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Jeremy Riggs


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Rolling Stone says:

Jonathon Richman moved from Boston to New York as a teenager in hopes of sleeping on Lou Reeds couch.  That influence shows on the two-chord anthem "Roadrunner".  Recorded in 1972 but not released until 1976, LOVERS turned the tough sounds of the Velvets into an ode to suburban romanticism.

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Compiled of demos the band recorded with John Cale in 1973, The Modern Lovers is one of the great proto-punk albums of all time, capturing an angst-ridden adolescent geekiness which is married to a stripped-down, minimalistic rock & roll derived from the art punk of the Velvet Underground.

While the sound is in debt to the primal three-chord pounding of early Velvet Underground, the attitude of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers is a million miles away from Lou Reed's jaded urban nightmares. As he says in the classic two-chord anthem "Roadrunner," Richman is in love with the modern world and rock & roll.

He's still a teenager at heart, which means he's not only in love with girls he can't have, but also radios, suburbs, and fast food, and it also means he'll crack jokes like "Pablo Picasso was never called an *******...not like you."

"Pablo Picasso" is the classic sneer, but "She Cracked" and "I'm Straight" are just as nasty, made all the more edgy by the Modern Lovers' amateurish, minimalist drive. But beneath his adolescent posturing, Richman is also nakedly emotional, pleading for a lover on "Someone I Care About" and "Girl Friend," or romanticizing the future on "Dignified and Old."

That combination of musical simplicity, driving rock & roll, and gawky emotional confessions makes The Modern Lovers one of the most startling proto-punk records -- it strips rock & roll to its core and establishes the rock tradition of the geeky, awkward social outcast venting his frustrations. More importantly, the music is just as raw and exciting now as when it was recorded in 1973, or when it was belatedly released in 1976.

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AMG Review AMG Pick 1 Listen Now! Roadrunner Richman 4:05
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review   2 Listen Now! Astral Plane Richman 3:00
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
    3 Listen Now! Old World Richman 4:03
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review AMG Pick 4 Listen Now! Pablo Picasso Richman 4:21
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review AMG Pick 5 Listen Now! I'm Straight Richman 4:18
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review   6 Listen Now! Dignified and Old Richman 2:29
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review AMG Pick 7 Listen Now! She Cracked Richman 2:56
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
AMG Review   8 Listen Now! Hospital Richman 5:35
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
    9 Listen Now! Someone I Care About Richman 3:39
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
    10 Listen Now! Girl Friend Richman 3:54
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
    11 Listen Now! Modern World Richman 3:43
Composed by:Richman
Performed by:The Modern Lovers
    12 Listen Now! Government Center Richman 2:03



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I've never heard of them weirdface.gif  I mean, NOT ONE WORD.  I was unaware of their existance until five minutes ago!

And they're supposedly one of the top 500 albums in history.  How could that slip so far under my radar?  I'm a HUGE music fan.

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Do I know these people?

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

I've never heard of them weirdface.gif  I mean, NOT ONE WORD.  I was unaware of their existance until five minutes ago!

And they're supposedly one of the top 500 albums in history.  How could that slip so far under my radar?  I'm a HUGE music fan.


Whew, that makes me feel better!

 



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I know of Jonathan Richman, but I don't think I've ever heard anything from this album.

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weirdfaceyou are not alone

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hey thats Jerry Harrison hey? doing double work between M-L and T-Hs?
I had a buddy buy jerry harrisons SAAB back in like 1992.

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ah, atleast I remember Jerry Harrison. He had a hit in the late 80's called REV IT UP that I liked.

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 09:48, 2007-12-20

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

hey thats Jerry Harrison hey? doing double work between M-L and T-Hs?
I had a buddy buy jerry harrisons SAAB back in like 1992.





Is that like George Castanza having Jon Voight's ex- car ? (You know - Jon Voight - the actor...) smile.gif

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Hmm, good question LS.

JD, to be safe we're gonna need a teeth imprint on a pencil to compare. Can you take care of that?

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Hmm, good question LS.

JD, to be safe we're gonna need a teeth imprint on a pencil to compare. Can you take care of that?



 hey riggs there was a rough tape of rev it up that was left between the car seats too. that was pretty coolsmile



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That IS cool! Too bad he didn't become more famous, it might have been worth something!

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