Today I was wandering around the airport trying to kill time until bryan came to get me and Movies by the Big Boys came up on the old IPOD Shuffle. All the annoyance of the airport just slipped away. I used to sing this melody to Sadie and change all the words to suit her...
T.V. is also a fucking great song by the big boys. The line "that's incredible, the sonny and cher show, rocky and bo-winkle" absolutely reminds me of a very specific period in my life...NOSTALGIA. Of course I didn't hear this song until a hundred years after it came out but I still love it.
So that brings me to the Dicks. The other night I was watching my brother's old band play a reunion show and I overheard a couple of people talking about the greatest love songs of all time. Please note that one of the bands used the crazy tube drum set shown above!!! What the fuck is that thing? What is the target market for this drum kit?
Anyway, my vote for the greatest love song of all time is the bookstore song. One man's journey from the book store to the safeway parking lot, one of the most sincere accounts of the functions of "love" ever written...
EDIT: After listening to the Skinny Elvis about a hundred times over the last couple days it occurs to me I got the T.V. lyric wrong. "Good morning america, the sonny and cher show, THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, Roky and Bowinkle"...tall rob would be so bummed that I forgot his favorite show. Sorry...
alas, i do not know these songs you speak of. the only Big Boys song i remember from the radio all the time was "No!", which is a good song. also the only Dicks i was familiar with was the song "Decent And Clean" from the radio too, and is also a good song. but i heard that when Gary Floyd and all his pals come around "he gonna sh*t on you-hoo", so i tried to stay away from that. you obviously were way more savvy in the influences department than me, i was poor so i just heard what was on the radio...or rodeo, both are correct.
ReplyDeletep.s. - also i do not know where one would get a drum set like this, but i need one.
Nah, just got re-ish's in the last few years. No is an awesome song. The Skinny Elvis record is more melodic over all, weird and awesome, some studio some live tracks, all good...
ReplyDeleteWe saw the Dicks in Tex-ass a few years ago and they were pretty great. They wrote some of the UGLIEST fucking songs. I first got a copy of a collection of the Dicks circa 1980-86 (which has the bookstore song on it) a couple of years ago from my friend Kami. She got to see the Plasmatics, she was savvy!
NOTE: That drum set sounded TERRIBLE!