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Post by lala on Mar 18, 2010 8:43:23 GMT
This chap's just died. From a bio by Rolling Stone: ... when Big Star collapsed, Chilton began the third and most durable phase of his career: the charismatic, self-destructive Southern grifter scamming his way to musical glory.
Chilton's discography is a complete mess. In the late '70s, he spent his famous "lost decade" coughing up material for scattered indie and import quickies. His first proper solo album, Like Flies on Sherbert, is a generously lubricated assault on any notion of production values, with pop gems like "My Rival" and "Hey! Little Child" falling apart at every chord change. The covers range from a ragged "I've Had It" (Ceroni/Bonura) to KC and the Sunshine Band (a damn fine "Boogie Shoes"). The only real musical parallels are the Lindsey Buckingham basement tapes included on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, and the early Pavement singles that came out years later. Like Flies on Sherbert sank like a stone, which only added to Chilton's growing legend. Live in London was even messier. Eventually, his recordings appeared on cult collections such as Lost Decade and the well-titled Dusted in Memphis. The 1994 edition of Bach's Bottom is the best place to hear these songs, especially his eternal cry of physical love, "Take Me Home and Make Me Like It." "Free Again" is off-the-cuff country, "Bangkok" is off-the-cuff rockabilly, and the incoherent acoustic ramble "Walking Dead" is so far off the cuff it's rolling across the floor.
(www.rollingstone.com/artists/alexchilton/biography) "So far off the cuff it's rolling across the floor," eh? |
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 8:48:07 GMT
RIP Alex Chilton. Bummer.
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 8:54:52 GMT
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Mar 18, 2010 8:59:34 GMT
I have a wide and extensive circle of freinds I'll have you know.
I'm known as the prince of platitudes, you know.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:09:58 GMT
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 9:14:49 GMT
Haha. Yep.
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 9:15:55 GMT
well, not remember as in remember iot the first time around. Remember as in I have a memory of hearing it perhaps several times before...
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Post by lala on Mar 18, 2010 9:17:13 GMT
"Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea." |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:25:01 GMT
Can't f**k**g stand folk music. Someone gave us Sean Bean's 'Sharpe' to rewatch and the f**k**g bloke singing folk songs in it did my f**k**g head in. He wasn't shot until the last episode more's the shame.
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 9:25:46 GMT
Anyway, enough of the miserable elitist whiners. How about some perfectly packaged pop by a pair of pretty Partick* princesses? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoOHa1B62E*No idea if they're from Partick but I needed it for the alliteration... |
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Mar 18, 2010 9:28:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:28:03 GMT
Oooh - I like them...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:28:43 GMT
The females, the females...
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 9:31:03 GMT
Yeah they were very appealling. All feminine and girly and sweet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:49:15 GMT
How the f**k do you get the youtube picture up without all the other youtube stuff, as in #150 say?
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Post by mids on Mar 18, 2010 9:55:32 GMT
Click on the youtube button on the left above the reply box and paste the youtube link into middle of the two youtube square bracket things.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:58:16 GMT
One for eit...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 9:58:54 GMT
DID IT DID IT
Thank you mids.
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Post by jimboky on Mar 18, 2010 21:51:21 GMT
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Post by Marshall on Mar 18, 2010 22:18:21 GMT
That makes up for Joan Baez, jimbo.
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