1979’s release from the Alan Parsons Project was the often ignored album called “Eve”. According to Wikipedia, the theme of the album is the effect women have on men. Duh. Women have two effects on us… well, really only one and I don’t think we need to beat anyone with a 2×4 to know what that is. “Eve” is best known for the instrumental “Lucifer” and the upbeat “Damned If I Do”. I picked today’s album track for obvious reasons, but once I read the lyrics I was hesitant to put it up as the comic’s title as the words are less then complimentary to women as a whole. Now, just because I’m an old fart guy from the 70s doesn’t mean I think that way toward women. (No hate letters now) I like women for all the right reasons (and a few bad ones).
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow as I’m doing the three updates this week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Later. 🙂
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Discussion (22) ¬
What a shame Joe Jackson’s wonderful hit It’s Different For Girls didn’t come out until 1979 😀
I can’t wait to see what kind of brouhaha Budette is about to get into…
I added the Joe Jackson song… never heard it before, but I can’t resist a song with a bass line so prominent, even a simple one… 🙂
Bud is for a treat or two, let’s say that much…
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Eh? You don’t know the work of JJ?! Ooh, you have a treat in store. Graham Maby, bassist for Jackson’s band then and now (that’s a longer unbroken tour of duty than Bill Wyman’s with the Stones) is a fine and tidy player, and many of JJ’s early songs were bass-led. Go find yourself the needle-sharp Sunday Papers – ranks right up there with some of the Kinks’ finest when it comes to acerbic social commentary – and Is She Really Going Out With Him (starts with ‘Pretty women walking with gorillas down my street…’ and gets even better and funnier from there)…in fact, anything off the first two albums (Look Sharp and I’m the Man) is a great place to start.
Sheesh, you wacky Americans – how could you have missed out on this band?!
Oh, I almost went with Boston’s “A Man I’ll Never Be” but it didn’t quite fit…
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Bud’s got it real bad. I don’t know what I would do in his shoes…er, stilettos. 🙂
Well, since the ladies go barefoot most of the time, I imagine he’s wearing his tennis shoes… Either way, he’s in for a surprise or two…
Jeff must’ve forgot about Budette’s killer left hook……… which is doubly unsuspecting due to it’s nature……
Yeah, but Bud beat up an older, overweight agent last time… not too hard to do compared to a bar full of bikers…
I don’t think he’ll need his left hook this time though…
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Budette better be careful, his attempt at a Bar Fight and the inability to keep those boobs in place may find him becoming the main attraction for a lot of drunk guys lookin’ for a good time.
LOL! True that… 🙂
Well I’m not dumb but a can’t understand whay she walks like a woman and talks like a man…
She-bud needs to explore her new femininity in a full range of fashionable yet climatically sensible clothing (this being California). She needs to spend some quality time at the beach getting a tan.
Gruntgrunt.
You sir, are on the right path… 🙂
Let’s hear it for Alan Parsons! Famous producer, and the Project is a guilty pleasure of mine. Several personal fave songs by them.
I don’t know how, but I missed Eve completely in 1979… and I thought I had all of the Parson Project albums too… doh! But then, 1979 was the last year I played in rock bands, so that explains most of it…
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I’d imagine it’s something like having to adjust other parts we ladies do not have….? ;0)
I reckon Budette should just try and find out what all the fuss is about for women, after all “multiple orgasms” has got to be tried if you get the chance, surely? No man I know would turn down that chance! LOL
Oh and as for songs, have you heard the current Jace Everett, Theme to the TV series “True Blood”? “Bad Things” is a classic-style song and I wish it had been around in the ’70’s! Man what a chat-up line that would be singing that to a girl! 😀
I can’t believe you hadn’t heard Joe Jackson’s song! It is a classic over here in the UK!
Seconded re the Everett ‘True Blood’ theme – what a fine, stonking, honking piece of downdirty electric Delta blues that is. In fact, it’s one of the best things about the series 🙂
I was working out in Ahh Murka for some years but returned home at the back end of the ’70s, so I got all the delights of Joe Jackson and XTC. Good timing on my part!
Yeah TAKKAN, JJ Rulez!! I was in the prime of my playing & retail sales career when “Look Sharp!” & “I’m the Man” both hit the streets in ’79, and promptly added the title track songs from both to the play list of a New Wave side-project band I was in… Byron, Jackson is one of my favorite artists because he’s always done whatever he’s wanted creatively – Punk, Jazz, Swing, Be-bop, World Beat, New Age, Classical, you name it, & he’s covered material by artists as diverse as Cole Porter, Glenn Miller, & Cab Calloway, to early Fleetwood Mac & Beatles, to XTC. Alan Parsons is also one of my faves… 76’s “Tales of Mystery & Imagination” is still my favorite by him, but everything he’s done is great, & always killer production that in my book puts Spector’s “Wall of Sound” to shame!
‘Playing and retail sales’, eh? So you mean you worked in a record shop just like the founder of Plan 9… 😉
I’ve always enjoyed JJ’s gently dyspeptic way (as a songwriter) of looking at the world. Truly clever early Britpop!
I’d challenge anyone not to “move to the beat” when you play Jumpin’ Jive! 😀
Love Buds top would look good with a mini skirt or short shorts he should be thankful to look so hot why ruin it with a fight.