@Evan Hodge thanks, but what I was trying to say was not about audio quality (and you are right, it does sound a wee bit tinny, by todays standards) but it sounds like a song that was written today. Cheers

In your mind.

In real life

me too lol, well not 30 years but got my tape 1996-1998. about 15 years ago found another gem on youtube thanks to an old mixtape (and google and youtube..), "I'm straight' such a great song with a cool video too :)

And 80 percent Lou Reed/Velvet Underground

How can there be a touch of Joy Division if this is from 1972?

MadBall: *NYC*

I got that bike....a 360 CB Honda with spoke wheels. It was eventually stolen

You obviously don't know what the fuck you're talking about, I like their music but they're not doing anything the velvet underground, the doors and the stooges had already done before them.

Wow- everybody loves an expert ! The Modern Lovers is a fantastic record that's the only thing that matters.

+hamuhamu Everything happened organically. There's no source or originator to punk. It was a convergence of society and styles. You could name bands and artists that were influential all day. MC5. Death. The Dictators. New York Dolls. Suicide. The Punks. Television. The Bad Seeds. Pere Ubu..just to name a few. Quit talking shit about who knows what.

Iggy Pop was definitely the granddaddy of punk rock but these guys are amazing!! still not sure why The Ramones get all the credit...

leonardo decapitated best answer I've read. It's like trying to find the first homo sapien. Things happen gradually

Awesome

Cale's production certainly relevant, but more so is that Jonathan was a Velvets (and Stooges) fan, which is why he wanted Cale to produce in the first place.

New wave bro.

Its proto punk!

Proto punk maybe who cares . Kill Me Plez I hate my life.

Life.

This is not punk. The Stooges, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The UK Subs, The Avengers, Stiff Little Fingers, The Adolescents were punk.

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Yes! Vocal timbre, clangy rhythms, humorous lyrics

though shit

Teddy Rannila "I conject she stays...etc"

I like it I’m not gonna crack, I love you I’m not gonna crack I killed you I’m not gonna crack I miss you I’m not gonna crack

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Well, no. Cale was hired to produce the band but the mismatch between Cale and Richman was so severe that the project was shelved and the band went unsigned. The Cale product disappeared into the void .

@@camera0o0 @camera0o0 Bollocks, get your facts right. There were two recording sessions in 1972 in LA, the first produced by John Cale for Warner Brothers, the tracks being Roadrunner, Pablo Picasso, Astral Plane, Old World, Someone I Care About and She Cracked. The second session was produced by Allan Mason and Robert Appere for the A&M label, the tracks were Modern World, Girl Friend and Dignified And Old. Jonathan Richman couldn't make up his mind which record label to sign with, they eventually signed up with Warner Brothers in 1973 and have John Cale produce their upcoming album. Unfortunately the tensions within the band lead to Richman wanting a more mellow sound compared to the demo recordings (there was no mismatch between Richman and Cale, don't know where you got that misinformation from). In 1974 the band split up, but Warner Brothers released the original demos in 1976 as TheModern Lovers lp. So in future do some proper research instead of spreading fake facts.

They do an excellent cover. The lead and her band CRUSH it.

IanT, Jonathan was literally anti-hippie. This and the Stooges were the antidote to end the hippy revolution.

@@Soundeagle3456 Crikey, my post was 5 years ago! Who mentioned hippie? But I'm sure JR was one before he discovered Lou Reed and Iggy :)

@@Soundeagle3456 JR is so anti-hippie one can miss it. JERRY HARRISON deserves credit as anti-hippie pro-punk pro-new wave musical icon. MODERN LOVERS nosedived when he departed to TALKING HEADS. TALKING HEADS was a household name say 1978 - 1983 in the English-speaking world.

where is the footage from? if you don't mind.

Warren did you make this video? Footage you shot?

How could he call the Modern Lovers pretentious? This is honest, raw, wonderfully made music. Hospital, Roadrunner, I'm Straight, and Pablo Picasso are some of my favorite songs ever

The book "The Boy Looked at Johnny" (which is great) has the whole sad tale of Beserkely Records screwing up the release of the 1st M'Lovers record, and Richman's disavowal and his degeneration into a sap singing crap like "I'm a little areoplane". IIRC.

@@concatinate Thanks, that book sounds great. I think the macho mojo Richman projected in the original Modern Lovers may have been a channeling of a Harvard attitude since all the other band members went to Harvard. Just a hunch. The original Lovers were godhead for sure.

Are you legitimately complaining that cocaine and speed aren't mainstream anymore?

+Ethan Hill You wanna tell us Starbucks served cocaine back then? Did ya take too much of it?

it was the good old days and life was edgier in the city. k? we got our coffee at the deli or breakfast diner on the corner. "regular" in blue & white paper cups with Greek writing on them. we had that other stuff too and smoked cigarettes. it was awesome.

Francisco J. Mosquera yes, apparently your mother shot the footage.

@@cavendishlung-sukki1082 I don't think you're and I don't intend an insult to that poster's dear MA. THE VIDEO is a montage of Manhattan circa 1973. I was a teenager back then AND I could had been a character in a WARHOL short film or a side character in. VELVET UNDERGROUND or LOU REED joint. Thank GOD for mental health therapy. To cut to the chase AW might had shot the footage. JR was part of that scene. I bet that sociometry netted the release of THE MODERN LOVERS after album say in a can for two years. The band is obviously unsung. Sound and lyrics mainstreamed VU and former members were integral members of THE CARS -- THE mainstream new wave band -- and TALKING HEADS, a band that will be remembered way way way way in the future versus say THE CARS and "spit" BLONDIE. WE LOVE PLASMATICS RAMONES.

...at home!

The songwriting has pace and specificity of a short story. LOU REED did more for that development in American pop music than is acknowledged. Top 40 radio could care less but some NEW WAVE bands and BOWIE continued the trend. Forget OH BABY LA LA...song bands created character and setting set to music informed by BOOKER T + The MGs. TALKING HEADS and X triumphed in this manner.

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absolutely

brought it to the table flawlessly and said here now everyone else can follow "hears" new sound for you to copy, true talent

Stooges First album , also was produced by John Cale

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it's supposed to be ironic

it's a straight edge song, the first in fact. Also you have to admit the hippies were getting real annoying and childish, this type of music was needed urgently.

@@Antartaca Lol it's not supposed to be ironic at all, Jonathan was completely sincere in this era and would later disavow the music he made back in the early 70s, he was immature and did have a "holier than thou" attitude, it's one of the main reasons he switched his musical styles from loud rock music to softer acoustic children's songs. This stuff was proto-straight edge, Richman was completely against drug use and alcohol, but the way he would sing about made it seem as if those who engaged in that behavior were beneath him which is kind of similar to the self improvement scene going on today lol, funny because the song also mentions "She self destroys necessary to self enjoy, I self-develop, necessary to self-help".

Steve Wagner he was the drummer in the modern lovers

@@mitchellhale8972 Yes, thanks. I know who he is and was. All I’m asking is was that him at the 47 second mark. You know, since this isn’t a video of the band all together, etc.

@@mitchellhale8972 Yes, thanks, I know. This is a cool video but very subtle. You don’t see the band all together, like playing on a stage or something like that. But you get these shots of clusters of people and you wonder where those just random people or was that David Robinson? It sure looked like it could be a young David Robinson. Haha..