Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A tweet from a friend led to my playing “I Wish I Was Your Mother” by Mott the Hoople. I’ve been using the Zune software, rather than Rhapsody, lately. It has a “Smart DJ” function that is similar to Genius...
Bad Idea Blue Jeans (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
BAD IDEA SHOW REVIEW: TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS AT LINCOLN HALL photo via Flickr While watching Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Sunday night, I realized that it might have been the first time I'd ever seen a headlining act treat an encore more or less as it was originally intended. At this point, the art of the encore is a ridiculous notion. It's no longer a demand of the audience wanting more, but...
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS / The Singles Collection CD / Capt. Oi! Reords / 2009 The first time I heard the epic “Do Anything You Wanna Do” I was hooked on these guys, and that was about 28 years ago. This CD collects all their greatest singles from the very beginning of their career [...]
Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
- We'll ask Jimmy, said Outspan. - Jimmy'll know. Jimmy Rabbitte knew his music. He knew his stuff alright. You'd never see Jimmy coming home from town without a new album or a 12-inch or at least a 7-inch single. Jimmy ate Melody Maker and the NME every week and Hot Press every two weeks. He listened to Dave Fanning and John Peel. He even read his sisters' Jackie when there was no one looking. So...
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Lost Rock with Nick Sampson Eddie and the Hot Rods were a hard gigging pub rock band from Essex (South East England) that created a classic song and helped birth the UK punk scene. They first hit the boards in 1975 with a unique version of fast, tough, cheeky rock n roll. Unlike many other pub rock contemporaries (Dr Feelgood etc) they also celebrated teenage rebellion. In 1976 the Hot Rods played...
Duncan Borrowman (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
I had always thought that among my occassional music posts, Eddie and the Hot Rods "Do Anything You Wanna Do" had to be one of them. But Jonathan Calder beat me to it.As I said in the comments on Jonathan's Liberal England:I saw them at the Marquee in their week long residency the week before Reading '77 and then at Reading. When the Island Story came out about 15 years ago I bought the vinyl...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
In Shropshire last week I kept seeing posters for a gig by Eddie and the Hot Rods. Looking at the band's website , it must have been for the one in Worthen back in May. Worthen is a village to the west of the Stiperstones, right on the border with Wales. It is obviously a good place for music: I know someone who put on a concert by Peter Green, the founder of Fleetwood Mac, there a few years ago. Anyway,...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Hi I have found one problem with Spotify. Having downloaded stuff I have on LP (but can't play) I now realise how bad some of it really is. In particular any thing by Eddie and the Hot Rods and Lionheart by Kate Bush. Which brings me to 2 things. 1. I believe it was Charles Shar Murray who had to review said Kate Bush album in the NME. It was the same week Kate was awarded best female artist in the...
http://afreeman.org/?feed=rss2 (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
I have no clue how I got my hands on Columbia’s “The Sound of the Suburbs” compilation in my senior year of High School. I certainly didn’t get it from the local mall’s record shop - they didn’t get much more daring than U2. I most likely picked it up in the college town a [...]
Home (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
I first saw Squeeze in 1978 when they shared the bill with Eddie and the Hot Rods and a band called Radio Stars at the Music Hall, Aberdeen. Three years later I caught them at London's Hammersmith Palais. I've also seen them play Hammermith Odeon (1985 and 1989), the Royal Albert Hall (1987), and the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow (1993). I missed the recent reunion tour (which didn't feature Jools...
Traffic Light Musings (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
Every year, on New Year's Eve, Dave and I each write a list of the most positive outcomes of the past year, plus a list of the bad things. In my quaint little way, I then put the lists into a box labelled "Nostalgia" in our study. So this year I decided to blog our lists. Sarah's Best of 2007 List Our one-week holiday in Morocco (Marrakesh) in February, including picking up over £500...
Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 11/20/2007
They are at it again. Its another list. Another pointless list. Another pointless and arbitrary list with no apparent purpose other than to stir up controversy and generate lots of comments on their blog. Worst of all, it is as irresistible as it is pointless. Of course, it is the Guardian's 1000 albums you must [...]
Pound for Pound (Free subscription) | 10/02/2007
Question Mark and the Mysterions, "96 Tears" ( YSI link ) Aretha Franklin, "96 Tears" ( YSI link ) Suicide, "96 Tears (live)" ( YSI link ) Primal Scream, "96 Tears" ( YSI link ) Modern Lovers, "96 Tears (live)" ( YSI link ) The Stranglers, "96 Tears" ( YSI link ) Eddie and the Hot Rods, "96 Tears (live)" ( YSI link ) Garland Jeffreys,...
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