James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself video free download

N. Hale Green

What the hell is the James Chance song that has the slow staticy bass intro that goes on for awhile with similar lyrics, about him not being able to stand himself? Christ, I wish I could remember....can anyone help me out?

Ethan Hill

Lawd this is amazing. I loved the shows at the Mudd Club. Miss Mudd Club.Grew UP on JAMES BROWN and collected records of ALBERT AYLER ERIC DOLPHY ART ENSEMBLE of CHICAGO ANTHONY BRAXTON ERIC DOLPHY. And JB/JC could wail blues. He knew cold that sonic. B.B. KING (rip) might admire JB/JC blues singing...and JB/JC voice isn't smooth. Voice is less than untrained. Just wailing about pain and playing artfunk and for night of performance and the next day I was just a better rather than bitter person. Lawd this is amazing.

AeolisticFury

James Chance is like the white, neurotic version of James Brown.

Kevin Murrell

Seriously doe, few people (never mind white people and never mind punks) can play James Brown's music this convincingly.

Fazal Miles

Uploaded on Jul 10, 2009From the "No New York" compilation (1978).Pat Place: "The most significant thing I remember about those sessions is that he said, 'Why don't you go in and warm up?' We warmed up with 'Can't Stand Myself,' which we'd never played before. And Eno recorded the warm-up and that's what came out. That was the first time we'd played it, and he got it, and that was it."

Fred Ceely

And yes, this is awesome. I've got the record, I was thirty when it came out and I was lucky enough to be in the record retail business. Otherwise I might have missed it.

Fred Ceely

There's plenty of great music today. That's the problem, really, there's too much of it. In the olden times something fresh and great stood out, and if you heard it, lots of other people were hearing it too, because of the limited media opportunities. Now, it's all media, all the time, and if you listen to one hour of a less-then-conventional college radio station you'll hear several things that you'd think are really great, and you'd be right, and you'll forget them before dinner.

john owen

blah blah blah fuck off

OdedMusic

awesome!

nichobert

And that's where they just suck for not realizing how decentralized music is. Everything that once was and can be co-opted or evolved or deconstructed or straight ripped off is always going to be cool to someone. In 21st century, everyone is hip, everyone is square"

nichobert

Usually what they REALLY mean, even though they refuse to acknowledge it: "I'm past my prime. I wish my favorite bands from 20 years ago were still cooll so I could be too"

nichobert

People who think music isn't as good as when they were a teenager are hilarious. It's never a matter of preference based on nostalgia and simply being the right age. It's just facts man, musica soooo commercial

Garrison Ray

the Boss!!!

Orlando Mendes

Sax tordu

TheMagmagoblin

Whoa in one of the pictures some guy is wearing what appears to be a Crispy Ambulance T-shirt and he's crying. Whoa Scooby let's get out of here.

Lilibeth Pontanillo

makes me wanna see this live and feel the vibe of the crowd. i like it!

Graham L

@kingofcrunk1010 I was exaggerating. There are some decent bands today. But I still think radicalism is gone from rock.

мазен прозорец

jazzcore :P

Graham L

@TheStrangeSound I wouldn't call it a freakout... he's more or less playing notes. But I agree that it's awesome.

Graham L

I have a love/hate relationship with this music. I love it because its raw funk and the purest American underground. I hate it because of my envy of the people who lived through this scene: this sort of "music on the edge" is dead and will probably never be experienced again.

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