This is the extent to which MOG has infiltrated my musical consciousness
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Now, from time to time, I will hear a song and say to myself, "Ooo, Spike (or Deadman or Bartleby or Cody, etc.) would really dig this." When I heard this song, I thought immediately of dermahrk. Does anyone else suffer from this?
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All the time, Bill. & not just MOG folks. I always wished my dad could have heard...."Put me in Coach". But yeah, for me, turning friends on to music is one of the pleasures of being a music fanatic
.....And yes, dermahrk would love this methinks. I do too.
Bartleby, Bartleby, Where for art thou, Bartleby?
nice one, I love this too and I notice that according to wiki Rod Argent plays on a song "pictures of a fading man" and their canadian.
although some Moggers seem like pretty obvious reads, most of the time i'm pleasantly surprised by the likes and dislikes that crop up. i know one thing though: i LOVE this f*ckin' track!
by the way, the flashback for me on this track was "Journey to the Center of the Mind" by Amboy Dukes.
you said it, Bill. i would think August would love this, or Dale or Anna or Rob (madridspacestationspain). you guys are way deep in my psyche by now, it's kinda scary...
DMDM turning friends onto music is an enormous buzz. recently played a ryan adams for the significant other and she loved it- it is such a pleasure to be able to watch others enjoy as much as we do
Well, you're right of course. The vocals were a little low in the mix at the beginning, but that corrected itself as it went on.
And I think Rod Argent is a god. My favorite keyboard-tickler of all time. Except for his prog phase. But he's over that...
And Bill, you seem to be getting younger, though your taste in clothes is devolving.
As is my taste in women....
DMDM - I also get those unfillable urges to turn people (some of whom are gone or unreachable) on to cuts I love. What makes it so odd with MOG is that, with a very few exceptions (DM being one), I've never actually met any of the people whose tastes I am anticipating. Nonetheless, they've become fully formed dramatis personae in my mind. A self-delusion, of course, but that doesn't mean my take on them is entirely inaccurate....
CP3 - Didn't know about Argent, did know they were Canadian. Don't know what that says about their music, except that it might be a little harder for them to get heard down here....
Robin - I was thinking more Beau Brummels than Amboy Dukes, but I see your point....
Poe - It can be scary, but be reassured that I, for one, mean only well....
Mitchy - It can also work the other way around. When people you dig react with indifference to something you love, it can be crushing....
DM - I think Argent has turned into a first-rate producer. too...
Mitchy - It can also work the other way around. When people you dig react with indifference to something you love, it can be crushing....
.......That too is true. I recall my son coming rushing in with Ben Harper's "Burn One Down".....convinced I was gonna love it..............I was not wowed (just then)...And # 1 son was crestfallen.
......sometimes a song has to seep in & make itself at home & then suddenly.......the light goes on!! Oh yeah!
Bill, Rod produced Jules Shear's Healing Bones, which is one of my 2 favorite releases of one of my favorite artists. There's an interesting quote on a promo CD for the Zombies box set where Rod says Jules "knew every note the Zombies ever played" (paraphrasing).
DMDM - I often have the opposite problem. People don't play stuff for me because they think I won't like it. It's weird the way we conflate people's opinions of our taste with their opinions of us....
DM - Argent is also responsible for one of my guilty pleasures, a CD called "The Sweet Keeper," by an English woman singer-songwriter named Tanita Tikaram, who was briefly popular in the late Eighties/early Nineties and is now remembered, to the extent she is at all, for her alarmingly deep voice and high school poetry class lyrics. But Argent (and his co-producer, Peter Van Hooke) create a lush but tastful sonic landscape around her voice that redeems any amount of lyrical malfeasance....
There are a lot of open ears around here, but also many obsessives. I usually think folks already have whatever I think they might like..although I did find two things for Mr. Spume in the last little while.
wow, dermahrk, there ya go. didn't expect to hear Jules is one of your faves. worked with him not only with the Polar Bears, but with Marty Willson-Piper and it was awesome. touring was not only great onstage but off. after shows, i'd go out with the band at night and basically take over the instruments of any bar band around town to play covers. it was a blast.
actually, i think i should call him and ask for some money. he made a bunch from Cyndi Lauper and later on I had to tour with her!
kidding.
thanks Bill always a pleasure to to see a post from you. I too am really fond of the Tanita Tikaram but the album I have is called" Ancient Heart "thanks for mentioning it--- haven't heard it in along time
Cody - you're probably the one I say "bet he'd dig this" about the most. That's because there's very little you're incapable of digging....
Robin - I think you need to produce dermahrk's next album....(kidding)
CP3 - "Ancient Heart" is, I think, the first of her albums, and the one that got the lion's share of attention. If you likeit, I think you'll really like the second....
I suffer from knowing that a Trusted would love a recording, or had better love it if they know what's good for them. Before posting it, I try to comment on at least one of their recent posts so that they'll resent me less.
After thoroughly enjoying "My Heart Is Black," I came across the High Dials' song "Picture of a Fading Man" from the EP The Holy Ground, which you might like.
It's great to hear about Rod Argent's productive career after Argent's first couple of so-so albums long ago. The High Dials' singer often sounds Blunstonesque.
ivylander, you're back, posting, and looking happy, in a lounge lizard sort of way. The diagonal stripes get my vote, mostly because a while back the idea of diagonal stripes on a t-shirt occurred to me, who had never cared about clothes.
Spike, I appreciate your being gentle with me for my recent frequent absenteeism. I won;t try to excuse myself, having already simply resolved to overcome obstacles to what is most important in my life (apart from my first family, of course).
I do very much like "Portrait of a Fading Man," which sounds in some ways like a sweeter, less spooky "She's Not There." The organist is unmistakably Argent. I would add, though, that I remain an ardent fan of the first Argent album. (Not the least of reasons for this is that it reminds me of making out in my first girlfriend's room.) After that debut, things did get a bit sticky, I would concur.
And I think the diagonally-striped T-shirt idea is wizard....
ivylander, unlike a normal person, when I confessed, "Before posting it, I try to comment on at least one of their recent posts so that they'll resent me less," I didn't let it dawn on me that it would sound like a subtle dig against you. I was just trying to flaunt how craven I usually am. As for the first Argent album, I'm now looking forward to revisiting it, but thank God without my first girlfriend or her room.
I deduce from this that your first girlfriend was not mine. There is still a bit of shrapnel in my aorta - not because she was deliberately unkind, but because I didn't realize at the time that good intentions could not overcome everything....
Next time I get shrapnel in my aorta, I'll have to remember that.
I'm timewarped by that.
In a good or a bad way?
I'm not sure. Part of me says - 'yowzah! I diggit!' - and part of me just wants to hear The Standells or Count 5 or The Seeds. Maybe I'm just sinkinginto curmudgeoness.