Boby stuff (but not the usual drek)

[Steve]

manho said:

it's like you go to watch jonathan richman and he invites lucinda williams up on stage to sing dancing in a lesbian bar.

ruins the fucking concert, right?

Manho, you should retire from listening to music. Maybe you been in Dino-Land too long.

[Some king]

Or like if you go see Paul Weller and he plays down in the tube station at midnight for the first time in 25 years, but gets the cunt out of hard-fi to sing it.

Oh wait...that actually happened. Never mind.

[owen]

or if paul and ringo reform the beatles but get bryan adams to replace lennon.

or even worse, sting.

[dino]

or if you are to see the Oasis and that guy from Darkness start to sing Wonderwall

[Steve]

Usual drek. Bridgeport was mostly crap

[manho]

you can probably put boby's recent shite stuff down to him being out of shape physically. if you throw him in with the big guys from the 60s who are still performing regularly you can see that compared to paul, mick, pete and ray he has no physical energy. and he tries to get round it by growling and wheezing and making out it's "da blues" but really he's just fucked.

he'll never stop - and why should he? - but to do what he does you have to be all there physically. and he isn't.

[Steve]

Yeah good point. Mick is still in good shape, although Id argue he hasnt sang well live since 72 or so.

[Steve]

The weird thing is, boby sounded good for 2 lines on Big Girl and Til I Fell In LOve, but it may have actually not been good, it was just soooo different from the rest of the song it was hard to tell. There was obvious effort during those bits though.

[trex]

even if he was in better shape his voice would still suck. bob's paying the price for trying to get his voice to sound like an old blues man when he was in his 20's. you can get away with that much smoking when you're younger but when you get old you're fucked. bob will try to ignore the problem by singing shit like "you think im past my prime" and the dorks will lap it up but he's just kidding himself.

[bart]

Huge puff piece about the new boby movie in today's New York Times. Looks like the machinery is well lubricated:


www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07Haynes.html

"You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda. But since Todd Haynes’s film about Dylan is as much about Todd Haynes as it is about Dylan (or maybe even more); and since Haynes is a filmmaker who, in midcareer at age 46, is doing his best to take the experimental into the multiplex; and, further, since those who don’t like the film are likely to consider it a kind of gorgeous indulgence, a bizarre experiment, the temptation is to skip the ordinary narrative introduction and begin at the end, or very near the end, in this case in the last few days of filming, on the outskirts of Montreal, where, way in the back of a dark and cavernous and disused factory, there was a white glowing light, like something in a dream. We begin then with an image — an image that is all about, believe it or not, the relationship between Haynes and his film, between Dylan and Haynes, between the artist and the subject he is trying to portray."

[manho]

as the radio show enters its third (or is it the sixth ?) year and boby is running out of themes...

TTRH #176: The Letter R

1 R You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis
2 You R the World - The Pacifist Goons
3 R2D2 - Kraftwerk
4 R You Paying Me For This Shite - Boby
5 How Great Thou R(t) - God's Mate
6 R'll You need Is Love (it's not really an R but sue me, ok?) - The Beatles
7 Rmy bunk, Rmy chow, Rmy clothes, Rmy car, R! - Chuck BeRRy
8 Ok, I give up
9 - 25 A load of old country shite bearing no relation whatsoever to the letter R

[manho]

i know this thread is dedicated to boby stuff that isn't the usual drek but i couldn't let this one pass. did you all catch the latest 4th street? it's a classic. he's thrown the whole fucking works in: wolfman, upsinging, the phlegmy, the pathetic guitar solo, the flaccid rhythm, some new ridiculous stretching out of the words at the end of each verse effect...

this version gives shatner a run for his money.

here it is for any boby virgins out there:
www.sendspace.com/file/vwswap

[cripes]

I listen to every mp3 you post nick, but this is like when you smell a milk carton and it's gone sour and you say, 'hey, smell this--I think it's a bit off'. I'm gonna take your word for it.

I listened to a recent Big Girl Now and it made me really sad.

[owen]

stange new vocal gimmick. maybe he'll do a shatner vocal next.

[Poke]

He neutered It's All Over Now, Baby Blue the same way a few years ago. Snip a few beats here, insert them later in the verse - that'll do the trick, right?

Unfortunately Bob sprang this 4th St. arrangement on me in a live setting. When they started it up, I thought he was going to do some some kind of Anglican hymn.

[manho]

"some some kind of Anglican hymn"

could well be. the melody of that last phrase in every verse is certainly ripped off from somewhere. if i could only hear that mp3 a few times i'd nail the original, but unfortunately i binned it after one listen.

[Cat Stevens]

you can always download it again from your own link! LOL! www.sendspace.com/file/vwswap

[Some king]

I don't know which 4th street you posted, Nick, but the version he played for me in syracuse was splendid. One of the best things I've ever seen him do.

[manho]

i thought the same about the isle of wight at the time. i guess you have to be there.

[Steve]

he heh