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: To: 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" > >> 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 >> > >> >> >