Steely_D wrote:
 
Oh for sure.
I enjoyed them 70's.

 buddy wrote:
 

Not so much the hair and clothes.

 miamizsun wrote:
 
wait. Don't tell me there might be manwax earbird on them...

 Steely_D wrote: 

mama told me not to come

i realize technically i've a foot in two decades - rn

 ColdMiser wrote:
 
I put a time bomb in your submarine...

 oldviolin wrote:
 

I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat

 kcar wrote:
 
You may like his 'New England' number from 1976, David Robinson was still playing drums with him on this album.

 kcar wrote:
 

Which is a great song but he stubbornly refuses to play it. I have heard stories about him doing it at small gatherings and really riffing on the locations etc. and having a lot of fun with it, but there aren't any recordings that I'm aware of that are under 40 years old...

Thank you both for clarification and enlightenment. There's something quintessentially Bay State about Jonathan Richman to these ears. As I've said before, "Road Runner" is MA's unofficial state song...

 kcar wrote:
 

Jonathan was actually more a part of the Velvet Underground scene, but yeah when punk happened, he was already starting to minimize the electric rock band sound. He had Robinson playing drums with I think rolled-up towels on cardboard boxes at one point. It was that experimental attitude that won him a few followers who appreciated the simplicity of the Ramones too.

 kcar wrote:
 

The original Modern Lovers actually preceded The Ramones but their first album (produced by John Cale in 1972) was not released until several years later - by then the original band had broken up.  Keyboardist Jerry Harrison went on to join Talking Heads and drummer David Robinson eventually co-founded The Cars.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

It occurred to me in a post-New Year's Eve sluggishness that The Modern Lovers were Massachusetts' answer to the Ramones. "Government Center" the song is almost as bad as the collection of Brutalist monstrosities going by the same name.