Keith Moon once threw a bucket of water over me. Mountford Hall, Liverpool 1971. The Who were playing a warm up show before a major tour. We were all crammed into the hall, sitting on the floor. They were amazing, trying out all the new songs from their new LP ‘ Who’s Next’. Near the end of the show the crowd were shouting out for ‘Water’ , then a popular song from their live show . Keith picked up a bucket of water that he had near his drum kit and drenched all of us sitting a few feet from the stage!
"A geezer pulling a cart filled with musicians and cash registers" - what a perfect comment on the entire music industry! This might be my favorite review video so far. Keith Moon was the best!
Keith was quite clever. He and Pete must have had a lot of lively conversations when they were sober enough to understand each other. Keith said that he was hired for several management trainee jobs before The Who, and then fired about a week later. "With my knowledge and personality, I was considered management material."
I can see them liking a lot of things from today although one can expect them to not understand or appreciate newer forms of music such as rap or electronic. Personally my liking of 60s pop culture and music does not make me a hater of what is being produced today. There is a lot of great music being produced today in various genres. I am not a boomer anyway but hating today´s music just because it is from today makes one deserve insults like "Ok Boomer"
He didn't like the production and I think he wasn't the kind of person to like a wistful sounding song like this. It was probably meant to sound kind of nostalgic / "outdated", because of its lyrics.
The 1960s were a golden age of music in my opinion; but what these videos show is that for every classic released, there were dozens and dozens of clunkers.
Yes! I have for a long time considered my birth year ('71) a high watermark for rock, but then one day WXRT replayed their playlist from a day in 1971, and 60%+ was awful. The same applies to the late 60s, I suppose.
indeed you are spot on there! have a look at some old american band stand episodes from this time and see if you can handle the near 90% garbage being played. ironically enough, some of the cooler music happens to come during the segment of the show called 'rate a record', where 3 selected dancers get to rate B side low charting (no charting) 7" singles. there have been a few episodes featuring absolute garage rock killers and the kids usually rated them less then favorably...
Shame, this interview was done just ten days before the release of The Beach Boys single “Do It Again”. The song went to number one in the UK and was a return to the beach lyricism that defined their earlier work. They hadn’t done a beach themed song for three years at this point. As we all know, Keith loved The Beach Boys, and I’m wagering he would have enjoyed the bands brief return to their earlier lyrical themes. Would’ve loved to hear Moon’s thoughts on that single. Such an amazing song. Regardless, great work as always on the video. Really enjoying this channel.
One of the more interesting reviews. Funny but also very articulate and fair. I loved the quip about, "It sounds like he's singing to a photo of his Missus"
"Days" is one of my favourite songs of all time. Davies is an amazing songwriter! It's a shame that it was scrapped from the original Village Green tracklist. Edit: Just saw "Voices in the Sky," another one of my favourites. The Moodies and the Kinks both need miles more attention! They're both legendary groups!
The Moody Blues are unjustly maligned by cool people everywhere . Just because you put out a number of small embarrassments doesn't mean you can't reach greatness! Didn't the Beatles get stupid with Mr. Moonlight and Yellow Submarine?
Voices in the Sky is indeed a beautiful tune. And on In Search of, The Best Way to Travel is a great tune. Even the lyrically dated Legend of a Mind is still so melodic, and even with that roomful of reverb.
I think "Days" by The Kinks is absolutely beautiful. I have to admit that song always gets me a bit teary eyed. It's very sad what happened to Keith Moon, amazing drummer, but he descended so deep into the image of what he thought a rock star should be. Very tragic. Thank you so much for listing the chart positions at the end YP and that music is fantastic as always ☺
I agree, it's absolutely beautiful. Many Kinks songs from that era had this beautiful nostalgic feel and "Days" is one of my favourites. Thanks, Sophie!
@@YesterdaysPapers I wholeheartedly agree YP, The Kinks' songs really do have a beautiful nostalgic feel, Ray is an incredible songwriter. They don't make them like that anymore that's for sure 💜
@@SophieLovesSunsets David Bowie famously have said that "he had never heard a Davies song that he didn't like". Kinks were also well remembered during the Brit pop era, were bands such as Blur for example, turned on their music as an inspiration. Grunge was the king these days but some bands just thought that modern life is rubbish ;) th-cam.com/video/uS4SMs1r6jo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Amuseddaysleeper
@@SophieLovesSunsets They don't make 'em like that any more because the environment that generated them no longer exists. As Ray himself has remarked: "it's not the country I grew up in".
How can anyone not like THE KINKS song ''DAYS''. It's one of my all-time favourite songs. In this ''days'' has gained strength in my life, because last Monday my kitten died, who accompanied me for 11 years. It was just her and me, and it was a very hard blow. Bonds with our pets can be just as strong as with humans. I was late for this appointment. Sorry, Yesterday's Papers, and thanks.
I understand where he's coming from, it's slow & boring. I love "You really got me" & "All day & all of the night" though. People just have different tastes.
Laugh if you wish, but I love MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. A guilty pleasure of mine just like The Cowsill's The Rain, The Park & Other Things. And I'm a Joy Division and Killing Joke kind of guy!
I was a teen when Rajn, the Park etc.hit and I was into Doors, Cream ,Hendrix etc BUT I do like it now. Everything about it from the song, performance, and production is as good as the Beach Boys. Macarthur Park is great too. At first I thought Webb was serious w the lyrics, then years later realized it was a tongue in cheek put on... Nope wrong again, he was totally serious according to a years and years later interview. Cowsills are still out there, tho at least one has died. Victims of an insane asshole pushy father just like the Beach Boys and Jackson 5.
MacArthur Park is a genius, insane, bizarre work of art. Some people "get" it and some don't. For me it's utterly magical, totally and completely unique.
4:35 It's amusing that Keith puts down Giles, Giles & Fripp, the predecessor group to the mighty King Crimson, who released one of the greatest debut albums of all time. Can't really blame Moon though: GG&F sounds nothing like Crimson at all.
I love Keith Moon's reviews ......" the violins are in the bathroom- good riddance to that!" or " he sounds like he's singing to a photo of his missus in pipe and slippers." Also interesting to see Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac rounding out the top ten lps.
Good stuff on arguably the greatest rock drummer in history. i had the pleasure of seeing Keith Moon collapse on his drum kit at The Cow Palace in San Francisco in the early 70s. He took a horse tranquilzer which apprently didnt sit well with him Pete picked a kid from the audience to fill in for Moon. It's on TH-cam.
Legendary story but it wasn't a horse tranquilizer. Makes for a funnier story, though. No, a horse tranquilizer would have killed him within minutes. He mixed alcohol with barbiturates. Same thing that killed Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Brian Epstein, Elvis, and God knows who else. It was a quiet epidemic back then. But, Keith was damn lucky to survive it.
@@tomcarl8021 Thanks for the response, Apparently, he also collapsed at a show in Boston. They say it might have been PCP and they said animal tranquilziers,. What is your source, Tom? Sadly, the 19-year old who filled in Scott Halpirn died at 54 due to a brain tumor.
@@garyolshan4177 Same thing happened in Boston in 1976 as Frisco in 1973. Alcohol and barbiturates. Source is Who biographers Matt Kent and Joe McMichael. Speaking of Boston 1976: So, Moon passes out two songs into the set. They cancel, and he is put in a limo and driven to NYC. The very next night they are scheduled for Madison Square Garden. They put him in a hotel room in NYC to recover for that evening's show. He gets his hands on more booze and trashes that hotel room. He cuts his foot on broken glass and passes out in bed. He almost bleeds to death. Manager Bill Curbishley saved his life. Smashed the door down. The Who have to then cancel that night's show at Madison Square.
WOW, there were at least 3 versions of Here Comes the Judge...the one Kieth reviews, the Shorty Long version from the American chart at the end, and one by Pigmeat Markham also again, love the characature of Mooney
Yeah I was going to say I hadn't heard that version before. The one I know is the Pigmeat Markham which a lot of people say was the first 'hip hop' single. And I love the lady that does the corny jokes ha ha.
A great one... Keith Moon reviewing two of the best songs that not enough people have heard lately: Days by the Kinks and the Universal by the Small Faces
@@maurice8607 Yes, especially as 'The Universal' features Steve's dogs Rufus and Seamus. Seamus later achieved fame on the eponymous track 'Seamus' on Pink Floyd's 'Meddle'.......
Keith Moon stated here that the Who's Australasian tour with the Small Faces was their most enjoyable ever. I've always heard it being referred to as a disaster with the Aussie press and police being particularly bone-headed (the New Zealand police were somewhat cooler, on one occasion they gave Pete Townshend a carton of beer because they felt the band were hard done by). The Who were literally booted out of Australia with then Prime Minister John Gorton sending them a telegram telling them never to return. Pete Townshend certainly never intended to come back -- and I don't really blame him -- but he eventually relented some 36 years later. Very enjoyable review this (with the exception of Moon's opinion on the Kinks' 'Days', but I'll forgive him), loved the outro music. Great fuzz guitar sound. The recent 'Strawberry Fields'-inspired one on the Scott Walker review was brilliant as well. Keep up the fine work!
*@New Falconer Records* .......Thought about that too , despite all that, no disastrous tour was going to spoil his mood. And kept on looning till it got him to an early grave.
"Sounds like one of those discs Pete keeps under his sink." Which makes you wonder what Moonie was doing under the sink and what he was planning for poor Pete's sink that day! "I'm liking many things today..must ve something wrong with me." (Sweet). "Can you please take it off?" Wow Moonie was polite!
Far kinder comments than I expected from Keith Moon. He sounds sane! One thing this channel has shown me is how much dross (is that unkind?) must have been filtered out before songs were released in Australia. We were lucky! :)
While I agree, I think that’s what makes Ray and Pete two of my favorite-and two of the greatest-songwriters of all time. I doubt Ray could write “Love Reign O’er Me”, but I don’t EXPECT him too. He has his lane and Pete has his own. Both very similar yet very different at the same time…
Days is pretty catchy and I love The Kinks, but shit, just pick anything from Quadrophenia, nothing from The Kinks whole discography even comes close. Pete at his peak was one of the best songwriters around, such a shame we never got to see Lifehouse as he intended.
Pete is a genius and did many tunes Davies would be envious of. One is bittersweet. Drowned is a tremendously sensitive ballad. He has many enlightening songs in his operas as well as his lps.
if you know people who constantly go "oh music was so much better in the old days" show them these videos! Music wasnt consistently better then, but rather we of course only remember the good ones, and the absolute toss that takes up 95% of these are thankfully long forgotten
Keith moon é demais, não sabia que dogs tinha entrado nas paradas de sucesso, adoro essa música. Quanto a "days" acho que só não é muito o estilo dele, mas a música é maravilhosa
I saw "Yummy, yummy, yummy" on that top thirty. I remember that, or another Archies record coming out on the back of a cereal box. My mother bought it and I remember carefully cutting it out and playing it like..two times. And throwing it in the trash. I may have only been 7 years old, but I had better taste than that.
Wow, poor Britain was subjected to Bubble Gum music as well. I saw that on the charts ,which is a great addition to these. I'm surprised. Weird initial impression for me by the future King Krimson lads single. I'll have to listen to it later. My favorite radio station WFMU, on line, has played I talk to the wind by G,G&F a couple of times recently.
The singles for the month and the year that I was born in. Interestingly enough, Here Comes the Judge is recognised by many as the first rap record though some would argue that Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan, three years earlier, was.
I wonder if that cash register joke is one he made often cause it made me picture the Tommy's Holiday Camp bit from the Tommy movie with the combination cash register organ on wheels.
"Sounds like his teeth are falling out" :) oh man. It's like they picked the goofiest novelty tunes for him to review (minus the cool Kinks tune). This was hilarious
Herb Alpert had the #1 hit in the US in July 1968 with "This Guy's in Love With You", on A&M records, the label he recently started. At #4 was the group Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66, also on his label. Herb ended up marrying Lani Hall, one half of Brazil '66, and they remain married to this day.
@@Krzyszczynski thats correct, was the Lonely Bull the first release? They sure pressed a lot of them, look in almost anyplace selling used LPs and find the Tijuana Brass
@@fueledbylove I believe it was, at least in the UK. Another of theirs that became well-known around that time was Up Cherry Street, which had been chosen as the theme tune for some early-evening BBC radio show.
Keith John Moon (Londres, Inglaterra, 23 de agosto de 1946-ibídem, 7 de septiembre de 1978)[2][3] fue un músico inglés, conocido por ser baterista de la banda británica de rock The Who. Se ganó el reconocimiento por su estilo exuberante e innovador en la batería, y su excéntrico comportamiento autodestructivo, lo que le valió el apodo de «Moon the Loon» («Moon el chiflado»). Moon se unió a The Who en 1964. Participó en todos los álbumes y sencillos desde su debut, en «Zoot Suit» de 1964, hasta Who Are You de 1978, álbum que fue lanzado solo tres semanas antes de su muerte.
'Days' is a really good song. So is almost everything else the Moody Blues released 1967-72. That one by somebody Thorogood I should find it and give it a listen
A couple of novelty songs there to complete the story. "Here comes the judge" came out of an American TV skit. By the way, I believe the Kink's frontman is pronounced "Dav - is" not "Dav - ees".
I think Ray and Dave themselves have given up on recovering the correct pronunciation of Davies. The American mispronunciation has become dominant. I’ve heard many English people now use Daveys as well. I believe it’s a Welsh name, I hope the correct pronunciation survives in Wales.
I (being Australian) was unaware of this fact until I listened to the audio book of Pete Townshend reading his autobiography and he kept saying "Da-vis", also shortly after I heard the Governess on the quiz show 'The Chase' use the same pronunciation. That was very interesting to me.
hi Y.P i suppose you have loads of old issuses of MM , i'm interester to buy old numbers of that mag, possibly bound , do you know where i can find it? :). thanks
Oh Keith, when you were all blocked up you could be so sweet and funny. Actually, you may have been blocked up when you did these reviews. Summer 1973 when in GB I heard KM filling in for an hour on wed. night BBC1 I think. He was brilliantly funny and did different characters. His drumming : imaginative, unpredictable, musical and inimatable !
Wait, Kieth Moon didn't care for Giles Giles and Fripp? The album was subtitled "The Cheerful Insanity of..." You'd think that enough would have won him over.
Some great music in there, even the clunkers! Alan Price Set were great fun. I met AP years ago and he wasn't as fearsome as he looked. A bit like Robert Fripp of Giles, Giles & Fripp who's Deram Single One In A Million ended this clip. Of course GG&F would morph into the truly terrifying....... As we all know! Worth a listen is The Brondesbury Tapes if anyone would like some proggier GG&F.
Then you would not be as young as you are now. It wasn't a pleasant time for everybody living back then either if you were male and draft age you could have died in a Vietnam rice paddy. Of course that is a worse case scenario, my point is it's best to be grateful for whatever time period belongs to you. For those of us that do belong to the time you speak of we really didnt think it was special at the time, we were there just living our lives like everybody does. And everyone interested has access to the music of that time so again be thankful.
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Keith Moon once threw a bucket of water over me. Mountford Hall, Liverpool 1971. The Who were playing a warm up show before a major tour. We were all crammed into the hall, sitting on the floor. They were amazing, trying out all the new songs from their new LP ‘ Who’s Next’. Near the end of the show the crowd were shouting out for ‘Water’ , then a popular song from their live show . Keith picked up a bucket of water that he had near his drum kit and drenched all of us sitting a few feet from the stage!
You got your request!
Days is a masterpiece of a song, Keith.
Moon the Loon, the most exciting and fun drummer of all time!!
"A geezer pulling a cart filled with musicians and cash registers" - what a perfect comment on the entire music industry! This might be my favorite review video so far. Keith Moon was the best!
That's the line I loved too; Keith's sense of humor is timeless.
Keith Moon and John Lennon had the best senses' of humor and keenest wit, in rock. Imho.
@@waynej2608 I would add Frank Zappa to that list
Keith was quite clever. He and Pete must have had a lot of lively conversations when they were sober enough to understand each other. Keith said that he was hired for several management trainee jobs before The Who, and then fired about a week later. "With my knowledge and personality, I was considered management material."
You may like Pete's autobio "Who I Am". Goes into a bit of it.
Just imagine what these 60s Rockers would make of todays sounds, Take it off, Take it off, Take it off.
And they'd be right!
Ha ha, I couldn't agree more.
Standards were pretty high at that time!
I can see them liking a lot of things from today although one can expect them to not understand or appreciate newer forms of music such as rap or electronic. Personally my liking of 60s pop culture and music does not make me a hater of what is being produced today. There is a lot of great music being produced today in various genres. I am not a boomer anyway but hating today´s music just because it is from today makes one deserve insults like "Ok Boomer"
Well you don't know that. You're making assumptions.
Can't say I agree with Keith's take on "Days". It's up there as one of the best ones by Ray Davies (along with "Waterloo Sunset", "Shangri-La", etc.)
He didn't like the production and I think he wasn't the kind of person to like a wistful sounding song like this. It was probably meant to sound kind of nostalgic / "outdated", because of its lyrics.
I love "Days", too. One of my favourites by the Kinks.
@@YesterdaysPapers Just heard it for the first time. Quite lovely.
"Days" is also my favorite Kinks song...well top 3 😄
I love Days..
This channel makes my day complete.
Keith Moon gives honest critiques and is funny at the same time. I was laughing.
The 1960s were a golden age of music in my opinion; but what these videos show is that for every classic released, there were dozens and dozens of clunkers.
Yes! I have for a long time considered my birth year ('71) a high watermark for rock, but then one day WXRT replayed their playlist from a day in 1971, and 60%+ was awful. The same applies to the late 60s, I suppose.
indeed you are spot on there! have a look at some old american band stand episodes from this time and see if you can handle the near 90% garbage being played. ironically enough, some of the cooler music happens to come during the segment of the show called 'rate a record', where 3 selected dancers get to rate B side low charting (no charting) 7" singles. there have been a few episodes featuring absolute garage rock killers and the kids usually rated them less then favorably...
For sure, a lot of really jammmin classic records barely even charted, or charted low,
True. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that MacArthur Park was a hit. Someone must've left the cake out in the rain.
@@calvinguile1315 True, and I collected a great many of them. I know what I like; I don't need someone else's rating to guide (misguide) me.
What’s not to love about Moonie!? Best drummer there ever was🌕🥁💯😊 Laughed all the way🌟❤️
Shame, this interview was done just ten days before the release of The Beach Boys single “Do It Again”. The song went to number one in the UK and was a return to the beach lyricism that defined their earlier work. They hadn’t done a beach themed song for three years at this point.
As we all know, Keith loved The Beach Boys, and I’m wagering he would have enjoyed the bands brief return to their earlier lyrical themes. Would’ve loved to hear Moon’s thoughts on that single. Such an amazing song.
Regardless, great work as always on the video. Really enjoying this channel.
Keith Moon and the 1960s were made for each other, but he's funny in any decade; his humor is timeless.
Pure gold! Moon comes across much wittier and delightful than I would have guessed!
And his judgement of hit-worthiness was above-average, too.
Moon had razor sharp wit!
Cynicism becomes wit only in the hands of masters -- Oscar Wilde, for example.
@@xtofa you gotta be in the under 30 crowd if you don't get it! Yes he has serious mental health issues but he was far from dimwitted!
@@xtofa He's literally the least arrogant. Funny annoys you?
Keith is hilarious. I like the nuance he brings at being a snob.
One of the more interesting reviews. Funny but also very articulate and fair. I loved the quip about, "It sounds like he's singing to a photo of his Missus"
"Days" is one of my favourite songs of all time. Davies is an amazing songwriter! It's a shame that it was scrapped from the original Village Green tracklist.
Edit: Just saw "Voices in the Sky," another one of my favourites. The Moodies and the Kinks both need miles more attention! They're both legendary groups!
The Moody Blues are unjustly maligned by cool people everywhere . Just because you put out a number of small embarrassments doesn't mean you can't reach greatness! Didn't the Beatles get stupid with Mr. Moonlight and Yellow Submarine?
Love "Voices In The Sky" (AND "Days"!) "In Search Of The Lost Chord" is fantastic, especially side 2.
Voices in the Sky is indeed a beautiful tune.
And on In Search of, The Best Way to Travel is a great tune. Even the lyrically dated Legend of a Mind is still so melodic, and even with that roomful of reverb.
Thanks for identifying that Moody Blues record. I knew I recognised it...from like, another lifetime. 🤔
Pete Townsend was the big fan of the kinks. He said Ray Davies should be called the poet laureate of England.
*"I exault at the Altar of Ray Davies."*
-- Pete Townshend
I absolutely love this channel.
So many hidden gems.
If I could go back in time, I'd definitely visit this era...so cool🤘🏻
That was a really good review by Keith Moon, very funny.
I think "Days" by The Kinks is absolutely beautiful. I have to admit that song always gets me a bit teary eyed. It's very sad what happened to Keith Moon, amazing drummer, but he descended so deep into the image of what he thought a rock star should be. Very tragic. Thank you so much for listing the chart positions at the end YP and that music is fantastic as always ☺
I agree, it's absolutely beautiful. Many Kinks songs from that era had this beautiful nostalgic feel and "Days" is one of my favourites. Thanks, Sophie!
@@YesterdaysPapers I wholeheartedly agree YP, The Kinks' songs really do have a beautiful nostalgic feel, Ray is an incredible songwriter. They don't make them like that anymore that's for sure 💜
@@SophieLovesSunsets David Bowie famously have said that "he had never heard a Davies song that he didn't like". Kinks were also well remembered during the Brit pop era, were bands such as Blur for example, turned on their music as an inspiration. Grunge was the king these days but some bands just thought that modern life is rubbish ;) th-cam.com/video/uS4SMs1r6jo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Amuseddaysleeper
@@SophieLovesSunsets They don't make 'em like that any more because the environment that generated them no longer exists. As Ray himself has remarked: "it's not the country I grew up in".
This was the best one yet. His critique of Bobby "Goldsberg" had me in stitches!
For god's sakes, this channel has got to blow up, people! Sub this shit if you haven't already. Consistent quality and you won't be disappointed.
How can anyone not like THE KINKS song ''DAYS''. It's one of my all-time favourite songs. In this ''days'' has gained strength in my life, because last Monday my kitten died, who accompanied me for 11 years. It was just her and me, and it was a very hard blow. Bonds with our pets can be just as strong as with humans.
I was late for this appointment. Sorry, Yesterday's Papers, and thanks.
Sorry for your loss, Kat.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks a lot! My kitten made a lot of noise in the house. Now it is deathly silent. They are difficult days.❤😺❤
I understand where he's coming from, it's slow & boring. I love "You really got me" & "All day & all of the night" though. People just have different tastes.
Laugh if you wish, but I love MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. A guilty pleasure of mine just like The Cowsill's The Rain, The Park & Other Things. And I'm a Joy Division and Killing Joke kind of guy!
Wasn't too crazy about The Cowsills except for 'Hair'. In my opinion, it's a brilliant tune.
I was a teen when Rajn, the Park etc.hit and I was into Doors, Cream ,Hendrix etc BUT I do like it now. Everything about it from the song, performance, and production is as good as the Beach Boys. Macarthur Park is great too. At first I thought Webb was serious w the lyrics, then years later realized it was a tongue in cheek put on... Nope wrong again, he was totally serious according to a years and years later interview. Cowsills are still out there, tho at least one has died. Victims of an insane asshole pushy father just like the Beach Boys and Jackson 5.
How can you like MacArthur Park and Joy division at the same time?
MacArthur Park is a genius, insane, bizarre work of art.
Some people "get" it and some don't. For me it's utterly magical, totally and completely unique.
I'm quite fond of MacArthur Park and The Rain, the Park too.
4:35 It's amusing that Keith puts down Giles, Giles & Fripp, the predecessor group to the mighty King Crimson, who released one of the greatest debut albums of all time. Can't really blame Moon though: GG&F sounds nothing like Crimson at all.
This is amazing, how about The Doors when they visited London in 1968
Would be cool
The best rock drummer in the world
Still miss ya, Moonie! And he had great taste here. Thank you for this one!
I love Keith Moon's reviews ......" the violins are in the bathroom- good riddance to that!" or " he sounds like he's singing to a photo of his missus in pipe and slippers." Also interesting to see Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac rounding out the top ten lps.
Never stop making these
Moon was to drum what Entwhistle was to bass guitar. I had the luck to see them live and … oh boy !
Keith Moon reviewing a Giles, Giles and Fripp single isn't something i expected to see today, but you learn something new everyday
And dismissing it completely!
Fleetwood Mac in the Top 10 Albums 👍 Peter Green 😎
Giles, Giles and Fripp , One of my oddball favorites , King Crimson was just a year away.
Good stuff on arguably the greatest rock drummer in history. i had the pleasure of seeing Keith Moon collapse on his drum kit at The Cow Palace in San Francisco in the early 70s. He took a horse tranquilzer which apprently didnt sit well with him Pete picked a kid from the audience to fill in for Moon. It's on TH-cam.
Legendary story but it wasn't a horse tranquilizer. Makes for a funnier story, though. No, a horse tranquilizer would have killed him within minutes. He mixed alcohol with barbiturates. Same thing that killed Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Brian Epstein, Elvis, and God knows who else. It was a quiet epidemic back then. But, Keith was damn lucky to survive it.
@@tomcarl8021 Thanks for the response, Apparently, he also collapsed at a show in Boston. They say it might have been PCP and they said animal tranquilziers,. What is your source, Tom? Sadly, the 19-year old who filled in Scott Halpirn died at 54 due to a brain tumor.
@@garyolshan4177 Same thing happened in Boston in 1976 as Frisco in 1973. Alcohol and barbiturates. Source is Who biographers Matt Kent and Joe McMichael.
Speaking of Boston 1976: So, Moon passes out two songs into the set. They cancel, and he is put in a limo and driven to NYC. The very next night they are scheduled for Madison Square Garden. They put him in a hotel room in NYC to recover for that evening's show. He gets his hands on more booze and trashes that hotel room. He cuts his foot on broken glass and passes out in bed. He almost bleeds to death. Manager Bill Curbishley saved his life. Smashed the door down. The Who have to then cancel that night's show at Madison Square.
WOW, there were at least 3 versions of Here Comes the Judge...the one Kieth reviews, the Shorty Long version from the American chart at the end, and one by Pigmeat Markham also again, love the characature of Mooney
Yeah I was going to say I hadn't heard that version before. The one I know is the Pigmeat Markham which a lot of people say was the first 'hip hop' single. And I love the lady that does the corny jokes ha ha.
@@Philliben1991 As a kid I had to buy the 45 of Pigmeat Markham. Crazy name, crazy guy.
OMG I can sing every one of the tunes on that chart...time to go to the geezer home
4:48 was the last smile Robert Fripp had until 2019
He's actually very witty, he would have been a good comedy writer if the drumming fell thru.
He did a summer replacement show for BBC Radio in '73.
I love Giles, Giles, and Fripp who went on to form the mighty King Crimson
A great one... Keith Moon reviewing two of the best songs that not enough people have heard lately: Days by the Kinks and the Universal by the Small Faces
Gotta be honest, I've never really liked Days but love The Universal.
@@maurice8607 Yes, especially as 'The Universal' features Steve's dogs Rufus and Seamus. Seamus later achieved fame on the eponymous track 'Seamus' on Pink Floyd's 'Meddle'.......
Keith Moon stated here that the Who's Australasian tour with the Small Faces was their most enjoyable ever. I've always heard it being referred to as a disaster with the Aussie press and police being particularly bone-headed (the New Zealand police were somewhat cooler, on one occasion they gave Pete Townshend a carton of beer because they felt the band were hard done by). The Who were literally booted out of Australia with then Prime Minister John Gorton sending them a telegram telling them never to return. Pete Townshend certainly never intended to come back -- and I don't really blame him -- but he eventually relented some 36 years later.
Very enjoyable review this (with the exception of Moon's opinion on the Kinks' 'Days', but I'll forgive him), loved the outro music. Great fuzz guitar sound. The recent 'Strawberry Fields'-inspired one on the Scott Walker review was brilliant as well. Keep up the fine work!
Thanks!
*@New Falconer Records* .......Thought about that too , despite all that, no disastrous tour was going to spoil his mood.
And kept on looning till it got him to an early grave.
Wow what a great chan el🤩
Gotta love his descriptions, what a creative mind that Moon.
"Sounds like one of those discs Pete keeps under his sink." Which makes you wonder what Moonie was doing under the sink and what he was planning for poor Pete's sink that day! "I'm liking many things today..must ve something wrong with me." (Sweet). "Can you please take it off?" Wow Moonie was polite!
Far kinder comments than I expected from Keith Moon. He sounds sane! One thing this channel has shown me is how much dross (is that unkind?) must have been filtered out before songs were released in Australia. We were lucky! :)
More The Who please!!!
Gosh - I know all but three of the top thirty!
I'm really surprised how insightful his comments are.
"It sounds like his teeth are falling out" might be my favorite music criticism one-liner ever
I was waiting to hear the Giles, Giles and Fripp put-down that I've read about for years.
The Chris Montz record was made in 1962. Didn't know it was rereleased in the UK in 1968. But it come out once again there in the fall of 1972
Goodness, Days is a beautiful and timeless song. Pete could only dream of writing a song like that.
Pete made dozen beautiful and timeless songs. But only for those who can hear...
While I agree, I think that’s what makes Ray and Pete two of my favorite-and two of the greatest-songwriters of all time. I doubt Ray could write “Love Reign O’er Me”, but I don’t EXPECT him too. He has his lane and Pete has his own. Both very similar yet very different at the same time…
Days is pretty catchy and I love The Kinks, but shit, just pick anything from Quadrophenia, nothing from The Kinks whole discography even comes close. Pete at his peak was one of the best songwriters around, such a shame we never got to see Lifehouse as he intended.
Pete is a genius and did many tunes Davies would be envious of. One is bittersweet. Drowned is a tremendously sensitive ballad. He has many enlightening songs in his operas as well as his lps.
if you know people who constantly go "oh music was so much better in the old days" show them these videos! Music wasnt consistently better then, but rather we of course only remember the good ones, and the absolute toss that takes up 95% of these are thankfully long forgotten
Wild to see him talk about Giles Giles and Fripp
Keith Moon!!! El fantástico e incomparable baterista en el rock! 💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Keith moon é demais, não sabia que dogs tinha entrado nas paradas de sucesso, adoro essa música. Quanto a "days" acho que só não é muito o estilo dele, mas a música é maravilhosa
“Could you please make it go away” is Keith’s version of “Take it off”.
I love "Lets Dance" tune..and Moon booed on Giles, Giles, and Fripp...another stunner.
I liked how he gave a cheerio 👋 to the Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp!!!
Good selection of songs
I saw "Yummy, yummy, yummy" on that top thirty.
I remember that, or another Archies record coming out on the back of a cereal box. My mother bought it and I remember carefully cutting it out and playing it like..two times. And throwing it in the trash.
I may have only been 7 years old, but I had better taste than that.
How was the cereal?
He's the best. His comments include, "I'll have to be chained down" and "make it go away," but all the while jovial.
Wow, poor Britain was subjected to Bubble Gum music as well. I saw that on the charts ,which is a great addition to these. I'm surprised. Weird initial impression for me by the future King Krimson lads single. I'll have to listen to it later. My favorite radio station WFMU, on line, has played I talk to the wind by G,G&F a couple of times recently.
Keith -- you're the mate!
“Could you please make it go away”. LOL
Like one of the songs Pete keeps under his sink!!!
"I'm liking too many of them today, something must have gone wrong" LMAO!
The singles for the month and the year that I was born in. Interestingly enough, Here Comes the Judge is recognised by many as the first rap record though some would argue that Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan, three years earlier, was.
July '68 marked the Top 40 entry of a San Francisco band with a huge vocal and groovy, gritty blues feel ...
Darn! Would have loved to hear what Moon thought of J.J. Flash, Mony, Mony and Fire by Arthur Brown. Too bad. Great upload YP!
Keith was a masterf of the industry.
I love him. At least from afar...very afar.
Funny to see how his ADHD gradually kicks in. You can hear him become more and more restless and impatient. “Another record!!?”
I wonder if that cash register joke is one he made often cause it made me picture the Tommy's Holiday Camp bit from the Tommy movie with the combination cash register organ on wheels.
"Sounds like his teeth are falling out" :) oh man. It's like they picked the goofiest novelty tunes for him to review (minus the cool Kinks tune). This was hilarious
" Here Come da Judge" was popular here in America thanks to " Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" comedy show- Flip Wilson would say this alot.
Greatest Drummer
Herb Alpert had the #1 hit in the US in July 1968 with "This Guy's in Love With You", on A&M records, the label he recently started. At #4 was the group Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66, also on his label. Herb ended up marrying Lani Hall, one half of Brazil '66, and they remain married to this day.
Lani Hall is one of the great voices of that era.
A&M Records was founded in 1962 - not that recent!
@@Krzyszczynski thats correct, was the Lonely Bull the first release? They sure pressed a lot of them, look in almost anyplace selling used LPs and find the Tijuana Brass
@@fueledbylove I believe it was, at least in the UK. Another of theirs that became well-known around that time was Up Cherry Street, which had been chosen as the theme tune for some early-evening BBC radio show.
Keith John Moon (Londres, Inglaterra, 23 de agosto de 1946-ibídem, 7 de septiembre de 1978)[2][3] fue un músico inglés, conocido por ser baterista de la banda británica de rock The Who. Se ganó el reconocimiento por su estilo exuberante e innovador en la batería, y su excéntrico comportamiento autodestructivo, lo que le valió el apodo de «Moon the Loon» («Moon el chiflado»). Moon se unió a The Who en 1964. Participó en todos los álbumes y sencillos desde su debut, en «Zoot Suit» de 1964, hasta Who Are You de 1978, álbum que fue lanzado solo tres semanas antes de su muerte.
Poor Giles Giles & Fripp though they may have had the same opinion of that record as Mooney. Thankfully they became King Crimson soon after.
These videos are interesting. Didn’t know stars would do reviews back then. Wonder if anything like that occurred in America.
Rolling Stone magazine would sometimes do the same thing with different artists though I dont know if they did it this far back.
the book to read is called "Dear Boy," came out in the 9 0s not sure if its out of print or not
'Days' is a really good song. So is almost everything else the Moody Blues released 1967-72. That one by somebody Thorogood I should find it and give it a listen
“Pretty dated. Sounds like one of the songs Pete keeps under his sink”.
That’s brilliant. 😭😭😭
A couple of novelty songs there to complete the story. "Here comes the judge" came out of an American TV skit. By the way, I believe the Kink's frontman is pronounced "Dav - is" not "Dav - ees".
I think Ray and Dave themselves have given up on recovering the correct pronunciation of Davies. The American mispronunciation has become dominant. I’ve heard many English people now use Daveys as well. I believe it’s a Welsh name, I hope the correct pronunciation survives in Wales.
I (being Australian) was unaware of this fact until I listened to the audio book of Pete Townshend reading his autobiography and he kept saying "Da-vis", also shortly after I heard the Governess on the quiz show 'The Chase' use the same pronunciation. That was very interesting to me.
With his comment on Lovin Spoonful vibe songs omg that's so accurate, look at the top songs(! The Monkees... with D. W Washburn lololol
Days 🤩🤩👍👍👌👌god save the kinks!! Keith Moon 🤩🤩👍👍👌👌🥁🥁
hi Y.P i suppose you have loads of old issuses of MM , i'm interester to buy old numbers of that mag, possibly bound , do you know where i can find it? :). thanks
As rhythm driver of a successful rock band his opinion was Gospel.
"like one of the songs Pete keeps under his sink" LOL
I would love to know where you get all of this, what are your sources. These vidoes are amazing!
I wonder what Keith would have thought of the reading of his words.
"The Wibbly Wobbly Way" should be a thing.
Oh Keith, when you were all blocked up you could be so sweet and funny. Actually, you may have been blocked up when you did these reviews. Summer 1973 when in GB I heard KM filling in for an hour on wed. night BBC1 I think. He was brilliantly funny and did different characters. His drumming : imaginative, unpredictable, musical and inimatable !
Wait, Kieth Moon didn't care for Giles Giles and Fripp? The album was subtitled "The Cheerful Insanity of..." You'd think that enough would have won him over.
Some great music in there, even the clunkers!
Alan Price Set were great fun. I met AP years ago and he wasn't as fearsome as he looked.
A bit like Robert Fripp of Giles, Giles & Fripp who's Deram Single One In A Million ended this clip.
Of course GG&F would morph into the truly terrifying.......
As we all know!
Worth a listen is The Brondesbury Tapes if anyone would like some proggier GG&F.
I'd really like to live in a time where Jumpin' Jack Flash is in Top 3 and the first Fleetwood Mac album in Top 10 in the album charts.
I would too my friend.
Then you would not be as young as you are now. It wasn't a pleasant time for everybody living back then either if you were male and draft age you could have died in a Vietnam rice paddy. Of course that is a worse case scenario, my point is it's best to be grateful for whatever time period belongs to you. For those of us that do belong to the time you speak of we really didnt think it was special at the time, we were there just living our lives like everybody does. And everyone interested has access to the music of that time so again be thankful.
Amazing, Jimi Hendrix down to number 9 in the Album chart from 7 😎