Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Hey -- It's New Years Eve...

...and a certain Shady Dame and I are celebrating by a) going to see the Dylan bio-pic this afternoon and then b) following it up with an italian dinner at one of our fave mamma e papà restaurants in our nabe here in the Paris of the Northeast (that's Forest Hills, Queens for you out of town philistines).

I should add that, depending on how peppy I am given the rigors of the holiday, I'm planning to post both my thoughts on Timmy-the-C-as-the-Voice-of-a-Generation AND my nominees for Best Album of the Year on Friday.

Yeah, yeah -- restrain your enthusiasm, everybody. 😎

Anyway, in the meantime, it occurs to me I should end 2024 with something actually germane to the mission statement of this here blog, i.e. some bona fide no fooling around totally rockin' power pop.

And in that spirit -- from 1967 -- please enjoy Los Angeles heroes The Merry-Go-Round doing a medley of "Live" (famously covered by The Bangles), "You're a Very Lovely Woman" and "Listen, Listen." The cute singer, of course is none other than tragic genre hero Emitt Rhodes, seen here not long after his testicles descended.

And yes -- the guy introducing the band halfway through is Don Knotts. Who as you may know is currently starring in a holiday remake of this horror classic.

Anyway, I wanna thank everybody who helped yesterday with the links to the new list of music blogs that's going up in the next couple of days; you know who are you are, folks, and you're the best.

And a happy and healthy New Year to all our readers. Here's hoping, despite our current appalling historical-political moment, that 2025 brings you and yours every joy you all so richly deserve.

I love you guys -- mwaahh!!!

5 comments:

mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jsps said...

hour long film about emitt rhodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3KRJLPn0zA

as john and yoko sang "...and a happy new year - let's hope it's a good one, without any fear"

steve simels said...

Wow -- that Rhodes film is a new one on me -- thanks for the heads up, my friend!!!

ChrisE said...

... And a big mwah back to you, Steve, and the Shady Dame and the denizens of Power Pop!

ChrisE said...

You know what New Year's Eve in NYC means: rats wearing little sparkly tuxedos. Sorry, I had a David Letterman moment there :-)

Rob B Mullen said...

Steve, three things ;
1. Happy New Year to you and family.
2. The Merry Go Round - in the deep recesses of my pubescent, Beatles brain the M/G/R actually struck a "I've seen/ heard of this band, though not as remembered as Harpers Bizarre, Blues Magoo's, Every Mother's Son.
3. The Dylan bio pic - call me envious.
My New Year day will find me watching the directors cut of "Get Back"
Best in 2025 ,😉 - rob