Tuesday, February 25, 2014

KLEM FM


I'm sorry, is that cover art NSFW?

I still remember buying that LP -- it came wrapped in opaque blue plastic. 

"Out Of The Blue" is great idiom. 

26 comments:

Revenant said...

Hm, I've never heard that song before. Good stuff.

deborah said...

Not familiar with the song or band.

But if IIRC that one John and Yoko album sold in a plain brown wrapper.

chickelit said...

Deborah: Perhaps you knew them later: Avalon

deborah said...

No, still nothing :)

Unknown said...

More than this

testing

Unknown said...

You musta heard a song off of Avalon at some point, Deborah. ?!?

What about Slave to Love.

chickelit said...

Those are all great songs, April -- especially "More Than This"

deborah said...

No, neither of those, April. But I see that was in 1982, and I was in college and didn't listen to a lot of radio. The Cars made a big impression. I remember Devo, Rick James, etc. I'm sure I must have heard them at one time or other, but nothing stuck.

On the other hand, I see their first album came out in 1972, so there's probably a song somewhere along the line I'd recognize.

Per wiki, " Rolling Stone magazine ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its "The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time" list."

Anyway, I've seen the name occasionally and thought 'Roxy Music? Is that a record label or something?'

Unknown said...

I used to sit and listen to the entire Avalon album in the 1980's.

Thanks, Pollo. Great Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry post.

Deborah - we cannot abide! You must journey back in time and experience some Roxy Music. :)

deborah said...

I'm a'feared you had to be there, April. But one of these days I'll have to see if I recognize anything from the seventies. Or Music Wiz Guy could just post them for me :)

rcommal said...

Bryan Ferry

rcommal said...

Let's Stick Together, for example. For one.

rcommal said...

Always did like Roxy Music, its forebears and offshoots, at least enough.

rcommal said...

When Lady Gaga started getting her thang on a half decade or more ago now, I thought of 10, 000 Maniacs redoing a version of a song not theirs originally. And not just that. Anyway: http://youtu.be/PePl0e0YCRc

rcommal said...

Make no mistake: I'm not suggesting that I liked the 10,000 Maniacs version better than the Roxy Music one. However, the former might be more recognized.

As an aside, regarding the latter, I just found myself chuckling because I remembered thinking at a certain point in time how that song could be segued with Nazareth's "Love Hurts." Man o' day, it's something how shards of memory poke up amidst generalized nostalgia.

I thank you for that.

rcommal said...

http://youtu.be/iZhNW_jKrQY

rcommal said...

There are the obvious issues, but still, there are some fine moments herein:

http://youtu.be/3yAbOpiAKi8

chickelit said...

@rcommaL: I listened to a lot of music as a teen, including Roxy Music and Nazareth. My father was indifferent. My mother pretended not to care, but I remember her requesting to never ever play the song "Hair Of The Dog" when she was home. That was the only song ever that she expressed a negative opinion. I complied.

chickelit said...

Of course, these days, any parent would flip out over a song/lyrics like those in "Killing In The Name" unless of course they owned it themselves.

rcommal said...

"Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch."

I get that for the then of that, then.

chickelit said...

@rcommal: She experienced some family alcoholism and domestic violence growing up. "Hair Of The Dog" having an idiomatic meaning of course.

rcommal said...

And would I be correct in assuming that your mom was not listening to that herself at all (out of earshot or otherwise)? I'd bet much I am.

Contrast that situation to one I experienced, as a bystander, many years ago, and it made a huge impression on me, and not in the way that most music stories do.

I was shopping at the Hy-Vee on Eastern Avenue in Davenport, IA. There was a toddler-ish/pre-schooling little boy who was singing part of the refrain from Meredith Brooks' version of "Bitch." His mom kept saying, "Stop singing that." (I didn't append an ! there for a reason.) But eventually she either got too frustrated or too embarrassed [or maybe both] and just left.

Helluva thing.

As I said, it made an impression and I kept that in mind, going forward, at the time for the relevant times ahead.

rcommal said...

Eek: cross-post! No intent here to express disrespect, not a couple of comments ago and not now.

rcommal said...

My 1:01 was not in response to your 12:55. It was a continuation of my 12:35, which was in goodly part in response to your 12:15 and 12:18.

rcommal said...

Eh, dang.

chickelit said...

We're cool, L. Then and now.

Going to bed.

'Night :)