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Kristy
03-18-2011, 07:29 PM
Okay, granted he's no Ace with a cape, but those are some sweet moves.

FORD
03-18-2011, 08:39 PM
Think I'll stick with Elvis Hitler for my neo-rockabilly fix.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZ3_a61_SA

Kristy
03-19-2011, 12:44 AM
Those asshats can't dance.

Kristy
03-19-2011, 12:58 AM
My all-time fav rockabilly act (modern) has to be The Nomads.



My dad used to play 'Where The Wolf Bane Blooms' for me and my sister when quite, quite young and I'd just dance to it like Eddie on meth. Think my first crush was Nich Valberg (or whatever his name is) the lead singer. And then came Hanson and scarred me for life.

Get this (if you can find it)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1ab18583b52ce35e95688d32b97026db/2343326.jpg

You know what? Fuck that, get this instead:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8RrIgxBZpYo/ScZhWLEYvOI/AAAAAAAACto/4J_T5Nt2gJ0/s400/nomads+showdown+1+front.jpg

Check out their versh of Link Wray's 'Fire And Brimstone' if not for the guitar solo alone. One of my all-time fav, fav guitar solos. Now that I come to think of it. I kind of wanted to be the illegitimate daughter of Link Wray and Satan.

Kristy
03-19-2011, 01:08 AM
Oh, and deffo get this!



Yes, I know it was re-worked by The Clash (who did it quite well, I thought) but there is something about rockabilly guitar that does things to me

You know what? Fuck that, listen to this:



Yeah, I know it's not the original by Johnny Kid & The Pirates but The Vooster's versh makes me want to punch a lover in the face - right before I want to fuck him.

binnie
03-19-2011, 10:08 AM
There's a real revival for this kind of stuff at the moment - it adds so much colour to the music scene.

FORD
03-19-2011, 02:26 PM
Yeah, I know it's not the original by Johnny Kid & The Pirates but The Vooster's versh makes me want to punch a lover in the face - right before I want to fuck him.

Funny, I would think The Who's version from Live at Leeds would be more likely to inspire violence :biggrin:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWgxjc7kv3Q

Kristy
03-19-2011, 03:19 PM
The Who's versh was more of a tribute to Johnny Kid (who was British by the way) rather than a sexual innuendo. I never cared for it - there just no rockabilly vibe.

binnie
03-19-2011, 03:33 PM
I seem to remember that Iggy Pop did a pretty bad ass version.....

Kristy
03-19-2011, 03:34 PM
There's a real revival for this kind of stuff at the moment - it adds so much colour to the music scene.

I think it's because it's about as anti-emo/goth/nu-metal as one can get. And it's just fun to dance to without anyone coming off as a self-centered douche. There use to be a club here in Denvoid on 17th where they play the likes of Vince Taylor, Nomads, The Creeps, Johnny Kid a lot of the late 50's rockabilly (which was the genesis of punk as far as I'm concerned) and it was a great club. Great until the goths showed up along with their emo breatheren and turn it into another dismal, dull and depressing avenue which having fun is shameful and the likes of Boyd Bennett and Wanda Jackson have been replaced by that FAT fuck of The Cure.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T-J2hjN2HaE/SC16--MEA-I/AAAAAAAAA1s/k2W1JYInT-8/s320/49931.TheCureP4K-4551.jpg

Not that I don't like The Cure myself but to hear shit like 'Love Song' over and over doesn't help me to dance over my problems it only exacerbates them.

binnie
03-19-2011, 03:40 PM
I know what you mean.

I get pissed off when people say there's no great music anymore - there are TONS of great bands, it's just that they don't appear on MTV or the radio. In fact, I would say that rock/metal has been flourishing for the past five years. However, what none of those bands have is a sense of FUN - there's plenty of introspective, or cathartic, music around, but little that celebrates life or acts as a form of escapism. I think that's where rockabilly comes in.

Have you checked out Imelda May's album? Well worth a spin.

In my drinking days, I would have loved for stuff like that to have been played in clubs.

Kristy
03-19-2011, 03:52 PM
Yes, I actually like that album - sort of a Irish take on rockabilly (and she does have a great backing band).

Saying that so much of today's music sucks has come cliche. I don't know the reason for this other than I'm not hearing anything I like. To quote the Who a bit my generation has no balls, no rebellion, little ideas, no substance, nothing. We had shit like Hanson and Green Day where, I dunno Chefcraig in his (old) age had The Clash. My generation doesn't care about upsetting their status quo or even pissing their parents off, they are more concerned about XBox, iPods (loaded with shit like 'A Fine Frenzy'), their cell phones, laptops then having a care of picking up an instrument and learning how to play the god damn thing in order to get under the skin of some people. Plus, music is supposed to be "fun" - isn't that what the mighty Roth himself once said? Now it takes itself way too seriously. I can't go out and dance to the likes of Gaga or Maroon 5 - to sound like I'm old myself that shit just hurts my ears.

Nitro Express
03-19-2011, 04:32 PM
There's nothing original. Lady Gaga is just a 50/50 mix of Madonna and Marilyn Manson. It's all shock value but in this day and age we are looking for sanity and quality instead of making grandma freak out. The whole rebellion thing was about one generation who served in World War II telling the younger generation to shut up and serve in Vietnam. The younger generation was smelling a rat thinking maybe the government was trying to pull one over on them so they rebelled. Hindsight being 20/20 the government had gone too corrupt and citizens just passively taking it has resulted in more wars, more government abuse and the connected getting richer at our expense. We do need rebellion but rebellion with a brain. The rebellion now is just gimmicks and stupidity that accomplishes nothing.

binnie
03-19-2011, 04:46 PM
Yes, I actually like that album - sort of a Irish take on rockabilly (and she does have a great backing band).

Saying that so much of today's music sucks has come cliche. I don't know the reason for this other than I'm not hearing anything I like. To quote the Who a bit my generation has no balls, no rebellion, little ideas, no substance, nothing. We had shit like Hanson and Green Day where, I dunno Chefcraig in his (old) age had The Clash. My generation doesn't care about upsetting their status quo or even pissing their parents off, they are more concerned about XBox, iPods (loaded with shit like 'A Fine Frenzy'), their cell phones, laptops then having a care of picking up an instrument and learning how to play the god damn thing in order to get under the skin of some people. Plus, music is supposed to be "fun" - isn't that what the mighty Roth himself once said? Now it takes itself way too seriously. I can't go out and dance to the likes of Gaga or Maroon 5 - to sound like I'm old myself that shit just hurts my ears.

There's plenty of great music about, it's just not in the charts. I count Rage Against the Machine as part of our generation, and you can't tell me that there's no fire there?

It's not just a case of today's charts been full of shit, however, but a case of selective memory. There was plenty of goodawful, trite, banal, music being made in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s, it's just that only the good stuff has entered the collective memory.

Kristy
03-19-2011, 05:06 PM
Oh, there are plenty of good bands out there no matter what your personal musical taste may be. Problem is there are too many bands out there in general. I blame the internet and shit like MySpace (remember MySpace...anybody?) for such a glut where anyone with a guitar in hand could say that had talent without ever so much as strumming a single chord in front of an audience. What you get is a result of the good with the horribly, horribly bad and in most cases the horribly bad wins. I really don't follow many bands much these days for that reason. The other avenue is to go the way of nostalgia but that can last for so long because I long to hear something new by um...somebody who with talent (hopefully) that has something to say worthwhile. Like I said, I can't dance to Gaga or this onslaught emo shit (i.e., Taking Back Sunday, Snow Patrol) for there seems to be way too much self-introspection going on for it to be enjoyable.

When I go back and listen to 'Jump' where I think the lyrics are bit inane and dry they somehow work in that what that tune represents to me is an attitude of saying "fuck it" when life beats you down. From the mundane to the serious: your girl or guy leaves you, your landlord is abut to evict you, just been fired or laid-off, don't feel like you have a single friend in the world, whatever, you just say "fuck it" and might as well jump - as in dance not in suicide, mind. Songs such as that are no longer written because most bands I hear are so in love with themselves to give a fuck about anything but themselves. And what gets me is how people can get a song like 'Jump' I've seen emo kids dance to it rather than Death Cab For Cutie although they do dance to it in a rather paranoid fashion as if their peers would laugh at them for it.

So I agree with you- there are some wonderful acts out there but if they are not being played or listened to then it's only frustrating that they are out there doing it. I fear so many great bands have already fallen by the wayside never to be heard from again.

Nitro Express
03-19-2011, 05:28 PM
There's plenty of great music about, it's just not in the charts. I count Rage Against the Machine as part of our generation, and you can't tell me that there's no fire there?

It's not just a case of today's charts been full of shit, however, but a case of selective memory. There was plenty of goodawful, trite, banal, music being made in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s, it's just that only the good stuff has entered the collective memory.

I'm finding for quality you have to go local for a lot of things. We are lucky that we still have little shops instead of big boxes. We still have real bakers and butchers and sure it may cost a little more but the increase in quality is logarithmic. I think the public is demanding this but unfortunately the government/corporate powers want to make running such operations more and more difficult. So it's time to rebel. Rebel against Walmart (who got bailout money they didn't need) and McDonald's (who is exempt from Obamacare while the little local joint that has the killer food is run out of business because of the increased overhead). It's the same with bands. There still are good ones but they are local and the ones that get the big promotion have the appeal of a McRib sandwich.

Kristy
03-22-2011, 12:42 AM
On a side note, I was listening to the wet liberal radio known as NPR they had an interesting story on SXSW and how many of the acts there were disillusioned how the event has become another bloated fad. Many unknowns go there hoping to be "discovered" for fame or a simple record deal (okay, a simple record deal) only now to be outshined by the likes of Snoop Dog, and Emmylou Harris. They interviewed some drummer from some band and he was stating that the little acts don't have much of a voice anymore and with the record industry being the dead man walking that it is no longer taking a risk on the unknown. Most of the smaller acts said they will not be back at SXSW in 2012. :(

chefcraig
03-22-2011, 09:42 AM
It's still pretty cool that Big Daddy & Rockin' Combo would cover a tune by fellow Finland dude Michael Monroe (with Nasty Suicide, both from Hanoi Rocks). Not Fakin It was a great album, one of the few from that time that holds up today.

Yeah, the video is dated/pretty much blows, and Axl's presence doesn't really help things. Still a cool song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFYz0QP5xBQ&feature=related

The thing about SXSW is the same with anything that starts out organically and with good intentions: Over time, more and more people start showing up, then corporate interests start sniffing around, hot on the scent of money. Whatever theme developed at the beginning is distorted and expanded through volume, warping and in most cases eliminating the original intent. Look at the Sundance film festival. What started out as a place for low budget, independent film makers to show their work has become over the years a co-opted, atypical Hollywood suck-fest, a glamorized press junket that has little if anything to do with it's original stated purpose. As a result, the festival has ironically turned into the very sort of marketplace it once was designed to rally against.

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 07:42 PM
No No You want to dance with this guy.

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 07:43 PM
And the rest of you homos that didn"t write that ...can ..just.................

PETE'S BROTHER
03-22-2011, 07:46 PM
how is the crisper?

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 08:05 PM
Cool and Comfortable.

The Dance floor however is somewhat .................................................. .........................you know.

lesfunk
03-22-2011, 08:12 PM

PETE'S BROTHER
03-22-2011, 08:15 PM

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 08:21 PM
I saw this porno girl making Carrots and then one that made Zuccinni and then one that made other salad parts and I was like where is ,THIS GIRL.

I got the Meat course.

Yeah, Baby.

PETE'S BROTHER
03-22-2011, 08:25 PM

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 08:29 PM
So then there she was making all the things I shopped for at the shopping place.

I was like hello darling...what are doing..?

She was like this vegetable.

clarathecarrot
03-22-2011, 08:30 PM
And a little Citrus.