Other Mixes By Captain Hi-Top
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An Education In Rebellion: NYC Punk 1966 - 1980
| Artist | Song | |
| The Velvet Underground | All Tomorrow's Parties (1966) single version | |
| The Velvet Underground | I'm Waiting For The Man (1967) | |
| Lou Reed | Walk On The Wild Side (1973) | |
| New York Dolls | Subway Train (1973) | |
| New York Dolls | Human Being (1975) | |
| The Dictators | Weekend (1975) | |
| The Dictators | Cars And Girls (1975) | |
| Television | Little Johnny Jewel parts 1 & 2 (1975) | |
| The Ramones | I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1976) | |
| Patti Smith | Ask The Angels (1976) | |
| The Ramones | 53rd And 3rd (1976) | |
| Richard Hell And The Voidoids | Blank Generation (1977) | |
| Television | Prove It (1977) | |
| The Heartbreakers | Chinese Rocks (1977) | |
| The Dead Boys | Sonic Reducer (1977) | |
| Patti Smith | Rock N' Roll N**** (1978) | |
| The Ramones | I Wanna Be Sedated (1978) | |
| Jim Carroll Band | People Who Died (1980) | |
| Bonus | Tracks: | |
| Blind Melon | Candy Says (1993) velvet cover | |
| Kiss | Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio (2003) ramones cover | |
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"The first Velvet Underground album only sold ten-thousand copies, but of those ten-thousand people, every last one of them went out and formed a band."---Brian Eno. The same could probably be said of the New York Dolls and The Ramones. I'm not sure if I constructed this entire mix just to include one of my favorite artists, the poet Jim Carroll. Suggested reading: "The Basketball Diaries" & "Living At The Movies" by Jim CarrollFeedback:
An amazing history. May I recommend a friend's song: "The history of Punk on the Lower East Side, 1950 - 1975" by Jeffrey Lewis... Let me know if you have trouble finding it.
WOW! Captain Hi-Top, my man, you've done it again! This is an absolutely superb New York punk rock mix! I've always been a huge fan of the New York Dolls and Patti Smith, myself, and I've got a lot of respect for Lou Reed as a songwriter. (BTW, Captain, would you care to suggest a title for MY latest mix?? ;-))
Brings the 70's back to life even if I was living in the UK, and still am.
Now this is right up my dark alley! Like I stated before in my earlier post, you've done a really good job in capturing the spirit of the '70s New York rock underground.
Actually, I already have all the tracks from #1-17, so these are all very familiar to me.
I think it was interesting that you chose the single edit of All Tomorrow's Parties over the album version. While I think the single edit is perhaps mixed a tad more crisply, I think it leaves out one verse, so I find it just a bit less satisfactory than the full-length.
While I have Little Johnny Jewel as a bonus track on the remastered Marquee Moon CD and on No Thanks!, the Rhino Records punk box set, I must admit it was kind of cool to hear the original single version for the split between Sides 1 and 2!
I also noticed that you used the original '72 demo of Human Being. While I must admit to not liking that as much as the '74 Too Much Too Soon version, it was certainly cool of you to acknowledge Billy Murcia's work with the band.
Jim Carroll's People Who Died is less familiar to me, although I have heard a little bit of it in the closing credits of the 2004 Dawn Of The Dead remake!
As far as the two bonus covers are concerned, KISS does a rather good job of capturing the Ramones' rollicking sense of joie de vivre, while Blind Melon does a rather decent country-rock take on the Velvets' Candy Says. Shame about Shannon Hoon. He died way too soon, and the world of rock music is all the poorer for his absence.
And you could definitely say the same thing about Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, Billy Murcia, Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Nico, Stiv Bators, Sterling Morrison, Richard Sohl, and Robert Quine. (Not to mention, of course, Teddy, Cathy, Bobby, Georgie, Sly, Mary, Judy, Eddie, Tony, Herbie, Brian, etc.)
R.I.P.
Actually, I already have all the tracks from #1-17, so these are all very familiar to me.
I think it was interesting that you chose the single edit of All Tomorrow's Parties over the album version. While I think the single edit is perhaps mixed a tad more crisply, I think it leaves out one verse, so I find it just a bit less satisfactory than the full-length.
While I have Little Johnny Jewel as a bonus track on the remastered Marquee Moon CD and on No Thanks!, the Rhino Records punk box set, I must admit it was kind of cool to hear the original single version for the split between Sides 1 and 2!
I also noticed that you used the original '72 demo of Human Being. While I must admit to not liking that as much as the '74 Too Much Too Soon version, it was certainly cool of you to acknowledge Billy Murcia's work with the band.
Jim Carroll's People Who Died is less familiar to me, although I have heard a little bit of it in the closing credits of the 2004 Dawn Of The Dead remake!
As far as the two bonus covers are concerned, KISS does a rather good job of capturing the Ramones' rollicking sense of joie de vivre, while Blind Melon does a rather decent country-rock take on the Velvets' Candy Says. Shame about Shannon Hoon. He died way too soon, and the world of rock music is all the poorer for his absence.
And you could definitely say the same thing about Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, Billy Murcia, Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Nico, Stiv Bators, Sterling Morrison, Richard Sohl, and Robert Quine. (Not to mention, of course, Teddy, Cathy, Bobby, Georgie, Sly, Mary, Judy, Eddie, Tony, Herbie, Brian, etc.)
R.I.P.
Damn! I forgot to mention Arthur "Killer" Kane... :-(