SPOOKEY RUBEN - WHAT I NEED IS A WHOLE LOT MORE !!!!

" what you want -- what you get !!!....... what i want is a whole lot more"

This is off the album, "Modes of Transportation" Note that he is transposed over the face of John Travolta in the Boy in the PLastic Bubble. I found this life saving gem at the right time while I was living in Chicago. I had just broken up from a bizarre love thing with an infamous songstress and this CD sort of saved my sanity. Artistically speaking.

Needless to say I was also glad to be out of the Detroit radio market so I welcomed any kind of new sounds that didn't reflect Stone Temple Pilots. My method of madness back then was to walk into a record store, in this case, Reckless Records in Chicago and just buy music based on the album art, (while disregarding the price tag). This is not a very cost effective or scientific way to choose music but in my case it paid off.

Spookey, (who got his name from wearing scary heavy metal t shirts) is well versed in pop music. He sounds like XTC meets a tornado meets a perfect storm. Incredible effort. This soon became the soundtrack for a very turbnulent time in my adult years.

If I had to do it all over again. Id scrap the relationship and get straight to the music. I adored this stuff. In this time period I was finding the levels that went well beyond Beck and commercial radio. Wendy Mc Donald is an amazing tune.
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fascube cantu 2006

THE DESCENDENTS - ARE THE ONE !!!

This is why i love CHICAGO MAN !!!

I was sitting in my tub in my apartment with the radio on one night. I was debating if I was going to go out into the night and have another rock and roll adventure -- maybe hit the blues clubs or the Metro.

Then this song comes on and I lose it. I had no idea the Descendents were still putting out music. I jumped out of my tub as soon as the song was done ... I was naked running around my pad looking for something to throw on. I got my boots on and ran down 8 flights of stairs out into the street. I found Reckless Records and found one copy of this on CD and bought it.

Hows that for manic behavior. I proceeded to play this song like 50 times for the next 24 hours. I as addicted to this song.

Still am.

Now if I had been in Detroit this never would have happened. Thats because 89.X is still touting the same crap as they were in the early 90's..... the same Stone Temple Pilot songs and the same Pearl Jam tunes too.. I am not kidding.

Chicago radio is progressive AND NECESSARY. Always has been and always will be an essential music town... don't believe me? FIne.... Just ask the ROlling Stones.