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Cause among other things "Copycat" is brilliant trash talking.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

My iPod played me "Out of Work" just today.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

He co-wrote Johnny Paycheck's "She's All I Got"--with Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"Quarter to three" is one of my alltime favourite 'oldies'. I love that whole *there's a party in the studio!* feel (cf: 'I gotta dance to keep from crying' by the Miracles).

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Dave Marsh keyed into the weird vibe of those '60s singles: "field recordings from Mars."

Bonds also could read the zeitgeist like few of his contemporaries. Witness "School is Out," followed months later by "School is In."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know of the comeback single he had in the 1980s? it's been driving me crazy.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Sure. "This Little Girl," followed by "Out of Work" the next year.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Those were the two big ones, anyway. They were from albums he did for EMI America.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

thx rickey

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

"Out of Work" is so great. A Springsteen song even Ned could love!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

I had to d/l "This Little Girl" recently to see if it was as sucky as I remembered it. (It wuz.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god you are really tempting me. Haha! I used to have that single. Can't even remember how it goes now. Never even crosses my mind.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

best-of i picked up was kicking my butt yesterday. so raucous and rockin'. and noisy too! i think siltbreeze should sign him.

― scott seward, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

I NEED A JOB I'M OUTTA WORK WORK

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

so raucous and rockin'. and noisy too! i think siltbreeze should sign him.

yes! don't yet know his later, "comeback" stuff, but this early stuff is so wild. if anyone ever belted shit out it was him. just screamin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8EyfJ7lJs

― andrew m., Monday, 12 December 2016 17:25 (nine years ago)

AND IN CASE YOU GET A NOTION
JUMP IN THE AIR COME DOWN IN SLOW MOTION

― andrew m., Monday, 12 December 2016 17:26 (nine years ago)

i wanna holler
but the town's too small

― andrew m., Monday, 12 December 2016 17:28 (nine years ago)

^^That one used to be a staple at our local Soul Night. Real fun to dance to.

― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:06 (nine years ago)

such a master of vocal cadence when he's bustin' loose

― andrew m., Monday, 12 December 2016 19:30 (nine years ago)

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