GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 109
JULY 28, 2023
TREASON NOODLES
– Elm Treason’s “WITHOUT A TRIBE” album saw it’s initial limited release this week via digital download to those who pre-ordered the album in July. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive to this point.
-The boys are looking to gather comments and impressions of “WITHOUT A TRIBE” to be used on web pages and as “social proof” for upcoming general audience promotions. If you have any opinions, reflections or commentary to share on the new album, please email us at groovynoodles@elmtreason.com
–New Pre-order announcements for the album’s general release on August 14th will begin next week through the band’s main Facebook page. Unfortunately, some of the items offered during the initial pre-order phase of “first-dibs” friends and fans (those on our mailing list, members of the Uptown Q Facebook group and Groovy Noodles subscribers) are no longer available. (See? It pays to get in early).
-CDs and vinyl for those who pre-ordered “WITHOUT A TRIBE” will begin shipping next week.
OTHER NOODLES
-Singer Sinead O Conner died on Wednesday at age 56
–Yes guitarist Steve Howe says he isn’t interested in a reunion of any kind with the band.
–Paul Simon says he just cannot play live anymore due to his hearing loss. He’s been experimenting with performing with his band again, but has yet to find a comfortable way to do so.
–ZZ Top launched their Sharp-Dressed Simple Man co-headlining tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd last Friday evening in West Palm Beach, Florida.
–Roger Waters’ re-recording of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” will be released on Oct. 6.
You Say: I Plead Guilty
Hello Treasonites!
Here’s one we posted on our main Facebook page, but it was impossible to interact with people there… so we brought it into this more intimate setting.
Personally, a “guilty pleasure” song really is meaningless. If we like it, we like it…if we don’t, we don’t.
But we’re here to have some fun…
The connotation of a “guilty pleasure” song is one that we “shouldn’t” like, but we do. REALLY do. It’s out of genre. It’s not normally our style.
For instance. “I hate disco, but I really like that one Bee Gees song….” something like that.
Or “I hate rap, but I love ‘Funky Cold Medina.'”
Bobby might say “I Saw the Sign” by Ace of Base.
Andy might say “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer.
Someone comes up to you and asks you, “What is your GUILTY PLEASURE song?”
You say….
Another Year Gone
Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…
On Tuesday, guitarist and singer-songwriter Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth turned 65
Maureen McGovern, singer and actress, was 74 on Thursday
Singer/Entertainer/Actress Jennifer Lopez celebrated birthday number 54 on Monday
Happy 60th birthday to Emily Sailers of the Indigo Girls (last Saturday)
Legendary singer Darlene Love had birthday number 82 on Wednesday
Last Friday, Cat Stevens (now Yusef Islam) celebrated his 75th birthday
Turning 80 last Saturday was teen idol Bobby Sherman
Singer Alison Krauss had her 52nd birthday on Sunday
Soon to be Rock Stars
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Bobby and Andy holding up gifts sent by fans from Minnesota, USA – Sep, 2014
Double Whammy! The word “MOM” upside down AND reversed … just because
3 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green dies at 73. Green gave the band a strident blues sound before leaving in 1970.
8 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
In a field just outside of Cesena, Italy, 1000 musicians and singers play Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly” simultaneously with the dream of attracting the band to play a show in their city for the first time in nearly 20 years
24 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Woodstock ’99 comes to a fiery conclusion as the crowd loots and burns anything they can find while the Red Hot Chili Peppers play the last set. Remarkably, there are relatively few injuries; when police arrive, the crowd seems more than happy to leave.
27 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Donovan has to cancel a North American tour when he is denied entry to the US because of a 1966 marijuana possession conviction.
33 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
With a host of special guests, Roger Waters performs The Wall at the former site of the Berlin Wall, which came down eight months earlier.
34 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Performing on the Club MTV tour at a stop in Bristol, Connecticut, Milli Vanilli’s tracks go screwy when they try to lip-synch to the song “Girl You Know It’s True.” As the line “girl you know it’s…” repeats over and over, the duo panic and scurry off stage. It is later revealed that they didn’t sing on their album.
37 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Peter Gabriel hits #1 in the US with “Sledgehammer,” bumping his old band, Genesis (with “Invisible Touch”) out of the top spot.
39 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America crown midway through her run after naked pictures of her appear in Penthouse. The controversy doesn’t keep her from becoming a very popular actress and singer: in 1991 she releases her #1 hit “Save The Best For Last.”
43 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Billy Joel gets his first Gold record, for “It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me.”
45 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The film Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in America, and it tanks hard. Savaged by critics, it becomes a legendary Hollywood flop despite appearances by Peter Frampton, Billy Preston, Aerosmith and The Bee Gees.
46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Before taking the stage at Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, along with their manager, Peter Grant, beat up a member of promoter Bill Graham’s staff. They are later arrested and hit with a lawsuit, which is settled out of court.
65 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Esso Oil (formerly Standard Oil, later Exxon), issues a report warning that listening to rock music in the car could waste gas because “the rhythm can cause a driver to unconsciously jiggle the gas petal.”
Autobiographical
Family Jammin’
I do
Fab Fact
Hell Yes
Like looking in a mirror
Truth
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Here is a crazy one ” Mika” blue.
I like its energy
Just gave it a spin, Shirl.
Agreed. Infectious energy!
Mine is My Coo Ca Choo by Alvin Stardust, I still blare it out in the car, and I just recently found out he was miming the song the dude who sang it didn’t want to be out in the front.
VERY VERY cool, Ellen.
Groovy little fun fact there.
99 Balloons 🎈 by Nena! I know, I know! 🤣
That video is SO DAMN VIVID in my mind’s eye. And I (Andy) remember VERY CLEARLY both the German and English versions.
Do you really want to hurt me? by Culture Club. Lol. 😁
Their breakthrough hit.
I (Andy) was a young teen, but I remember when that video hit the airwaves. It was played ALL THE TIME…. and yes, because of that, to this day, I still know all the words.
Love on the brain, Rhina an d pretty much anything by Luc Bryan, a little secret crus hing going on thereLOL
It is a secret crush no more, sister. 🙂
I hate techno but I love the song “Pump up the volume” by MARRS
I (Andy) think I’m with you there. I can’t believe I’m admitting this publicly… but YES.
Brittany Spears: Toxic
Oh yes. I (Andy) know it quite well.
Guilty pleasure, absolutely.
Do you have a deadline for this…
The boys are looking to gather comments and impressions of “WITHOUT A TRIBE” to be used on web pages and as “social proof” for upcoming general audience promotions. If you have any opinions, reflections or commentary to share on the new album, please email us at groovynoodles@elmtreason.com
No deadline at all, brother. We are just looking for commentary and impressions over the course of the next several weeks, if possible.
As of right now, you’re the only one to respond to this request, but I’m quite sure others will follow suit once they receive their physical copies.
Hope so anyway.
And by the way, HUGE THANKS for what you wrote and how quickly you responded to the request.
You are our hero!
My pleasure to help
Bye bye bye-NSYNC
I (Andy) was working in radio when that song was new. I played it quite a bit at the Top 40 station I was working at. It got a LOT of requests.
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
Ahh yes. It’s an earworm of POWERFUL PERSUASION. 🙂
Mmm Bop and Never Gonna Give You Up.
But really, any fun catchy tune that people think is a brainless waste. But it’s a guilty pleasure for the exact reason – it takes no deep thought or heavy feels. Too much going on in life to wanna think hard or feel too much to enjoy the music 🎶
Nancy, I (Andy) am with you.
I have LOTS of “mindless, inane” tunes scattered across my playlists… so-called bubblegum songs or non-intellectual party tunes or sing-a-longs. I have always admired the ability of songwriters to create songs that everyone knows and everyone can sing. I don’t think of it as creating soulless junk. I think of it as GREAT craftsmanship.
I’m gonna go with Bread’s “If”
I (Andy) have always liked that song and the way David Gates sings it. Pretty tune.
“She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals
Hi Bob! I (Andy) actually can picture the music video of this one quite vividly.
Thanks, man!
Don’t out me. I will cut you! Donny Osmond – Go Away Little Girl and Puppy Love.
Oh yes… I know both of those tunes (the original of the latter being a Paul Anka classic from 1960 that I dig).
I (Andy) won’t say a word.
I Feel Love by Donna Summer and You’re the One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
Hi Lisa!
Okay… I (Andy) will say it… I love both of those tracks – especially the extended mix of the Donna Summer song. It can keep playing on and on as far as I’m concerned.
this week? Harper valley PTA.