SHELF LIFE
“Finnegan’s Wake” by The The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem
Folk’s heartiest, most hellish foursome adapts Joyce’s masterwork to a
three-minute musical masterpiece. Hod-carrier Tim Finnegan passes out,
is taken for dead, then revives during the revelry of his own wake,
yielding raucous good fun. See also the lads’ “Nancy Whiskey,” “Jug of
Punch,” “Juice of the Barley,” “Whiskey You’re the Devil,” “et. al.
Well, as F. Zappa put it at one time or another, this is a tasty little sucker. Available as four individual volumes (on Dusty Springfield, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Small Faces and Herman’s Hermits...
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Reading the booklet that accompanies the new Complete Columbia Singles set by Paul Revere & the Raiders, I was struck when Revere talks about some of the first singles that inspired him to become a musician...
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With “Taking Aim,” an exhibit of rock music photography that opened recently at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, guest curator Graham Nash has assembled a selection of pictures that portray the passion and intensity shared by musicians of a certain age.
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"Elected" by Alice Cooper:
Trashy-majestic second course in
the overproduction banquet that started with 1972's "School's Out" and
ended as stale leftovers a year later with "Teenage Lament '74."
Los Angeles is for all intents and purposes the center of the rock & roll universe. And for those who know anything about the history of the city's great love affair with those who like to rock, they know that Laurel Canyon has a gravitational pull.
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1. "Bo Diddley" by Bo Diddley:
How many songs are named after
the artist themselves, even if they use a pseudonym?
Pet Clark said it and I believe it: It’s a sign of the times--the way the two discs of this DVD reflect their respective eras and adamantly refute each other.
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After much reflection on the past year, it occurred to me that the only valid Top 10 list I could provide would be the most played songs on my laptop’s iTunes.
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Taxonomy is a bitch. Especially if the subject you’re trying to slot into a classification is Ian Whitcomb, whose chief achievement in most folks’ minds is the relentlessly rockin’, sublimely over-the-top Brit Invasion hit “You Turn Me On” (1965).
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Just glancing at the title Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight put me in mind of previous compilations that tried to recast their subjects as unreconstructed wild-man rebels...
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