I'm heading out to Fresno/Clovis in a bit, so here's the link to Amazon, if you'd like to do some shopping, which is appreciated.
And for some reason, I woke up with Elvis Costello's "Alison" on my brain, and I was singing the song in my head while taking my morning piss, heh.
Well, following-up on my post the other day, "Ooh Woo ... I Feel It Still (VIDEO)."
It turns out I'd forgotten about Maxine Nightingale, whose song, "Right Back Where We Started From," used to come on all the time at K-EARTH 101 Los Angeles.
(And the same goes for Junior Walker and the All Stars, "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?," which I've posted to this blog more than once; and that's not to mention the Bellamy Brothers, and a few other "oldies buy goodies" kind of folks.)So, I'm just back from Cerritos, where I came from visiting my young son, who was hospitalized this last week (due to a psyche breakdown dealing with his A.S.D.). He's coming home tomorrow, so I don't need to say too much more about that, other than, "Thank God," because working with these numbskull so-called "professionals" at such places is a nightmare.
Okay, in any case, driving back down the 91 freeway to I-5 South, I did have on 93.1 Jack FM Los Angeles, and it turns out they've screwed up their website, and I can't find the "playlist" of recent songs just aired, like I used to post back in the days of my regular "drive-time" musical updates. (I guess the station had to "consolidate" with some others on "radio.com," or some such bull, but no matter, at least it's still on, shoot.)
I mean, 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles is still going strong, since back in the day when I was in high school, and K-EARTH 101 Los Angeles, which 20 years ago was an "oldies but goodies" station, playing everything from the Beach Boys to the Beatles to Sam Cooke to Dobie Gray to Elvis to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles to the Temptations, and more. Now it's just, basically, another "classic rock" channel, with a few 80s "new wave" hits thrown in, which is okay, but I miss KKLQ 100.3 FM "The Sound" Los Angeles, which, frankly, was just as good, and even better, when you figure in the nostalgia, as the old KMET Los Angeles, a.k.a., the "Might Met," which used to have D.J.s like Jim Ladd, who used to smoke "doobies" while on air, as well as Cynthia Fox, who years later, was back "spinning" the classics, at "The Sound."
The one other radio station I really miss was the Long Beach-based "Pure Rock" 105.5 KNAC, which used to have the most hilarious morning D.J., Norm McBride, who after I'd had a couple of "tokes" in the morning, my eyes would be watering and my stomach aching, non-stop, because I'd get the "lolz" bad.
In any case, it's all iTunes and whatever the f*ck nowadays, so who really gives a rat's ass? Most of the old "classic rockers" are starting to kick the bucket now anyway (R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen), so I know I'm getting too old for this stuff anyway.
But I like Portugal. The Man, so I guess I should count my blessings that I'm still here, and I never O.D.'d on some damn stupid coke-cocktail, or some such dumb sh*t (heroin, f*ck, hated the "junk" myself, holy motherf*cker, and I only tried it once, and that was once too many, jeez), that some of my long lost buddies, from back in the day, succumbed to.
And pfft, don't even get me going about "KROQ," as, frankly, with folks like "Darby Crash," former alcoholic lead singer of the "Germs," now also dead, I don't need to relive the experience; and Rodney Bingenheimer, the stuck up old c*nt, used to spin records at the "Starwood" punk nightclub, in West Hollywood, at the time, when I wasn't so smart as I am now. No need to relive that sh*t, sheesh.
Thanks for checking back in at this old fart's old blog.
Following-up on my previous entry, "Ellie Goulding Enhanced (PHOTOS)," here's a music video featuring the lovely lass, snagged from the Other McCain:
Way back when, about 9 years ago, the Other McCain posted about Ellie Goulding, where he writes:
Speaking of new theme songs . . . while I was riding with Ali Akbar to the Romney event Friday in Abingdon, Virginia, Ali was doing the usual thing he does when we’re traveling in his car: Playing crappy pop music from his smartphone through the car stereo system at top volume and singing along at the top of lungs, off-key. Seriously, we’re like Oscar Madison and Felix Unger, except that Ali’s not old enough to know who Oscar and Felix were. We get on each other’s nerves something awful and it’s really amazing that we’ve been friends for three years. Anyway . . . So Ali was cranking out his wretched music when, amid the noise rotation, I heard a song that wasn’t quite as awful as the rest. In fact, it was kinda catchy. A pulsing bass riff in a minor key with some techno stuff in the treble and a chick singer with a keening falsetto. “Hey, man, play that again,” I said. Intriguing. There was something spooky about the lyrics — lights and sleeping and “constant calling me home” — although I couldn’t understand them clearly enough to make out every word. And what was it about that voice? The chick had a weird Celtic-folk quaver going on, with a little bit Stevie Nicks, and also a little bit Cyndi Lauper. (Ali: “Cyndi who?”) So I looked up the lyrics and the singer, a British chick named Ellie Goulding, and thereby learned...
Well, I personally don't have any such muscially-moving reminiscences, but I do have this:
At Celeb Jihad, "Ellie Goulding Selfies Set Remastered and Enhanced."
She does it all, music, (no-clothes) selfies, or whatever, and that's worth dancing over, for sure.
Since I'm not driving much during the pandemic, I don't listen to the radio like I used to. But Friday I was taking my wife over to get her car serviced, and she has satellite radio in her car, and Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" came on. Elvis wasn't really "my generation," but I do remember "Burning Love" playing on the radio back when I was about 12-years-old, so that's the story.
The song was a "top-ten" hit, and the video's a real throwback, heh.
From the performing arts department at my college.
Wonderful.
RHCP, from my errand-run early this morning, at 93.1 Jack FM Los Angeles.
"Can't Stop."
Suddenly Last Summer
The Motels
12:00pm
Runaway
Bon Jovi
11:56am
Down Under
Men At Work
11:46am
Thats All
Genesis
11:41am
The Distance
CAKE
11:38am
Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
11:34am
Highway To Hell
AC/DC
11:30am
Time Of Your Life
Green Day
11:28am
Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen
11:22am
Just Another Day
Oingo Boingo
11:17am
Rock The Casbah
Clash
11:13am
Hey Jealousy
Gin Blossoms
11:10am
Hotel California
Eagles/Don Henley
11:03am
Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order
11:00am
Use Somebody
Kings Of Leon
10:56am
Rio
Duran Duran
10:45am
Centerfold
J. Geils Band
10:41am
Loser
BECK
10:38am
I Need To Know
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
10:35am
Enjoy The Silence
Depeche Mode
10:31am
Cant Stop
Red Hot Chili Peppers
10:26am
Talking In Your Sleep
Romantics
10:15am
No One Like You
Scorpions
10:12am
Rio
Duran Duran
11:50am
Give It Away
Red Hot Chili Peppers
11:45am
What's on Your Mind?
Information Society
11:41am
Lights
JOURNEY
11:38am
Only Happy When It Rains
Garbage
11:34am
Rock The Casbah
Clash
11:31am
Blasphemous Rumours
Depeche Mode
11:21am
Unforgiven
Metallica
11:15am
Don't You Want Me
Human League
11:11am
You're My Best Friend
Queen
11:08am
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
11:05am
Panama
Van Halen
11:01am
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Daryl Hall & John Oates
10:52am
Everlong (Acoustic)
Foo Fighters
10:47am
Take On Me
A-HA
10:44am
Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett
10:39am
It Aint Over Til Its Over
Lenny Kravitz
11:33am
Danger Zone
Kenny Loggins
11:30am
Obsession
ANIMOTION
11:20am
All Apologies
NIRVANA
11:16am
I Ran (So Far Away)
A Flock OF Seagulls
11:12am
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
11:07am
Get Lucky
Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams
11:03am
No One Like You
Scorpions
11:00am
Hungry Like The Wolf
Duran Duran
10:50am
Self Esteem
OFFSPRING
10:45am
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Led Zeppelin
10:41am
Dont Stand So Close To Me
Police
10:38am
Just A Girl
NO Doubt
10:34am
Walk This Way
Run D.M.C./Aerosmith
10:31am
Words
Missing Persons
10:20am
Unforgiven
Metallica
10:14am
In 1978, she was a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which performed on British television's The Kenny Everett Video Show. They were noted for their sexually suggestive costumes and risqué dance routines. Lister was one of the original Blitz Kids, a group of young, flamboyantly dressed people who patronised the elitist Covent Garden club night Blitz in the early 1980s, among whom were Boy George, Steve Strange, Spandau Ballet, and Marilyn. She appeared as a dancer in the 1980 film Can't Stop the Music and performed in the 1981 Visage music video for "Fade to Grey".
Lister began a relationship with rock singer Billy Idol in 1980, over whom she allegedly exerted a big influence. She sang the French lyrical backing vocal chorus, "Les yeux sans visage" on his 1984 hit single "Eyes Without a Face", and appeared in several of his music videos, including "White Wedding" in which she played the bride; "To Be a Lover", and she was the girl bound to a cross in the second video for his song "Hot in the City". Mademoiselle described Lister's sexy performance in the latter video as "sizzling".She danced topless in the 1982 Duran Duran video for the single release "The Chauffeur", and sang backing vocals for the band Visage, and August Darnell's band Kid Creole and The Coconuts.
She was a member of the short-lived pop music group Boomerang, which consisted of two former members of Kid Creole and The Coconuts: Adriana Kaegi and Cheryl Poirier. The group released an album titled Boomerang (1986) and a cover version of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".
https://t.co/PTZRQPqteC #perrilister new romantic icon & she is great!— Billy Idol (@BillyIdol) July 28, 2020
By 1982, Lister had linked up with Billy Idol who had just released his first solo album, Billy Idol. She appears as the starring role in the goth-adjacent “White Wedding Pt 1” music video as the pirouetting bride (and is one of the dancers that smacks her own butt at the end). Additionally, Lister contributed backing vocals to Idol’s songs, including the infamous phrase les yeux sans visage on “Eyes Without a Face.” This allowed her to appear onstage with Idol during his television performances for the song, including Top of the Pops. Despite her accomplishments, her career took a backseat to Idol’s worldwide stardom and she regressed to “the girlfriend,” oftentimes belittled to a groupie. In photos, Idol and Lister complement each other, her with an array of hair styles and colors, a chic fashion sense that was never overshadowed by Idol’s tough leather and layers of rosaries.
However, the couple’s time together would soon be rife with controversy and infidelity. Idol was arrested alongside another woman during a drug bust in 1987, which prompted Lister to call a press conference to confirm that she was, in fact, still Idol’s girlfriend. This drama eclipsed her career and, despite their attempts to repair the relationship (and having Idol’s child in 1988), Lister separated from Idol soon after.
Lister attempted to reinvigorate her star power with the short-lived band, Boomerang, in 1986. Consisting of former backup singers from Kid Creole and the Coconuts—in which Lister was a member of in 1983 for the album Don’t Take My Coconuts—the trio covered the song “These Boots Were Made for Walking.”
As an actress, Lister made minor appearances in television and movies such as an episode of the spinoff show Freddy’s Nightmare in 1988 and in the 1990 noir film Bad Influence alongside James Spader and Rob Lowe. And, even though her experience and talents were vast, she never quite made it back into popularity. But her influence and legacy lives on, especially in some of the greatest music videos ever made to date. Lister is much more than Billy Idol’s ex-girlfriend—she is a New Romantic icon.
Do let us know when you can twerk and play the flute at the same time, Jillian. Until then, shut your mouth. https://t.co/jvvYlNK5Fu
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 8, 2020
Dead or Alive
9:13am
WALK THIS WAY
AEROSMITH
9:09am
The Impression That I Get
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
9:06am
In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins/Genesis
8:53am
It's Time
Imagine Dragons
8:50am
Old Time Rock & Roll
Bob Seger
8:46am
True Faith
New Order
8:42am
Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots
8:39am
Broken Wings
Mr. Mister
8:26am
The Warrior
SCANDAL
8:23am
Walking on a Dream
Empire of the Sun
8:19am
Hotel California
Eagles/Don Henley
8:13am
Enjoy The Silence
Depeche Mode
8:09am
Billie Eilish calls out 'Nylon Germany' over weird CGI cover https://t.co/bIrrBf2HDk pic.twitter.com/1K5tq675si— SPIN (@SPIN) August 31, 2019
"what the fuck is this shit" https://t.co/Umi8LMivvM— Exclaim! (@exclaimdotca) August 30, 2019
Nylon America is a different company than Nylon Germany and we strongly disagree with their decision to appropriate Billie Eilish's image without her consent. Nylon America is very sorry to Billie and her fans.
— NYLON (@NylonMag) August 30, 2019
