I'm Speechless !

nofi · May 11, 2016, 07:44:17 PM

i found this while looking for this song by brownsville station. could be break time at the meth lab or a cattle call for a remake of deliverance. funny yet disturbing.

Dave W · May 11, 2016, 09:20:10 PM

Brownsville Station meets Gangnam Style.

nofi · May 11, 2016, 09:34:28 PM

in all fairness barefootin' was done originally by robert parker. got to give credit where credit is due. no 'magpie' stuff here.

uwe · May 12, 2016, 01:56:15 AM

That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...

nofi · May 12, 2016, 07:08:19 AM

my god, you could be right.

Granny Gremlin · May 12, 2016, 07:46:06 AM

Quote from: uwe on May 12, 2016, 01:56:15 AM
That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...

Hipster!

uwe · May 12, 2016, 08:12:41 AM

Well, I can't help it if my music taste is just beaucoup more hip than yours!

I could never understand
The wind at all
Was like a ball of love
I could never never see
The cosmic sea
Was like a bumblebee
And when I'm sad ...
I slide ...

Killed_by_Death · May 12, 2016, 08:22:37 AM

You guys clearly haven't seen Brokeback Kitchen, or you'd recognize that scene in the OP's video.

Dave W · May 12, 2016, 08:29:29 AM

Quote from: uwe on May 12, 2016, 01:56:15 AM
That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...

Not sure what you mean there. Did Mark Bolan originate anything?

uwe · May 12, 2016, 09:55:17 AM

He was certainly better than Brownsville Station at making the purloined components sound like his own!

Let's give him credit: Without Marc's Tony Visconti violin-drenched T. Rex sound (copiously borrowing 50ies rock'n'roll stylisms and adding a Donovan folk slant to it) there would have been no Ziggy Stardust album, Bowie has said as much. He carbon-copied Bolan's sound there and ordered Tony Visconti (who had produced Bolan before Bowie) to provide it. But for Bowie it was just a phase, Bolan was a one-trick-pony with it.

And here is the Brownsville riff arrangement ... It's a signature one to me. Even their bass run at 0:20 borrows from Bolan at 2:24!

TBird1958 · May 12, 2016, 10:10:08 AM

I'm always glad I got to see Marc and T-Rex back in the day, he certainly was an influence on me.

uwe · May 12, 2016, 10:22:23 AM

One trick pony and swiper/slider or not, his voice, that minimalist, but insistent rhythm guitar, the weird fantastical/non-sensical lyrics and his sense of catchy melodies are hard to emulate. You hear five seconds of him - you know it's him.

I hear a little bit of T. Rex even in Prince's music, I believe the two would have gotten along well, as he matured Marc became a great friend of black music and Prince always had a heart for glam (the music, not just the outfits). Both really didn't have "singer's voices" either, yet were totally characteristic.

Granny Gremlin · May 12, 2016, 10:23:30 AM

LOL, the drummer in that Get it On vid (love that record) isn't even playing the same thing as the backing track (kinda half time). Lazy sod/miming along to the recorded track is some bullshit that can really make a guy jaded.

uwe · May 12, 2016, 10:36:58 AM

Everybody but his band played on Bolan's records. He did a lot himself - another Prince parallel and Visconti was an excellent bass player. Mickey Finn, the "conga player/percussionist" wasn't allowed to either play or sing on any recorded output. He was hired for his looks, period.

Rob · May 12, 2016, 11:14:28 AM

Thanks for that Parker video Nofi