Redartz: Hi gang! Hope you've had a good week, and are ready for another go at "Follow the Leader". I've been a bit 'under the weather' this week, so I'll be brief today. Big, bronze age Thanks to whoever (whomever?) our first commenter with a topic turns out to be. Carry on!
19 comments:
Hello Folks!
1) First order of business - Red hope you are doing well1
2) It's summer time and I've been driving with the windows down! I even went so far as to crank up the radio and let it rip, for old times sake. Have, are, or would you ever "let a song rip" out the car window for all the world to hear a song? If so, name that song!
In this case, I was with my daughter and her friend (both 20) a few weeks ago. A disco song "More, More, More" came on by Andrea True. We were all digging it (the girls loved it but never had heard it). So the windows came down, the volume went up, and we "cruised the subdivision" LOL!
OK - that's my BA question since I am pretty sure such behavior started in the BA with FM Radio in cars!
1) Yeah, Red, saw your comment over at Doug's, hope all is well and you're feeling better.
2) Good one, HB. You may have a point about FM radio and the subsequent blasting of music on car stereos for all the world to hear.
A song that I did recently do that with is the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" - one of the coolest rock songs ever. Just today, Lipps Inc's "Funkytown" came on and I similarly cranked it up.
By the way, interesting little tidbit about True's "More More More" (another excellent song): one of the hooks from the instrumental section in the middle was later used as the backdrop to Len's "Steal My Sunshine."
Funny you should ask, CH47-- 'cause I rarely yield to this drive-time temptation, BUT--
My wife's car still has the Sirius/XM account that it came with (which she's yet to cancel. . . and really probably should. . .). She was out of town for several days last week/week-end, which meant I was using her car for a LONG haul (via local country roads) up to Damascus, MD to do an under-the-radar production for a friend and his theater company up there. It was. . . a tooooooough gig, to say the very least. And for the final few evenings, I needed something to keep my morale up during the 45 minute drive back through rural Maryland. And--- there was my beloved Beatles Channel 18, faithful and reliable as the tides-! All windows down, moon roof open, singing along to the amazement of sleepy cows and startled foxes. Dress rehearsal night was particularly rough (and late)-- but the drive home was a wealth of great-to-be-alive Beatles tunes: Ringo's best performance of BOYS from the Hollywood Bowl album; HELP; THE NIGHT BEFORE; HELTER SKELTER; HEY JUDE-- and on and on. I came home in a much better frame of mind than I'd embarked with late that afternoon.
I also neglected to turn anything down as I came chugging into our little cul-de-sac neighborhood. . . so I imagine there were more than a few eyebrows raised in disgruntle-ment. (Next door neighbors have a baby girl. . .so I did feel bad about possibly waking her just as they'd probably gotten her down to sleep. . .oof!)
HB
As an addendum-- Song that is rarely played that I will ALWAYS turn up to 11 on WHATEVER radio might be playing: Paul Revere and the Raiders': (WHAT'S IT GONNA BE) HIM OR ME-- man, possibly one of my favorite pop songs of all time. Had me dancing wildly on top of a scaffold at the shop one fine morning.
And I don't dance.
HB
Oops, I just noticed that I put down 'HB' instead of 'CH' in my first comment - got my H-initialed commenters mixed up. Sorry.
Hmmm, there are plenty of songs I like to play with the windows down; off the top of my head ... Radar Love by Golden Earring; This Flight Tonight by Nazareth; You Got Another Thing Comin' by Judas Priest; and almost anything by AC/DC.
I'm far too polite to do such a thing but if I were to turn the car stereo up to 11, it'd probably be for We Are the Pigs by Suede, one of the most magnificently apocalyptical and visceral records of all time. It just demands to be played loudly.
Great question, Charlie! And thanks for the well wishes, guys. Still a bit sluggish but doing better.
HB- your enthusiasm for that Raiders song forced me to hunt it down on YouTube. Didn't recognize the title, but did recognize the song. Great stuff, indeed. Would pay good comic money to see you dancing on that scaffold...
Music obsessive that I am, there are lots of tunes which I'll crank up (usually when On The Road, so as not to disturb). But one perhaps less familiar one that comes to mind is "Tobacco Road", by the Nashville Teens. Think they were a one-hit-wonder here in the states; that they were a British band. You UK gents please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, anytime it comes on I'm bellowing along. God help anyone with me...
I rarely blast away , but I do remember a specific time a few years back, with the kids in the car, cranking up "Foreplay/Long Time" as it ramps up that guitar solo early on.
It was the kids first experience with Boston. They still talk about it.
Hope you feel better Red, nothing worse than a summertime sickness.
Glad you're on the mend, Red-- I think there may be a late-middle-age-target flu bug bouncing around, I swear. A couple of other similar-aged contemporaries have been knocked for a serious loop in the last week or so. (Surely that Raiders tune helped speed your recovery along!);
On a sort of related note to our topic, one of the benefits of having Sirius/XM in the car at different times over the years is that it affords the opportunity to crank tunes at an intersection that NO ONE in the next lane expects to hear-- I have indeed done that in the past. March theme from 1941; Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" (a romp that can ONLY be listened to up full!); DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING from Les Mis-- as well as a zillion other Broadway Musical tunes. . .
HB
Red, the Nashville Teens were indeed from England. They also had another hit in Britain, called Google Eye. Google? In 1964? They were clearly a band ahead of their time.
I've never heard of the Nashville Teens but Steve obviously has :)
I first heard the word "google" on Carl Sagan's COSMOS series in 1981. As I recall it's a very big number - but if you try to...er, google google you only get information about the tech company.
Red, I'm glad you're feeling better - BBC radio just featured a documentary about a hospital closing in Jamestown, Tennessee. Apparently lots of hospitals are closing in small towns across America but mainly in Republican states because...conservatives.
I'm glad I live in a country with a socialist healthcare system. Just saying.
HB, Do You Hear The People Sing is the kind of song that I'd crank up too!!
The only song that I know by Paul Revere & The Raiders is INDIAN RESERVATION. I heard it for the first time in 2011 (or thereabouts) but what an amazing song!!!
And maybe one day when they've learned,
Cherokee nation will return,
Will return,
Will return...
Colin, the number is actually spelled 'googol' - and if you, well, google that word, you'll get results that actually refer to the number rather than the tech company. Interestingly enough, though, the 'google' spelling actually preceded the number googol, as it was the name of an early 20th century comic strip character, Barney Google - which was apparently the inspiration for the number's name.
*Sigh*
I shouldn't'a talked about it.
Wife announced this morning that either the car XM account has to go, or the account at the shop (dedicated receiver) has to go. . .
Man. . .
(She's right, tho-- and the car account gets barely an a half-hour a week most of the time, anyhow. . . )
HB
Edo, thanks for that information - I have now googled googol. I remember Carl Sagan saying that a "googolplex" was 1 followed by so many zeroes that the entire universe didn't have space for them all. Wow, that's a big number!! And the Wikipedia entry for googolplex mentions Sagan's mind-blowing statement :D
It's Saturday morning!
I miss Red's Saturday Morning Nostalgia Trip!
Much more so when the Chicago weather sucks from October through April / May!
Come back Red! Come back!!!
Colin J- "Indian Reservation" is indeed great. Loved that song when it came out, that halcyon summer of 1971. Heard it at summer camp while making beaded headbands. Amazing you never heard it before you did...
Charlie- who knows, perhaps one of these days I'll be able to fire up the old Retro Metro for another trip. Those were fun to put together, but a lotta research. Meanwhile, a suggestion- perhaps someone might suggest "memories of ---- year" as a Tuesday topic! If nobody does, maybe I will. Thanks for your support and the 'bee in the bonnet'!
Red - I think the only challenge of a "Remember the Year" for Tuesday is that I / most of us cannot exactly recall anything from a specific year?
I would need to spend a lot of time pondering how old I was, the year in school, probably need a few triggers like a look at comics on sale that year and the Saturday cartoon lineup, to spark accurate memories.
And I can't do that at 6 AM on Tuesday while brushing the teeth, making the oatmeal, and heading out the door for another day at work, if you know what I mean.
Ha! I just noticed I didn't have to write anything about getting the kids to school!
COLIN, et al. - I loved INDIAN RESERVATION. I think it was the first, certainly one of the first, 45s I ever bought!
Sean, Charlie is grateful you took the time to regard the Tete a Claq. One of Mr. and Mrs.s Charlie's favs is "The Body Toner." The link is below.
Charlie doesn't have the familiarity with UK mass-marketing culture to know if you would find this funny, but the Canucks just nail the US marketing culture in these masterful productions.
Charlie thinks they are targeting their marketing culture, under the assumption it is fairly similar to the US's since 90% of Canadians live along the US border and take their spring breaks in the southern USA. Further, with their Quebecois accent it's just a hoot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKjpvnrhkU&t=163s
Post a Comment