Johnny Sick I love this song so much.
Total Non Punk Junk
Haack for life
Question for the non-punk rockers. Is CCR good?
sicboy short answer- yes.
Travelin’ Band is pretty punk, in my very humble and correct opinion.
CCR rule
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A comp of Mali in the 1970's. Track 3 an overt James Brown tribute.
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I dip my toe into various non-rock, especially jazz but additionally:
- African music is a constant eye-opener. An early foray was some tapes of an African music radio show of a housemate that made me realize how vast and varied it is. I realized it was easy to get lost in forever...I still have hundreds of files from an African Tapes blog on an external HD...
- Salsa! The wondrous KXLU in LA had a great mainly salsa show on Saturdays and Sundays that for perfect hangover recovery listening. Although Mexico not really a salsa country, while living there I got to see some legends like Celia Cruz and Willie Colon, and also Tito Puente in a tiny club in Tijuana. Also saw this great Cuban group (Son 14):
just recently discovered this...kinda psych/folk/baroque pop (think scott walker-lite)
Johnny Sick For a few months, I played in a three-piece group with a friend. Her drummer was Don Bolles. I was playing bass and he was naturally on drums. This would've been 2008. He and I would practice, he'd written all the bass parts, and I'd ask him about Rob Ritter and Lorna Doom -- the latter went to my high school a couple decades before me. It was interesting. Don is an exceptional bassist. He had a Silvertone bass that I heard was subsequently stolen. He'd had it since the 1970s. I asked him how he'd gotten so good and he told me that cuz he didn't always have access to drums, he'd be on stimulants and playing along to records throughout most of the 1980s on that Silvertone bass.
I mention all of this because Don introduced me to early Michel Polnareff. And this song and the rest of the collection he'd regularly play along to. Damn near note perfect. He loaned me the LP and I could tell it caused him some distress, so I only kept it a week before giving it back.
CCR are awesome. Only downside, Fogerty had a habit of pronouncing certain words weirdly and repeating them a lot. Great econo rock.
I am Italian, and I know Michel Polnareff very well because, in the 1960s, he also became very famous in Italy. At that time, it was common for foreign artists to reinterpret their hits in Italian for our music market. Polnareff did the same with his iconic "La poupée qui fait non", which in Italian became "Una bambolina che fa no no no", winning over Italian audiences as well. Similarly, many Italian artists adapted their songs for foreign markets, recording versions in French, English, Japanese, German, or Spanish to reach a wider audience
This is the Italian version by Michel Polnareff
Johnny Sick Yeah, I've heard the Italian version. Kraftwerk would do something similar.
Ryan Leach
Yes, Kraftwerk also did the same thing with "Pocket Calculator" , which in Italian became "Mini Calcolatore"
Johnny Sick Thee Spivs too
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and to contribute something non punk. I'm into Jamaican music more than I am punk, and It's a wonderful time for reissues.
Josh
I knew their German version. Great band Thee Spivs.
Rolling Stones - Con le mie lacrime (As Tears Go By)
David Bowie - Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola (Space Oddity)
Johnny Sick I knew their German version. Great band Thee Spivs.
Hah yeah I thought you might. Yeah top band and great guys too, the real deal.
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Staying on topic, I’m currently spinning And Now… , the fantastic funk/soul compilation by Texas’ own TSU Toronados.
Fun fact: in 2001, Watch for Today by The Now Time Delegation — Tim Kerr’s (Big Boys) project—was released with a cover that was a clear tribute to the TSU Toronados' compilation