Roll the dice and… Lucky 7’s for Bud! Ah, but with success around the corner, what’s gonna happen to his soul? Hmmm? Well, we have a few distractions to take care of first. More tomorrow, and this time I mean it.
Supertramp’s 1979 album “Breakfast In America” was their best selling record with two, yes two, Top 10 hits here in the USA. They would not enter the Top 10 again, but came close in 1982 with “It’s Raining Again”. I have “Crime of the Century”, “Even in the Quietest Moments” and of course “Breakfast”. I’ve played “Goodbye Stranger” and really dug playing it; kinda a feel good song. I picked “Gone Hollywood” for today’s comic for this lyrical passage:
“So keep your chin up boy
Forget the pain
I know you’ll make it
If you try again
There’s no use in quitting
When the world is waiting for you”
Bud’s kept his chin up and now it’s pay day!
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EDIT: Found a source to put in music files into the comic posts! Thanks to reader QKA and George Ford of “Addanac City” now the comic’s will have some music to fill your day! This song fades in slowly, so give it time to come up on your speakers…
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Discussion (31) ¬
Wait..now I am confused. Are her breasts real?
Linky to YouTube? – or would that not be considered legal
Oh, wow! I would love to see a check like that in my hands. 🙂
Supertramp is another one of those bands that spent a good while as my favorite, and still elicits a nostalgic smile today.
$50,000? That’s hard money to walk away from.
Ya bloody well right! Supertramp made quite the timeless song with “Logical Song”… the political overtones still ring true today.
“Watch what you say, or they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal, a fanatical criminal…” …those lyrics could’ve been made in 2004, let alone 1979.
Wow, Bud is really in a sticky spot. With a check like that in his hands he’s apt to agree to anything. Greed is a very slippery road, and Bud is sitting at the 4 way stop trying to figure out which way to turn.
For tunes, ask George Ford at Addanc City about Grooveshark. (Actually I’m surprised he didn’t mention it in his post above, unless he contacted you on a back channel.)
It is pretty unobtrusive, and I say that as someone who gets easily annoyed by things that slow me down or get in my way on the Web.
I believe that you can link directly to a song iTunes, but I haven’t seen anything as slick as Grooveshark. You’re also limited to a first 30 seconds sample.
Supertramp was one of the more underrated bands of the 70s and 80s. “Cannonball” was a great song, and they had a lot of jazz influences. Great stuff. Love the addition of the songs…talk about a natural tie in!
Wow – $50,000 in ’70s money is more like a million-and-a-half dollars now. I’m just now reading a novel calledSwim to Me; it takes place in the early-mid ’70s, and the prices startled me until I recalled how much a dollar used to be worth back then.
Thank you VERY much for the music linkage. That’s a great feature, especially for this comic!
Trying to sort out the “breasts” comment given that this is California AND we are being talked at by the Prince(ss) of Lies who isn’t even mamalian let alone human (fallen angel – sexless unless I misremember my theology) has given me a multiple nested negation headache. Thank you very much Byron.
Crime of the Century. Wow. One of my favourite albums with a very “spare” musical production I found oddly dissatisfying for years yet still avidly listenable-to. Another paradox. My faves from it are “School” and the title track, especially the fade out. A perfect ending for that album.
I feel kinda sorry for the now generation. The music scene was so full of innovation in the last thirty years. All I’ve heard sold as ‘new music” recently has been retreads of stuff done between 1970 and 1990. Who will give the current crop of music fans the sheer jaw-dropping awe of a paradigm-busting Led Zeppelin (or indeed the ethereal beauty of a Supertramp)? No doubt this is just me being a Grumpy Old Man, buchano, my kid is occasionally stunned by what she hears when her old man is allowed to select the music to drive by. I exposed her to “Scary Monsters”, “OMD’s Greatest Hits” and “Pictures at an Exhibition” in the last few weeks.
“That song was about the bombing of Hiroshima? I was rocking out to that!”
One to grow on.
I bet Bud blows the lot on:
1) Weed
2) A New Amp
3) A New Strat (Careful, Eugene)
4) Weed
“dope will get you through times with no money, better than money will get you through times with no dope.” The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Go and score a lid of dope, Freddy.
And *don’t* get burned.
man, i wish you didn’t hate fenders.
while i hate the company that fender has become, in the 60’s and even after the CBS buyout they were still great instruments.
but you know me, byron, i’m a guitar nerd. 😉
–dee!
still trying to get rid of my fender jazz so i can get ANOTHER fender jazz…
Does Bud get to become the Phantom of the Paradise? Do we get a Paul Williams song??