I am Music

[AlwaysHungry]

I was actually in the audience at this performance, and yes, Ms. Fish definitely rocks.

I'm confused though, about the "porn" reference. While she's young, sexy, and perhaps provocatively dressed (um, great thighs!), she in no way seems to me to be doing anything that would possibly be labeled "pornographic."

I was being semi-facetious. I figured that habitues of Literotica might share the cameraman's enthusiasm for close-ups of her crotch.

 

[Tzara]

I was being semi-facetious. I figured that habitues of Literotica might share the cameraman's enthusiasm for close-ups of her crotch.

You mean some of us are not wholly fixated on her dexterous fretboarding as opposed to other, non-musical, aspects of her performance?

Um, meekly raises hand.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Yes, let's have a show of hands.

 

[Tzara]

I have to get the taste of "Muskrat Love" out of my mouth. Or, more accurately, get the sound of it out of my head.

 

[GuitarGawd41]

The music that makes me tick? It's a long list, but if you wanna play in the off-the-beaten and the eclectic....

 

[GuitarGawd41]

(psssst... There is a free version of Spotify if you can't listen because you don't have it)

 

[GuitarGawd41]

I know there's a lot there, but at least it'll drown out the sound of fornicating muskrats

 

[GuitarGawd41]

In case you would like to combine your interest in popular music with your interest in porn...

Okay, had never heard of Samantha Fish before, but this chick is epic!!! Her jumps between finger work and the slide, the pipes on her, and that orgasmicly beautiful 6 string cigar box guitar.... I think I am in love!!!!

 

[Sexy_Singer]

I was feeling this today.

 

[Angeline]

Seems like the right day for this song.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

I was actually in the audience at this performance, and yes, Ms. Fish definitely rocks.

I'm confused though, about the "porn" reference. While she's young, sexy, and perhaps provocatively dressed (um, great thighs!), she in no way seems to me to be doing anything that would possibly be labeled "pornographic."

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

This isn't my favorite song, but it captures the album pretty well. She has a very natural voice for singing.

https://genius.com/Abigail-lapell-murder-city-lyrics

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

https://genius.com/Ethel-cain-sun-bleached-flies-lyrics

 

[Angeline]

"It just keeps on flowin'. It don't worry bout where it's goin'."


RIP Dickey Betts

Blue Sky

 

[Wonderer67]

I don’t really know much about poetry but I always write like I hear this song by Courtney Barnett.

Avant Gardner by Courtney Barnett
I sleep in late
Another day
Oh what a wonder
Oh what a waste.
It’s a Monday
It’s so mundane
What exciting things
Will happen today?
The yard is full of hard rubbish it’s a mess and
I guess the neighbors must think we run a meth lab
We should amend that
I pull the sheets back
It’s 40 degrees
And i feel like I'm dying.
Life’s getting hard in here
So i do some gardening
Anything to take my mind away from where it’s supposed to be.
The nice lady next door talks of green beds
And all the nice things that she wants to plant in them
I wanna grow tomatoes on the front steps.
Sunflowers, bean sprouts, sweet corn and radishes.
I feel pro-active
I pull out weeds
All of a sudden
I’m having trouble breathing in.

My hands are shaky
My knees are weak
I can’t seem to stand
On my own two feet
I’m breathing but I'm wheezing
Feel like I'm emphysemin’
My throat feels like a funnel
Filled with weet bix and kerosene and
Oh no, next thing i know
They call up triple o
I’d rather die than owe the hospital
Till I get old
I get adrenalin
Straight to the heart
I feel like Uma Thurman
Post-overdosing kick start
Reminds me of the time
When i was really sick and i
Had too much pseudoephedrine and i
Couldn’t sleep at night
Halfway down high street, Andy looks ambivalent
He’s probably wondering what i’m doing getting in an ambulance
The paramedic thinks I'm clever cos I play guitar
I think she’s clever cos she stops people dying
Anaphylactic and super hypocondriactic
Should’ve stayed in bed today
I much prefer the mundane.
I take a hit from
An asthma puffer
I do it wrong
I was never good at smoking bongs.
I’m not that good at breathing in.

 

[Angeline]

Happy 82nd birthday Sir Paul McCartney!!! May you have many more.

I'm a lifelong Beatlemaniac (well most of my life) and while I've always been more drawn to John's (and to a lesser extent George's) songs, I've come to appreciate Paul more and more over the years. Yes he sure writes a lot of silly love songs, but sometimes he hits it straight outta the park, so to speak. And I think Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the best I've ever heard. It has an undeniable raw power and honesty.

Maybe I'm Amazed

 

[kathyisgr65]

Finding your music inside ..what best describes who and what you are feeling
at a given moment in time...I have found music is the way to describe what we are inner most feeling...give it a shot..in the moment ever changing...high and low...
me at this moment in time..what song do you hum...

Sunny Came Down

I definitely speak through my music...my playlist is ass bipolar as I am

 

[Tzara]

Groupie

Dear Stephen Stills,
I confess I've had a mad crush
on you since we were young...

Buffalo Springfield was one of my favorite bands when I was young--both Stills and Neil Young were performers whose music I've listened to for years through their various groups and solo records. Angie's poem got me to listen to the album (Buffalo Springfield Again) she references, especially this track: Rock & Roll Woman.

One of the interesting things about this video (taken, I assume, from the Flip Wilson Show) is how sedate the audience is. Perhaps because it's a lip sync performance?

 

[Angeline]

Buffalo Springfield was one of my favorite bands when I was young--both Stills and Neil Young were performers whose music I've listened to for years through their various groups and solo records. Angie's poem got me to listen to the album (Buffalo Springfield Again) she references, especially this track: Rock & Roll Woman.

One of the interesting things about this video (taken, I assume, from the Flip Wilson Show) is how sedate the audience is. Perhaps because it's a lip sync performance?

That video is a great find and yes it's surprisingly sedate. I was curious and looked to see when it was aired (this is why I love the internet), and it was November 1967. That's just a few months after the Summer of Love so you'd expect more hippies and their boisterous ways. But mayhap you're right and the lip syncing was a buzzkill.

But yes they were a great band, so much talent in it and so many great songs that it's hard to pick a favorite album from imho the best three (Again, Retrospective, and Last Time Around). I did tend to like Stills' songs best although Neil's Mr Soul is awesome as is Richie Furay's Kind Woman. I think my very favorite though was/is Questions, and I was delighted to hear it worked into my favorite CSNY song, Carry On.

As you know I also love The Byrds, your other favorite band. Eagleyez loved both bands, too, and was a huge Neil Young fan. Obviously we all have great taste!

Anyway it's good to see you posting a bit more lately, T-Zed. I've missed reading you here. Oh and I read cereal boxes, too. I can't not either.

 

[Tzara]

Angie's got me thinking about oldie songs that were important to me. I read once that music/songs particularly imprint themselves on one about the age of thirteen or so and, at least for me, that seems to check out because four of these ten are dead on at 1966 and most of the others are only a year or so off that.

For most of you, think of this as turning on the car radio after grandpa got back from picking up his fifteen different medications at the pharmacy.

• The Beatles: Paperback Writer (1966). I assume damn near everyone has a favorite Beatles song. This is mine, though Ticket to Ride is almost a tie.
• Blue Cheer: Babylon (1968). Psychedelia, blues, heavy metal, and really really loud. Also check out some kids from the Chicago School of Rock playing the song.
• Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth (1966). As I mentioned above, the Springfield was one of my favorite bands when I was young and this was always my favorite cut, off of their first album.
• The Byrds: Eight Miles High (1966). So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star is another favorite, especially Patti Smith's version.
• Cream: Crossroads (1968).
• Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Ohio (1970). I know, 1970 is a little late, but Neil is one of my favorite artists and this song (and the event it memorializes) was a formative part of my high school years.
• The Flying Burrito Brothers: Hot Burrito #2 (1969). Kind of a offshoot (new and improved?) of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds, featuring Gram Parsons quavery voice and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow's fuzzed-up pedal steel guitar. Also, Christine's Tune, which always makes me regret I never learned to play steel guitar.
• The Kinks: You Really Got Me (1964). Dave Davies got the fuzzy guitar tone by slicing the speaker cone in his amp with a razor blade. Virtually tied with All Day and All of the Night (check it out: genuine 60s go-go dancers!).
• The Rolling Stones: Get Off of My Cloud (1965). Because this played every morning on the jukebox in the cafeteria at my junior high school, where all us guys were too shy to dance with the girls. Also, Paint It, Black.
• The Yardbirds: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (1966). The Yardbirds are notable for having three of the most famous rock guitarists play in the band—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. Both Beck and Page played on "Happenings" and both appear in a prominent scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up (also 1966), where Beck smashes a guitar while the band plays "Stroll On."

There are, of course, many other songs I really liked both from this period and later, but these are the ones that come to mind when I think of "favorites."

I'd do this kind of thing with poems, but for some reason it's easier with songs.

 

[Angeline]

That's a great list Tzara. I want to respond with my own list and I may, but today I'm hung up on the fact that it's the 49th anniversary of Born to Run. As if I didn't feel old already! Forty nine years! I was reading on a social media site about it where people were saying their favorite songs on the album and mostly choosing the title song or Thunder Road and they're great, now iconic, songs. But I really like Meeting Across the River. It really conveys time and place to me, with a beautiful sad lyric that captures NYC in the 1970s.

Oh and Tzara we may have come of age on opposite coasts but I remember those junior high school Friday night dances, dancing with my girl pals to Hang On Sloopy while the boys stood on the other side of the gym trying to act like they weren't watching us. That's a poem either of us could write!

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Angie's got me thinking about oldie songs that were important to me. I read once that music/songs particularly imprint themselves on one about the age of thirteen or so and, at least for me, that seems to check out because four of these ten are dead on at 1966 and most of the others are only a year or so off that.

For most of you, think of this as turning on the car radio after grandpa got back from picking up his fifteen different medications at the pharmacy.

• The Beatles: Paperback Writer (1966). I assume damn near everyone has a favorite Beatles song. This is mine, though Ticket to Ride is almost a tie.
• Blue Cheer: Babylon (1968). Psychedelia, blues, heavy metal, and really really loud. Also check out some kids from the Chicago School of Rock playing the song.
• Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth (1966). As I mentioned above, the Springfield was one of my favorite bands when I was young and this was always my favorite cut, off of their first album.
• The Byrds: Eight Miles High (1966). So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star is another favorite, especially Patti Smith's version.
• Cream: Crossroads (1968).
• Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Ohio (1970). I know, 1970 is a little late, but Neil is one of my favorite artists and this song (and the event it memorializes) was a formative part of my high school years.
• The Flying Burrito Brothers: Hot Burrito #2 (1969). Kind of a offshoot (new and improved?) of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds, featuring Gram Parsons quavery voice and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow's fuzzed-up pedal steel guitar. Also, Christine's Tune, which always makes me regret I never learned to play steel guitar.
• The Kinks: You Really Got Me (1964). Dave Davies got the fuzzy guitar tone by slicing the speaker cone in his amp with a razor blade. Virtually tied with All Day and All of the Night (check it out: genuine 60s go-go dancers!).
• The Rolling Stones: Get Off of My Cloud (1965). Because this played every morning on the jukebox in the cafeteria at my junior high school, where all us guys were too shy to dance with the girls. Also, Paint It, Black.
• The Yardbirds: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (1966). The Yardbirds are notable for having three of the most famous rock guitarists play in the band—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. Both Beck and Page played on "Happenings" and both appear in a prominent scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up (also 1966), where Beck smashes a guitar while the band plays "Stroll On."

There are, of course, many other songs I really liked both from this period and later, but these are the ones that come to mind when I think of "favorites."

I'd do this kind of thing with poems, but for some reason it's easier with songs.

You must be nearly as old as I. As it turned out, I became a pro musician and I do play the guitar, which may have influenced my tastes and probably made me a bit of a snob with respect to pop music (I play jazz now.) I offer an enthusiastic thumbs up for Eight Miles High and Crossroads. My favorite Beatles song is "Baby, You Can Drive My Car." One of the neo-Buffalo Springfield bands which deserves recognition is Poco, for tunes like "Anyway Bye Bye." I am probably at odds with most people on this thread because I can't stand Neil Young, whose vocal stylings I would describe as "sniveling" and his guitar tone as "rancid."

Some tunes from that era which I think are worthy of note:

• "Devil with a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Ryder and Detroit Wheels
• The entire "Are You Experienced" album of Jimi Hendrix
• The vast catalogue of tunes by Holland/Dozier/Holland and others from Motown, particularly "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by the Supremes, "Reach Out -- I'll be there" by the Four Tops, "I was made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey and the Miracles

 

[AlwaysHungry]

You must be nearly as old as I. As it turned out, I became a pro musician and I do play the guitar, which may have influenced my tastes and probably made me a bit of a snob with respect to pop music (I play jazz now.) I offer an enthusiastic thumbs up for Eight Miles High and Crossroads. My favorite Beatles song is "Baby, You Can Drive My Car." One of the neo-Byrds bands which deserves recognition is Poco, for tunes like "Anyway Bye Bye." I am probably at odds with most people on this thread because I can't stand Neil Young, whose vocal stylings I would describe as "sniveling" and his guitar tone as "rancid."

Some tunes from that era which I think are worthy of note:

• "Devil with a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Ryder and Detroit Wheels
• The entire "Are You Experienced" album of Jimi Hendrix
• The vast catalogue of tunes by Holland/Dozier/Holland and others from Motown, particularly "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by the Supremes, "Reach Out -- I'll be there" by the Four Tops, "I was made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey and the Miracles

Important addendum: The Young Rascals, who had some awesome hits including "Good Lovin'", and also an appealing political role in that they refused to perform unless a group of black musicians was also on the bill. Then there was their second incarnation in 1971 as The Rascals with the great Buzz Feiten on guitar, and they made a fantastic, overlooked album called "Peaceful World" which included guest spots for numerous jazz luminaries.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Changing the subject a bit -- this is an obscure recording that I think y'all should hear. Scott Henderson is a jazz fusion guitarist who was in Chick Corea's band, and sounds to me like what Jimi Hendrix would have become, had he lived. Thelma Houston is the disco queen who scored big with "Don't Leave Me This Way". Their collaboration is unexpected, wild and compelling.

 

[Tzara]

That's a great list Tzara. I want to respond with my own list and I may, but today I'm hung up on the fact that it's the 49th anniversary of Born to Run. As if I didn't feel old already! Forty nine years! I was reading on a social media site about it where people were saying their favorite songs on the album and mostly choosing the title song or Thunder Road and they're great, now iconic, songs. But I really like Meeting Across the River. It really conveys time and place to me, with a beautiful sad lyric that captures NYC in the 1970s.

Oh and Tzara we may have come of age on opposite coasts but I remember those junior high school Friday night dances, dancing with my girl pals to Hang On Sloopy while the boys stood on the other side of the gym trying to act like they weren't watching us. That's a poem either of us could write!

I had just started graduate school in 1975 when Born to Run was released. The university newspaper featured a regular column by Charles R. Cross who went from Springsteen skeptic to True Believer after seeing him live, so much so that he followed him all around the country, eventually founding a magazine (Backstreets) devoted to Springsteen, and writing a biography of the Boss (as well as ones on Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, et al.). Cross unfortunately died a few days ago, or I'm sure he would have written something about the anniversary of the album release.

I'd probably name Backstreets as my favorite cut on the album.