DESIRE ARMED; CLAP FOR THE WOLFMAN AND THE DEGREES THEREOF

".....there are five distinguishable groups of ideas , or definitions of “love” According to the Ancient Greeks :

(1) the generative principle of the Cosmos,hence the very being of God (creativity);
(2) friendship,the attachment to other creatures, the yearning for others (benevolent, educative, transformative, admir-
ing, and exalting) or for concrete or ideal things (anactive attitude, philia or philotes); kindness among creatures of the same race (physike); benevolence towards guests (xenike);
(3) the emotional attraction, the effects in man of a power which “possesses him,” a physiological, psychological, or mythical force (a passiveattitude ):
(4) the torment of a passion willfully chosen,the artificial devices and “perversions” of eroticism,
desire cultivated for its own sake (culture);
(5) sexual relations, procreative and generic desire (instinct).sexual desire (erotike, Eros).

YOAKAM? I HARDLY KNOW HIM
Dwight Yoakam twanging his way through the Cheap Trick chesnut (see below) isn't from this record (Under The Covers) , But from a fair- to- middling collection called Tomorrow's Sounds Today . Pity that, because to these ears, it sounds perfect for the roster of covers cherry picked for the CD pictured. Somewhere there's gotta be a collection of all Dwight's covers ( including the country ones) in one place. Amazon is just chocabloc with permutations of this guy's oevre, but I couldn't find anything like the dream disc described above.
So let's review. Buy many Dwight Yoakam records and burn your own compilations.
The important issue is:buy many Dwight Yoakam records.
What the hell happened to this guy? He used to date Sharon Stone and did a more than credible turn in Sling Blade as a balding shitheel.
Now that he's ditched the Bakersfield Traditionalism that critics and the uninformed buying public used to complain about, the aforesaid are complaining even more.
But it's the kind of complaining we cultural scientists like to call "indifference".
Dwight Yoakam I Want You To Want Me
LOBO-OTAMY
Lobo , or as his mum called him when she was angry, Roland Kent LaVoie, caught quite the break in the seventies.
With a string of milksop chartables starting with "Me And You and A Dog Named Boo" , Lobo adopted the lupine moniker as a hedge against onehitwonderdom.
More interesting than his chart run are his early associations and the aftermath of his Top Forty sucess.
At seventeen, Lavoie found (yeah, found) himself in a band called The Rumors, with Gram Parsons and Jim Stafford. Now there's a lineup I would pay top dollar American to see.
Circa 1964 he joined the Sugar Beats whose single "What Am I Doing Here?" might as well have been a prophecy.
A period of self effacing nom de rock followed with the delightfully named "Little-Known Uglies" and the anonymity /failure seeking "Me & the Other Guys "
(see also ; Rick Bruner's favorite fake band name " Front Man And The Backup Band")

1975 saw the release of the "Huh? What The?" inspiring album A Cowboy Afraid of Horses that signified two things:
A) Lobo's desperate need for psychoanalysis
B) The end of his chart run.

The 1979 #23 chart botherer "Where Were You When I Was Making Records Falling in Love," was the last any sane person would hear from Lobo until the 1989 Taiwanese release "Am I Going Crazy" .

Polite answer; "Erm, no..... "
Snide addendum; ".....But thanks for being painfully self aware in the the teeth of no one caring."

In Singapore, like everywhere else, luck comes in strokes.
They love themselves a bunch of old soft rock so the now 60ish troubador has a welcome home on that nations' Pony Canyon Records where he awaits the inevitable revival by Quentin Tarrentino.
Lobo I'd Love You To Want Me

IN PRAISE OF DEAD OAFS
Halfway between eros and thanatos, Smelling like New Hampshire, and ( despite his attempts at outrage and the PR mechinations of Gerard Cosley) GG Allins' best work always sounds like sea shanties . Proof positive that the roots of Facism are Agrarian.
GG Allin (With Antiseen) I Want To Fuck the Shit Out Of You











SUPER FURY
Super Furry Animals They of the little- noticed "Welsh Invasion" of the late 90s that included Gorky's Zygotic Munci, The Alarm , The English language recordings of Meic Stephens, That drink- addled shiksa out of "The Weakest Link", and a host of others who would protest being included in such a dismissive category with a flurry of placards with too many "Ds" and "Fs" on them.
The first band who have professed a love for pop music in it's purest form who have produced audible evidence of same . Super Furry Animals If You Don't Want me To Destroy You
WHICH IS SADDER? SARCASM OR HOPE?
Emerging last year from a Dorset Prison Barge , head Television Personality Daniel Treacy promises to devastate your heart with more cult anthems for the weedy and sad like this one.
Television Personalities I Hope he's Everything You Wanted Me To Be
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IN A BUNCH-LIKE LUPINS
Dwight Yoakam I Want You To Want Me
Lobo I'd Love You To Want Me
GG Allin (With Antiseen) I Want To Fuck the Shit Out Of You
Super Furry Animals If You Don't Want me To Destroy You
Television Personalities I Hope he's Everything You Wanted Me To Be