Could this be the greatest song about wanking ever???
Not to mention the greatest french horn solo ever committed to vinyl (apologies to Julius Watkins!).
Fun fact: Pictures of Lily (released on 4/22/67) was the 2nd single released on the new Track Records label which Polydor had set up for manager Kit Lambert to run. Anyone know what was the first??
Could this be the greatest song about wanking ever???
ReplyDeleteYes. But I would also like to nominate New Toy by Lene Lovich (but written by Thomas Dolby).
Track Records trivia question? No idea.
Without looking it up -- my admittedly dim memory is leading me to believe it might have been Hendrix.
ReplyDeleteHey Joe?
Without looking it up -- my admittedly dim memory is leading me to believe it might have been Hendrix.
ReplyDeleteHey Joe?
You are correct, sir.
ReplyDeleteSurvey said!
ReplyDeleteJimi Hendrix: Purple Haze
The oeuvre of wanking songs certainly is led by Pictures of Lily, but it certainly didn't stop there:
ReplyDelete"Turning Japanese," the Vapors
"I Touch Myself," the Divinyls
"Longview," Green Day
"She-Bop," Cindy Lauper
others?
...others?
ReplyDelete"Willie and the Hand Jive"
"Orgasm Addict" - The Buzzcocks
ReplyDeleteU and Your Hand by Pink.
ReplyDelete"Rosie" Jackson Browne
ReplyDelete"Dancing With Myself" - Billy Idol
ReplyDeleteThough some say that's not true.
I thought the first track single was "Wind Cries Mary". I also thought the second one was Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air". But I've been quite wrong before.
ReplyDeleteperomyscus,
ReplyDeleteThat factoid comes from Richard Barnes' "The Who: Maximum R&B" and has not been independently verified. ;>