#modern lovers

[musickickztoo]

Jonathan  Richman  *May 16, 1951

[mangacapsaicin]

ira okudaira’s modern lovers || 奥平イラの『モダン・ラヴァーズ』

[crewneck]

jonathan richman and the modern lovers on stage at town hall in nyc. april 7, 1978. shot by linda d robbins

[guttingknots]

[jt1674]

[federer7]

Bénédicte, London (from "Modern Lovers" Series), 1989

Photo: Bettina Rheims

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 7, 2016; #110.

Can “Oh Yeah”

The Fall “Muzorewi’s Daughter” (live)

David Bowie “Fame”

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers “Born To Lose”

New York Dolls, The “Looking For A Kiss”

Modern Lovers, The “Roadrunner”

T-Rex “Children Of The Revolution”

Richard Hell & The Voidoids “Blank Revolution”

Adicts, The “Life Goes On”

Delta 5 “Try”

Bush Tetras “Can’t Be Funky”

Jam, The “Going Underground”

Stiff Little Fingers “Suspect Device”

Raincoats, The “In Love”

Buzzcocks, The “Noise Annoys”

Clash, The “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks “Closet, The”

Talking Heads “The Great Curve”

James Chance & The Contortions “Design To Kill”

Mars “Helen Forsdale”

Shirts, The “Teenage Crutch”

Theoretical Girls “Theoretical Girls”

Television “Marque Moon” + “Venus”

Magazine “Shot By Both Sides”

Kleenex “Nice”

Siouxie & The Banshees “Happy House”

Joy Division “Komakino” + “Transmission”

Glenn Branca “Light Field (In Consonance)”

Mudhoney “Halloween”

Suicide “23 Minutes Over Brussels” (live)

Deluxe broadcast; marquee and classic punk. Would later be bonus material.

[jerrywhoreison]

Hes working that chair oof. Pop off king!!

[roguetelemetry]

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The Modern Lovers  She Cracked (1972)

video by yt user warren loft

[omegaradiowusb]

JANUARY 6, 2024 (#366)

Flipper: "Sex Bomb" Alternative TV: "Still Life" Orange Juice: "Breakfast Time" Patti Smith Group: "Revenge" Damned, The: "Ignite" Magazine: "Because You're Frightened" Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: "That Summer Feeling" Adicts, The: "Viva La Revolution" Pylon: "M-Train" Pere Ubu: "Non-Alignment Pact" Ian Dury & The Blockheads:"I Want To Be Straight" DEVO: "Uncontrollable Urge" Abwarts: "Computerstaat" Thin Lizzy: "Cold Sweat" Gun Club, The: "Ghost On The Highway" New York Dolls: "Chatterbox" Swell Maps: "International Rescue" Wipers: "Youth Of America"

Omega Radio is great to be back for its first broadcast of the calendar year. This Saturday, Over The Horizon has donated their time to us for a 90-minute special broadcast of everything classic punk and new-wave from 1977 and beyond. It's our first bonus broadcast of the year and hope to have lots more for Year 12.

We thank @tewz for helping put together tonight's broadcast, and also our followers, listeners, and supporters of all things Omega and WUSB. See you next week.

January 13, 2024 (10PM EST): deluxe Omega.

January 27, 2024 (10PM EST): deluxe Omega.

February 10, 2024 (10PM EST): deluxe Omega.

February 24, 2024 (10PM EST): final Winter '24 Omega.

[mywifeleftme]

188: Jonathan Richman // SA!

SA! Jonathan Richman 2018, Blue Arrow

Jonathan Richman is the sweetest soul in rock ‘n’ roll, and if on 2018’s SA! he wants to take my hand and lead me through the world of self, I won’t object. I could learn a lot from Richman, the person and the artist. (I’d rather hear about Hinduism from Jonathan than listen to Kendrick play me Eckhart Tolle clips anyway.)  He might be the one famous musician who can say of his own 50-year career, without a hint of false modesty, “I’m just being myself,” and be exactly right. But credit his craft too: he knows the effect his wide-eyed, boyish, goofy sincerity has on the people around him, and he’s used that quality to become perhaps the funniest songwriter of his generation, and one who can occasionally move you to tears. His idiosyncrasies are so marked that he could never be a musical chameleon, but that “just being myself” approach has led him to make garage rock albums, country albums, children’s albums, folk albums, albums in Spanish, instrumental albums, and increasingly, albums exploring Eastern spirituality and musical forms.

Co-produced by Richman, his wife Nicole Montalbano, and his former Modern Lovers bandmate Jerry Harrison (also ex-Talking Heads), SA! finds Jonathan, as usual these days, in a stripped-down acoustic mode, tastefully accompanied as needed by long-time friends and collaborators. A number of the songs incorporate raga structures, and the warm drone of Montalbano’s tambura throughout helps to situate you in Jonathan’s mystical state of mind. He adapts ancient bhakti poetry, muses on the fleetingness of existence, and even refashions the Modern Lovers’ “Old World” into a dreamy repudiation of empty nostalgia. Richman has surprisingly little trouble adapting his talky, unpredictable phrasing to the scales and rhythms of raga, but then he’s always been a master of landing back on beat just when it seemed he’d finally rambled his way beyond hope of recovery.

SA! has a suite-like quality, with songs flowing into one another and motifs from earlier numbers reappearing in snippets later on. The a-side goes deepest into the trance, with the three-song stretch of “O Mind! Let Us Go Home / A Penchant for the Stagnant / O Mind! Just Dance!” presenting the Richman version of a meditation session. Having delved to the cosmic root, or at least given a good poke around for it, the b-side is closer to Jonathan’s usual haunts. On offer are the joyful Duolingo bop “¡Alegre Soy!” (“I Am Happy!”) and the tender reflections “And Do No Other Thing” and “The Sad Trumpets of Afternoon.” Best of all is the brief, hysterically wrenching vignette “Yes, Take Me Home,” sung from the perspective of a dog at the pound using his eyes to plead a passerby to take him home and to pay no mind to the unfortunate business in San Jose that got him locked up.

This is something like Richman’s seventeenth album, and it’s unlikely to be the one anyone starts with. But if it were, I think it has enough of his magic to fascinate a new listener, and a gracefulness of spirit that can be overshadowed on his more conventionally pop records. I don’t know that the answers for me lie in Hindu spiritualism, but I like the ones Jonathan embodies: love, generosity, humility, curiosity, dumb jokes, creativity, wonder. If he has something he wants to share with me, I’ll listen to him anytime.

188/365

[intotheclash]

the MODERN LOVERS "Someone I Care About" 1972

(il punk prima del punk)

[mangacapsaicin]

ira okudaira’s modern lovers || 奥平イラの『モダン・ラヴァーズ』

[crewneck]

jonathan richman and the modern lovers at the soft rock cafe in vancouver, 1984

[lisamarie-vee]

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Assert dominance by sticking your bindi on his bathroom wall.