Yeah, I wasn't even gonna do a year end's wrapup considering that we are in 2019 and like, what really spectacular and groundbreaking has happened in ANYTHING o'er the past thirtysome years whether it be in the realm of rock 'n roll, jazz, tee-vee, moom pitchers, comics or what-have-you that makes the typical Suburban Slob wanna stand up and take notice? But just when I was losing faith a few fine efforts did pour in even if most of 'em were recorded during those great days of total atonal bliss way back when life seemed more gnarly.
Anyhoo in order to continue on the tradition so to speak (even though I loathe the concept of "tradition", believing that we should keep all of the good ideas of the past and jettison the stoopid ones), here's a list of what floated my submarine during the past 365 and who knows, maybe this post will inspire some of you to seek out some interesting items that I'm sure will be beneficial to your overall well being. If it inspires some of you readers to want to do the big 86 and leave us alone until Kingdom Come well then, it's all the better for each and every one of us, right?
ALBUM OF THE YEAR!- La Femme-MYSTERIE. Gives me hope that a new avant garde of past ideas shaped into something tangible to the force and passion that rock once stood for will emerge one of these sorry days.
Anyhoo in order to continue on the tradition so to speak (even though I loathe the concept of "tradition", believing that we should keep all of the good ideas of the past and jettison the stoopid ones), here's a list of what floated my submarine during the past 365 and who knows, maybe this post will inspire some of you to seek out some interesting items that I'm sure will be beneficial to your overall well being. If it inspires some of you readers to want to do the big 86 and leave us alone until Kingdom Come well then, it's all the better for each and every one of us, right?
ALBUM OF THE YEAR!- La Femme-MYSTERIE. Gives me hope that a new avant garde of past ideas shaped into something tangible to the force and passion that rock once stood for will emerge one of these sorry days.
ALL OUT ROCK 'N ROLL COLLECTION OF WHERE IT ALL CAME DOWN BOX SET OF THE YEAR!-the Peter Laughner Box Set, which shows up just how far we've deteriorated these past fortysome years.***
SINGLE OF THE YEAR!-The Rockets-"Even Money"/"Steppin' Outa Line" (Munster Records)...one I've been waiting for for a looooooong time!***
***IMPORT OT THE YEAR!-Marie et Les Garcons' 76/77 (Instant Records, France)...an old release but it zoned me as if I were an eighteen-year-old suburban slob who just about had enough lawn mowing money to buy the thing way back when these punkoid prances were first laid down.
***CASSETTE OF THE YEAR!-METTE RASMUSSEN/TASHI DORJI
***JAZZ SPIN OF THE YEAR!-Muhal Richard Abrams's YOUNG AT HEART/WISE IN TIME
FANZINE OF THE YEAR!-OWN THE WHOLE WORLD #18 (OK, #19 too).***
***MOOM PITCHER OF THE YEAR!-THE MAD BOMBER.
SURPRISE OUTTA NOWHERE RETURN OF THE YEAR!-GOLDEN HITS OF THE SHANGS.***
***ROCK 'N ROLL BOOK OF THE YEAR!-the one that came in the Peter Laughner Box Set.
SECULAR BOOK OF THE YEAR!-NOT BRAND ECHH!***
BLOG TO COMM POST OF THE YEAR!-the JAY DOBIS interview.***
DEATH OF THE YEAR!-MAD magazine.***
TEE-VEE SHOW OF THE YEAR!-ROUTE 66 reruns.***
DEE-VEE-DEE SET OF THE YEAR!-WAY OUT (you'll be reading about it shortly!)***
PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR!-Don Fellman.***
***And here's hoping that I won't do anything as wonky when next December 31 rolls around!
"Side one's almost-half-hour piano solo isn't quite as fluid as Cecil Taylor but it traverses pretty much the same neo-classical realm."
ReplyDeleteHey, Boomer! Some kinda hi-brow stuff! Are you a beatnik? Do you smoke "pot"? Are you culturally Marxed? Have you been Norman Mailered? Do you go to "demos"?
I can't wait to here about 'Way Out'.. did they find all 14 episodes?
ReplyDeleteIf so, that would be the release of the decade!