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May 07, 2010 04:30 PM UTC
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And They Might Be Giants always puts me in a good mood:
“Now I’m very big, I’m a big important man
And the only thing that’s different is underneath my hat
“Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down!”
There’s something in their catalog for everyone.
If David can post weird Russian shit, I guess I can post weird Italian shit.
When I was a kid, there were three kinds of music that came out of our Hi-Fi. (Remember those? before stereo?) Opera (the tenors of the day were Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Lanza), Frank Sinatra (my mom was one of the bobby-soxers who screamed at Frankie during the big-band era), and a Neapolitan pop/novelty singer named Renato Carasone.
He was a conservatory-trained pianist with a great band behind him (my favorite member is Gege Di Giacomo, the drummer, who is a real ham).
Here’s a tune by him from some 1958 Italian movie I never heard of. It has a hell of a boogie-woogie mandolin solo. The title, loosely translated, means “You’re acting all American.”
I sometimes listen to these old Carasone songs when I get misty for the old days because I like to hear the Neapolitan dialect, which was spoken in my home.
If you understand Italian, it won’t help to understand Neapolitan. It might rightfully be an entirely different language. Here are the words in English, courtesy of the original YouYube poster.
You wouldn’t expect a mandolin solo in the middle of this thing–I probably wouldn’t have listened the whole way through if I wasn’t looking for it.
just because it’s Italian, I guess, though the lyrics sound kind of like English…
I was just reading about Naples in a piece by the late writer/actress Cookie Mueller. Apparently, there’s an old Italian saying, reflecting the city’s beauty, perhaps — or, perhaps, its reputation: “See Naples and die.” She travels from there to Positano. Would love to check it all out.
Thanks for the change. The Stones should always start your day. I say “Out of Our Heads” was their best album evah.
I’m bored out of my skull with music today–can’t settle on anything. This did the trick for a few minutes at least.
Here’s more!
You really need a loud stereo with the bass pumped up to appreciate the locomotive that is the batteria driving the music in these canned studio recordings. Most of the live handycam video on YouTube doesn’t do it justice.
I highly recommend a trip to Salvador and a few caipirinhas to set the mood.
I highly recommend I take some time off and travel.
One of my favorites of all time: built on tension, and to-the-point.
There’s documentary footage out there of the Stones recording that song, how they worked it out, came to find that sound. Great stuff.
But so far nothing on it is as interesting as this and several other songs on Super Taranta.
Cuz they’re crazy.
Now they’re too popular, and they’re going to Red Rocks instead. I guess I should visit Red Rocks eventually anyway… Pain in the ass to get there by public transit though.
This is my current favorite Stones song
And it wouldn’t be Friday Jams without a little Bruuuuuuuuce
Was just digging through some stuff to find some Springsteen. Fuck it. I’ll listen to yours instead.
I almost posted “Heartbreaker” instead of the Italian song.
I heard it in the soundtrack of a “Cold Case” episode last weekend and forgot how hard-hitting the song was.
Looking for that retro look.
I was just singing a Roky Erickson song to myself today as I was out walking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Haunting voice. There’s a decent documentary out about him and his mental problems. I heard he just released his first album in several years.
while reading up on Syd Barrett, weirdly enough. I’ve heard this song before but didn’t know the name of the band or who Roky was.
Early Texas psychedelia.
I played that thing into the ground–one of my all time favorite albums.
Ericson seems to have pulled himself back from the brink, unlike Syd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
[Butthole Surfers music begins about three minutes into it.]
There ya go. Watch Jimmy Fallon next week, he’s doing a Stones tribute all week in honor of the re-release of “Exile on Main Street” (my favorite Stones album.)
(And since it was a double lp, it goes even further!) A great era for the Stones.
Although there are certainly other albums from before and after that I really like: e.g., “Let it Bleed” and “Some Girls.”
Mick Taylor, who replaced Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, on guitar.
It was only a matter of time before he got run off by Keith, but it was a good time for the band.
Ronnie Wood is really a Rolling Stone at heart, but the band was much better with Mick Taylor on guitar.
This video packs more than just Lila Downs’ sensual music and sunny voice: it’s practically a recipe on how to make Oaxacan mole! A statement on the power of herbs and spices to bring about gustatory — and maybe even religious-visionary — revelry:
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Here’s one of my favorite “Rock en Espanol” songs born south of the border from the early ’90s Onda Nueva (new wave) of Mexican rock : “Pachuco” by the band Maldita Vecindad from Mexico City. Loved the sound of the track from the first seconds I ever heard it in the early ’90s in the Yucatan. It’s a turbo, Fishbone-esque number (embedding disabled on this one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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This song appeals, too, the way it changes directions from lite jazz to psychedelia to a quickened ska pulse. Just came across it. Always liked the band’s name, Tijuana No:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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Happy Cinco de Mayo music, suitable for festivities still taking place this weekend.
Feeling a little aggressive – this is perfect.
Go NPR Staff LOL!
That’s fabulous.