The Game Show Network’s revival of the ’50s staple, “I’ve Got A Secret,” has – for no discernable reason – gone with a theme of having a completely gay panel. Fair enough. But, apparently, the executive producers of the show are as straight as an arrow, because, according to the website Scott-O-Rama, they didn’t think the panel would need to be blindfolded because they wouldn’t recognize Martha Wash, lead singer of the Weather Girls and of their enormous hit, “It’s Raining Men.” Producer Gary Green assured them that, swear to God, they needed the blindfolds. At the 3:05 mark of this video on YouTube, you’ll see he was unquestionably right.
Category: CD Reviews (Page 343 of 399)
Syd Barrett, original lead singer of Pink Floyd and inspiration to dozens – maybe even hundreds – of British eccentrics dreaming of being pop musicians, has died.
Barrett, who had retired from music in the early ’70s and lived an anonymous life in his home town of Cambridge, had suffered from diabetes for many years. His work on Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, remains a touchstone for British psychedelia, and his solo albums – The Madcap Laughs, Barrett, and rarities/outtakes collection Opel – are sadly brilliant (if occasionally shambling) documents of a man who spent the late ’60s and early ’70s on the brink of madness, occasionally teetered onto the wrong side of dementia. His fellow members of Pink Floyd never forgot their founder; in addition to being paid tribute to in many of the band’s songs, most famously in “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (but almost certainly on “Brain Damage” as well), David Gilmour made a point of including Barrett’s “Astronomy Domine” on the group’s mid-’90s live album, Pulse.
Farewell, Syd. On “Dark Globe,” you posed the questions, “Won’t you miss me? Wouldn’t you miss me at all?” The answer is utterly unqualified: yes, we will.
A brief discography of Barrett follows after the jump.
…and there’s a time to simply offer heartfelt words of sorrow. And while it’s a shame that original Commodores member Milan B. Williams died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer, I’m pretty sure that his fellow band member Walter Orange could’ve come up with a less groan-inducing quote to the press than, “He was once, twice, three times a brother and we love him.” Oof…
…and, yet, there’s something that leads me to believe that the new album by the New York Dolls will kick ass.
Due for release on July 25th, the album – entitled One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This – features band stalwarts David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain…mostly because they’re pretty much the only two Dolls still among the living…and reportedly sounds like the album they didn’t release after 1974’s Too Much Too Soon. But, then, that’s what you’d expect the rumor mill to be saying. The reality, though, is that it’s a highly credible claim, given the power and enthusiasm the band produced at its various reunion shows over the past few years.
Count on the disc to be dedicated to, among others, the late Arthur “Killer” Kane, who died unexpectedly only briefly after the Dolls played the Meltdown Festival in the UK. (The documentary on Kane, New York Doll, is a must-see.)
First released on Tres Hombres, “Waitin’ for the Bus” is a simple song that features a terrific riff and the infectious repeating lyric, “Have mercy!” The song goes right into “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” which is arguably the band’s best song title. This driving, bluesy number shows the band at their very best. Both songs are played on classic rock radio, so you might recognize them.
Listen to song clips here.
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