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    • March 18, 2011 2:07 AM CDT
    • Good question! I used to listen to a radio show on Rice University called "treasures of the 60's" and the one song that sent me to the point of no return was "talk talk" by the Music Machine.
      Just three years earlier I was growing up rather sheltered by my 40- year old parents who listened to operas and marching bands, and I had never heard any rock and roll until Elvis died.
      When I heard that cool Elvis Presley music I knew right away that I wanted to be just like him.

    • March 17, 2011 8:08 PM CDT
    • Those Pebbles comps are great! I would love to get my hands on those! And yeah, I dig the Preachers, too!

      Mutants of the Holocaust said:

      Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

       

    • March 17, 2011 5:02 PM CDT
    • Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

       

    • March 17, 2011 5:48 PM CDT
    • Hey there, That is a killer tune...

      I couldn't find an exact song credit, but I did find this:
      http://www.discogs.com/Stephen-Romano-The-Maxx-Maxximum-Sound-A-Com...

      I'm not sure its even the same "The Maxx", or really answers your question, but its interesting...

      "An accomplished musician and studio producer by the time he was 23, Romano made his first significant mark on the world in 1993 when he adapted the million-selling comic series THE MAXX into an innovative “comic book soundtrack” album for Image Comics. A full dramatization designed meticulously to correspond with the comics as a post-modern “read-along” experience, MAXXIMUM SOUND deployed a full cast of voice actors, original music and sound effects, with Romano as composer, producer, director and even the voice of the psychedelic superhero The Maxx."

      Cheers,
      Cookie

    • March 17, 2011 4:54 PM CDT
    • Can't be arsed reading through 14 pages so someone else might have picked this but checkout

      Firecracker/Hey Roxy by the Bobbyteens. Each track is less than a minute and a half. Both absolute gems!!

    • March 17, 2011 4:32 PM CDT
    • crystal element harp mic is definitely the best, but if yer strapped for cash, SM58 will work just fine.

    • March 17, 2011 11:03 AM CDT
    • Harmonica mic. 

      Crystal element. Most people use a shure green bullet type thing. 

      I use a Crystal element Shaker Retro Rocket. 

      If I didn't I might use an AKG 414 and compress and eq it to radio bastard. 

       

      Harmonica sound awful anyway. 

    • March 17, 2011 9:44 AM CDT
    • Another question for all the producers. What is the best way to record harmonica? Condenser mic, or SM58?

    • March 17, 2011 1:05 PM CDT
    • If you like good, catchy pop tunes, you should check them out.  I'm sure you can find some used CDs on amazon, and maybe some tracks on itunes.

      sleazy said:

      Don't know 'em at all :)

    • March 17, 2011 1:00 PM CDT
    • Don't know 'em at all :)

    • March 17, 2011 9:28 AM CDT
    • They were another band that I discovered thanks to the Underground Garage.  The very first UG show that I listened to named "The Dress Up Girls" as its "Coolest Song" for that week.  However, I really didn't notice the song at the time (I guess I was too excited at hearing "Looking for a Kiss" by the New York Dolls and "In Another Land" by the Rolling Stones to notice).  It wasn't until I became a Sirius subscriber and started listening to the UG channel that I really took a liking to it, and I bought a copy of "Tell the Kids the Cops are Here," which is a really good pop album.  Unfortunately, I never got to see them live.

       

      Anyway, that CD is in the rotation at my work place, and I was just wondering if anyone else here liked them or got to see them live.

       

       

    • March 17, 2011 12:55 PM CDT
    • Go Bon Go!

    • March 16, 2011 5:52 PM CDT
    • good luck to Bon and the boys!!

    • March 17, 2011 8:46 AM CDT
    • 'Bonsai Superstar' by Brainiac is about the weirdest thing I know that still sounds like a guitar band.  It's an ultra-dissonant sinister falsetto party record.  Definitely has some of my favorite guitar work ever.

      Brainiac

       

      Outside of guitar music, Scott Walker's The Drift is some of the wildest shit I've ever heard.  It's relentlessly punishing and bleak, but actually really fun if you can get into the melodrama.

      Scott Walker

    • March 16, 2011 7:01 PM CDT
    • please listen to my tracks. we're crap, but original. here are a couple of opinions, and i quote:

      "Out-of-sight.  Did you ever see The Fall in their old 70's and 80's days??  There was such a raw realness to them before they morphed into being super melodic.  Your duo is so real, it sounds like you're in a full band -- and to me, that is a mark of brilliance for a duo, 3-piece or even a 1 person act. Love the raw, low-fi sound.  Reminds me so much about why I love listening to punk and other types of raw, old rock on vinyl instead of sanitized, clean cd's.  I hope you stick with it and keep exploring your sound and material.  Give me a shout if you guys get any releases we can scoop up -- I'd grab one even if it was on a cd :o)  Great work."

       

      "On chemine entre The Fall/du punk/Sonic Youth dans votre musique...ouais il y a quelque de The Fall dans la voix, donc ça le fait,moi j'aime plutot bien."

       

      "Your sound is unique to you.  I dig it."

       

      i did not pay these people; but i will!

    • March 16, 2011 5:33 PM CDT
    • Wheels....'Roadblock' for sure!!!!

       

      Don't know The Emeralds, but great name for an Irish combo.

    • March 16, 2011 4:00 PM CDT
    • Oh yeah... I wish I had seen them! All I know is a song called "Stay Away from Me" issued on a promo CD here in the UK, around 2004 I think. It KILLS! Criminally underrated, I'd say.

    • March 16, 2011 3:52 PM CDT
    • BTW, here's a clip of them playing at CBGB.

    • March 16, 2011 3:45 PM CDT
    • You really didn't miss too much.  Like I said, I liked them, but I wasn't crazy about them.  That's why I didn't find out until today that they had broken up back in 2008, because I really didn't miss them all that much.

      sleazy said:

      Nope:((