FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #28: No More Mr. & Mrs. Nice Guy & Gal
WARREN ZEVON “Werewolves Of London” b/w “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” (Asylum Records #45472, April 1978)
A key feature in my hometown Sunday paper was a little syndicated column that published the lyrics and musical accompaniment to a current popular song. I clipped it every week, even if it was a song I didn’t necessarily like (the ability to take requests always comes in handy, right?), and kept a little musical scrapbook. One week in ’78, the featured tune […]
New Release of the Week 3/17/09: Les Claypool
Listening to a Les Claypool album is like getting high without the drugs. The former bass player for Primus (who scored a hit with “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver”) has a playing, performing and singing style that can charitably be called “weird”. After a three year absence, Claypool is back with “Of Fungi & Foe”, the most high-profile in a quiet week for new releases.
(and see, this is what I don’t get. Take Kelly Clarkson and […]