [page views nudging into double figures, Boss! - Ed.] it behooves us to build on the momentum with this timely and provocative op-ed piece featuring three more swell albums by Bread, Love, and Dreams! Which we axed famed talent vacuum Angelyne© [above - Ed.] to clickbait the elderly glamor enthusiasts over at Ryp's twilightzone blog!
FT3 Angelyne™ baby! Lookin' hotter than Mexican pavement pizza!
A© Likewise I'm sure, Farq! Uh - why am I here, again?
FT3 Which you pretend to brung three albums, for th' Three or Four Guys© to fight over!
A© And I get like what outta this stupid mess?
FT3 (gestures expansively) Publicity, baby! Why, th' Isle© gets, like, zillions of visits!
A© Hmm. You said like, three or four? Just now? Ya think I'm stoopid or somethin'?
FT3 (thinking fast) Three or four zillion baby!
A© Well, that's okay, then. (spits gum into pool) Whom does a gal gots to blow?
(tape runs out at this point)
This post sponsored in part by Chuck's Chicken Charm Farm©, FLA "Try our Sunday Special™!"
Even the most swivel-eyed acid folk obsessives think that Bread Love and Dreams* only made three albums! You'll have to go to all the trouble of finding clicking the StealthLink© to find out how wrong they are! If you trip over the link, leave a clew as to its location so that others may profit from your perspicacity!
ReplyDelete*"The sandwich not even Subway makes" - yes, I made this joke before but SO WHAT. Youse bums is gettin' this swell content for NUTHIN'!
Okay, the link's up. I just put it up, so if you've spent your entire day searching for it, then I humbly apologise. I forgot. Been doin' a buncha stuff today. Clew: it's in the piece, not the comments.
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ReplyDeleteAm per sand
ReplyDeleteDo you play poker? You'd be great at it.
DeleteI feel like these last two posts make for a loverly tribute to David Johansen and the Dolls, of whom there are now approximately none left.
ReplyDeleteAh yes. The New York Dolls - The Archies of punk, without the personality. Or the hits. But - credit where it's due! - they were outrageous, if you had nothing else to be outraged about, and fun, if you had none and didn't know what it was. "It's a New York Thing."
Deletehahaha...nice line and fair enough. ..but Johnny Thunders playing "Pipeline" was awright
DeleteAnybody playing 'Pipeline" is awright!
DeleteThe only thing I ever missed about Sirius radio was the weekly show that Johansen curated. The man had tastes that ran from opera, classical, jazz, soul, and punk.
ReplyDeleteYeah yeah, keep it up, I may have to listen to a Dolls record!
DeleteInterestingly, he rarely played the Dolls on his show.
DeleteNot much to listen too, but oh the noisiness in 1975-6 when I first heard'em. And then the Ramones. I figgered I could play a gitbox too. Or at least "Pipeline" (well, that came later)
ReplyDeleteI saw Da Jo at a UCLA tribute to the Harry Smith Project tribute show, a fine time! Also on the bill, the Folksmen, and Garth Hudson!
ReplyDeleteOn a global scale of things mattering, this rates alongside of a porcupine losing a quill, but its "almost interesting" status gets it a mention here:
ReplyDeleteRoberta Christgau, the Pennsylvania Dutch Doyenne of Rock Criticism, rates the first two NYD albums A+ (note the plus, kids!): "... white kids who grow up in Manhattan are well off and moderately arty, like Carly Simon and John Paul Hammond. It takes brats from the outer boroughs to capture the oppressive excitement Manhattan holds ..." See? He gets a hard-on slumming with brats from "the outer boroughs". The Ramones tent his shorts, too: "... blows everything else off the radio: it's clean the way the Dolls never were, sprightly the way the Velvets never were ..." but he rates their first two albums lower, anyway.
Carly Simon, unlucky enough to be born rich, beautiful, and talented, gets a C for her end-of-term paper: "calculated preciosity and false air of discovery ... If a horse could sing in a monotone, the horse would sound like Carly Simon ..."
Me, I'm happy to hear a good song, well-played and sung. There's no way I can sit through an album side of The Ramones (although I've tried) and I'm pretty sure the Dolls would get the same attention span. But, you know ... let the porcupine quill fall where it may.
I think there is more there than you give credit for, even if it's a just a certain energy that saved some of us stranded in places like BRLA...maybe thou doth protest to much. But for me, at least, it was just the noise and the look and the idea that it wasn't Led Zipper, et al.
ReplyDeleteI'm not protesting at all! Just dropping a quill ... the point of which seems to have been buried ...
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