Thursday, September 25, 2008

A Perhaps Predictably Early Clue to the New Direction

From 1978, here's the irrepressible and charmingly monikered Stiff Records star Wreckless Eric with his classic "Whole Wide World."



BTW, I just discovered that Eric is now married to the lovely Amy Rigby. That's adorable.

In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

Although I gotta tell you -- I don't think anybody's gonna get this one.

Heh heh.

20 comments:

  1. bands with female bass players

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  2. Still touring after all these years?

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  3. probably way off ,bands that appeared on the uncle floyd show ??? lol

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  4. Anonymous said...
    probably way off ,bands that appeared on the uncle floyd show ??? lol



    I love that one, but no...
    :-)

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  5. The "Spider" John Koerner nickname edition?

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  6. Uh...all good, but...


    no!!!!!
    :-)

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  7. Ali said...
    alliteration



    I'm definitely stealing that one.

    But no...

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  8. Songs with world wide scope?

    Good bands from the late 70s that weren't punk or new wave?

    Trey

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  9. Rocknrollers who marry each other?

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  10. Songs with only two chords?

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  11. Songs whose initials can be used as part of a URL (WWW, HTTP, COM. etc.)?

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  12. Songs covered by The Monkees?

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  13. two chords?

    mbowen beat me to it.

    Bad videos?

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  14. All the above since the alliteration one are brilliant, but...

    NO!!!!

    And I'm sorry, I'd leave another clue but I can't think of one that wouldn't totally give it away.

    :-)

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  15. Jeez, Wreckless Eric just played a little bar in SF!

    I'll take a shot (though I don't know if he was, but since they were both on Stiff): Nick Lowe produced artists?

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  16. One more shot: songs that mention Tahiti?

    And where's my Gravatar???

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