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  • FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #5: Sex Duplex

    SNAKEFINGER  “The Spot” b/w “Smelly Tongues” (Ralph Records RR7805, 1978)

    “BUY OR DIE!!” screamed the 16th-of-a-page, black & white ad from the back pages of my beloved new issue of Crawdaddy.  Or was it Creem?  Circus?  Trouser Press!  Well who knows…time wipes that stuff out of your memory.  I do remember, after devouring a 3-page Burroughs interview, clipping the little coupon and sending a crisp dollar bill to Ralph Records in San Francisco.  For what exactly, I didn’t know.  But it arrived a few weeks later in a thick cardboard sleeve:  Buy Or Die #1 was Ralph’s first 4-song sampler, and it was pants-shittingly good.  But that’s a story for another time, when I grab it randomly from the big red cabinet.  In the meantime…

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  • Infatueighties: #84: “Emotional Rescue”

    The cover of The Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" 45.
    The cover of The Rolling Stones

    “Tonight and every night…I will be your knight in shining armor…coming to your emotional rescue…”

    The fact that Mick Jagger intoned these words in a drawl that made him sound like Lurch from “The Addams Family” notwithstanding, “Emotional Rescue” is a slinky, sexy, funky jam that, to me anyway, was one of the Rolling Stones’ last excellent musical moments. Only “Start Me Up”, “Waiting on a Friend” and the majestic “Out of Tears” have come close since.

    Yeah, the song is more or less a shameless ripoff of 1978’s “Miss You”, but a) it’s not like the Stones haven’t been ripping their catalog off for the past 30 years anyway and b) if they’re gonna rip a song off, at least it’s one of their five best all time songs. Jagger’s falsetto here is killer.

    In a Falsettometer column, I showed the Thermo-Vision version (say that 5 times fast) of the video. Here is the “normal” (or at least the less Thermo-visioned) version. It’s much easier on the eyes. It’s also a HELL of a lot shorter. They cut out an entire verse. Oh well. Enjoy.

  • Chart Chat 9/28/08: Kanye, Raphael Saadiq, David Archuleta & More!!

    Happy Sunday folks. We’ve just taken the first day off in recent MHW history, and I’m back, refreshed, and ready to do another Chart Chat column! YEAHHHHHHH!!!

    Overexcitement aside, here be this week’s charts. Courtesy of the fine folks at Billboard Magazine.

      Top 20 Singles

    #1) Whatever You Like-T.I.
    #2) So What-P!nk
    #3) Love Lockdown-Kanye West
    #4) Disturbia-Rihanna
    #5) Love Story-Taylor Swift
    #6) Paper Planes-M.I.A.
    #7) Closer-NeYo
    #8) Can’t Believe It- T Pain feat. Lil’ Wayne
    #9) Hot N Cold-Katy Perry
    #10) American Boy-Estelle feat. Kanye West
    #11) Forever-Chris Brown
    #12) Got Money- Lil Wayne feat. T-Pain
    #13) I’m Yours-Jason Mraz
    #14) Miss Independent- NeYo
    #15) Crush-David Archuleta
    #16) Viva La Vida-Coldplay
    #17-Dangerous-Akon feat. Kardinal Offishall
    #18) Better in Time-Leona Lewis
    #19) One Step at a Time-Jordin Sparks
    #20) In the Ayer- Flo Rida feat. will.i.am

      Top 20 Albums
    Darius Rucker. Photo by Master Sgt. Val Gempis.
    Darius Rucker. Photo by Master Sgt. Val Gempis.

    #1) Death Magnetic-Metallica
    #2) Year of the Gentleman-NeYo
    #3) Brass Knuckles-Nelly
    #4) Rock & Roll Jesus-Kid Rock
    #5) Learn to Live-Darius Rucker
    #6) The Recession-Young Jeezy
    #7) We Global-DJ Khaled
    #8) Black Butterfly-Buckcherry
    #9) Tha Carter III- Lil’ Wayne
    #10) L.A.X.-The Game
    #11) A Little Bit Longer-Jonas Brothers
    #12) All Hope is Gone-Slipknot
    #13) Mamma Mia Soundtrack-Various Artists
    #14) Good Girl Gone Bad-Rihanna
    #15) Love on the Inside-Sugarland
    #16) Overcome-All that Remains
    #17) Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends-Coldplay
    #18) Do You Know-Jessica Simpson
    #19) The Way I See It-Raphael Saadiq
    #20) Breakout-Miley Cyrus

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