Clearly, invoking coinage in your moniker guarantees that the highest plateau you will ever achieve will be mired in the depths of abject mediocrity.
Prove me wrong.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)
QED
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)
Chuck Eddy to thread!
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 June 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)
― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)
Quarterflash are better than I remember them. They're kind of torchy and Benatarish.
― u s steel, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 03:06 (seventeen years ago)
Quarterflash are less cringe-inducing.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 11:08 (seventeen years ago)
25 years later, we still remember Quarterflash.
I am sure people will remember Nickelback in 25 years too. At least if they are sitting in a shrink's office getting help to recall superseded traumas from the youth.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 11:10 (seventeen years ago)
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Sunday, 5 April 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)
So I listened to Harden My Heart today and wondered if they had any other good songs. And then I heard Valerie! What a charming song about girlies in love and missed opportunities. I wondered if anyone else knew that song and the only place I could feasibly ask this q is ILM. As for the OP Quarterflash obviously
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 September 2024 02:51 (one year ago)
who doesn't love power pop + saxophone
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 September 2024 03:35 (one year ago)
apparently a lot of people because no one talks about quarterflash or this song "Valeria" at all. this song rules! it's about having a crush on a girl -- what could be more timely in the era of chappell roan etc?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxa8dJfSOe4
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 2 September 2024 14:56 (one year ago)
oops Valerie, not Valeria
Here is a great appreciation of the debut album from Kevin John Bozelka written in 2005, including Valerie:
Quarterflash (Geffen, 1981)What a great album! I listened to it three times today. But if I can't convince anyone I know of Steely Dan's genius, how am I gunna do it for this lesser tribute band ("Williams Avenue" is sooooo "Peg")? And the lyrics - sheesh. Fuck and run; fuck and run - is that all anyone on the West Coast ever does? Rindy Ross manages to make couplets like "I didn't have a chance in art school/You offered to help this poor fool" sing - worthy of Morrissey if not Colin Snowsell. Dig the cover - radioactive man repeated in a series. Their next album, Take Another Picture (which I've yet to hear), is a family reunion photo of showroom dummies. Nicely mirrors the perils of serial monogamy in the lyrics. "Valerie" - great unrequited lesbian love song. And yes, this was the first band I ever saw live (opening for Elton John!!).
― gjoon1, Monday, 2 September 2024 20:53 (one year ago)
Here is a great appreciation of the debut album from Kevin John Bozelka written in 2005, including Valerie: Quarterflash (Geffen, 1981) What a great album! I listened to it three times today. But if I can't convince anyone I know of Steely Dan's genius, how am I gunna do it for this lesser tribute band ("Williams Avenue" is sooooo "Peg")? And the lyrics - sheesh. Fuck and run; fuck and run - is that all anyone on the West Coast ever does?
Quarterflash (Geffen, 1981) What a great album! I listened to it three times today. But if I can't convince anyone I know of Steely Dan's genius, how am I gunna do it for this lesser tribute band ("Williams Avenue" is sooooo "Peg")? And the lyrics - sheesh. Fuck and run; fuck and run - is that all anyone on the West Coast ever does?
yes. well, not the entire west coast maybe, but the pnw sure.
anyway quarterflash are beloved local heroes out here
i never actually heard of them until i moved here, they were a little before my time
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 06:09 (one year ago)