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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 3, 2009 - 02:59pm PT
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I have a lot of music roaming around in my noggin and Mott gets considerable play time. Nobody else glammed like these gents!
All the Young Dudes was a collaboration with Bowie and the group's first big single. All star performance below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9F_z0B2TA
Now billy rapped all night bout his suicide
Kick it in the head when he was 25
All that speed jive
Dont wanna stay alive when youre 25
Lucys stealing clothes from unlocked cars
Freddys got zits from picking off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
Oh the television man is crazy
Saying were juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh man I need tv when I got t. rex
Brother you guessed
Im a dude yeah
All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news
All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news
Now jimmy looks sweet cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule
Its a real mean team
We can love
Oh yes, we can love
Brothers back at home
With his beatles and his stones
We never got if off on that revolution stuff
It was such a drag
Too many snags
Well I drunk a lot of wine
And Im feeling fine
Gonna race some cat to bed
Is there concrete all around
Or is it in my head
Brother you guessed
Well Im a dude yeah
All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news
All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news
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WBraun
climber
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Steve
Those lyrics are stupid .....
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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V. funny Stevie Grossman. Obviously you are at the keyboard without adult supervision. Go find Mimi NOW! Bring her here and show her what you have DONE!. Maybe she can fix it. Werner has just tried using aid but couldn't.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2009 - 03:21pm PT
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She just smiles and humors me.....
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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or you could paste some glitter on your cheeks and break out the T-Rex!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2009 - 03:38pm PT
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Bang a gong???
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Total classic song, but maybe you had to be there.
How about Bowie blowing the alto sax?!
JL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2009 - 04:22pm PT
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Some interesting background from the Retrospective liner notes.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Eno used "All the Young Dudes" played backwards to create an atmospheric texture on Bowie's Heroes (or maybe Lodger)...I can't remember which track though. Check out the Bowie 'Berlin Years' critical review dvd for a full blow by blow.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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In the transition period between Roxy Music and taking his chair at the head of the ambient-soundscape table, Eno made this fine record with Robert Fripp.
If you look carefully I believe they're cutting lines of coke with tarot cards!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Hey you there with the glasses...
I want you...
I want you in the front.
I've wanted to do this for years.
It's okay Werner, it's an Anglo-Saxon thing.
Hey wait a minute, weren't the Saxons from Germany?
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
planet dogboy
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Werner,
>Those lyrics are stupid ...
i must respectfully disagree. i find "All The Young Dudes" big
magic. and sure, the lyrics are silly, at least in any sense
that can be explained in just words.
(fwiw, i myself prefer the original '72 album version - for on
that one Ian Hunter himself sounded confounded by the lyrics.
in the much later version noted above, Hunter just seems to
assume everybody "gets it" -- as if there is some collectively
accepted "it")
~~~
one morning, over a decade ago, when i was yet again caught in
the inevitable parking lot that is the SF bay bridge westbound
at 7:39am on a tuesday morning, it suddenly dawned on me that i
was actually sweating bullets that i'd surely be late for an
8:00am meeting with a bunch of self absorbed pricey suits who
could care less if i lived or died -- they only demanded my
presence because they could, and that apparently gave them a
collective stiffy.
and well, you could either say that a light bulb went off in my
head, or something intracranial popped. you'd be right either
way. i just popped in my home cooked CD and turned up "All The
Young Dudes" to like 11 (sound system by Spinal Tap -- i'm
renowned for driving $400 POS cars with $900 sound systems) and
sang (well, howled). as my POS had no A/C all the windows were
down and i soon noticed i was just a small part of a large
chorus of howling morons in similar east bay POS mobiles all
caught in a mile long traffic jam all singing the same song.
kismet.
i learned something that morning. as for what, i am still not
especially sure. but i quit that job that day -- albeit just a
heartbeat before Harry Smith of Harris Bretall Sullivan & Smith
was able to pronounce the words "YOU'RE FIRED!" after i told
him his was the most narcissistic azzhole i had ever met. i
haven't had a boss since -- albeit with admittedly mixed
results. but good by me. i'd never go back -- and i had 6
figures guaranteed, two windows on the 33rd floor, and
an 'executive assistant' _way_ smarter than me. now all i have
is BigEarl'sStop&Flop and you people. but nah, never even been tempted.
~~~
think of the mystic poets. think of mystics in general. Li Po,
Blake, Traherne, Bahnsato. their lyrics either make perfect
sense, or no sense at all -- kinda depends on where your head
is at, at the moment. in those moments when you've forgotten
you even have a head they sometimes make perfect sense.
the same is true, i dare suggest, of such sloppy poppy ballads
as "All The Young Dudes."
now if you are looking for information, read Darwin, or Marcus
Aurelius, or Confucius.
but if you are just looking for a moment of loud quiet, listen
to "All The Young Dudes" or "Louie, Louie" or "A Whiter Shade
Of Pale" or "Downtown" or "This Monkey's Gone To Heaven"
of course none of these offer any actual information. but there
is oxygen there -- and sometimes oxygen alone is good.
^,,^
~~~
"Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day
and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
We become tired with pretending we like to earn a living,
with the ordinary objects and events of our lives.
What a beautiful toothbrush. How wonderful to work overtime.
How fun to have no money at all. This thin soup tastes great.
I'm learning something every morning from cheap wine hangovers.
[...]
But we should never imagine we love this daily plate of sh!t.
The horses in the yard bite and chase each other.
I'll make a carol of my dream:
carried in a litter by lovely women,
a 20 lb bag of cocaine,
angels shedding tunics in my path,
all dead friends come to life again."
-Jim Harrison, two fragments from "Letters to Yesenin" #19
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Eno- another green world- one of my all time favorite albums, with Robert Fripp on a few tracks. no pussyfooting also excellent!
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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I never "got" Eno till I heard the soundtrack of "For All Mankind," a great documentary on the Apollo space program. The guy sure nailed that one, for sure.
JL
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Evel
Trad climber
the cliffs of insanity
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Mott the Hopple. Oh Yeah...........
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Didn't Ian Hunter go on to fame with "Walk on the Wild Side."
JL
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Classic stuff fer sure. Eno's "Baby's on Fire" was one of my faves.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Always dug Mott! Bowie had written "All the Young Dudes" for them...Largo, Lou Reed penned "Walk on the Wild Side" But my fav Mott song was "All the way from Memphis"
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2012 - 11:24pm PT
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If you're like me and you just can't get enough Mott...
The you'll be delighted to hear that the Live Album has mutated into two!
I think therefore I Glam!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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Mar 24, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
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Didn't Mott do the original 96 Tears that was ripped off by ? and the Mysterians?
Glam's a sham, Pharoahs or not.
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