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Post by NoShear on Dec 23, 2023 16:22:20 GMT
While shopping at Barnes & Noble yesterday, I ran across the following and thought of the collective crew which often inhabits the Music section:  Being a fan of the WHO, I first thought of: ...but that's full-blown alcoholism, so how about this tasteful take on what Pete Townshend would probably type "the grape" - Happy Holidays, BunnyWhit, galacticgirrrl, I Love Melvin, intrepid37, jamesjazzguitar, and Sepiatone wherever you may be... |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Dec 24, 2023 0:30:22 GMT
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 24, 2023 0:54:39 GMT
While shopping at Barnes & Noble yesterday ...but that's full-blown alcoholism, so how about this tasteful take on what Pete Townshend would probably type "the grape" - Happy Holidays, BunnyWhit, galacticgirrrl, I Love Melvin, intrepid37, jamesjazzguitar, and Sepiatone wherever you may be... YES! Happy Holidays to all The Music Lovers. Shopping on December 22~ ! You will need many a cup of mulled wine glogg to survive that foray melee. The holiday tree album artwork is quite neat. >but that's full-blown alcoholism Oh dear. So wrong to laugh at that. I went right to Days of Wine and Roses (since I have already posted The Bottle Let me Down) SOoooo many to choose from. I'll go cinematic for 100... Paul McCartney & Wings - Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) McCartney says he was on vacation in Montego Bay, Jamaica where he "snuck" onto the set of the film Papillon where he met Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. After a dinner with Hoffman, with McCartney playing around on guitar, Hoffman did not believe that McCartney could write a song "about anything", so Hoffman pulled out a magazine where they saw the story of the death of Pablo Picasso and his famous last words, "Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore." McCartney created a demo of the song and lyrics on the spot. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 24, 2023 15:05:38 GMT
From a somewhat unexpected (but I suppose not really) source, there's this recent addition to the canon.
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Post by NoShear on Dec 24, 2023 16:17:46 GMT
While shopping at Barnes & Noble yesterday ...but that's full-blown alcoholism, so how about this tasteful take on what Pete Townshend would probably type "the grape" - Happy Holidays, BunnyWhit, galacticgirrrl, I Love Melvin, intrepid37, jamesjazzguitar, and Sepiatone wherever you may be... YES! Happy Holidays to all The Music Lovers. Shopping on December 22~ ! You will need many a cup of mulled wine glogg to survive that foray melee. The holiday tree album artwork is quite neat. >but that's full-blown alcoholism Oh dear. So wrong to laugh at that. I went right to Days of Wine and Roses (since I have already posted The Bottle Let me Down) SOoooo many to choose from. I'll go cinematic for 100... Paul McCartney & Wings - Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) McCartney says he was on vacation in Montego Bay, Jamaica where he "snuck" onto the set of the film Papillon where he met Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. After a dinner with Hoffman, with McCartney playing around on guitar, Hoffman did not believe that McCartney could write a song "about anything", so Hoffman pulled out a magazine where they saw the story of the death of Pablo Picasso and his famous last words, "Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore." McCartney created a demo of the song and lyrics on the spot. In the voice of Jack Lemmon's JFK character: Oh, you're so naive, Mr. Hoffman. George Martin once said that Paul McCartney could drop a melody at the drop of the proverbial hat. Of McCartney melodies and Montego Bay:  Merry Christmas, galacticgirrrl. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 24, 2023 22:47:04 GMT
Yes, galacticgirl, spread the Christmas cheer on your travels.  |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 24, 2023 23:10:42 GMT
Yes, galacticgirl, spread the Christmas cheer on your travels. OMG! I love that - ta ILM. Not too late to get these dolls on my Christmas list to Santa I hope. Although I already asked him for the Stevie Nicks doll so now I am just getting greedy. Glad tidings to you Oh He of Great Taste and you my little NoShear shearling. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 24, 2023 23:54:45 GMT
OMG! I love that - ta ILM. Not too late to get these dolls on my Christmas list to Santa I hope. Although I already asked him for the Stevie Nicks doll so now I am just getting greedy. Glad tidings to you Oh He of Great Taste and you my little NoShear shearling. Back at ya. Hope George and Judy are also one of your stops.  This one goes out to you. And something to tickle your funny bone, NoShear. |
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Post by NoShear on Dec 25, 2023 2:21:20 GMT
Yes, galacticgirl, spread the Christmas cheer on your travels. ^  Originally, I Love Melvin, I'd planned to offer up the above as a paean to yellow vinyl, but its trajectory obviously found its way into orbit with galacticgirrrl and you here instead... A child of the GIjOE 45, I naturally and nostalgically bought the following while taking part in the Los Angeles punk scene experience of the early 1980s:  Back to the SPACEWALK MYSTERY, I easily can imagine your rebellious self, galacticgirrrl, having become disillusioned with the oppressive constraints of Barbie ethos, taking control of a brother's or boy cousin's space capsule here, locking him outside the house and informing the hysterical lad that he's going to find it difficult getting back in without his space helmet: |
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Post by NoShear on Dec 25, 2023 2:21:38 GMT
Yes, galacticgirl, spread the Christmas cheer on your travels. OMG! I love that - ta ILM. Not too late to get these dolls on my Christmas list to Santa I hope. Although I already asked him for the Stevie Nicks doll so now I am just getting greedy. Glad tidings to you Oh He of Great Taste and you my little NoShear shearling. Thank you, galacticgirrrl, and be sure to take a quick suborbital liftoff one post above here at your convenience... |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 12, 2024 3:54:38 GMT
Finally I get back to the drinking songs - aka feeling spaced out when one consumeths too much whiskey, man thread.
Satellite girl is fabulous. Never heard it before. It may bump Ben Lee's Pop Queen as my theme song.
In case your weather conditions didn't allow for this gem to play on the old red & gold....happy belated holidaze ILM.
The Spotnicks - The Rocket Man (1962)
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 12, 2024 4:06:04 GMT
NoShear - simply fab gear. I don't know how on earth I missed out on GI Joe in space - probably a good thing - I would have suffered irreparable space capsule envy.
Apparently I've come a long way baby - geez even I crack up when she hits the disco dance floor after a hard day in space. Eat your heart out Roberta Bondar.
1985 Astronaut Barbie doll Commercial | Mattel
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 16, 2024 16:52:39 GMT
I heard Amos Milburn today, which (naturally) made me think of this crew. Milburn recorded a lot of drinking tunes, including "Thinking and Drinking", "Bad, Bad Whiskey", "Vicious, Vicious Vodka", and "Good, Good Whiskey." I see a theme, don't you? More importantly, Milburn was the first to record Rudy Toombs' "One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer" (Originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, and One Beer") in 1953. That's all well and good, but to me the tune belongs to the great John Lee Hooker. Others have covered it, but no one ever did it better than Hooker.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 16, 2024 18:15:24 GMT
The Chairman of the Board was also the Chairman of the Barflies when it came to mood music.
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Post by NoShear on Feb 17, 2024 17:12:59 GMT
OMG! I love that - ta ILM. Not too late to get these dolls on my Christmas list to Santa I hope. Although I already asked him for the Stevie Nicks doll so now I am just getting greedy. Glad tidings to you Oh He of Great Taste and you my little NoShear shearling. Back at ya. Hope George and Judy are also one of your stops. This one goes out to you. And something to tickle your funny bone, NoShear. Gosh, I Love Melvin, my face is red: I don't know how this wonderful post of yours got lost in the Christmas cheer that abounded here, so... I was thinking that there might be some congressional inquiry into your post retroactively opened, but the current political scene is so topsy-turvy, maybe not: comrades in arms.  It did tickle the proverbial funny bone, I Love Melvin: I love the last line about the weather being 98.6 in Greenwich Village! (Reminded me of a quip posted in response to a report of David Lee Roth's cranial x-rays following an accident: "Nothing was found.") |
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