Saturday, October 27, 2018
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #649 JEFFREY MORGAN’S
MEDIA BLACKOUT #649.306! Phil Spector – Back To Stereo (Philles) :: After the Supreme Court
refused to overturn the life sentence of convicted murderer Phil Spector—thus ensuring that he’ll stay behind
bars where he can’t threaten anyone anymore—every record company that the disgraced producer ever worked for jointly
agreed to delete all of Spector’s original mono recordings from their back catalogues and then have Academy Award winning
Lucasfilm sound sculptor Walter Murch digitally remix the original studio multi-tracks into THX benchmark stereo and 9.1 surround
sound at Skywalker Ranch. As one veteran record executive explains in the liner notes to this ten disc box set: “I’ve
been waiting to get back at that bald-headed bastard ever since he pulled a gun on me during the recording of ‘He
Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss).’ Mono. What does that woman slayer think this is, anyway? 1950?” SIZZLING
PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Andre Williams – Hoods And Shades (Bloodshot) :: The first thing you notice is
that the album cover comes gang bangin’ atcha straight outta some kinda drive-by ghetto blasted vintage blaxploitation
one sheet: I’m talkin’ ’bout a tricked out pimp daddy flashin’ dual solid gold JAIL and BAIT knuckle
rings with his meaty mitts wrapped around two dishy thunder-age bikini-clad gun-toting foxes; a Cagnesque exploding oil refinery;
a double barreled pump action guitar; a trench coated machete wieldin’ maniac escapin’ a fiery inferno multi car
collision via a danglin’ helicopter ladder; plus a sinister as sin cadre of terrorist fist-jabbin’ Unabomber
lookalikes. And with songs like the moralistic “A Good Day To Feel Bad” and the animalistic “Jaw Dropper”
and the hoodooistic “Mojo Hanna” you’d better believe that this one’s got the ginchiest gonad-grabbin’
goods ’cause Williams has forgotten more about life than you’ll ever learn so mebbe it’s about
time for you to pick up on what he’s putting down, y’hear? SIZZLING VIDEO OF THE WEEK: The B-52s –
With The Wild Crowd! Live In Athens, Georgia (Eagle) :: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: show
me a live-in-their-hometown reunion album and I’ll show you a lazy litany of last gasp let down expectations—but
not this time I won’t ’cause this is the most kinetically frenetic fun fiesta since their pulsating
Party Mix! radically redefined what a remix record should sound like. And now that you can actually see
them in action on this outta sight two hour video in their Day-Glo get ups in front of a vertiginous Time Tunnel
backdrop, you’ll agree that these kitschy camp runamuck jive bombers haven’t missed a strategically placed lick
since their “Private Idaho” and “Love Shack” hit single heyday. Not only do they rock harder than
ever, their witty retro-ironic antics jibe with today’s pop culture landscape in a kooky cool way that vitally resonates
even more than it did thirty years ago. That’s why the line to elect supersexy Cindy Wilson into the Rock Hall starts
here. Be seeing you!
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