“Johnny and Mary” from the great 1980 album Clues. Yes, the mimes are annoying, but then again they’re mimes. Classic song, though.
Author: Captain Capm (Page 24 of 118)
Embedding’s not allowed on this classic ’80s groover from the I Can Dream About You album, but here is “Second Nature” for your nostalgic pleasure.
Hey wanna get something that only your dog can listen to and enjoy? Well the folks over in New Zealand have just the thing for you. You see, a version of “Silent Night” recorded at a frequency that only canines can hear has recently topped the charts. Per the report,
A Very Silent Night, recorded at a frequency only dogs can hear, was so popular among owners it hit number one at Christmas, but has been receiving mixed responses from listeners.
“The most violent one was a dog that physically attacked the radio when it was played and went quite berserk and totally destroyed it,” said Bob Kerridge, chief executive of animal welfare group, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
Good times, good times!
Chevy Chase
By 1980, Chevy Chase had long left “Saturday Night Live,” got into an infamous backstage brawl with his replacement Bill Murray, and started working in earnest in Hollywood, cranking out hit films. However, he also decided to record and release this oddball self-titled album on Arista that year. Chase, no stranger to recording music (he was once briefly a drummer for Steely Dan and released an album with psychedelic group Chamaeleon Church in 1968), worked with stalwarts such as Tom Scott on this little number, featuring song parodies and lots and lots of drug-fueled jokes.
While some of those jokes are indeed funny, such as the album closing “Rapper’s Plight,” the parody of “I Shot The Sheriff” featuring such lines as “I shot the sheriff / After toking all the PCP” are about as lame as they read. The Alvin and the Chimpunks style of the cover of “Let It Be” is completely fucking stupid as well. Yet there are some laughs to be had in the Barry White send up “Never Gonna Sing for You” and zero laughs to be found in the parody of Randy Newman’s “Short People” and the Donna Summer spoof “Love to Have My Baby” in which Chase is seemingly having an extended orgasm in falsetto, but is really just pretending to be a woman going into labor and giving birth. Yeah. Not so funny.
I wound up finding this album at a record store for $3.99 in the cutout bin when I was in the seventh or eighth grade. I remember taking it home and thinking I could never play it for my mom with all that drug-related shit on it. She wound up asking me if it was funny and if I enjoyed it. I told her I did, even though I thought the same bulk of it was lame that I do now. God only knows why Chevy made this monstrosity. Something tells me it was that ego of his that still seems to be in full effect these days even when he’s trying to play a newer, humbler Chevy. Well, that and all the drugs. Kids, this is proof positive that cocaine can really fuck you up and cause you to have lapses in judgement and make poor business decisions. Enjoy.
The Life of Chris Gaines
By 1999, pop country superstar Garth Brooks had done it all in terms of CD sales, hit singles, sold out concerts, and achieving a massive fanbase who thought their icon could do no wrong. Indeed, even Brooks thought himself that he could do no wrong, and decided to “branch out” as it were, with little fears that his legions of faithful would support him in his new endeavor. That endeavor you ask? Certainly you haven’t forgotten already. Yes, I’m talking about the giant goose egg alter ego Brooks created in his monster lab known as “Chris Gaines.”
You see, Garth wanted to be a pop star just as much as a pop country star, but possibly felt like his fans would abandon him if he was actually ballsy enough to just say, “Hey, I wanna try to gain some new fans, so I’m going to release a pop album” and not do it under some goofy facade. Jazz artists do it all the time by going the pop route. Pop and rock artists go country occasionally as well. So what the hell was Brooks thinking? It may have actually just been a case of his ego finally taking over his creativity.
A “Behind The Music” special was created for fake artist Gaines, and he also appeared as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” the week Brooks hosted. The resulting album Garth Brooks in…the Life of Chris Gaines was intended as a precursor to a feature-length film entitled “The Lamb” that would star Brooks as Gaines and really get the wheels rolling on the project. Yeah…it doesn’t take much foresight to see how oddball this whole idea was, and the Chris Gaines album quickly became a resounding dud, even though it peaked at #2 on the Billboard album chart and actually scored Brooks with his only Top 40 pop hit “Lost in You.”
But the fans were wary and didn’t embrace the character in the long run. The movie studios also took note of this and “The Lamb” was forever shelved. After all this, Brooks’ career was never quite the same as pre-Gaines, though he still retained the rabid fans. He has gone into a semi-retirement, recently appearing again to do a limited series of shows. Like “From Justin to Kelly,” “Cool as Ice,” and the film version of “Magical Mystery Tour,” The Life of Chris Gaines will forever be the WTF blight on Garth Brooks’ career.
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