Comedian/impressionist Fred Travelena died at 66:
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/fred-travalena-dies/547966?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeater.com%2Ftelevision%2Farticle%2Ffred-travalena-dies%2F547966
Actress/singer Gale Storm died at 87--almost completely unknown to today's generation but a popular sitcom star in the 50s (MY LITTLE MARGIE, THE GALE STORM SHOW)--and she recorded "I Hear You Knocking" a couple of decades before Dave Edmunds:
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/gale-storm-dies/547078?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link6http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeater.com%2Ftelevision%2Farticle%2Fgale-storm-dies%2F547078
And another posthumous Michael Jackson note--some want Disneyland to revive CAPTAIN EO, the 3-D featurette starring Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/eo/
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Update: I knew Nick Lowe when he used to rock and roll.
After last year's welcome reissue of JESUS OF COOL (retitled PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE in the U.S. by Columbia Records) one would think that the good folks of Yep Roc would have wanted to reissue Nick Lowe's second solo album LABOUR OF LUST (which contains his biggest hit "Cruel To Be Kind").
Not to be. Instead Yep Roc and Lowe give listeners a new double-disc best-of that goes heavy on the snoozy, look-what-a-great-balladeer-I-am later material (naturally from Lowe's Yep Roc catalog--saving lots of money on licensing the earlier, better songs).
[Here's a post on Lowe from last year: http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com/2008/02/nick-lowe-when-early-music-has-more.html]
From a Yep Roc e-mail:
British songwriting icon Nick Lowe will release his definitive best of Quiet Please..The New Best of Nick Lowe on March 17, 2009.Quiet Please... is the definitive career spinning best of from the British pop genius that makes all other collections obsolete. The 49-track compendium documents the development of one of popular musics greatest song crafters, from his pub rock days in Brinsley Schwarz and later Rockpile, to his now legendary solo career. Healthy doses of material from 20 different albums combine to make it clear why Lowe is credited by artists and critics alike with paving the way for punk as well as changing the face of pop music with albums like Jesus of Cool, Labour of Lust and At my Age.The deluxe version of the set including DVD of nine original-era music videos for tracks like "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass," "Little Hitler," "Cruel to Be Kind" as well as a 2007 concert filmed live in Belgium, set the collection apart from standard best of's and into the realm of bona fide collector's items.
Here's the tracklisting:
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
So It Goes
Heart Of The City
Endless Sleep
Marie Provost
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
Cracking Up
American Squirm
Cruel To Be Kind
Without Love
You Make Me
When I Write The Book
Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
Burning
Heart
Raining Raining
Ragin' Eyes
Mess Around With Love
Wish You Were Here
L.A.F.S.
Half A Boy And Half A Man
The Gee And The Rick And The Three Card Trick
The Rose Of England
I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)
Wishing Well
Lovers Jamboree
Shting-Shtang
All Men Are Liars
What's Shakin' On The Hill
Don't Think About Her
Fool Who Knows
Soulful Wind
The Beast In Me
I Live On A Battlefield
Shelley My Love
You Inspire Me
Lonesome Reverie
Faithless Lover
What Lack Of Love Has Done
Man That I've Become
Lately I've Let Things Slide
Homewrecker
Has She Got A Friend?
Let's Stay In And Make Love
Indian Queens
I Trained Her To Love Me
People Change
Long Limbed Girl
Hope For Us All
[UPDATE 3/21/09: In retrospect, the Yep Roc set is probably a well-balanced set for those who want all sides of Lowe--but it's unlikely that older fans will want to listen to more than the first four songs of Disc 2 that often.]
If you want mature Anglophile balladry of the type Nick thinks he's doing, definitely buy Richard Hawley's COLES CORNER.
Not to be. Instead Yep Roc and Lowe give listeners a new double-disc best-of that goes heavy on the snoozy, look-what-a-great-balladeer-I-am later material (naturally from Lowe's Yep Roc catalog--saving lots of money on licensing the earlier, better songs).
[Here's a post on Lowe from last year: http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com/2008/02/nick-lowe-when-early-music-has-more.html]
From a Yep Roc e-mail:
British songwriting icon Nick Lowe will release his definitive best of Quiet Please..The New Best of Nick Lowe on March 17, 2009.Quiet Please... is the definitive career spinning best of from the British pop genius that makes all other collections obsolete. The 49-track compendium documents the development of one of popular musics greatest song crafters, from his pub rock days in Brinsley Schwarz and later Rockpile, to his now legendary solo career. Healthy doses of material from 20 different albums combine to make it clear why Lowe is credited by artists and critics alike with paving the way for punk as well as changing the face of pop music with albums like Jesus of Cool, Labour of Lust and At my Age.The deluxe version of the set including DVD of nine original-era music videos for tracks like "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass," "Little Hitler," "Cruel to Be Kind" as well as a 2007 concert filmed live in Belgium, set the collection apart from standard best of's and into the realm of bona fide collector's items.
Here's the tracklisting:
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
So It Goes
Heart Of The City
Endless Sleep
Marie Provost
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
Cracking Up
American Squirm
Cruel To Be Kind
Without Love
You Make Me
When I Write The Book
Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
Burning
Heart
Raining Raining
Ragin' Eyes
Mess Around With Love
Wish You Were Here
L.A.F.S.
Half A Boy And Half A Man
The Gee And The Rick And The Three Card Trick
The Rose Of England
I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)
Wishing Well
Lovers Jamboree
Shting-Shtang
All Men Are Liars
What's Shakin' On The Hill
Don't Think About Her
Fool Who Knows
Soulful Wind
The Beast In Me
I Live On A Battlefield
Shelley My Love
You Inspire Me
Lonesome Reverie
Faithless Lover
What Lack Of Love Has Done
Man That I've Become
Lately I've Let Things Slide
Homewrecker
Has She Got A Friend?
Let's Stay In And Make Love
Indian Queens
I Trained Her To Love Me
People Change
Long Limbed Girl
Hope For Us All
[UPDATE 3/21/09: In retrospect, the Yep Roc set is probably a well-balanced set for those who want all sides of Lowe--but it's unlikely that older fans will want to listen to more than the first four songs of Disc 2 that often.]
If you want mature Anglophile balladry of the type Nick thinks he's doing, definitely buy Richard Hawley's COLES CORNER.
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