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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Broken Hearts |
| Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:26:51 -0500 |
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You're right ... I've just run down to my office to check. Meantime, "While
You Were Having Fun," is probably my favorite tune off that record.
john micek
----- Original Message -----
From: <mkropp@comcast.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Broken Hearts
> Please allow me to second John's comments about The Broken Hearts. "Want
> One?" is a really good album with "Tuesday Evening Girl" being one
> standout track in particular.
>
> John - not meaning to quibble here - but I think "Want One?" was an actual
> album and not a compilation, although I could be wrong. I think Paisley's
> reissue from a few years ago added a lot of bonus tracks to what was a
> short album. Again, I'm going on college-age recall (which was 100 years
> ago), and I seem to remember it lying around the radio station in the
> mid-80's.
>
> In any case, well worth checking out! :-)
>
> Michael
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net>
>
>> And let me just take a moment to praise the virtues of Mr. Mazzarella's
>> long-ago band, The Broken Hearts, who hailed from my hometown of
>> Hartford,
>> Conn. Jim Huie at Paisley Pop was cool enough to put out a Broken Hearts
>> compilation ("Want One?") a few years back. It's still one of my favorite
>> records.
>>
>> And that excerpt I read from "SSA" was pretentious twaddle. But if you
>> can't
>> be pretentious writing about music, then, for God's sake, where can you
>> be
>> pretentious? Every one of us harbors an inner Lester Bangs. Some are just
>> more adept at channeling it.
>> Me, I sometimes wish I was as funny as P.J. O'Rourke, c. "Holidays in
>> Hell."
>> But that's the thing about writing, sometimes you get there, sometimes
>> you
>> don't. And if one person grooves on it, that's all right, too.
>>
>> john micek
>> http://www.myspace.com/milkshakejones
>> or, if you're feeling judgmental:
>> http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Hutton"
>> To:
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:46 PM
>> Subject: SSA/Rooks/Bruce Brodeen
>>
>>
>> > OK Uncle Brucie, this will be my last free advertising for the book (it
>> > seems to have sold pretty well if you are already planning another).
>> >
>> > Yeah, befuddlement is a good word to describe MM's essay. Stanley J
>> > Krammerhead III psychobabble would be another valid description.
>> > Doesn't
>> > detract from his song-writing though - the Rooks first two albums
>> > (three
>> > if you count the split effort with 20/20 as separate) are all solid
>> > gold
>> > pop. I was listening to Wishing Well last night and I think it is maybe
>> > the pick of the bunch.
>> >
>> > I don't know if I could stretch to a whole book personally, but give me
>> > a
>> > brief and a word-count and I'll do an essay for the sequel mate.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>>
>>
>
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