Codimension4 ([info]codimension4) wrote,
@ 2008-06-12 16:47:00
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Joey sucks.
No, not the TV show, although "Joey" the TV show did, in fact, suck. No, I'm talking about the song. Concrete Blonde's only really commercially successful album was "Bloodletting", and that only because "Joey" was successful on radio. Unfortunately, "Joey" can suck it, because the band has done so many significantly better songs.

"100 Games of Solitude", "Still in Hollywood", "Roses Grow", "Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man", "Walking in London"...

"I don't know where I'll wind up tonight/any place with a bar and bathtub's alright"

Good stuff!

The band officially broke up in 2006. Dagnabbit.

Go listen to any Concrete Blonde song *but* Joey. Right now.

Also, take off all of your clothes.

As long as I get to be in charge of what you're doing, go learn to play the guitar and the bass and sing like Johnette Napolitano.



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I wanna be your friends again...
[info]jemisoutrageous
2008-06-12 11:25 pm UTC (link)
I can play bass like Johnette.
But no nakey action until you agree to come to Coney for my birthday.
And you left out 'caroline', 'tomorrow wendy' and 'Happy Birthday'...(to melissa)

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Re: I wanna be your friends again...
[info]codimension4
2008-06-13 02:39 am UTC (link)
All very good songs, but I was worried that I was being a little "Bloodletting" cetnric. "Free", "Still in Hollywood (the live album)", and "Mexican Moon" all deserve the love they have so righteously engendered in me.

:)

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[info]fuzzilla
2008-06-12 11:27 pm UTC (link)
One time in concert Elvis Costello said "if yaw hea-yah to hea-yah 'Veronica,' you kin just FAWK AWF..."

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[info]smatterings
2008-06-13 02:22 pm UTC (link)
JimZilla and I have had to respectfully disagree about Joey all these years.

I like that Joey is one of those rare songs about an infinitely forgiving lover. There are a million impowering "fuck you" songs for when we're angry at some body, but almost no songs that have lyrics like:

And if youre somewhere out there
Passed out on the floor.
Oh Joey, Im not angry anymore.

I think that Joey is the phone call that we all wish we had received a few times in our lives after we fucked things up.

But it's fine with me if Jim hates it. ;-)

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[info]smatterings
2008-06-13 02:22 pm UTC (link)
dammit.

Empowering.

It' Friday. leave me and my poor-spelling alone.

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