What Are You Listening To? July 2019

[JazzyRandy]

Tony! Toni! Toné! - House Of Music (1996)

 

[JazzyRandy]

The Repercussions - Earth And Heaven (1995)

Founded by various band members of the not-yet-formed Groove Collective, this is a smoking hot piece of funkified soul that should have dropped 20 years earlier.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Dave Matthews Band - Crash (1996)

Astounding how an album could be so far removed from the common drivel put on the airwaves, be so popular, be so common amongst listeners collections, yet rated so poorly within rateyourmusic. Was there an all-out campaign by the metal community to diss this album? Too funny.
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I find this album's overall rating rather hilarious.

I guess they're no longer cool. But, neither am I, nor have I ever been.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

You do know where they got their name, right? It's the name of a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band which they perform in the club scene in the Beatles' movie "Magical Mystery Tour"

Great trivia!

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (1979)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Tupac Shakur - Me Against The World (1995)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - Free Like We Want 2 B (1995)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis (1969)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Frank Black - s/t (1993)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart (1964)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Jimmy Fast Fingers Dawkins - Fast Fingers

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

You do know where they got their name, right? It's the name of a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band which they perform in the club scene in the Beatles' movie "Magical Mystery Tour"

...and named it after the title of a short story. I thought it was by some known author, but I don't recall and my one stab at google didn't turn it up.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

...and named it after the title of a short story. I thought it was by some known author, but I don't recall and my one stab at google didn't turn it up.

Innes's inspiration for the song was the title of a story in an old American pulp fiction crime magazine he came across at a street market. [1]

Death Cab for Cutie (song) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

“Urban Spaceman” is probably your best-known song, but in recent years “Death Cab for Cutie” was appropriated by an American band for its name. What did you think when you heard that?

I thought, how strange and how quaint! I got the title from an American comic crime magazine. I found it in a street market. I think it was called True Crime. And on the cover were two headline stories. One was “Death Cab for Cutie” and the other was “It Was a Great Party Until Somebody Found a Hammer.” It’s the only song, I think, that Viv [Stanshall] and I wrote in the same room. We were just sort of riffing on “Death Cab for Cutie” and he went all Elvis. And the next thing you know, Paul picked that for Magical Mystery Tour, which is probably where the band first heard it.

In Conversation With Neil Innes

Neil Innes’ name may not be well-known, but his work at the intersection of music and humor is rightly celebrated. In the late ‘60s, Innes was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, a British psychedelic/vaudeville act that enjoyed a solitary yet memorable hit: ““>I’m the Urban Spaceman.”...

www.stlmag.com

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism



Seemed like as good a time as ever to give it a spin.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Otis Redding - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (1965)

Sticking with some Otis

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Adele - 19 (2008)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Mass Production - Welcome To Our World (1976)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby



There was nothing wrong with Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism. It was pleasant and all, but it just didn't entertain me very much. It would be good background music - quiet and peaceful.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Horace Silver - Song For My Father (1965)

 

[Nickyboy]

Horace Silver - Song For My Father (1965)

I love that album!