Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
Wild Teens by The incredible staggers New faves here at Infinite Jones, The Incredible Staggers are a retro-garage rock band from Austria (I think). They Rock! Bonus; Here they are doing a live version of Little Latin Lupe Lu. The energy level is just, well, Incredible. The song even survives a Flugelhorn(??) solo! WOW. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ …
Can’t Seem to Get it Through My Head by Green This Rocking Rave-up is from Green‘s 1987 Elaine Mackenzie album on Chicago’s Very Own Pravda Records. A song about resisting adulthood with all your might. We at Infinite Jones can identify. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An infinite Jones continuing series highlighting Cool/unusual Cover versions First up: TWO VERSIONS OF A SONG I DON’T REALLY LIKE! YAY! TAKE ON Me. (Originally by A-ha.) But, these versions are actually pretty great. The Blanks are probably better know as Ted’s Band from the sitcom Scrubs. This version is so beautiful it almost makes me wanna …
weird wild wonderful Wene wadio Wonderful WENE Wadio is Out There. Just sayin’. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hog of the Forsaken by Michael Hurley A very special fave here at Infinite Jones, Hog of the Forsaken comes from the Highly Recommended 1977 album Long Journey. Many will recognize it (or the instrumental, fiddle part) as the theme to HBO’s Deadwood. But, the charmingly weird vocals and lyrics are what really make it …
John Mahoney, veteran character actor and long time Steppenwolf member, best known for his role as as Martin Crane on Frasier, passed away yesterday. He was 77. The most surprising fact about Mahoney, who seemed the quintessential American? He was born in Blackpool, England and didn’t immigrate to the USA until he was 19. See …
Who is Leon “Ndugu” Chancler you say (no doubt badly mispronouncing his name)? Well you may not have heard of him but, you definitely have heard him. He was the drummer on Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, among countless others. He passed away Saturday. See Rolling Stone for further details.
Big Daddy emerged as a comedy cover band on Rhino Records in 1983 ( see here). Their (brilliant) shtick is they were a fifties Rock and Roll band who were captured while touring Viet Nam(!) in the early sixties and were rescued in the early eighties. They then attempted to gain fame by covering the …
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This is one of Johnny Cash’s wildest, loosest, craziest performances. It has the feel of a live performance but, was probably recorded in the studio. Johnny can be heard cracking up and ad libbing with the background singers (including his wife June Carter Cash). He seems like he’s barely holding it together (who knows what substances fueled the …
Anyone who is into greasy, funky Swamp Rock, Southern Soul, Southern Rock or, the Allman Brothers Band should really hear this record. Ton-Ton Macoute! (1970) was intended to be Duane Allman’s solo debut but, the Allman Brothers Band started taking off and Duane left. Jenkins took over the vocal duties and made this album his own. …
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