Before he was Frank Portman , Hollywood bigshot , Frank was known as Dr.Frank and fronted the The Mr. T Experience which has existed in some form or another since 1985. Now, Frank is looking to compile a Best of collection with twenty "or so" favorites from the band's catalogue which includes 10 studio albums like Milk, Milk, Lemonade , Love is Dead , Revenge Is Sweet and So Are You [...]
Makeup - Mr. T Experience Every Mr. T Experience song that comes up here seems to be from Milk Milk Lemonade , an album Ben Weasel called the worst ever recorded. As usual he's wrong, but that doesn't mean his obstinance didn't for a while impact on the me who had never heard the album. It was the last Mr. T Experience i got around to, precisely for the consternation Mr. Must-have-myopic-punk-protecti onist-opinions-on-everything stirred in me. And lo and behold it is one of [...]
What do you want? - The Mr. T Experience Continuing our season of pop punk classics, here's the Mr. T Experience. Brilliant and boundlessly wordsmithy Dr. Frank was as a lyricist, it is in my opinion that, although it is all so consistently marvelous, there was never a better line written than " Meet me at the laundromat, that's where i do my laundry ."
The fourth edition of "Are Friends Eclectic?" is a very special one indeed. I've managed to convince a certain guy to take time out from his hectic day and give us an insight into his musical tastes and whatever else takes his fancy. Yes, that's the real Santa right there. Yes he smokes. Yes, that's a half coconut/pineapple concoction and cocktail in his right hand. Yes, he sticks a white beard over his "manly goatee" and no, the big red suit's not at the dry cleaners. He's [...]
It's finally that time of year again. Tree trimming and decorating has begun and Black Friday is a thing of the past. So on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3's... a lot of Christmas MP3's. My daughter loves Christmas music so I love Christmas music. Actually, I've loved the songs of the season much longer than she's been singing these songs. There's just something totally festive about Christmas songs even when they're being butchered by punk bands. So without [...]
See it now - The Mr. T Experience This song has all the hallmarks of a closing song. It's slower, more contemplative, serious, carries more weight, is meant to carry more weight, designed to leave you with all of what the album is meant to, a closing statement, and when converted to mp3 from CD it has seven minutes of silence where the gap between it and the secret track remains in all its waste of file space. It's something i could fix, probably. [...]
book of revelation off milk milk lemonade // mr t experience wiki page Tags: dr frank , frank portman , milk milk lemonade , mr t experience
Master of the situation - The Mr. T Experience I boarded the MTX Starship during their exemplary pop punk power trio era of the later half of the 902s, so imagine my surprise delving backwards and finding the guitar stylings of one Jon Von Zelowitz licking and leading all over the place. This song is his showpiece. He reaches such crazy heights with the soloing towards the end it's as though we've left the starship and have boarded some Turbonegro song. I know that's [...]
Ever since they rose from the dark streets of New York's Bowery via Queens, the Ramones have been worshiped by punks and pop fans alike. And rightly so. The faux brothers - make that bruddahs - invented a completely new sound, blending outsider angst with bubblegum pop, for a hybrid style that's still popular today. Though it took a decade for bands to begin aping the Ramones directly, the style the quartet invented went on to become a full-fledged punk rock sub-genre: Ramones-core. Here's a look at some of its best proponents: Chixdiggit! [...]
Summer is in full force and so am I! I've been going to a ton of shows (so many great free shows in New York in the summer - more about that later...maybe), travelling and getting lots of sunshine. All of this obviously equates to not updating of this blog. This sort of counts as an update I guess, the wussy way out I suppose. Enjoy the cover shuffle, especially this sweet version of Divine Hammer! Jóvenes y Sexys "Divine Hammer" (The Breeders Cover) [...]
So I'm writing this four months to the day the day since the last one of these Pop Punk Junk entries was posted. Yes, all the links to the previous 13 are still live and they all still fucking rule. Check 'em out. As for this one, It's got bands I'm sure you know and love and others from bands like Division that don't exist anymore but that you oughta know. Then there's Weston... one of my all time faves. Hell yeah... MP3 Mr. T Experience - My Stupid Life [...]
So I'm writing this four months to the day the day since the last one of these Pop Punk Junk entries was posted. Yes, all the links to the previous 13 are still live and they all still fucking rule. Check 'em out. As for this one, It's got bands I'm sure you know and love and others from bands like Division that don't exist anymore but that you oughta know. Then there's Weston... one of my all time faves. Hell yeah... MP3 Mr. T Experience - My Stupid Life [...]
Book of revelation - The Mr. T Experience I posted the Fastbacks' cover last time, so the Mr. T Experience original this time. I'm not sure why, of all the songs in the world, of all the bands in the world, the Fastbacks would choose to cover this song. There's probably a connection i'm not aware of. Like maybe the female voice (if it is a female voice) at the end is Lulu or Kim's. Or maybe i have the profile of the Fastbacks [...]
TISM - Defecate on my Face Kaum eine Person der Weltgeschichte scheint die Menschen auf der ganzen Welt bis heute so sehr zu interessieren wie Adolf Hitler. Wenn dem Spiegel nichts anderes einfällt, macht er eben mit Hitler auf . Einfacher als mit Hitler-Witzen kann man wohl keine Lacher ernten, egal wie gut oder schlecht sie sind, und egal ob in Deutschland oder in Amerika . Und in der politischen Rhethorik sowie im allgemeinen Diskussionsverhalten, vor allem im Internet, gibt es ein Phänomen Godwin's Law : Mit [...]
Love is dead - Mr. T Experience Is this really the first MTX (MTX is a nickname, nicknames are for friends, the Mr. T Experience is a friend of mine) song i've posted? I guess in these years their prominence in my life has been diluted somewhat with the discovery of, attachment to and passion for so many other bands and other types of music. Still, they're the best. In songwriting, craft, lyrics, amiability, duration, etc. they are the best pop punk band, in [...]
Before I get started, I'd like to say that I had no idea the Onion's AV Club had a column of the same name. I'm a badly informed geek, evidently. So, if you've a name you'd like to suggest for the fea... Continue reading "Wrapped Up In Books: King Dork" >
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Join me as I raid my favorite closet with Flashion Backward, a new UI feature that's the spiritual cousin of our recently debuted Flashion Forward. Here, we rifle through our treasure trove of interviews to fish out a vintage gem–the better to explore the strange vortex in which fashion and musicians meet. Ooh, look what I found! CHARLIE SUPERFLY ! Few artists live up to their more-flash-than-cash monikers (Madonna, Extreme , The Mr. T Experience, etc.), but CHARLIE SUPERFLY exceeds the already ambitious degree of peachy-keenness she fearlessly implies she's got! In addition to being [...]
It appears that several very important decisions will have to be made very shortly. Life and death shit. I don't want to deal with any of that right now. I want to listen to the Ramones. The Ramones saved my life. Probably saved your life too. After all, they made it OK to be me... an untalented, awkward, semi-adolescent, rock n roll loving reject. No matter how low I used to get as a kid, I knew that the Ramones were out there... and if they could survive, so could I. After all, Joey and I [...]
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter." - Confucius "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - T. S. Eliot "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H. L. Mencken [...]
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