Comments on: Friday fun thread

By: HP

HP — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:46:18 +0000

Replace the horn players in Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys with the horn players in McKinney’s Cotton Pickers. Replace Johnny St. Cyr in the Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven with Banjo Ikey Robinson from Jabbo Smith’s All Stars. Replace my current taste in music with something more relevant to the society in which I live.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:41:11 +0000

“Anthony Moore, also formerly of Slapp Happy, co-wrote all the good songs Pink Floyd has made since Waters left” Now that I didn’t know. Not that I’ve heard much Floyd since Ummagumma, but I’m glad Anthony More is doing well. The Jules Shear of his generation.

By: Luddite Robot

Luddite Robot — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:37:39 +0000

Replace Michael Anthony of Van Halen with any decent bass player. Billy Sheehan. Bootsy Collins. Flea. Les Claypool. And let’s sub in the Diamond Dave of 1983, while we’re at it. Eddie needs to have a screaming asshole on stage to shout down with his playing. Replace any instance of a Who-like reunion post-1984 with an absence. Replace Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies with Sly and Robbie. Or Bootsy Collins and Clyde Stubblefield. Replace David Lee Roth with just about any other singer in David Lee Roth’s band for Eat ‘Em And Smile. Steve Vai. Billy Sheehan. They should never have separated.

By: squeech

squeech — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:09:52 +0000

Not a group thing, but: dear Lord, let Phil Ochs live another year so he could hear the Clash! I also love Ben Wolfson’s suggestion way above. But it would never work. Apparently, during the Henry Cow/Slapp Happy merger, they asked Blegvad to write lyrics for the Tim Hodgkinson opus that was to be Living in the Heart of the Beast—and then they all rejected what he came up with, so he left. Note too that Anthony Moore, also formerly of Slapp Happy, co-wrote all the good songs Pink Floyd has made since Waters left. It occurs to me that he could be a real asset to that band.

By: Reinder Dijkhuis

Reinder Dijkhuis — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:30:57 +0000

Put Nick Drake in front of a rock band so that he learns the thrill of performing to an audience and doesn’t sink into a spiral of depression. Replace Kraftwerk’s robots with life-size Transformers.

By: dorkafork

dorkafork — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:05:24 +0000

What a horror you’ve created. I’m hoping by “replace” you don’t mean “trade”. I’m picturing Mick Jagger singing “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”! AAAHH! Changing the Pixies original lineup. NOOO! And from the comments, replacing OBL with Carrot Top: having Carrot Top hiding out in the mountains of Pakistan/splattered on the wall of a cave in Afghanistan! Well, maybe that’s not so bad. (Ba dum bum.)

By: Martin Bento

Martin Bento — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:23:50 +0000

Looking at most of the sagacity in this thread, I’m thankful the gods were so stingy with the reality-warping superpowers ;}

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:47:41 +0000

Mac from Superchunk (singing duties only) with… Jenny Toomey? Corin Tucker? Pre-Smoking Popes Shane McGowan? (People suggesting Stephin Merritt earn an A- for amusing irony.) Shania Twain with Neko Case, just in general.

By: misterpc

misterpc — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:23:21 +0000

I can’t believe that this is the thread that finally got me posting on CT… and I REALLY can’t believe that you think that replacing MF DOOM with Rakim is a good idea. Rakim is a good MC, smooth flow, nice rhymes, etc, but by modern standards he’s not a great MC. DOOM brings a superior flow, greater lyrical complexity and just a plain ol’ sense of humour. So let’s hear no more of this nonsense. I’ll vote for replacing any of the Beastie Boys with any other MC in the world ever, though, especially on their most recent album.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:25:07 +0000

Replace Charlie Daniels with Jascha Heifetz.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:12:07 +0000

Raplace Hank Jr with Hank III. Replace Kenny Jones with BJ Wilson or Micky Waller, or Hunt Sales. Replace Bill Wyman with John Entwistle. Replace Ray Manzarek with McCoy Tyner. Replace Sandie Shaw with Lorraine Ellison.

By: spacetoast

spacetoast — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:39:14 +0000

Also, I would replace Flava Flav with Saul Kripke.

By: spacetoast

spacetoast — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:35:43 +0000

Yeah, Mark is a man after my own heart, although, I might’ve, might’ve I say, replaced Mick Jones with Mick Ronson circa Ziggy Stardust, and I kinda like “family tradition.” Also too, for sure, John Fogerty kicks the shit out of that panty-waste John Lennon, but the Beatles did make possible the great tribute by the, um, Meatmen, “One Down, Three to Go,” featured on their classic “We’re the Meatmen, and you suck” album—also featuring such gems as “Becoming a man (Freud was wrong)” the ireverant “Crippled children suck,” “TSOL are sissies,” etc. And I think I would just replace the Grateful Dweebs with Boyce and Hart themselves. Anyhoo, I’ve pondered and gotten some advice on this compelling and troubling D.Boon issue, and we decided that if anyway it could be to replace D. Boon, possibly, it would have to be with the guitar genius Tim Kerr of Big Boys (staying in the early ‘80s SST family) fame, and later Poison13—the best band ever from Texas…of the rockin’ covers of Mose Allison’s “Parchman Farm,” the Cramps’ (huh, huh) “Strange Movies,” Sonics, Willie Dixon, a little known but awesome band called the Pleasure Seekers, etc., on this SubPop remaster, which people should buy, since, as I say, it is the best band ever from Texas, and good rock’n’roll and not the lameass Wilco/No Depression “we’re so ironic” crap.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:05:43 +0000

Ian Curtis with Julie Andrews. You win the prize. Fucking hilarious. Man, if you could only hear the sounds of music going through my head right now…. “I’m living in the ice age…..”

By: gholaxy

gholaxy — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:38:58 +0000

Replace Breeder Kelly Deal with Juliana Hatfield. Put Kelly Deal someplace with a strong lock and no musical instruments. Replace Michael Stipe of today, with mumbly joe of yesteryear. I liked him better when I didn’t actually know what he was thinking. Replace Leonard Cohen’s back-up singers with bald girl-children clones of Sinead O’Connor And slit the throat of person who arranged the actual backup singing. Even if it’s Leonard himself.