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Clicks and Pops · 19h ago

The World Spins On Regardless

Best Mick Jagger Impression EverLots of people have been talking this week about how great Mick Jagger was on the season finale of Saturday Night Live last weekend. Which reminded me of when Mick put out his first solo album. And I heard "Private Revolution" by World Party and was convinced it was

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Clicks and Pops · 1d ago

Double Kick Drum By the River In the Summer

Playing Kiss CoversThe railroad bridge wasn't in use anymore.But there was a small park.And a friend of mine had rented a room on the top floor of an apartment building on a hill.It looked over the park. And a river. Or maybe an inlet. Or an isthmus. Or a channel.In any case, it overlooked the w

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Clicks and Pops · 2d ago

Searching for Some Kind of Elusive Truth

I Guess No One Can Imagine A Future AnymoreThe moon-faced girl with the imaginary friends glided through the hotel lobby.She was on her way somewhere, imagining her life. I caught her eye for a second.And that was all it took. She had it all planned.The who, what, where, and when. But it didn't l

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Clicks and Pops · 3d ago

Bonus World Groove

God's Gonna Love Ya... 'Cause God's Pretty FunkyThe B-side of World Party's hit song "Ship of Fools" (in the U.S. anyway) was a great 60s-style organ groove track called "World Groove (Do the Mind Guerilla)." It wasn't on their first record and wasn't a bonus track when the album came out on CD. I

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Clicks and Pops · 3d ago

Go Here, Read This, Listen to That

Rare, Unavailable, and Hard to Find has video of World Party at a local Record Store Day event.There are a couple of great Peter Yarrow (from Peter Paul & Mary) posts up at Echoes In the Wind (here and here).And JB from The Hits Just Keep on Comin' eulogizes Donna Summer. As does Holly from The Son

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Clicks and Pops · 4d ago

Craigslist Ads And the New Wave Songs That Love Them #12

The World Makes Its RotationsYou were in Griffith Park, endlessly spinning around until you fell down.I asked if you were okay an you smiled and said I should spin with you.I couldn't because I was on medication.But the medication is done. So I'm ready to spin.Meet me in the same place. Sunday at

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Clicks and Pops · 5d ago

East Side Story Squeezed Down

31 Years AgoThe original plan was for a sprawling double album that genre-hopped (in the same way the White Album had down 13 years earlier).Each side would have a different producer: Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney.But the Edmunds and Lowe sessions each produced one trac

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Clicks and Pops · 6d ago

The Late Great Mick Ronson

Some say Mick Ronson cowrote Bowie's best songs from his Ziggy Stardust heyday for some money and arrangement credits.Here's Bowie with Ronson on Ronson's posthumous album Heaven or Hull:Lots of people say Ian Hunter never could have hit the heights he hit without Ronson.Here's Ronson and Hunter fro

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Clicks and Pops · 1w ago

From the West Down To The East

Every Distance is Not NearThere's a steeple. It's hidden. She probably hasn't seen it.But it's there. Up the hill. Behind the park.Years ago there may have been a congregation. Weddings. Celebration.Now, it's just a building. With a steeple.The sun was blinding that day. She probably doesn't

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Clicks and Pops · 1W ago

You Were Standing with A Bootleg In Your Hand

What in the world is he on about anyway?Here's the essential, existential problem with Paul McCartney:He can be so effortlessly brilliant that it seems like he's not even trying.Or he can be so annoyingly sloppy that he seems like the worst kind of hack (albeit a hack with the most amazing sense of

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