SPEAKING OF SPARE TIME

....the Connecticut legislature also seems to have more than it needs.

(Thanks to Claire Martin)

Comments

[mm]

well after all Connecticut wouldn't want to be thought of as L7...

[Hanna]

Will Connecticutt--is he any relation to Joe C?

[Clean Hands]

Okay, I know that L5 is a stable Lagrangian point where a body may share an orbit with a planet, but what is L7???

[Punkin Poo]

"All in favor of adopting Cumbawumba's TubThumping as our State Song, raise your hands in the air like you just don't care"

[Blondentropy]

Kinda slow around here today. No spare time to post?

[Punkin Poo]

Oops...CHumbawumba....

(Freudian slip, much??)

[Annie Where-but-here]

...is pretty much the least offensive song recorded under a punk banner except for maybe the Chipmunk Punk album.

Objection! Chipmunk Punk is the MOST offensive album ever recorded. It's been over 30 years, and "My Sharona" still reverberates in my cranium.

*ducks out of Punkin's way as she slips on Freud*

[Adonis]

Yeah, that changed the scope of that song totally.

[Adonis]

Yes, I second that Awbh! MOST offensive. That is, unless you are gathering the troops for a state polka song ...

[Punkin Poo]

*grabs at Annie as she tries to regain balance....slides right past her....much as Manny will do to Jeter.*

;p

[Adonis]

... and right into Adonis' waiting arms.

[Punkin Poo]

You have a thing for Manny, Adonis???

(NTTAWWT)

[Adonis]

Wow, I think thats a record! Two freudian slips in one thread under 15! Handshakes and backrubs all around!

[Annie Where-but-here]

:P @ Punkin.

Adonis - just what do you mean by 'backrubs all around?'

[Meanie the Blue]

I think that makes three (yes, three, OK?) for Adonis.

[Adonis]

Nope. That one was meant, in a mean-to-creap-you-all-out kinda way.

[Meanie the Blue]

The last time something like this went on, they ended up becoming the Nutmeg State. Don't they ever learn?

[Steve the LLamabutcher]

If they wanted to adopt an official punk album, it would have to be the Dead Milkmen's Fear of a Beige Planet, because, let's face it: Connecticut is the beige planet.

[Wavey]

Punkestra has just gotta be the lamest name for a punk band ever.

[Buford]

CH, no-one seems to have explained L7 to you. Take and L and join it with a 7 and you get a square (or a rectangle with most fonts, but that is just nit-picking).

[GungaDan]

"Connecticut Fun" album cover. (snork, just realized how old I am by not saying; "CD" cover) As a resident of the Hartford area, my vote goes for "Why Can't I Get Just One Kiss" by Violent Femmes. So Rhode Island could make fun of us.

[GungaDan]

http://www.punkvinyl.com/index.php?s=Punkestra+Connecticut+Fun (oops)

[Tuxgal]

Speaking of songs. I think their state song should be "Too much *clap* *clap* time on my hands". They so clearly do. lol

[Avon]

I realize that this site's most regular regulars couldn't care less, but I think early-to-mid 1980s punk rock from lame geographic regions is some of the best music ever forced to come into existence.

So this comment is for punk music nuts who might troll Dave's blog archive someday.

It's amazing how rare this record is ... although a couple of famous people are on it. Moby is very likely one of them since his band is on the album.

"Punkestra" is a name for a "band" that never existed; one song by "Punkestra" is on the Connecticut Fun album, which is a compilation album featuring several punk bands mostly from Connecticut around 1983. The title song is performed by the aggregate members of those several bands, who just called themselves Punkestra for the purposes of the moment.

I wanted to hear the song on the web. No dice. I could only find one place where it could even be purchased. An American punk-rock specialty website that claims to have 70,000 titles had no "Connecticut Fun". I found it only at a place in Ghent, Belgium, where you can buy it for 13 Euros:

http://www.pyrrhus.be/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=301255

I think I won't bother to order it myself. Maybe it will become more widely available if Connecticut passes that statute!

[Wavey]

I own several punk records, but the only real punk semi-rarity I own is this.

That's not counting the original punk rock -- from garage bands of the '60s, and the bands that Lenny Kaye was referring to when he famously coined the term "punk rock" to describe the bands on his original 1972 Nuggets compilation album. I got TONS of rarities there. One of my faves that no one's ever heard of is a manic song called "Crackin' Up" by The Wig. If you can find it, just tell me that you don't hear the seeds of modern punk in that track.

[Wavey]

Found It!