Nick Lowe Rockpile - So It Goes (live 1978)

[romulusaugustulus476]

WTFPOD Episode 253 - Nick Lowe

[cedredecat]

I viewer needs to "go"

[clarkhum]

The first Stiff Records release, with the catalog number BUY 1.

[GoldShower1]

This one of the greatest pop songs EVER, from the MASTER of PowerPop. I can listen to it 20, 30 times in row, and not get bored.

[eliizme]

Deadspin....

[whirledsamess]

I've been a fan of X for a long time and Lowe seems to be John Doe's equivalent across the pond... similar sounds, bass players, great songwriters

[joeyflash100]

I want a suit like that...

[notimewarp]

the first band I ever saw live (opening for Elvis Costello in April of 1978)...

[JohnnyJ301]

One of the coolest guys ever ! Man was this guy ever under rated. His music is amazing !

[LanceHelmut]

pure pop for now people ! what an album..oh the gals i made out with to nick and dave's records.

[maxfrost68]

There is just so much fucking right with this. Tightest band ever, I'd kill to own a suit like Nick Lowe's (and have his hair), Dave Edmunds is looking at his rockabilly best, and Billy Bremner and Terry Williams are as underrated as anyone has ever been.  Jesus of Cool indeed, all of them.

[cbob7]

@maxfrost68 Ya got that right, brother. I saw them perform at Heatwave in 1980, and was completely blown away.

[cottageorgan]

reminds me a lot of of Thin Lizzy in a strange way...Not as good as "I Don't Want The Night to End" my fav. Nick Lowe song....

[hackettstownkrj]

@cottageorgan: Those were my first thoughts too. Nick and co. sounds A LOT like Phil and co.

[suburiboy]

Male 45-54

Male 55-64

Male  35-44

Lol

I love the song.

[Kammler03]

"Better keep ur Backstage-Passes"!!! What more to say ??

Great track - just telling "The Truth" !!!

THANX FOR SHARING !!!

[atopmusprime]

@selsostone THE CLICK FIVE:)

[selsostone]

Does anyone know who sings the newer version of this song? i heard a newer version with keyboard at the gym and it sounds way better. can someone help me?

[bjorn2run]

Thanks for posting. Memories from the good old days.

[voiceofmegatron]

Rockpile was the best.

[troutmask1970]

i remember it from Rock n Roll High School movie

[teehee122100]

WHAT NOW BILLY JOEL.

[lespaulfanofsparta]

yes, this sounds like reelin in the years and reelin in the years sounds like paul simon's feeling groovy. It's all good. Unless you're poor George Harrison. Great song and performance tho, thanks for posting.

[kurtizzyflush]

@lespaulfanofsparta Unless you're George Harrison. Let me tell you something. As a huge Harrison and Beatle fan I find that remark FUNNY AS HELL!

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[jeffdeanable]

Nick's hair looks good.

[bofusnco]

I seen them in 78 at the Circle Theater in Indianapolis for 99 cents with Elvis Costello and Mink DeVille. Elvis was the main "Attraction" but for my 99 cents I thought Nick stole the show.

[panhead55]

whoa, that is and early fender p-bass. worth a pretty penny now. hope he still has it. good tune

[alSation81]

it sounds a lot like "reeling in the years"

[11111111jws]

@alSation81 True but who doesn't rip from any one these days? The idea is to give what you can express as your own the best you can. I didn't relate to it till you mentioned it. good call but there is a thing called copyright law that protects his and everyone else. It is not just our ears.

[jason8234]

Nice barnet on Nick

[RedwoodGeorge]

This brings back the memories - one of the first concerts I ever went to (in 1978, contemporary with this video) when Rockpile opened for Blondie. It was a heck of a show!

[rocktenniscat]

Thanks Nick Lowe for including Toronto on your tour! What a great show. A true rocker and country fan too.  Long live Nick Lowe!

[lunkispunkis]

The verse was a rip-off of Steely Dan's Reelin' In The Years, but it's still a great song.

[pbrick6301]

What a classy dressr Nick Lowe was.

[LucidDream]

Nick Lowe is a bad ass.

[CatapultYourMom]

The Riddler on bass!

[KingHopeMusic]

Damn... I'd LONG forgotten about this song!! What a killer song/melody/chord progression. Very cool and glad you posted this!!! ~KK

[SupperOfTheMightyOne]

This is one of those pastiches that manages to be better than the artist it's modeled after, just like Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" and Genesis's "Silent Sun".

[GTWHITEFEVER]

Check Running back and Freedom song by Thin Lizzy ...then listen again to this : )

[Willydz59]

Great song and excellent performance. This song sounds as fresh today as it did back in the late '70's.

[fireblade95]

excellent

[brambleandramble]

good song. Thin Lizzy style.

[dortyhoor]

Yeah Nick Lowe, when everyone had long hair his was short and spikey, once short hair came back he grew his, love it.

[reissue]

@dortyhoor Nah his fashion was totally not about that. Nick and Dave, all etc. aren't Ronnie Wood hair-fans.

[dortyhoor]

@reissue I never mentioned Ronnie Wood, dirty old fucker that he is. All I meant was look at Lowes hair in 73/4 and it was spikey but not in the same way as that hairdressers salon look Stones style, Yet come 78 it was long.

Thats all.

[pattywig007]

I so miss the question mark suit. Hoping to go to San Fransisco Oct. 1-3 2010 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

[donnyoh]

Nick Lowe and John Hiatt are all ya' need to know about the music of the eighties

[FungusMossGnosis]

Stands with the absolute best of it's time, and naturally, better than most anything since.

[cryptsub]

ever notice the similarity of the verse melody to "reelin' in the years"? I love both songs, so have mercy on me.

[tbzeee]

ladies and gentlemen...mr. billy bremner, lead guitar

[Argos357]

@tbzeee thought it was Dave Edmunds

[luigifan470]

OK Wickie, Rockpile rules.... I'm continuing to love all your music. I just listened to Graham Parker the other day and it totally reminded me of you. I love you. xoxoxo

[lizzyfan1986]

Nick rules!!!!!!!!!!

[creativelenna]

awesome song!

[chinasherry1961]

i bought this album for .50 cents in 1978. Back then almost everybody hated punk and new wave but it stood the test of time to be the best music and still sounds great today

[Tinker2e]

kpig

[rocktenniscat]

Raise a glass to Nick Lowe today - it's his birthday!

[chinasherry1961]

I bought the album pure pop for now people in 1978 for 50 cents it was a closeout back then never heard of Nick Lowe like many new wave groups of the 70's their more popular now then then

[kristlkrost]

Avant garde hip tres chic cool and GREAT!!!!!!

[robinwatauga]

The last great Rock'n'Roll band.

[aamuuzme]

Jesus Of Cool

[zigzagw]

oooooooooooooooh

[929charlene]

Who is on the drums?

[rockpiler10]

The great Terry Williams....

[blacksunfish]

So unbelievably good!

[crazyleg2006]

This is one of my absolute favorite songs ever.

I'm not sure why I love it.

but I do.

Nick was way ahead of his time on this one, Kidd.

[deweypug]

@crazyleg2006 Yup, one of those great things about life, huh?

[sohappyIcouldshit]

@crazyleg2006.. So it goes................

[twangmachine]

@crazyleg2006 You probably like it because of its AWESOMENESS

[biedrzyckijoseph]

The wit, the self-parody...love it!

[petemor]

Just cool man...

[notaphaser]

too cool! You can just see a wisp of Nick's gray starting to bloom. One of my bass heroes...

[iorioriorio]

early seeds ofnew wave, looks and sounds, and dime store jacket

[iorioriorio]

A bit too much like "reeling in the years- steely dan...even the guitar solo at 1:40 is a cheap knocj off....still I liked this....very period, I was there, remember the 80's well

[jaxon522]

rockpile makes steely dan look like the pussy shit they are

[timetrialcrankarm]

aaaaahhhhhh-daydreaming of a Rockpile reunion----don't disturb me..............

[marchomeslice]

The Jesus of Cool!

[swacbro]

love Rockpile & Nick & Dave...great stuff...great video!

[kaloncar]

Wow! Thanks for the great video.

[renmar5257]

Love the hair...

[crapple009]

Evan Dando and Nick Lowe always resembled each other in their younger days,imho.

[PappyHab]

Same Hair ....but thats it.

Dando was a great looking guy in his day.

Lowe looks like any other British male rock star...skinny, pale , big nose and bad teeth.

[crapple009]

Same hair,tall,lanky,similar eyes (especially in this clip,with the bangs-in-eyes-look).But after 1979 the similarity definitely stops.

Dando at times resembled his idol,Gram Parsons(imo) as Wiganmaher mentioned the physical similarities between Parsons and Lowe.

[VJTechnologies]

Did Nick steal that green jacket from Frank Gorshin?

[cloonmore]

nice take on one of the best 45s ever

[stripeyhole]

Don't be votin' me down for saying that guys who have lost their hair envy other guys with lots of the stuff--my fella's hairline started receding when he was in his late teens, so I know this to be the truth.

[Quickstoptim]

Just Guessing: Nick Lowe weighs about 14 pounds in this clip.

[stripeyhole]

I bet there are a lot of middle-aged and older guys who would love to have that hair.

[theonlytruepunk]

Hahahahaha...like I said, I still have the bowl my mom used to cut his hair. I may sell it on ebay soon...hahahaha.

[94greenfreak]

Hahaha seriously!! wow did she really cut his hair?? i think i might buy it! jk =P

[theonlytruepunk]

She has bowls for every size head...a big green one was for Nick!!

[hawkmoon03111951]

You're so right. Mine used to be thick, shiny and very long back in the late sixties early seventies. It just doesn't look right now if I grow it too long. Ah lost youth. How I'd love to have my hair the way I used too.

[stripeyhole]

Your hair still looks good in your photo.

[Wiganmaher]

Nick Lowe looked distinctly like Gram Parsons in those days. Still - probably one of Basher's best numbers

[bandcouver]

Yeah. DS got overplayed.

The best music isn't played to death on the radio.

[bandcouver]

Terry Williams would later play drums in Dire Straits.

[theonlytruepunk]

I detest Dire Straits...so sad

[gabryniasz]

Do you know why he was not in the band anymore during the On Every Street period? He is the greatest drummer in the world...

[millerman60]

I saw Rockpile in 1978 at the Circle Theater in Indianapolis with Mink DeVille and Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Man, what a show!

[tera46]

FUCK ! I BET ..WISH I WAS THERE.

[shelly10538]

I think this might be the midnight special tv show from the usa. might explain the flashiness, maybe they thought that was needed for the us market.

[BillyBobYT]

Boy, they sure were flash for this one. Nice hair, Nick!

[theonlytruepunk]

My mom still has the bowl she used on his hair when she used to cut it...

[winecollector]

Another great song from Nick Lowe + 50,000 WATTS !

[assemblyday]

Great quality vid. Many thanks!!!!!

[stkaris]

The band I would most like to see re-unite. Frackin' great!

[slightlyperturbedmax]

Why didn't they make a live album?

[theonlytruepunk]

They probably never thought of it or maybe they didn't want to. I hope that answers your question?

[slightlyperturbedmax]

I suppose. But let me rephrase it as a statement. It's a great shame that they never released a live album.

[Unabomber2]

50.000 Wattssssss

[ssalemi]

This is AWESOME!

[ChasBeauregarde]

Seeing Rockpile perform 1979 in Central Park was one of the top 5 concert experiences for me.

[bimsie01]

I heard this song again in the movie Adventureland and was reminded how much I love it.

[fulls787]

excellent, thanks for posting this great song.

its been ringing in my head since I heard it back in the 70's on FM radio.

(wour96.9)

[Stainboy669]

Shit hot!

[ssalemi]

agreed, fantastic!  Nick is THE JESUS OF COOL!

[diskochimp]

Fantastic stuff! I still LOVE this song...

[Islwynpaul]

Nick says that he was never a great bass guitarist it was just that he kept good time and kept it simple. Whatever he did, he did it right and everything he was involved in was just right. Brinsleys, Rockpile, Hiatt, Costello, whoever he played with he just produced the goods. Thanks for this.

[OL55CADDY]

Got to see Rockpile in Philadelphia, PA. A great show! We got up and danced in the aisles. Later that year I read a Dave Edmunds interview where he lamented

"On the whole tour they only got up and danced in Philadelphia!" Our claim to fame!

[mauimauvais]

The verse of "Reelin' in the Years," definitely. And yeah, there's some Lizzy in there.

[ToniLCD]

Not only does the song remind of Steely Dan but has anyone noticed it has a sound redolent of a lot of Thin Lizzy's songs????

[ewetyube]

Agreed. There are definite strains of Phil Lynott in this song. That was such a huge loss to the music world.

[ocelotxp]

Which song from Steely Dan? Nothing's ringing a bell. I always thought Steely Dan had a stronger jazz influence in their sound.

[YouAre256ColoursToo]

well i see what you mean, but i would agree, it's got a little bit of the phrasing in some steely dan songs! but i think it really really sounds like thin lizzy.

[dytakeda]

The "Reeling in the Years" reference is the use of descending bass notes under the chords. The feel and melody are completely different thought.

[stripeyroom]

The hair! The suit! The (white) shoes (and black socks)!

[PyrateAnny]

Can't decide what I love more -- the green Riddler suit, or Nick pushing back his too-long hair to show us his pretty blue eyes. Saw him perform live at the Mod Club in Toronto in 2007, and he's still the Jesus of Cool!

[Bobjb999]

"Jesus of Cool"!

-The audacious title of that great album this song's on, whose title got censored for "sensitive", easily offended North American record buyers. The name got watered down to the innocuous "Pure Pop for Now People" in the US and Canada.

-A cheeky UK promo button of the time read: "The Jesus of Cool is a Testament of Aural Sects"! I liked Nick's "Marie Provost" song, a true tale of Hollywood has-been, M. Prevost,who died in her seedy apt. and got eaten by her dachshund!

[bathsheba56]

That hungry little dachshund! She was a winnner/ that became the doggies dinner.

What an incongruous pop song!

[Bobjb999]

Yeah. Who coulda dreamed up such a song-tale? Since truth is stranger than fiction, Nick was inspired to write it after reading about "poor poor Marie" in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon book of scandals.Nick saw the photo there of bloated-in-death Marie in an ugly polka dot dress face down on her bed ("and now I see poor Marie").

You can see doggy's  bite marks on her leg, and there's a chunk missing from her calf! Well, "even little doggies have gotta eat"... A song odd-but-great!

[crapple009]

The same thing happened to Bram Tchaikovsky's second l.p.,The Russians Are Coming.For the U.S. market, it was changed to Pressure.

Sheesh!

[deweypug]

One of the greatest times to be alive and witness this kind of music...

[psychobollox]

TELECASTER BASS!!!!! YAY!!!!

[ronfrankl]

I got to see them at the Bottom Line in NYC in 1978, sitting in the very front row. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. What an amazing band! Thanks for sharing this video.

[crapple009]

That was the infamous gig where a-very-out-of-it Keith Richards joined them on stage,which pissed-off Dave Edmunds immensely?

[ronfrankl]

Same engagement , different night.

[crapple009]

Lucky you!! I must console myself with seeing Rockpile open for Blondie July 20,1979 (my first-ever concert at 14 yrs.old).I went by myself and duly bought Labour of Lust shortly there after,thus becoming the life-long hard-core Nick Lowe fan I am and  I yam what I yam.

[ronfrankl]

I saw the same bill, around the same time! I think it was at a thoroughbred racetrack in NY. Rockpile blew Blondie away. What a great band they were. It's too bad they didn't stay together longer. I'm glad Nick's had such a great run the last decade. Who'd have thought that getting a composition on "The Bodyguard" soundtrack would be the event that turned his life around?

[incongra]

Was it really? -I did hear that they didn't get on.  Both of them were heavily influenced by Chuck Berry. ( the signature Chuck Berry "intro" lick in particular)

[biedrzyckijoseph]

Im not a musician; please help me understand the Reelin in the Years reference. Thanks.

I'm a fan of SD and Mr. Lowe.

[bitterandrew]

"Reeling in the Years" is a classic Steely Dan song...as much as such a thing can exist.

[biedrzyckijoseph]

Thanks. Maybe I wasn't that clear. I am familiar with "Reelin'" it's my ring tone. But I still can't hear the chords and/or melody that suggest that the music is the same or a rip-off....Again, I'm not a musician.

[bitterandrew]

The sing-talk verses in the two songs are where the similarity lies.

[elrodracing]

I never noticed that...I've always dug both songs.

Cool!

[NewPaltzIndie]

noticed one of his albums today looked interessting and typed this up; first time i've ever heard him! great stuff i love it!!!!

[biedrzyckijoseph]

Absolutely incendiary! I have never seen him so wired. Total blast from the past!

[lahcymqq]

The goods. Nick is the man. That's it, that's all

[diskochimp]

I know it's only really a punked-up "Reeling In The Years" but, fuck me, it's awesome innit?

[liquidlena]

love Rockpile. great performance by Mr. Lowe and his fabulous coif

[bobgure]

So fking hip were these guys! What could be better?

God, what a time. So exiting.

Everything was exploding back then - PubRock,Punk,Pop.

[borat27]

no one realised yet that this is a rip-off of steely dan's Reelin in the years verse melodies? still like these guys, though.

[hotcider]

Good Point.

[xMandark98]

his hair reminds me of johnny ramone

[SurelyYouJoust]

Great!

[clumb3]

the best clip of this song ever

I love you Nick!

[varsityredheads]

Great suit. God, Nick was skinny then.  Then again, so was I. Terrific song. Great video. Back when bands playing live, even on t.v., meant actually playing LIVE. Typical 1970's t.v. audience though: everyone just sitting there on their hands.

[nitramtenab]

stiffs first single great to see them back in 08

[cardwellers]

Beautiful clip - great song, great sound, great playing, great hair, great attitude! Thanks for posting.

[1jammn57Dewd]

from the LP: Pure Pop For Now People... very cool

[johnnymoondog]

I once met Dave Edmunds after a Rockpile gig and asked him for his guitar pick.

He gave it to me and it said "Cheap Trick/ Rick Nielson" on it.

I said " thats not your pick !" and he replied, " I know ! Its Rick Nielsons !" LOL !

[cLoi510]

love the song, also love the click five cover

[johnnymoondog]

2 minutes 37 of BLISS !

[giantplanet]

5 Stars faved ,cheers :)

[RODWESRRYL]

Kyle's version is better... LOL

But, yeah... His the orignal one.

[fridita666]

Absolutely WONDERFUL!

[Detroit1967]

Mindboggling great. Dig the Mod haircut by Nick contrasting the 70s Rocker outfits of Billy and Dave.