Its funny how you can make friends with like-minded folks online. I consider myself lucky to count amongst these types, for me, a young lady who goes by the name, Signed DC, after the Love song of the same name. Not only does she host one hell of a hip radio show Real Cool Time (on CIUT), with her husband, Rocky, but she also runs the fabulous & indispensable blog, It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago.
Thanks for the list, DC...see you in the new year!
Thanks for the list, DC...see you in the new year!
Alrighty Tim, here are a few of my favorite 2012 things:
Records:
The Seeds—The Seeds (Big Beat)
The Hollies—Radio Fun: A BBC Recording (EMI)
The Moving Sidewalks—The Complete Collection (Rock Beat)
Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)
The Velvet Underground & Nico - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box (Universal)
The English Beat—The Complete Beat (Shout Factory)
Brazilian Nuggets Vol. 2 (Groovie)
The Plimsouls—Beach Town Confidential (Alive/Bomp)
The Avengers—Avengers (Water)
The Electric Mess—Falling Off the Face of the Earth
The Nervebreakers—Hijack the Radio (Get Hip)
Books:
Teenbeat Mayhem—Mike Markesich (Priceless Info Press)
The Best of Punk Magazine—John Holmstrom (It Books)
Punk: An Aesthetic—Johan Kugelberg & Jon Savage (Rizzoli)
The Art of Punk—Russ Bestley & Alex Ogg (Voyageur Press)
Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk—Sam Sutherland (ECW Press)
Waging Heavy Peace—Neil Young (Blue Rider Press)
In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran—John Taylor (Dutton)
Peppermint Twist—John Johnson Jr., Joel Selvin, & Dick Cami (Thomas Dunne Books)
The History of the NME—Pat Long (Anova Books)
My Life in the Ghost of Planets—Binky Philips (Rhino Single Notes)
Blondie: Parallel Lives—Dick Porter & Kris Needs (Omnibus Press)
Commando - Johnny Ramone (Abrams Image)
Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page—Brad Tolinski (Crown)
Led Zeppelin: The Oral History—Barney Hoskyns (Wiley)
Up All Night: My Life & Times in Rock Radio—Carol Miller (Ecco)
Who I Am—Pete Townshend (Harper)
A Memoir - Cyndi Lauper (Atria)
Best “new” mag:
Flashback, issues 1 & 2
DVDs:
The Rolling Stones—Charlie is My Darling (ABKCO)
Led Zeppelin—Celebration Day (Atlantic)
The English Beat—Live at the US Festival (Shout Factory)
Movies/TV Shows/Rock Docs not seen on DVD:
Magic City
Mad Men Season 5
Jobriath A.D.
Not Fade Away
Searching For Sugar Man
Searching For Sugar Man
Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me (BBC 4)
That’s about all I can think of at the moment!
Take care, D.C.
1 comment:
Confession time...I put "Not Fade Away" on the list without having actually seen it yet, 'cause I knew I'd be seeing it a day later, and given my dual love for "The Sopranos" and '60s garage I assumed that it'd be great. Well--meh at best. Certainly not the "Citizen Kane of garage rock movies" (as "Blast-Off Girls" was described in the book "Hollywood Rock") I was hoping it would be. Sorry folks, hope I didn't mislead anybody!
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