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Jonathan Richman,born in 1953, was infatuated with The Velvets, from the first moment he heard them on the radio in 1967. He met the band many times in his native Boston, opened for them in Springfield, and in 1969 even moved to New York, sleeping on their manager's sofa. Roadrunner owes its existence to the Velvet Underground's Sister Ray, though the three-chord riff has been pared back to two, just D and A.Richman apparently wrote the song in around 1970.
There are plenty of versions of Roadrunner.
The Unofficial Jonathan Richman Chords website lists 10 discernibly different versions: seven given an official release and three bootlegs. The 1972 John Cale version was a demo for Warner Brothers, and only saw the light when the Beserkley label in California collected the Modern Lovers' demos and put them out as the Modern Lovers album in 1976. Two more 1972 demo versions, produced by the notorious LA music svengali Kim Fowley, would be released in 1981 on a patchy album called The Original Modern Lovers, and a live version from 1973 would appear a quarter of a century later on the live record Precise Modern Lovers Order. In late 1974, Richman recorded a stripped-down version of the song for the Beserkley, which apparently took a little over two hours. This would be the Roadrunner (Twice), the most successful version. A further take, extended beyond eight minutes, and recorded live, was titled Roadrunner (Thrice) and released as a single B-side in 1977.
While every version of Roadrunner begins with the bawl of "One-two-three-four-five-six" and ends with the cry of "Bye bye!", each contains lyrical variations and deviations in the car journey Richman undertakes during the song's narrative, though it always begins on Route 128, the Boston ringroad that Richman uses to embody the wonders of existence. In one, he's heading out to western Massachusetts, and in another he's cruising around "where White City used to be" and to Grafton Street, to check out an old sporting store, observing: "Well they made many renovations in that part of town/ My grandpa used to be a dentist there." Over the course of the various recordings he refers to the Turnpike, the Industrial Park, the Howard Johnson, the North Shore, the South Shore, the Mass Pike, Interstate 90, Route 3, the Prudential Tower, Quincy, Deer Island, Boston harbour, Amherst, South Greenfield, the "college out there that rises up outta nuthin", Needham, Ashland, Palmerston, Lake Champlain, Route 495, the Sheraton Tower, Route 9, and the Stop & Shop.
Here's Roadrunner Once ripped for you from glorious 7" at 320 kbps
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Early Mink DeVille sideman Fast Floyd (vocals/guitar) fronts this red-hot San Francisco R&B quintet, breathlessly belting out sizzling numbers (most of them covers) like "You Talk Too Much," "Wish You Would" and "Got the Water Boiling." Floyd's punkabilly whoop — like Tav Falco on steroids or Lux Interior minus the punk kitsch — adds gusto to the frenzied atmosphere; Franco St. Andrew blows a horny enough tenor sax to steam up some windows of his own. Capping off this dynamite blast of retro-styled party rock, the nudie cover shot of '50s sex queen Candy Barr nuzzling up to a phonograph perfectly captures the album's goodnatured sleaze.
Four songs from the poor men's Blondie (that' how they were pictured).Ripped from 7" ep at 320 kbps
Let's begin December with the right attitude.
fisso composto da Roberto (voce) e Francesco (chitarra). Persi per strada gli elementi di contorno ai due si uniscono Alberto (batteria) e Rubé (basso), con i quali il gruppo mette in piedi i primi veri pezzi ed affronta i primi gigs seri. Nell'84 Alberto lascia la formazione e viene sostituito da Concobeach. Con questa line-up gli Atrox registrano artigianalmente nell'85 un primo nastro, "Senza Tregua" , auto prodotto e distribuito dalla Pacifist Words Attack di Ferrara. All'inizio dell'86 Rubé abbandona il gruppo e i tre superstiti, col passaggio di Roberto al basso, registrano sul finire dello stesso anno, un secondo nastro, "Orme Perdute", auto 
prodotto e auto distribuito un po' ovunque grazie soprattutto alle ottime recensioni ottenute. Ultimo entrato, verso la metà dell'87, Paolo Shock, voce, la cui presenza apporta tra l'altro un notevole miglioramento dei live acts, cosicché la band intensifica l'attività concertistica. Nell'88 la necessità di avere nuovo materiale inciso e la mancanza di fondi per farlo, porta alla decisione di far uscire un nastro dal vivo, "Aldo Moro Lived Hard core". L'89 è l'anno che vede gli Atrox impegnati nella registrazione del primo lavoro su vinile. "Fiori Neri", L.P. contenente 25 pezzi, costituisce un po' il riepilogo dell'intera attività svolta fino ad allora. Nel dicembre del '92 l'EP 7" Sporco Natale, fresco di stampa, diventa l'hit delle vacanze invernali in tutto il network di 
Radio Popolare. La gestazione di "Domani Rosso Sangue" occupa l'intero 1993; il lavoro vede alfine la luce del laser (in quanto stampato su CD) nel settembre del '94. "Ventitré gustosi pezzettoni di conciso, efficace, fragoroso hard core italiano", come lo definisce Linus di novembre dello stesso anno, dove gli Atrox raccontano a modo loro gli stravolgimenti del mondo negli ultimi anni.
The debut with the new rhythm section. A video was shot for the single featuring a lame can can by Sun page 3 girls behind the band. It was not used. Neither was the top Of The Pops recording where fans jumped the stage at the BBC.
This single was released while the band were on tour with unauthorized artwork. It did chart, but more popular were the two unreleased tracks on the B side.
This was the 4th top 30 single for the Subs. The front cover was developed from a drawing by Nicky Garratt.
Remix version from "Another Kind Of Blues" backed with two songs left off the album. Charted in the top 30 of the UK National charts. The model on the front is Joanne Slack, Steve & Paul's younger sister who later ran the fan club.
1) Tomorrows Girls (Harper)
Taking their own quirk of experimental, indie noise, San Francisco's Porch advantage their background angst of growing up while being taunted by the neighborhood bullies and took it out on their instruments. With each member being an alumni of other underground heroes (guitarist/ vocalist Todd Hutch was part of the original Primus, drummer David Ayer beat it for Samiam while bassist Chris Frey moved from Today Is The Day and his Mid-West contacts), Porch's impressive background lead them to some local press and a deal with Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles Records. With a self-titled EP in 1993, Mammoth Records came through and put out their full-length the following year, appropriately titled "Porch." (Allmusic.com)
