This is from the "Live at CBGBS" double album, and it has been a source of wonderment to me for all the years since it came out that the Laughing Dogs ever got tagged as punk or underground. Jeebus, this could pass for Todd Rundgren or maybe Supertramp for heaven's sake, and that organ solo in the middle wouldn't be mistaken for amateurish or avant-garde by anybody with functioning ears.
The group went on to make two studio albums for Columbia; they're apparently very nice, although I've never heard them (neither has ever been on CD, but I seem to recall they're available on a free download site somewhere). Incidentally, the second one -- The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers-- has one of the great album covers of all time. A photo of the band being pummelled by their actual moms. Heh heh.
In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans its relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Songs with "Mother" in the title??
ReplyDeleteSongs that reference a time of day?
ReplyDeleteOr did you do that already?
No and no.
ReplyDelete:-)
Obscure bands performing on Live LP's that music clubs released?
ReplyDeleteBands with Martin Short in them?
ReplyDeleteGreat lounge bands?
Best electronic organ solos?
Bands that were totaly mislabled by the critics?
Most mind numbingly repetitive choruses?
Trey
The little guy with the cigar looks like a young Keith Moon.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he does, although I think it's a hot dog ... you've already done one about food, right?
ReplyDeleteKeif Moon? I thought it was Martin Short.
ReplyDeleteTrey
Song titles with two or more words that rhyme?
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDelete:-)
There's not much power in their pop.
ReplyDeleteSongs with tonight in the title.
Groups that sound like Supertramp?
ReplyDeleteActually, going left to right, that looks like Paul McCartney, Michael McDonald, Martin Short, and Lou Reed...
ReplyDeleteOh, let me take another shot at the wheel, Gene - songs that were supposedly "punk" that really weren't?
ReplyDeleteactually, the 2 albums have been re-released on CD and I saw them in the Collectors Choice catalog.
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