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There are some good covers out there but here’s the source.
#JukeboxFridayNight 🎤 🎶 🎧
#ArtInMusic 🖼️ 🎶
There are some good covers out there but here’s the source.
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Modern Lovers ’88, 1987 on Rounder
Although the Modern Lovers formed in Natick MA, this incarnation formed in California and recorded this album in Grass Valley CA. This became the final album for Richman with the Modern Lovers, as a trio, with Brennan Totten and Johnny Avila.
My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is the Craft Recordings’ 2022 Record Store Day 35th Anniversary Edition on blue vinyl. This reissue itself charted (a first for a Modern Lovers release) at 77 on the US album charts.
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The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, 1976 on Beserkley
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers are part of the indie rock canon, especially here in greater Boston. They formed in Natick MA in 1970, and were active from 1970 to 1974, but most of their records came out later – this one in 1976.
Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads) gets credit for piano, organ, and backing vocals, with Ernie Brooks playing bass, and David Robinson drums. John Cale produced six of the songs. That’s a gig poster for Gloucester High School auditorium on the rear cover.
Some legendary songs here – “Roadrunner” (which you may know via the Sex Pistol’s cover and after which a local venue is now named) and “Pablo Picasso” which has been covered by many people including David Bowie and Jack White.
My copy—via A1 records in NYC—is a later reissue (2009) by 4 Men With Beards on 180g vinyl.
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47 years ago today
Jonathan Richman onstage at Eric's in Liverpool on June 13, 1978 in a breathtaking shot by Kevin Cummins.
Richman formed the Modern Lovers, a proto-punk garage rock band, in Boston, Massachusetts
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Happy Birthday to Jonathan Michael Richman, guitarist and founder of the proto-punk band the Modern Lovers, born on this day in 1951, Natick, Massachusetts, US
the MODERN LOVERS "She Cracked" 1972
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Happy Birthday to Jonathan Michael Richman, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the influential proto-punk band Modern Lovers, born on this day in 1951, Natick, Massachusetts, US
Photo by Masao Nakagami
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