July 15, 2007 11:04 PM
C&L's Late Nite Music Club with the BoDeans
(guest blogged by Howie Klein)
I used to be a dj at KUSF in San Francisco and when Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the debut BoDeans album was released in 1986, I was blown away by the one-two-three punch of the opening 3 tracks, "She's A Runaway," "Fadeway," and "Still the Night." T-Bone Burnett did an amazing job as producer. Sooner after I became the president of Reprise Records and guess who I found on my label! Radio never discovered the good time compelling nature of the Bodeans' songs but fans did anyway. "Good Things" and "Closer to Free" both came out in the early 90s and both were hit songs with music lovers that radio programmers just never could understand.
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Man I loved the newness of their sound. I must have bought and given away 5 copies of that cassette (yes, cassette, not cd). It was also part of the soundtrack for a great love affair I had at the time.
Smithereens
Behind the Wall Of Sleep
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Smithereens/video/x1xt9l_smi...
[Deleted. Off topic. This is the music thread. Repost in the open thread please-Sitemonitor]
WXRT, 93.1 in Chicago, was an early adopter of The Bodeans and I thanked them for it many moons ago.
WOW!!! I've had this disk for at least 15 years now!!! It's a GREAT album. I also particularly like "Rickshaw Riding", and "Angels". Actually I think all the songs are great.
you have the absolute best taste in music. Thanks for sharing.
Blood, Sex, Sugar, Magik
The show Party of Five introduced me to the BoDeans and I got their album and really enjoyed it.
For 20 years the Bodeans have been one of my favorite bands. They're one of America's great bands, in the same earthy heartland rock tradition of Springsteen and Mellencamp, telling the story of growing up "American". (It may be politically incorrect to say "Heartland" nowadays, but what the hell - - I'm from Harlem!) Thanks Nicole and Howie for sharing and honoring the boys. (Howie - good to see you here. People: check out )
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Burn Down the Malls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoh_yteKkc
Dated, but still fun.
Murdoch has made his bid. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118463978304868582.html?mod=home_whats_n...
Now he's going to do with the Journal just what he did with all his other media. Dumb it down into a hacky Republican rag.
Say goodbye to articles like these:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118454813037367221-search.html?KEYWORDS=...
Goober & the Peas
Hot Women(Cold Beer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l2Z_ATWqnk
Reverend Horton Heat
Galaxy 500
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb_juTPQJUc
Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
My Sinful Days Are Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q27F4srofg
Wayne "The Train" Hancock
North To Alaska
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwLLc1TqhRE
Dwight Yoakam
Streets Of Bakersfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0QneOXimFc
The Gourds
Gin and Juice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAM3C3dpIA&mode=related&search=
Golly! I didn't even remember when or who on this one, but only that I love this song.
The Everly Brothers
Mama Tried
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Everly+Brothers/video/x26qyr...
Bobbie Gentry
Ode To Billy Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc
I listen to KUSF every weekday. One of the many treasures of the San Francisco Bay Area. Will you clip my toenails? Yes, yes, yes.
By the way, you can listen to KUSF on itunes. But it's only alternative/indie music from about 6am to 6pm, afterwards it broadcasts in Cantonese for a few hours.
Goober! Now that's some Cowpunk.
Flametrick Subs: "Buzz Bomb"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-f1J8bCJp8
From the home of Les Paul...Waukesha, Wisconsin
numfar....WXRT.....I just moved from Chicago back to my home town of St. Louis....man do I ever miss 93.1 WXRT, who, as you mentioned, played the Bodeans!
Cowpunk @ 24:
Do ya know about Goober's relationship with Jack White?
The BoDeans did a cool turn on Robbie Robertson's self-titled album, too.
At the risk of being deleted, that post needs some work; "Sooner after I became the president of Reprise Records..." is not correct english unless you're making a comparison to "Later when I became president..."
[Thanks for the English lesson in the music thread. It really really rounds out everyone's enjoyment of the tunes, krome-Sitemonitor]
Bodeans were a great band - something about the way Sammy & Kurt's voices worked together.
Brings back some great memories of Chicago, Milwaukee & Madison.
And this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMKPYq_pBqA
I remember seeing them in a small club in Milwaukee in probably '85 or something. I thought they were fantastic. So infectious and so different than all the "new wave" sterile sounding bands out there. Anyone remember "Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans" who were the R&B Cadets before that. They were the best live band ever.
Andy, it was the 3rd of June (my birthday.) But today, it's CHRISTMAS IN JULY!!!! -
http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&s...
First heard of The Bodeans on KPIG, on the internet, in 2001.
Loved them right away!
And some hoss, up above, posted about Smithereens . . .
KPIG played them, too . . . and I love THEM, also . .
Good stuff, all you Americana Fans . . . Nicole Belle . . . Prez Of Reprise Records?
Wow, never knew . . . that's some serious musical cache . . . I bow!!!
Site Monitor: No, Howie Klein (the guest blogger) was the president of Reprise.
OUCH!!!
So sorry Howie, and Nicole!!!
Howie, Reprise . . . kudo's hoss . . dang my bad . . .
Just saw the Bodeans in concert (again) last month. They still bring it. Thanks
Saw The Bodeans for the first time finally last September in Cleveland. Always loved them.
The have a new CD out and a live DVD the new material (Resolution) doesn't miss a beat http://www.bodeans.com/
yeah...i guess
the 80s were really really rough. Those of us who were 14 in 1981 (and white and in the suburbs and in the northeast), well...our teeny bopper band was RUSH. We liked that....but then Empty-Vee came round...and cocaine...and then lots and lots of bad and/or boring music and even worse sounding production. Blandness abounded. Culture Club, Madonna, INXS, Journey, Asia, Bon Jovi.....crap upon crap upon crap. It was awful. Horrendous. "The Joshua Tree" was played intot he ground and "Syncronicity" was easily The Police's worst record. I worked in two different record stores (well...one record store and one CD store) from 1986-1989....dear god the pop music coming out was boooooring. Those horribly loud and big snare drum sounds. Steve Jordan's production utterly ruined Keith Richards' solo album. And the parade of one hit wonder pseudo country-rock bands....that were just a snooze fest. I guess they werent if one was on cocaine already...but that was never my drug.
I know Im posting a contrary point of view here. And everyone should love whatever music they want to love. But Howie...please dont refer to "music fans" when you really mean a niche market. Because to many of us teenagers from the 80s, rock and roll seemed to pack up shop around 1981. Sure...Moterhead was still around, U2 made some good records...there were moments. But we kids started following The Grateful Dead in 1987 (my first dead show was actually '83) only because we had no alternatives.
It seemed like the only creative things going on musically post '85 (in pop music) were Public Enemy. Erik B. Rap music/hip-hop. Much of what we heard in the 80s was blandness. And cocaine abused production values where the snare drum was so far out in front and the bass so far behind. Either that...or synth music that was infinately forgettable and/or even blander. I remember hoping that Patrick Moraz would shoot the rest of the Moody Blues.
Fourtunately, alt.country soon emerged. Even the Black Crows seemed to bring back rock and roll. One night, late at night, 1991 maybe....I saw this video with a more punk rock aesthetic which included cheerleaders in black outfits with anarchy signs on them. I stood in my basement and cheered that maybe hair bands were over. They were.
The 80s were a bad nightmare for many of us musically (and politically!) and some of us still thank jebus that they are over. And while everyone is entitled to love whatever music they like, and I certainly dont want to tread upon another's nostalgia. But I will not sit back and allow the discourse about pop music in the 80s to be dominated by those who liked the 80s. I was there. Having been born in 1967, I spent the entirety of my teen years in the 1980s. And I have often considered the 1980s to be the lowest point in United States expressive culture of the 20th century.
"Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?"
Two other off the beaten path bands of the time I really enjoyed were Rank and File (Sundown especially) They were on Austin City Limits once I believe but I couldn't find it on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNkHtej_5U
and the Knitters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHHA1cPRGM&mode=related&search=
roberto.
"...please dont refer to “music fans” when you really mean a niche market..."
What?
Music fans are people who search out music they like no matter how popular it is or was.
Roberto,
Indy Radio (like WLIR/WDRE in NY) was the savation for being a teen in 1980. Finding the Replacements, REM,( and the BoDeans, Del Fuegos, et al) got me through the grim decade.
carsick @ 38:
I've fruitlessly searched fer that Rank and File vid countless times since the inception of the LNMC. I'm glad to see that someone finally posted it. Great catch!
meh.
I was turned on to the BoDeans over 20 years ago by, of all people, Stevie Wonder's sound man.
I fell in love with the band instantly.
Their live double CD "Joe Dirt Car" is excellent.
Pick it up if you don't have it yet, all their great stuff & LIVE!!!!
Roberto,
That is a seriously annoying and limited viewpoint. Sounds like you were limited to top forty and didn't explore much on the alternative dial. Sad.
Ms. Belle,
Zooooooom! And you must be a Kiwi already! That was so fast I must have missed the 30 hour flight interruption of your posts. There wasn't one! Was there? Your 'by line' never even blinked! Glad you arrived safely, especially since it is in the dead of winter, too! Must be spectacular there in the high Southern latitudes. Especially glad you are a continuing contributor w/ C & L and lending you experienced ear into sharing pop music w/ C&LLNMC.
numfar @ 5:
I loved XRT and that is where I first heard The BoDeans. I think I have all of their albums and I think that they are all on iTunes now. When I moved out to Los Angeles in 1993 I kept wanting to find a radio station similar to XRT. At one point there was a station called KSCA 101.9 that I discovered and grew to like and then when they started playing The BoDeans I knew that was my number one station. Unfortunately, that station no longer exists.
There you go again Howie!
"Radio never discovered..."
What a load of self congratulatory crap. I program a radio network in Vermont WNCS/WDOT/WRJT "The Point" (online at pointfm.com) and the station not only played the BoDeans back in the day, we STILL play them. Just today we played "Only Love". Feel free to check out our streaming...
Not that you ever bother to read other people's comments.
Zeb Norris
After I wrote the comment above I went to the john here at the station where's there's a huge poster signed by the BoDeans thanking a previous PD... get ready for it... for making their second album #1 on the AAA chart!
All you had to was say MOST radio didn't etc.
AAA stations not only play quality music, they also are a good business bet and award magnets... from the website triplearadio.com
NAB Recognizes Triple A Broadcasters The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced the finalists for the 2007 NAB Marconi Radio Awards, which honor stations and on-air personalities for excellence in broadcasting. The winners will be announced on September 27 at the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show, held during the NAB Radio Show at the Charlotte Convention Center.
Nominees from the Triple A format include KBCO/Boulder for Large Market Station of the Year, KGSR/Austin for Medium Market Station of the Year, KOZT/Fort Bragg’s Kate Hayes for Small Market Personality of the Year and KTCZ/Minneapolis for Rock Station of the Year.
I just listened to Love & Hope Sex & Dreams in its entirety while cleaning the house on Sunday. Hadn't listened to it in years. It holds up well.
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