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.

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Cover Of The Day:



"Stop Your Sobbing", released 10/2/1964, by the Kinks, on their debut album, ""The Kinks" ("titled "You Really Got Me" in the US)

Made famous 16 years later when the Pretenders covered it, it's funny that Rhoda Dakar very likely first heard their version of the song, in the middle of the ska revival that was blowing up in the UK - thereby combining the Kink's original with a totally-different musical trend from the same time, which is pretty much what she does on her entire "Version Girl" album, the source of this cover.

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Today, in Musical History, October 3rd, 1901: The first record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company, is incorporated, later merging with the Radio Corporation of America in 1929, to become RCA Victor.

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Cover Of The Day:



"The One I Love", # 2 Mainstream Rock, 10/3/1987 (R.E.M.)

Athens, GA artist Liz Durett recorded this 2 months after she was scheduled to perform it at a 2006 benefit concert for Athens community outreach and school funding; She couldn't make the original show, due to illness, but the charity let her do it when she felt better, and it was added to accompanying album, ""Finest Worksongs: Athens Bands Play The Music Of R.E.M."

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Today, in Musical History, October 4th, 2024: The Smile release their 3rd album, a collection of new songs along with odds & ends from their first two albums,"Cutouts"

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Cover Of The Day:



"Oh Well" (Peter Green) #2 UK, 10/4/1969, by Fleetwood Mac, when they were a down and dirty blues band

Big Country ripped through it in 1993, during sessions where they taped a bunch of cover songs to use while they were shopping around for a record label; some of the songs were released as b-sides, but eventually they were all compiled and put out in 2001, on the "Under Cover" collection

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Today, in Musical History, October 5th, 1973:

Dutch prog Band "Focus" appear on NBC's "The Midnight Special", having been invited after their song "Hocus Pocus" became something of a left-field hit.
 

Shortly after the band arrive at the studio and set up, the first of several insults and double-crosses take place; First, they discover that they will not be allowed to do a sound check, and they are abruptly informed that they only have 3 minutes to play a seven-minute song - Either cut the song in half, or piss off - take it or leave it.

Focus respond by blazing through the song at more than double speed, with the tempo increasing with every stanza - Playing it so fast, that they not only play the entire song, but squeeze in a an extra chorus:

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