Knicks Morning News (2025.02.01)

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Thanks guys, so many good songs from all of you!

For some reason I remember a one-shot “sidemen supergroup”* in the mid-90s called Spin 1ne 2wo who made a good cover album** of the same name, at the time I did especially dig their version of Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home”.

It’s fascinating how songs are really the soundtrack of our lives, binded forever to specific memories ready to jump out of their box whenever someone push the right (or sometimes painfully wrong) button.

I love Dylan and all your reviews about the movie are convincing me to watch it despite my anti-Chalamet feelings 😀

* Phil Palmer, Paul Carrack, Steve Ferrone, Rupert Hine, Tony Levin

** for the full tracklist: https://www.discogs.com/master/413377-Spin-1ne-2wo-Spin-1ne-2wo

It’s fascinating how songs are really the soundtrack of our lives, binded forever to specific memories ready to jump out of their box whenever someone push the right (or sometimes painfully wrong) button.

The first(of many) times I got dumped by a lady, Beth from Emmons Ave in BK, as I was driving home listening to Without You by Nilsson and started crying. To this day, if I hear that song, I get a jolt of sad emotion.

Great song, Bo.

Bo, I totally get it.

I have at least half a dozen of songs wrapped in a duffel bag, stuffed in a safebox and buried in the Mariana Trench.
If I casually hear one of them I immediately left the room/shop or flip channel.

P.S. Luckily many other songs give me an incredible burst of energy/good emotions 🙂

From yesterday.

I hope you’re feeling better, TC.
I have a low tier of asthma and i can relate to you…

Thanks cyber, I think I’m just about over it. Hoping I’m fine by the end of the weekend. I also have asthma so this has been a pretty miserable month so far.

A couple of my comments from the KP trade thread. I feel pretty good about them.

Of course all this happens while I’m driving fucking home from rural PA so I can’t do much. Getting two future 1RP, depending on the protections, moves this trade from disaster to potentially good. But it really feels like the main purpose of this trade is to go all-in this Summer on 2 max players. Also, there’s no way we’re flipping DJ or Wes to another team for additional assets; we’d almost certainly have to take salary back that eats into our cap space next year and we’re obviously not going to do that.

Ladies and gentleman we have ourself a competent front office.

We’ve got a long fucking way to go before we can claim our front office is competent. We just traded our best player asset to, in part, dump a salary that this front office stupidly gave out a year and a half ago.

I absolutely love both Joni’s original and CSNY’s cover of Woodstock.

Gearge Benson does a pretty good cover of Leon Russell’s This Masquerade

Brian, agreed on Blood on the Tracks, which came out my freshman year in college and just floored me. So different than his earlier stuff, almost a genre unto itself.

I always love Linda Ronstadt’s covers in the 70s.

“I always love Linda Ronstadt’s covers in the 70s.”

Linda’s run in the mid 70’s was unbelievable. I didn’t know her backstory then, and it’s fascinating how well connected she was with so many of the greats of that time. Probably the object of my most intense boycrush.

I’ll take any song from Annie Lennox’s album of covers “Medusa”. She kills every single one, especially No More I Love Yous and Don’t Let it Bring You Down.

One of the greatest and most underrated female vocalists ever IMO.

Even though getting old kind of sucks, I am glad to have experienced the 70’s at an age where the memories are so vivid and visceral. I left the Bronx for a small liberal arts college in 1974, and what I remember most is very quickly learning how little I knew about music beyond mainstream pop. Students would come to the college with literally hundreds of vinyl albums and top-notch turntables stereo equipment. I got exposed to so many deep tracks as well as lesser known but soon to be famous artists like Springsteen. And it seemed like every month a brand new album would drop that would blow everyone away and would be played over and over in every dorm room in a haze of bong smoke.

Just found out I’m going to be in NYC next week so, considering my user name, I feel like I’m required to go to The Strand on Wednesday.

Johnny Cash’s album of covers was damn good.

“I’ll take any song from Annie Lennox’s album of covers “Medusa”. She kills every single one, especially No More I Love Yous and Don’t Let it Bring You Down.

One of the greatest and most underrated female vocalists ever IMO.”

I wasn’t a big fan of The Eurythmics, but `totally agree on this album of covers and on Lennox’s voice.

“I always love Linda Ronstadt’s covers in the 70s.”

Linda’s run in the mid 70’s was unbelievable. I didn’t know her backstory then, and it’s fascinating how well connected she was with so many of the greats of that time. Probably the object of my most intense boycrush.

Saw her open for Neil Young in Salt Lake in 1973.

Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt (by Nine Inch Nails) is good. I prefer the original but many like the cover better.

Obviously songs form us in our youth, which is why it’s so hard, as adults, to connect to “new” music. I still like new musicians here and there, but it’s hard to find that importance you felt in your teens, twenties, or even thirties…

But speaking of covers and Dylan, Cat Power’s cover of his entire Royal Albert Hall concert is really something… I was expecting to hate it, but it’s quite good.

On that note, have you heard Ryan Adams’ cover of Taylor Swift’s entire ‘1989’ album? It’s interesting if nothing else.

I’m going to have to throw in Cream’s cover of Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads” even though most people have probably never heard the Johnson version and even though parts of that version were probably lifted from other blues artists at the time.

Just found out I’m going to be in NYC next week so, considering my user name, I feel like I’m required to go to The Strand on Wednesday.

Yes! I can set aside a book for you if you want one. It’ll be chaotic, so please just remind me that you’re from Knickerblogger when you say hi.

On a Knicks note, from an objective pov it’s kind of a shame that AD is not playing tonight. It makes me wonder whether LeBron, who is nursing a foot injury, will go for a retro classic at MSG. I guess keeping that from happening is a job for OG.

Drank beers with Bob Dylan’s son before his band opened up for Cracker in DC on Cracker’s tour for their first album. Small venue, so it had just a normal bar and a good “pre-game” atmosphere.

Cool guy. Wound up at the bar next to each other, said “hi,” started talking in the general reverie of it all. Took at bit for it to come out that he was performing in the opening act, then a bit later for it to come out that he was the lead singer, and I think the fact that he was Bob’s son came out almost by accident. Neither I nor my buddy are/were big Dylan guys (*), so we kind of beer laughed, probably made some kind of joke about burying the lede, left it at that, carried on with the consumption and the convo. He left, got with his band, belted out some very high quality material.

Tremendous show by both bands.

(*) Nor are we “anti-Dylan guys”; I like/love several of his tunes. He’s kind of before my time and time isn’t infinite so I’ve never really taken him for a serious on-purpose spin. Maybe someday. A bunch of people I respect a lot (including some here) are really into him and the music critical press thinks he’s an all-timer, so it’s pretty much beyond question that there’s a whole lot there.

Per cleaning the glass, Lakers have the 5th best point differential over the last 2 weeks. Obviously not going to be the same without AD.

Knicks have the highest at +17.4. Offense and defense rank 2nd. It’s 6 points higher than second place Cleveland.

It’s literally just our 5 game win streak while other teams have played up to 8 games, but still nice to see.

It’s fascinating how songs are really the soundtrack of our lives, binded forever to specific memories ready to jump out of their box whenever someone push the right (or sometimes painfully wrong) button.

You’ve nailed it, Max. 🙂

From the last thread, and it was a great thread all around, i’d like to bring the rare appearance of Unreason:

Thanks Z-man. Honestly I’m too casual a fan to contribute more than the rare non-basketball tidbit. I’m grateful that you all keep the fire burning bright here. It warms and enlightens me when I can pull my attention away from the storm outside and take comfort in whatever controversy or celebration the board is focused on.

Everybody did a great work bringing up great covers, but Ben R might take the crown… “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone is really a wonderful version. 🙂

I’d like to bring one of my favorite cover versions, although the original is better, i love the Cowboy Junkies version of “Sweet Jane”.

Like that one, also like/love REM’s covers of Femme Fatale and Pale Blue Eyes.

Good morning, Knickerblogger!!!

cyber, I’m going to see the Cowboy Junkies at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA (*great* venue!!!) with my girlfriend on April 10. Probably seen them there four or five times, and have been a fan since getting turned on to the Trinity Sessions by my girlfriend at the time in the mid-’90s.

JK mentioned St Vincent yesterday and IIRC they once covered the Golden Girls theme song and made it a dirge.

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