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:



"Jump Into The Fire", #27 Pop, 4/29/1972 (Nilsson)

Cheap Trick, who, to their credit, have never lost their bar-band love of playing rocked-up covers, let rip with this tear through Harry Nilsson's 5th-biggest hit, recorded at Trickfest 3, 1999, in their hometown of Rockford, IL 
Originally released on "Bun E's Basement Bootleg, Vol. 4: Covers", (long sold out on Cheap Trick's website,) it's still available on streaming services and YouTube. 

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, April 30th, 1982: Lester Bangs, in my opinion the best rock critic who ever lived, goes to the Great Romilar Factory In The Sky.



Check out some of his stuff online, or dig up a copy of the posthumous collection of his writings, "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung".

Lester was at that rare level of critics whose reviews were frequently better than the album or performance they were reviewing - better written, better thought-out, smarter, funnier, and, most important of all, expecting the reader to hold themselves to a higher standard than the one held by the artist being written about. (Coming from a background of listening to serious jazz artists who went through hell to make great art, Lester had enormous contempt for pompous, lazy, ""I-Can-Get-Away-With-It" rock stars - professional entertainers who regarded the average fan as little more than members of an unthinking herd of consumers....and music critics as free publicists)

Ever seen the movie "Almost Famous" ? Philip Seymour Hoffman was playing Lester...

[Snagg]

Speaking of rock critics with some actual musical ability of their own...

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom Wine", #1 Pop, 4/30/1955, by Perez Prado and His Orchestra

Wonderfully uncool, nerdy cover, by the uncoolest, nerdiest band ever, Brave Combo, from their 2004 album, "Let's Kiss"...

...because, as was explained earlier, nothing is cooler than not giving a damn about how uncool you are.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 1st, 1924:

Mabel Louise Smith, AKA Big Maybelle, b. Jackson, TN.



Sound familiar ? It should, because Jerry Lee Lewis stole it from Big Maybelle, and never gave her the credit. 

[Angharad]

Tbh, I prefer Big Maybelle's version.

[Snagg]

"Blarf" is the musical side-project of comedian Eric Andre...

but this ain't no joke.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/film-scores-for-films-that-dont-exis...

[Angharad]

I'm gonna need a movie filmed to this soundtrack.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"%1st Anniversary"; the B of Jimi Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe", released May 1st, 1967, in the UK

How Venezuelan band The Love Depression came to learn it, and put out a cover of it on their one and only album, 1968, is anybody's guess. Music can have a pretty weird ways of reaching people.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, May 2nd, 1991: REM's "Losing My Religion" is banned from radio airplay in Ireland.

Which is at least one reason that this crowd greets the song so happily.

[Snagg]