Porkchop digs deep

[porkchop]

Hello Everyone,

  I've decided I'd like a place to post deep cuts. Some songs may have been popular at the time of release, but do not get played much of anywhere anymore. Some may be tracks by a popular band, but a song that has received minimal, if any airplay. Of course, some may be by obscure bands that may have never received any radio airplay for any song.

I'm going try to limit it to 3 songs a day, but it may sometimes be more or less, of course.
Being posted in off topic because not all songs will be of the rock variety.

If you've made it this far, lets start the adventure.

     

[porkchop]

Certainly a good singer, but an even better boxer.

[porkchop]

"Hilly Kristal, birth name Hillel Kristal,[1] (September 23, 1931[2] – August 28, 2007) was an American club owner and musician who was the owner of the iconic New York City club, CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006 over a rent dispute." - Wikipedia

[porkchop]

"Drama is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Yes, released on 18 August 1980 by Atlantic Records. It is their only album to feature Trevor Horn as lead vocalist, following the departure of Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in March 1980 after unsuccessful recording sessions for a new album in Paris and London. Horn was joined by keyboardist Geoff Downes, his partner in the new wave band The Buggles. Drama was recorded in a short amount of time as a tour was already booked prior to the change in personnel. It marked a departure in the band's musical direction with songs more accessible and aggressive that featured the use of modern keyboards and a vocoder." - Wikipedia

[Fritz]

Drama is often dismissed by the Yes purists, but I've always like it.  I bought it on vinyl when it was brand new. 

[porkchop]

Sept 30, 2016 15:34:20 GMT -6 Fritz said:

Drama is often dismissed by the Yes purists, but I've always like it.  I bought it on vinyl when it was brand new. 

Certainly my favorite Yes album by far. I do have an original pressing on vinyl in my collection. 

[porkchop]

Released 18 October 1985

Recorded July – August 1985 at Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England and Olympic Studios, London, England

Genre Gothic rock, post-punk

Length 51:31

Label Beggars Banquet, Sire

Producer Steve Brown

"Love is the second album by English rock band The Cult, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. It gave The Cult commercial success in the UK and abroad. Love was recorded at Jacob's Studios in Farnham, Surrey, in July and August 1985." - Wikipedia

[porkchop]

"Mink DeVille (1974–86) was a rock band known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York’s CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille. The band recorded six albums in the years 1977 to 1985. Except for frontman Willy DeVille, the original members of the band played only on the first two albums (Cabretta and Return to Magenta). For the remaining albums and for tours, Willy DeVille assembled musicians to play under the name Mink DeVille. After 1985, when Willy DeVille began recording and touring under his own name, his backup bands were sometimes called “The Mink DeVille Band,” an allusion to the earlier Mink DeVille.



Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter Doc Pomus said about the band, “Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow — timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.”[1]" - Wikipedia

[porkchop]

"A satirical and self-satirizing rock band with a political slant, they have performed at various war protests – against the Vietnam War and since the 1980s at events around other U.S. involved wars. The band's often frank and humorous lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics have caused a hostile reaction in some quarters, most notably the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1960s. The group is referenced several times in the F.B.I. file on The Doors, where an excerpt mentions eleven songs from The Fugs First Album that are "vulgar and repulsive and are most suggestive."[6]" - Wikipedia

[montana]

ok , porkchop you post to fast - like your on acid or lot's of caffeine for me to keep up - I'm to old and work to much ;)  thanks now on my day off, sunday; I'll have time to check out your post - which scanning throw i've enjoyed  ;)

[porkchop]

Oct 1, 2016 20:11:54 GMT -6 montana said:

ok , porkchop you post to fast - like your on acid or lot's of caffeine for me to keep up - I'm to old and work to much ;)  thanks now on my day off, sunday; I'll have time to check out your post - which scanning throw i've enjoyed  ;)

Acid? No. Caffeine? Absolutely. By your day off, likely to be more here. Hope you enjoy all of it.

[porkchop]

""A Girl Called Johnny" had been released both as a seven-inch and as a twelve-inch single in March 1983, preceding the album by four months. The song, a tribute to Patti Smith, "narrowly failed" to become a hit.[11]" - Wikipedia

[porkchop]

"Starbuck was a rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974 by keyboardist/vocalist/record producer Bruce Blackman and marimba player Bo Wagner. Both Blackman and Wagner, along with guitarist Johnny Walker, had previous success with Mississippi-based "sunshine pop" group Eternity's Children, scoring a Billboard Hot 100 hit with "Mrs. Bluebird" in the summer of 1968.



Starbuck's debut single, "Moonlight Feels Right", reached the #3 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in 1976. Although the band never re-created the success of their debut, several of their songs did chart in the Billboard Top 100 and their 1977 release "Everybody Be Dancin'" reached #38." - Wikipedia

[Fritz]

I remember that tune, though I never knew who did it.

[porkchop]

"Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters — Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert[1][4] — and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a third and fourth album on a major US label and scoring a hit single in the United States.[5] Their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music.



Though the band is still active and continues to tour and release records, of the original songwriters (Nooten, Moorings and Wolbert), only Moorings remains in the band today. After the departure of Nooten and Wolbert in the early 1990s, their music turned increasingly goth.[3]" - Wikipedia