Alan Vega

[DanDeePee]

@phantomrider78 i somewhat agree, although he may just have been trying to fuck with people, which would put him even farther ahead of his time haha. In either case, this isnt the highlight of his career.

[amelia0086]

such a great song

[winterstellar]

Oh, and Alan Vega rules!!

[winterstellar]

Just commenting to remove the troll from the page here.

[shockabsorber04]

le rock'n roll dégluingué,comme j'adore!

c'est lundi,hein,hein,

c'est mardi,hein,hein...

[schrankievronger]

had her head his behind

he her his he behind head

had his behind he had head

heeee her!

[theCluevi]

Αυτο ειναι stylosSs xaxaxaxa jamenios

[cheecho63]

would not surprise me if george m. got 1 of his hits from

[ZERecordsOfficial]

Alan Vega : Album « Jukebox Babe » 1980

This track is a ZE Records Original Sound Recording

Remastered Digital available from our web site @ zerecords com

ZE Records Independent since 1978

[Marilyn1122]

This is kinda stupid.

[phantomrider78]

Why do people like this? This is honestly not a highlight from Alan's career. If this is "artistic expression", it's pretentious and self-indulgent. He is trying to sing in a rockabilly fashion which you all have to admit, he is did a shitty job on. This is one of those performance that the hipsters like to hail as amazing just to act like they are in on some artistic revelation, when in all reality, it sucks.

[worldbones]

@phantomrider78 get a grip troll, not everyone has the same opinion as you. I fucking hate people who think THEY'RE RIGHT about everything.

Love this song! :D

[phantomrider78]

@worldbones the song still sucks. 

[jytdog]

* refrain * 5th verse *

little alien get yourself get yourself a girl uh huh huh

juke box baby playin on the phone uh huh huh

american soliders rollin home uh huh huh * refrain * 6th verse and last *

come to the hotels in for truth uh huh huh

juke box baby flames are human uh huh huh

lyin on clear, the cellar over me * refrain * surely a lot of that is wrong and note this flows upward not downward stupid character limit!

[jytdog]

2nd verse little lady says my name uh huh juke box baby plain a strange game eh hey hey fly jumpin babe out looking for fame * refrain * * 3rd verse * come home october that's where i stood eh hey hey juke box baby playin a giant rack hot shot gambler looking for a play * refrain * harmonica solo * * 4th verse * st francis street electron walk uh huh huh juke box baby playin on the floor avengin angel feeding the poor uh huh huh

[jytdog]

ok, lyrics sounded way crazy -- googled for them and found nada. so I listened and wrote what I heard- what do you hear? 1st verse came from nowhere out on st. francis street uh huh huh juke box baby playin' a new beat uh huh huh cadilac king, watch for the heat uh huh huh refrain is juke box baby juke box babe juke box baby juke box babe juke box baby juke box babe uh huh huh

[cheekymonkey1979]

He's such a shamen. He just condensed every rock and roll song into one loop and channeled all the ghosts of America over the top. Genius. And I don't use that term lightly

[xUxIbErThO65BrOoTaL]

this is the soundtrack of chanel cruise 2007 colection

[Nomanisrdy]

it's weird hearing Alan's voice without echo or reverb, ha. this song is awesome though :)

[punkxxxxxrocker]

The French were crazy about this song.

[PermaDave]

@punkxxxxxrocker that's interesting...explains Plastic Bertrand etc

[unmedication]

@2apolameguro. This is music for human with an EQ (emotional coefficient) above a nail... Or a desk clerk for that matter.

[PermaDave]

@unmedication wtf? Who the hell are you?

[pzemke1]

@verobin1 Cool story:o)

[pzemke1]

@verobin1 Cool Story.

[FunhouseJr]

That shot of him through luncheonette window is the same exact shot and location as the cover of 8 Eyed Spy's album.

[pidza21]

pretty much traditional rock and roll done uniquely.

[djsundancekid]

Ten years ahead of his time

[HORSJEU]

i think he s the granfather psychobilly

[nichmars]

Hey, he's cool but how can he be the grandfather of psychobilly if he came out of the 70's? Look up Hasil Adkins.

[whsonic]

good music

[cheekymonkey1979]

@whsonic Well said.

[TheWeeBit]

Saw a show on the French screen at the time, he was playing his tape recorders and stuff and was receiving loads of spits and garbage. it adds now to the legend. This guy has something at the time...

[FlashFace]

What a star. Brilliant, absolutely fucking brilliant.

[princecharlessex]

where i can find lyrics? I am french and i would like find lyrics in english.

thanks

[FelixLeeArtist]

I love this.

[thadbrains]

I do too. It's brilliant. this is music!

[RedPanther9]

YEAAAAAAH

[fastn1]

my mum went to see them and said they were the best and alans toddler gave the crowd the cross hands! wearing skeleton baby grow

[joandidionrules]

i would love to get punched in the throat by him

[PoP1of1Quality]

@joandidionrules auahua..your comment made me laugh real hard =DDD

[SpaceBambino]

your standard of perfection is an american idol winner and you're trying to convince anyone you have good taste?

go turn on mtv, pal

its safer there

[piper4seeformerly]

Don't judge me brother! I was just speaking my mind. I doubt Alan Vegas's reading these comments, at least that was my reasoning at the time, but if he is, I take it back. You know how easy it is to shoot your mouth off here when you have all this anonymity. Peace.

[SpaceBambino]

yeah ok,

you sound sincere

take care!

[Davidrogerman]

jaja... a mi me suena a "chuapa babe chupa babe"

[Endlessdark6]

comments so long yay

[yomotoro]

the headband keeps the wig from falling

[cosmicvoi]

Alright to the man with the CIGARETTE!!!

[groslucas]

it is a surrealistic parody of Rock'n'roll from the 50's...

[yomotoro]

love the wig

[pyroklanis]

do u mean weed dude??

[irocz0r]

I killed myself.

[wmwinterbottom]

Certainly wouldn't see this stuff on the tube in the states.

[mizr11]

you gotta love how he shouts and moans at random. Long live Alan Vega~

[kidcalabria]

I bought the first Suicide album when it came out...people thought I was crazy...but this is corny, pedestrian, he sings out of tune, the guitar is slightly out of tune... it makes R&R look & sound very pre-fab, shallow & a cliche'...it seemed much better then...probably I'll get lots of hate mail cause you guys never saw The Sex Pistols The Velvets or whatever live...in fact if you show this to someone whose judgement isn't ruined by mythology he will find this lame like danhmiller down here...

[itsPenguinBoy]

However you could say support for any band was just a result of another more wide-spread mythology and references to all the music we hear growing up, stories we're told.... doesn't really make it any worse does it? Maybe the mythology is part of the action, or maybe it opens things up for certain people so they can go "oo i get it now".

[kidcalabria]

I'm not sure I know what you mean. When I think of artists I like I think of taste, not "support", it's not football. My taste is based on the work people do. Perhaps I'm older & today there's too much "mythology" & too little "action". Sometimes it seems that young people don't quite get what R&R is about in the first place & have a somewhat distorted view of it. Anyway, I like Alan Vega, but not necessarily this as I've already said, & also why I don't. The man should & could have done better

[itsPenguinBoy]

I don't know, I just don't think mythology ruins judgment as you said. It's all part and parcel of an interpretation which inevitably is always going to be built on similarly unstable personal factors. I'm not saying you can't dislike the track, just disagreeing on that point.

[kidcalabria]

I don't know what you mean by mythology. I see it as stuff that's not for real. Like the Paul Is Dead Beatles thing in 69. It was silly & Mc Cartney's not cool, but that tries to make him interesting. The Velvet Underground, godfathers of Punk, is silly too; apart from wearing black, feedback & playing dark songs about metropolitan alienation, ecc..they aren't as direct & plain like The Ramones or The Pistols' Punk Rock..so these are platitudes & detract from the music, it's just for the birds..

[itsPenguinBoy]

It's always about more than the music... even the music is about more than the music, if not it'd spiral into nowhere, and be so abstracted from the mainstream i'd be surprised if it got anywhere without a bit of a background story by at least someone (which minimalism often gets)...

[itsPenguinBoy]

if it was just about music, pistols would never have needed Vivienne Westwood, the politics wouldn't have been there... Mythology may be untrue, but so are many of the lyrics of the songs metaphorical, that doesn't make them insignificant, because both the metaphors and the mythologies mix to create what a band means to someone... and what they reveal ARE truths.

[itsPenguinBoy]

The music, the people, the stories, the interviews, the misquotes, the clothes, the culture all compose themselves into a wider aesthetic that people buy into... the mythology is like a literature written by a collective author made of everyone there at the time, everyone who wishes they were there at the time... and it's not isolated to suicide or alan vega and does not detract from the worthiness of any bands for appreciation

[kidcalabria]

You see, I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure I'd agree. I would have years ago, or when I was your age (I can safely assume I'm older than you). The rest goes, the music stays, if it's good enough to stand up by itself in the first place. I used to devour music magazines & books, now I don't touch the stuff. I find those things full of hyperbole & taking itself too seriously. 90% of R&R is crap. I'm interested in the 10%, being a musician: Dylan, Lennon, The Velvets, Hendrix, etc..

[gumbijusti]

It's funny how this was playing for a Chanel fashion show for the Cruise collection. The models were flown in and walked out of the airplanes on the runway of the Santa Monica Airport posing on conveyor belts.

[djsundancekid]

Original kind of psychobilly

[FlashFace]

Alan Vega at his peak. Ab-so-lute-ly fuckin' BRILLIANT!!!

[STAROCK]

Cool! Sounds like your mouth is full of chewing gum! If it's bubble gum, you could blow a bubble or if you have enough initiative you could swollow the thing!

[snne1]

jükebòx bäbyiiiiiììììì..... the speaker was too cool! :D

[Borrelovescolmic]

I remember twenty years ago people paid a little fortune for this song on vinyl.

[Ruad]

hahaha

[danhmiller]

HAHHAH this man is the lames fucking artist ever 2:11 thru 2:15 makes me laugh every time... so ridiculous i mean is he on drugs?

[rotkhotarkovsky]

GENIUS!

[castingtherunes]

Can't get enough of that rhythm and one of a kind shriek!

[woglakapi]

Minimalist Rock-a-billy... I used to love it when I was... hem, very young :O)

[lothloriensleaf]

this is soo coool! it was also featured on the recent chanel cruise collection runway show!

[teameymelli1]

1980...lol

[FlashFace]

Vega is a one off.  An underrated born genius. New album "Station" is incredible. Rock on, Alan.

[tstilll]

This is so funny.

[albinocobra1]

this is blowing my tubesocks right off my feet !

[albinocobra1]

Sweet Jesus...my ball sack's exploding !!!

[massdeception]

Sweet Jesus My ballsack's exploding-best comment ever

[woglakapi]

What does have Jesus to do with your balls???

[LESMANIAdotcom]

And then a few yrs later, he records the same song again for the Saturn Strip album, changing it just slightly and calling it Video Babe.... Both are brilliant, of course!

[PS64]

This song opens Alan Vega's first solo album.The man is a Genius,a true Rock'n'Roll Hero.

[tonnerrro]

do anybody know on which alan vega

album this song is??

greats from berlin

[fritsflits007]

you can find it at/the single or new wave club classic or a lp version also a new wave compilation

[kantes]

me too! good stuff!

Salut les p'tit loups!(remember?only for french)

[arbethnot]

just too good....this record kills me

[ghostrider70]

this is really cool. love that red headband and matching sparkly jacket. he could not have lived anywhere else but nyc to have made this.