But baby this song blows.
Freak Out, Freaks
Ich Bin Ein Nerd
I could easily spend a week in Adam Savage’s studio.
Niko and Wren travel to San Francisco to meet with Adam Savage and learn all about his vast collection of hand-made props, costumes, and other pieces of cinema and television history.
Loathsome Thursday
Meet Loathsome Thursday, the dark step-sister of Catchy Tuesday. We all get confronted by songs that seem fiendishly calculated in all details—dumb melody, bone-headed lyrics, sappy production, cloying singing—to send us into a sputtering, incoherent, lunch-throwing, china-smashing rage. “Wildfire” is one such song for me. Note that YouTube comments are turned off, so I’m not alone, although I will note that other postings have plenty of “greatest song ever written” comments. I will also note that this song was included in Dave Barry’s excellent Book of Bad Songs, where it was pointed out that a killing frost is a light dusting that will kill your tomatoes but not obscure the ground. No one ever “got lost” in a “killing frost” who would not also get lost in July.
I’d love to hear what songs rankle you bastards. Sometimes everything I’ve heard by certain acts gets under my skin. Jimmy Webb (who gets called a genius), Dave Matthews, Michael McDonald, America, John Mayer, The Captain and Tennille…and many more no doubt. A special chamber of horrors gets created when those people cover each other. The Captain and Tennille’s vile minor hit, “Muskrat Love,” was originally by America. Just execrable.
If you enjoy any music or artists I’ve mentioned, please do not take offense, and please continue to enjoy them. The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of Los Bastardos Reunidos Media Holdings, LLC.
I’m Not Sure I Want To Know
But then, I don’t have Paramount+ anyway.
The story of America – our past and our future. More than just a song or a man, this film is about a cultural moment in America’s history that has followed us from the 1970s. Featuring a new generation of artists, inspired by the same values & ideas that inspired Don McLean in writing American Pie — one of the great musical touchstones of pop music and culture.
The new documentary, The Day the Music Died: American Pie is streaming July 19th exclusively on Paramount+.
No Me
I’m starting Catchy Tuesday. Please enjoy this blast of Swedish rawk.
“No Me” is the first single from Sweet Teeth’s second album “High Anxiety”, released on Lövely in 2022.
This Was Quite A Ride
… experiencing it as it happened, and now watching this.
Some solid tunes amidst the abhorrent soft rock. Boney M was in here two or three times and I swear I’ve never heard of them.
PiL Does Holidays In The Sun
Way back in 1988. The most fascinating part is that Lydon sings it like he did in the Pistols, not using his PiL voice.
Wish I Could Do This
Also, now I want a 1962 Vespa.
Aliens!
In his recent biograpy, Living on a Thin Line, Dave Davies reports that aliens re-routed his sexual energy:
The 75-year-old rock star believes his mind was overtaken by aliens in 1982, when on tour in the US, and Dave claims they “blocked any sensation down there.”
He explained: “They told me I must not have sex and, although I was able to walk normally, my groin and pelvis suddenly became numbed, like they’d blocked any sensation down there.
“The reason being, they told me, was they wanted to transmute my sexual energy to a higher vibrational level.”
Dave was preparing to play a gig in Virginia when “things got weird very quickly.”
The guitarist recalled feeling “oddly disembodied.”
“I couldn’t understand why I was feeling so peculiar. I didn’t feel physically ill. This was different.
Dave also remembers hearing voices in his own head.He said: “It was like my brain had flicked on a new psychic switch. After the initial jolt, I didn’t feel panicked or alarmed.
“These voices had a commanding presence, but were also non-threatening, calming even. My senses were overwhelmed.
“Where were these voices coming from? Were they floating close by? Or an alien force from many thousand miles away? I began to feel their presence.
“I could already hear them. Then I felt them physically and my nostrils were filled with different smells – again nothing unpleasant or sinister.
“In fact, the smells – of fresh flowers like jasmine and magnolia – had a fragrance so full I felt like I could have scooped them up with a spoon.”
Dave was with his lover Nancy Evans at the time, and he remembers being controlled by the “intelligences.”
He explained: “I’d entered into a telepathic exchange with mysterious beings. The intelligences, though, would only let me tell her what they wanted her to know.”
I’m going to need our resident Kinksologist to break this down,
but in the meantime enjoy some Kinks: