🎵 Morning ☮-in - New York Dolls: Jet Boy
youtube.com/watch?v=Cbd-BcuPvL…
1973 OGWT

Love this legendary group! 😯 😀 🙏

2025-Mar-01
David Johansen, New York Dolls and Buster Pointdexter singer, dead at 75 | CBC News
cbc.ca/news/entertainment/davi…

David Johansen of the New York Dolls has died at 75 | AP News
apnews.com/article/david-johan…

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
youtube.com/watch?v=ioixZtoTp0…
live: youtube.com/watch?v=2aQTGqqXHw…

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #NewYorkDolls #protopunk #glamrock
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David Johansen of the New York Dolls has died at 75

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls, has died. Johansen, who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, was 75.

^{Mark Kennedy (AP News)}

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2025-01-11 17:26:28

[thread] 🎵 Morning ☮-in

Woody Guthrie: Pretty Boy Floyd
youtube.com/watch?v=G4YKUJZI5B…

Woody's son Arlo [Alice's Restaurant ...]:
Arlo Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
youtube.com/watch?v=NGMvCOWIRW…

Probably my favorite rendition:
Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd
youtube.com/watch?v=jyBfdKV9Of…

Pete Seeger - Pretty Boy Floyd
youtube.com/watch?v=_-vNFDuIC3…

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #WoodyGuthrie #ArloGuthrie #BobDylan #Leadbelly #PeteSeeger

Pretty Boy Floyd

Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaPretty Boy Floyd · Bob DylanFolkways: A Vision Shared℗ 1988 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENTReleased on: 1988-08-30Composer, Lyric...

^YouTube

Love – Love (1966, US)

As randomly chosen by survey^[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 1043 on The List, submitted by mark_ohe.

As I had mentioned in our last couple SpaceAce Sundays, after I had finished indexing The List, I discovered that, of the ~1035 albums we had thus far included, none had been released in 1966. When I tooted “was no one pressing records in 1966?”, some lovely Mastodonians promptly named 16 albums from that year that were worthy of adding to The List. This one, Love’s self-titled debut, is one such album.

And how! I was hooked by the music from track 1, a grin-inducing cover of Burt Bacharach’s “My Little Red Book” (a cover which fans of the film High Fidelity may recognize^[2]). By the second track, I had to read more about the fabulous singer, Arthur Lee. And by the time I got to the amazing “Signed D.C.” in the middle of side 2, I realized I hadn’t been listening to the album loud enough, and had to restart the album. Given the album cover and that font, I did not expect essentially a proto-punk album. Love it! And if you give it a spin, I bet you’ll love Love’s Love too!

• Songlink: Love – Love
• Discogs: Love – Love

1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “I’m not a human, I’m a dove”, “I’m your conscience, I am love”, “All I really need”, and “Is to know that you believe”, following surveys that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz”, “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”/”Darling, if you want me to”/”You, I would die 4 U”, “I’m not your lover, I’m not your friend”/“I am something that you’ll never comprehend”/“No need to worry, no need to cry”/“I’m your messiah and you’re the reason why” and “You’re just a sinner, I am told”/“Be your fire when you’re cold”/“Make you happy when you’re sad”/“Make you good when you are bad”. The second option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking an album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “love”. Usually that would mean I pick the second album in the list with the word, but since there’s a LOT of love in The List, I went with the one that had it twice. The weird thing is, when I was writing this spotlight, “When Doves Cry” came on. So, I think Prince approved of my choice. ↩︎
2. Two other Love tracks appear in the movie, from their 1969 Four Sail album: “Always See Your Face” and “Your Friend and Mine”. ↩︎

#1960s #ArthurLee #folkRock #garageRock #Love #protopunk #psychedelicRock

𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀 - 𝗠𝗖𝟱 - 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟵
56 ans d’une déflagration sonore

𝗗𝗲́𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. C’est le mot qui me vient à l’esprit lorsque je pense à 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀. Sorti en février 1969, cet album live enregistré au 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 de Détroit est souvent cité comme une étincelle ayant allumé la mèche du punk...

📖 La suite de la chronique ici ➡ friendica.world/display/84b6ef…

#MC5 #KickOutTheJams
#Music #Protopunk #Vinyl #vinycollection #vinyle #vinylecollection
#albumanniversaire #albumanniversary
#musicandmore

Amélie

2025-02-22 11:51:51

𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀 - 𝗠𝗖𝟱 - 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟵

56 ans d’une déflagration sonore

𝗗𝗲́𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. C’est le mot qui me vient à l’esprit lorsque je pense à 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀. Un concentré de rage pure, une énergie brute et sans compromis, qui a laissé une empreinte indélébile sur la musique. Sorti en février 1969, cet album live enregistré au 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 de Détroit est souvent cité comme une étincelle ayant allumé la mèche du punk.

𝗠𝗖𝟱 n’est pas seulement un groupe de rock, c’est aussi un groupe militant, engagé et totalement en rupture avec l’industrie musicale traditionnelle. Leur son furieux et leur attitude radicale ont inspiré le punk avant l’heure. 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀 est un classique du 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸, un terme souvent associé aux 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘀 et à 𝗜𝗴𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗽, qui étaient eux aussi issus de la scène de Détroit. Leur approche minimaliste et brutale, leur refus des conventions, ont influencé toute une génération de groupes en quête d’authenticité et de liberté.

Mon édition (Rhino) date de 2020. Ce pressage, réalisé à partir des masters analogiques, restitue toute la puissance de l’album. Même la pochette est fidèlement reproduite. Le son est brut, direct, presque anarchique. C’est une transe électrique qui prend aux tripes, avec des morceaux comme 𝙍𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣’ 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙚, 𝙍𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙤. 62 et l'incontournable 𝙆𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙨.

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK…

#MC5 #1969
#Music #ProtoPunk #detroitrock
#Vinyl #vinycollection #vinyle #vinylecollection
#albumanniversaire #albumanniversary
#musicandmore

56 ans d’une déflagration sonore

𝗗𝗲́𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. C’est le mot qui me vient à l’esprit lorsque je pense à 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀. Un concentré de rage pure, une énergie brute et sans compromis, qui a laissé une empreinte indélébile sur la musique. Sorti en février 1969, cet album live enregistré au 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 de Détroit est souvent cité comme une étincelle ayant allumé la mèche du punk.

𝗠𝗖𝟱 n’est pas seulement un groupe de rock, c’est aussi un groupe militant, engagé et totalement en rupture avec l’industrie musicale traditionnelle. Leur son furieux et leur attitude radicale ont inspiré le punk avant l’heure. 𝗞𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘀 est un classique du 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸, un terme souvent associé aux 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘀 et à 𝗜𝗴𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗽, qui étaient eux aussi issus de la scène de Détroit. Leur approche minimaliste et brutale, leur refus des conventions, ont influencé toute une génération de groupes en quête d’authenticité et de liberté.

Mon édition (Rhino) date de 2020. Ce pressage, réalisé à partir des masters analogiques, restitue toute la puissance de l’album. Même la pochette est fidèlement reproduite. Le son est brut, direct, presque anarchique. C’est une transe électrique qui prend aux tripes, avec des morceaux comme 𝙍𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣’ 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙚, 𝙍𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙤. 62 et l'incontournable 𝙆𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙨.

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK…

#MC5 #1969
#Music #ProtoPunk #detroitrock
#Vinyl #vinycollection #vinyle #vinylecollection
#albumanniversaire #albumanniversary
#musicandmore

Death – …For The Whole World To See (1975/2009, US)

As randomly chosen by survey^[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight^[2] is on number 604 on The List, submitted by @markwyner.

Holy moly, this one’s a banger! When I realized that this wasn’t the death metal Death, I assumed I didn’t know this Death. But it immediately jived with me and put my ears in their happy place…and then I realized I know a few songs, namely “You’re a Prisoner”, “Freakin Out”, and “Where Do We Go from Here???”. As soon as that clicked, I realized I very much know this Death, thanks to good ol’ Henry Rollins! It’s funny how I credit a lot of my music discoveries to Uncle Hank (whose radio shows I’ve been listening to for nearly 2 decades), and yet quite a few names still fall through the cracks. Rollins included the final track, “Politicians In My Eyes”, in his 2014 Top 10 Underground Songs list for Esquire,^[3] so chances are these songs have been rattling around in my brain for a decade at least already. Cheers to Mark for clearing up some cobwebs and putting this back on my radar.

Anyway, back to the album. As you see in the post title, we have two dates for the release year. This album was recorded in 1975, but didn’t see the light of day until 2009. I thought it was important to highlight that original date for those not familiar with this band, because what we have here is some absolutely fantastic proto-punk/punk rock from Detroit! The band, a trio of brothers – David, Bobby, and Dannis Hackney – formed in 1971 originally as a funk band called Rock Fire Funk Express. The band quickly changed gears and then, in 1973, their name, making Death the first all-Black punk band, not to mention one of the first punk bands ever.

So, you might be thinking, if Death is pre-Ramones/-Sex Pistols/-Clash, and were in the mix with MC5 and The Stooges, why didn’t they make it big? Well, it seems that, among other things, the name choice – a choice made to honor their recently departed father and to make something positive of the situation – didn’t fly with studio executives. After refusing to change their name again, money for their 1975 recording session was pulled, resulting in just a 7″ (“Politicians in My Eyes”/”Keep On Knocking”) being self-released in a 500-copy run and the rest of what was recorded in that session being shelved indefinitely. Without a record deal or airplay, Death ended in 1977.

After moving to Vermont, the Hackney brothers would continue making music together for different projects and genres (with David passing in 2000), but it wasn’t until 2008 that their original group got attention outside of the record collector community. After MP3 rips of the Death 7″ started appearing on the Internet, things absolutely snowballed. Bobby’s sons heard the tracks and recognized their father’s voice, resulting in them starting a Death-cover band called Rough Francis that gained a lot of attention for the whole story. Around the same time, Drag City Records caught wind of it all, the original Death master tape was unearthed, and the entire studio session was finally released. The well-deserved attention then resulted in Death reforming (with Bobbie Duncan stepping in for David), as well as the release of a documentary covering Death’s history (A Band Called Death, 2012). The band has since released an album with Death demos dating to 1974-76 (Spiritual • Mental • Physical, 2011), an album with some later tunes recorded in the 80s and 90s (III, 2014), and then their first album of new tunes, aptly named N.E.W. (2015)!

Stories like this just warm the cockles of my heart. But, also, this music straight up slaps! I may have just listened to this album 3 times in a row, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of you feel the need to do so as well.

Happy listening!

• Songlink: Death – …For The Whole World To See
• Discogs: Death – …For The Whole World To See
• Wikipedia: Death (proto-punk band)
• Bandcamp: Death

1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “Well, it’s the only thing that can pick me up”, “Better than a cup of gold”, “See only a chocolate Jesus”, and “Can satisfy my soul”, following the earlier survey that had “Well, I don’t want no Abba Zabba”, “Don’t want no Almond Joy”, “There ain’t nothing better”, and “Suitable for this boy”. The third option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking the third album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “see”. ↩︎
2. For those wondering why this isn’t a SpaceAce Sunday spotlight, we only have a handful of albums that J had contributed left, so we’ll be spacing out the rest, probably one every month or two rather than every week. ↩︎
3. esquire.com/entertainment/musi… ↩︎

#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #Death #Detroit #garageRock #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #protoPunk #punkRock