List of perfect albums, as decided upon over at Plastic.
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Dirty Deeds Done Not Even Dirt Cheap
I’m with Mr. Beck. No decent music service worth its salt should exist without AC/DC.
Raquel & Janis
DICK CAVETT: Do you remember your dreams, Raquel?
RAQUEL WELCH: Ohhh! My dreams.
CAVETT: Your dreams.
WELCH: Which…which ones?
CAVETT: What’s the last one you remember?
WELCH: Oh. I’ve been dreaming nights about that premiere. I mean I just keep seeing pushing and shoving and flashing and getting mad. That’s all. That’s the last dream. But before, um, that when I was a little girl, I always used to dream that there was this ballet dancer and she was doing that — this thing called a forte, which is that terribly difficult and complicated spin that they do. And just doing it, like — intensely. You know? Until there were like sparkles coming out all over the place. And then I can remember this other dream I used to have, where they — there were men and beautiful women on flying trapezes. And they used to do these somersaults and clamp their hands over the bars. It was fantastic and exciting!
CAVETT: Gee.
WELCH: That was all — that’s the only thing that I can really…
JANIS JOPLIN: Do you know about F. Scott Fitzgerald? I mean, were you ever an F. Scott Fitzgerald freak?
WELCH: Sure.
JOPLIN: Yeah, well I was — I’ve been an F. Scott Fitzgerald freak for years and, uh, Zelda just came out. And, uh, you oughta read it. She was something else.
CAVETT: Yeah. Ms. Milford wrote that.
JOPLIN: Yes. She did indeed.
CAVETT: I’d like to read that. Good? You recommend it?
JOPLIN: Yeah. Oh…well, I’m a Fitzgerald freak. But it gives a lot of insight like you…the impression I got from all the Fitzgerald…uh..autobiographies I read was that he sort of destroyed her, right? But he wrote her a letter and he said, they keep saying that we’ve destroyed each other. He said I don’t believe it’s true. He said, we destroyed ourselves.
CAVETT: His letters are wonderful.
JOPLIN: Oh, so are hers!
CAVETT: Did you think of him when she mentioned ballet dancing?
JOPLIN: Yes. That’s what I thought.
From The Dick Cavett Show, June 25, 1970
RIP Robert Moog
Future Posts from Radiohead’s Blog
Radiohead has started a blog. What follows are future entries that will appear on this exciting new experiment:
is anybody in there?
hello? mom? will somebdy hold me?
hving difficultees splling
with all the poundz i threw in the lift
can only afford dialllup
u think they caught on to our scam?
releasing same albumm
again & again
ed’s getting sik of the same old liks
wants me to whine less
will post more late
Thom
studio
wea regoing in tomorrow
record company says produce same
but keep edgy enough to avoid coldplay sound
colin going for more funk
to throw listner core off
make ’em think hail was an aberration
what do you think, phil? does “kid b” work?
Thom
fuckin thom
i’m getting sick of his shit
so we start the blog and guess who’s the one rambling incoherently?
why, thom, of course
i keep telling him that we need to do another “ok computer”
more strange transitions three minutes in
he says more songs
we need a retirement fund
back in oxford, it wasn’t like this
fucker…I’m going to beat the shit out of him if he goes for that falsetto again
why does he have to expose his vocal limitations so blatantly?
colin
GUITAR
Look, I’m just the other guy who plays guitar. If they want to believe that we’re the next Beatles or the next U2, let them dream their little dream. At least we make thirtysomethings happy, finding the common ground between totally selling out and providing enough of a mellow sound not to frighten the yuppies who are afraid of a little edge.
Jonny