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Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
- Flex
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
Somewhere, in god's party room, the Founding Fathers are all going, "Fuck yeah, that's what it was all about!"
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
And yet I own a pickup truck, go figure.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
Get yourself a set of these and all will make sense:
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
Possibly....I'm a no bumper stickers, no flags a flyin', no gun rack in the back window, no train air horns kind of truck owner myself.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
Folks, time to take up a collection so that Sparky can nut up his truck. He must be punished for remaining part of this community!
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑28 Jul 2023, 7:05pmFolks, time to take up a collection so that Sparky can nut up his truck. He must be punished for remaining part of this community!
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
A Ska Thread/Truckliness crossover spectacular. From one of Colorado's finest ska bands, Skank Williams
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.Silent Majority wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 2:15amI'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
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Greil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 6:25amAs someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.Silent Majority wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 2:15amI'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
So, there's something there.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
And it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.Flex wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 8:26amGreil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 6:25amAs someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.Silent Majority wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 2:15amI'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
So, there's something there.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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I think two events got him in the Nashville door: 1) not recording songs explicitly about the south's racial segregation and violence anymore, 2) the development of country rock (which he was, in fact, a part of creating) opener the door for an electrified Dylan to go cut songs with a great who's who of Nashville session guys. I mean, maybe Dylan could do what he wanted anyways but I think the landscape by '69 for making country-rock records was pretty different than trying to do a "woke" folk record in Nashville circa '62.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 10:13amAnd it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.Flex wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 8:26amGreil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 6:25amAs someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.Silent Majority wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 2:15amI'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
So, there's something there.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- Dr. Medulla
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Re: Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness
It's always reflexive to treat Dylan as distinct from everything else going on, or as leading the way by a year or two, but, yeah, the environment, musical and cultural, was more encouraging by 1969 for a country-rock hybrid. But at the same time, it was a way of fucking with his fans who just wanted more of what they'd already heard and loved. Even if I can't say I'm a fan of his aesthetic (I don't hate it, either, mind you), I love his resistance to fan expectation.Flex wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 10:21amI think two events got him in the Nashville door: 1) not recording songs explicitly about the south's racial segregation and violence anymore, 2) the development of country rock (which he was, in fact, a part of creating) opener the door for an electrified Dylan to go cut songs with a great who's who of Nashville session guys. I mean, maybe Dylan could do what he wanted anyways but I think the landscape by '69 for making country-rock records was pretty different than trying to do a "woke" folk record in Nashville circa '62.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 10:13amAnd it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.Flex wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 8:26amGreil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 6:25amAs someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.Silent Majority wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 2:15amI'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.
So, there's something there.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft