{"id":12850,"date":"2010-03-05T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/05\/12850.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:06","slug":"music-monday-on-friday-reconne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/05\/music-monday-on-friday-reconne\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday on Friday: Reconnez Cherie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the use of the London Punk scene of the late 70s as a kind of artistic overlay to our <i>R3<\/i>, YHB has been thinking about and reading and listening to stuff from that period. Whilst driving back and forth to rehearsal, I&#8217;ve been focusing on one of my favorite artifacts, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Live_Stiffs_Live\">Live Stiffs Live<\/a>, a concert album from the famous or perhaps infamous or even more perhaps obscure 1977 Live Stiffs tour.\n<p>Not that the boys are punks. They are already post-punk at this point, New Wave, pub rockers, whatever they are. Not punks. But still. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m listening to in the car.\n<p>I found the album in the first place, on pirated cassette in the mid-80s, because of my once-obsessive love of Elvis Costello, who has two tracks on the album. The other name I&#8217;d heard of at the time was Nick Lowe, who had a minor hit in 1985 with &amp;#8220I Knew the Bride (when she used to rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll)&#8221;, which, as it happens, is the song that leads off <I>Live Stiffs<\/i>. Of the others, I pretty quickly found Ian Dury (and played his stuff on the radio during my short stint as a college DJ), but have still never heard anything else by either Larry Wallis (whose &#8220;Police Car&#8221; is a fantastic song) or Wreckless Eric.\n<p>Wreckless Eric has two songs on the album. One is a number called &#8220;Semaphore Signals&#8221; which I quite like as a song, although Mr. Eric is in such a state of inebriation (and Davey Payne on saxophone is worse) that they pretty much fail to sell it, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. And the other is my least favorite song on the album, &#8220;Reconnez Cherie&#8221;. In addition to some seriously raggedy-ass saxophone and a general state of chaos (not altogether un-punk, actually), the vocals are utterly, utterly, utterly awful.\n<p>So, anyway, there I am, in my Prius, driving back to my suburban house, listening to Wreckless Eric bawling something in French, or probably in French. And I think to myself, <I>self<\/i> think I, <i>I bet could get on-line and find out what the hell he&#8217;s supposed to be saying<\/i>. And, in truth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrecklesseric.com\/reconnez_cherie.htm\">the lyrics to &#8220;Reconnez Cheri&#8221;<\/a> are on-line.\n<P>What a world.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger likes a good Stiff one as much as the next fellah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19033,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/19033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}