I have a best of and I Just Can't Stop It (CDs). I had this one on cassette, and also a comp., but those are long gone. Maybe I should have kept my cassettes? Nah. There was a sweet box set with all their albums and rarities at Rasputin music on Powell that I would have purchased by now had that store not gone out of business. Pete T. covered "Save It For Later," how much more cred does a band need? The Specials are coming to Oakland, I saw recently. The Beat were more pop-friendly than this group, and Wakeling has a better voice than anyone in this cast.
That box set is a great package and includes a raging show. I've seen where The Specials tour around from time to time. They were good but not a favorite that I listened to as much.
Yeah, I'm not huge into the Specials but I have the above album. "Little Bitch" is the best song on it. "Stupid Marriage" is kind of funny, unless you got married too young.
The recent MoFi hybrid SACD with the original mix (which I'd never heard before) is highly recommended.
Bowie's Pinups earlier and now hanging on the back patio with the outdoor speakers for the first time in 2018 (beautiful sunny day here in Oaktown) with Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything for musical company.
"March of the Swivelheads" from Special Beat Service will forever be associated in my head with the famous running home scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
That sounds nice. But I have to wait two-three months for it to get warm enough. It's been snowing much of last week. Really good and cold winter for once
I don't know if this is exactly what Hendrix had in mind when he was putting the album together, but it's excellent anyway. I've revisiting posthumous albums and I confirmed that 1969-1970 is definitely my favorite phase in Jimi's extremely short career.
Quoting my own post about this supposedly “difficult” music to again inform anyone remotely interested in the tenor saxophone that the *great* Rodrigo Amado plays that horn like no one else and his proficiency and energy is positively through the roof. This recording is one of the best places to hear it but one must commit to listen to the whole thing especially since his opening phrases on the first track are extreme to say the least. His playing over the final 20 minutes or so on the last 2 pieces is almost god like.
Yes, that's it! Saw the last part of Ferris... the other day. Just listened to Rotating Heads again, which is the original song... hilarious. LOL
Pinups. How long it has been. Thanks for the reminder. I think a pairing of that and the Stones blues album which is still an unopened Christmas gift are in order this Friday eve betwixt the March Madness hysteria. I'll hold myself to that... too. Great about your patio/speaker set up. We've had a weather flip this month, with March being blustery cold while Feb was 60-70 degree days everyday.
Some goes to women, some goes to Jesus, Though I'm absolutely certain both's all right But it takes me at least halfway to the label 'Fore I can even make it through the night Well, I think that you're headed for a whole lot of trouble Yeah, yeah I think that you're headed for a whole lot of trouble Baby yeah, I think that you're headed for some trouble If you take your whiskey home
Yesterday evening caught The Mermen playing an acquaintances private birthday party at a place just about 5 minutes from my house, Rockridge Improvement Club here in Oaktown. Great instrumental surf rock, it's been about 18 years since last time I saw them but they are still fantastic. Fun instrumental cover of Rockin' in the Free World as the encore. Tonight listening to the 2003 remix of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars from the Five Years vinyl box. First listen to the remix. I have no idea why this exists (except cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching), the original album is perfect as it is, and this alternate version isn't really illuminating and is mostly disconcerting. Taking a great album and making it still good, but less interesting, for no real reason... At the least the box still also has the original mix, because this one is pointless.
We are back to cold and rainy again, but it was nice while it lasted. Supposed to rain pretty much all week, but can't complain given what our northeastern brethren are going through... anyway, patio/speaker was an anomaly for a while, probably won't be for another month or two before that setup gets another airing...
I'll add that I have had all of Bowie's early albums for ages, except for Pinups, which I unjustly ignored because I thought I didn't need a covers album. When this box set came out in 2015, I finally heard this one and kicked myself for ignoring it so long. The arrangements are great, Bowie's vocal approach is too, and Ronson just kills it throughout. It turns out it's just as essential (IMHO) as any other Bowie from that period.
Pinups is a great celebration of mid-'60s UK beat music, albeit with an updated Bowie/Ronson '70s sound. So much fun!
More late Hendrix. He looks tired and wanting to be somewhere else on the footage, but he sounds quite powerful when you only listen. Mitchell does some brilliant inspired drumming, and Cox is solid as always. In spite of what many people say, not a bad concert at all. In fact, quite memorable, if you ask me.
Thought Santana was the only band to blend groovy rock and latin rhythms? Think again. Traffic Sound - "Meshkalina'