Comments on: Ipe Odditry

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:38:09 +0000

Well, one beautiful thing about MP3s is that you can get all the skinhead stuff you want, and no royalties go to the bad people.

Skrewdriver’s Tomorrow Belongs to Me (originally from Cabaret) is pretty inarguably a great cloyingly sentimental song….

By: thedarkbackward

thedarkbackward — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:17:33 +0000

SKREWDRIVER?!?!?

A freakin’ skinhead band? There goes your Flaming Liberal credentials.

I do hafta tell ya though…one of the prettiest rock ballads I’ve ever heard was from the racist skinhead band RAHOWA. It’s a number called THE SNOW FELL and it sounds like a pretty salute to fallen soldiers until you realize that it’s about Nazis. Say what you will about Nazi scum…they definitely do cloying sentimentality well.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 06:24:21 +0000

Oh wow, you gotta hear the original three-piece, super-crazed Gang Green stuff.

For MP3 search purposes, titles include ‘Lie Lie,’ ‘Snob,’ ‘I Don’t Know,’ ‘Narrow Mind’…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:52:57 +0000

“Yeah, the ‘Boston Not LA’ tracks”

Was “Alcohol” one of those tracks? Talk about an anthem. What else can one say about a song containing the immortal line “I’d rather drink than fuck”?

The Dropkick Murphys did a cover of the song recently, but it can’t hold a candle to the original.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:44:26 +0000

Wait a minute, Ian Stuart was gay? I never got that memo.

Woohoo, that’s funny….

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:36:33 +0000

The weirdest thing about the Coral sitar is that 85% of the times you hear one, it’s the same recycled riff. It’s the same riff that’s in that Paul Young song — ‘Wherever You Go,’ or whatever it’s called. Goes like, ‘deer-deer-deer-deeeer’ [Ab-A-B-lowE].

The new Line 6 guitars have a Coral sitar setting, and it sounds pretty good, but you just find yourself playing that deer-deer-deer-deeeer riff over and over again because there’s no other repertoire to draw upon….

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:09:33 +0000

Gavin, careful. Your street cred might take a beating if people like Norbizness found out you were praising the Coral electric sitar. After all, the Coral was used by Steve Howe on the Yes tracks Close to the Edge, Siberian Khatru, Awaken and a few others. *Gasp* it was used a by a prog-rocker. Oh the shame Gavin, the shame. Seriously though, how did that Skrewdriver song end up in there? I loved it when their lead singer, Ian Stuart, was found out to be gay; the spectacle of seeing skinheads going in to total denial was fantastic.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:38:11 +0000

Yeah, the ‘Boston Not LA’ tracks. I never saw the original lineup though. What’s his name, the main guy, was playing 2nd guitar for Jerry’s Kids at that point.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:35:42 +0000

If you’ve got Jerry’s Kids floating around in that mix, you must have some Gang Green in there as well, right?

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:24:58 +0000

Sweet Reno 911. Thing about that show is that you know in the outtakes, they have a million more awesome jokes improv-ed for exactly two people in the audience. If only it didn’t have so many commercials. I love the one where.., wait I love all of them. I love the part X (fill in whatever part of the show you want) and now we’ll giggle together thinking about it.

By: eliot

eliot — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:50:54 +0000

wait, i thought steely dan was just one guy…

By: Yosef

Yosef — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:19:46 +0000

One of the jokes at the start of the new season of Reno 911 was that the one lady became a Steely Dan groupie. They’ve done what, 1 tour ever?

They fuckin rock.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:13:57 +0000

But what’s so hard to understand about Steely Dan? Upper-middle-class New York Jews with a blues fetish and a Brill Building background graduate from Vassar and move to LA, hiring ace studio whizzes against a background of giant doobies and cocaine.

Like, what else would result?

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:03:24 +0000

I think you might appreciate this Steely Dan conversation that came up the other day with my friend.

Pinko Punko said:

Clearly the most elitist liberal band in the whole universe is Steely Dan. They are so elite even their session players don’t get it. Some people have an aversion to them like fingernails on a blackboard, and that is just family. Yet even Tony Soprano sings along to “Dirty Work.” “I’m a fool to do your dirty work, oh yeah”. Even The Random Randroid likes that song. In fact he’s pissed because now he can’t get that *ucker out of his head.

The Uncanny Canadian said…
I don’t want non-elitists to understand Steely Dan. It would suggest some breakdown in the educational system that they would get how awesome Steely Dan is. And fuck, do you think Donald Fagen gives a rat’s ass whether his whored-out session player knows why he’s playing an acid jazz rhumba?

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:59:50 +0000

The other Blancmange one. “Don’t Tell Me”-

the one that goes “I can’t get a grip on…”

Of course, the CLASSIC is
“Blinded by the light/
wrapped up like a douche/
in the middle of the night”

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:33:24 +0000

Uh, not ‘Living on the Ceiling’ by Blancmange. That would be weird. It’s on my playlist.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:30:59 +0000

Oh no. But it really SOUNDS like that, right?

Asparagus,
In the material world…

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:18:26 +0000

Wow, I thought I got hosed by Blancmange on my list but you dug up the Comsat Angels.
(http://3bulls.blogspot.com/2005/06/pinko-punkos-friday-musical-audit.html).

The funniest lyrics a la your Steely Dan- my sister thought a little ditty by Simon and Garfunkel went like this:

“Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson/
She’s the slutty Mormon girl you know”

and a little party song by Ini Kamoze wen like this:

“Here come the hotstepper/
I’m the leprechaun dancer”