Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Dream Baby Dream" - the Suicide song, not Roy Orbison - released 11/9/1979

Savages' version was the B side of their 2014 EP, "Fuckers"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, November 10th:

Patti Smith releases her debut album, "Horses"

 

[Angharad]

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[Angharad]

What a gorgeous song. Mimi's death was a tragedy. Fuck cancer.

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Cover Of The Day:



"My Generation", #2 (UK), The Who

Heh. Never got to play this one on 'QNA. Patti's barn-burning version was recorded at the Agora, Cleveland, January of '76, and first appeared as the B side of "Gloria" two months later.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History:

November 11th, 1965: The Velvet Underground play their first gig: The Summit High School Dance, in Summit, NJ

No footage or recording of that event exists. Oh, well.

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Cover Of The Day:



"Rockin' In The Free World", #2 Mainstream Rock, 11/11/1989, Neil Young

David Byrne performed it at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, OR, 4/29/1992, and released it as a B side on one of several editions of "Hanging Upside Down"

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History:

November 12th, 1936: Mort Shuman, b. Brooklyn, NY.

With Doc Pomus, Shuman wrote "A Teenager In Love", "Viva Las Vegas", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "Sweets For My Sweet", "This Magic Moment", "Little Sister", "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Marie's The Name (Of His Latest Flame)", "Lonely Avenue", "There Must Be A Better World", "You Just Keep Holding On", and dozens of others.

[Snagg]

Here's an oldie:



"Happy", from the sessions for Robin Trower's third album, "For Earth Below", but didn't make the final cut, and sat in the vaults until the 50th-anniversary release box set that came out earlier this year.