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No Snark Sunday Blogging
My review of the new Bruce Springsteen album will be up at the website of The Magazine Formerly Known as Stereo Review late tomorrow or early Tuesday.
In the mean time, here's Bruce and company doing their explicitly anti-war thing on the Today Show Friday.
What a fucking tragedy it is that he actually had to write it....
Saturday Night Glam Blogging
I'm a sucker for the lesser known denizens of the glam rock era and Alvin Stardust, at least in the States, fits that bill in spades. As Shane Fenton, he had a couple of hits in England with his band The Fentones. He hit in 1961 with I'm a Moody Guy and then again in 1962 with Cindy's Birthday. By the mid-sixties the band was no more and Shane soldiered on until the early 70s when he recast his musical persona as the brooding, dangerous, Alvin Stardust. Think of a homicidal Elvis '68 impersonator as imagined by David Lynch. As Alvin, he immediately scored a number 2 hit in England in November of 1973 with this nifty slab of glam rockabilly, My Coo Ca Choo. Alvin went on to have five more hit singles in England, but he remains a total obscurity here in the States.
Here's Alvin in all his menacing glory. Also, here's hopin' you have a great weekend with your own Coo Ca Choo!
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Weekend Listomania (Total Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are off to our nation's capital. It seems the Antiques Roadshow folks will be in town, and I'm taking my dear friend Senator Larry Craig's autographed Tom of Finland posters over to be appraised. So posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic for a few days until we return.
In the meantime, here's a little brain teaser for you all:
Best Pop/Rock Band/Artist Whose Records are in a Language Not Their Own -- Usually (But Not Necessarily) English!!!
(Wow, I think that's the longest headline for one of these things yet).
Okay -- my totally top of my head Top Six.
6. ABBA [Sweden] -- Incomparable pop confections rendered with endearingly goofy accents. (My skinny tie band used to do a killer cover of their SOS -- unaccented, of course).
5. The Outsiders [Holland] -- An amazing band who by rights should be mentioned in the same breath as the Stones or Byrds. Absolutely world class stuff.
4. Los Bravos [Spain] -- Their "Black is Black" sounds just like Gene Pitney -- who knew they were Latins? (Oh wait -- according to Wiki, the lead singer was German. Weirder by the minute).
3. Laibach [Slovenia] -- Politico/conceptual weirdo provocateurs extraordinaire. Their Sympathy for the Devil album consists of seven different deeply distrubing/annoying versions of the Stones song.
2. Magma [France] -- These guys invented their own language for a series of prog-rock concept albums about outer space. Some people actually like them, I'm told, including the always perverse Johnny Rotten.
and last (and obviously) not least --
1. Shocking Blue [Holland]
I really love these guys, and not just because lead singer Mariska Veres (who died last year, alas) had the cuts-like-a-knife vocal moves of Grace Slick as well as a rather smoldering sex appeal (she was a full blooded Gypsy, actually). More important, guitarist/songwriter/producer Robbie van Leeuwen was a gifted pop craftsman with a real ear for the three minute pop single; it's no accident that World's Greatest Rock Critic Greil Marcus was an early fan, as was Kurt Cobain (Nirvana covered SB's "Love Buzz" on their very first album). If you're curious about them, there's a terrific two CD set which collects all their singles (A and B sides) and I highly recommend it.
Incidentally, just about every note they ever recorded is currently available on import CDs -- with the notable exception of their 1973 "Live in Japan" album, which I've been trying to hear now for three decades without success. If any of our Dutch readers cares to burn me a copy, I''ll be their best friend forever.
Anyway -- who's your choice?
From Holland, it's Shocking Blue, 1970, and the haunting "Never Marry a Railroad Man."
Most folks think they were one-hit wonders, but actually they had scads of hits outside the US. Of course, Robbie van Leeuwen, the band's genius songwriter-guitarist-producer could give a shit what most people think, considering that he's been able to live like a king all these years off the royalties to "Venus," which has probably been used in more TV ad campaigns than any song of the last forty years.
More important, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the video's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
After Hours on Pico Boulevard
Somebody was asking for some Peter Case?
BTW -- you may not want to click the link for the Wiki entry; it features what just may be the most hideously unflattering Portrait of the Artist ever digitzed.
Skinny Ties Rule
Someday when I have a little more energy I'm gonna post something at length about Tom Robinson. In the meantime enjoy "2-4-6-8-Motorway."
Robinson really is one of the great lost figures of the early punk/New Wave era. Did the Clash almost one better by being as relevant as all get out and yet all over the radio (at least in England). A terrific songwriter AND a righteous dude.
Jewing Me, Jewing You
The Phil Spector jury has delivered a mistrial. In its honor, we present perhaps Phil's strangest collaboration ever.
Words fail me on this one....
A Wednesday Quickie
I've been meaning to post this one for ages, for no other reason than I think the song is just cute as a button.
Velocity Girl's "Sorry Again."
Remember when if a band was on SubPop they were cool by definition?
Good times....
Garage Bands of the Gods
Okay kids, this is the way we oldtimers used to enjoy the rock and roll.
Yes, you're listening to the actual 45 of The Gestures' "Run, Run, Run," scratches and all, just as you would have back in 1964. None of that transferred-to-CD crap.
We bring it up -- and we swear this is the last post about something Paul Westerberg related for the forseeable future -- because it's one of a bunch of garage rock classics (some obscure, some less so) that made the cut in this very interesting list from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages of Minnesota's Fifty Greatest Hits.
In the article Peter Jesperson (who discovered the Replacements) describes it thusly:
"The band was from Mankato, the single went to #1 locally and Top 50 nationally in the summer of 1964 (even got a spin on American Bandstand!) and sold over 100,000 copies. Sure, there were bigger hits by local groups of that era, but "Run, Run, Run" was the one for me--an exciting and dynamic arrangement, just the right amount of reverb, great harmonies, fabulous drumming, and a knockout guitar solo. Even the hint of a fake British accent on the word "Baby" was cool. A perfect rock 'n' roll single."
Less, shall we say, frenetic songs in the survey include a lovely Leo Kottke twelve-string guitar instrumental and Lipps Inc.'s ubiquitous "Funkytown," but the whole thing is well worth checking out, even if you didn't grow up down the block from Prince.
Bastards of Young
And speaking as we were yesterday of Paul Westerberg, here's a trailer for First Avenue: Heyday, a music documentary I'd really like to see.
Every generation gets its own Cavern Club, apparently, and in the mid-80s First Avenue in Minneapolis hosted the likes of the Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks and (my personal cult favorite) Trip Shakespeare (a coveted PowerPop No-Prize to the first reader who can tell us the connection between TS and the folks at Mystery Science Theater 3000).
Why isn't this on DVD?
Morning World Music
Here's a cool track from the Atlantics, who are primarily known in Australia as that country's premier surf instrumental group. They scored a massive number one hit with their classic of the genre Bombora in 1963. As the surf craze died down in the mid-sixties they picked up lead singer Johnny Rebb and proceeded to release a number of singles over the next few years that covered a wide range of musical ground from folk rock to tough R&B, but it was not until 1967 that they released this scorching addition to the 60s garage/punk canon, Come On.
Yep, Johnny Rebb is the dude with the incredible hair helmet.
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Oh Those Wacky Internets!
Got involved in a conversation about Phil Ochs this morning over at the Crack Den. In attempting to learn whether he had had his legs broken by anti-Allende forces in Chile (he didn't, or if he did it didn't make his Wiki entry), I found this totally weird piece of infomation:
In October 1970, he performed with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and the Canadian band Chilliwack at the first Greenpeace Benefit Concert, organized to raise funds to send a ship to protest a planned underground hydrogen bomb test by the US at the Aleutian island of Amchitka.
Chilliwack? Seriously? This Chilliwack?
Paul Westerberg on Saturday Night Live back in '93.
I remember watching this from a barstool when it first aired and thinking "That's what rock n roll is supposed to look and sound like."
Not the Nirvana Song...
...but possibly the most annoying video in rock history.
And to think Peter Wolf was actually married to Faye Dunaway for a while.
I was expecting to hate it. Hell, I was planning to hate it.
To my utter surprise, it's actually quite moving. Visually amazing, as well, although that part isn't a surprise; Julie Taymor really is a bit of a genius, as it turns out. Of course, T-Bone Burnett, who supervised the music, most of which is exquisite, is the real hero of the piece.
I was hoping that the gospel version of "Let It Be" was on YouTube, but while we're waiting this clip gives you a pretty fair idea of what the film is like.
Obviously, this is gonna be a real pop culture Rorschach Test....
Postscript: I seem to have read somewhere that the studio mucked with Taymor's edit; don't know if it's true, but the happy ending does feel totally tacked on. Has any reviewer noticed?
Another postscript: My former colleague Maitland McDonagh -- one of the sharpest film critics wearing shoe leather -- nails the movie here.
Oh, Fer Cute!
Clicking around various videos on YouTube, I went looking for my favorite song off The New Pornographers' Twin Cinema. Most of the clips are live and feature drunks screaming "Hey LA! Hey LA! Hey LA!"--quite dismaying. But this video is the album track with a very cute little film made by some high school students. Maybe it's the insomnia speaking, but I found this really adorable.
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Friday Bad Day Blogging
Well, no habeas corpus and a meaningless vote on an ad, but you can always take comfort that no one calls you Ginger Balls.
Unless, of course, they do. If that's the case, well, I'm sorry, man.
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Weekend Listomania (Give 'Em Enough Rope Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are booked on a flight to Las Vegas, where we will be having a clandestine rendezvous with some vendors of possibly suspect sports memorabilia. Hop-Sing tells me one of the dealers starred in the Naked Gun movies, so naturally I'm beside myself with the thought of meeting that silver fox Leslie Nielsen. In any case, posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic until we return.
In the meantime, here's a little puzzler for you:
Worst Album Ever Made by a (Theoretically) Important Pop/Rock Artist!!!!!!
You know -- an album so skull-crushingly annoying and/or stupid that it's very existence is an assault on human dignity. Or else one that just sorta sucks in a "what where they thinking?" kind of way.
My totally top of my head Top Seven:
7. Elvis Costello -- Almost Blue (Almost dreck is more like it)
6. U2 -- Zooropa (Note to Bono, the Edge, et al: If you feel the overwhelming need to totally reinvent yourself, break up and start a new band)
5. Bob Dylan -- Self Portrait (although the version of "The Boxer," where Dylan duets with himself in his protest era and "Nashville Skyline" voices is pretty funny)
4. Elvis Presley -- Having Fun With Elvis on Stage (I know it's shooting fish in a barrel, but still...)
3. Lou Reed -- Metal Machine Music (ditto)
2. Paul McCartney -- just about any record he made from the late 70s till now (although the current album is kind of cute)
and last but not least --
1. Guns N' Roses -- Use Your Illusion I and II
Why does UYI suck? Well, for starters, the songs seem endless (see "November Rain," whose nine minutes feel more like ninety). The production's a subaquatic mess. Axl's vocals, when they're not so over the top they sound like a Jim Brewer parody, suggest the yowlings of a meth-crazed ferret but without the charm. Slash's vaunted guitar moves are mostly anemic sounding and/or cliche squiggles (Slash, you're no Johnny Thunders if you know what I mean). And the overall theme and feel of the thing is best described as a gigantic pre-adolescent temper tantrum; it's less the sound of a band than that of a bratty two year old banging on a highchair. In short, UYI is awful on multiple levels, with numerous demerits added for the chutzpah of releasing it as seperate albums rather than a double (and we all know that as a rule most double albums suck).
So -- over to you, kids. What's your worst?
You're Soaking In It
From 1991, here's America's Sweethearts Guns N' Roses, with their epic power ballad "November Rain" (from Use Your Illusion).
A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who divines its relevance to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
NYC Power Poppers Take Note!
Philly's Milton and the Devils Party are traveling again, and will be in the Big Apple next week. Here are the particulars:
112 Rivington St. (lower east side, between Ludlow and Essex)
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The Present Day Garage Band Refuses to Die
Alert readers will recall that last week I posted a clip of a relatively obscure Flying Burrito Brothers tune and opined that "The eighth-note feel makes it almost seem like a proto-New Wave song, something these guys -- about whom much more in a post tomorrow -- noticed and made explicit in a terrific cover back in '93."
Even more alert readers (perhaps those on crack cocaine -- hey, you know who you are!) will recall that tomorrow came and went (due to the pressures of the Jewish holiday) without such a post.
So...better late than never, here they are, the Pride of Springfield, Missouri -- the fabulous Skeletons!
If you don't know them, the deal is that they're essentially an American version of Rockpile, but with way more catholic taste; if there's a cool song in just about any rock related genre from rockabilly to girl group to Brit Invasion to punk, they not only know it but can play the bejeezus out of it (especially roots-rock guitarist extraordinaire D. Clinton Thompson, as you can tell from the video). They've been at it in various incarnations (including a stint as the Morrells) now for close to thirty years, releasing scads of brilliant singles and albums, including an astounding one where they backed up downtown alt-rock chanteuse Syd Straw. Just how great are they? Suffice it to say, if I was throwing a party and I could afford to hire any band in the world, I'd hire these guys, and I say that as someone cognizant of the fact that NRBQ is still doing business.
You can find more about them here and let me just add that if anybody wants to get me the Morrells album shown on the right for my birthday, I wouldn't say no.
Today's Noise is Tomorrow's Hootenanny!
One of the sharpest rock critics currently working has come up against an interesting pop cultural phenomenon: a lot of apparently reasonable people are saying the Beatles weren't really very good.
From TNR Online this week:
I Have to Hide My Love Away? Help!
by David Browne
In case you hadn't heard, the Beatles blow. They're overrated lightweights who aren't as influential as certain pivotal punk bands, and they're to blame for all that soft rock commemorated in the latest Time Life Music infomercial. And those Sgt. Pepper costumes are, let's face it, cornier than any boy-band outfit of the '90s.
Of course, what you have heard and already know is that Beatle-bashing is as old as the Beatles' music itself: They've been derided by everyone from Lou Reed to incensed Christians. Lately, though, rampant Beatle-dissing has taken on an intensity and force it never had before. The impetus for much of it has been the fortieth anniversary of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which produced not only the expected media nostalgia wave but a storm of revisionist thinking. And the backlash will only grow louder when Julie Taymor's eye roll-inducing movie musical "Across the Universe" arrives on September 14.
In a New York Times op-ed, no less a pop classicist than Aimee Mann admitted she loved the album as a child but now feels it's missing "emotional depth," that "John Lennon's melodies feel a bit underwritten while Paul McCartney's relentless cheerfulness is depressing." On Salon, rock writer Gina Arnold weighed in, "There's a number of current bands that you can say, 'These guys like Sgt. Pepper,' but they're oddballs, like the Polyphonic Spree." So the album's legacy amounts to a bunch of toga-clad, faux-cheery ironists: Ouch.
Simultaneously, the Internet burst with "Beatles are overrated" threads that went to the heart of the band itself. "When you really think about it, they were a good but not great pop band," wrote a Slate letter writer: "A little lite [sic] and fluffy, a bit quirky, but not much else," and certainly, the writer added, not nearly as good as the Stones, the Clash, Jeff Buckley, or Radiohead. On the same page, another reader argued that Beatle music "has not aged well" and that their influence "has been limited to soft pop acts and perhaps Oasis." Others called their music irritating--or, in the words of a 27-year-old writing to Salon, "a bore, a relic, and decidedly tame."
Wow. Holy Revisionism, Batman.
Actually, I've been aware of the tendency Browne's describing at least since the mid-90s and the release of the "Anthology" sets, but my feeling has always been that anybody who says they don't like the Beatles is just being difficult. On the other hand, from what I've seen of the Taymor movie, I can also understand somebody not wanting to hear a Beatles song again for as long as they live.
In any case, you can read the rest of Browne's interesting take here.
Postscript: Sir Paul played disc jockey on the BBC yesterday. You can hear the show here. Turns out he likes Radiohead and the Killers.
Nashvegas Confidential
And speaking as we were downstairs about alt-country meeting the British Invasion, here's a fantastic six-minute promo film that answers the musical question: Who is Webb Wilder?
You can find out more about the self-proclaimed Last of the Full Grown Men here, but suffice it to say that nobody has come up with a better synthesis of Hank Williams, the Beatles and Andrei Tarkovsky. It is also worth noting that Webb does by far the best cover version of The Flamin' Groovies "Slow Death" ever committed to the digital domain; you can hear an excerpt from it if you scroll down on the page here.
Reckless Country Souls
Among the many mysteries of the cosmos -- the Meaning of Life, the nature of God, or just what is the secret formula that makes Orange Julius so devilishly delicious? -- few are more irksome than this: Why the hell didn't Jason and the Scorchers ever become the biggest band on the fricking planet?
That 1983 Scorchers cover of Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" was pretty much my favorite single track in what I recall as a pretty good year for music, and to my ears it still sounds as fresh as paint lo these twenty-four years later. Seriously...Gram Parson's high lonesome sound crossed with a ferocious punk attack and guitar histrionics worthy of Pete Townshend and Keith Richards -- what, as they say, is not to like?
In any case, even though the band never achieved the world domination that was clearly their due, one thing is certain: alt-country begins here.
Mains: Les Mains du Destin
Hey, screw that Brit Jerry Springer musical that's finally coming to Broadway.
I want to see this!
Yes, that's a trailer for Manos: The Rock Opera of Fate and yes, it's a new theatrical extravaganza based on everybody's favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 turkey. For those of you lucky enough to live in the vicinity of the Windy City, it will be playing Friday and Saturday nights, at 11 pm, September 28 through November 3, at the National Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway in Chicago. Tickets are $15 dollars and can be purchased by calling 312-458-9083 or through the New Millennium Theatre Company website.
A trivia note: the title of the original movie is Manos: The Hands of Fate. For those of you who don't speak Spanish, the word "manos" means hands. Thus the actual title of the film is Hands: The Hands of Fate.
Thought you'd like to know.
Hmm...somebody I know has a big birthday coming up. Who am I thinking of?
Oh my gosh -- it's me!!!!
Almost a decade in the making, Big Beat UK is very proud to finally announce the release of The Zombies' "Into The Afterlife". A natural sequel to our acclaimed best-selling box set "Zombie Heaven", this compilation is essentially "what they did next". The Zombies split in April 1968 upon the completion of their masterwork "Odessey & Oracle". Songwriters Rod Argent and Chris White busied themselves forming a production company, whilst the other band members, including lead singer Colin Blunstone, depressed by the lack of recognition for "Odessey", retreated back to 'civvy street'.
Throughout 1968 Chris and Rod demo'ed their new material with an embryonic version of what would become the group Argent. The best of these experimental recordings are included on "Into The Afterlife" and as with the Zombies, the songs and performances are better than most other groups' regular releases. Meanwhile, Colin Blunstone had been romanced back into the studio by producer Mike Hurst and, under the nom-de-disque of Neil MacArthur, made three excellent singles including a revamp of 'She's Not There' that hit the UK Top 40 in 1969. All nine sides recorded by Colin in this period are featured and include his fabulous interpretations of Nilsson's 'Without Her', Billy Vera's 'Don't Try To Explain' and the Buffalo Springfield's 'Hung Upside Down', the latter previously unreleased.
As a special bonus, the disc contains special mixes of Zombies material that showcase the orchestral overdubs that were added for their aborted RIP project, plus a rare vintage live cut. Over half of "Into The Afterlife's" contents is unissued, and indeed, ninety percent has never appeared on CD before. Add to that detailed notes that clarifies this murky yet fascinating period in the group's history and this becomes a worthy addition to the perfectly-formed discography of the Zombies.
This is, of course, wonderful news, the Zombies being as damn near close to power pop perfection as any sentient mammals have ever come. And if it's on Big Beat, I guarantee the album is first class all the way. (After "Zombie Heaven" came out, a publicist at Rhino -- theoretically, the world's premier reissue label -- was famously quoted as saying "I'm really glad it's on Big Beat -- we wouldn't have done it as well.")
Meanwhile, here's an MP3 from the set -- Colin Blunstone's
gorgeous cover version of "Hung Upside Down." In a word -- wow.
Have I mentioned that I have a birthday coming up?
[h/t Eric C. Boardman]
Back from the big DC Peace March.
Some of my friends from Eschaton were good enough to accompany me to the Vietnam Memorial. Thanks to NTodd (who nudged me to do the right thing), Culture of Truth, and everybody else for being there.
Rest in Peace Richard Irving Brenner, 1947-1969.
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Weekend Listomania (The Dreaded Second Album Edition)
Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means.
Actually, in this case, it means a temporary break from snarky stories about the various vaguely disturbing things I may be doing with my Oriental manservant. In reality, I'm getting ready to join the Eschaton contingent -- and that means some of you guys, hooray!! -- in the big End the War march in DC on Saturday. So posting will be sporadic for a while, but this time for legitimate (heck, really important) reasons.
Anyway -- in my absence, here's a little diversion for you all.
Sophomore Albums That Surpassed (Artistically) The Really Good Debut Albums That Preceded Them!!!
You know the cliche -- you have your entire life to write your first album, and then you have six months to write your second, which is why a lot of followup albums disappoint. Perhaps the most obvious example is Pretenders II; an estimable work with some terrific songs, but small beer compared to the epochal first one. (More recently, think of the second Hootie and the Blowfish album, or rather, please don't think of it, as Hootie kind of sucks. Although Fairweather Johnson was a really great title...)
In any event, what do you think are the albums that best avoided the sophomore slump?
Submitted for your approval, my Top Seven would be......
7. MC5 -- Back in the USA
6. The Beatles -- With the Beatles
5. Marah -- Kids in Philly
4. Buffalo Springfield -- Buffalo Springfield Again
3. The Who -- A Quick One
2. Bruce Springsteen -- The Wild, the Innocent and the
E-Street Shuffle
and last but definitely not least....
1. Elvis Costello -- This Year's Model
Go to it, kids.
[Kudos and huzzahs to constant commenter tmink, who guessed today's theme on the basis of just one fairly innocuous (I thought) clue. Your coveted No-Prize is in the mail, pal.]
Good Yontiff!
Okay, in honor of the Jewish New Year, here's Elvis Costello (in classic spastic Jerry Lewis mode) and the Attractions in the official 1978 promo film for "Pump It Up," from the still astonishing This Year's Model.
A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who divines the clip's relevance to the theme of the forthcoming Friday edition of Weekend Listomania.
Slacker Thursday
Okay, it's Rosh Hashanah, so the post I promised yesterday on these guys will not appear till next week.
Okay, Rosh Hashanah has nothing to do with it -- I'm just jammed up.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced its selection of individuals to receive the Kennedy Center Honors Award for 2007 and I was happy to see Brian Wilson named as an honoree this year. The Center's press release describes him as "rock and roll's gentlest revolutionary, and the songs he wrote for The Beach Boys have been among the most joyfully influential and exhilarating vibrations in the history of music in our time. There is real humanity in his body of work, vulnerable and sincere, authentic and unmistakably American."
Other honorees include pianist Leon Fleisher, actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, and film director Martin Scorsese. The gala will be broadcast on CBS on Wed., Dec. 26 at 9pm (EST).
Not much to say about Brian except that I can think of very few artists whose music puts a lump in my throat regardless of how many times I hear one of their songs.
Insert Salad Dressing Joke Here
Full disclosure: I have long suspected that idiosyncratic carrot-tressed singer/songwriter Tori Amos might be a little, uh, goofy, if you know what I mean. But this version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is fricking brilliant.
Really -- transforming an angsty grunge guitar assault into a Joni Mitchell-esque confessional piano ballad is, how you say, a conceptual masterstroke. In fact, I'll go out on a limb here and say that in the face of an accomplishment of that magnitude, who cares that Tori's 1992 Crucify EP (featuring the studio version of the Cobain song) has a cover photo of the artiste in which she's nude save for a necklace made out of what appear to be wild scallions? I mean, c'mon -- really, who?
It is perhaps also worth noting that the aformentioned EP also includes a slightly less audacious but equally effective voice and piano version of the Rolling Stones' "Angie".
What she wore to the recording session -- no man can say!
His Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
Wow -- this one took me by surprise. The classic lineup of the Flying Burrito Brothers (circa early '69) with Gram Parsons doing Gram's fiendishly catch "Older Guys." And carrying on like they think they're in A Hard Days Night, to boot.
From the way Gram's mincing around here, I think it's safe to assume he'd begun hanging around with the Stones by this point. Sheesh, he's got eye makeup on, for crying out loud.
The song itself is one of the more obscure Burrito's tracks, and in many ways it's the closest they ever came to pop. The eighth-note feel makes it almost seem like a proto-New Wave song, something these guys -- about whom much more in a post tomorrow -- noticed and made explicit in a terrific cover back in '93.
The Big Throwdown
Two words: Jack Black.
Yup, his star-making performance in the wonderful film adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.
In case you haven't seen it -- and you definitely should, as it's a touching and very funny look at the sort of pop obsessives who write blogs like this one -- the joke of the scene is that in the course of the story Black's character threatens to front the most obnoxious avant-garde-indie-rock-unlistenable-noise-band of all time -- the aptly named Sonic Death Monkey -- at some horrible gig his friends would be obligated to attend. Except it turns out that all along he's been channelling Marvin Gaye (and brilliantly at that -- yes, that's Black doing the vocals).
Really, it's a fabulous piece of work, not to mention a meditation on Fran Lebowitz's famous dictum that you should never make decisions about one's life based on the lyrics to popular songs. For obvious reasons, I relate to it like crazy. In fact, pretty much the only difference between me and the character played in the movie by Jon Cusack is that I never got to sleep with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
PS: I completely forgot I reviewed the flick for TVGuide. You can read it here.
Sirens of the 60s, Part Deux
Riffing off Steve's post on the lovely Evie Sands, it made me think of another decidedly more obscure 60s chanteuse and I just had to check out YouTube immediately. Callooh! Callay! There was a video!
I was thinking of 60s mod icon Sharon Tandy who waxed one of the crown jewels of freakbeat fandom with her legendary tune Hold On which featured the scorching backing of pop sike legends Les Fleur De Lys, who are probably best known for their smashing cover of the Who's Circles.
If you are interested, there's a nice career retro of Sharon's work on Big Beat. This tune is rather atypical of the majority of her 60s recorded work as she generally trafficked in blue-eyed soul and pop, although it is interesting to note that this disc also includes some tracks from a 1966 session at Stax where she was backed by Isaac Hayes and Booker T. & the MG's.
The Loud Goodbye
For about a zillion reasons, not the least of which is the toxic level of pious sanctimony we'll be witnessing on TV all day today, I can't bring myself to comment on the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Thankfully, the Who -- seen here at the post 9/11 Concert for New York City, with the then not dead John Entwistle -- have no such constraints on them.
MSG-TV is airing the entire show tonight at 8pm East Coast time.
Oh, How Cute Is That?
I received this note from Jon Sebastian, of The Color Wheels.
Poughkeepsie's husband-and-wife duo The Color Wheels have been playing together since 2003. "My then girlfriend Psalm asked me to teach her how to play the drums," explains Jon Sebastian, singer and guitarist. "Her first lesson quickly turned into our first band practice, and I immediately began writing songs for us to play."
After a string of demos and shows, the band recently entered the studio to record their first album. Behind the record's jangly guitars and sing-along melodies lies carefully crafted indie pop, and a tongue-in-cheek take on themes of awkward emergent adolescence.
Their new self-titled full-length album The Color Wheels is available now on Viper Bite Records.
Neko Case and Carl Newman used to have a stage shtick about being married: sucked in plenty of people, including me, maybe because it's such a nice idea. But apparently it's true in this case.
Jon's sending me a copy of their forthcoming CD; report to follow.
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Oops She Did It Again
Apparently Britney Spears did something bad on TV last night. Or she's fat. Or something.
It might, then, be instructive, to see how another girl singer took care of business back in the day.
That's the great Evie Sands doing "I Can't Let Go," circa 1965. Evie should have been huge, but she had famously shit luck; although the song was written for her -- by Jon Voight's brother, Chip Taylor (who also wrote "Wild Thing") -- the Hollies better known version was the bigger hit. Same thing happened to her with the Taylor-penned "Angel of the Morning" and "Take Me For a Little While." Her one really big hit was with Taylor's "Anyway That You Want Me" in 1970; Rolling Stone called it the single of the year, but her career kind of fizzled after that.
In the late 90s she got back together with Taylor and started making music again; her 1999 comeback Women in Prison is a terrific mature singer-songwriter album -- a grownup woman making no bullshit music about somebody's real life.
Perhaps Britney ought to give it a listen....
The Modern Dance
From 1989, here's the amazing Pere Ubu with guests including Debbie Harry, doing a great live version of their sublime "Waiting for Mary."
The song, which is about as pop as they ever got -- note the similarities to the Stones' 1967 acid hootenanny "Sing This All Together" -- is from their quite wonderful "Cloudland" album.
The video, of course, is from the David Sanborn-hosted Night Music, still the best show of its kind ever on television. As you can glean from the roster of guests Sanborn introduces in the clip, the format was an hour of glorious genre-bending electicism on a weekly basis -- a big surprise, then, that it only lasted a season. Still, I don't know what's more remarkable -- the fact that Pere Ubu, the same band who made their name with ultra-abrasive avant garde sonic squalls like "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and "Final Solution" also recorded this charming bit of psychedelic whimsy, or the fact that a major network ever put a venturesome show like Night Music on the air.
If We Can Take One More Birthday...
then spare a moment for the boy, who turns 8 today. And yes, this means his birthday is 9/9/99, which is very cool.
This is his favorite song, Seriously.
They Say It's Your Birthday Part Trois
The goddess. Born this day in 1970.
Hey Neko -- once you've had a fat balding middle-aged jew, you never go back.....
[h/t Zap Rowsdower]
More Birthday Salutations!
More big Powerpop birthday greetings go out to hyper-talented Aimee Mann, born this day in 1960 in Midlothian, Virginia. Coincidentally, it is also the birthday of my lovely wife, who is also a huge Aimee fan. Happy Birthday sweetie! How's that for synergy? Cheers, lovely ladies!
Here's my fave Aimee tune from P.T. Anderson's either love it or hate it 1999 film Magnolia.
A Big PowerPop Happy Birthday
To rock goddess Chrissie Hynde, who's 56 today. Woo Hoo!
According to Wikipedia, she's scheduled to open a vegetarian restaurant, VegeTerranean, in her hometown of Akron next weekend. Good on you, Chrissie!
Weekend Listomania (Prick Up Your Ears Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental manservant Hop-Sing and I are off to Idaho, where we'll be weekend guests of Senator Larry Craig and his lovely beard wife. Anyway, posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic for a few days as I help the dear man pick out bathroom accessories.
In the meantime, here's a little project for you all:
The Worst Rock Concert/Show You Ever Sat Through!!!!!!
My carefully considered choice:
Rush -- Beacon Theater, New York City, sometime in the mid-70s, playing stuff like "Working Man."
(That clip is from much later, of course, but you get the idea).
A few caveats here. I don't detest Rush. They're obviously accomplished musicians, I have a sneaking fondness for some of their 80s stuff (I like "Limelight" -- so sue me), and of course, their work on the Bob and Doug McKenzie single "Take Off" is nothing short of genius.
When I saw them, however, they were still playing mostly turtle-tempoed heavy metal blues-based aural sludge, and when you factored in Geddy Lee's so-high-only-dogs-can-hear-him vocals, the overall effect was light years beyond cringemaking. The only aural equivalent I can think of would be the sound made by a medieval peasant having his eyes gouged out with a burnt stick.
Really, they were just skullcrushingly annoying. The only reason I didn't flee to the lobby was out of some misplaced sense of critical responsibility.
So -- what was your worst?
[a coveted PowerPop No-Prize to reader Half Glass Full, who guessed it at just about the last possible minute. Kudos and huzzahs, my friend!]
Oh, dear lord -- here's Rush and their unbearably irksome mini-opera Bytor and the Snow Dog.
A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who divines the clip's connection to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Hint: It has nothing to do with Our Good Neighbors to the North per se, so ixnay on the Canuck jokes.
Why Did I Wait?
O.K., I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes, but I had a long drive over the holiday weekend and luckily, I slipped Brooklyn-based Locksley's Don't Make Me Wait from my "needs a listen" pile into my CD wallet for the trip.
Wow! Imagine the Strokes if they had suddenly been infected with a Merseybeat bug! Locksley's music has a crunchy alterno-buzz on the outside with a sticky-sweet pop inside that is a blast to listen to and totally infectuous. The title track is the main attraction here, and according to the group's bio it has been pretty hard to miss if you regularly watch the tube as it has already been featured in Payless and Starz Movie Channel ads since the album's release at the beginning of the year. Nonetheless, the song that had me hitting the "repeat" button over and over was the second track Let Me Know. Nothing else to say but this is classic powerpop that reminds me of the Rubinoos in their best moments.
Here's a neat clip of the group performing Let Me Know on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in March. You can pick up a copy of this cool disc at all the better music emporiums on the web such as Not Lame.
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
And here's Debbie Harry and company and "Maria."
It's from their 1998 comeback album, and I think it's as good if not better than anything they did back in the day. Keyboard guy Jimmy Destri claims to have had the song lying around since high school, unlikely as that might sound.
As for the singer, I can only echo what Steve Forbert famously said about her.
"She sure is purty."
Guns Don't Kill People...
...oh, wait a minute. Actually they do.
From today's New York Times:
Musician Is Killed for Banging on a Door
By GRETEL C. KOVACH
DALLAS, Sept. 4 — A Texas rock musician was shot to death here early Monday by a neighbor who fired through a closed door, thinking he was scaring off a burglar.
The incident occurred just three days after a new law took effect strengthening the right of Texans to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property.
The musician, Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, 34, a keyboardist with Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians and the Dallas rock band Sorta, was shot in the head after he startled a man and his wife about 4 a.m. by pounding and kicking at their back door, the police said. Mr. Albrecht had just assaulted his girlfriend, who lives next door and had locked him out of her house, the police said.
The neighbor, who has not been identified by the police, was awakened by his wife's screams that someone was breaking into their home, according to the police report. The man yelled for the person to go away, but when the pounding continued, he fired through the top of the door.
Mr. Albrecht, who was about 6-foot-5, was struck in the head.
Wow. You know, I hated that "What I Am" song as much as the next guy, but somehow this just doesn't seem right.
Stacks of Tracks
Breathes there a sentient mammal who does not believe that the Miracles "Tracks of My Tears" is as perfect a record as has ever been made?
Here's a clip that gives a few clues to how it happened. It starts with the song full blown, then cuts to the fabulous Funk Brothers (the Motown house band who provide the backing), then to the instrumentals plus the Miracles harmonies (allowing you to grok the gospel influence), and finally a fade out with just Smokey Robinson's solo vocal drenched in studio reverb, ghostly and beautiful.
This was the first Motown single I ever bought, BTW. Played it obsessively for weeks...
All Aboard For the Heart of Darkness
I've been meaning to add a little postscript to the most recent Weekend Listomania, in which I waxed all Proustian about my first concert experience, but I've been conflicted about it because I didn't want to make a perhaps gratuitous political point.
Obviously, it's no secret that my co-bloggers and I are on the Left, but -- and I can't speak for KC or NYMary -- I for one have mostly tried to resist going all outraged and shrill here because (a) the name of the blog is PowerPop, not PissedOffLefty, and (b) I respect the feelings of one of our regular commenters, a guy who I consider to be that rarest of rare birds, i.e., a humane, principled conservative.
That said, I'm going to get on the soapbox here -- briefly.
In the story on Friday, I mentioned that I attended the concert in question in the company of my pal Richie Brenner. Richie was a big (really big) dumb (but incredibly sweet) jock who basically decided to be my bodyguard starting in 10th grade. Kept my dork self from a world of hurt, in other words. Anyway, after high school he barely managed to get accepted to some jerkwater forrestry school, but after he graduated in 1969, there was no chance he was going to be able to get into another college and a masters program, and thus continue to avoid the draft. Bottom line: Uncle Sam snapped him up immediately, he was summarily shipped off to Vietnam and within next to no time he was toast. Blown to bits at the age of 21.
Here's his entry at the Vietnam War Memorial, which, while I attend the anti-Iraq demo on the 15th, I really need to take the time to finally visit.
So what am I trying to say here, really? Simple -- that my friend Richie was, essentially, sent to his death for no more pressing reason than lousy grades.
And that if I ever hear another rightwing asshole attempt to justify that immoral, useless fucking war, and by extension Richie's death -- as our mongrel idiot never-served president attempted to do in a speech to the VFW last week -- I swear to god, I'm gonna take a hostage.
Well, No Shit
Apparently, it's news to somebody that a life of egregious excess takes its toll.
Rock stars more likely to die prematurely
LONDON (Reuters) - Rock stars -- notorious for their "crash and burn" lifestyles -- really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.
A study of more than 1,000 mainly British and North American artists, spanning the era from Elvis Presley to rapper Eminem, found they were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population.
Between 1956 and 2005 there were 100 deaths among the 1,064 musicians examined by researchers at the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University.
As well as Presley, the toll of those dying before their time included Doors singer Jim Morrison, guitar hero Jimi Hendrix, T Rex star Marc Bolan and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.
More than a quarter of all the deaths were related to drugs or alcohol abuse, said the study in the Journal of Epidemial Community Health.
"The paper clearly describes a population of rock and pop stars who are at a disproportionate risk of alcohol and drug related deaths," said Mark Bellis, lead author of the study.
Huh. Bellis thinks we shouldn't listen to rock stars when they tell us not to use drugs, because they're statistically unsafe.
Americans do worse than Brits, of course.
Bellis suggested that the high death rate among older American musicians could be related to the continent's greater appetite for reunion tours, exposing the artists for more years to an unhealthy "rock'n'roll" lifestyle.
It could also be due to the poor medical outlook for impoverished American ex-pop stars who have no health insurance, he said.
Powerpop guys, FWIW, tend to be pretty long-lived, despite their ascendancy during the decadence of the 1970's. I wonder why?
Keith Richards, as always, continues to defy the statistical likelihood that he will collapse into a heap of opiated dust.
h/t watertiger
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Things That Make Me Go Oy Gevalt
Could this be the worst hit song of the 80s? All signs point to yes.
At the very least, I think we can agree that frontwoman/unindicted felon Rindy Ross was the lamest sax player in music history.
Scenes From the Wine Dark Sea
This will be old news to some of you, but I have been known to assert that all women -- past, present and future -- pale into insignificance compared to the beauty that is Xena, Warrior Princess.
The extraordinary sailing montage above is from an episode called "Destiny," in which Xena boinks Julius Caesar and gets crucified (literally) for her trouble. The music is an adaptation of an old celtic folk song by series composer Joseph LoDuca, which (for reasons too complicated to get into) never made it onto any of the Xena soundtrack CDs.
It's quite ethereally lovely, and the whole sequence strikes me as something edging perhaps perilously close (for TV at least) to the precipice of what you might call art; you really get a feeling for the vast, strange beauty of the ancient world. Of course, show producer Rob Tapert (who's married to Lucy Lawless, if memory serves) included it for no other reason than he's a big sailing enthusiast.
Back to Business: The Color Wheels
First, sorry for the relatively long silence: vacation, then the beginning of a semester, have left me with precious little free time. But things are in motion now, and I'm falling into something of a pattern. Also, the first season of Flight of the Conchords has ended, so that particular mania can rest for a bit. (Now, if I could sleep through the night, I'd be golden.)
One of the nifty things about having this blog is the sheer number of cool bands who send me emails asking me to check out their stuff. Not that I'm much of an opinion maker: our 200 hits a day make us slightly less influential than the dust bunnies under the bed. Still, what's the point of the internets if it's not to reach out and find the twelve people in the world who like what you like? (And don't say pornography, you nasty boys.)
In any case, I got a nice email from my fellow upstate NYers at Viper Bite Records, and one of their bands in particular really struck me. The Color Wheels seem to have captured that boy-girl vibe of the mid-90's alternative powerpop revival--think Velocity Girl or early New Pornographers--and married it to the kind of catchy, jangly stuff we love around here.
There's precious little info on them around, but they seem to be a two-person operation in the mode of the White Stripes (no idea if they come with all the interesting emotional baggage, however). The guy, Jon Sebastian of Poughkeepsie, seems crazy busy, almost Pollardesque, with two bands (the other is The Mirror Age) and solo work, too. The young woman, Psalm, is more mysterious--even her MySpace profile is secret. But the song "Green Means Go" is catchy as hell, and you can download it from MySpace or from iTunes. You'll thank me later. (And if The Color Wheels would like a proper write-up, they have only to drop me a line.)
There is, at least so far, no official video for the new Bruce Springsteen single "Radio Nowhere," but here's some fan's version and you can judge the song yourself.
I think it's an (almost) great piece of work, partly because it's a total break with the overheated street romanticism of his 70s stuff (compared to, say, "Badlands," this is a haiku), and partly because it's such a nice depiction of a post-Bush apocalyptic landscape via the metaphor of a late night disc jockey wondering if anybody's listening.
But what really struck me is the fact that there's a bit of a sexual subtext. Interesting in that Springsteen has never really been comfortable writing about the pleasures of the flesh. Love, sure -- boinking, no. I wonder why that is....
Saturday 70s Top of the Pops Blogging
O.K., admit it, you like this song!
Here's Scottish one-hit wonder Pilot performing their 1974 top 20 hit Magic. To me, if you just replaced lead singer/bassist David Paton's voice with Pete Ham's and roughed the tune up a bit, you'd have yourself a Badfinger song.


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Battlefield 3 executive producer on making memorable maps, rivalry with Modern Warfare 3 (interview)
Posted on October 28, 2011 by Gieson Cacho
Earlier this month, EA held a Final Hours event for Battlefield 3. I had an opportunity to interview executive producer Patrick Bach. I asked him a few questions from a Twitter follower Juan Letona (@ibitjuan). Here are his answers to them and some questions of my own.
These are from Letona:
Why are military shooters so popular?
I think it's human nature to hunt prey, to aim and hit stuff. There's a natural feedback loop of chasing and hitting something. You see people playing paintball. It's a natural part of how the human brain works and translating that to a first person shooter is a good way of getting that. You can do Battlefield as a sci-fi game or a paintball game. It doesn't have to be a military shooter to be fun. People read military books and they read conflicts today and conflicts tomorrow. The modern day war is interesting.
Where does your creative drive come from?
Great media — whatever it is — is always inspiring. Books and movies. Architecture. People being creative. It's always interested me. I get satisfied when you do different things, when you use all different senses.
More Q and A from Patrick Bach on the jump
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A manufacturer of plastic injection parts for intravenous kits drying water-based ink graduation markings on the parts.
Poor Quality - The existing method of drying the water-based ink with a convection heater did not consistently produce quality markings on the parts.
Excessive Scrap - An excessive number of parts were being scrapped due to the inconsistent quality.
Slow Line Speed - The existing line speed of 7 feet (2 meters) was not fast enough to meet production output requirements.
Unfocused Heat - The surrounding area was being heated with the existing convection heater, resulting in employee discomfort.
Heat - A Model 4185-10 Infrared Strip Heater provided heat to dry the water-based ink.
Power Control - A Model 5620 Phase Angle SCR Power Controller controlled the power to the Infrared Strip Heater.
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consistently produced quality markings on the parts.
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Faster Line Speed - Using the Infrared Strip Heater allowed the manufacturer to increase line speed to 20-25 feet (6-7.6 meters) per minute.
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"That was a great day. The team is improving with every race and even if we don't start at the front we can still win. A little bit like in Hong Kong we weren't able to show our very best in qualifying but it does look like one lap pace is closer this season, which is good for the championship. We focused on the race in our practice session preparations and this benefitted us especially as we were able to fight back from the penalty for Sébastien. The team and both drivers delivered what we needed and two wins for Séb and two fourth positions for Nico is a strong start to our championship defence. For sure our competitors are improving all the time, but we are determined not to sit back and let them catch us!"


This makes use of the OCZ NIA (Neural Impulse Activator) advanced biotechnology games interface as an analogue to digital converter, by replacing the headband and just stuffing a small analogue signal in one of the inputs in relation to the reference (centre) connector pin.
This contemplated my DIY motion sensor project where only the RX diode signal is used.
Read more about OCZ NIA hack.


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All new DirectX 12 goodness with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
by Anmol
@anmol_112
Nov 20, 2017 at 20:01 GMT 3 years ago
Along with Windows 10, Microsoft released support for DirectX 12 which brings enhanced stability and offered more versatility for graphics and games. These games ran faster, have better looks and with lower crash rates while expanded its compatibility with a wider range of graphics rendering hardware. DirectX 12 has the power to render games in Native 4K not only on PCs but also on Xbox. The latest Xbox offering, the Xbox One X also uses the DirectX 12 APIs to render games in Native 4K.
With Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is working to improve the API with the help of the customer feedback. Some of the new features that DirectX 12 now supports are:
The CPU GPU Divide:
This feature works on the principle of Parallel processing. Here the CPU and GPU work together to render 2D and 3D objects on the screen. This makes the processing faster as doing work consecutively is less convenient than doing that same task parallel-y.
"For example, an application that uses 3D graphics will tell the GPU the positions of every object that needs to be drawn. The GPU will then move each object to its correct position in the 3D world, taking into account things like lighting conditions and the position of the camera, and then does the math to work out what all of this should look like from the perspective of the user. The GPU then sends back the image that should be displayed on system's monitor."
To the left, we see a camera, three objects and a light source in Unity, a game development engine. To the right, we see how the GPU renders these 3-dimensional objects onto a 2-dimensional screen, given the camera position and light source.
Device Removed Errors:
There can be two scenarios of a graphics rendering process being crashed. First, either the GPU was temporarily removed says like during a driver update or second, the GPU was logically removed. In both the scenarios, the GPU data is lost because of the connection between the CPU and GPU being terminated. Hence, the transmission of data between the CPU and GPU with hardware drivers becomes all impossible during the rendering but now with DirectX 12 API, developers can check what command made the process to crash.
Improved debugging: Data
Take a case of a racing game. Here, the GPU reads and writes from data structures called resources. These resources define an algorithm or a set of commands that help in the working of actions in the game. Well, earlier, every time you pressed the arrow key, the GPU read or write data from and to these resources but now with this update, Developers with access to the contents of resource memory now have substantially more useful information to help them determine exactly where an error occurred. Developers can now optimize time spent trying to determine the causes of errors, offering them more time to fix them across systems.
Improved Debugging: Commands
The team built a tool to create markers that record which commands sent from CPU have been executed and which ones are in the process of execution. Hence, when a crash takes place, developers could rectify which command caused it and then simply implement a fix without the whole long diagnosing process.
As we just saw above, these improvements are there for both gamers and game developers to fix issues. The gamers can send the diagnostics to the developers who can now check the log to find the issues and fix them faster and improve the whole stability of the game with new interaction algorithms between the CPU and GPU.
Source: Windows Blog
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zegh8578 Keeper of the trout Orderite
all this makes me wish norway would grow a pair, and press official claims for jemtland and herjedalen.
your day is coming, sweden >:I
zegh8578, Mar 15, 2012
Gonzalez Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
@El Pagano Loco
Don't worry, it's just that most who insist on arguing against the argentine claim at this point either believe that the islands belong to the strongest conqueror with more powerful armies and the rule of force over reason, or think that you are a mindless zealot who thinks in absolutes for wanting them back.
Either you are not strong enough to keep them by force or you are an aggressive fanatic for being determined in your convictions. They are always going to find something to criticize.
Gonzalez, Mar 15, 2012
WillisPDunlevey Mildly Dipped
The argument of the islands having to go back to Argentina because they were taken by force is interesting. This would mean that all the brits living there should give the land back to those who were there before them and go back to england.
if you follow that logic, then all of the white "Spaniards" in argentina should give argentina back to the natives and they themselves should move back to spain. The natives did not freely give up everything to spain... did they?
WillisPDunlevey, Mar 15, 2012
Argentina does not intend to remove the people living there as they are considered argentine citizens because they were born in argentine soil. So is the case of two argentine citizens born in the islands and currently living in Argentina, their birth certificates say "Puerto Argentino" under "place of birth".
And talking about "white spaniards" is completely ignoring our culture and history. There are no "white spaniards" here, only argentines. The revolution against spaniard domination was made by local native people and people from spanish descent that did not considered themselves spanish anymore and felt more identified with the local native population, they even gave themselves a name to differentiate themselves from spaniards, they called themselves "creoles".
Contrary to general belief, most argentine citizens from european decent came here as immigrants during the XX century. And they were from many nationalities, including a great number of british immigrants.
So there are no "white spaniards" here the way there were "white british" in the US. Don't confuse our history with US history, you know, they're no the same thing.
Crni Vuk M4A3 Oldfag oTO Orderite
Gonzalez said:
Argentina does not intend to remove the people living there as they are considered argentine citizens because they were born in argentine soil.
Then why doing it all? If this isn't about pride only then what is it else? This counts for both sides. Not just Argentina. Again the Brits feel here just as much to be right like Argentina. You have 2 sides. And both sides have claims. And both sides have very good arguments.
The next part is that I am curious if what you say will be "true". Things change sometimes. And that quite fast. During the 1920s Germans was a rather good place for jews. At least the big cities like Berlin which have been a central hub for open art and culture. Then 1933 things changed. Decades of art, movies and culture have been killed in a very short time.
Who will guarantee that the people which feel close to Britain will always enjoy a save life on the Falkands? You? Your government? As said. Things can change.
This leads me to a question though. What do the people on the Falklands think? Do they even want to be part of Argentina? What if 90% of their population actually feels British, thinks British and wants to be British? What if they have felt that way for the last 200 years?
The issue I have with your logic here is that it seems to completely ignore what happens around argentina. That it seems like only "their" claim holds water. And that very much feels for me like "if they are not with us they are against us!". But I might be wrong though.
Again. Argentina had once a war about the Island. Britain has proved they want to defend it. Argentina has lost. I know this is unfair maybe. But that is what happened. Maybe it is time to accept it finally. Germany has lost much of its territory in the last 100 years. In the west and east. Should they go around claiming it all back? Would that do anything good? No it would not. The way how you describe it it feels like Argenitna is acting childish about it.
Maybe they should try to become friend with the brits and one day politely "ask" for it. No clue if that might work. But it would be better then being still "bitter" about the case.
Crni Vuk, Mar 16, 2012
El Pagano Loco It Wandered In From the Wastes
Crni Vuk said:
No need for trolling if you can't continue the argument. What makes it worse it, this wasn't even semi-funny.
El Pagano Loco, Mar 16, 2012
^matter of opinion. i think he made a perfectly fair argument.
he is pointing out that territorial claims can never be "universally true", because there are always two sides battling for it.
why would germany be a bad example? cus they were evil? cus they lost?
if i understand correctly, the brits are always open to referendums by the locals.
look at gibraltar, northern ireland, even scotland. falklands arent The Only territorial dispute concerning the UK, and even less the only dead-locked one in general.
that said, i think argentina should get them back simply cus the UK holds too many overseas posessions anyway. theyre annoying
You don't understand correctly. They never made a referendum in the Malvinas, and they're not interested in it. They never made a referendum in Gibraltar either, they never even asked the inhabitants of Gibraltar for their opinion and they keep using their self determination as an excuse not to return it to Spain.
The case of Scotland is a funny one. Cameron didn't even knew Scotland had the power of having a referendum to separate themselves from the UK, and now he can't stop it because if he does he can't claim to defend self determination in places like Malvinas and on Gibraltar.
You guys also keep forgetting things I have already stablished, like the islanders can't get to decide who the islands belong to. They can decide to be british, but not about the fate of the islands. For self determination to be applicable it has to be claimed by a native population and in a territory of their own not violating the territorial integrity of another nation, in the case of the current Malvinas inhabitants they meet neither of these requirements. This is not stuff I just made up, this is international law and UN resolutions.
@Crni Vuk: Where do you get these theories the people in the islands will be treated the way the nazis treated the jews from? Is it that rumor about nazis escaping to Argentina? Because I can assure you that both the jew and british immigrant population are by themselves several times greater than german immigrants population. Most germans who emigrated to South America actually went to Brazil.
May I also put as an example a welsh colony in our territory where they live exactly like in Wales and even speak english in welsh accent (they have problems communicating with people in England but not with people in Wales) that shows how our country can respect lifestyles and customs of populations in their territory.
In any case, in cases like with Malvinas the UN requires yearly reports on the situation of the population to ensure their well being.
And no, I don't think the british claim is as strong as Argentina's.
Tremer It Wandered In From the Wastes
which are the claims that equal to ours? they invaded the islands and cast out the people who lived there and then they won a war, that was not necesary.
We (Argentina) will guarantte you that we are not going to change their way of life. We respect the cultures, we have a british hospital that have the same habits the britans have.
Why will they fell, think, want to be british? does gibraltar, northern ireland, even scotland, to name a few fell, think, want british?
they are part of Argentina, they always were we help this people always. Their mayority born in the british hospital in Buenos Aires. We help in everything they need, because except soldiers they didnt receibe nothing from england.
Please tell me what happend around Argentina, i seem to not know what happend. Please enlighten us...
We were friend of the british before and after they take the island, we asked politely for them and they didnt heard us. During and after the war was when we were not friend for oobvious reason. Now that they negate any Argentinean to step in the island, even the ones that are visiting there loved ones who die in the war
Tremer, Mar 16, 2012
TheGM The voice of reason
El Pagano Loco said:
this wasn't even semi-funny.
after reading the Argentinean claims to the island, nothing is ever going to top them on the funny chart.
TheGM, Mar 16, 2012
Falklands belong to Argentina. Anyone who claims otherwise while actually having a clue about the whole issue is simply downright retarded.
This is the part I was talking about which sounds to me like "Falklands belong to us! And everyone that thinks otherwise is dumb!"
You know. The position that argentina here has is the exact same position for the Brits. They think that their claims are "right" as well. You see where this is going? Exactly. Nowhere. I am neutral on the subject. I don't care what claims either argentina or Britain have here. I find it silly to go in a war over a rock. I just don't see why "history" is such an important argument here. Because other people already asked. What about the native population of argentina and "their" claims? Also don't call others trolls. You're not a mod.
Tremer said:
I am not going to make this whole quote pyramid and I will not go further in to this debate then with this
That I am pretty much the only one talking with you guys over this topic should tell you enough. The people which wanted to have a rational discussion about the subject have already left.
Seriously. If you guys represent here the "average" argentinian then I am somewhat worried.
Again. I have no clue about those Falkland thing. I have no clue how the population there actually feels.
Hence my question was: "what happens if the people on the Falklands actually want to stay with Britain?".
Some of you explained the claims Argentina has. And to me it seems like they are pretty much all based on "history". And well. I cant say that those sound that reasonable. Otherwise pretty much anyone could claim everything. I mean what about the native americans? The lost German territories? The parts finland lost to Russia/Soviet Union? Etc. You see where this is leading? If all nations would only follow the events of "history" then we would see many more conflicts. Borders change over time. Maybe the Falklands will be even one day part of argentina. I just don't see that to be any realistic goal in the near future.
When you talk about the people of the Falklands then please come up with some source now because it is tiresome to always ask the same questions. I have no fucking clue what the people on the Falklands think. Did anyone ever bothered to ask? I am sure someone did. So what is actually their opinion. Do they want to be part of argentina? From all the questions I have I get only answers by you here. But that is no "guarantee" in my eyes. Not for the people on the Falklands at least. Today you tell them "nothing will change". And 20 years later the people have to move. And then you might see Britain going to war again. - Who knows? Its not like this would be the first time something like that happened.
No one cries for Carthage... Give it back to them! They deserve it!
While we are at it, Britain should be given back to the native Britons. The French (normans), Scandinavians and Germans (rulers of Britain) should all get out.
Would you realy care if i show you the opinion of the people of Malvinas? or you only going to said but the british have the same position and both are right .
Try to search by yourself, news of how they received the prince Guillermo or search for interview that they make to the people
Also don't call others trolls. You're not a mod.
Wow, didn't know there's a requirement for that.
If the parts below aren't just a pure retarded unfunny trolling then i don't know what they are.
Things change sometimes. And that quite fast. During the 1920s Germans was a rather good place for jews. At least the big cities like Berlin which have been a central hub for open art and culture. Then 1933 things changed. Decades of art, movies and culture have been killed in a very short time.
What if 90% of their population actually feels British, thinks British and wants to be British? What if they have felt that way for the last 200 years?
Are you for real? So countries are not supposed to defend their territory against an invading army? Maybe Ruskies should invade Sussex and turn it into an enclave. I'm sure if they squat there for about 20 years the Brits will have to stop acting all childish and shit and let them have it. I mean for how long can they be bitter about it before they just do the mature thing and let them have it. No reason to act like children right?
pagano, "their territory" changes over time, thats what vuk is trying to say.
what is one nations territory in one century, isnt their territory the next.
you cant dismiss ALL of those territorial disputes, while glorifying the one single argentinean one.
what about bolivia?
wasnt parts of/all of bolivia part of the pre-argentine la plata confederation? or would that be irrelevant and silly to include?
where do we draw the border from a territorial claim being irrelevant and silly, to absolutely dead serious?
germany held half of what is todays poland. are they entitled to invade poland again?
"lol, no! dont be silly!"
Sander This ghoul has seen it all
Staff Member Admin Orderite
Yeah, cut out the personal attacks already. That goes for everyone in this thread.
Sander, Mar 16, 2012
White Knight Water Chip? Been There, Done That
Do you mean Prince William? As far as I know, they are fine with that.
White Knight, Mar 16, 2012
Joelzania Look, Ma! Two Heads!
WillisPDunlevey said:
While we are at it, Britain should be given back to the native Britons.
Joelzania, Mar 16, 2012
zegh8578 said:
Again, if you want to keep talking about such things you are first really going to need to study a lot about south american history. Otherwise you're just going to keep comparing apples with oranges.
That aside, at this point any fight between south american countries would be a civil war. We are all part of the region, we are the "Patria Grande". The interest of one of us are the interest of all of us.
In that context, a british enclave deep in South America would work against the interests of all south americans. Britain is not interested in helping us, just in helping themselves.
Their majority born in the british hospital in Buenos Aires. We help in everything they need, because except soldiers they didnt receibe nothing from england.
You just reminded me of the argentine women married to an islander who was denied help delivering the baby in the islands because she was argentinean. In the end they both ended up moving here and the islander requested the argentine nationality. After that he received threat calls telling him he was a traitor and that if he ever returned to the islands he would be shot.
The problem with the islanders is that they are more south american than they'd like to admit. They use our health care, our education (education in the islands is until age 15), buy our products, etc. They want to live in an idyllic comfort zone supported by us, but at the same time agree to be used as an excuse for britain to maintain their power over the region.
There was no referendum made, and most of the claims that every single islander wants to be british comes from the local government, run by an elite, and where supreme power is held by a de facto representative of UK central government they don't get to elect.
That said I don't think that 2000 islanders, for who their way of life wouldn't be affected in the least if the islands belonged to Argentina since they depend on South America for most things anyway, should be used to bring instability to an entire region just out of an alleged local british "patriotism".
mobucks i get such a kick out of myself Orderite
What are the falklands?
mobucks, Mar 17, 2012
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