February 26, 2008 10:00 PM
Late Night Music Club with Lea Delaria
In the U.S. a gold record means it sold 500,000 copies and a platinum record means a million. Right around the time Green Day hit 10,000,000 sales, the RIAA invented a new award-- diamond. Appropriately enough Dookie was one of the first albums to get one. And "Longview" was one of the amazing singles that propelled those sales, not just in America but all around the world. I was in Myanmar in December and I found a CD by a local band called Big Bag and they cover "Longview" and I'm still trying to figure out how to play it on American equipment! Meanwhile, how about a jazz version by Lea Delaria?
beergut
Hey, IdahoMoe: It's just a case of too many "Reubens."
dookie sold 10 million copies?
my son luvs this, thanx howie !
Don Davis @ 2:
All that Thousand Island Dressing. lol
sorry i can't remember if i've done this one here at c&l, so forgive me if i'm repeating myself...
but if you like jazz covers, here's nina simone doing house of the rising sun...
If anyone wants this crap I have the CD somewhere and will sell it to you for $3 plus shipping.
That's OK. Spare us any more Green Day.
please.
The RIAA can probably un-invent the diamond award. I'm having a hard time believing an album's ever going to sell ten million copies in the USA ever again.
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Who is censoring this thread? I've had 3 posts deleted, and I've seen other's deleted too. wtf?
[Me. They were rude and nasty-Sitemonitor]
[Hey smartass-that was your Abu Ghraib link. It had nothing to do with music-Sitemonitor]
skippy @ 6:
to avoid blogspam, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2aQIyz8B7Q
green day may have been turned on by the bay area's punk community, but as a native, i still love these guys
american idiot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0XVpXQ9OtM
Hey Howie,
What were you doing in Myanmar 2 months after the Military Thug Government went on a rampage against Buddhist monks and peaceful citizens? Hope you weren't doing anything that might support the bastards...
Otherwise, great tune.
R.I.P Buddy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLCTjIMmCs
Trying to give John Ashcroft the vapors, Howie?
Don Davis @ 2:
Hope you know more about Greenday and politics than art. That's Titian's "Venus of Urbino". It's been much studied lately over the question of just WHAT the old girl is DOING with her hand. Very interesting speculations on that subject, but I suppose you can know a lot about the sort of rubbish that Greenday records or you can know about art--it's rare to find someone who seems to know about both.
mo_dem @ 11:
For one thing, it is illegal to criticize Klein and his lame picks. No wonder the LNMC has so few comments any more.
{Read it fast before it is deemed verboten!}
Yawn.
Teenage angst and boredom.
And the antidote is boring, trite music.
10,000,000 can't be wrong. Or can they?
Remember Budweiser is the biggest selling beer and McDonald's the most popular restaurant.
There is a connection.
Junk food. Junk beer. Junk music.
corporate punk. corporate democrats. fear the truth.
Why would you have trouble playing a CD from Burma on American equipment? I've never seen any evidence that there's some unique form of CD that won't play in other countries. I play CDs from all over the world all the time on an ordinary cheap CD player. Maybe you just have a duff CD.
Yo beeotch!
Watch where you put those fingers
Or you'll get bill donoho's panties in a bunch.
No disrespect to Green Day, who, along with The Offspring, are among the few punk rock bands I like a lot, but I've read many times elsewhere that Led Zeppelin IV (Zo-So for some people) was the first rock album to achieve the status of selling 10 million copies in the U.S. There was no "diamond" staus at that time it occurred--some time in the late 70s or early 80s--but it was (and is) a remarkable feat. Led Zep II has also achieved that status, although I don't when it occurred.
I also agree with badumpbumpbump that it may never happen again due to legal and illegal downloading.
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