Comments on: La Mal Babe Sans Merci

By: Chris Lowe

Chris Lowe — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:44:33 +0000

Oh, and New York Dolls, “Who are the Mystery Girls?”

By: Chris Lowe

Chris Lowe — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:35:37 +0000

“gertrude stein” by the Rentals has to fit in here somewhere …

Not sure it’s quite restricted to Boston though, one could argue for Patti Smith on both sides of the relationship, on Horses at least, & there’s “Love Has Come to Town” by Talking Heads, though RISD/Providence aren’t so far from Boston & they did get Jerry Harrison from the Modern Lovers—still, at the end of the day they went to NYC.

X’s “White Girl”?

Back to Boston, I can’t swear to it from memory but the song titles from Real Kids/Taxi Boys into the ‘80s are suggestive.

By: sweaty guy

sweaty guy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:28:44 +0000

Excuse me please! I meant that CHAFING Black Francis way.

By: sweaty guy

sweaty guy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:27:05 +0000

Save a little love for the mysterious woman in “I’ve Been Tired” by The Pixies.

Don’t know if she’s all that mysterious actually, but they are from Boston and the song is surely misogynistic in that chaming, Black Francis way.

By: Scott McLemee

Scott McLemee — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:41:17 +0000

Will I ban rea? Why? For rocking too hard?

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:43:27 +0000

Scott, will you ban rea? Thanks.

And didn’t Jeff “Skunk” Baxter play on a Spinach album? If so, that may very well be the final piece of the “six degrees of Skunk Baxter” puzzle we’ve waited for all these years. . . .

By: Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:17:39 +0000

The Ultimate Spinach? The horror, the horror…

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:34:40 +0000

IF we’re talking Peter Wolf, the shortest version of that song is surely “This one is called ‘Take out your false teeth momma: I want to suck on your gums’ ”

By: JohnL

JohnL — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:57:38 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have an Ultimate Spinach record. I didn’t know anyone else knew of them.

By: JohnL

JohnL — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:42:01 +0000

Where does ‘Jackie Onassis’ by Human Sexual Response fit? She, the singer, is looking for the mysterious, but really she wants the power (sample line ‘I’d make Harry go down on his knees’).
‘Talk to Loretta’ by the Nervous Eaters doesn’t seem to fit.

By: Jackie Onassis « Petunias

Jackie Onassis « Petunias — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:38:31 +0000

[...] at Crooked Timber, they’re having a discussion about a theme in Boston music and so I had to go look for Boston [...]

By: Slocum

Slocum — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:56:51 +0000

Peter Wolf’s monologue-riff leading up to the live version of “I Must of Got Lost”? (why isn’t it “Musta” anyway?)

Don’t know about the ‘musta’, but somehow I don’t think ‘Reputa the Beauta’ with her green mascara had anything to do with ‘intellectual, slightly mysterious rock-and-roll women’.

By: vivian

vivian — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:39:50 +0000

Peter Wolf’s monologue-riff leading up to the live version of “I Must of Got Lost”? (why isn’t it “Musta” anyway?)

By: The Next to Last Pope

The Next to Last Pope — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:38:54 +0000

I stopped listening to popular music when the Stones came out with “Angie.”

Christ, am I old.

By: Zarquon

Zarquon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:42:03 +0000

try this.