snuh ([info]snuh) wrote,
@ 2008-03-14 00:04:00
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survive the friday five

Today's Friday Fiver: LA's Punk patriarchs cover another seminal LA band, the song that arguably started country rock, B. B. King's cousin, Was (Not Was) bring out the freaks and Pharrell Williams with the tune you'll be hearing all summer long - at chu! May your weekend be better than Frosty's.


X: Soul Kitchen - 4.52MB

The Byrds: I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better - 3.82MB

Bukka White: Shake 'Em On Down - 2.79MB

Was (Not Was): (Return To The Valley Of) Out Come The Freaks - 7.02MB

N.E.R.D.: Everybody Nose - 3.46MB
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[info]substitute
2008-03-14 07:45 am UTC (link)
I love X, and their version of that song.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-14 08:00 am UTC (link)
I love how Exene screams, "I wouldn't want to stay here all night!". It's definitely one of those *time and place* songs, it brings me back to SoCal during the late 70s early 80s, when Punk took hold in California and how vibrant the burgeoning scene was. Billy Zoom is yet another overlooked guitarist.

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[info]substitute
2008-03-14 08:05 am UTC (link)
Exactly. I was there too, and the excitement is still there for me.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-14 08:21 am UTC (link)
One of the things that first comes to mind from those days - the early version of the Go-Go's. Before and after their set, they would grab guys out of the crowd and basically have extremely public sex with them, among other niceties. Those naughty, naughty girls!

I was lucky enough to catch most of the major Cali Punk acts back then, shows would be in places like The Scottish Rite Temple and The Lion's Club. It seemed every time I looked up The Dickies and The Alleycats were playing some dump. I wonder whatever happened to the Angry Samoans?

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[info]substitute
2008-03-14 08:51 am UTC (link)
Oh the early gogos. We got the clap! (clap clap)

I do remember that some at least of the Angry Samoans were math grad students or something. Maybe they are all professors now.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-14 09:07 am UTC (link)
The Go-Go thing was funny, since their record company marketed them as New Wave Barbie dolls. Didn't a movie about The Masque come out recently? I did a search and couldn't come up with anything, but I'm sure I read a LA Times review of it. I also did another search and came up with this, pretty funny: All about the Angry Samoans.

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[info]carless_sam
2008-03-14 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Hrm, good to start off Friday with some X. Thanks.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-14 05:39 pm UTC (link)
Isn't X great? Here's another good one, a Lead Belly cover.

X: Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - 3.13MB

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[info]carless_sam
2008-03-14 09:33 pm UTC (link)
I've been an X fan for years. I generally go in more for the local, NYC punk, but X has always come through for me.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-14 09:51 pm UTC (link)
I was lucky enough to live in New York when Punk began, then moved out west during the 70s and watched it start from scratch all over again, I was able to see all the big names on both coasts. Here's an X song that's pretty appropriate now.

X: The New World

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[info]poncif
2008-03-15 04:57 am UTC (link)
hey thanks for this! (i found you through substitute.)

sadly, i was stuck in utah, and in a sad little mormon girl body, when x was happening. but exene played slc on a solo tour (1992?) and she tagged in sharpie all down my friend's levi jacket. we were exultant.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-15 05:12 am UTC (link)
That's another reason I like X, all the people in the band are nice, which is pretty rare. Did you know that Exene used to be married to Viggo Mortensen? They had a son together. I bet your friend still has that jacket!

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[info]poncif
2008-03-15 05:18 am UTC (link)
Unless she sold it for drugs (which i doubt), you know it!

I still have yet to see a Knitters show. Bad me.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-15 05:51 am UTC (link)
I like their version of this X song.

X: The New World - 3.37MB

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[info]poncif
2008-03-15 06:02 am UTC (link)
it's got a nice shuffle to it... got little hands.

how are you uploading all this stuff?! krazy kids.

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[info]snuh
2008-03-15 06:16 am UTC (link)
It's all sent via fast carrier weasels on continuous shifts. Aint technology amazing?

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