Pip's Invitation
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This, of course, has led me to listening to lots of Opal and Mazzy Star the past few weeks.
Blue Flower by Mazzy Star (Slapp Happy) probably should have been on my list.
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Pip's Invitation
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The Midnight Special episode I am watching tonight (aired 2/26/74) has a lot of mid-tier acts from the '70s. Host Gordon Lightfoot is joined by the post-Joe Walsh, Tommy Bolin-era James Gang, The Guess Who, Maria Muldaur, Redbone, Ravi Shankar and someone named Byron MacGregor.
Lightfoot's Sundown album, which would have his two biggest US hit singles, had just been released, but he opens with one of its non-singles (The List), then revisits an old song, If You Can Read My Mind, for his second selection, and the title track of his 1972 album Don Quixote for his third. Then he delves into a song called Affair on 8th Ave. from his 1968 album, a few years before he started having hits in the US, and another Sundown album track, High 'N Dry. We get Sundown itself at the very end and Carefree Highway not at all.
This first James Gang song (Standing in the Rain) is much better than the one from the previous Midnight Special episode I watched, thanks mainly to Bolin's guitar fireworks, but it also has some Who-like dynamics that set it apart from the typical "Boogie Rock" of the time. The second, The Devil Is Singing Our Song, has a heavy-metal title but has a more flexible sound than that, though it still rocks.
Lightfoot introduces The Guess Who as "the greatest rock and roll band to come out of Canada and go international." Maybe that was true in early 1974 -- Rush's debut album was a few months away. Most of the band are wearing hockey jerseys because of course they are. Only frontman Burton Cummings remains from their original lineup. They begin with an old hit, Share the Land, and then perform their current single Star Baby -- Wiki says they played this song three times on The Midnight Special, of which this was the second. Despite the push (which helped it barely crack the top 40 in the US), I had never heard it before.
Redbone perform Come And Get Your Love, the first song by a Native American act to hit the US top 10, and presage it with an Indian dance. Their second song, Maggie (released in 1970), is pretty funky as well (and has cowbell!).
As with Redbone, Muldaur performs what turned out to be by far her biggest hit, Midnight at the Oasis. Her second song is an unremarkable blues thing.
I don't know enough about Indian ragas to say anything noteworthy about Shankar's performance. It's four-and-a-half minutes, which I'm guessing is pretty short by raga standards.
MacGregor was a Canadian news anchor who released a recording of a Toronto newspaper editorial praising the USA backed by the music of "America the Beautiful." It reached #4 in our country around the time of this show, evidence that pretty much anything could chart in the '70s.
Lightfoot's Sundown album, which would have his two biggest US hit singles, had just been released, but he opens with one of its non-singles (The List), then revisits an old song, If You Can Read My Mind, for his second selection, and the title track of his 1972 album Don Quixote for his third. Then he delves into a song called Affair on 8th Ave. from his 1968 album, a few years before he started having hits in the US, and another Sundown album track, High 'N Dry. We get Sundown itself at the very end and Carefree Highway not at all.
This first James Gang song (Standing in the Rain) is much better than the one from the previous Midnight Special episode I watched, thanks mainly to Bolin's guitar fireworks, but it also has some Who-like dynamics that set it apart from the typical "Boogie Rock" of the time. The second, The Devil Is Singing Our Song, has a heavy-metal title but has a more flexible sound than that, though it still rocks.
Lightfoot introduces The Guess Who as "the greatest rock and roll band to come out of Canada and go international." Maybe that was true in early 1974 -- Rush's debut album was a few months away. Most of the band are wearing hockey jerseys because of course they are. Only frontman Burton Cummings remains from their original lineup. They begin with an old hit, Share the Land, and then perform their current single Star Baby -- Wiki says they played this song three times on The Midnight Special, of which this was the second. Despite the push (which helped it barely crack the top 40 in the US), I had never heard it before.
Redbone perform Come And Get Your Love, the first song by a Native American act to hit the US top 10, and presage it with an Indian dance. Their second song, Maggie (released in 1970), is pretty funky as well (and has cowbell!).
As with Redbone, Muldaur performs what turned out to be by far her biggest hit, Midnight at the Oasis. Her second song is an unremarkable blues thing.
I don't know enough about Indian ragas to say anything noteworthy about Shankar's performance. It's four-and-a-half minutes, which I'm guessing is pretty short by raga standards.
MacGregor was a Canadian news anchor who released a recording of a Toronto newspaper editorial praising the USA backed by the music of "America the Beautiful." It reached #4 in our country around the time of this show, evidence that pretty much anything could chart in the '70s.
Eephus
Footballguy
Some recent covers I've heard:
Ryan Adams released live acoustic versions of songs by four Twin Cities acts: Prince, The Replacements, Bob Mould and Soul Asylum. None were essential but I liked "Black Sheets of Rain" a lot more than "When Doves Cry".
Singles have been dropped from upcoming tribute albums to Talking Heads and Tom Petty. I've heard The National's version of "Heaven" from the former and Steve Earle and Dolly Parton doing Petty. There may be other singles from these records but I'll probably just wait for the albums.
Slash put out an album of Blues and Rock 'n Roll covers with a bunch of guest singers. It's listenable but the only track that really caught my fancy was Slash and Chris Stapleton doing Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well". Of course, Iggy is on there because it's the law that he must appear on projects of this sort. Demi Lovato's take on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" just ain't right.
David Byrne did a fun cover of Paramore's "Hard Times" giving it more of a Calypso vibe.
There's also a new tribute album to Lowell George that probably doesn't need to be 25 songs long but George was a big man.
Ryan Adams released live acoustic versions of songs by four Twin Cities acts: Prince, The Replacements, Bob Mould and Soul Asylum. None were essential but I liked "Black Sheets of Rain" a lot more than "When Doves Cry".
Singles have been dropped from upcoming tribute albums to Talking Heads and Tom Petty. I've heard The National's version of "Heaven" from the former and Steve Earle and Dolly Parton doing Petty. There may be other singles from these records but I'll probably just wait for the albums.
Slash put out an album of Blues and Rock 'n Roll covers with a bunch of guest singers. It's listenable but the only track that really caught my fancy was Slash and Chris Stapleton doing Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well". Of course, Iggy is on there because it's the law that he must appear on projects of this sort. Demi Lovato's take on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" just ain't right.
David Byrne did a fun cover of Paramore's "Hard Times" giving it more of a Calypso vibe.
There's also a new tribute album to Lowell George that probably doesn't need to be 25 songs long but George was a big man.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Yesterday on the radio I heard Deniece Williams’s version of It’s Gonna Take a Miracle and had forgotten how good it was.
I always assumed it was a Laura Nyro composition but her version is a cover as well. The original was done by an obscure band called The Royalettes. It was written for Little Anthony and the Imperials but they never recorded it because they were feuding with their label at the time.
I always assumed it was a Laura Nyro composition but her version is a cover as well. The original was done by an obscure band called The Royalettes. It was written for Little Anthony and the Imperials but they never recorded it because they were feuding with their label at the time.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I heard this fun diddy by Toots and the Maytals today and immediately thought it was an original I must have not realized Phish was covering. But alas not that case, as you can see from the Youtube clip album cover.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
A few that slipped between the cracks.
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Pip's Invitation
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@Mrs. Rannous brought this up in the Jeopardy thread, but it deserves to be memorialized in a music thread as well.
Category: Your first concert
Clue: I was there in 2007 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited with the band for a concert tour.
Contestant 1: Who is Sam Kinison? (WTF?????
)
Contestant 2: Who is Vedder?
Contestant 3: Who is Eddie Van Halen?
David Lee Roth's massive ego took a huge hit here.
Category: Your first concert
Clue: I was there in 2007 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited with the band for a concert tour.
Contestant 1: Who is Sam Kinison? (WTF?????
)Contestant 2: Who is Vedder?
Contestant 3: Who is Eddie Van Halen?
David Lee Roth's massive ego took a huge hit here.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
If she knew who Sam Kinison was, why did she think he sang at all?
And Eddie Van Halen's ego can't be feeling too good, either.
And Eddie Van Halen's ego can't be feeling too good, either.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Didn't he record a cover of "Wild Thing"? Although, he really didn't sing in it as much as scream........
Pip's Invitation
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He released an album in 1990 that included an unhinged cover of Wild Thing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbDI32y9tU&pp=ygUWc2FtIGtpbmlzb24gd2lsZCB0aGluZw==
Why she would remember that but not David Lee Roth, I don’t know.
Pip's Invitation
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His singing was just like his comedy — nothing but screaming.
Doug B
Footballguy
Without looking it up ... wasn't former Bill Clinton paramour Paula Hahn the "Tawny Kitaen" of Kinison's video for "Wild Thing"?
Doug B
Footballguy
Thought I'd share a few oddball covers.
Wayne Newton performed kind of a Top 5 1995 countdown during Fox TV's New Years Eve Vegas 1995 program. I know he performed Collective Soul's "December", TLC's "Creep", and Coolio "Gangsta's Paradise" (sorry, no link to that last one!).
You all probably know Ray Conniff and The Ray Conniff Singers from their iconic late-1950s/early-1960s Christmas songs still getting airplay today every holiday season. You probably didn't know their mid-70s cover of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils' "Jackie Blue". It's technically very competently performed ... and yet, so weird. Shout to Conniff's guitarist and that tasty wah pedal, though.
Wayne Newton performed kind of a Top 5 1995 countdown during Fox TV's New Years Eve Vegas 1995 program. I know he performed Collective Soul's "December", TLC's "Creep", and Coolio "Gangsta's Paradise" (sorry, no link to that last one!).
You all probably know Ray Conniff and The Ray Conniff Singers from their iconic late-1950s/early-1960s Christmas songs still getting airplay today every holiday season. You probably didn't know their mid-70s cover of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils' "Jackie Blue". It's technically very competently performed ... and yet, so weird. Shout to Conniff's guitarist and that tasty wah pedal, though.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I don't think he's feeling much at all.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Jessica Hahn, yes. And Kinison claimed they actually had sex during the shoot.
She wasn’t involved with Clinton. She got famous for having an affair with televangelist Jim Bakker.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
"One Toke Over The Line" on Lawrence Welk always got me.
I remember seeing a doc on Welk and some of the performers/staff saying they tried to tell him "um, Lawrence........."
I remember seeing a doc on Welk and some of the performers/staff saying they tried to tell him "um, Lawrence........."
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
So that’s what Jackie Blue would sound like if it were performed by a hippie religious cult.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
So fluffing weird. I'm afraid to even try the rest of that.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Props for the excellent use of an emoji.I don't think he's feeling much at all.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Only if they were high on Quaaludes.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Tonight's Midnight Special episode I'm viewing on Youtube was filmed in London and aired on 11/16/73. It is hosted by David Bowie and features Marianne Faithfull, The Troggs and Carmen. Someone named Dooshenka serves in the Wolfman Jack role.
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Bowie performs with a backing band called The 1980 Floor Show, which seems like an awfully quaint name all these years later. As you might expect, there is a lot of visual creativity going on with his numbers. He opens with a medley of songs he was working on for the Diamond Dogs album that would not be released until the following May. 1984 made the album but Dodo did not. At two other points during the show, a dance troupe performs to snippets of this performance.
He then performs Sorrow (originally performed by The McCoys) from his then-current covers album Pin-Ups, while dressed entirely in white and cavorting with Dooshenka dressed as a vampire. This was the only single released from the album and became one of his biggest UK hits, though it had little impact in the US.
Carmen was a genre-bending band with American and British members. Founder David Clark Allen was an American of Mexican descent who was a virtuoso on flamenco guitar. Bassist John Glascock gained notice for his technical skill and joined Jethro Tull after Carmen broke up. Wiki describes their sound as "a fusion of rock, progressive, flamenco and dance." Their first song, Bulerias, is definitely that. It has the thump of rock, the groove of funk and the flexibility of flamenco, and includes an interlude where the male and female singer/percussionists perform a dance routine. Definitely eclectic, as the critics like to say. (The most popular comment on the thread is from the male singer/dancer, Roberto Amaral, who said he still keeps in touch with all of his former bandmates save Glascock, who died in 1979.)
Bowie returns for another cover from Pin-Ups, Everything's Alright, originally performed by The Mojos. It's a raucous little number that sounds like it would fit in with the New Wave movement that was to come in a few years. Bowie's band here includes Aynsley Dunbar on drums; he was a member of The Mojos in the mid-60s, but joined after they recorded Everything's Alright.
Then we get Space Oddity with visuals of rocket launches and stuff, followed by another Pin-Ups cover, The Who's I Can't Explain, which is slower and more staccato than the original, but still pretty loud and powerful.
Marianne Faithfull performs her version of the Stones' As Tears Go By, now 9 years old by the time of this performance. She is dressed entirely in white and looks catatonic. Go girl, give us nothing!
The next Bowie song is Time from Aladdin Sane. He is dressed in an outfit that is part superhero, part cocaine. A dance routine happens around him as he sings.
Bathed in liquid lights, The Troggs perform, what else, Wild Thing. The arrangement is exactly the same as it was in the mid-60s, down to the (poorly amplified) octarina solo.
The second Carmen song, Bullfight, starts out as a more straightforward rocker than the first one, and then switches into a funky passage with a mellotron, and then to something with a lot of notes that wouldn't sound out of place on a Frank Zappa record. The lyrics are exactly what you'd expect from the title. Both songs are from their 1973 debut album Fandangos in Space, named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 greatest prog albums of all time.
Speaking of straightforward rock, Bowie returns for The Jean Genie. Impressive guitar work by Mick Ronson on this one. The saxophones are buried in the mix, presumably to krista's delight.
Marianne Faithfull performs 20th Century Blues surrounded by the same dancers we saw with Bowie at times. Here see sounds like Edith Piaf trying to sing the blues and appears much more interested than she did on her first number. Lots of clarinets here -- dunno if krista hates those as much as saxophones.
The Troggs return for I Can't Control Myself, a follow-up single to Wild Thing from 1966, and Strange Movies, a then-unreleased song with Who-like dynamics that didn't get put on an album until 1981.
The show ends with Bowie, wearing some sort of showgirl outfit, and Faithfull, wearing a nun's habit, dueting on a lugubrious, Teutonic-sounding cover of I Got You, Babe. Did I mention cocaine?
Bowie is credited with "concept and design" in the end credits. I mean, who else?
Ep 42 - The Midnight Special Episode | November 16, 1973
Hosted by David Bowie from London England with his 1980 Floor Show and special guest appearance by Carmen, Dooshenka, Marianne Faithfull and The Troggs.#TheM...
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Bowie performs with a backing band called The 1980 Floor Show, which seems like an awfully quaint name all these years later. As you might expect, there is a lot of visual creativity going on with his numbers. He opens with a medley of songs he was working on for the Diamond Dogs album that would not be released until the following May. 1984 made the album but Dodo did not. At two other points during the show, a dance troupe performs to snippets of this performance.
He then performs Sorrow (originally performed by The McCoys) from his then-current covers album Pin-Ups, while dressed entirely in white and cavorting with Dooshenka dressed as a vampire. This was the only single released from the album and became one of his biggest UK hits, though it had little impact in the US.
Carmen was a genre-bending band with American and British members. Founder David Clark Allen was an American of Mexican descent who was a virtuoso on flamenco guitar. Bassist John Glascock gained notice for his technical skill and joined Jethro Tull after Carmen broke up. Wiki describes their sound as "a fusion of rock, progressive, flamenco and dance." Their first song, Bulerias, is definitely that. It has the thump of rock, the groove of funk and the flexibility of flamenco, and includes an interlude where the male and female singer/percussionists perform a dance routine. Definitely eclectic, as the critics like to say. (The most popular comment on the thread is from the male singer/dancer, Roberto Amaral, who said he still keeps in touch with all of his former bandmates save Glascock, who died in 1979.)
Bowie returns for another cover from Pin-Ups, Everything's Alright, originally performed by The Mojos. It's a raucous little number that sounds like it would fit in with the New Wave movement that was to come in a few years. Bowie's band here includes Aynsley Dunbar on drums; he was a member of The Mojos in the mid-60s, but joined after they recorded Everything's Alright.
Then we get Space Oddity with visuals of rocket launches and stuff, followed by another Pin-Ups cover, The Who's I Can't Explain, which is slower and more staccato than the original, but still pretty loud and powerful.
Marianne Faithfull performs her version of the Stones' As Tears Go By, now 9 years old by the time of this performance. She is dressed entirely in white and looks catatonic. Go girl, give us nothing!
The next Bowie song is Time from Aladdin Sane. He is dressed in an outfit that is part superhero, part cocaine. A dance routine happens around him as he sings.
Bathed in liquid lights, The Troggs perform, what else, Wild Thing. The arrangement is exactly the same as it was in the mid-60s, down to the (poorly amplified) octarina solo.
The second Carmen song, Bullfight, starts out as a more straightforward rocker than the first one, and then switches into a funky passage with a mellotron, and then to something with a lot of notes that wouldn't sound out of place on a Frank Zappa record. The lyrics are exactly what you'd expect from the title. Both songs are from their 1973 debut album Fandangos in Space, named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 greatest prog albums of all time.
Speaking of straightforward rock, Bowie returns for The Jean Genie. Impressive guitar work by Mick Ronson on this one. The saxophones are buried in the mix, presumably to krista's delight.
Marianne Faithfull performs 20th Century Blues surrounded by the same dancers we saw with Bowie at times. Here see sounds like Edith Piaf trying to sing the blues and appears much more interested than she did on her first number. Lots of clarinets here -- dunno if krista hates those as much as saxophones.
The Troggs return for I Can't Control Myself, a follow-up single to Wild Thing from 1966, and Strange Movies, a then-unreleased song with Who-like dynamics that didn't get put on an album until 1981.
The show ends with Bowie, wearing some sort of showgirl outfit, and Faithfull, wearing a nun's habit, dueting on a lugubrious, Teutonic-sounding cover of I Got You, Babe. Did I mention cocaine?
Bowie is credited with "concept and design" in the end credits. I mean, who else?
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Just caught up on this thread so apologies for the delay."One Toke Over The Line" on Lawrence Welk always got me.
I remember seeing a doc on Welk and some of the performers/staff saying they tried to tell him "um, Lawrence........."
1. Of course Welk already knew what the song was about; he's a musician.
2. Was disappointed they didn't let **** Dale play the guitar while he was singing.
Eephus
Footballguy
Ryan Adams has continued his cover of the week project with recent versions of "We Built This City", a couple of Alice In Chains songs, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Cinnamon Girl" and "Powderfinger".
There was also a Rev. Horton Heat cover of "Ace of Spades" released last week that was OK but Jim's never really been a singer.
There was also a Rev. Horton Heat cover of "Ace of Spades" released last week that was OK but Jim's never really been a singer.
Eephus
Footballguy
Forgot to mention the new Andrew Bird album is covers of Great American Songbook standards. The record is called Sunday Morning Put-On which would be an excellent time to listen to it.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Wife and I went to day 2 of Railbird music festival yesterday. Highlight for me was The Infamous Stringdusters. And the best part was their cover of Just Like Heaven. Started pouring while they were playing and everyone went nuts dancing.
Here's a version of it, not from this weekend.
Here's a version of it, not from this weekend.
zamboni
Footballguy
David Lee Roth just released a cover of "867-5309/Jenny", which he re-titled "Jenny Jenny (That Telephone Song)". Not too bad of a cover actually.
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Eephus
Footballguy
I finally made it through the Stop Making Sense tribute album. It was all over the map stylistically as these multi-artist compilations tend to be. Miley Cyrus doing "Psycho Killer" was kind of interesting as were the covers by The Linda Lindas, Lorde, Toro y Moi, and BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Norah Jones. If you like Paramore, they did a cover of "Burning Down the House" that played it very close to the original.
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Various Artists · Compilation · 2024 · 16 songs.
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Eephus
Footballguy
There's an upcoming tribute album to Midwest Emo band American Football. The advance single is a nice cover of "Never Meant" by Iron & Wine. @tuffnutt
The arrangement is mostly acoustic guitar with some subtle synths that's not too far for the original except for the absence of drums.
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The arrangement is mostly acoustic guitar with some subtle synths that's not too far for the original except for the absence of drums.
Iron & Wine - Never Meant [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
Listen/Buy: https://american-football.ffm.to/coversLP1 (Covers) & LP1 (25th Anniversary Edition): https://american-football.ffm.to/lp1-25"Never Meant" by @Ir...
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