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yeah, he's the father of rock and roll. yet chuck berry has been a sloppy, indifferent performer for MOST of his career. (and he hasn't improved with age.) also, he isn't a particularly prolific songwriter. he's written two hundred some odd songs over a fifty plus year career, so that averages ...

witty musical joke on vinne moore's part....ending "too hot to handle" (ufo's best tune, in my humble opinion. arguable their signature tune.) with the famous note sequence associated with the "ufo" in "close encounteres of the third kind." wonder how many members of the audience got the joke....

the prudes won't like the clip, and it's definitely not for children, but from a distanced perspective this video is good clean (dirty) fun. deliciously raunchy........

@willweagraff it also is one of the first proto-punk songs, along with cochran's "summertime blues."

@AlanRickmanfan12 girl bands out there like the runaways? well........i think the donnas are still together. they might be the nearest thing to the runaways that's around today.

paki? in my neck of the woods, "packy" means a package store. a place where you buy whiskey. when i heard the clip, i thought iggy was talking about walking past a package store, or perhaps walking into one........

i guess this is a huey lewis song and phil is apparently aping lewis' vocal mannerisms while singing it. lynott imitating lewis. not the best work of the irish singer/songwriter. he could have written his own song expressing the same sentiments and could have sung it in a more personal, "authe...

@peterzang the bangles aren't QUITE a joke band. they had a (marginal) role in the california "paisley underground" music scene of the eighties. back then they were known as "the bangs." so i guess they rate at least a footnote in alternative music history.

@thisloginisunique ian gillan thought that "get into her pants" was too raunchy. so he wrote "get into her pantry" on the official lyric sheet. what he SINGS is "get into her pants." (this practice is common. lyric sheets OFTEN differ from what is actually being sung. there is one KISS song in...

@longwhip there is a video that features the album version of the solo. it's not really a performance video. it's the "official" video, a "mini movie" depicting a post apocalyptic scenario that has nothing to do with the lyric. i'd rather see a video about lucy (the dancer) and nancy (who was s...

@Runrome as i've said over and over, the greatest voice (mogg) and the greatest guitar (schenker) in rock. mogg's lyrics ARE better than anything ian gillan or robert plant could write. buy they are not necessarily better than anything by springsteen or phil lynott. but with mogg's singing, sc...

this is one of mogg's better lyrics. not one of his best, but still good. sure, he's imitating springsteen a bit. but the lyric stands up as a more or less coherent whole. it doesn't really tell a story, but it sets up an atmosphere. and there are no lines that stick out like sore thumbs or...

@bootytoot actually, i can understand why someone might not LIKE this. little steven sacrifices subtlety for power. i like it when he does this. i think it's great. but for a fan of someone like smokie robinson (or even lionel richie), some of steven's stuff might seem a bit bombastic.

@ck1usa "men without women" is so well regarded in "hipster" circles that it can't be thought of as "unknown." merely the fact that is shares the same title with a legendary collection of ernest hemingway short stories ensures it at least a footnote in pop culture history.

i guess they always loved michael schenker and ufo in cleveland. phil mogg and michael schenker are "superstars" there, even if they aren't all that well known in the united states as a whole.

@sidchaos1988 i like that. the idea that sid used a swastika in order to DEFUSE the meaning of the symbol. this is what people don't get, i guess. the idea that symbols could be used in an ironic way in order to defuse their (perceived) meaning. today, in our postmodern age, we shouldn't take ...

@gsquared38 mogg was a better vocalist than plant. schenker was (arguably) a better guitarist than page. zep were experimental in their own bombastic, overblown, wrongheaded way. ufo experimented within a more limited yet (ironically) deeper range. mogg's down-to-earth street poetry compositions ...

@thekillingjimmy the specific name of this kind of music is ufo. ufo were unique. even without schenker, mogg was able to impose his sensibility on the band. what ufo did MIGHT be compared to springsteen, southside johnny, steve van zandt, etc. but mogg had a grittier, darker vision than these pe...

i still contend that this is one of the lesser ufo songs. the arrangement is too springsteen-ish. and mogg even seems to be imitating springsteen in the lyric (though at one point he echoes lou reed).

it's sort of like a beat happening cover of "old town." this band seems to take the piss out of the tune, removing the pretentiousness and self pity of the original version and replacing them with an affectless kind of amateurish minimalism . (sorry, phil. you were great. but you weren't above...

@TheBlackWaltz the people in china probably heard about it from the japanese. and there are more than a billion people in china........

@bananaface4 WAS so fucking sexy................

@GINGERALER this is probably true. but it's also ironic in a sense, since much american hiphop influenced r and b pop is really "eurodance" in disguise.

@suxiety how lucky you were getting the cycle sluts to kick your arse. i met one of them when i used to live in new york, but she didn't perform any acts of bdsm on my body. (just having some fun with you.)

@SoberGeorge i probably shouldn't knock patti hansen. she's a bladder cancer survivor, and the disease had a role in my father's death. but she does appear to have been facilitatiing keith's drug and alcohol use for the last twenty some odd years. (none of the articles about her ever seem to me...

@idrismetalcore would you prefer that the pentagon be evacuated before this test is made? or would you like the pentagon employees to remain in the building to be used as "test subjects" for the experiment?

i suppose we should commend phil lynott because he had enough "balls" to write a song about "gay boys." and it is a good song. in fact, it compares favorably with the best of thin lizzy. but the lyric is a tissue of cliches and stereotypes. perhaps lynott should have called the song "drag boy...

"island of lost souls" is really blondie's "lost classic." (i first heard it on a compilation of the band's "hits," though it certainly wasn't a hit in the united states.) debbie harry is a first rate song stylist, an interpretive singer, although nobody seems to think of her in those terms. co...

@hilariousnewshow10 i never thought of it that way. a jealous woman telling another female not to mess around with her "boy."

@Broadfieldpoint i think that an argument could be made that at one time michael schenker WAS the best guitarist in rock n roll, and phil mogg was the genre's best singer.

the video makes a very good point. phil lynott and bruce springsteen were both influenced by van morrison. but they took morrison's aesthetic and toughened it up, making it harder and more melodic in a concise way. and lynott and springsteen then went on to influence the pop/rock world in gene...

yeah, atomik tommy m is great. no doubt about that. but i just realized that all of his guitar solos seem to follow the same pattern. from moment to moment, you can pretty much tell what he is going to play. (which doesn't mean that what he's going to play will be bad, or that you won't enjoy ...

@sleaze777 he may be the greatest singer in rock n roll. he's certainly one of the greatest. much better than mick jagger, roger daltrey, and ray davies for sure.

@DressSmartLookHard i guess i just don't "get" johnny thunders completely. and i never have for twenty years, though i'm attempting to do so now. he was an interesting but erratic guitar player. yet he apparently has been quite influential. he's an acquired taste but many people seem to have...