A Bachrach/David cover by this British pub-rock > new wave band. I wish the vocals were better, but their extended instrumental jam shreds. Has a sort of psych sound to me. Notice how "broken in two" isn't enough. This guy's got to be "broken in pieces". On second thought, I do hand it to him. The liner notes, here, quote an unknown pundit as saying, "They're too old to be punks, too out...
I know a little of music and a lot of nothing. As evidenced by "this early post":http://mog.com/fistula_spume/blog_post/4318. I'm constantly finding music and constantly researching. All of that research never helps me to find what someone else recommends. This is especially true when it comes to my wife. I constantly hear a song somewhere and I'm like, "What the hell is this?" and she's a...
About a day ago Ivy posted a comment on my "One for the Left Coasters" post.He made the bold statement that, "monorail doors" was "indeed art".I would have to agree with him.Lets look at this another way.Ivy goes out one day and purchases himself a coffee mug.It's a wonderful mug. The sort of mug that doesn't skimp on "mugness". Though it's not beautiful, it is easy on the eyes. It absolutely d...
Rock music has been deluged with precautionary tales of excess, through every genre, through every decade, there's been artists only too willing to confess via record their regression into addictive substances of one form or another. For fans of London four piece The Stranglers, the signs of chemical addiction were vividly obvious from their promo video for the classic single "5 Minutes" from 1...
No More Heroes & Something Better Change (1977)..The Stranglers are an English rock music group, formed on September 11, 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. They were originally called The Guildford Stranglers and operated from an off-licence in the town. They also based themselves in the nearby village of Chiddingfold for a while. Original personnel were singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwell (from Kentish Tow...
...today's the birthday of a Chris Stein, guitarist for Blondie (1950); George Brown the drummer for Kool & the Gang (1949 and Grant Young, the drummer for Soul Asylum (1963)...on the film/ football front it's also the day that Vinnie Jones (pictured above) got slapped around... ...oh yeah, here's the cast of Snatch taking the use of the f-word "*to a whole new level.*":http://www.youtube.com/w...