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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 328 Registered: 05-2005 |
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THEM? I HAD AN ALBUM YEARS AGo, about '91, also a band called The Doctor's Children. Very noce Richard Lloyd style guitars.. Help! | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 253 Registered: 03-2006 |
Actually I do...they were great, I thought...muscular, but jangly pop, produced by Todd Rundgren, I believe....what was that great line from that song, something like, "Girls that go for me, that's the kind I like"? | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 256 Registered: 03-2006 |
That was driving me crazy, so I googled it - the passage from that song, "Looking for Girls", goes like this: Looking for someone I can play with I don't care if she's skinny I don't care if she's fat As long as she goes for boys like me 'Cause I like them like that Not the GBs, but still...very amusing. Wonder whatever happened to them... Dr.'s Children...that wasn't that group that A.Partridge produced that covered "Spirit in the Sky" was it? Man, I know some geeky shit! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 264 Registered: 05-2005 |
I adore them! I was just looking at their albums last night! I have all five. I was going to start a thread about them too! I saw them live in Boston in 1990 and they were great. I tried to have a conversation with Moe Berg but I was too drunk and Irish and he could not understand me. I have one of his guitar picks somewhere. Love Junk is their debut and also their classic. It was produced by Todd Rundgren. Power pop in excelsis. | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I love the first 2 albums 'Lovejunk' and 'One Sided Story'. Mo Berg was a fantastic songwriter although I felt this was - to the uninitiated at least - camouflaged by the band's hard-edged sound. A wonderful sense of humour and irony - a la Fountains Of Wayne if you don't mind me saying, Padraig - they released a pretty decent Best Of late last year. "I know I'm not very articulate And I can't express myself innocuously" | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 266 Registered: 04-2005 |
I saw them live in San Francisco on a bill with the Proclaimers, of all people (1989, I'm guessing). The two bands had actually been added to the bill of the show I paid to see (fIREHOSE and Scrawl) because the venue TPOH/Proclaimers were supposed to play in burned down a day or two before. Ticket sales were so low for the two shows that they were able to combine them into one venue. I recall TPOH being loud and heavy in sort of a mainstream rock way, and not going over well with the crowd, which was more primed for raw punk-influenced music. People loved the Proclaimers though...and this was years before "500 Miles" became a hit in the U.S. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 274 Registered: 03-2006 |
what was that unusual verb the Proclaimers used? hunker...no, haver, right? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 295 Registered: 05-2005 |
haver is an old scottish word that means "talking crap" or ranting on about something. any variation on bullsh1tting really | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 279 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a lineup Kurt. What were fIREHOSE like live? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 280 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're thinking of Doctor and The Medics Hardin. I did not know that Andy Partridge produced them. I conned my brother into buying the Spirit In The Sky 12", but I think he sold it again. I should just have bought it myself. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 267 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig, fIREHOSE was great live--Watt and Hurley were just the most telepathic, powerful rhythm section imaginable--funky as hell when they wanted to be, rockin' the rest of the time. Ed from Ohio, the singer/guitarist, was no D. Boon and sometimes seemed like he was struggling to keep up with the rhythmic juggernaut, but he was good. The group was much stronger live than on record. I never had the good fortune to see the Minutemen, however, but I don't doubt the Minutemen were at least 10 times more powerful. One more thing--I'm not sure I've ever seen a performer as obviously beloved by the crowd as Mike Watt. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 287 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Watt playing with J. Mascis in Austin in 2001 and it was a great show. The Asheton brothers were also in the band at the time. They did a half hour of Stooges stuff with Watt on vocals. | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 15 Registered: 05-2005 |
The current edition of MOJO has a feature on 'Lovejunk' in the Buried Treasure section. Excellent article by Mat Snow with plenty of quotes from Todd Rundgren and Mo Berg. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 518 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'll have to read that, Pat...I pulled out Love Junk based on previous postings on this thread and it still sounds like a million bucks... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 463 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Pat, I'll look out for it. Just played it the other day. It's in my top 5 most played albums ever. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 521 Registered: 03-2006 |
Funny, when I first heard "I'm an Adult Now", I had to use my imagination to appreciate it. Now, "every word rings true and glows like burning coal"... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 142 Registered: 01-2005 |
Living in the northern suburbs of Detroit and being exposed to Canadian radio, TPOH was played over the radio a lot. "I'm an Adult Now" got a ton of airplay. Other north of the border acts getting a lot of airplay were Blue Rodeo, Cowboy Junkies, The Tragically Hip, Jane Siberry and Sloan. Some all female groups like cub and JALE were also favorites of mine back in the mid 90's. Michael "no relation to Randy" Bachman |