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Featuring Roxy saxophonist Andy MacKay

3.) by Mott the Hoople. (I like the Felix the Cat cartoon, too.)

bonus: I could have gone Woodstock but that would involve a story about Redd Volkaert, so instead, by The Passing Stones.
 
An "intelligent pop" album I really liked about 20 years ago and just recently rediscovered when I found it for available for download as mp3s. It still holds up and it's interesting to see that it's achieved a sort of "unknown classic" status. The entire album is highly recommended.

4.) Toy Matinee - Last Plane Out

I really loved Kevin Gilbert's Voice.
thanks for reminding me chronic.
 
As an acquaintance would say, with all due respect to George Harrison I think the combination of moving pictures and music predates even the Beatles. My Dad was recently talking about my Grandfather going from southern Saskatchewan to Regina to see Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie". A big trip on dirt roads during the early days of the "dirty 30s".

4.) is one make demonstrated on youtube) that played a song for one thin dime.
 
Let's have more blur:

6 blur -

7. Harry J All Stars - {bonus}
 
The link doesn't work but:


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What an unlucky start!
 

Love all the music you have all posted. Buk loved Shostakovich (and Mahler and Sibelius and Stravinsky and a lot of others) and I found this hair-raising performance of Shostakovich Symphony 10, Allegro, played by Gustavo Dudamel and his young Venezuelans...

Buk has a great poem about this piece, "2am" which I believe is uncollected.

2 a.m.

the time they used to run me out
of the West coast
bars
but now I am listening to
Shostakovich's Tenth
which has about everything
needed to keep you
going
against the dung
tide.
I've got to admit that I
cheat on the game, I
borrow strength from
various magic creatures of
the earth
such as
Dmitri
he's here now
and I marvel at his blaring
gut courage.

I, myself, have gotten
letters about my writings
from people who have
said--whether it is true
or not--that my crap
kept them from tossing
it in.
letters from jails,
madhouses,
people balancing at
the edge of the
dark.
but I never wrote to save
them,
I wrote to save my own
dumb
befuddled
ass.--
screaming and sometimes
laughing from the
slashing pits of
one hundred percent
zero--sometimes the
billions of mankind,
sometimes one person,
one thing,
one moment,
one anything, or
everything or not
enough,
or just your hands
hanging from your
arms,
or just an empty
vase or a
dead bird
or the relentless
drone of
nothingness.
(drink to that
last).

so now
Shostakovich's
Tenth,
2 a.m. closing
time
but not here
tonight,
Dmitri spins
it out
and I borrow from his
immense psyche,
I feel better and better
and better
listening to him,
he cures me onward,
each drink
finer,
my stupid wounds
closing,
the Tenth goes on
circling these
walls,
I owe this bastard,
I will never be able
to write him,
what a grand snail,
what a bloody
cockroach,
this boy,
this man,
this dead Russian,
the Tenth has finished
now
as I was writing,
oh,
I will sleep,
I will sleep now,
next to my wife
and our
seven
cats,
this is the way
it should be,
this is the flame
in the eye of the
vulture,
this is the purple
ocean of
glory,
this is so much
better than it
used to be,
that old
2 a.m.
shut out from
the mirror
and the 250
bottles of glass,
unused,
walking through
the alone
night,
murdered again.
once
more.

Just listened to this "piece" and re-read the poem.

Thank you, David.
 
Man, I think sometimes in those later poems Bukowski really shot himself in the foot with those 2 and 3 word lines. 2 a.m. is a good example. The short lines ruin a powerful work. When my eyes are ping ponging down the page the words get lost and I can miss some good stuff. That's my experience anyway.

I copied that and took out more than half of the line breaks and I think the poem is much more powerful. I would recommend trying that yourself, but not all of you share my mad rhythmic, superpoetic skills, so you'd probably just make it worse. ;)
 
mjp: I read the poem and didn't even notice any line breaks.

Then I read the poem after your comment and I got your point.

Then I put `the 10th` on, read the poem again and
I didn't notice your point anymore.

Suddenly words such as Dmitri became words by itself.
 
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mjp: I read the poem and didn't even notice any line breaks.

Then I read the poem after your comment and I got your point.

Then I put `the 10th` on, read the poem again and
I didn't notice your point anymore.

Suddenly words such as Dmitri became words by itself.
If it works for you it works for you. You're right, Dmitri is a word by itself. That's what I see as the problem. ;)

His best work is all rhythm, and the later two-word-lines forsake rhythm for some kind of staccato form. I prefer the groove of the longer lines.

They don't even have to be that long. The longest line in my remix was the first; "the time they used to run me out of the West coast bars." But the one, two and three word lines - I never warmed up to that.
 
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Oh My God - that's horrible. It sounds like a duet with Herman Munster.

Good song --- .

Imagine being a scrappy little punky band and Iggy records for the same multinational liquor conglomerate that you do, so someone in an office somewhere convinces (pays) him to sing on one of your tracks. You are overjoyed and tell all your friends, and then a couple of weeks later you get a CD with that on it.

I would be disappointed beyond words. And I swear on the baby JESUS right here and now before all of you that I would fight tooth and nail to prevent the fuckers from releasing it.

But I would probably lose, since, you know, Iggy already cashed the check.
 
heh heh, and he didn't even do it live.
Iggy just did his part alone in his studio and sent the file over the net.
O this brave new musical whirld.
 
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