LOOSE! Volume 3!
To be honest, nobody asked for more, but everyone around here has come to expect me to beat a good idea into the ground! And, to quote Ben Grimm: “It’s clobberin’ time!” As I post Vol. 3 there are two more right behind it.
To recap: LOOSE! got it’s start in the days of CASSETTE compilations. My nephew was in THE KISS ARMY, and I felt it was their salacious subject matter that he liked as much as the music. So like any good uncle, in hopes of widening his horizons--I sent him a series of cassettes entitled: ONE TRACK TAPES. These songs are about what the singer wants done, and who the singer wants to do it! These songs are full of LOOSE: loose morals, loose women, loose men, & loose lips (which sink ships).
LOOSE! Volume 3 has tracks by some bands that should come as no surprise: Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, & The Knack. And, some that you might not expect: Big Star, The Everly Brothers, & Lenny & The Squigtones. Some of the artists are obscure in general like L.A.’s The Groovy Rednecks, Holly Penfield, & Jeanette Katt who went on form The Chubbies. Lucinda Williams is here, and so is her longtime guitarist/producer-gone-solo Gurf Morlix singing about Your Sister. "Hey! Them’s fightin’ words!"
But the stars of this outing are the pop artists. Jefferson Starships' Mickey Thomas joins Elvin Bishop in slagging Miss Slick Titty Boom (one of my favorite B-Sides). Songbird Sam Phillips sings All Night, Bree Sharp is Not Your Girl, and Toni Tennille wants to know how The Captain learned to “do it like that”.
As it turns out, Dutch superstar Herman Brood is all about Doin’ It, as well.
Don’t be uptight—get LOOSE! (in the comments!)
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Too much ain't enough! Bravo for finding a reason to post Lenny & The Squigtones.
DeleteI'm stealing "Naked, Naked, Naked" for my Three Word Titles collection. And I have a suggestion for LOOSE: Rodney Crowell's version of "Old Pipeliner".