Originally released on the 1985 album The Head On The Door, this quirky track is definitely Cure-sounding, but the arrangement is a change of pace from the many singles that made the band famous. I first heard it during the mediocre James Van Der Beek vehicle “The Rules of Attraction” – it turned out to be the best thing in the movie and has since grown into the role of my “favorite Cure song.”
Listen to a song clip here.
This track came out of the recording sessions for the group’s hugely successful Rumors album. Written by Stevie Nicks (who, by the way, was quite the hottie in her day), the song was named after a town in Maryland that Nicks saw on a trip with then-boyfriend Lindsay Buckingham. Unfortunately, at a running time of 4:29, the song was deemed “too long” to make the album. Considering that vinyl allows for 24 minutes per side and the album’s total running time was 39:03, that argument holds very little water. Nicks has since theorized that the song’s exclusion was an example of the growing tension in the band at the time. Regardless, the song has a delicate, cascading sound and is some of the very best of the band’s work. It was finally released on the group’s box set, 25 Years: The Chain, and a live version recorded on the group’s live album, The Dance, became an unlikely hit twenty years after the original version was recorded.
Listen to a song clip here.
Originally released in 1973, this song first appeared on my radar during the Spike Lee movie, “25th Hour,” where Ed Norton plays a drug dealer spending his last day as a free man before heading off to prison. The song plays in the background during the sequence in the nightclub when Phillip Seymour Hoffman (playing a schoolteacher) decides to kiss one of his more “mature” students. The sweet funky groove and the addictive lyric “but it’s all right / we can still go home” has earned it a permanent place in my iPod. I only wish clubs played music like this in real life.
Listen to a song clip here.
If those 54 counts of child pornography looked bad in 1999, it’s nothing compared to the trouble Gary Glitter is in now.
Dude was just arrested in Vietnam – ‘Nam, man! – for having sex with two underage girls, one of whom was 12 years old. He’s looking at up to 12 years in prison, and possibly the death penalty.
Glitter is 61 years old. And he’s having sex with 12- and 15-year-old girls. Hey, we’re grateful and all for “Rock & Roll Part II” and “Do You Wanna Touch” (which now seems even creepier than when he was busted simply for having pictures of 12-year-old girls) but, come on, man, 12-year-old girls?
On the plus side, it may create a rock and roll first: an artist sentenced to death, which is actually pretty punk rock when you think about it. Any tosser can OD, but to have a country line up a firing squad to take your ass out? You must be a badass. Or a pedophile, one of the two.
The bad boys from Boston are back in vintage fashion with a new concert CD and DVD (on the Sony dual disc format) called Rockin’ the Joint: Live at the Hard Rock Hotel. Performed in 2002, this show finds Aerosmith returning to their sweaty roots by blowing the dust off several old relics and laying them down in a small club setting like it was 1972 again. Breaking from their rehearsal schedule as the road vets prepare for a year-long world tour, original bass player Tom Hamilton afforded Bullz-Eye’s Red Rocker a few minutes recently to tout the strengths of Rockin’ the Joint, share his take on illegal downloads, and explain why his son might already be a better musician than he is.
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“Bullz-Eye: A record like this (Rockin’ the Joint) comes out and it just makes me want to go home and dig out Get Your Wings and Toys in the Attic. I had a cassette copy of Live Bootleg back in, what, ’78, ’79 when that thing came out…?
Tom Hamilton: (chuckling)
BE: I flat wore that thing out! So are you allowed to have a favorite Aerosmith album?
TH: Yeah, sure. Picking one is really hard. But I’ll say Rocks. Toys or Rocks, it’s pretty hard to nail down which was a favorite.
BE: I saw a quote from your website recently. It was Little Richard saying, “I looooove Aerosmith! They’re one of my favorite rock and roll bands. They’re full of filth and full of soul.” Why are you guys so strong and so vital 35 years later?
TH: I just think we were so drastically imprinted during the ‘60s. You know, when you’re a kid and you go see a really powerful rock band, it goes deep. At least for me it did. So the next thing is, “Man, I’d really like to do that. I wanna be on stage!” And you just always keep that point of view. We’ve managed to keep that point of view, wanting to spit out the kind of stuff that really inspired us when we were just learning how to play, and do it in a way that we really love.
BE: Looks like you guys are going to be touring now through the end of the year. What’s next for you guys? What does 2006 and 2007 hold for Aerosmith?
TH: Well, the rest of this year and next year we’re gonna be touring pretty much straight through, but we’re gonna try and get an album out.
BE: Of new material?
TH: Yeah.”
Read the rest of Red’s interview with Tom Hamilton here.
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