Craigslist Ads And the New Wave Songs That Love Them #11

I'll Get A Doctor To Take A Picture

You're the cute Asian girl with the fringed brown boots, short skirt, and dyed blonde hair.

I'm the guy in the Banarama T-shirt from the #6 bus who talked about your tattoos.

I'm sure it was just an accident (maybe you transposed some numbers), but you seem to have given me the wrong number.

I've been thinking of you non-stop and can't wait to get together so I can photograph your tats and show you my sword! :)

Maybe if you're up for it, we can eat sushi off each other's bodies too.

A Drunkard's Dream If I Ever Did See One

RIP Levon Helm

The pride of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas died this afternoon at age 71 of cancer.



Helm was an integral part of the Hawks and the Band, playing what would eventually be called Americana. But it hardly mattered what you called his mixture of folk, country, R&B, and Rock -- what mattered was the voice and the music.



May the Midgnight Rambles continue.

Continuing the Trend

Money for Rope

From the Let It Be sessions, the Beatles doing "Gimme Some Truth":



And the finished version from John Lennon's Imagine album a couple years later:



And here's a Beatles attempt at a Paul McCartney song:


And McCartney's version from Ram:


And, while we're at it:



And a cover by Billy Preston (who played on the Beatles version):


And George Harrison's version from 1970 (the visuals are a bit over-the-top on this one):


And finally a snippet from 2000 (in the same garden with the same gnomes):

All My Little Plans and Schemes

Compare and Contrast

While I'm on a John Lennon kick, here are three versions of his song "Real Love" (originally "Real Life").

This is an early demo that appeared on the John Lennon Anthology collection:


And here's a more polished acoustic guitar version from the Imagine movie (1988):


And here's the version the surviving Beatles tarted up for the Beatles Anthology project in 1995:

God is a Concept

Just watched this again...

Remarkable doesn't even begin to describe this record...

Part 1 has embedding disabled, but it's here.

Part 2 is here:


And the bonus features are here.

For All You Cranky Old Men

With Or Without Your Sense of Humor

Piss & shit & midwives.

You make the call.

Four Things Must Pass

It's hard not to love this: