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Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 24, 20112:28 am| 29 Comments

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Bowie’s a ponce.

Still on a Rolling Stones kick, myself. The bachelor party left, and they all seemed to be in one piece, so I guess I did my part. Here’s a song I love that was almost killed by movie hacks:

I won’t be pissy about the overuse of that in movies, because right now I’m too irritated by the fact that everyone is using Wolfmother’s Woman for their show. USA is killing it with Covert Affairs. Kind of honks me off because they have some great AOR, but no one listens to it. They just know the Woman bullshit. Where Eagles’s Have Been is as good as anything from the 70’s:

Blah blah blah. My head will hurt tomorrow.

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  1. 1.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 24, 2011 at 2:45 am

    Fuck both of you! It’s all about The Stooges, motherfuckers!

    Down On The Street

  2. 2.

    arguingwithsignposts

    June 24, 2011 at 2:48 am

    For the Wolfmother antidote, we must go to wichita.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 2:48 am

    Dude, the Stones are the poster boys for “Dead at 30, buried at 70.”

    Here’s a tighty-tight-McTight take on my favorite song of theirs, “The Last Time.”

    And, yes, youngsters, this video does date from the early 1930s.

    P.S.: RIP, Brian Jones.

  4. 4.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 24, 2011 at 2:51 am

    Search And Destroy

  5. 5.

    Chet

    June 24, 2011 at 2:55 am

    Quibbling, I know, but why does that YouTube link have a Brian Jones-era Stones picture accompanying a Mick Taylor-era track?

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 2:56 am

    @Cole:

    Blah blah blah. My head will hurt tomorrow.

    Won’t ours all?

    ETA: Er, striving for solidarity and sympathy, but suspecting that I’m not quite hitting the right note. Oh, wait, another Stones link: their “sensitive” side: “Sittin’ on a Fence.”

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 2:59 am

    @Chet:

    Um, because teh YouTube is not archivally correct?

  8. 8.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 24, 2011 at 3:00 am

    Cornershop

    Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III

  9. 9.

    Chet

    June 24, 2011 at 3:01 am

    @ Steeplejack:

    Um, because teh YouTube is not archivally correct?

    Everything I know is wrong.

  10. 10.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 24, 2011 at 3:03 am

    Slade

    Mama Weer All Crazee Now

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 3:06 am

    @Chet:

    Everything I know is wrong.

  12. 12.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 24, 2011 at 3:11 am

    T-Rex

    Children Of The Revolution

  13. 13.

    Yutsano

    June 24, 2011 at 3:16 am

    Everything I know is wrong.

    And thus the road to enlightenment starts.

  14. 14.

    freelancer

    June 24, 2011 at 3:18 am

    Cole, you absolutely owe it to yourself to listen to Marc Maron interviewing Jimmy Fallon. It’s hilarious to start, but then he follows with the best Dylan impression I’ve heard followed by the best Neil Young impression I’ve heard and somewhere in there are the best Bill Cosby and best Woody Allen I’ve ever heard. Too funny.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 3:33 am

    Still up, wallowing in the YouTube-ness, but going down soon.

    The Animals, “Shake.” They could have taken the Stones in a back-alley fight, except that Jagger’s reach was probably a foot longer than Eric Burdon’s. Bastards.

    Steep +8¼

  16. 16.

    Cliff in NH

    June 24, 2011 at 3:46 am

    @ yutsano, So, tell tried the new torch yet?

    you a boro guy?

    Is it a GTT?

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    June 24, 2011 at 3:50 am

    @Cliff in NH:

    WTF is the Torch?! Asked Yutsy last night, got no response. Bastard.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    June 24, 2011 at 3:51 am

    WTF is the Torch?!

    Hee. A Crackberry. And you asked me this morning FTR. But I kinda had a shit ton of stuff to take of before work so never got the chance to answer.

  19. 19.

    Cliff in NH

    June 24, 2011 at 4:08 am

    Ahh, Oh well, I thought it was something fun.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4d0HS08ds

  20. 20.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    June 24, 2011 at 4:09 am

    somehow these classic rock threads always lead me here

  21. 21.

    jamey

    June 24, 2011 at 6:44 am

    Bowie’s no ponce, JC. But I speak as one who was raised to believe in the Unholy Trinity: Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy. Stones’ ’68-’72 (Banquet to Exile) may be the greatest streak ever enjoyed by a band, but Bowie’s ’71-’79 is a close second (In addition to brilliant albums from Ziggy Stardust to Lodger the preternaturally prolific Bowie made Iggy’s “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life” happen).

    IMO: “As good as anything from the 70s” is awesome punchline material, possibly worthy of inclusion as a new category or site motto…

  22. 22.

    cleek

    June 24, 2011 at 7:21 am

    everyone is using Wolfmother’s Woman for their show

    and TV commercial.

    i guess their “Love Train” wore out its usefulness.

  23. 23.

    Bobby

    June 24, 2011 at 9:30 am

    John, I have never been a huge Stones fan. But I just finished reading Keith Richards “Life”. Now I can’t get enough of the Rolling Stones. Keith rocks.

  24. 24.

    different church-lady

    June 24, 2011 at 9:52 am

    “Ponce”… isn’t that a slur word used against explorers?

  25. 25.

    AliceBlue

    June 24, 2011 at 10:14 am

    A bachelor party? Did a nekkid woman jump out of a cake?

  26. 26.

    SBJules

    June 24, 2011 at 10:45 am

    I’ve been reading Keith Richards autobiography. I keep having to pull out old records(yes records) to play or go to U-tube to listen to songs.

  27. 27.

    forked tongue

    June 24, 2011 at 10:53 am

    IMO: “As good as anything from the 70s” is awesome punchline material, possibly worthy of inclusion as a new category or site motto…

    No, this is silly. There was a shit ton of great music in the 70s. The 60s may have peaked higher (Dylan/Stones/Velvet Underground/Classic Soul, say I–really don’t care about the Beatles), but as a whole that decade is way overrated. And nobody overrates the 80s, 90s or aughts because everybody knows they sucked. 70s-music-as-punching-bag is a dumb cliche as far past its sell-by date as Mick himself.

  28. 28.

    Gus

    June 24, 2011 at 11:42 am

    If you like Wolfmother, you should check out Radio Moscow. Sadly, it’s probably too late for anyone to see this post, but they rock like a more polished Blue Cheer.

  29. 29.

    TimmyB

    June 24, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    “Let It Bleed” is one of the best albums ever.

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