EPISODE #138: TRIBUTE TO THE RAMONES
R.I.P. Tommy Ramone
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
Joey Ramone — “What a Wonderful World”
The Rivieras — “California Sun”
Jackie De Shannon — “Needles and Pins”
Bobby Freeman — “Do You Want to Dance”
Love — “7 and 7 Is”
Tom Waits — “Danny Says”
Saturday Looks Good to Me — “Listen to My Heart”
Yo La Tengo — “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Allo Darlin’ — “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Ronnie Spector — “She Talks to Rainbows”
Bruce Springsteen — “Hungry Heart”
Dee Dee King — “I Want What I Want When I Want It”
Sleater-Kinney — “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone”
Milky Wimpshake — “Noam Chomsky Versus the Ramones”
Amy Rigby — “Dancing With Joey Ramone”
Motörhead — “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.”
The Ramones — “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow”
broadcast live from Hoboken, NJ, on “Jack’s Aquarium”
Tuesday, 7/22/14, 10:00-11:05 a.m. eastern time
What’s the deal with Milky Wimpshake’s song? Sometimes I need a professional critic to explain things to me. Any professional critics affiliated with this website?
I think the edge goes to the Ramones. When they start selling Noam Chomsky t-shirts at Target and WalMart, then it might be a more equal match.
The song’s narrator explains that he needs both high-brow elements in his life, such as Chomsky, and what he considers more low-brow or basic entertainment such as … no no not Salt in Wound! The Ramones.
Poor schmuck, considering Chomsky high-brow. Unless he’s talking about his linguistic work?
I was at Weird Paul’s webpage and he has a couple recent pics of him wearing a
Ramones
t-shirt. Were you on the Weird Paul bandwagon while in Pgh?
I thought he was a neat guy the couple times I talked with him at parties, but it kind of shocked me that several people i knew actually bought his albums, then actually listened to them, and had words of praise for him. I didn’t understand it. Not my trip. First Weird Al, then there was Weird Paul.
He has a DVD for sale called Who’s That Idiot? and I do relate to that, there’s definite redeeming qualities. He struck me as something I would find in a gag gift store.A Groucho Marx glasses nose moustache mask. Kind of funny, cheap and throwaway.
But he was a part of the scene during my age range 18-22, the time most crucial for a person to be in tune with pop music. It really is an age thing imopiniion, 20 year olds since the 1950s performing music for other 20 year olds.
The Shangri-la of being one with the song.
So Weird Paul is in my DNA so to speak.
At the age of 22, I bought his Lo Fidelity Hi Anxiety album and I think I put “That’s What I’m Gonna Do To You” on a mix tape or two. Didn’t give him much more thought. Then about 10 years ago, talking with a not-weird not-Pittsburgh friend at work, he mentioned his appreciation for Weird Paul. I was pretty surprised, but it did inspire me to look up WP on the interweb, following him from a safe distance ever since, and I guess I kind of admire that he’s still out there doing his thing.
a safe distance – interesting way to put it.