Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Blinded by the lightttttttt….revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night…..Oh, hi. Yeah, um. Let me put my shades on here for this blog entry. You may have to do the same in order to read it. Uma, Uma, Uma…YES, THAT is Uma Thurman. Uma Thurman stepped out [...]
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Listen to Manfred Mann's Earth Band performed at Sporthall on April 7, 1983
VH1 (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
We'd like to welcome back Sleepy Floyd for this week's B List ... One of the most degrading jobs in the world, aside from greeter at Best Buy, has got to be the classic rock DJ. Playing a pre-programmed format, day after day – the same Rush songs followed by the same Foreigner songs followed by the same 38 Special songs followed by the same Boston songs. The only thing more boring than working a tollbooth...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Compiled by: Defenestrate99 Nice. 01. Rancid - "Time Bomb" (And Out Come The Wolves) 02. Band of Horses - "Our Swords" (Everything All the Time) 03. Manfred Mann - "The Mighty Quinn" (The Mighty Quinn) 04. Beirut - "Elephant Gun" (Elephant Gun) 05. Gogol Bordello - "Start Wearing Purple" (Gypsy Punk) 06. Chris Bathgate - "Serpentine" (A Cork Tale Wake) 07. The Moore Brothers - "The Puppet" (On & Out)...
Aquarionics (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
So, Starting with the first track to come up in a random shuffle of my iTunes library, I generated one of the "Genius" playlists from the new iTunes. The dividing line between genius and insanity has never been so close. The results. These are the tunes that iTunes thinks belong together: Here Comes The Flood — The Divine Comedy Right Said Fred — Bernard Cribbins Pretty...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Youth may be wasted on the young, but if so, it's only because they don't always realise what a potent weapon it can be when used against the old. "Wow, look!" breathless publicists and easily led journalists are forever gasping. "The Bloodyawfuls are only 19, and already they can hold a guitar the right way up. Just imagine what they'll sound like when they're 25!"
VH1 (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
LORD CELERY (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I've known my Houston-area friends Bill and Carole for more years than the three of us would care to admit. I'm delighted to have just received the first photos of their first grandbaby - a beautiful little boy, born last week in California. Here's little Quinn with his very proud grandfather... (Click on the photo for a full-sized image.) Our heartfelt congratulations go to happy parents
Worthless Trash (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" (RSO, 1978) Paul Jones, once the vocalist of 60's hitmakers Manfred Mann and now BBC Radio Two's blues specialist murdering two punk classics. Jones gives both "Sheena" and the flip "Pretty Vacant" the easy listening treatment with help from producer Tim Rice and an orchestral accompaniment by Nick Ingman. This was actually first released in April 1978 with "Pretty Vacant"...
Army of Mom (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The problem with YouTube is that it gets addictive when they pop up those other songs. While looking up Manfred Mann, I see Do Wah Diddy whatever it is. I'm thinking of Stripes and watching the video. When, Good God, if that one dude in the band doesn't look exactly like Mo Rocca. Weird.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
words by Nick Masi photo from the Jones Beach show (more by Eric Townsend) The Police played what was being billed as their final concert ever last night at Madison Square Garden (August 7, 2008). The 150th show of their...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Elvis Costello covers Manfred Mann's "Pretty Flamingo" with some help from Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford, Nick Lowe and Gilson Lavis.
Point Blank - Bruce Springsteen News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Thursday's show featured a stunning set list to close the 3-night stand. The show opened with a killer duo: "Summertime Blues" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out". Next were quite a lot of classic 70's Bruce, with "Spirit in the Night", "Blinded by the Light", "Night", "Candy's Room", "Incident on 57th Street" and "Jungleland", mixed with some 80's stuff: "Cadillac Ranch", "Two Hearts", "Brilliant
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
As I was born in 1960, there are any number of songs from that decade that I have known all my life. Often I could not tell you who sang them, though the answer often turns out to be The Hollies or Manfred Mann, which suggest those two bands are somewhere near the top of the 1960s second division of singles bands. (The first being The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces,...
