stax on the mull
Norm Smith Medallist
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Andy Kaufman performing "I Trusted You" on the Midnight Special.
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I saw Jimmy Webb at the Fly By Night in Freo quite a few years ago. Just him and a piano. Great entertainer, great songs.Jimmy Webb is a great songwriter whose written many worthy hits for others over the decades, but I don’t know what he
was smoking (or maybe I do) when he wrote ‘MacArthur Park‘, first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968 - over 7 minutes of overwrought tosh with lengthy, climactic orchestral intermissions. That’s not the funny part, for apart from it actually becoming
a big hit amongst all the stoned out hippies of the time, the lyrics are a meaningless hoot, best summed up by the chorus -
“… MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green icing flowing down / Someone left the cake out in the rain /
I don’t think I can take it / ‘Cause it took so long to bake it / And I’ll never have the recipe again, oh no! …”
Primus for the win ...and Scatterbrain for the 90's lols. Any Weird Al Yankovic stuff is an instant classic.How has Wynonas Big Brown Beaver not been mentioned???
Saw Tenacious D a few years ago as a support act,way more entertaining than the Foo Fighters.Primus for the win ...and Scatterbrain for the 90's lols. Any Weird Al Yankovic stuff is an instant classic.