13 years ago, I posted Frankie Teardrop!!
That old copy got taken down, so here it is again!
And 52 years ago, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel was #1 on the charts!
And, it has another significance, but that's secret.
I'm just using this as a marker to remind me next year.
3 comments:
I showed you FT!!! The rest of the "Suicide" album from 1977 isn't terribly good though, IMO.
Neither is the old Jerry Lewis movie "Hardly Working." Gawd did it ever fucking suck!!! Don't watch it, don't watch it!!
Springsteen based his song "State Trooper," one of his best, off "Frankie Teardrop." It too has one-chord melody plus eerie shrieks.
Re: "Hardly Working".
*Googles* 1980.
I think I saw that on 80's HBO.
I saw something by him that was new, and remember it being blowful.
It must have been that.
Yeah, Jerry was pretty used up by the 80's.
Re: State Trooper.
Yeah, it's like Suicide and Springsteen were roommates bouncing ideas back and forth, and Springsteen heard FT, and was like "here, let me do that, but better".
Suicide are one of those name-checked bands that never sold a lot of records but enough people heard them to be influenced by them. Like, y'know, Big Star!! They surely were the oldest people in the late 70s NYC punk scene (Alan Vega, the guy doing the screams, was like 39 when it was released...uh, which is what I turned last October, so.)
I've never watched any other Jerry Lewis stuff, though I did take some interest in his "holy grail" lost Holocaust clown movie "The Day The Clown Cried," which he didn't want anybody watching, but Harry Shearer saw it and said it was unbelievably bad, so Lewis gave it to the Library of Congress or something and now we can't see it until like 2024? Who knows. I haven't seen his classic stuff but I know some cinema snobs like it for...uh, some reason.
I dunno, he had that role in "The King Of Comedy" three years later, and now "Joker" was a "King Of Comedy" homage and I know KOC is a beloved cult film (I think Sandra Bernhard kind of ruins it to be honest with you, though Rupert Pupkin is a pretty classic character). But I don't know much about the guy.
I also watched the 2020 David Fincher movie "Mank." Uh...it's really well shot, really well acted by Gary Oldman and others, but the story is just...it's like a bigger budget version of all those 90s HBO biopics that nobody watches anymore. The weakest Fincher movie I know of (I'm not entirely dismissive of "Alien3," though Fincher himself certainly is) and I'm not recommending it.
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