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And there wasn't much happening on the UK singles chart either, with Tight Fit's The Lion Sleeps Tonight retaining the top spot it had claimed two weeks earlier.
But there was change on the British album chart, thanks to the Jam's final album The Gift smashing in at Number One to make sure the perma-grumpy trio went out in fine style.
And, speaking of style...
It looks like we're getting that tale in which Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn and Liz Allan all make return appearances when the Molten Man blazes his way back into our lives.
And this issue can give us a space-tech book, as well!
Tragically, I can find no information online about Scooby-Doo and His TV Friends issue #4. I can't even find a cover for it
But there was change on the British album chart, thanks to the Jam's final album The Gift smashing in at Number One to make sure the perma-grumpy trio went out in fine style.
And, speaking of style...
Elsewhere, we take a look at Peter Parker's private life, including a plan of his office at ESU. A thing I think we've all been desperate for.
Not only that but, according to the cover, all our questions are answered.
What? All of them? But I have so many. Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong? Who put the bop in the bop-shoo-wop-doo-wop? Who put brown owl eyes on a butterfly's wings? Will these questions, which have haunted me all my life, finally be answered?
And what's that? We can win a fabulous space-tech book?
Just what is this book?
And does it possess the means to change our lives?
But, more importantly than even that, Cap's still up against the maddening menace of Adonis who, if memory serves me well, is some bloke who's transferred his mind into a perfect android body which then gets half-melted, making it look a bit of a state.
Then he drowns in a swamp.
It's really not his day.
I do believe Thor's up against Locus who's some sort of bank clerk who can make geometric shapes appear from thin air and use them as weapons. What chance does even a thunder god have against the power of geometry?
Meanwhile, I'm not sure what Iron Man's up to. I think it might be the story in which Bethany Cabe's best friend gets beaten almost to death by gangsters.
So, a question mark is all I can leave you with.
But what finer way is there to end a post, if not with a question mark?
Dunno Steve - I kind of think a post comics might be better ending with an exclamation mark!
ReplyDeleteEr, not that it wasn't an enjoyable read. Especially the rama-lama-be-bop bit.
-sean
*post about comics
ReplyDeleteDuh.
-sean
Steve there's a picture of Scooby doo and his pals issue 4 in the blog below in sure they won't mid you taking a we copy. Hope the link worksm
ReplyDeletestarlogged.blogspot.com
Thanks, McScotty. I've just asked him/her for permission to reproduce it here. Only time will tell if I get the necessary nod.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sean. :)
Thats very ethical of you to ask about using someone else's scan Steve - good for you.
ReplyDeleteBut if they give you permission then you'll have to find something to say about Scooby Doo #4!
And, more to the point, how will you end the post asking about ending the post with a question mark? I could look ridiculous. Even more than I already do.
-sean
I bet dollars to donuts it had something to do with a guy in a rubber mask, and an abandoned amusement park.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a creepy mansion or an old gold mine...
M.P.
Might be worth checking out:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbr.com/watchmen-alan-moore-teaches-storytelling-online-bbc-course/
I find that I have absolutely zero interesting things to say about any of these three comics. But Steve managed to make us all smile with his Unanswerable Questions, so I should at least make an effort.
ReplyDeleteAt first glance, that Captain America figure looked like it could be the work of Don Newton, but I get the feeling it’s actually by Frank Miller. Maybe with Joe Rubinstein on inks.
Well, that wasn’t terribly interesting, was it. Guess maybe I’ll go back to ignoring the keyboards in ‘Time of the Season’, see if Charlie will take the bait.
(Just kidding, Charlie Ol Chum — those keyboards ARE quite fun and charming.)
b.t.
Charlie has a soft spot for keyboards...
ReplyDeleteLiszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody"
Zombies' "Time of the Season"
As I head of to work (sigh...) a few others popping in my head are
Supertramp's "Rudy"
Strangler's "Golden Brown"
Charlie would like to share a memorable performance of Hungarian Rhapsody #2 by Valentina Lisitsa. It will be the most satisfying 9 minutes of my life today on the drive in. (CHarlie is pushing Thomas Dolby's "Cloud Burst" aside finally, lol.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU
B.T. - your comment above on Frank Miller really makes me realize I don't know much about comics... I would not know Frank Miller's work from anyone else's, outside of Marvel's original bullpen of greats.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly I had more/less stopped reading comics as a daily activity around 1973 ish.
And when I finally saw Miller's Dark Knight work the art made no sense to me... Surely this could not be the art of THE Frank Miller I'd heard so much about b/c the are was so incongruous to my experiences in the 60s and early 70s.
Here's a weird coincidence: there's a YouTube channel called 'K&O Reviews Music' that I watch occasionally (when I can remember) in which Kieran & Ollie (both aged about 25) review old songs - I was watching the channel last night and one of the most recent reviews is for...'Time Of The Season' by the Zombies!!
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of the 'Starlogged' blog from where Steve is hoping to get the Scooby cover - I used to follow that blog regularly up until four years ago when the owner, Slow Robot, totally abandoned it just four issues into an intended mammoth review of Star Wars Weekly's entire run.
ReplyDelete(I assume we're talking about the same Starlogged blog. I don't know any other one).
b.t., That Cap cover doesn't immediately suggest fearless Frank Miller because early on he did have a tendency to swipe his super-hero figures, but a good look at the melted android - actually a SHIELD LMD, Steve - does give it away.
ReplyDeleteIt was inked by Al Milgrom though (now that part I had to look up - #244 of the US monthly).
For the interested, the dj Danny Krivit put out a 12" edit of the Zombies 'Time of the Season' early last year. You get an extended loop of the rhythm AND a nice bit of organ for the intro, so it should keep everyone happy -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm3Ik9a5WFU
-sean
And for Charlie, I'd like to share Dave Brubeck's version of 'Golden Brown' -
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
Mmmm, nice. Smokin'...
-sean
Charlie loved 'Golden Brown' until he discovered it was about heroin.
ReplyDelete(And it was me who told him...oops).
Charlie, I love keyboards too. I don't care how cheesy they are. I think it started when "Blinded by the Light" was being played every half-hour on the radio in the summer of '77.
ReplyDeleteIn the '80's I went through a prog-rock phase, much to the disgust of my brother.
Sean, I saw that Brubek thing, and I thought it was real! I thought the Stranglers took a song by Brubeck and wrote some lyrics for it. I wondered, "are they allowed to do that?"
And I didn't even realize the lyrics were about heroin, I figured they were about a brown-haired girl, or something. That's how slow-witted I am sometimes.
There's a video of Christopher Walken dancing around a hotel lobby to a song by somebody named Fatboy Slim. I dunno who that is. But it syncs up perfectly with "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone. Weird.
That guy can dance!
I've heard Dark Side of the Moon syncs up with The Wizard of Oz, but even if it does I don't wanna see that.
I got nightmares already, thanks.
M.P.
Yeah, I was momentarily convinced by the Brubeck video too, M.P. Even though there is a bit of dodgy video editing at the start to clue the viewer in - its pretty clever.
ReplyDeleteApparently 'Heroin' by the Velvet Underground is about heroin too. Who knew, eh?
Although I'm not entirely convinced by the Stranglers 'Golden Brown' claim - not all of the lyrics seem to fit. I suspect they may just have have been trying to generate a bit of publicity for the record - scandalizing the bourgeois was quite fashionable in the UK for a while back in the late 70s and early '80s.
-sean
Yes, like the Sex Pistols swearing on TV in '76. Absolutely shocking!
ReplyDeleteSteve-
DeleteI'm thinking the cover to Scooby Doo & His TV Friends may have something to do with licensing? I believe for Scooby Foo Movies to be released on home video Hanna Barbera had to cut deals with the companies/estates that owned the copyrights to characters,actors,etc.
Heck, that show had Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, Phillis Diller, Jerry Reed , and more. Even Laurel & Hardy, the Three Stooges, and BATMAN! 'Course now Warner Bros owns Hanna Barbera AND DC, but everything else must've been litigation nightmare.
Charlie-
Thanks for the recommend on Joanna Connor. Gonna check her out. I dig jazz, but especially torch & lounge. My favorites in those genres are June Christie, Julie London, and Dianna Krall. Chet Baker w/vocals is pretty cool also.
M.P-
ReplyDeleteI bought a copy of Wizard Of Oz on DVD out of the Wal-Mart $5.00 dump bin, just to see if the Floyd compatibility is true.
Never got around to picking up a copy of Dark Side of The Moon. Hadn't had one since 1978. Now I'm insure if my home CD player works.
K.D., that's probably just an urban legend, but to test it one would have to buy a C.D, a DVD, and probably some weed.
ReplyDeleteSome fairly serious bud, I assume, and I rarely partake.
I don't I could handle such a complicated experiment! Timing would be crucial.
I think it would require some technicians and a lab.
...maybe that's how MODOK was created. It all makes sense now.
M.P.
GOLDEN BROWN
ReplyDelete- The video is superb. A restored version link is below. Commentary is interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GUjA67mdc
- The song is about heroin and a girl per the writer, singer, guitarist Hugh Cromwell.
- No wonder Charlie never heard of it until here... it never charted in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Brown
Interestingly, to Charlie, the Wiki entry for The Stranglers shows them playing in Chicago. Go figure... I hadn't heard of them yet. What a wiff for Charlie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers
KD, MP and anyone else who may be curious; for those who wish to ascertain whether Dark Side of the Moon really does sync up with Wizard of Oz, there's a video on YouTube that does it for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtExVJlgEC0
ReplyDeleteMP, Fatboy Slim is a former member of one of Charlie's favourite groups The Housemartins. After they disbanded, he developed a major career for himself as a DJ/producer/remixer.
Matt, thanks for the Alan Moore link.
But Steve, I read - on the sleeve notes to the Easy St reggae version of 'Dark Side of the Moon' - that to sync the album with 'Wizard of Oz' you should start playing it at the same time as the first roar of the MGM lion, which that video doesn't do.
ReplyDeleteI reckon M.P.'s right about it being an urban myth. Almost any continuous piece of music would sync up with 'Oz', or most other films, reasonably well - thats just how the human mind works, matching sound to image.
Especially under the influence of certain herbs.
-sean
STEVE - HOUSE MARTINS!
ReplyDeleteYou just took me down the rabbit hole, bro!
I just broke out "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC #10" b/c it has that beautiful song BUILD on it by House Martins for me and the GF to listen to.
My girl friend was stunned at how beautiful a song it was. She, like most americans, had never heard of House Martins at all.
Lovely piano work and vocals!
Thanks Steve! You made our day!
MP - FAT BOY SLIM had a mega called "Praise You" which I honestly don't recall if I heard there or here in the USA but I think you would know it. It's a cool song with a cool beat.
ReplyDelete"Praise You" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim. It was released as the third single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998), on 4 January 1999. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
The song also features a guitar sample from the opening of "It's a Small World" from the Disneyland Records-released album Mickey Mouse Disco, the theme from the cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, the electric piano riff from "Lucky Man" by Steve Miller Band, and the drum beat from "Running Back To Me" by Tom Fogerty.
Charlie, I don't remember 'Build' at all, even after listening to it on YouTube. The only Housemartins songs I remember are 'Happy Hour' and 'Caravan Of Love' (which reached #1 in the UK in December 1986).
ReplyDeleteYou didn't mention the video for 'Praise You' which features a group of people dancing weirdly as a bemused crowd watches.