Can’t wait to see this! (Never knew about it until the barrage of write-ups this past week.) For similar archeological reasons, you might also want to check out Monika Treut’s slight-but-entertaining My Father Is Coming, which is streaming on Criterion now. (I got misty when I saw Florent.)
Sammy Glick.
Let’s Act As Consumers LP
A record for Record Store Day.
Maybe, but I made similar statements in the '80s, and we ended up living in a world where people think that DX7 presets and Journey are cool.
After years of yelling into the void that Steven Conrad is the great unheralded TV auteur of our era, the fact that people are watching DTF is like if the Velvet Underground had had a Top 40 hit.
True, but the cover of Crazy Horses is better.
this album is a masterpiece and i am not kidding
OMG! I can’t thank you enough (belatedly) for that edition of the Let’s Go Guide, which was invaluable during my trip to Dublin in ‘94.
And this one:
I'm a bigger fan of this one:
Pundits have their place (some of them, anyway), but Edsall--who would not even make my top 100 list of "political observers who annoy me"--has always been the fuddiest of duds.
Q.E.D.
HR Pufnstuf motion picture soundtrack (Capitol, 1970)
Sid and Marty Krofft’s lysergic influence on the 1970s was infinitely more profound, long-lasting, and fucked-up than anything Timothy Leary or Ram Dass accomplished in the 1960s.
Me! (A gift from @specktor.bsky.social.)
It’s just a matter of terroir. I would much rather have found an Arcesia or Music Emporium LP, but you’ve gotta take ‘em as you find ‘em. (Conversely, your chances of stumbling across a copy of Hum Dono at an Oxfam are a billion times better than mine.) And yes: it’s in slightly torn shrinkwrap.
Mistress Mary Housewife LP
I paid a dollar for mine in a thrift store eight blocks from my house.
All of his stuff is tremendous. The debut is easily one of my two dozen or so favorite albums ever.
In the last three decades, I’ve found two original Erica Pomerance LPs in the wild; both were too destroyed for me to consider purchasing them. Someday…
Apart from the obvious stuff (Pearls Before Swine, Fugs, Godz, etc.), get thee to Ed Askew, Erica Pomerance, and Cromagnon posthaste.
I’d never looked at (or seen) Growing Up With The Beatles until an hour ago. Wow! A near-Nabokovian piece of disguised autobiography: “enough about them; here’s some more about me.” Didn’t read the Schaffner until the late ‘80s, but I practically memorized his earlier British Invasion book.
"Specialness" should be personal, not proscribed.
At that point in time, I thought "Kung Fu Fighting," "Black Superman," and "Shaving Cream" were special.
I heard "Helter Skelter" on the radio for the first time just before the movie aired, and assumed they had reunited and it was their comeback single.
The nicest thing about being a mid-'70s kid listening to the Beatles red & blue albums with my friends was that we had no discourse, no books, little context (we knew the solo 45s), no 'splainy adults, and the closest thing we had to historical source material was the "Helter Skelter" TV movie.
Same. From my email reply last week to the 300th person who sent it to me: "the last thing I was forwarded as much as this was Die Antwoord, and when was the last time anybody thought about them?"
Watchmen, Cerebus (the rot didn't set in until the early '90s), American Splendor, Love & Rockets, The Cowboy Wally Show.
#1: "Why Sound Matters" #2: "The Perfect Tuba"
I don't think you're anywhere near excited enough about having managed to keep "The Perfect Tuba" from reaching the No. 1 spot.
The first time I heard Frederic Rzewski’s "Coming Together" I was driving while listening to a college radio station with a patchy signal. I had to know what it was, so I pulled over to the side of the road for nearly an hour, waiting for the DJ to get on the mic and back-announce.
I know, but I’m greedy and I want a real release.
I really want to hear “George W. Welch.”