Santa brought me the Young Ones on DVD, the OHM electronic music box-set, some cook books including The Veganomicon, and even winter snows! But perhaps my favorite gift of the modern era is the internet, where I can go back and see strange clips from things I saw on telly when I was ten!
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Archive for the ‘Bubblegum’ Category
I want Mike for Christmas!
Posted in Bands, Bubblegum, Christmas, Comedy, Personal Shit, Television on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the Ohio Express – Sausalito
Posted in Bands, Bubblegum, Personal Shit on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just went to San Francisco over the weekend. Every time I look at the Golden Gate Bridge (which I have never actually crossed, though I’ve ridden under it in a boat) I think of the city on the other side of it and of this song. I’ve gotta go there–everything grows there! And when [...]
The Lemon Pipers on LSD!
Posted in Bands, Bubblegum, Television, The Lemon Pipers on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course they took acid. You know when you hear a song about love’s world of blueberry blue, you’re probably hearing something influenced by the wide world of pleasure-enhancing, mood-altering, hallucination-enducing psychedelic drugs. And though they are pegged as a bubblegum band (hell, they’re on Buddah Records), in many ways the Lemon Pipers fall into the [...]
The Yellow Balloon
Posted in Albums, Bands, Bubblegum on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The day I met my girlfriend, I didn’t know yet quite how rad she was. So when we got in the car and I realized the Yellow Balloon was in the CD player, I tried to change it–most hip young thangs don’t think it’s too groovy to bop around in the car to sunshine jangle [...]
The 1910 Fruitgum Company – Simon Says
Posted in Albums, Bands, Bubblegum on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got a copy of the 1910 Fruitgum Company’s first album, Simon Says, over the winter break. Despite my obsession with all things bubblegum, specifically Kasenetz-Katz, I’d always been more of an Ohio Express guy. Joey Levine’s got such a great, smarmy voice, and the Fruitgum boys just don’t have any singers of that caliber. [...]
