Obnoxious Music To Banish Unwanted Guests

I like that song. I had the 12" single at one time!


To drive out unwanted guests, I'd put on:

Scott Walker, Tilt

The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World

Pink Floyd, "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"

 

HEY, I like that song. I only wish I could make out what the guy is saying at the end.

 

I didn't say I didn't like it. I'm sure many others wouldn't.

Btw, the pict's final words are: "...and the wind cried Mary. Thank you."

 

Most of my friends could care less about any music not played on FM radio (how I got here I'll never know).

So, anything by Tom Waits. I love his music, but the first exposure to him usually results in them saying, what the heck is that.
It's beautiful music that assults all of your senses.

 

Re: John Coltrane

You're not kidding !!

 

Nah, you're just a youngster............unless you were gestated for about 5 years!

 

Hey, watch it Peter! I'm the same age as Grant, you middle-aged grouch!

 

According to this site...http://www.octanecreative.com/boomerbaby/index.html

You are a "Boomer" if you were born between 1946-1964...All "Boomer's"
please raise your hands. My hand is raised.

 

Guilty as charged (1954)

 

Interesting link Michael. I guess if I were trying to sell a product (at least a t-shirt, and probably more) I'd like my market to be as large as possible too!

Seriously though, how do we define it accurately? It's the boom that started with the optimism that followed the end of WWII, right? But when did it "officially" end?

I was born in 1955 and somehow feel I was at the end of the boom.

 

Hey Dave have you been reading my profile! How dare you.......that's......err.......private

 

Not anymore.

 

I'd cap it at 1956 a ten year spread. 1964 pushing it.

 

Yeahhhh buddy! You got that right! 1962!

 

Sorry Peter, i'm a baby boomer! Dave, Michael, and I are one of YOU!

 

Ooooh, somebody else who has that record! On mostly-orange vinyl! Use to love to play that in the ol' college dorm, back around 1978! I wish Rhino would reissue it on CD (they did include on of the tracks on the Tales From the Rhino compilation).

 

In my younger days - the party at Al's house was over when I played Sparks Kimono My House lp. If the party was real good, and I met someone I wanted to be alone with, that album was played REALLY loud, and REALLY early.

 

I think that is fairly easy, turn on your radio to the local MAINSTREAM station (Top 40), and it just MIGHT hasten the exit of unwanted guests

 

Grant,

I'm not attacking you or anything, but it's dangerous grounds when you start dragging race into discussions with a statement like that. I mean, which black folks are you talking about anyway? People like Lenny Kravitz and Terrence Trent D'Arby? Or maybe the guys from Living Colour and Fishbone? How about Prince or Little Richard? Or any other black Rock icon and the millions of black AND white fans who listen to them? I mean, that's like saying all you have to do is throw on some R & B or Hip-Hop to get rid of all of the white folks. Never mind people like Puff Daddy, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Nelly who sell millions to people of all races.

Anyway, if I wanted to clear the room Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising might do the trick. Don't get me wrong, I love Sonic Youth and there are many out there who claim to be SY fans who can't handle their early stuff or their current releases. They just bought in during their Goo and Dirty period when the whole Grunge thing was happening.

Here's another. Piano by Candlelight. I remember I was at a gathering at my uncle's house a few years back when one of his brothers-in-law put this flaming piece of sh*&e on, and I mean I was outta there. Afterwords my uncle told me that that guy was big into those bad TV music compilations. Even my uncle always dreaded him coming over with that stuff. He also told me that night that when I came in, I kept looking over at the stereo with a puzzled and almost annoyed look on my face - I didn't even realize it.

 

I do like Roger Whittaker's music and most of his TV comps are decent but if you look for the RCA comps "The Best of Roger Whittaker" and/or "The Last Farewell and Other Hits," they are the best comps they released on his music in stores. Instrumental Magic on Mystic Music is a very good compilation of Instrumental hits and they are the original recordings and the sound overall is decent.

 

Goldenboy,

I actually just threw that bit about black folk in for effect. Actually, I meant any dance crowd, white, black, latino, whatever. But, you gotta know, the majority of black people in America of any age just do not listen to rock music. Period. Trust me on this! I know! Anyway, when I made that comment my mind was on the club scene. It's true. If you have a dance nightclub and you want to get rid of a certain group of people, you play rock music. I used to be a DJ. At closing time when people will not leave, you don't just stop playing music, you throw on some Van Halen or CCR, or even Lenny Kravitz, they WILL leave fast! At a concert, what's the best way to anger a crowd? You play something they don't like. The majority of black people do not care much about Lenny Kravitz or Jimi Hendrix. Many don't even know who the hell they are! Prince doesn't count because his funk music made him popular before the record company started pushing him to do more rock.

I didn't mean to throw a race card in this and wasn't trying to. But I will stop there because if I must explain how nightclub operators try to tailor the clientele by the music they play, I will be forced to go into the subject of sociology to explain it.

 

A well-known trade publication has discussed ad-nasuem some years ago the rock-r&b sales figures pretty much all through the ages (recorded music ages, that is), and how the sales of artists in general break down between the races of peoples all over the globe. I know this is touchy territory, and I will cease at this point, discussing this issue, but this is the bible of the industry, and these were real articles, with accurate info/statistics to back up their findings. There articles were printed, I believe, about 10 years ago!

 

I wish the issue weren't so touchy. It shouldn't be.

It sounds like Billboard did the article you cite. I wonder if there is a way to find it online at their site. The findings in the study could be very useful.

 

It is touchy. There are certainly many historical reasons why it is touchy and I too wish it weren't that way. I agree with you Grant, certainly most blacks in America do not listen to Rock music. Why this is when blacks created it in the first place, I just don't understand. How someone like Lenny Kravitz can go virtually unknown (as far as his music is concerned) in the black community is beyond me. Does Lenny have strong Rock influences? Yes. Does he have strong R&B influences? Most certainly! Listening to an album like Mama Said one can hear Sly and The Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Al Green all over some of those songs. I have to argue with you about the Prince thing though, I don't think Prince would have been pressured by his label even early in his carreer and he was never really straight up R&B or Funk anyhow, not even his first 2 albums. For You has strong Folk/Singer Songwriter type material on it as well as Rock on a song like 'I'm Yours' and on Prince, 'Bambi' is a real full throttle rocker too. It always makes me cringe/laugh when I see Prince categorized as R&B. I mean, can one really consider albums like Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day or Sign O' the Times R&B? are they CRAZY?