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Stone’s Fans Do Not Miss Minor Details

4 out of 5 stars
Not bad but needed a better editor
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2026
Format: Hardcover
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Quite good, but he needed a better editor. There is a whole series of errors: Mona was not the lead track on their first British LP, it was the fourth; in one spot he says that the B side of Let’s Spend the Night Together is Lady Jane; he mentions Herbert Hoover when he means J. Edgar; it’s Memory Motel, not Memory Hotel; the shows at the Oakland Coliseum in 1969 were both inside and both at night, there was no afternoon outdoor show that caused the fans to be sluggish from the sun; Brian had a Rolls, not a Bentley; the 1967 European tour was Mar-April so when they played Jumpin’ Jack Flash at the NME show in May of ’68 it was not nearly two years since they’d been on stage. And there are many many many more errors like this. The writing is good, but all these errors make you wonder about the accuracy of other things he says.

From review of:
The Rolling Stones: The Biography

Record Store Acquisitions

10 Out Of 10, Real World Records
Ten years of Real World Records. One defining track from each year.

Real World Records was founded in 1989 by WOMAD and Peter Gabriel to provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.

https://realworldrecords.com/

Eponymous is the first greatest hits album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1988. It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records,[6] to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with Warner Bros. Records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponymous_(album)

From Google AI:
Eponymous describes something (like a book, band, or brand) that is named after a specific person, or the person whose name is used. It frequently refers to a title character whose name is the same as the work itself (e.g., Jane Eyre or Harry Potter).

Best of Sonny Rollins
One of Sonny Rollins’ greatest strengths has always been his ability to infuse a classic ballad with an almost preternatural sense of ineffable freshness. Perhaps it was due to that full, rich, chewy tone, or perhaps his incredible rhymthic sense, or perhaps the sly and intelligent humor that underlay so much of his music. Probably it was all of that and more. Those gifts make these early Blue Note cuts a rewarding experience–my particular all-time favorite being, the ever-moving, “How are Things in Glocca Mora?”

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Jerky Boys 2  is the second comedy album released by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys. The album was released on August 16, 1994, and was the final Jerky Boys album released on the Select Records label, distributed by Atlantic Records. Like their debut album, it also went Platinum. This album was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Spoken Comedy Album, but lost to Sam Kinison‘s Live From Hell…

Trivia: English rock band Radiohead named their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey, after the first call on this album (apparently having heard it on a bootleg tape), well before release of this material on CD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerky_Boys_2

Tattoo You is the sixteenth UK and eighteenth US studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band’s most well-known songs, “Start Me Up”, which hit number two on the US Billboard singles charts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_You

Purchases made at the Twist and Shout store on Colfax in Denver:
https://twistandshout.com/
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Day Tripper – The Beatles

“Day Tripper” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double A-side single with “We Can Work It Out” in December 1965. The song was written primarily by John Lennon with some contributions from Paul McCartney and was credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the band’s Rubber Soul album. The single topped charts in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway. In the United States, “Day Tripper” peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and “We Can Work It Out” held the top position.

Lennon described “Day Tripper” as a “drug song” in 1970,[10] and in a 2004 interview McCartney said it was “about acid” (LSD).[11] The song title is a play on words referring to both a tourist on a day-trip and a “trip” in the sense of a psychedelic experience.[12] Lennon recalled: “Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of … ‘you’re just a weekend hippie.’ Get it?”[8][13] In Many Years from Now, McCartney says that “Day Tripper” was about sex and drugs; he describes it as “a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was … committed only in part to the idea. Whereas we saw ourselves as full-time trippers …”[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Tripper

Shallow End – Superchunk

Well, you’re barking out what you think
And you’re drinking your expensive drinks
You’re in your car and you’re on the phone
Think you better follow that cord back home

Is that a pearl I’m supposed to keep?
‘Cause you are putting me to sleep
Well, I know you think you’re deep, alright
But you should stay in your shallow end

Now you’re feeding me watery drinks
And I’m singing while your sunfish sinks
You got a ponytail dragging you down
Like the cloud that follows you around

Is that a call I’m supposed to keep?
‘Cause you are putting me to sleep
Well, I know you think you’re deep, alright
But you should stay in your shallow end

Incidental Music 1991–95

NOTE:
One of the first things I remember looking up on the internet was the name of this song. I’d heard it on the radio and recognized the voice, so I figured it was a Superchunk song. I believe I posted a message on an alt music site/message board, something like, “What song has the lyrics ‘I know you think you’re deep… You are putting me to sleep…'” Got a response and bought the CD.

Hot N Cold – Katy Perry

“Hot n Cold” is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her second studio album, One of the Boys (2008). She and Max Martin co-wrote the song with its producer Dr. Luke, with additional production from Benny Blanco. The track was recorded in December 2007 at Dr. Luke’s Studios and Legacy Recordings, both based in New York City, New York, and Conway Recording Studios, based in Hollywood, Los Angeles. “Hot n Cold” was released as the album’s second single on September 9, 2008, and was the first single to be released after the album. “Hot n Cold” is primarily a bubblegum pop, dance-pop, disco, and pop rock record with elements of power pop and electronic rock, and its lyrics address an unstable romantic relationship caused by a partner’s mood swings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_n_Cold

RIP Sonny Rollins

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the “Saxophone Colossus” who was schooled by bebop’s legends as a prized sideman and became their peer as a formidable leader, improviser and composer, has died, according to a social media post from his family. No cause of death was cited; he was 95.

Sporting a burly tone, a tart sense of instrumental humor and keen melodic and harmonic ingenuity, Rollins was acknowledged as a jazz voice as groundbreaking as that of his friend and contemporary John Coltrane, with whom he unforgettably locked horns on “Tenor Madness” in 1956.

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/sonny-rollins-dead-jazz-saxophone-colossus-1236758510/

See also:
Sonny Rollins Interview – NY Times Magazine

Dance as Form of Communication – Rolling Stones, Sonny Rollins anecdote

Rollins’s music encompasses one of the most generous dispositions in modern music. It glistens with oversized and contagious energy and bespeaks the character to sustain a course of singular purpose, despite the blandishments of the hip and the enticements of the powerful, with imagination and grace.

Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Gary Giddins

“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.” –S.R. (2009) 2/2

Sonny Rollins
https://x.com/sonnyrollins

Lively Up Yourself – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Live At The Rainbow Theatre, London / 1977

via Google AI:

“Lively Up Yourself” by Bob Marley & The Wailers is a celebratory reggae anthem urging listeners to shake off negativity, energize their spirits, and embrace joy through dance and music. It encourages a vibrant, active, and positive life, serving as an invitation to “wake up” and dance (“skank”), freeing oneself from stress.

Lively up yourself and don’t be no drag
Lively up yourself, oh, Reggae is another bag
Lively up yourself and don’t say no
Lively up yourself, ’cause I said so

You, what you gon’ do?

You rock so, you rock so
Like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so
Till you can dip through my door
You skank so, you skank so, oh yeah

What you got that I don’t know?
I’m trying to wonder, wonder why you
Wonder, wonder why you act so (lively up yourself)
And don’t be no drag
Lively up yourself, oh, Reggae is another bag
(Lively up yourself)

(Lively up yourself) oh, keep livening up your woman in the evening time
And take it, take it, take it, take it
(Lively up yourself) I wanna be lively myself
Got no socks and no shirt (lively up yourself) I gotta lively up myself
(Lively up yourself)
(Lively up yourself) your woman in the morning time
(Lively up yourself) your woman in the evening too, now
Now! (lively up yourself)
(Lively up yourself)

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natty_Dread#Content

Roses are Free – Ween – Live from Bonnaroo 2002

Take a piece of tinsel and put it on the tree
Cut a slab of melon and pretend that you still love me
Carve out a pumpkin and rely on your destiny
Get in your car and cruise the land of the brave and free

But don’t forget to understand exactly what you put on the tree
Don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free

Take a wrinkled raisin and do with it what you will
Push it into third if you know you’re gonna climb a hill
Eat plenty of lasagna ’til you know that you’ve had your fill
Resist all the urges that make you wanna go out and kill

But don’t forget to understand exactly what you put on the tree
Don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free

Throw that pumpkin at the tree
Unless you think that pumpkin holds your destiny
Cast it off into the sea
Bake that pie and eat it with me

Reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ween/comments/sbeyb1/daily_song_discussion_85_roses_are_free/

Studio Version
From the comments:
@timusowski3065
12 years ago
Lots of solid advice in this song! Thanks, Ween!

Phish Cover

Phil Collins – Psychological Thriller Vibe of Songs

In ”One More Night,” Mr. Collins’s recent number-one hit, a ticking snare drum injects a whisper of lurking fear into a song that suggests a sweeter, tenderer reprise of ”Against All Odds.” And in the impassioned ”Don’t Lose My Number,” the singer offers solace to a criminal suspect- turned-fugitive. Like many of Mr. Collins’s songs, ”Don’t Lose My Number” is defiantly vague, sketching the outlines of a melodrama but withholding the full story. The album’s final song,”Take Me Home,” is another interior monologue, in which the protagonist may or may not be a discharged mental patient. ”I’ve been a prisoner all my life,” he sings. ”They can turn off my feeling like they’re turning off my light, but I don’t mind.” The singer wants only to be taken home ”because I don’t remember.”

Mr. Collins’s astringent voice, with its petulant undertones and grim, wound-up edge is as important as the drums in sustaining a mood of dramatic suspense. And by double-tracking and electronically phasing the vocals, Mr. Collins and his producer Hugh Padgham, accentuate the sense in his singing of ominous psychological submergence.

On the surface, ”No Jacket Required,” is an album bursting with soulful hooks and bright peppy tunes. But beneath its shiny exterior, Mr. Collins’s drums and his voice carry on a disjunctive, enigmatic dialogue between heart and mind, obsession and repression. The jacket that the album title assures us is not required may not be a tuxedo but a straitjacket.

PHIL COLLINS: POP MUSIC’S ANSWER TO ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Review of No Jacket Required by Stephen Holden

Hypnagogic Creativity – Keith Richards on Writing Satisfaction When Asleep

GROSS: You have a great story in your book about how you co-wrote – well, how you got “Satisfaction” started. You co-wrote the song with Mick Jagger, but you originated it and you didn’t know you were doing it. Can you…

RICHARDS: I wish all the songs would come this way, you know, where you just dream them and then the next morning there they are presented to you. But “Satisfaction” was that sort of miracle that took place. I had a – I had one of the first little cassette players, you know, Norelco (inaudible) Philips – kind of the same thing, really. But it was a fascinating little machine to me, a cassette player, that you could actually just lay ideas down, you know, wherever you were. I set the machine up, and I put it in a fresh tape. I go to bed as usual with my guitar, and I wake up the next morning, I see that the tape has run to the very end. And I think, well, I didn’t do anything, you know. I said, maybe I hit a button while I was asleep, you know? So I put it back to the beginning and pushed play. And there in some sort of ghostly version is (vocalizing) I can’t get no satisfaction. And so there is a whole verse of it. I won’t bother you with it all. And after that, there’s – I don’t know – 40 minutes of me snoring.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119640101/fresh-airs-summer-music-interviews-keith-richards

Then came “Satisfaction,” the track that launched us into global fame. I was between girlfriends at the time, in my flat in Carlton Hill, St. John’s Wood. Hence maybe the mood of the song. I wrote “Satisfaction” in my sleep. I had no idea I’d written it, it’s only thank God for the little Philips cassette player. The miracle being that I looked at the cassette player that morning and I knew I’d put a brand-new tape in the previous night, and I saw it was at the end. Then I pushed rewind and there was “Satisfaction.” It was just a rough idea. There was just the bare bones of the song, and it didn’t have that noise, of course, because I was on acoustic. And forty minutes of me snoring. But the bare bones is all you need. I had that cassette for a while and I wish I’d kept it.

Life
Keith Richards