 |
| Sleeve job by Dave at the Pork Bend Kinko's - ask to see the range of wedding invites and corporate logos! |
If Mr. Protheroe had focused his huge talents a little back in '74, if he'd ditched the whimsy and insisted on a better sleeve, he might have broken in the Untied Snakes of Amerigo instead of remaining a bit of a cult in the UK. A cult with a boney-fido hit in the terrific title track, which ensured his continued semi-fame as a one hit wonder.
For this FoamEdit©, I've cut the whimsy, tweaked the running order and graciously donated a swell new cover, all of which costs him, and you, absolutely nothing. Zip. Nada. What do I get out of the deal? A tingling sensation in my hams, from bad posture.
Earworm melodies, chord changes to make the Dan Fan's mouth water, high quality vocals (including note-perfect harmonies), inneresding woids and soopoib production. You might call it jazz-inflected art-pop, if you knew what that meant, ya bum. Just make sure you download this sucker, because it's friggin' awesome.
https://thestrangebrew.co.uk/interviews/brian-protheroe/
This post funded in part by the Dorothy Kilgallen Memorial Cocaine Enthusiast's Society, Fifth Ave., NY, NY
Your album of the year? And I do mean 2025.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that you say? What's mine? Why, Nessa Paradis' Beaux Jours, bien sûr!
DeleteIf I pick just one, its the release from Galactic featuring Irma Thomas, Audience with the Queen (with Cyrille Aimee and her 4.24 lp being nudged out by a nose).
ReplyDeleteHmm .. gotta think about this!! I'll get back to ya's la'er!!
ReplyDeleteI gave this a miss for decades, and I wus wr- wr- wr-
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/wdq9wtMMdXa
whimsy, not without its moments, is seriously overrated...and, uhm, capricious, no? Album of the year...pmac's on point--love anything Irma Thomas--but the one that made me think the most was Rosalía's "Lux," which ain't the same as saying I listened to it the most and I effin' overthink everything. Listened to the most was Miz Mavis Staples' "Sad and Beautiful World."
ReplyDeleteBy far my most played new album of 2025 is Disasternoon by Crayola Lectern. However I am forever about six months behind in my listening and have a huge number of current albums lined up yet to be heard. I have noticed that many new albums don’t pass the three or four plays mark before I delete or back them up (and therefore will probably never hear them again).
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely the test. Generally, I zone out before I get to the end of the first track. I skip through the rest, rarely deciding it's worth a listen, and trash it. If I play it all the way through, paying it a reasonable amount of attention, I put it in the holding stack. If I actively listen to it all and play it again straight away, it's a keeper. Number of keepers this year - maybe three of four. Pretty pathetic.
DeleteOoohhh, now I get it. You mean an album actually released in this godforsaken year, not just one of the many I personally obtained . . . gotta rethink that now. I'll report back from the archives shortly. --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteIs the the Yard Of Rebar With A Lump Of Bloody Concrete On The End still up for grabs? It's the new year in Texas, and, well, ya just never know what could come in handy when, #amirite
ReplyDeleteIt's available, but only bundled with the other goodies! You could, f'rinstance, keep that bad boy to yourself and distribute the other prizes to your family!
DeleteLooks like no Album O' Th' Year this year, then. Wotta revoltin' development this is ...
ReplyDeleteIt's everything Netflix isn't: good, informed, stuffed with treasure, and free:
ReplyDeletehttps://movieclub578540955.wordpress.com/
As a challenge to myself (and to boost the IOF best of 2025 listings), over the last few days I’ve listened to some new albums from 2025, the verdict only one by Mozart Estate, Tower Block in a Jam Jar is a keeper, but doesn’t really count as its mainly re-recorded songs from about five years ago. One other album The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation, might be a keeper, but I’ve only listened to it once.
ReplyDeleteCome on 2026 give us a new album that the visitors to Th' Isle O'Foam© will be listening to in 2036.
Oh btw I played my old copy of the Brian Protheroe first album as well and rather enjoyed it.
Meanwhile to cheer myself up I’m going to binge listen to Peter Hammill solo work for a few days. Toodle pip.
Was Ms. Kilgallen really on the cocaine train? whoda thunk it
ReplyDeleteBenzedrine was the upper of choice in the show-biz fraternity during the Golden Age of radio, being available over-the-counter, and it was a small step from that to cocaine for the Golden Age of television. There's a video on YouTube™ called (something like) "What's My Line's Most Embarrassing moments" which includes a clip of Dottie coming on to the set to the usual applause and visibly enhanced by a pre-show snifter - it can be nothing else. She was a bit thirsty, too, our Dot, a bit of a walking chemistry lab. The jury's out on if she was murdered or not but an accidental overdose was at least as probable - her last appearance on the show doesn't, to me at least, show a person in good health and at ease with herself. The removal of her research papers (JFK) could have been part of the clean-up you might expect after the death of a high-profile personality involved in that area. I admire her a lot, and love her a little, but she was a complex personality (with some very right-wing tendencies) who never knew the honest happiness radiated by Arlene Francis.
DeleteThanks for the info. She did seem to be wound a bit tighter than the other celebs on the show. The JFK part of it adds to the intrigue.
DeleteThis is one of the saner sum-ups I've found:
Delete"Someone might be able to prove someday that there was more to Dorothy Kilgallen's death than met the eye that night. But if someone succeeds in doing that, he will still not be able to show that it could have had any remote connection with the JFK assassination. If one encompasses everything she knew at the time of her death, it is clear that she did not have a clue as to what the truth really was. Her entire investigation had consisted of shoddy detective work on her part, coupled with false and misleading information from a dishonest gentleman named Mark Lane. Had she been able to tell the world everything she knew on the night of her death, they would have been given another sneak preview of some of the stories Mark Lane would trumpet in his book (I) Rush To Judgment (I), as well as a possible preview of some of Jim Garrison's outlandish assertions that culminated in his witchhunt against Clay Shaw. In both instances, Kilgallen had been nothing more than a courier, not an investigator. Considering that no ill-fortune befell either Lane or Garrison when their respective work appeared in full bloom by 1966 and 1967, the likelihood of Kilgallen's death being assassination-related becomes even more remote. Indeed, the FBI files available to us, indicate that at no time were they ever concerned about the nature of any of her 1964 assertions about the case that were fed to her by Lane. The only thing about Dorothy Kilgallen that ever worried the FBI was the prospect of more columns unjustly maligning their image if they continued their investigation of who leaked the Ruby transcript to her."
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKkilgallen.htm
People love to extend the conspiracy around JFK in any direction they can, and if they can depict Kilgallen as some kind of heroic martyr that makes everything juicier.
At the time of her death, she was in catastrophically deep financial shit, her love life was a mess, and she was hopped up to her artful eyebrows.