Anyone want to join me on a Proustian rush?

OK then, off we go:

(sigh)

continues...

...well?

We need to get this straightened out, once and for all.

Is it

Blonde on Blonde?
Bitches Brew?
Exile?
Songs in the Key of Life?
Ooh Las Vegas?
Works vol 1?

or any others? Help me out

Any advance on The Roxy?
Happy days, eh

...not.
Every episode was like aural / visual slow-death

...when, in the Top 40 (or any other barometer of contemporary music), was the last time you heard

- a drum fill
- bassline
- guitar chop
- keyboard flourish
- etc

...that not only stirred your senses / lifted your spirits
but also
- clearly demonstrated the skills both of the individual musician(s) AND the collective band as imaginative arrangers?

For me? Been a long, long time. I have to hark back to the likes of this (dig the drumming):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn7kd_dodgy-in-a-room_music

If not here, then not long after.
From someone weaned on the likes of Police, P.I.L. and the Clash, there's no more damning indictment on post-Britpop music.

...don't you think, eh?
Eh?

...pound for pound, what was (is) the best-ever Musical promo clip of all time?
The perfect accompaniment (enhancement) to a classic single?
I need to think a bit more on this, but right now my gut tells me:

Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
...will take some beating here

...up until 1997 - the undisputed benchmark of UK popular musical criticism.

Why can't I find the full list on the internet anymore?
Does anyone have it handy?
If yes, could you plonk it on a reply?
Lots of fun to be had here

Evocative sounds of the season.
To get us started:

Mazzy Star - All Your Sisters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase.

To start us off:
Nowhere Man - "...isn't He a bit like you, Aunt Mimi?"

...can you guess?
Go on.

At Shea Stadium (movie) - last shown on TV 1979
Let it Be (movie) - last shown on TV 1982
At the Hollywood Bowl LP - never released on CD

...but whenever did we matter, eh?
Apple should hang their collective heads in shame.

...the finest ever Beatles pastiche gave the moribund, SAW-ridden UK singles chart a shot in the arm:

great tune, brilliant arrangement, with a bit of depth and noble intentions.
To me at least, it was a harbinger of better things just around the corner. Remember the welter of great music in the Autumn of 89?

Pity the LP wasn't nearly as good.

1 to get us started

World Party - Put The Message in the Box

Any advance on:

HAPPY MONDAYS - BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

...?

..."the biggest band in the world, bigger than, dare I say it, f#cking God" - MURDER BRITPOP via deplorable, über-rotten "masterpiece" LP - trailed by godforsaken lead single:

Aided and abetted by pathetic, subservient UK Music Media who (as part of the process) committed some bizarre kind of collective professional suicide.

Hyperbole aside - fair enough that practically all those fourth rate bands (tarred with the same brush) continue not to be missed - but the damage performed to the British music industry as a whole was incalculable.
...think about it. With a few notable exceptions - radio, singles, LPs, charts, music press, etc - have all been lazy, backwards-looking and RUBBISH ever since. You can't blame the iPod for everything - can you?

Did we ever receive an apology from anyone about this? Don't think so. We all know the guilty ones. Least they could do, no?

Snapping at the heels of THAT horrendous cover a couple of months ago:

...suddenly "Rent" is supposed to be one of THE all-time (top 20) love songs EVER, is it?

Unless someone's at the kid-on* - utterly LUDICROUS stuff.
If not, Enough of the gratuitous PSB sycophancy (clearly evidenced every other issue) - thank you.

JL

*I presume that Wham / "I'm Your Man" clearly IS a wind-up, right?