Sympathy for the Devil.
***Update***
You people can stop nominating Jesus Christ Superstar any time now. Andrew Lloyd Weber will outclass the Rolling Stones the week after Cleveland wins the World Series. And by Cleveland I mean the Browns.
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Sympathy for the Devil.
***Update***
You people can stop nominating Jesus Christ Superstar any time now. Andrew Lloyd Weber will outclass the Rolling Stones the week after Cleveland wins the World Series. And by Cleveland I mean the Browns.
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Laura W
I’ll raise.
bago
I raise you even further.
bago
Wait, I raise me even further.
Laura W
@bago: Fold. The strength of my bet was on Carl Anderson, but you know what…I did not know (or forgot) he was dead. Now I am very sad.
Man I had the hots for that man.
bago
Okay. I think this completes the schtick. I raise a glass of Pinot Grigio to ye.
kommrade reproductive vigor
OK, I can’t pick the best song ever, but SftD goes way up on the list.
From the YouTube comments, some twerp has made me feel fucking old:
Get offa my lawn.
Laura W
Who can think of drinking wine at a time like this? I can’t believe I did not know/remember that he had died.
All religious (non)beliefs and petty squabbling aside, I saw Anderson, Neeley, and Elliman perform this at least twice, if not thrice, in my young life. The Santa Barbara County Bowl (outdoor amphitheater) will never leave my fading memory.
Art is art. Talent is talent. Hot is hot.
bago
Additionally, Laibach is just pretty kick ass in general. My friend got to bring them into the US for one of their first american tours.
studebaker hawk
Right up there with "Was Paul McCartney in a band before Wings?"
The The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was one of the great train wrecks of all time. Think of it this way – it was produced about the same time as Magical Mystery Tour, but MMR was considered worthy of release while this was too embarrasing to see the light of day until almost 30 years after the fact. Must’ve been kind of weird for Keith to be aping Clapton’s lead part from the recording with Eric in the house after performing earlier with John Lennon.
LiberalTarian
you mean "get offa my cloud."
kommrade reproductive vigor
@LiberalTarian: Heh. Indeed I do you whippersnapper.
At the first (and only) Stones concert I ever attended, I sat in front of two people who were arguing over whether they’d had a second guitarist before Ron Wood.
J. Michael Neal
@bago: I love me some Laibach, but that is only the second best Stones cover of all time. I can’t me no satisfaction.
Comrade Kevin
This has to be way up the list. And this.
J. Michael Neal
Also, if you want to see Laibach really over the top, try this.
Laura W
Back in…better hand.
Garrigus Carraig
My favorite Stones cover (& one of my favorite covers) is Merry Clayton’s "Gimme shelter". Studio. Live.
bago
The only way you could top Laibach and Queen would be if you threw in some Rocky Horror. Oddly enough I went to a lutheran funeral today and they were doing the audience shout out thing. I couldn’t get Rocky Horror out of my head for almost the whole service.
Chup
I couldn’t agree with John more — ALW vs. Jagger and Richards isn’t a fair fight.
J. Michael Neal
@Garrigus Carraig: That’s some very good stuff. It falls into a different category of covers than the other stuff, because it’s fundamentally similar to the original. It’s better, I think, but roughly the same ganre. (I’m stretching a bit, but not that much.
Laibach, or The Art of Noise, tries to radically change the stuff they are covering.
Twang version of the Peter Gunn theme.
Unfortunately, the Art of Noise version of the James Bond theme doesn’t seem to be on YouTube.
Polish the Guillotines
@studebaker hawk:
Yeah, but it also had one of the greatest Who performances of all time. Now, ladies and gentlemen… dig the Who.
Andy K
Cat StevensYusuf Islam when he had some sort of Job complex.demimondian
Aw, come on. You guys ain’t heard nottin’ til you’ve heard it orchestrated as Tim would hear it: http://www.amazon.com/Symphonic-Music-Rolling-Stones/dp/B000003FOM
Laura W
Last hand, last call….
I posted this the other day at the tail end of a dead thread that had somehow gotten around to Yeats.
Well worth the revisit, IMO.
(How the hell do you edit your lame link?)
Now I’m all confused.
Damn.
LET ME BACK INTO MY LAME LINK!!!
bago
Ah, the Peter Gunn theme. So, you WOW nerds. Do you know what one of the first video games that Blizzard made was called "The Lost Vikings"? At any rate, one of their next games was called "Rock and Roll Racing" that had a secret unlockable character from Lost Vikings, named Olaf.
Now, I tell you this because I discovered that the save hash they used for you to save your game had no constraints. This meant you could hack the save code and give yourself any number of upgrades and vehicles at any position in the game if you figured out what numbers to modify.
Ah, the joys of being a teenage hacker. Right, so the Peter Gunn theme was a song in Rock and Roll Racing, and that somehow makes this post tangential.
Laura W
Deep cleansing, relaxing, forgiving of all breath.
Attempting Link Again.
bago
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Aww yeah.
Andy K
@Polish the Guillotines
Not a bad performance from Jethro Tull, either- before they started dressing like gnomes.
Polish the Guillotines
@Andy K
I’ll grant that. But only with the stipulation that there’s no way in heaven, hell, or a multiverse of heavens and hells to make playing a flute look "rock’n’roll."
Laura W
@Andy K: This is not my fault. This is your fault.
I did not want to do it.
Really.
bago
And now, just to tie everything up in a nice neat knot, I present you this. The joy of chordata set to the music of the flashbulb.
gnomedad
Fixed.
Laura W
deleted due to lack of…um…stuff to say.
Andy K
@Laura W
Then I’ll lay this at your feet.
:P
Andy K
I’ll blame Mocean Worker for this one. I just had to see what was in his favorites queue….
Zzyzx
Jesus Christ Superstar is so the wrong approach. You want to think the Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz Fest. "Amazing Grace," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," "Sisters and Brothers," "Paul and Silas," that’s the way to go.
Garrigus Carraig
@J. Michael Neal: Well, then, my favorite different-genre cover is Sonic Youth‘s "I love her all the time" as done by Camper van Beethoven (click on the track).
The Grand Panjandrum
Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Andy K
@Garrigus Carraig
SonicCiccone Youth: Into The Grooveybago
Nazi Mocean Worker FTW!
Andy K
@bago
I can’t go to bed w/out clarifying that that isn’t Mocean Worker.
Okay, my conscience is clear now.
Polish the Guillotines
@Andy K:
Wow. Godwin even works his way into a music thread. /:^=
bago
Alright. I have the Palm Pictures DVD with the actual Mocean Worker and I can dig the dnb.
J. Michael Neal
Have you ever wondered what you would get if Ingmar Bergman made a slow-motion, wuxia version of The Road Warrior, using 1950s Americana iconography and a soundtrack by The Red Elvises?
Fortunately, you can satisfy your curiosity.
bago
Unless being +7 somehow makes me mis-state the DVD that had him on it before deiselboy for the sound and motion dvd series.
bago
@J. Michael Neal:
NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kommrade reproductive vigor
Completely forgot The Art of Noise. Next stop: Pandora.
@The Grand Panjandrum: When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Laura W
@Andy K: You are a horrible, spiteful, evil man, Andy K.
This proves it.
Svensker
Yeah, but Ian was doing that weird leg thing, which is really distracting.
I forgot how CUTE Brian Jones was. And look how sweet Charlie Watts looked! The ones who aren’t dead look like disgusting old dehorns now.
AnotherBruce
Yeah, Rolling Stones R&R Circus pretty much sucked except for the dynamic cover of Sympathy for the Devil, one of the Who’s best performances of all time, a great cover of "Yer Blues" and an excellent performance by Jethro Tull.
Which is to say, it didn’t suck at all. It’s a show that featured of some of the great groups and musicians of the 60’s, filmed when these performers were in their prime.
The Grand Panjandrum
@kommrade reproductive vigor:Qu’est-ce que c’est?
demimondian
@The Grand Panjandrum: I am just an ordinary guy // burning down the house
Laura W
I was not nominating JCS or praising ALW…I was lusting after Carl Anderson.
HUGE difference.
I thought the parameters of the thread were more broad than an homage to the Stones.
My bad.
Garrigus Carraig
@Andy K: Ahahahaha well played!
Laura W
@demimondian: Damn it. Bonnie Raitt’s version of that from Road Tested is not online. How can that be?
The Grand Panjandrum
@demimondian: Theres too much confusion, I cant get no relief.
Dennis - SGMM
Jose James’ "Desire." the Moodyman remix. Nice.
The Grand Panjandrum
@Laura W: But this one is.
Andy K
@Laura W
Not quite…but this does. Muuwaahaaahaahaa!1!onethousandonehundredandeleven!!
LiberalTarian
Let us not forget the Kinks and their wonderfully subversive lyrics. And puhlease, Lola is tired as an old flip flop.
Try this one.
But, really, my favorite is Celluloid Heroes.
Comrade Kevin
@LiberalTarian: Celluloid Heroes is, indeed, a great song.
demimondian
@The Grand Panjandrum: I can’t get no // satisfaction.
demimondian
@Laura W: Bonnie Raitt? I give you Mary Chapin Carpenter.
AnneLaurie
Soundcard is not working on the "new" (in-the-process-of-being-remodded) home PC. But my Spousal Unit is on his laptop, and having introduced me to the samisen full-choral version of "Smoke on the Water", is now downloading a samisen-versus-tapdancer version of "Duelling Banjos". So if you’re drunk enough, you can go surf the YouToobs on your very owns…
Joel
It’s probably been put out there, but.. what the hell.
tavella
On the non-musical front, some pleasing news: Obama will name Eric Shinseki to his cabinet, at Veterans Affairs.
LanceThruster
"’My God says so’ is not an argument, and an argument plus ‘my God says so’ is not a better argument." ~ LanceThruster
That being said, the Stones kick ass.
Geri
In honor of the season, one of the best Christmas songs ever written, from the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
Calouste
@AnotherBruce:
Rock’n’Roll Circus doesn’t suck as long as you leave out the Rolling Stones. Which was kind of the reason why it took thirty years for it to be released.
And playing after the Who in their prime was kind of like giving a speech following Obama.
OriGuy
In the category of the lamest Christmas song ever:
Christmas in San Francisco, performed by Russ Lorenson, originally by Vic Damone.
I heard this over the loudspeaker at a gas station. It was painful.
Tim in SF
Is this an open thread or an open music-only thread? If the former, then I find this story:
http://www.practicalethicsnews.com/practicalethics/2008/12/the-perfect-cog.html
butting heads with this story: https://balloon-juice.com/?p=14091
I don’t think most people really appreciate how important good salt and good pepper are for cooking. I watch people go through all sorts of elaborate rituals with their cooking, using expensive ingredients and arcane procedures to cook their “gourmet” meal, and then I watch them use Morton’s table salt and/or McCormick’s pure ground pepper (which is really only good for sneezing) and wonder what the hell they are thinking.
Me and my spouse use kosher salt for cooking. It’s easier to work with and all the chefs on foodnetwork.com always say to use it. Over and over again. It goes without saying what I think of pre-ground pepper. I won’t let that drek in the kitchen.
But I sometimes wonder about where I’m supposed to get my iodine, since I’m not getting it in my salt. And now I know why I keep forgetting to do something about it – I’m ‘effing retarded from iodine insufficiency, that’s why.
bago
Yeah, Kosher salt is the only way to go. Those iodized tight crystal bastards will be the death of us all.
bob the hog
The King* says your god isn’t even American.
*How Great Thou Art, live.
The Other Steve
Sad News!
Voters William Jefferson yesterday in Louisiana.
Now the GOP has nobody to point to and say "Look! corruption and incomptence is bipartisan!"
Although there are rumors that the $90,000 found in his freezer was not due to corruption, but rather he was aware of the market downturn long before the rest of us. Wait for Jefferson’s new investment advice book.
Laura W
@The Grand Panjandrum: OK, I’ve woken up in topsy turvy world because I enjoyed that.
Billy Bob Neck
Rolling Stones or that homo version of the life of our Lord and Savior? Pretty much the same thing in my book – or in GOD’S book, too.
Shame on ya!
God is Love!
DougJ
If you’re gonna go with the Stones, do something live. This version of Sweet Virginia is my favorite Stones video.
"You got to scrape the shit right off your shoes". They just don’t write lyrics like that anymore.
Sean
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Comrade Darkness
My god, these guys look so young they could be the neighbor kids next door playing in the garage. That notion is really alarming.
And as well, I have to say:
"More Maracas!!"
Comrade Darkness
@Tim in SF:
But I sometimes wonder about where I’m supposed to get my iodine, since I’m not getting it in my salt. And now I know why I keep forgetting to do something about it – I’m ‘effing retarded from iodine insufficiency, that’s why.
Got a iodine allergy in this house, so I can easily tell you the best sources.
Milk is loaded (in the developed world, anyway. the cow feed is doped heavily and all the milking equipment is cleaned with iodine)
A serving of meat or fish, even freshwater, has about half a day’s supply.
Raw sea creatures and seaweed are loaded. Probably the best source. Sea salt has only a trace, because iodine is volatile and it evaporates quickly. Salt production involves evaporation, ergo…
Potatoes are loaded, but cooking it makes it evaporate.
Commercial bread made with potassium iodate dough conditioner can have a week’s supply in just one sandwich or roughly twice the european safe upper limit.
Multivitamins usually have a two-day supply.
Most fast food chains use iodized salt, most fancy restaurants don’t.
It takes only 3 days for your body to excrete excess iodine, so you do need to have a regular source in your diet.
If you really are interested this is an excellent summary report on the side effects of vitamin overdosing and its sources. You can use it in reverse if you like (I want toxic levels of beta carotene in my diet, dammit!).
Comrade Darkness
And before anyone points it out, yes, I know you cannot be allergic (strictly speaking) to a non-protein. Iodine forms a hapten with another otherwise inoffensive protein and induces a t-cell mediated reaction. But honestly just saying iodine allergy is easier.
darms
Andy K. @ 27 – that Jethro Tull performance is lipsynced & was taped before the actual RSR&RC show. Notice who’s miming the guitar? Tony Iommi…
One of many things I love about this performance, however flawed, is Taj Mahal. His set was live and smokin’.
bob the hog
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama,
He’s So Fine, Hare Rama.My Sweet Lord
George Harrison live with Eric Clapton.
Conrads Ghost
I am blessed. The spirit of the dark lord flows through me; yea, it rolls my stones. Stoned, living anachronistically? Nay, sweet brothers and sisters – remember the church of our future passed, into the present, into the living room, into the living and passing over the dead, for such vessels gather…well, you know what.
canuckistani
@Polish the Guillotines:
Too right, an awesome bit of Who there. Will there ever be another drummer like Keith Moon?