Friday was payday for me, so it was off to Ditch to pick up a couple long players they had set aside.
I am slowly but surely collecting The Replacements discography as best I can, so I grabbed Hootenanny. As I have blogged before, I love the Meat Puppets so their important record II was on the shopping list.
My wife Coral, she had a mad lust to hear the ‘An Innocent Man’ album cut “Christie Lee” so we also got our hands on that record as well. I hope you enjoy listening to some selections off this week’s stack of wax.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to music.
Click to stream>> Playing 33s: his name was always Joe to me
***
DJ Notes
01) Billy Joel – “Uptown Girl”
02) Billy Joel – “Christie Lee”
03) The Replacements – “Color Me Impressed”
04) The Replacements – “Within Your Reach”
05) Meat Puppets – “Plateau”
06) Meat Puppets – “Aurora Borealis”
All the records I played on this mix are from 1983! Whoa… the year Coral was born.
An Innocent Man is Billy Joel’s tribute to the music of his youth. You’ll hear elements of doo-wop, motown, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
The set begins with “Uptown Girl,” Joel’s first UK #1 hit and a song he wrote about about his soon-to-be wife, Christie Brinkley.
Growing up, Coral had the cassette for this record and she is very familiar with all the songs. She had a desire to hear the album cut “Christie Lee” (also a song named after his wife).
oddly, on iTunes you can buy greatest hits compilations of Billy Joel’s music, but not any albums? weird, he’s like the opposite of Pink Floyd.
I am slowly collecting all the Replacements LPs I can get my hands on. Hootenanny is the Replacements 2nd full long player (on the podcast I incorrectly called it their first… but their first was Sorry Ma, forgot to take out the trash).
I kept it pretty safe with my selections off this record playing two of the generally more recognized songs.
“Within Your Reach” was include don the soundtrack for the most excellent film, Say Anything…
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.” – Lloyd Dobbler you know what’s up.
I finish this little set with a record I just had to own, Meat Puppets II.
I’ve blogged about my obsession with these guys before. Not not going to pretend that playing vinyl records is “better” than my iTunes or laptop… but I do find a certain satisfaction to listening to the original format when I am trying to transport myself back to this distant times and places. This is how the kids in 1983 experienced these songs…. errr II came out in 1984…
Go with yourself.
Read Full Post »