Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for Modern Lovers: A Spiritual Guide to Truly Amazing Love and Sex
:: JOJOBLOG :: (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"I'm just beginning to live" by JR and the Moderns Lovers from "The Historic Debt" video (released in 1991) on youtube. Information about "The Historic Debt" from discogs: "This release is unique. All tracks have been donated royalty free and funds raised by this project will be used to pay back some of the huge debt still owed to independent labels...
Grubtunes (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... Richman is best known for his hit song "Roadrunner" from his first album with The Modern Lovers. The song is basically a reworking of The Velvet's "Sister Ray", but what a reworking! With his usual boyish gusto, Richman molds it into a pop song about being "in love with rock and roll and my roadrunner." It reached #11 on the British charts. Richman is...
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Never has plywood made me weak in the knees like the Cherner Armchair, designed by Norman Cherner in 1958. The popularity of the chairs has grown since 1999 when the Cherner Chair Company began using the original prototypes to recreate this MCM classic. Owning one of these armchairs is a mid-century modern lover's dream come true. Read Full Post
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Soft Pack just finished recording their debut LP for Kemado with veteran D.C. hardcore knobsman Eli Janney, and already "Answer To Yourself" is out amongst the wolves, with nary an album title or release date in site. That's fine, really–who could sweat the details when we're already sweating to three minutes of Modern Lovers-doing-Hot Snakes jangle. We really weren't...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... also went more or less unheard down the drain ... though being a fine and inimitable blend of Modern Lovers cool, punkish Europop attitude and this certain rhythme de jerk only the French can do. Soon afterwards, Marie quit the band. She died of a ruptured aneurysm in 1996, forty years old. Marie et Les Garcons – Re Bop Marie et Les Garcons – A bout de souffle
Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso Happy 128th Pablo*… now over to The Modern Lovers. Pablo Picasso Well some people try to pick up girls And get called assholes This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare and So Pablo [...]
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
So Boogie Boarder dressed up as Lightning Bolt for their photo shoot, which sort of makes sense 'cause they sound like Lightning Bolt covering The Modern Lovers. "URSA" is from Pizza Hero (boy is their naming game on point), which is out now through Famous Class . Their next and final show is the Famous Class day party at Don Pedro's in Brooklyn on Saturday, should you be around....
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... "Formed a Band" at the Black Cat on Monday, Art Brut started with a brief cover of The Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner," and spoke highly of both the Ramones and Iggy Pop throughout the set. Argos looked back fondly on the days when NME was a legitimate tastemaking publication and when record stores sold solely records and not computer games and DVDs. "I HATE computer...
What's On The Hi-Fi (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... LP called My Ancestors from 1974 which was recorded in Zambia. The music reminds me of a fuzzed up Modern Lovers but i'm just listening to it again as I write this and it sounds nothing like the Modern Lovers. Maybe it sounds like an outtake from Can's Delay 1968 . Maybe it doesn't. it's a joyous sounding record. Don Cherry - "Brown Rice" This has a wahwahed...
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. The end of the Rs. MODERN LOVERS – Roadrunner Once / Roadrunner Twice (Beserkley 1 1977) The rhythm’s straight out of the Neu motorik! handbook. The bass line is equally hypnotic. On top of it, Jonathan Richman’s...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... A Peach, Boston, Hunky Dory, The Doors, Hot Rats, Are You Experienced', Ritual de lo Habitual, The Modern Lovers, Led Zeppelin, IV, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Tonight’s The Night, Nevermind, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Purple Rain, Pork Tornado, A Night At The Opera, Exile On Main Street, Fear Of Music, Van Halen, Violent Femmes, Tres Hombres 23 - Albums From the ’80s:...
17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... way of you enjoying about what you were trying to do before. Though the folks who have said The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads are probably right in a way…yet somehow this doesn’t really get to grips with what it is. I think i hear bits of the Go-Betweens.There’s brass…they’re definitely scottish…and once again, Matthew is absolutely on the money. Damn him!!! A totally original sounding...
