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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2023 15:52:04 GMT
One of my favorite bands - Slade with the incomparable Noddy Holder on lead vocals. It was called glitter rock or glam rock. Meh. I called it rock & roll!
Come on feel the noise, girls grab your boys, we get wild, wild, wild! Who is it that said glam rock is just rock with lipstick? I want to say John Lennon, but I don't really remember. That song is a classic! One of the first hard rock songs I really loved, though admittedly not that version. I was introduced to the Quiet Riot cover by my late cousin Lenny. He was about five years older than me, and a huge influence in my life as a kid because he'd let me follow him like a little puppy. He would play for me his cassettes of AC/DC, Prince, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, and yes, Quiet Riot. EDIT - I cannot believe that video is age restricted! That's absurd. It's a teenager waking up to his alarm, then a combined live performance video and the kid's room shaking and smoking from the rawk. No sex, no violence. Ridiculous.
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Post by jk on Feb 18, 2023 18:42:37 GMT
One of my favorite bands - Slade with the incomparable Noddy Holder on lead vocals. It was called glitter rock or glam rock. Meh. I called it rock & roll!
Yes! Slade's finest hour in my book is "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", particularly after the offbeat gathers weight in the second verse. Wow! And then there's this classic picture of Slade (or a couple of them) with Lester Bangs ( here; click on p104)...
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2023 18:55:29 GMT
Quiet Riot, having had a #5 hit with "Cum on Feel the Noize," wasn't about to walk away from a good thing. They covered "Mama Weer All Crazy Now" on their next album. Lightning didn't strike twice, though: Quiet Riot's version only reached #51 on the Billboard charts.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 19, 2023 12:11:01 GMT
One of my favorite bands - Slade with the incomparable Noddy Holder on lead vocals. It was called glitter rock or glam rock. Meh. I called it rock & roll!
Yes! Slade's finest hour in my book is "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", particularly after the offbeat gathers weight in the second verse. Wow! And then there's this classic picture of Slade (or a couple of them) with Lester Bangs ( here; click on p104)... Thanks, jk, for posting that photo of Lester Bangs. At first I thought, "What an odd combination - Slade and Lester Bangs." But upon second thought, that's a perfect combination. Slade is exactly the type of band Lester Bangs would've loved hanging out with!
Slade was one of those bands that just couldn't catch on in America. At the time (the early 1970s), Slade was one of, if not THE biggest band in the U.K. - one hit single/album after another. But they stiffed in the U.S.A. And then, ironically, in the mid-1980s, just when Noddy was thinking about calling it a day, Slade had a couple of hits singles and videos on MTV. Obviously Quiet Riot was somewhat responsible for bringing Slade back into the public's consciousness, but I remember thinking - as fans were enjoying "Run Runaway", "My Oh My", and again "Merry Xmas Everybody" - if those young(er) fans only knew what Slade did and could still do! Unfortunately, their older stuff was hard to find at that time.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 20, 2023 0:31:36 GMT
The voice, the guitar, the song...timeless.
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Post by jk on Feb 20, 2023 8:26:21 GMT
One of my favorite bands - Slade with the incomparable Noddy Holder on lead vocals. It was called glitter rock or glam rock. Meh. I called it rock & roll!
Come on feel the noise, girls grab your boys, we get wild, wild, wild! Who is it that said glam rock is just rock with lipstick? I want to say John Lennon, but I don't really remember.That song is a classic! One of the first hard rock songs I really loved, though admittedly not that version. I was introduced to the Quiet Riot cover by my late cousin Lenny. He was about five years older than me, and a huge influence in my life as a kid because he'd let me follow him like a little puppy. He would play for me his cassettes of AC/DC, Prince, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, and yes, Quiet Riot. Seems it was Lennon, if the one internet comment I could find (#9 here) is to be believed.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 28, 2023 13:13:27 GMT
This has to be one of the greatest lip-synching performances of all-time! You gotta hand it to Phil, he gave 100%, and it wasn't the easiest song or setting to do it either.
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Post by jk on May 29, 2023 8:36:01 GMT
This has to be one of the greatest lip-synching performances of all-time! You gotta hand it to Phil, he gave 100%, and it wasn't the easiest song or setting to do it either. Amazing! Phil isn't only a fantastic musician (and one of the most unlikely pop heroes of all-time ) but also a consummate showman. German TV show audiences are always fascinating to watch -- they seem to be analysing everything!
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Post by jk on Jun 2, 2023 14:53:38 GMT
Now that my massive project down the road is finished until next year, I can turn my mind to other things. One being the least number of letters in the name of a band or artist and the name of one of their songs combined. ABBA is a logical candidate for that position with "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", but there's another I came across a while back that beats it by two letters. This [was] the Ukrainian band Yah singing "Hay Hay" from their 2019 album Zen Rhymes... Any advances, anyone?
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 2, 2023 17:59:46 GMT
One being the least number of letters in the name of a band or artist and the name of one of their songs combined. ABBA is a logical candidate for that position with "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", but there's another I came across a while back that beats it by two letters. This is the Ukrainian band Yah singing "Hay Hay" from their 2019 album Zen Rhymes: ... Any advances, anyone? Now that is a project that takes some thinking. Reminds me of the idea of the most concise joke: "Take my wife, please." A three-word setup, a one-word punchline. I do like things to be concise! (Don't let my babbling here fool you.) I'll think about this project.
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Post by jk on Jun 6, 2023 20:15:28 GMT
Sifting though Adam Marsland stuff on YouTube (and believe me there's a heck of a lot of it), I bumped into an erstwhile flamboyant colleague of his, Stew, and his band The Negro Problem. Here, long-time partner-in-crime Heidi Rodewald joins Stew in song on "Maybe There's Black People (In Fort Greene)": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_(musician)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 7, 2023 12:53:24 GMT
What a jam! What a band! John Fogerty...what can you say? He could rock with anybody. Keep on chooglin'!
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 15, 2023 12:00:16 GMT
Now that my massive project down the road is finished until next year, I can turn my mind to other things. One being the least number of letters in the name of a band or artist and the name of one of their songs combined. ABBA is a logical candidate for that position with "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", but there's another I came across a while back that beats it by two letters. This is the Ukrainian band Yah singing "Hay Hay" from their 2019 album Zen Rhymes: Any advances, anyone? This might be cheating, or at least winning on a technicality, but how about B-52s' "6060-842?" Technically that's just two letters (although six digits)! Unless we include the "The." Then it's five, and not a winner.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 15, 2023 12:06:14 GMT
A couple other competitive offerings that don't take the cake come from X, "Free" (4 letters) and "You" (also 4 letters).
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Post by jk on Jun 15, 2023 13:36:21 GMT
Now that my massive project down the road is finished until next year, I can turn my mind to other things. One being the least number of letters in the name of a band or artist and the name of one of their songs combined. ABBA is a logical candidate for that position with "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", but there's another I came across a while back that beats it by two letters. This is the Ukrainian band Yah singing "Hay Hay" from their 2019 album Zen Rhymes: Any advances, anyone? This might be cheating, or at least winning on a technicality, but how about B-52s' "6060-842?" Technically that's just two letters (although six digits)! Unless we include the "The." Then it's five, and not a winner. Nice idea, Cap'n, but yes, the "The" is officially part of their name (as seen on record covers, etc.) My late pen pal was a huge fan. Yah have the great advantage of coming from a non-English-speaking country, so they can do things to the English language that a UK or US band might balk at. Maybe numbers as titles is the only way to get it down to two letters... [After a little exploring] In that case, how about "40" by U2? That's one letter!
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