Rock trivia - where did Mooney Suzuki get their name? Or, what's the significance of it? Prize is a can of beans(hint, hint)
Damn, how times have changed. My daughter's embarrassed because her old man has long hair and listens to music with obscene lyrics. I was laying in bed this morning singing Nick Cave's version of "Stagger Lee", and when I got to the part about what Stagg would do to get to one fat boy's asshole, she yelled from the other room wanting to know what the hell my problem was. Oh, well.
The got their name by combining the last names of the two singers for krautrock pioneers Can, American Malcolm Mooney, who appears on
Monster Movie, and Daimyo Suzuki, who does vox on everything else. It should be noted that The Mooney Suzuki sound absolutely nothing like Can.
Nick Cave's version of "Stagger Lee" is up there with the one on the jukebox at the F & M patio bar in New Orleans. Supposedly it is the earliest recorded version, I forget who the artist was, being that I was really, really intoxicated and preoccupied with getting to know a young lady from Birmingham, Alabama that had accompanied a group of mutual friends who went to New Orleans together. That is kinda funny, your daughter freaking out on you for singing the obscene Nick Cave version. I bet your mom would have had a similar reaction had you done so at home when you were your daughter's age, however old that may be. Sorta the inverse of the liner notes on the live Velvet Underground double LP, the one that asks what goes through a mother's mind when she asks her teenage daughter the name of the song she is listening to, and the daughter replies, "Heroin". Maybe the 'freak gene' skips generations, or maybe it needs some sort of external trigger to activate it, who knows? I do think it's damned funny that your kid chastises you for singing Nick Cave lyrics, which, to be fair, are pretty vulgar, if not obscene. Still, it's pretty damned funny.
