Hola Sneakers! Welcome to our newest and bluest episode yet! (Not really, but bluest rhymes with newest and my mind automatically clang associates.)
…Anyway, here is a new episode of Sneaky Dragon featuring the bottom of the dial; bad math; Christian Science questions; best Great Lakes opinions; a Crystal Lake defense; the James Brolin controversy; let’s (not) take a question; cyborg arm celebrations; no rails; balloon man; some Dolph love; making it clear; some Sparks! news; an Oscar the Groucho question; the Peanut Buster Parfait surprise; sad cèilidh; we’re going to die; travel is scary; a new sidecast announcement; keep it Canuck; movie recommendations; domestic films in foreign places; noir hour; some Cloris Leachman love; and, finally, the Top 5 songs featuring the harpsichord or tack (jangle box) piano as requested by Trevor Lynn.
Thanks for listening.
Those Top 5 Harpsichord/Tack (Jangle Box) Piano Songs as chosen by Dave:
1) “Morning Girl” by The Neon Philharmonic from the 1969 album The Moth Confesses
2) “Berkeley Mews” by The Knks from the 1969 single “Lola” b/w “Berkeley Mews”
3) “She Comes in Colours” by Love from the 1966 album Da Capo
4) “High Coin” by Harpers Bizarre from the 1967 album Anything Goes
5) “Goodbye Thimble Mill Lane” be Peter Lee Stirling from the 1967 single “Goodbye Thimble Mill Lane” b/w “Hey, Conductor”
6) “7-Rooms of Gloom” by The Four Tops from the 1967 single “7-Rooms of Gloom” b/w “I’ll Turn to Stone”
and a late substitution:
7) “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” by The Mojo Men from the 1972 compilation album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
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Hello, sneakers!
I lived in Ireland for a while. You kept bringing up related stuff this episode. Each individual thing is so trivial than I could hold my tongue, but this agglutination demands a response…!
1. I think as North Americans it’s easy for us to look at Europeans and wonder why they don’t travel more. This isn’t to excuse the people you visited, who acted like driving into London was like driving to Calgary, but when Italy’s always a two hours’ flight away, you can put it off indefinitely. The people I knew who really made the most of their ability to travel were from overseas, and wanted to squeeze in as much travel experience as possible.
2. You probably already know this, but getting a “car hire” means “renting a car”. I have no idea why someone in Ontario would say that.
3. People here (in Vancouver) know the word “queue”, but I’d agree that “line-up” is far more common. But I definitely prefer “queue”. As far as “restroom” / “washroom” / “bathroom” go, I could never bring myself to say “loo”, even in the UK; however, I still use “jacks”, especially when I’m out drinking and find myself needing to hit the jacks. It’s a good word.
4. And yeah, movies were so expensive. I don’t know about the UK, but within Ireland you could get an unlimited monthly movie pass for Cineworld. I suspect the movie tickets were pricier to encourage people to get the pass, spend more time hanging out at the theatre, and thus spend more on pints at the Cineworld bar. I spent eleven quid on a rubbish emergency dinner at Cineworld once, and I’m still a little bitter about it, four years later.
Cheers!
Dave never takes the easy path with these lists, and his passion for the songs make them all worth a listen. That said, did anyone else find themselves picturing the Thamesmen / Jamboreebop sequence from This is Spinal Tap during the Love song?
Really excited to hear Full Marx is going ahead!
I think James Brolin is best known by people from my age and gender demographic as the hunky young associate Dr. Steven Kiley on “Marcus Welby, M.D” (1969-1976) You could tell he was cool because he rode a motorcycle to go on house calls. At the time, lots of viewers (esp. female) wouldn’t have minded being examined by him. Not sure if the same can be said for most of his son Josh Brolin’s characters (esp. Thanos.)
I enjoyed this week’s song list theme. I like the way “Goodbye Thimblemill Lane” switches to waltz time for the choruses. It’s a good device to show the narrator’s sadness over the destruction of the neighbourhood.
I had the chance to play a harpsichord back in high school. They rented one when we did a play by Moliere which had a subplot where a young suitor pretends to be a music teacher so he can secretly court the ingénue who’s been promised to rich twit (that old story.) The contrast between playing a harpsichord and a piano was striking (literally.) With a harpsichord, you can’t sustain a note or play more loudly or softly the way you can on a piano. To avoid dead air between notes in a melody, Baroque composers like Bach would fill the spaces with ornate runs and arpeggios in the right hand and lots of bass action in the left hand. (Insert Groucho-style innuendo and eyebrow-raising here.)
P.S. The mnemonic I know for order of the Great Lakes from west to east is “Some Mothers Hate Eating Oranges.” I’d have to say Lake Erie is my favourite one because when I visiting my cousin and swam in it in the summer it was as warm as bath water near the shore, unlike our Pacific Ocean which stays chilly even during a heat wave like we’re having this week in Vancouver.
Kia Ora, I have been really enjoying the musical series and would like to hear what Dave can come up with in a theme of sword’s (as a HEMA practitioner swords take up a big chunk if my mental space, and it would be good to see if Dave can add things to my list outside of heavy/power metal -EG Hammerfall).
If that’s a bit too narrow maybe stretch it out to dueling or even songs to play during a duel… have fun with it 🙂