This jam comes from Richard Hell and the Voidoids‘ 1977 debut album of the same name, Blank Generation. Hell was a member of the Neon Boys and Television prior to fronting the Voidoids and is generally credited with inventing the safety pin fashion look.
Category: Music
What I’m Jamming To: May 19, 2011
One of my all time favorites from The Faces featuring Rod Stewart, more so for Stewart’s voice and incredible footballer’s hairdo and Ronnie Wood‘s guitar than the content of the lyrics. The Faces were formed in the summer of 1969 when Stewart and Wood replaced Small Faces’ vocalist Steve Marriott, joining existing members bassist Ronnie…
What I’m Jamming To: May 18, 2011
Jamming to some Matthew Sweet today. The title track from his 1991 album Girlfriend, this is probably Sweet’s most recognizable and commercially successful tune, earning him appearances on various late night television shows. The album peaked at 100 in the Billboard Top 200 and was influenced heavily by Sweet’s divorce. Robert Quine, who played on…
What I’m Jamming To: May 17, 2011
Not originally released in America, this is 1978’s “Another Girl, Another Planet” by the Only Ones, one of the early flag bearers of the power pop, new wave cross-over. This is one of the reasons I love YouTube; where else would this video possibly turn up?
What I’m Jamming To: May 16, 2011
Here’s a gem from 1978, the Australian power-pop quintet The Sports with “Who Listens to the Radio?” off of their album Don’t Throw Stones. Try not to clap your hands along to this one.
Steve Forbert: Music Video Superstar
It is no secret that I am both a Wikipedia and folk music junkie. I have spent many hours, probably days at this point, clicking from one Wiki link to another, just following a random flow of whatever information I find interesting. I look up everything from game shows to particle physics, unicycles to unicorns. These…
What I’m Jamming To: May 13, 2011
You ever hear someone’s voice and then either meet them or see them in a video and they look nothing like you pictured them? This is definitely one of those instances. The Sweat’s early 80’s power-pop hit “Why’d Ya Have To Lie?”.
What I’m Jamming To: May 11, 2011
And this is how you open your debut album and stay relevant 30+ years later. Much love to Elvis in this performance from November 8, 2007.
What I’m Jamming To: May 10, 2011
From the Kinks’ 1969 record Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) comes this fast, silly song about British Imperialism from the 19th into 20th century. Really great great concept album that received rave reviews from critics at the time but never reached higher than 105 on the Billboard charts. Arthur is the first…
What I’m Jamming To: May 4, 2011
Today’s jam? A little “Raspberry Beret” as performed by Warren Zevon and the Hindu Love Gods on Letterman, circa 1990. Love the ponytail.
Live From the Lehigh Valley 