Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
I have to wonder what The Beatles made of this.
This was another Beatles song to get the Sellers treatment and its meaning takes on a whole new dimension when we hear the two characters in this recording. The voice Sellers uses for the female character is reminiscent of the one he used for Crystal Jollybottom in his long run with radio’s “Ray’s A Laugh.”
Bad news at Subway, courtesy of The Onion.
See what you think.
New single from Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, coming July 26th.
Check it, yo.
Miss Violet Beauregarde, gone too soon.
Okay, Denise Nickerson.
Here’s a great 32-year-old article from SPIN’s archives, from around the time that I was getting into them. (Yes, I was late to the party and had to work my way back through the Twin/Tone albums.) The band had just parted ways with manager Pete Jesperson, fired lead guitarist Bob Stinson, and released one of their best albums, Pleased To Meet Me. Recorded right here in Memphis!
“When we started,” [Westerberg] says, pausing to sip from a midmorning Schmidt, “we definitely had a fear of success. We had a fear of everything. We were all very paranoid, and I think that goes hand in hand with the excessive drinking thing. We’d get drunk because we were basically scared shitless, and that snowballed into image. Now we’re a little more assured of what we’re doing. We’re not positive which way we’re going, but we think we know what mistakes lie ahead, and we’re trying to sidestep ‘em.”
Full article here.
LOVED him in The Larry Sanders Show.
https://youtu.be/FQDc9loiFuk
Prime Cheap Trick, one of my great obsessions.
