Not getting the honk/swing hate.  This is great stuff and makes me want to twirl my girl and afterwards crack a beer.  Ain't nothin'...

ckcotton wrote:
 
Repeating your comment doesn't make true. The Blasters are fantastic. It's your ears that suck.

As teenage shithead I thought the Blasters were a crappy Motown-Rock ripoff band.
Now a middle-age shithead, I like them.

ludwig7 wrote:i always liked "marie, marie". i found out something the other day. i was working in somebody's house and noticed a copy of "no depression" (the magazine) on their coffee table. it was a recent issue with dave alvin on the cover. i asked the husband "who read that"? since he and his wife are older than myself, (really old), and i thought i was the only person in this desert that read "that" magazine, i was stunned! he told me his daughter is daves main squeeze! well he didn't phrase it that way. needless to say i was stunned again! after picking myself up of the floor... i thought, cool. i'm 3 degrees removed from dave alvin. now who wants to hear my story about working on marilyn monroes old house? :nodhead:

Featuring Phil Alvin. One of the greatest voices of any era in American popular music. Fantastic tune.

rdo wrote: 
They can't have it.

5.8 average rating on this?

That is a crime.

Shmelo wrote: 
But the Blasters' version is NOT the original:
Rudolph "Rudy" Toombs (1914 – November 28, 1962), was an American songwriter who wrote "Teardrops from My Eyes", Ruth Brown's first number one R&B successful song. He wrote more successes for Brown, including "5-10-15 Hours", as well as "One Mint Julep" for the Clovers.
He also wrote:
 "I'm Shakin'", a hit for Little Willie John, covered by the Blasters in 1981, Long John Baldry in 1996, Jack White in 2012, and Willy Moon in 2013

Wow, 10 years between plays!  Just last week I saw Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Guilty Ones at a theater in Denver. Dave's got it going as good as ever.  Caught The Blasters in Dallas maybe 4 years ago, then Dave & Phil and the Guilty Ones a couple years later. Amazing live act.

Maybe this crowd would take to "Marie Marie" at little easier, Bill. Authentic, bare-boned, biting R&R without over production isn't for the feint of heart.

joko63808 wrote:
 

skip, jump, slide, whatever it takes, just dance!

Alvin Bros. rock it!

This is great!

2:03 is too short

Oh thank goodness... PSD save from Radiohead's "Codex".  This could be my anthem!  Ha-ha!

Thanks for playing what should have been, back in '81-82 a hit record if radio only was open to playing great records and not the same old pablum they played. This is such a great song, written by Dave Alvin. Only one FM rock station ever dared to play it back then, the great, late KVRE in Santa Rosa. They played this one up until they changed formats in 1989. I put this song on tapes my fitness center plays during circuit classes and people really respond to it. Keep on playing it. Oh, by the way there was a movie out way back when in the late eighties called Border Radio, with John Doe of X in it. Anyone see it?

 BillG wrote:

Spooky. My dad's name was Dave.....

KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
 
Huh. I also know someone whose daughter was Dave's girlfriend. And probably not the same guy, based on location. Dave must get around...

nicknt wrote:
 

Shitty ears.

Skydog wrote: 
Absolutely - and I'd add True Believers, X, John Dee Graham and John Doe to that list.

Having been in the L.A. club scene in the late seventies/early eighties I can testify that the Blasters are the real thing ... picture them in a dark, hot, dirty, gritty night club ... chankin' this stuff out at full volume ... sweat pouring down ... the stench of stale beer and cigarette smoke in the air ...