Cowsills. Lots and lots of Cowsills.

Kyle Motor wrote:Cowsills. Lots and lots of Cowsills.

I assume you're already onto II by II, their loose concept album about the rapture. Man, I love that record.

There's also some really cool stuff on Bill Cowsill's solo album Nervous Breakthrough, if you can find it.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Kyle Motor wrote:Cowsills. Lots and lots of Cowsills.

I assume you're already onto II by II, their loose concept album about the rapture. Man, I love that record.

There's also some really cool stuff on Bill Cowsill's solo album Nervous Breakthrough, if you can find it.

Yup, II x II was actually the one I was listening to, followed by their final album (besides 1998's Global), and my favorite, On My Side. I've got Nervous Breakthrough as well; good record. I have everything they released, save for one or two really hard to find non-LP 45s. Such a strange, great group.

SecondEdition wrote:The Kinks, Dedicated Follower of Fashion

So fucking great. I wish I could write songs like this.

I have loved the Kinks since I was a kid, and as I grow older I am more and more amazed at how songs as sarcastic and snide as these were bona fide hits. There is hope for man, after all.

burun wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:The Kinks, Dedicated Follower of Fashion

So fucking great. I wish I could write songs like this.

I have loved the Kinks since I was a kid, and as I grow older I am more and more amazed at how songs as sarcastic and snide as these were bona fide hits. There is hope for man, after all.

Seriously.... they made the song "Lola" as part of an album making fun of how stupid the music industry was quickly becoming, and then this song became a massive hit for the band... lol


right now, it's new New Year. I will definitely put up with Minus the Bear to hear these songs live.

The Kinks...here's how I think they made songs like that hits:

Ray's delivery. It's brilliant. If he'd been sneering "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," it would have fell flat and we'd be revering it and them as a cult classic band. But Ray sings it in the lightest, nicest way possible, which somehow takes the sting out of it on the surface - which lets the sheer catchiness of the song come out - but makes it even more brutal on repeated listenings.

Damn. I love that song. And "A Well Respected Man." "Doing all the best things so conservatively..."

Anyway, listening to:

Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

They really didn't have their shit together at this point, but it still has some great songs, like "Losing Touch with My Mind" and the great cover of Glenn Campbell's "Mary Anne."

They played CCR's "Travelin' Band" and fucking "Ramble Tamble" on the radio in the cafeteria today. I mean, "Ramble Tamble"? You never hear that song! I think that is one hell of a good sign.

Albert Ayler . . . and one of my dogs howling along as if the world had cracked in half.

Two things today. The Cars, Candy-O. Perfect the whole way through. One of my top ten forever. The guitar sounds, production, songs, every bit of it brings me immense pleasure. Title track is my favorite summer song. Then one other song. Gone dancing by the Kinks. Cheesy but makes me smile every time.

Sunroof!'s Bliss and the street sounds from outside.

Doors opening and closing in the hallway.

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