sweetchildintime

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I saw him a couple of times in the late '70s. Absolutely awesome live performer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The whole band are outstanding in this performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think he threw them. They were all talented musicians but probably starting to get a bit pissed off with their pop career by this point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This performance was mimed, as TV shows of this era often were, but the drummer is really taking the piss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I only discovered them via Teenage Fanclub, who basically took Big Star's sound and built a career on it.

 
 

This song references Wilhelm Reich, the inventor of the Orgone Energy Accumulator, a wooden cupboard about the size of a telephone booth, lined with metal and insulated with steel wool.

Reich considered his orgone accumulator an almost magical device that could improve its users' "orgastic potency" and, by extension, their general, and above all mental, health.

Woody Allen famously parodied it in Sleeper (1973), giving it the immortal nickname the "Orgasmatron".

 

Things is always better than they seem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

C'mon man, this was posted yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Beats me. How can Burdon + funk possibly be bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Completely bonkers. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

There's always an option to backtrack, though it would likely come with a substantial monetary and reputational cost.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I dislike Bernie intensely, but let's not kid ourselves that the current F1 owners are motivated by anything except how much money they can screw out of the sport.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well, other than the fact that we don't live in a perfect society (have you noticed yet?), because a rich, famous, influential 92 yo is probably the last person the authorities want in jail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Blake is reliably bonkers. I love his stuff.

 
 
 

The artist had a traumatic and violent childhood, and was committed to a mental asylum in his 20s, where he spent the rest of his life. It was during his incarceration that he started drawing, eventually producing over 1500 works and a 25,000 page illustrated 'biography' of Saint Adolf.

 
 
 
 

They seem to be on sale everywhere in Scotland, but I think they're the worst crisps I've ever tasted. I bought some the other day because I fancied some crisps with my sandwich and they were the only brand the cafe had. They went in a bin about 10 minutes later. Just awful, like eating compressed dust.

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