[gmku]

Check it out: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/ar...ROES_ROCK.html

[dionysusundone]

Originally Posted by gmku

Check it out: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/ar...ROES_ROCK.html

Weird that I've never seen any of Lydia's pornography, considering.

I don't care about sales figures. I just like to figure out that it was all done in my best interest or yours.

Have you ever talked about the shape of someone's turds to someone? You know, the density, the different chromatic values and all that? It's better than staring at a wall.

[Toilet & Bowels]

interesting stuff, i never would have guessed the breeders had sold a million records

[fugazifan]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

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like, are people still talking about how fucking groundbreaking was alanis morissette's jagged little pill? did she get to ask to play the whole thing in concert, like slint were with spiderland?

well she released an all acoustic version of it ten years later, so i guess its kind of the same thing

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

well she released an all acoustic version of it ten years later, so i guess its kind of the same thing

what if she recorded this to try and replicate the success of that album, something she couldn't repeat ever again? like, wouldn't at least 5 or so million of the 20 million people who bought it for "ironic" and "you ought to know" be tempted to buy a different version of those songs?

why do you think they keep repackaging and reissuing and remastering the same top sellers every year?

[Rob Instigator]

the old shit still sells. people keep "rediscovering" led zeppelein and bowie (shudder) and pink floyd and SONIC YOUTH

[PAULYBEE2656]

i wonder how many the magik markers sold of feel the crayon...........

[Rob Instigator]

all 75 copies!

[gmku]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

the old shit still sells. people keep "rediscovering" led zeppelein and bowie (shudder) and pink floyd and SONIC YOUTH

Yeah, I filled out my Led Zep collection last fall. Those first five albums or so ROCK!!! And Pink Floyd--yeah, was never into in their time. In fact, I used to hate DSOTM with a passion. Now I have DSOTM, Meddle, and some others, and I love them to death.

It's all just music, man. It's all good, brother.

[gmku]

From "What the Sixties Had that the Eighties Don't" by Paul Williams in The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing:

"Rock & roll exists outside of time... . The kids who listen to the Doors' first album or the Beach Boys' Endless Summer as though these records were made this year have got it exactly right...

"...my idea of a timeless model of rock & roll as a whole would be an enormous jukebox with selections arranged in no particular order. Any time you look at it there's old stuff, new stuff, records you love and records you can't stand, current favourites and classics you've forgotten about, and lots and lots of things you've never heard before, some of which are sure to turn out to be wonderful, powerful, written and sung and recorded just for you. ....the music keeps playing regardless of history, in an order determined by serendipity and the whims of your head and heart.

"And if someone tries to sell you a program that tells you which songs are worth listening to and what order to play 'em in, don't buy it. Only the map you draw for yourself can possibly bring you home."

I love that passge. That says it all.

[Rob Instigator]

Taht jukebox is my dream. That pretty much dscribes my 7" collection. I ahve a lot of old stuff, newer stuff, stuff from bands I hate but whose song gives me nostalgia, since 7" singles are like $.25 at uised bookstores around here
you know I got all the pet shop boys singles. (ha ha!)

[gmku]

Are they playable? Or are they all scrunched up scratchy and shit?

[Rob Instigator]

I do not buy anything if it has a scratch on it. stuff that is scuffed, I take a very careful look at. I keep all my singles in paper sleeves and vinyl sleeves.
Ithe worst feeling in the world is finding a single you have wanted fo years (Rolling Stone's Waiting on a Friend, for example) and seeing it has a deep gouge, or is so scuffed up that you know it will have a repating scratchy scrape. That happened to me 3 times before the 4th time where I found a clean single of that song.

[Torn Curtain]

I'd be interested in knowing the Marquee Moon figure because Tom Verlaine said something like everyone namedropped Television but actually nearly no one bought their records.