C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Mekons
By driftglass Saturday Sep 06, 2008 10:00pm
I will always be a sucker for any song that includes the lyric, "John Glenn drinks cocktails with God / in a cafe in downtown Saigon."
The Mekons -- Ghosts of American Astronauts
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great song always thought the vocal was too loud though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMZ7wfLyno
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Where's the hook?
Site question: Are the video links not working on today's posts or is it just my own computer not wanting to play or download them?
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If I was a Mekon I'd write a song about Too Much Joy
If I was a Mekon
Maybe I could sleep with Sally (If I was a Mekon)
maybe one night in Chicago (If I was a Mekon)
We'd smile a lot the next day
We'd never talk about it again
and we'd be that much closer friends
And a Mekon is a really good thing
And a Mekon is a really good thing
And a Mekon is a really good thing to be...
Astronaut Alan Bean paints psychedelic rainbow images from his memories of moon walks. As if the landscape was nestled in prisms or broken glass.
driftglass, I loved that. It was just what I needed to hear tonight. Thank you.
Sorry about that sitemonitor, I didn't realize that the music threads weren't also open threads. Live and learn.
Re: #7
If you browse to room 8 and higher, you can start to see the wilder Alan Bean paintings.
Astronaut Bean's voice was sampled and used in Lemon Jelly's song _Space Walk_ off the album _Lost Horizons_.
James McMurty - We Can't Make It Here Anymore
Compare and contrast (I know I am):
Mighty Show Stoppers - Hippy Skippy Moon Strut
Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
ah the mekons. what a great, lovely band. some of the best live shows i've ever seen.
cheers!
I saw Mekons with Camper Van Beethoven at the 930 club in D.C. in the early 90's even though I didn't know either groups catalog. Energetic show and fun crowd. Absolutely love David Lowery. I think Kerosene Hat by Cracker is a greatly underrated CD.
Afrika Bambaataa - World Destruction
miss_kitty @ 16:
PS still true today, 24 years later
Turn It Up - Ugly Duckling
Cartoons!
Believe it or not, sometimes I need a bit of a pick-me-up before hitting the road... nothing like Memphis, Egypt, by the mekons starting up when i turn the key...
Soulwax NY Excuse
Environmental shit!
scarlet p. @ 19:
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'Memphis, Egypt' does it for me as well, but then so does this Mekons' classic.
Saw them twice; once in the 1990s at the long-dead Berkeley Square in Berkeley where I buttonholed Greil Marcus and thanked him for his writing, then again last year for free at Golden Gate Park at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. They played this haunting tune.
LNMC is on a roll. Mekons have two of my alltime favorite songs - Orpheus and Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem.
theWalrus @ 3:
Probably in your mouth.
Thanks for giving some attention to the great Mekons, Driftglass! Their recent albums OOOH! and Natural are well worth checking out.
This should be the GOP song, as most women will soon be dying from "some back alley job". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1z_5iyvbdc
"Sally's Pigeons"
When I was eight I had a friend
With a pirate smile
Make believe and play pretend
We were innocent and wild
Hopped a fence and slammed the gate
Running down my alleyway
In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly
We loved to watch them dive and soar
Circle in the sky
Free as a bird from three to four
And never knowing why
Neighbors pulled their wash back in
Put away my Barbie and Ken
Look out overhead
While Sally's pigeons fly
I had a fool's confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and common sense
Come in different quantities
My heart began to
Skip to the beat
Of the boy next door
She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And Sally let his pigeons out to fly...
On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly
She never saw those birds again
And me, I can't remember when
A pirate smile hasn't made me cry
I close my eyes
And Sally's pigeons fly...
Great tune.
Another relevant song by the Mekons: "Now We Have the Bomb."
Finally! Thank you crooksandliars for exposing some of your patrons to the Mekons!
Ghosts is one of the most beautiful songs they wrote!
They always kept their integrity and lived their politics.
"It's a nice break from Vietnam."
"Nixon sucks...a dry martini!"
My personal favorite off their first recording, "THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS NOT STRNEN," is "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TONIGHT"
"Outside a napalm factory"
CMINCA @ 25:
I need to remember that when there's a Cyndi Lauper thread, I should post the entire lyrics of a Mekons song in the comments.
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