Twisted Fact of the Day:

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

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Academia Quantieme Perpetual (WG)

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1978 Seamaster

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1970 Mungo Jerry: In the Summertime UK 45

1970 Beatles: The Long and Winding Road US 45

1970 Beatles: Let it Be US LP

1981 Smokey Robinson: Being with You UK 45

1987 Whitney Houston: Whitney UK LP

1987 Atlantic Starr: Always US 45

1992 Erasure : Abbaesque : UK single

1998 Simply Red : Blue : UK LP

Births

1940 Bobby Freeman (Do You Want to Dance)

1942 James Carr (You Can't Pour Water on a Drowning Man)

1949 Dennis Locorriere (Dr. Hook)

1954 Robert 'Bo' Donaldson (Billy Don't Be a Hero)

1968 Deneice Pearson (5 Star)

Deaths

1972 Clyde McPhatter (Drifters)

Miscellany

1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School. One of his school chums was Don Van Vliet Captain Beefheart)

1958 Four Preps debut on UK chart with Big Man. Group features bassist Ed Cobb, later with Piltdown Men and writer of Tainted Love

1969 Soul Bowl '69 takes place at Houston Astrodome, with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Staple Singers

1969 Mick Taylor officially joins Rolling Stones

1970 Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi hits UK chart

1970 Bread debut on US chart with Make it with You

1980 Film Roadie, featuring Meatloaf, Blondie and Roy Orbison, opens in US

1987 Motley Crew debut at No. 5 on US LP chart with Girls Girls Girls

1987 Lean On Me by Club Nouveaux becomes first US gold single of the year

1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1992 Law enforcement officials in Texas call for a ban on Ice-T's "Cop Killer" LP. Sales double on the West Coast and in Texas.

What’s in the CD player?

Pearl Jam – Vs.

All tracks by Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, and Vedder.

 

"Go" – 3:12

"Animal" – 2:49

"Daughter" – 3:55

"Glorified G" – 3:26

"Dissident" – 3:35

"W.M.A." – 5:59

"Blood" – 2:50

"Rearviewmirror" – 4:44

"Rats" – 4:15

"Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" – 3:15

"Leash" – 3:09

"Indifference" – 5:02

 

 

Review by Steve Huey

 

Pearl Jam took to superstardom like deer in headlights. Unsure of how to maintain their rigorous standards of integrity in the face of massive commercial success, the band took refuge in willful obscurity -- the title of their second album, Vs., did not appear anywhere in the packaging, and they refused to release any singles or videos. (Ironically, many fans then paid steep prices for import CD singles, a situation the band eventually rectified.) The eccentricities underline Pearl Jam's almost paranoid aversion to charges of hypocrisy or egotism -- but it also made sense to use the spotlight for progress. You could see that reasoning in their ensuing battle with Ticketmaster, and you could hear it in the record itself. Vs. is often Eddie Vedder at his most strident, both lyrically and vocally. It's less oblique than Ten in its topicality, and sometimes downright dogmatic; having the world's ear renders Vedder unable to resist a few simplistic potshots at favorite white-liberal targets. Yet a little self-righteousness is an acceptable price to pay for the passionate immediacy that permeates Vs. It's a much rawer, looser record than Ten, feeling like a live performance; Vedder practically screams himself hoarse on a few songs. The band consciously strives for spontaneity, admirably pushing itself into new territory -- some numbers are decidedly punky, and there are also a couple of acoustic-driven ballads, which are well suited to Vedder's sonorous low register. Sometimes, that spontaneity comes at the expense of Ten's marvelous craft -- a few songs here are just plain underdeveloped, with supporting frameworks that don't feel very sturdy. But, of everything that does work, the rockers are often frightening in their intensity, and the more reflective songs are mesmerizing. Vs. may not reach the majestic heights of Ten, but at least half the record stands with Pearl Jam's best work. 

Comic Of The Day

The Incredible Hulk#156

1968 Series - Marvel, October 1972, coverprice 0.20 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard Modern US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
Herb Trimpe (Pencils) Herb Trimpe (Inks)

Cover Feature: Hulk

Genre: superhero

Editor: Roy Thomas

Holocaust At the Heart of the Atom (Sequence 1 , 20 pages )

Feature Story: Hulk

Credits:
Archie Goodwin (Script), Herb Trimpe (Pencils), Sal Trapani (Inks), Artie Simek (Letters).

Character appearances:
GS: Jarella; V: Lord Visis, Krylar (I, D)

Genre: superhero

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Art 

George Grosz – The City

 

George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, Germany but changed his name in 1916 out of a romantic enthusiasm for America^[1] that originated in his early reading of the books of James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte and Karl May, and which he retained for the rest of his life.^[2] (His artist friend and collaborator Helmut Herzfeld changed his name to John Heartfield at the same time.)

In 1914 Grosz volunteered for military service; like many other artists, he embraced the first world war as "the war to end all wars", but he was quickly disillusioned and was given a discharge after hospitalization in 1915. In January 1917 he was drafted for service, but in May he was discharged as permanently unfit.^[3]

Grosz was arrested during the Spartakus uprising in January 1919, but escaped using fake identification documents; he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the same year. In 1921 Grosz was accused of insulting the army, which resulted in a 300 German Mark fine and the destruction of the collection Gott mit uns ("God with us"), a satire on German society. Grosz left the KPD in 1922 after having spent five months in Russia and meeting Lenin and Trotsky, because of his antagonism to any form of dictatorial authority.

In his drawings, usually in pen and ink which he sometimes developed further with watercolor, Grosz did much to create the image most have of Berlin and the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Corpulent businessmen, wounded soldiers, prostitutes, sex crimes and orgies were his great subjects. His draftsmanship was excellent although the works he is best known for adopt a deliberately crude form of caricature. His oeuvre includes a few absurdist works, such as "Remember Uncle August the Happy Inventor" which has buttons sewn on it (see it here), and also includes erotica, such as [1] these drawings in the World Museum of Erotic Art.

Bitterly anti-Nazi, Grosz left Germany in 1932 and was invited to teach at the Art Students League of New York in 1933, where he would teach intermittently until 1955. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1938. Although a softening of his style had been apparent since the late 1920s, Grosz's work turned toward a sentimental romanticism in America, a change generally seen as a decline.^[4]

He continued to exhibit regularly. He painted Cain, or Hitler in Hell (1944), showing the dead attacking Hitler in Hell, and in 1946 he published his autobiography, A Little Yes and a Big No. In the 1950s he opened a private art school at his home and also worked as Artist in Residence at the Des Moines Art Center. Grosz was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1954. Even though he had American citizenship, he resolved to return to Berlin in 1959 where he died on July 6 of that year from the effects of falling down a flight of stairs after a night of drinking.^[5]

In 1960, Grosz was the subject of the Oscar-nominated short film George Grosz' Interregnum.

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When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

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Golden Bridge (WG / WG)

My Watch of the Day

Incursore

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1965 Supremes: Back in My Arms Again US 45

1976 Wurzles: Combine Harvester UK 45

1982 Adam Ant: Goody Two Shoes UK 45

1993 UB 40 : (I Cant Help) Falling In Love With You : UK single

1993 2 Unlimited : No Limits : UK LP

Births

1939 Archie Bleyer (founder of Cadence label)

1941 Roy Harper (UK folk singer)

1942 Len Barry (1-2-3 and Like a Baby)

1943 Reg Presley (Troggs)

1951 Brad Delp (Boston)

1951 Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick)

1959 John Linnell (They Might Be Giants)

Deaths

1957 Jimmy Dorsey (bandleader)

Miscellany

1959 Chess release two LPs in US - Chuck Berry on Top and Go Bo Diddley

1965 Beatles awarded MBEs while filming Help. 'I didn't think you got MBEs for playing rock and roll,' says George Harrison

1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival awarded gold disc in the US for Mardi Gras LP

1972 Sometime in New York City LP released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, featuring Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

1972 The Sound Broadcasting Act, providing for 21 commercial stations, passed in the UK

1978 Sales of Abba - The Album pass one million in the UK

1982 Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Gary 'US' Bonds and others play to 450,000 at a rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park, New York

1989 The Elvis Presley Autoland Museum opens atGraceland. The museum contains over 20 cars which were owned by Presley.

Happy Birthday to one of my all time favorite drummers, Bun E. Carlos.

What’s in the CD player?

Love and Rockets - Express

 

2001 CD Reissue

 

"It Could Be Sunshine" – 4:59

"Kundalini Express" – 5:52

"All in My Mind" – 4:43

"Life in Laralay" – 3:31

"Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" – 5:56

"Love Me" – 3:54

"All in My Mind (acoustic)" – 5:08

"An American Dream" – 6:09

"Angels and Devils" – 6:10

"Holiday on the Moon" – 6:07

"Lucifer Sam" (Originally by Pink Floyd) – 3:21

"B Side #1" – 1:16

"B Side #2" – 1:31

"Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man) (Remix)" – 5:29

"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) (USA Mix)" (Originally by The Temptations) – 6:18

 

 

Review by Jonathan Ball

 

Rich in sonic detail, the neo-psychedelic Express offers a listening experience like no other album -- guitars spiral to dizzying heights from beds of sound, arrangements swirl, songs change and mutate. "Kundalini Express" typifies Love and Rockets' approach, chugging along for several verses before breaking open and ascending into the heavens; Anglo-fied Eastern religious imagery and philosophy predominate lyrically, and in tandem with the psychedelic music, offer an almost quasi-religious experience. John A. Rivers (who also co-produced Love and Rockets' first album) outdoes himself with the sound on this disc, offering a huge, unique canvas for the band to paint its sound on: crystalline acoustic guitars cut through thick, distorted tones, and the bass is an equal player to the guitars and drums. "Yin and Yang the Flower Pot Man" is ecstatically upbeat, offering a propulsive rhythm, flailing guitars, and insistent bass -- a compulsively danceable and bliss-inducing track. "An American Dream," meanwhile, is an anthem of sorts, with distinct sections setting apart the moods of hope, disillusionment, and acceptance. 

Comic Of The Day

Thor #196

1966 Series - Marvel, Feb 1972, coverprice 0.20 , 36 ? pages.
Format: Color; Standard Modern US; Saddle-stitched; monthly series

Kartag...the Keeper!

Cover Credits:
? (Script) John Buscema (Pencils) Frank Giacoia (Inks) ? (Colors) ? (Letters)

Cover Feature: Thor

Genre: superhero

Indexer notes:
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (19 December 2006)

Editor: Stan Lee

Within the Realm of Kartag! (Sequence 1 - story , 21 pages )

Feature Story: Thor

Credits:
Gerry Conway (Script), John Buscema (Pencils), Vince Colletta (Inks), ? (Colors), John Costanza (Letters). 

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Keith Haring – Untitled

 

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s.

He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. From 1976 to 1978 he studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh. Keith moved to New York City where he was greatly inspired by the graffiti art, and additionally studied at the School of Visual Arts. Many of his works as a graffiti/pop artist show homoerotic themes.

He achieved his first public attention with his chalk drawings in the subways of New York (see public art). The exhibitions were put on film by the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. At this time, "The Radiant Baby" also became his symbol. Starting in 1980, he organized exhibitions in Club 57. He participated in the Times Square exhibition and drew for the first time animals and human faces. In 1981 he sketched his first chalk drawings on black paper and painted plastic, metal and found objects.

He contributed in the New York New Wave display. He met with the graffiti artist L.A. II (Angel Oritz). Following that, he had his first exclusive exhibition in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. That same year, Haring took part of Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. He took part in the Whitney Biennial in 1983, as well as the São Paulo Biennial. He got to know Andy Warhol; Warhol was also the theme of several of Keith Haring's pieces including "Andy Mouse".

In 1984, he painted wall murals in Melbourne (such as the 1984 'Detail-Mural at Collingwood College, Victoria' that is unfortunately due for demolition), Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Paris (Museum of Modern Art), Minneapolis and Manhattan. In 1985 he began to paint canvas. Simultaneously, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux opened an exhibition of his works, and he took part in the Paris Biennial. He made an appearance on MTV in November of 1985, painting the set during a "guest VJ" special hosted by his friend, keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.^[1]

In 1986 Haring painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and in Berlin on the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie. He painted the body of Grace Jones for her video "I'm Not Perfect." He had his own exhibitions in 1987 in Helsinki and Antwerp, among others. Haring's imagery has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century. The Keith Haring Foundation, established in 1989, continues Keith's legacy of giving to children's organizations.

In June 1989, on the rear wall of the convent of the Church of Sant'Antonio in Pisa, he painted the last public work of his life, the mural "Tuttomondo".

Keith Haring died in 1990 of an HIV (AIDS)-related disease. He had been diagnosed HIV positive two years earlier.

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Twisted Fact of the Day:

Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.

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Monaco Automatic Chronograph (SS / Blue / SS) “Steve McQueen”

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Monaco

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1966 Rolling Stones: Paint it Black US 45

1969 Beatles: Ballad of John and Yoko UK 45

1977 KC and the Sunshine Band: I'm Your Boogie Man US 45

1994 Ace of Base : The Sign : US LP

Births

1940 Joey Dee (Peppermint Twist)

1946 John Lawton (Uriah Heep)

1949 Frank Beard (Z.Z. Top)

1951 Lynsey De Paul (Sugar Me)

1965 Joey Santiago (The Pixies)

Miscellany

1958 Eddie Cochran releases Summertime Blues in US

1964 John Lee Hooker debuts on UK chart with Dimples

1966 Confusing reports of a minor accident involving Pete Townshend, continental radio stations report the death of Roger Daltrey

1968 Fire breaks out at Olympic Studios while Rolling Stones are recording Beggar's Banquet

1970 American tour planned for Ginger Baker's Airforce cancelled eight days before it is due to begin. Only 3,000 tickets have been sold

1977 Bob Marley's Exodus hits UK LP chart

1983 George Benson's In Your Eyes hits UK LP chart

1988 Tracy Chapman and Ziggy Marley debut on UK chart with Fast Car and Tomorrow People

1988 Whitney Houston, Dire Straits, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder and many others appear at Wembley Stadium for the 'Nelson Mandela 70th birthday party'

1993 "What's Love Got To Do With It", the film biography of Ike and Tina Turner, opens nationally in America.

What’s in the CD player?

The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

LP release

"Sympathy for the Devil" – 6:27

Keith Richards on bass, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jimmy Miller on backing vocals, Rocky Dijon, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts on [percussion]]

"No Expectations" – 4:02

Brian Jones on slide guitar, Nicky Hopkins on piano

"Dear Doctor" – 3:26

Brian Jones or Dave Mason on harmonica

"Parachute Woman" – 2:23

Brian Jones first harmonica solo, Mick Jagger second harmonica solo

"Jigsaw Puzzle" – 6:17

Nicky Hopkins on piano, Keith Richards on slide guitar, Bill Wyman on bass

"Street Fighting Man" – 3:18

Dave Mason on shehani, Keith Richards on bass, Brian Jones on sitar and tambura

"Prodigal Son" (Rev. Robert Wilkins) – 2:55

Brian Jones on harmonica

"Stray Cat Blues" – 4:40

"Factory Girl" – 2:12

The mandolin is a Mellotron MKII on the mandolin setting. The player is unknown, although Dave Mason has been credited for it.

"Salt of the Earth" – 4:51

First verse sung by Keith Richards

Review by Richie Unterberger

The Stones forsook psychedelic experimentation to return to their blues roots on this celebrated album, which was immediately acclaimed as one of their landmark achievements. A strong acoustic Delta blues flavor colors much of the material, particularly "Salt of the Earth" and "No Expectations," which features some beautiful slide guitar work. Basic rock & roll was not forgotten, however: "Street Fighting Man," a reflection of the political turbulence of 1968, was one of their most innovative singles, and "Sympathy for the Devil," with its fire-dancing guitar licks, leering Jagger vocals, African rhythms, and explicitly satanic lyrics, was an image-defining epic. On "Stray Cat Blues," Jagger and crew began to explore the kind of decadent sexual sleaze that they would take to the point of self-parody by the mid-'70s. At the time, though, the approach was still fresh, and the lyrical bite of most of the material ensured Beggars Banquet's place as one of the top blues-based rock records of all time.

[The Rolling Stones' London/ABKCO catalog was reissued in August of 2002, packaged in digipacks with restored album artwork, remastered, and released as hybrid discs that contain both CD and Super Audio CD layers. The remastering -- performed with Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding -- is a drastic improvement, leaping out of the speaker yet still sounding like the original albums. This is noticeable on the standard CD layer but is considerably more pronounced on the SACD layer, which is shockingly realistic in its detail and presence yet is still faithful to the original mixes; Richards' revved-up acoustic guitar on "Street Fighting Man" still sends the machine into overdrive, for instance. It just sounds like he's in the room with you. Even if you've never considered yourself an audiophile, have never heard the differences between standard and gold-plated CDs, you will hear the difference with SACD, even on a cheap stereo system without a high-end amplifier or speakers. And you won't just hear the difference, you'll be an instant convert and wish, hope, and pray that other artists whose catalog hasn't been reissued since the early days of CD -- Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, especially the Beatles -- are given the same treatment in the very near future. SACD and DSD are that good.]

Comic Of The Day

Sub-Mariner #16

1968 Series - Marvel, August 1969, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard Silver Age US; saddle-stitched; Newsprint; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
Marie Severin (Pencils) Frank Giacoia (Inks)

Cover Feature: Sub-Mariner
Genre: superhero
Editor: Stan Lee

The Sea That Time Forgot (Sequence 1 - story , 20 pages )

Feature Story: Sub-Mariner

Credits:
Roy Thomas (Script), Marie Severin (Pencils), Mike Esposito (Joe Gaudioso) (Inks), Marie Severin (Colors), Artie Simek (Letters).

Character appearances:
V: Tiger Shark, People of the Mist (I; most D)

Genre: superhero

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Food

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Lewis Hamilton on his way to victory as he wins his first Grand Prix in Canada.

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A wild race in which only 12 of the 22 starting cars finished. Also had a horrific crash by Robert Kubica who survived this carnage.

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Rocio Guirao Diaz

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Francis Bacon - Oedipus and the Sphinx After Ingres

 

1983
Oil on canvas
78 x 58 in. (198 x 147.5 cm)

 

Bacon, Francis 1909-92, English painter; b. Ireland. Self-taught, he expressed the satirical, horrifying, and hallucinatory in such works as Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944; Tate Gall., London).

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Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.

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PanomaticLunar (Steel / Blue / Leather)

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SUB750T Professional COSC

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1965 Beatles: Beatles VI US LP

1967 Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band UK LP

1972 Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street UK LP

1972 Sammy Davis Jr: Candy Man US 45

1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John: You're the One that I Want US 45

1989 Jason Donovan: Sealed with a Kiss UK 45

1989 Bette Midler: Wind Beneath My Wings US 45

1995 Pink Floyd : Pulse : UK LP

Births

1910 Howlin' Wolf (blues performer)

1941 Shirley Aston (Shirelles)

1946 Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum)

1961 Mark Shaw (Then Jerico)

1967 Human Breathbox (Darren Robinson) (Fat Boys)

1967 Jimmy Chamberlain (formerly of Smashing Pumpkins)

1967 Faith Evans

Miscellany

1964 Rolling Stones visit Chess Studios for the first time, recording It's All Over Now among others

1964 Beatles' Hard Day's Night LP and single released in US

1966 Rain by Beatles (flip of Paperback Writer), the first record to use backward tapes, released

1966 Janis Joplin plays for the first time with Big Brother and the Holding Company, at Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco

1967 15,000 people gather at Mt Tamalpais in California for the Magic Mountain Music Festival, where performers include Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Smokey Robinson and Byrds. The first event of its kind, it is a prototype for Monterey the following week.

What’s in the CD player?

Cracker – Kerosene Hat

 

1. "Low" 4:36

2. "Movie Star" 3:33

3. "Get Off This" 4:26

4. "Kerosene Hat" 5:36

5. "Take Me Down To The Infirmary" 4:05

6. "Nostalgia" 3:34

7. "Sweet Potato" 3:16

8. "Sick Of Goodbyes" 3:10

9. "I Want Everything" 5:53

10. "Lonesome Johnny Blues" 2:48

11. "Let's Go For A Ride" 3:08

12. "Loser" 6:11

15. "Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab" 0:41

69. "Eurotrash Girl" 8:04

88. "I Ride My Bike" 6:34

99. "Kerosene Hat" (Out Take) 1:23

Note:

Tracks 13 and 14, 16 to 68, 70 to 87 and 89 to 98 are hidden/blank tracks of 4, 5 or 6 seconds of silence. Tracks 69 and 88 were previously included on the "Tucson" EP.

 

 

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

 

With their second album Cracker have lost the smarmy self-righteousness that plagued their otherwise fine debut, replacing it with a surprisingly solid, rocking core. Kerosene Hat is David Lowery's least affected album yet -- its humor is no stranger than "Dead Flowers" by the Stones or "Fat Man in a Bathtub" by Little Feat, two groups that Cracker strongly recall throughout the album. Kerosene Hat is more blues- and country-based than their debut, but it sounds natural, since their songwriting has improved and they've grown tighter as a unit. 

Comic Of The Day

Fantastic Four #84

1961 Series - Marvel, March 1969, coverprice 0.12
Format: Color; Standard Newsprint; Saddle-stitched; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
Jack Kirby (Pencils) Joe Sinnott (Inks)

Cover Feature: Fantastic Four

Genre: superhero

Editor: Stan Lee

The Name is Doom (Sequence 1 - story , 20 pages )

Feature Story: Fantastic Four

Credits:
Stan Lee (Script), Jack Kirby (Pencils), Joe Sinnott (Inks), Sam Rosen (Letters).

Reprinted: rep. in Marvel's Greatest Comics 66 (edited).

Genre: superhero

Indexer notes:
vs. Dr. Doom. Con't until #87.

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Fernand Léger -  The Parade

 

Leger, Fernand: French painter. He was originally trained as an architect's draughtsman and photographic retoucher. Having failed the entrance exam to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1903, he studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and the Academie Julian. In 1909 he ranked as one of the three major Cubists and became a member of the Puteaux group in 1911. He was the first of the Cubists to experiment with non-figurative abstraction, contrasting curvilinear forms against a rectilinear grid.

He renounced abstraction during the First World War, when he claims to have discovered the beauty of common objects, which he described as 'everyday poetic images'. He began painting in a clean and precise style, in which objects are defined in their simplest terms in bold colours, taking cityscape and machine parts as his subject matter. In 1924 he made a 'film without scenario', Ballet Mecanique, in which he contrasted machines and inanimate objects with humans and their body parts.

During the Second World War, Leger lived in the USA where he taught at Yale, returning to Paris in 1945, when he opened an academy. His large paintings celebrating the people, featuring acrobats, cyclists and builders, thickly contoured and painted in clear, flat colours, reflected his political interest in the working class, and his attempt to create accessible art. From 1946 to 1949 he worked on a mosaic for the facade of the church at Assy, produced windows and tapestries for the church at Ardincourt in 1951, as well as windows for the University of Caracas in 1954. In 1950 he founded a ceramics studio at Biot, which, in 1957, became the Leger Museum. In 1967 it became a national museum. Leger was one of the giants of French painting this century, whose influence has been almost as great as his reputation.

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Twisted Fact of the Day:

Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.

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Michelangelo Gigante (RG / Black / Leather)

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Khaki Active

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1958 Sheb Wooley: Purple People Eater US 45

1979 Bee Gees: Love You Inside Out US 45

1984 Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time US 45

1990 New Order: World in Motion UK single

1990 Wilson Phillips : Hold On : US single

Births

1916 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) guitarist

1934 Jackie Wilson (Reet Petite)

1941 John Lord (Deep Purple)

1941 Billy Hatton (Fourmost)

1946 John 'Mitch' Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

1953 Errol Kennedy (Imagination)

1962 Eddie Lundon (China Crisis)

1967 Dean Felber (Hootie & The Blowfish)

1967 Dean Dinning (Toad The Wet Sprocket)

Miscellany

1954 Robins: Riot on Cell Block No. 9 released in US

1957 Skiffle Sensations of '57 show, starring Lonnie Donegan, takes place at Royal Albert Hall

1960 Bing Crosby awarded first-ever platinum disc for selling 200 million records

1962 Beatles have 'Welcome Home' night at Cavern Club in Liverpool after returning from Star Club in Hamburg

1966 Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep Mountain High hits UK chart

1970 Bob Dylan awarded honorary Doctorate of Music by Princeton University

1972 Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust LP by David Bowie released

1972 John Hammond signs Bruce Springsteen to Columbia

What’s in the CD player?

John Spencer Blues Explosion – Extra Width

 

"Afro"

"History Of Lies"

"Back Slider"

"Soul Letter"

"Soul Typecast"

"Pant Leg"

"Hey Mom"

"Big Road"

"Train #2"

"Inside The World Of The Blues Explosion"

"The World Of Sex"

 

Review by John Dougan

 

Extra Width is a crankin' piece of bluesoid ranting, with Jon Spencer working up one hysterical performance after another. "Afro" sounds like an old Curtis Mayfield track. Similarly, "Soul Letter" is a hefty chunk of riff-muck, as is the noisy bliss of "Soul Typecast." The playing is energetic and unhinged, and Spencer drives the engine with his whoopin' and hollerin'. Plenty of noticeably '70s production techniques add to the atmosphere, contributing significantly to what may be Spencer's best record.

Comic Of The Day

Captain America #140

1968 Series - Marvel, August 1971, coverprice 0.15 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
John Romita (Pencils) John Romita (Inks)

Cover Feature: Captain America and the Falcon

Genre: superhero

Editor: Stan Lee

In the Grip of the Gargoyle (Sequence 1 - story , 19 pages )

Feature Story: Captain America and the Falcon

Credits:
Stan Lee (Script), John Romita (Pencils), George Roussos (Inks), Artie Simek (Letters).

Genre: superhero

Indexer notes:
GS: Nick Fury; V: Grey Gargoyle

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Lauda in the Ferrari about 1976

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Art

Marcel Janco

 

Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895 - April 21, 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli artist, painter and architect.

 

Janco was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest.

A friend and compatriot of Tristan Tzara, he was among the founders of the Dadaist movement at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. In 1922 he returned to Romania and worked as an architect and painter until 1941 when, in face of growing anti-semitism during World War II (see Romania during World War II), he emigrated to the Land of Israel.

In 1953 Janco established the now famous Ein Hod artist village. In the last years of his life he helped create a Dadaist museum that houses an impressive collection of Dadaist art. The museum is named for him, Janco Dada Museum.

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One percent of Greenland's population lives in one single apartment building, named Blok P.

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Villeret Minute Repeater (18kt WG / White / Leather)

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Sea Angler

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1967 Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale UK 45

1974 David Bowie: Diamond Dogs UK LP

1974 Wings: Band on the Run US 45

1985 Style Council: Our Favourite Shop UK LP

1985 Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World US 45

1991 Extreme: More than Words : US single

1991 Color Me Badd : I Wanna Sex You Up : UK single

Births

1940 Nancy Sinatra (These Boots Were Made for Walking)

1942 Chuck Negron (Three Dog Knight)

1944 Boz Scaggs (Lowdown)

1947 Mick Box (Uriah Heep)

1951 Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart)

1960 Mick Hucknell (Simply Red)

1962 Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)

1965 Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli)

1966 Doris Pearson (5 Star)

1967 Neil Mitchell (Wet Wet Wet)

Deaths

1967 Laverne Andrews (Andrews Sisters)

Miscellany

1955 Faron Young scores his first American country No. 1 with Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

1961 Elvis Presley's seventh film, Wild in the Country, opens in Memphis

1962 NME begins LP chart: 1. Blue Hawaii soundtrack 2. West Side Story soundtrack 3. I t's Trad Dad soundtrack 4. South Pacific soundtrack 5. The Young Ones Cliff Richard 1965 Bob Dylan records an hour-long show for BBC in London - broadcast in two half-hour segments, on 12 June and 24 June

1967 Aretha Franklin debuts on UK chart with Respect

1969 Brian Jones leaving Rolling Stones

1969 Oz 'School Kids' issue published

1974 Rick Wakeman leaves Yes to concentrate on a solo career. He rejoins two years later.

What’s in the CD player?

Alice In Chains - Dirt

 

"Them Bones" (Cantrell) – 2:30

"Dam That River" (Cantrell) – 3:09

"Rain When I Die" (Cantrell/Staley/Kinney/Starr) – 6:01

"Down in a Hole" (Cantrell) – 5:38

"Sickman" (Cantrell/Staley) – 5:29

"Rooster" (Cantrell) – 6:15

"Junkhead" (Cantrell/Staley) – 5:09

"Dirt" (Cantrell/Staley) – 5:16

"God Smack" (Cantrell/Staley) – 3:50

"Iron Gland" (unlisted) (Cantrell) – 0:43

"Hate to Feel" (Staley) – 5:16

"Angry Chair" (Staley) – 4:47

"Would?" (Cantrell) – 3:28

 

 

Review by Steve Huey

 

Dirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence -- nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. Cantrell's technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures. Staley's stark confessional lyrics are similarly effective, and consistently miserable. Sometimes he's just numb and apathetic, totally desensitized to the outside world; sometimes his self-justifications betray a shockingly casual amorality; his moments of self-recognition are permeated by despair and suicidal self-loathing. Even given its subject matter, Dirt is monstrously bleak, closely resembling the cracked, haunted landscape of its cover art. The album holds out little hope for its protagonists (aside from the much-needed survival story of "Rooster," a tribute to Cantrell's Vietnam-vet father), but in the end, it's redeemed by the honesty of its self-revelation and the sharp focus of its music. [Some versions of Dirt feature "Down in a Hole" as the next-to-last track rather than the fourth.] 

Comic Of The Day

The Amazing Spider-Man #122

1963 Series - Marvel, July 1973, coverprice 0.20 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard Modern US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
John Romita (Pencils) John Romita (Inks)

Cover Feature: Spider-Man

Character appearances:
vs Green Goblin

Genre: superhero

Editor: Roy Thomas

The Goblin's Last Stand (Sequence 1 - Story , 20 pages )

Feature Story: Spider-Man

Credits:
Gerry Conway (Script), Gil Kane (Pencils), John Romita, Tony Mortellaro (Inks),

Character appearances:
The Green Goblin

Reprinted: in Marvel Tales #99 & 192.

Genre: superhero

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Art 

J.M.W. Turner – Slaveship – 1840

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

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Turner, John Mallord William (1775-1851).

One of the finest landscape artists was J.M.W. Turner, whose work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. His entire life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London, England, on April 23, 1775. His father was a barber. His mother died when he was very young. The boy received little schooling. His father taught him how to read, but this was the extent of his education except for the study of art. By the age of 13 he was making drawings at home and exhibiting them in his father's shop window for sale.

 

Turner was 15 years old when he received a rare honor--one of his paintings was exhibited at the Royal Academy. By the time he was 18 he had his own studio. Before he was 20 print sellers were eagerly buying his drawings for reproduction.

He quickly achieved a fine reputation and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. In 1802, when he was only 27, Turner became a full member. He then began traveling widely in Europe.

 

Venice was the inspiration of some of Turner's finest work. Wherever he visited he studied the effects of sea and sky in every kind of weather. His early training had been as a topographic draftsman. With the years, however, he developed a painting technique all his own. Instead of merely recording factually what he saw, Turner translated scenes into a light-filled expression of his own romantic feelings.

 

As he grew older Turner became an eccentric. Except for his father, with whom he lived for 30 years, he had no close friends. He allowed no one to watch him while he painted. He gave up attending the meetings of the academy. None of his acquaintances saw him for months at a time. Turner continued to travel but always alone. He still held exhibitions, but he usually refused to sell his paintings. When he was persuaded to sell one, he was dejected for days.

 

In 1850 he exhibited for the last time. One day Turner disappeared from his house. His housekeeper, after a search of many months, found him hiding in a house in Chelsea. He had been ill for a long time. He died the following day--Dec. 19, 1851.

Turner left a large fortune that he hoped would be used to support what he called "decaying artists." His collection of paintings was bequeathed to his country. At his request he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

 

Although known for his oils, Turner is regarded as one of the founders of English watercolor landscape painting. Some of his most famous works are Calais Pier, Dido Building Carthage, Rain, Steam and Speed, Burial at Sea, and The Grand Canal, Venice.

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Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant.

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Chronomaster T Open Neo Vintage (Steel / Blue)

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Combat

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1957 Johnny Ray: Yes Tonight Josephine UK 45

1975 John Denver: Thank God I'm a Country Boy US 45

1975 Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy US LP

1978 Windsor Davies and Don Estelle: Whispering Grass US 45

1986 Doctor and the Medics: Spirit in the Sky UK 45

1986 Madonna: Live to Tell US 45

1997 Gary Barlow : Open Road : UK LP

Births

1940 Tom Jones (It's Not Unusual)

1944 Clarence White (Byrds)

1946 Paul Kreutzman (Grateful Dead)

1957 Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout)

1960 Prince (Nelson Rogers)

1966 Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots)

1967 Dave Navarro (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Deaths

1966 Claudette Orbison (wife of Roy Orbison)

Miscellany

1963 Rolling Stones make their first TV appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars (on the day C'mon - their first single - is released)

1966 Roy Orbison's first wife Claudette is killed when her motor cycle is in a head-on collision

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on David Frost's TV show

1969 Blind Faith play free concert in Hyde Park - 120,000 people attend

1972 The musical Grease opens on Broadway (at the Broadhurst Theatre) beginning a run of 3,388 performances

1975 Elton John's LP Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy enters the US chart at No. 1 - the first LP to do so

1979 Chuck Berry is charged with three counts of income tax evasion by the IRS, the day before he's scheduled to perform his most prestigious show ever - a White House concert for Jimmy Carter

1993 Pete Townshend and Chuck Berry are among those present for the "breaking ground"ceremony for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland - 7 years after the city won the right to build the building.

Bonus Birthday Action!!

Both Tom Jones and Prince share a birthday today!!

What’s in the CD player?

Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Van Beethoven

 

Original 1986 release

 

"Good Guys and Bad Guys" – 3:54

"Joe Stalin's Cadillac" – 2:32

"Five Sticks" – 1:37

"Lulu Land" (MacKinney) – 2:40

"Une Fois" – 1:24

"We Saw Jerry's Daughter" – 2:10

"Surprise Truck" – 3:27

"Stairway To Heavan" – 2:29

"The History Of Utah" – 2:51

"Still Wishing To Course" – 3:50

"We Love You" – 2:03

"Hoe Yourself Down" – 1:49

"Peace & Love" – 2:37

"Folly" – 1:56

"Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett/Waters/Wright/Mason)– 7:44

"Shut Us Down" – 1:25

 

 

Review by Ned Raggett

 

CVB's self-titled third album generally differs little from II & III, continuing the blend of wistfully weird lyrics, any number of musical touches from all over the map and good-time vibes. The opening "Good Guys & Bad Guys" proves that much, with reggae, folk, country and more stewed together as Lowery plaintively sings about lawyers and the people in Russia and the like. From there on in it's another collection of generally short and generally fun ditties, but with a few more tweaks here and there. The bandmembers definitely have more fun with the studio this time out, thus a lot of tape manipulation and semi-psychedelic oddities sprinkled around the album. Something of a Led Zeppelin fascination seems to crop up throughout, perhaps not too surprising considering that band's similar fondness for many musical influences and Jimmy Page's more acoustic numbers. Lowery drawls "Has anyone seen the bridge?" on "Joe Stalin's Cadillac," the following song is "Five Sticks," while later on in the album one gets "Stairway to Heavan (sic)," most definitely not a remake of the referenced song in question. Not to say there aren't reinterpretations here: an obscure sixties track, "Lulu Land," lets CVB fool around with a bit of twinkly jauntiness, while early Pink Floyd gets the band treatment with an impressive, strong version of "Interstellar Overdrive." Then there's the catchy pop salute to a certain Mr. Garcia of the Grateful Dead, "We Saw Jerry's Daughter," the sitars and kicks on "Still Wishing to Course," the concluding 90-second long "Shut Us Down" and more to fill out this album's corners well. 

Comic Of The Day

Iron Man #34

1968 Series - Marvel, February 1971, coverprice $0.15 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard US; Saddle-stitched; monthly series

*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
Sal Buscema (Pencils) Sal Buscema (Inks)

Cover Feature: Iron Man

Genre: superhero

Editor: Stan Lee

Crisis and Calamity (Sequence 1 , 19 pages )

Feature Story: Iron Man

Credits:
Allyn Brodsky (Script), Don Heck (Pencils), Mike Esposito (Inks), Jean Izzo (Letters).

Character appearances:
V: Spymaster, Espionage Elite

Genre: superhero

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Ham

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Markus Koelliker - BMW 320i E36

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Gabriel Orozco - Kytea Tree 2005

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Before he catapulted to fame, Bob Dylan was paid $50 in 1960 for playing the harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album.

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AMVOX1 R-Alarm (Titanium / Green / Leather)

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1^st Generation

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1964 Dixie Cups: Chapel of Love US 45

1970 Christie: Yellow River UK 45

1971 Honey Cone: Want Ads US 45

1972 Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick US LP

1987 Simple Minds: Live in the City of Light UK LP

1987 Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody UK 45

1992 Lionel Richie : Back to Front : UK LP

1998 Brandy and Monica : The Boy is Mine : US single

1998 Boyzone : Where We Belong : UK LP

Births

1936 Levi Stubbs (Four Tops)

1939 Gary 'US' Bonds (Quarter to Three)

1944 Roger Fraser (Tangerine Dream)

1944 Peter Albin (Big Brother & the Holding Company)

1959 Robert Hodgens (Bluebells)

1965 David White (Brother Beyond)

Miscellany

1956 Be Bop A Lula by Gene Vincent is released

1960 Silver Beatles share the bill with the Pacemakers at Grosvenor Ballroom, UK

1960 Tony Williams leaves Platters for solo career

1962 Beatles begin their first demo recordings for EMI at Abbey Road Studios

1970 Joni Mitchell hits UK LP chart for the first time with Ladies of the Canyon

1970 Free debut on UK chart with All Right Now

1971 John and Yoko join Frank Zappa on stage at Fillmore East in New York

1971 Gladys Knight and the Pips star on the last Ed Sullivan Show

1982 First of a week of peace gigs begins when Stevie Wonder, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and others play to 85,000 in Los Angeles for Peace Sunday

1987 Herb Alpert hits Top 10 at No. 9 in the US with Diamonds, 24-1/2 years after his first Top 10 hit with Lonely Bull

1987 Genesis becomes the first group to spend a full year on Hot 100 with track from one LP, Invisible Touch

1992 TheBroadway musical "Tommy." wins 5 Tony awards. Pete Townshend wins Award for Best Original Score.

What’s in the CD player?

Young Fresh Fellows – The Men Who Loved Music

 

Just Sit

TV Dream

Get Outta My Cave

Why I Oughta

Unimaginable Zero Summer

When The Girls Get Here

Amy Grant

Hank, Karen And Elvis

My Friend Ringo

Two Brothers

I Got My Mojo Working (And I Thought You'd Like To Know)

I Don't Let The Little Things Get Me Down

Ant Farm

Where The Hell Did They Go?

Happy Death Theme

Beer Money

Aurora Bridge

Broken Basket

Three Sides To This Story

Young Fresh Fellows Update Theme

Back Room Of The Bar

Untitled

 

 

Review by Mark Deming

 

If the Young Fresh Fellows had been paid a quarter every time they were compared to the Replacements (which happened even before Paul Westerberg began name-checking them as one of his favorite bands), they probably could have bought a beer for everyone who owned The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest. But while the Replacements loved sloppy hard rock and liked to play dumb (or at least dumber than they really were), the Fellows' tastes ran more towards revved-up pop, and their sense of humor struck a near-perfect balance between clever and goofiness. The Men Who Loved Music is one of the band's finest albums, and certainly their most purely enjoyable; by the time the Fellows made their third album, they'd grown enough as musicians to sound tight and versatile without getting self-conscious about it, and their record-making skills had grown by leaps and bounds over their debut. And while nearly every song on The Men Who Loved Music is centered around some kind of joke, the jokes are actually funny (and bear repeated listening) -- there's no getting to the bottom of the cathode ray nightmare of "TV Dream," the clueless nerds of "When the Girls Get Here" are charming in their social ineptitude ("when the girls get here/we'll talk about integrated circuits and things/to show 'em how smart we are!"), "Amy Grant" has the good sense to play for absurdity more than nastiness (even as Grant receives career advise from God and indulges in dirty thoughts about Barry White), and "Hank, Karen, and Elvis" says more about America's obsession with celebrity than most serious songs on the subject. Best of all, take the laughs away from The Men Who Loved Music and you've still got a great record; the wah-wah fueled "Amy Grant" really does cut the funk, "Get Outta My Cave" boats credible hard rock crunch, the rollicking "Unimaginable Zero Summer" beautifully merges tightness and slop (with NRBQ's Terry Adams adding appropriate piano), and "Where the Hell Did They Go?" rocks with palpable joy, despite it's sad subject matter. A gem of an album, and the CD version guilds the lily with the seven-cut Refreshments EP, which includes their editorial on the joys of corporate sponsorship, "Beer Money." 

Comic Of The Day

Captain Marvel #28

1968 Series - Marvel, September 1973, coverprice 0.20 , 36 pages.
Format: Standard 32 Page Colour Comic Book

When Titans Collide!

Cover Credits:
Jim Starlin (Pencils) Pablo Marcos (Inks) ? (Colors) Gaspar Saladino (Letters)

Cover Feature: Captain Marvel

Character appearances:
Thanos

Reprinted: In part in The Life of Captain Marvel #2 (September 1985); in part in The Life of Captain Marvel #3 (October 1985)

Genre: superhero

Indexer notes:
Cover inker credit provided 2006 by Jim Starlin via Al Milgrom.

Editor: Roy Thomas

When Titans Collide! (Sequence 1 - story , 19 pages )

Feature Story: Captain Marvel

Credits:
Jim Starlin (plot, script pages 12-21), Mike Friedrich
(script pages 1-11, 22-28) (Script), Jim Starlin (Pencils), John Romita (page 1 Captain America and Iron Man heads only), Dan Green (Inks) (Inks), Jim Starlin (Colors), Tom Orzechowski (Letters).

Character appearances:
GS: The Avengers., V: Thanos

Reprinted: In part in The Life of Captain Marvel #2 (September 1985); in part in The Life of Captain Marvel #3 (October 1985)

Genre: superhero

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Poi

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Eric van de Poele at Silverstone 1991

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Art

Odilon Redon - Ophelia





The Stopper

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When police arrived in Appleton, Wisconsin to remove a woman's children because of a complaint that she had given her 11-year-old daughter a "swirlie" (Holding her head in a flushing toilet). The woman reportedly said, "I haven't had a vacation in 13 years, go ahead and take them!"

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Polo Large (WG / Plain Silver / WG)

My Watch of the Day

G-1 GMT

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1969 Tommy Roe: Dizzy UK 45

1983 Police: Every Breath You Take UK 45

1994 Wet Wet Wet : Love Is All Around : UK single

1994 Seal : Seal : UK LP

1994 Various : The Crow (OST) : US LP

Births

1940 Cliff Bennett (Rebel Rousers)

1944 Roger Ball (Average White Band)

1944 Michelle Phillips (Mamas and Papas)

1945 Gordon Waller (Peter and Gordon)

Deaths

1973 Murray Wilson (father of Beach Boys Brian, Carl and Dennis)

Miscellany

1942 Glenn Wallichs launches Capitol Records, beginning a new approach to marketing by being the first company to send copies of record releases to fifty of the most influential DJs around the country

1955 Nutmegs score first of two US R&B hits with Story Untold

1956 Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (guitar: Cliff Gallup and William Williams; bass: Jack Neil; drums: Dickie Harrell) play first-ever gig at Myrtle Beach, US

1960 The Sound of Fury hits UK LP chart

1963 Searchers release Sweets for My Sweet in the UK

1969 Keyboardist Nicky Hopkins leaves Jeff Beck Group

1977 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers debut LP hits UK chart

1983 Police hit US Hot 100 at No. 36 with Every Breath You Take

1983 The reunited Hollies enter US Hot 100 with Stop in the Name of Love, their first Top 40 hit since The Air that I Breathe in 1974

1988 Van Halen's OU 812 LP hits UK chart

1992 More than a million people vote in a contest conducted by the U.S. Postal Service. The "Young Elvis" stamp design beats the"Vegas Elvis"

What’s in the CD player?

Joe Jackson – I’m The Man

 

All songs written by Joe Jackson.

 

"On Your Radio" – 4:01

"Geraldine and John" – 3:14

"Kinda Kute" – 3:33

"It's Different for Girls" – 3:42

"I'm the Man" – 3:58

"The Band Wore Blue Shirts" – 5:07

"Don't Wanna Be Like That" – 3:41

"Amateur Hour" – 4:05

"Get That Girl" – 3:03

"Friday" – 3:36

 

 

Review by Mike DeGagne

 

Despite Jackson's anxious demeanor and shaky pop/rock presence, I'm the Man holds together quite well as his second attempt. Reaching number 12 in the U.K. and a respectable number 22 in the U.S., the album managed to net him a number five hit in his homeland with the insightful "It's Different for Girls," which revealed Jackson's adeptness at philosophizing and his perception of examining the sexes, a trait which would follow him throughout his career. While this song represents his skill at crafting an effective ballad, the frantic "I'm the Man" showcases Jackson at his most frenzied, as a freight train's worth of lyrics pile haphazardly into one another alongside a wonderfully hysteric rhythm. Not only does the track show off Jackson's free-range ability, but his sense of humor arises once again, following in the footsteps of Look Sharp!'s "Is She Really Going Out With Him." Jackson's new wave tendencies are toned down for I'm the Man, but that doesn't restrain his talent, as songs like "Kinda Kute," "Amateur Hour," and "Geraldine and John" make for catchy side servings of attractive pop. It wasn't until Jackson's next album, Beat Crazy, that he began to expand his musical latitudes into reggae, soul, and later on into jazz and other styles. I'm the Man exposes Jackson in his early stages, but it's evident that his wit and peculiar brand of pop charm is already building up its strength. 

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Food

Turkey Avocado Bacon Sandwich

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Button & Villeneuve European Grand Prix 2005 - Nurburgring

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Jessica Cirio

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Georgio Morandi – Bathing 1918

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In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.

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Big Bang Yacht Club Monaco (PVD)

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Ocean Star Sport Diver

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1957 Pat Boone: Love Letters in the Sand US 45

1967 Aretha Franklin: Respect US 45

1972 Staple Singers: I'll Take You There US 45

1978 Matthis and Williams: Too Much Too Little Too Late US 45

1989 Queen: The Miracle UK LP

1989 Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw and the Cooked US LP

1990 M C Hammer : Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em : US LP

1995 Bryan Adams : Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman : US single

1995 Alison Moyet : Singles : UK LP

1996 Fugees  : Killing Me Softly : UK single

Births

1942 Curtis Mayfield (Move On Up)

1944 Michael Clarke (Byrds)

1946 Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)

1950 Suzi Quatro (Can the Can)

1951 B-Real (Cypress Hill)

1952 Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1954 Dan Hill 1961 El Debarge (Rhythm of the Night)

Miscellany

1957 Coasters knock Chuck Berry off top of US R&B chart with Searchin'

1957 Isley Brothers release first-ever single, Angels Cried/Cow Jumped Over the Moon, on Teenage label

1964 Rolling Stones make their US TV debut on The Hollywood Palace, with Dean Martin

1964 Ringo Starr collapses, and Jimmy Nichol becomes Beatles' drummer for a week 1967 Doors debut on US singles chart with Light My Fire

1969 Diana Ross's two pet dogs are accidentally killed by rat poison in a backstage dressing room in Philadelphia

1972 Eagles debut on US chart with Take it Easy

1972 Rolling Stones begin their first US tour for three years. (Supporting is Stevie Wonder.) Exile on Main Street is current LP

1989 Veronica gives Elvis Costello his first US Top 30 hit

1989 Bonnie Raitt scores her biggest-ever LP hit to date as Nick of Time moves to No. 24 in the US

1991 To help pay off his $16 million tax bill, Willie Nelson releases an album comprised of tunes seized by federal agents.The title - "Who'll Buy My Memories - The IRS Tapes" 1993 U2 signs a 10 year, six album deal with Island Records. The deal includes a 25% royalty rate.

Happy Birthday, Ian Hunter.

What’s in the CD player?

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard

 

Deluxe edition

 

Disc one

 

The Original Album

 

"Motherless Children" (Traditional)

"Give Me Strength" (Clapton)

"Willie and the Hand Jive" (Otis)

"Get Ready" (Clapton/Elliman)

"I Shot the Sheriff" (Marley)

"I Can't Hold Out" (James)

"Please Be With Me" (Boyer)

"Let It Grow" (Clapton)

"Steady Rollin' Man" (Johnson)

"Mainline Florida" (Terry)

 

Bonus Tracks

 

"Walkin' Down the Road" (Musgrave & Levine)

"Ain't That Loving You" (Reed)

"Meet Me (Down At The Bottom)" (Dixon)

"Eric After Hour Blues" (Clapton)

"B-Minor Jam" (Clapton)

 

 

Disc two

 

All songs recorded live December 4 and December 5, 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England.

 

"Smile" (Chaplin, Parsons, & Phillips)

"Let It Grow" (Clapton)

"Can't Find My Way Home" (Winwood)

"I Shot The Sheriff" (Marley)

"Tell The Truth" (Clapton/Whitlock)

"The Sky Is Crying/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Rambling On My Mind" (James, Robinson, & Lewis/Myles/Johnson)

"Little Wing" (Hendrix)

"Singin' The Blues" (McCreary)

"Badge" (Clapton/Harrison)

"Layla" (Clapton/Gordon)

"Let It Rain" (Bramlett & Clapton)

 

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

461 Ocean Boulevard is Eric Clapton's second studio solo album, arriving after his side project of Derek and the Dominos and a long struggle with heroin addiction. Although there are some new reggae influences, the album doesn't sound all that different from the rock, pop, blues, country, and R&B amalgam of Eric Clapton. However, 461 Ocean Boulevard is a tighter, more focused outing that enables Clapton to stretch out instrumentally. Furthermore, the pop concessions on the album -- the sleek production, the concise running times -- don't detract from the rootsy origins of the material, whether it's Johnny Otis' "Willie and the Hand Jive," the traditional blues "Motherless Children," Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff," or Clapton's emotional original "Let It Grow." With its relaxed, friendly atmosphere and strong bluesy roots, 461 Ocean Boulevard set the template for Clapton's '70s albums. Though he tried hard to make an album exactly like it, he never quite managed to replicate its charms. 

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