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You Ain't Thinking about Me:

https://youtu.be/LKQDbz88Omg

Velvet Underground & Nico

Obviously he was onto somebody good.

Lotta good BOTLs MIA.

Persuasions - Street Corner Symphony

One of, if not THE finest a cappella group...EVAH!

73F / 73% RH / 9 mph - nice and quiet but understand it stormed in other parts of the island

Conan,
I saw on the FB page “I Loved Radio Free Hawai’i” that a guy with a massive record collection just sold it to Ideas and Books. When I get out there I am going to hunt that place down. I think it was a lot of 80’s and 90’s Alt music. My wheelhouse.

Was one of my favorite albums for a long, long time....probably still in my top 20.

This post made me seek out some other one (album) hit wonders...

Been listening to...

The Modern Lovers...eponymous....less edgy than punk of the time...sort of pre new-wave punkish....good....not quite my style, but good

The La's - eponymous -- makes me think of R.E.M. would have sounded like if R.E.M. would have been better....funny, the one song I recognize...the hit, 'There She Goes' is the low point of the album...


Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure - meh

Monks - Black Monk Time -- Not really sure what to call this....there's a little bit of lots of different stuff in there...not quite punk....stripped down Black Keys-ish at times....maybe a little surf guitar influence... with psychadelic distortions....the vocals are too raw for me, but I was never tuned into punk-type vocals...

Green River - Rehab Doll - I lived outside Seattle for a time and am familiar with most of grunge's family history, but this one should be talked about with Temple of the Dog and Mother Love Bone...somehow it has escaped me until now

if it's the band that did Radio On, they were a suburban Boston group led by Jonathan Richman who might still be banging around. A couple of other members played with people like the Cars and stuff.

I think they had other albums but that Radio On song is still great and was about what us locals called Route 128 (now mostly called route 95).

also, someone gave me a copy of The La's. Always thought There She Goes would work in a shampoo commercial...which it may have done.

I used to have a '68 Road Runner. Fixed it up, had it painted. Was the nicest '68 Road Runner on Oahu.

The oil embargo killed me. Eventually sold it to my older brother in exchange for some $$$ I (foolishly) owed him. The car just sat and he eventually sold it to some guy who was gonna use it for parts!

Pink Floyd - Animals


Some of the darkest, most cynical lyrics Roger Waters ever wrote. It also happens to fit even better with the times now than it did in 1977.

You guys are mentioning the Modern Lovers. Their self titled 1976 album "The Modern Lovers" is a desert island album for me. LOVE that album.



1..2..3..4..5..6..........Roadrunner, Roadrunner

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

Bought this when it first came out but don’t ever remember listening to the whole thing. Won’t happen this time as we’re gonna go out in about an hour. Maybe pick up where I left off next time I’m out in the garage.

81F / 68% RH / 10 mph - very “Summerish” day, thank goodness some clouds are blocking it

Picking up where I left off yesterday.

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

On the one time I saw them in concert, somewhere around 1971, we went to the early show that lasted only about an hour and 15 minutes. Felt like the soundcheck for the later show.

76F / 63% RH / 9 mph - after a morning and early afternoon of babysitting and then yard work afterwards, sitting out in the garage feels great

Whipped through a bunch of B.O.C. .....somehow I don't remember so much of it being so lousy. I don't get it. I loved a lot of it....appreciate some that I don't like...and now dislike a ton. The blues guitars and heavy licks mostly seemed to evolve into poppish garbage....and still, they were capable of putting out occasional decent stuff later:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oe8j-ElikI)
..not sure what to make of them anymore.

Speaking for myself, sometimes those “youthful activities” blurred my listening experiences, of course, ymmv.

But you know, there was a time, in the early to mid ‘70s, when BOC had a fair amount of radio play and their albums sold decently well so you / we weren’t alone.

Somewhere I still have the 12” promo of “Godzilla” taken from “On Your Feet or On Your Knees”.

“Oh no, there goes Tokyo...”

Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus

One of the all-time live rock albums. I miss Lowell.

76F / 66% RH / 12 mph - started out on the driveway but a light drizzle chased me back inside the garage... and then, as soon as I got settled in, it stopped

Garbage - Garbage

Spent many a wasted night watching Butch Vig in clubs in Madison, WI playing with Spooner. Was a couple decades before I made the connection between those shows and Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Shirley Manson, FF, etc. The guy was a decent enough drummer, but he sure had the Midas touch as a producer

Delicious. My favorite band of all time.

Omar and the Howlers- Monkeyland

https://youtu.be/Jyvcd86siDE


Damn, double post....but it is a good tune, so maybe it's worth posting twice

A mixed CD I called “Soul Stuff” ‘cause it’s all soul / r&b songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Songs range from The Winston’s “Color Him Father” to Edwin Starr’s “War” and everything in-between.

79F / 59% RH / 14 mph - overcast almost the whole day with a couple of downpours

Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?

Wow, this album is 35 years old? Had a couple chances to see these guys but never went.

71F / 83% RH / 13 mph - occasional showers

I was in bustling Downtown Concord N.H. visiting my local , and when I was leaving I heard someone playing Sax up on the next street over, so I walked over and there was a homeless guy jamming away on Little Bitty Pretty One, and he was really good. I stuck a little token of appreciation into his sax case, and was treated to The Theme From the Pink Panther, and then he launched into Tequila...the song not the beverage....man, I really enjoyed listening to him play, and he was having a pretty good time himself.

JJ Cale song.

“Crazy Eyes” was a very underrated album.

I bought the vinyl album when it first came out. “Brass Buttons”, written by Gram Parsons, is also a great song.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Not much needs to be said.

74F / 76% RH / 14 mph - mostly warm day but overcast later on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm0hI2SUinQ

Buena Vista Social Club

Smoking a Cuban cigar and drinking the last of my Havana Club 7 so the perfect piece to complete the trifecta.

76F / 66% RH / 9 mph - except for the small occasional drops of rain, perfect night out on the driveway