OT: The Music Thread: Part X

[Orr Fourever]

 

[jgatie]

It's a shame nothing followed after Ray,

Evan Dando may be the most "handed fame on a silver platter and still screwed it up" rock star to ever come out of Boston (and there have been a lot of those).

 

[GordonHowe]

Evan Dando may be the most "handed fame on a silver platter and still screwed it up" rock star to ever come out of Boston (and there have been a lot of those).

What happened, in your opinion?

 

[jgatie]

What happened, in your opinion?

Drugs, ego, and too much too soon.

 

[GordonHowe]

Drugs, ego, and too much too soon.

I see.

Who are the others you reference? No dirt, just asking.

 

[jgatie]

I see.

Who are the others you reference? No dirt, just asking.

The Neighborhoods, Del Fuegos, Bosstones, even Til Tuesday, anybody who had potential but sputtered.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[GordonHowe]

The Neighborhoods, Del Fuegos, Bosstones, even Til Tuesday, anybody who had potential but sputtered.

You wouldn't put Aimee in that category, would you?

Another excuse to post,





And BTW, what of



Remember WENN,

 

[jgatie]

You wouldn't put Aimee in that category, would you?

Another excuse to post,





And BTW, what of



Remember WENN,

Not particularly, but Til Tuesday's second effort certainly flatlined her career. Then again, she was never meant to be a pop star.

The Stompers were another that should have been huge. Damn drugs again.

 

[jgatie]

Remember WENN,

By the way, the opening song on this Doc is No Place Like Home by the incomparable Neighborhoods. Penned by Sir David Minehan.

 

[GordonHowe]

Not particularly, but Til Tuesday's second effort certainly flatlined her career. Then again, she was never meant to be a pop star.

The Stompers were another that should have been huge. Damn drugs again.

I considered Sal & his pals local favorites.

Wonder what he's up to these days.

"Sal's" Pizza, Place or Bar has a ring.

Any who (Isn't that the lamest? I love it), on to a favorite Detroit band,

The Romantics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I was aware of The Romantics by 1979, as local radio played this charmer,



(Clearly, Wally Palmer was a McCartney fan.)

My friends and I went to see them at the Punch & Judy Theater round the corner in Grosse Pointe Farms.

It was here I was smitten.

That is, with an errant Jimmy Marinos drum stick, which hit me in the head.

Bit like this,



Somehow, we ended up visiting the band's seamstress, who lived nearby. She was responsible for those leather duds (probably not the hot pink variety, though).

Alas and alack, their sophomore effort, National Breakout (1980, which I bought at the time) failed to register out of the gate,





The Romantics had one more in them, however.

A surprise mega hit in the glorious 1984 sun, when so much fun music burst into being,



I don't visit Memory Lane often, as the present is the place to be.

But the music -- it's always the music -- pulls me back on occasion,

 

[GordonHowe]

By the way, the opening song on this Doc is No Place Like Home by the incomparable Neighborhoods. Penned by Sir David Minehan.

I never did see the Neighborhoods.

Thanks for posting this. I'll give a listen.

 

[GordonHowe]

By the way, the opening song on this Doc is No Place Like Home by the incomparable Neighborhoods. Penned by Sir David Minehan.

I'm embarrassed to say I have never heard the Neighborhoods.

Great good fun, especially the drums.

Thanks again for posting.

 

[jgatie]

I'm embarrassed to say I have never heard the Neighborhoods.

Great good fun, especially the drums.

Thanks again for posting.

Obvious The Jam and Buzzcocks influence, with their pop-bent mod punk stylings.

 

[GordonHowe]

Obvious The Jam and Buzzcocks influence, with their pop-bent mod punk stylings.

From this



to this



to the last,

 

[RoccoF14]

Obvious The Jam and Buzzcocks influence, with their pop-bent mod punk stylings.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

If you were in your teens in the late 70s-Early 80s, I think every city north of the Mason Dixon probably had a local band or 2 that did the Jam/Buzzcocks thing... Escpecially if you had a college nearby with a radio station.

For me, it was WMSE. They're still going strong and I still stream them from time to time, to mix things up a bit. I especially like Buzz's Garage, but there's something for everybody on that station..

WMSE 91.7FM

Milwaukee School of Engineering's free-format radio station broadcasting in streaming MP3 and Windows Media and on 91.7FM.

wmse.org

 

[Blowfish]

Heard some beauties today on my ride into work this morning.

 

[Number8]

In honor of his first goal.

 

[Blowfish]

In honor of his first goal.

 

[Number8]

Nice!!!! Well played.