musikalia
(Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | | Posted: Apr 25, 2008 - 00:29 | |
Gah! Gotta agree with the others that this is awful! I'm surprised it made it past the LRC.
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scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA) | | Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 12:21 | |
This sounds like some crappy garage band. Make it stop.
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ScottFromWyoming
(Powell, Wyo.) | | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 19:27 | |
slartibart_O wrote:
From the George Jones pained expression school of singing - Dave Alvin!
why no Webb on RP?
 Phil Alvin. |
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evermovingtarget
(Not nearly as far north as some like to think (Toronto)) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 12:45 | |
After a string of nice songs, now this. Eclectic is good, but not at any cost...  |
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handyrae
(Zero Point Field) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 12:45 | |
kazuma wrote: It was the same pattern each time: it seemed okay for the first 2-3 songs, nothing special, but bearable. Then we'd all realize that they were going to keep playing the SAME 2-3 songs over and over and over, and it got REAL tedious.
Ahhh--but listening to only ONE of their songs isn't so bad. Kind of fun, actually. |
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slartibart_O
(nw corner in austin) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 12:44 | |
-relayer- wrote:It's like Webb Wilder with 1/2 the talent.  From the George Jones pained expression school of singing - Dave Alvin!
why no Webb on RP? |
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kazuma
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 11:32 | |
-relayer- wrote:It's like Webb Wilder with 1/2 the talent. Unbearable clunk-rock.
mig7 wrote:Waste of notes
twiggy wrote:Ugh.
I'm sorry to say that I have to agree. I had the excruciating misfortune to see these guys 3-4 times, opening for other bands, back in the mid-80s when they were reputedly "hot", and they were godawful every time. It was the same pattern each time: it seemed okay for the first 2-3 songs, nothing special, but bearable. Then we'd all realize that they were going to keep playing the SAME 2-3 songs over and over and over, and it got REAL tedious. My friends and I actually got into the habit of shouting "NO MORE!" in unison at the end of every song in the futile hope that we could get them to stop.
Obviously there are folks who saw them and felt otherwise, but I never saw the appeal and still don't. |
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-relayer-
(9500 ft ASL) | | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 08:23 | |
It's like Webb Wilder with 1/2 the talent. |
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dango
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earthbased
(Milwaukee, WI USA) | | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 08:23 | |
I remember seeing the Blasters when I was a young pup around '84. They rocked.
Look at how spread out the scores are...
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PopKombo
(Monrovia, CA) | | Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 13:50 | |
Having been in the L.A. club scene in the late seventies/early eighties I can testify that the Blasters are the real thing ... picture them in a dark, hot, dirty, gritty night club ... chankin' this stuff out at full volume ... sweat pouring down ... the stench of stale beer and cigarette smoke in the air ...
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Gorky
(Reading, UK) | | Posted: Apr 01, 2006 - 13:48 | |
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MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA) | | Posted: Feb 01, 2006 - 17:52 | |
Ugh! No likey! Perhaps if the song had some history for me it might work, but nooooo...
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mig7
(Minneapolis, MN) | | Posted: Jan 03, 2006 - 13:41 | |
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TheLoneIguana
(Central California) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2005 - 12:30 | |
Roverfish wrote:Rockabilly Zevon?
Good stuff!
I too was thinking that this could have easily been a Zevon song... |
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WordMariner
(Edgewater CO) | | Posted: Nov 20, 2005 - 21:07 | |
ssssssssssssssssssssssssSWEET!
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jerseygirl
| | Posted: Oct 22, 2005 - 15:20 | |
fucking awesome musicians!!!!!! great song.
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stevo_b
(A New Place.....) | | Posted: Oct 22, 2005 - 15:17 | |
radio theme is cooking this eve
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Roverfish
(Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting, please drive through!) | | Posted: Jul 25, 2005 - 21:57 | |
Rockabilly Zevon?
Good stuff!
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exposure
| | Posted: Jun 26, 2005 - 10:13 | |
Another classic by The Blasters & Dave Alvin!
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RobMagus
| | Posted: Sep 22, 2004 - 20:04 | |
ScopArch wrote:
Your wish just came true, in reverse order!
It happened again! |
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ScopArch
(St. Johns' College High School 1972, D.C.) | | Posted: Aug 09, 2004 - 14:06 | |
trixie wrote:
I was thinking the exact same thing! I wish I was listening to that song instead. 
Your wish just came true, in reverse order! |
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trixie
| | Posted: Jul 21, 2004 - 19:13 | |
susafina wrote:This leaves me itching to hear Wall of Voodooâs âMexican Radioâ for some reason.
I was thinking the exact same thing! I wish I was listening to that song instead. |
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susafina
| | Posted: Jun 24, 2004 - 13:55 | |
This leaves me itching to hear Wall of Voodooâs âMexican Radioâ for some reason.
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Yashure
| | Posted: Jun 24, 2004 - 13:48 | |
When the Violent Femmes were talking about American music, this is what they meant - can't belive you didn't follow this with On a Mexican Radio (what does he say?)
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steeler
| | Posted: Jun 24, 2004 - 13:47 | |
Johng wrote:What a great band from the 80's. These guys put on great live shows, serious energy. They reunited for a live album called Troublebound a couple years ago, great stuff.
Agreed. Great live. Saw them at small club in Chicago, and it was one of the more raucous, yet intimate crowds I have ever been part of. |
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psycho_therapist
(Austin) | | Posted: May 15, 2004 - 22:17 | |
dairyman wrote:Thanks for playing what should have been, back in '81-82 a hit record if radio only was open to playing great records and not the same old pablum they played. This is such a great song, written by Dave Alvin. Only one FM rock station ever dared to play it back then, the great, late KVRE in Santa Rosa. They played this one up until they changed formats in 1989. I put this song on tapes my fitness center plays during circuit classes and people really respond to it. Keep on playing it. Oh, by the way there was a movie out way back when in the late eighties called Border Radio, with John Doe of X in it. Anyone see it?
No, but it made me very happy to see the Blasters and John Doe/X mentioned in the same paragraph. Thank you for the love.  |
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Cavedragon
(Portsmouth, NH) | | Posted: Feb 08, 2004 - 14:01 | |
Two Blasters songs in two days! I must have done something right, once!
Even caught a video on VH-1 Classic the other night! Now if only they'd play near me, I'd have it ALL!
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twiggy
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Dec 29, 2003 - 06:34 | |
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redeyespy
(W.P.B., FL) | | Posted: Nov 07, 2003 - 22:05 | |
NOW we're talking! One of the greatest of the rockabilly era.
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