Concrete toes and pigeons' feet

[koganbot]

I hate the term "alternative," but that doesn't mean I get to dismiss other people's use of it.

When Christopher Weingarten sent his list of potential acts for Spin's '60s alternative roundup, I wrote back that they should get rid of the Velvets, Stooges, and Leonard Cohen and put Vanilla Fudge, Rare Earth, and Iron Butterfly in their stead. Was

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blimey what a jumpin place LJ used to be

[dubdobdee]

Think it's from here: a freakytrigger thread on poptimists, right just after my EMP talk (and a month or three before war broke out)...

Have you seen that Devon Powers -- who was on the panel with me at EMP -- has written a book about the Voice as the crucible of rock-writing. I've ordered it but it hasn't arrived yet. It's shot my fox a bit as regards the project I wanted to research at New york Public Library, but it's also galvanised me into thinking of others way to get my rockwrite project started.

Re: blimey what a jumpin place LJ used to be

[dubdobdee]

Also there's this, but this is just linked straight thru from "opened the window"

(why do i write "afflication"? -- is this a typo i'm repeating several times or a joke i no longer get?)

Re: blimey what a jumpin place LJ used to be

[koganbot]

You know, maybe it's something that exists only in my imagination that's culled from your various statements in INFLUENZA and elsewhere. The memory is of you, somewhere, saying something like this, though more eloquently:

The New Indie Rock Band proclaims, "We are influenced by the Velvet Underground," thereby calling down the spirit of the Lord, the God, the VU and asserting that this spirit now inhabits New Indie Band; and when enough new indie bands make this assertion, they serve to confirm that the Lord, the God, the VU is indeed the Lord, the God, the VU. So it's a feedback loop; and nothing more need be said, or can be said, this, an invocation of G-d, not being about analysis or understanding.

Re: blimey what a jumpin place LJ used to be

[dubdobdee]

I know I said somewhere -- I imagine on ilm -- something along the lines that that I'd prefer it if people started saying "I believe in [xx]" (or "[xx] are are colour of the sky in my world", but I've no idea where or when it was.

This is the original ILM thread (from 12 years ago!)

Spin: The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s, 100 --> 51

[koganbot]

Spin: The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s 100 --> 51 (in ascending order):

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is the Massage (Columbia, 1968)
Cromagnon - Orgasm (ESP-Disk, 1969)
Mulatu Astatke - Afro-Latin Soul, Vol. 1 (Worthy, 1966)
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme À la Radio (Saravah, 1969)
Alan Watts - OM: The Sound of Hinduism (Warner Bros., 1967)
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Columbia Masterworks, 1969)
Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound (Subliminal Sounds, 2001)
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (ESP-Disk)
The Monkees - Head (Colgems, 1968)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Polydor, 1968)
Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch (Columbia, 1969)
Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion (Columbia, 1960)
Ornette Coleman - Town Hall 1962 (ESP-Disk, 1965)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions (Zapple, 1969)
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Other Planes of There (Saturn, 1966)
Joe Cuba Sextet - Wanted Dead or Alive (Bang! Bang! Push, Push, Push) (Fania, 1967)
Kim Fowley - Outrageous (Imperial,

Spin: The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s, 50 --> 1

[koganbot]

Spin: The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s, 50 --> 1 (in ascending order):

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy (Disques Vogue, 1962)
Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection (Cadet Concept, 1968)
The Watts Prophets - The Black Voices: On the Streets in Watts (FFRR, 1969)
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (CBS, 1969)
Ray Barretto - Acid (Fania, 1968)
The Monks - Black Monk Time (International Polydor Production, 1965)
Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song (Poppy, 1968)
Nico - Chelsea Girl (Verve, 1967)
Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Delmark, 1969)
Alexander Spence - Oar (Columbia, 1969)
The Godz - Contact High With the Godz (ESP-Disk)
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (Vortex, 1969)
Desmond Dekker - This Is Desmond Dekker (Trojan, 1969)
The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders (Elektra, 1968)
The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun (BRÖ, 1968)
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (Island, 1969)
The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics (Etiquette, 1965)
White Noise - An Electric Storm (Island, 1969)
The Meters -

How to find all the blurbs

[koganbot]

skyecaptain has found all the blurbs - mine and everyone else's - in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. He says to apply this URL format but in reverse numerical order; so Oliver Wang's blurb for Marshall McLuhan's The Medium Is The Massage, which is number 100 on the Spin list but is their first slide, is here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150310090636/http://spin.com/articles/best-100-albums-1960s-sixties-alternative-list/?slide=1

And Mike Powell's blurb for The Incredible String Band's Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (no. 53) is here