In my "Bowie: covers+" playlist. A clever guy, that Jonathan Richman, rhyming "Picasso" with "asshole". But after watching the biopic starring Anthony Hopkins, it's hard to believe that he was never called one! Thanks for the upload!
@@tolpacourt I rode the Orange Line for 9 years of high school and college...cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0068/2744/2287/products/boston-t---modern_1024x1024.png?v=1577762219
This song blows me away, I am now going to visit David Bowie, John Cale, Iggy Pop and Sex Pistols version of this Modern Lovers song. Should be interesting
"fuzz" Is mid 60s British Garage/Psyche taken from American blues and made glorious by punks of the 60s playing in America. This track harbours back to the psych but it's harder in sound and kicks
He looks like old bloke who repaired my window a few years ago. First time he visited he looked a bit bohemian for a workman, second time less so. Looked mildly exasperated when i criticised what he was doing. Window since replaced.
Hahaha for real when I first heard it I thought it was goofy. I still do but goofy songs like this with a good rhythm are the type that cheer you when you had a long day
The lyrics and music are whimsical. It's meant to be like this. But's okay that more experimental/creative music doesn't appeal to the mainstream. That's what country music, and pop music are for. [Except for brilliantly subversive pop like the catalogs of Sparks, or Pet Shop Boys.]
![Jonathan Richman - The Bus Song & Roberto the Trainer (with Julia Sweeney) [May 1994]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MS_HRXI4Z3Y/mqdefault.jpg)
I first heard this song watching Repo Man in 1984, both of which are classics.
Greatest punk rock soundtrack ever. That version is done by Burning Sensations.
Brilliant soundtrack. My favourite 🎉
Art, music, expression, life!
Produced by an original Velvet, John Cale. Over and out.
Beautiful
Superb.
In my "Bowie: covers+" playlist. A clever guy, that Jonathan Richman, rhyming "Picasso" with "asshole". But after watching the biopic starring Anthony Hopkins, it's hard to believe that he was never called one! Thanks for the upload!
one of the finest proto punks
Wow I had no idea it was that old...I'm 54 born in 1970...really good stuff.....
The fuzzy elevated rail shots...isn't that the old Boston Orange Line (North Station, City Square)?
Orange Line did not connect to North Station. Goddamn nothing does. Green Line only, even today.
@@tolpacourt I rode the Orange Line for 9 years of high school and college...cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0068/2744/2287/products/boston-t---modern_1024x1024.png?v=1577762219
@@tolpacourt Not true, Orange line has always stopped at North Station (along w/Green Line) on its way to Sullivan Sq then Everett, etc..
WOW! This is absolutely amazing.
The sound of the 90s in 1972.....
Nope.
Uh, no.
AWESOME
This song blows me away, I am now going to visit David Bowie, John Cale, Iggy Pop and Sex Pistols version of this Modern Lovers song. Should be interesting
Sue Lonsdale The Pistols never did Pablo Picasso. The did Roadrunner but that’s about it for Modern Lovers covers.
I never knew Bowie did a cover of this song. That should be interesting.
@@tolpacourt not as good. You can't beat this.
@@susanlonsdale8749 totally agree the only cover version worth listening to is John Cales
The cover by Burning Sensations, on the Repo Man soundtrack, is worthwhile. ;)
Repo Man!!
Not like you, ALRIGHT! x
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole, not like you! Smart and amusing song! Good video too!
The Fuzz! That's the sound of the seventees!
fuzz was the sound of the late 60s...by the 70s fuzz was seen as passe and the cranked marshall tube crunch sound was the thing instead
Velvet Underground
"fuzz" Is mid 60s British Garage/Psyche taken from American blues and made glorious by punks of the 60s playing in America. This track harbours back to the psych but it's harder in sound and kicks
Best version in my opinion
Hoy se cumple medio siglo sin Picasso. Jonathan Richman compuso ésto unos meses antes de la desaparición del artista. Etc
These guys were brilliant in There's Something About Mary. I wonder how they came to play that part.
The directors were fans of richman I think they grew up a decade apart in the same state
Is that the old Green Line elevated by North Station early in the video?
He looks like old bloke who repaired my window a few years ago. First time he visited he looked a bit bohemian for a workman, second time less so. Looked mildly exasperated when i criticised what he was doing. Window since replaced.
He may have been,once or twice.
Picasso was almost certainly called an asshole but that does not detract from this song whatsoever.
Im sure john spenser blues explosion was inspired by this song there music sounds just like this
lou reed meets zappa voice
good point
The Velvet Underground certainly were influenced by the Modern Lovers and vice versa.
@@tolpacourt The Velvet Underground came out 11 years before Modern Lovers and John Cale produced this album wtf
Crazy ass song but I kinda dig it.
Hahaha for real when I first heard it I thought it was goofy. I still do but goofy songs like this with a good rhythm are the type that cheer you when you had a long day
John Cale
I a mazed
I can't get a nuff.
⚡️🔱👿⚡️🌊🗺️⚡️🫡
The Repo man soundtrack version is a lot better.
Keep listening.
Plate - o - shrimp.
i bet he was
why?
Sounds like the made the lyrics up right on the spot
Terrible vocalist
worst music taste ever
The lyrics and music are whimsical. It's meant to be like this. But's okay that more experimental/creative music doesn't appeal to the mainstream. That's what country music, and pop music are for. [Except for brilliantly subversive pop like the catalogs of Sparks, or Pet Shop Boys.]
Listen! I hear CAN and Velvet Underground .......... do you?
Hard to spot. I mean, they hid their influences so well…
I definitely hear the Velvets all over it! But with the great John Cale producing what would you expect! Scratchy, garagey, fuzzy... Underground cool!
Cale also played the piano.